Dodgers Territory - Dodgers DFA Heyward, Flaherty Beefs with Randy, Glasnow Injury News

Episode Date: August 22, 2024

The Dodgers made the tough decision to designate outfielder Jason Heyward for assignment due to a roster crunch. DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas react to the move and the return of Chris Taylor.They also cover Jack Flaherty's "big D-odger energy" following a mini on-field altercation with Randy Arozarena and how Max Muncy was a missed man in the LA lineup. Go to HelloFresh.com/FTKIDS to unlock one free kids meal per box for two months while subscription is active!Also, some mixed rotation injury news on Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto as the postseason nears.Finally, is Shohei Ohtani pressing?SUBSCRIBE FREE - Dodgers Territory runs LIVE on Mondays & Thursdays at 3p ET/12p PT on the DT YouTube channel!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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He's very, very good at hitting the baseball. Welcome to Dodgers Territory Live on this Thursday afternoon. That is Clint Paseas. I am Alon Arizzo, your host for the next 30 minutes talking all things, Dodgers. We are happy that you're here. Load up the questions in the chat. Clint will follow along, get you on the show. If it's good, if it's entertaining, if it makes sense.

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But then two seconds ago, we find out that Jason Hayward is going to be DFAed by the Los Angeles Dodgers with the impending return of Chris Taylor. I wasn't sure how this was going to go down. I wasn't sure if it was going to be Kiermeyer, wasn't sure if it was going to be Hayward. The Dodgers have apparently, even though they haven't made it officially yet, elected to go with Kiermeier, the left-handed bat off the bench.

Your thoughts? It seemed like it was leading that way. Hayward has had a very up-and-down season, a lot of stop and start to his season as well. His best role has been as a pinch hitter, where he's been, I think he's four for eight in that role, hit a triple, a couple of homers or whatever, but that's not enough to save his spot on this roster. It's not enough that he's Freddie's best friend to save his spot on this roster. It's

a surprising move, but it's not shocking. You knew there was a roster crunch. You know this team is beholden to Chris Taylor next season as well as he's under contract. He's coming back. He's made some swing changes. So we saw this sort of coming, but again, it doesn't take take away the shock of the fact that, hey, Jason Hayward isn't a Dodger. Doesn't mean he can't pass through waivers and hang around and all that kind of stuff. Maybe he is still around. Maybe he's still part of the team, you know, and the taxi squad in the postseason, but still somewhat shocking and, you know, taking advantage of the off there, these Dodgers staying relevant.

Isn't it crazy that? Yeah, we'll get into that in a second. At least you're not Scott Service. Isn't it weird, though, that his last app bet as the Dodger was a home run? I mean, this is again, this is again, an illustration, Clint, that, you know, what have you done for me lately? Apparently, it doesn't matter because you still get kicked right in the teeth. And it reminds me of that great movie, which, by the way, it's in my top three of Friday. How the fuck are you going to get fired on your day off?

How do you don't get fired on your day off? I don't know. What are you trying to do, build a clubhouse? How the hell you're going to get fired on your day off? That's what this reminds me of. The team's off today. And he, and I hate this for just. Jason Hayward because he's such a good dude.

He's had a great career. I hate it, but again, it's a business, and you love Kiermeyer's defense. You got people in the chat going off here. What I just saw David, David, Ms. Rossi saying, why not I.L. Rojas with the sore hamstring? There was some speculation that maybe the Dodgers can get a little creative with the injured list.

Maybe, you know, Hayward comes down with a sprained, you know, toenail or whatever it may be. They can IL Rojas with the hamstring thing right now. But I guess they just, you know, decided to pull the Band-Aid now, knowing there's a strong likelihood. Hayward wasn't going to get very much action in October. And Kevin Kierremyer can play center field something that Hayward hasn't done a whole lot of in his career. And to his credit, too, Kevin Kiermeier has been really good since joining the Dodgers. Not great, but considering where he was in his time with,

Toronto, he's done a lot better. But again, going all in, still have Kike Hernandez around. You still are getting Chris Taylor back. So they're going with their guys. They're doing what they do best and sticking with Dave's guys. I don't know that I really, really like it, but I understand it. I understand it. And the corresponding move, it's official, Chris Taylor was actually activated. So that's what we figured. We thought that, you know, there was going to be a DFA. I wasn't sure if it was going to be Kiermeyer or Hayward. Again, it's Hayward again. And we don't know if they had a conversation. Andrew did say, hey, you want to go on the, you know, phantom EL? Do you want to, you know, do you want to stick around? Like, we don't know what was going on behind closed doors. Maybe Jason said, you know what? No, this is the move I want. I'm going to, I'm going to take it to the house. Again, he could clear waivers. Who knows? Noah Ortega, thanks for being with us, my friend in the super chat, officially activated according to the Dodgers. Yes, CT3. We know that. Thanks for that. Noah, we appreciate you. Yeah. So it is what it is. It's a business. It's

tough. I hate that, but Jason Hayward has had a hell of a career. And, you know, I'm going to miss the leadership that he brings, but who knows what's next for him? How did you react, my dear, to the Randy or Rosa Renna benches clearing situation with Jack Flaherty as the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Mariners right out of the building? And by the way, Scott Service, according to our own Ken Rosenthal on Fair Territory is saying that service is expected to be let go today. You know, I would say, I don't know if there was a whole bunch of history between Flaherty and a Rosarena. It seemed like you're making a mountain out of a mole hill there.

I mean, whatever. It adds a little bit of fun. It adds a little spark. Seeing the smirk there from Flaherty, seeing them continue to jaw, you know, and later at Bats or whatever. It's kind of funny. and I guess for Dodgers fans, it's good to know that, you know, Flaherty is ready. He's willing, he's happy to step up.

And then as we said, when the Dodgers acquired him, he could be a man. He could joke, you know. I said, I'm biting my tongue here saying he could whip it out and show who's his bigger, but I said it either way. Here, you last late, like, would you say last week something about stroking it. Yeah, you know what? This is what it is to me about this whole Randy or Rosa. I think the Mariners are obviously, they're just frustrated.

They are not, they have a 12% chance right now of making the postseason. This is a team that has made the postseason once in the last 21 years, I believe, or something crazy like that, two decades. And then they got, you know, swept right out of it, as did the Dodgers last year. I understand that. But they're probably not going to make the postseason this year. And here come the friggin Astros again with, you know, a 10 game advantage or whatever it is in the AOS.

And I've never thought for one second that Jack Flaherty wasn't going to hold his own. I knew he was, I knew he could be a beast. So I don't know that Randy or Rosa Renna, I don't know that Jack Flaherty is the dude you want to mess with. No, and one of those guys is throwing the baseball at or towards the other one. So I definitely would not want to make the anger of the dragon, anger of the bear, whatever the hell. You know, the guy who's throwing the baseball,

he can do a lot more damage than Randy or Rosarina can. But yeah, again, Mountain Out of a Molehill. I don't see the point. I like a comment here from Mr. Classic. So Dodgers did a disservice. Thank you, everybody. We're supposed to laugh with that one, but it wasn't that good. I don't get it.

This is a disservice, service, the survey, you know, the guy being fired. Oh, service, that service. A disservice. I get it. Okay, yeah, take it. Take me a minute. I apologize for that. I am not, I am not that hip.

I am not that smart. Oh, see, it makes more sense though when you actually see us. I'm a visual learner Clint. I'm a visual learner, not an audio learner. So there you have it. All right. So Max Muncie paid dividends as soon as he got back. This is what I told you.

Like I said, all right. So Max Muncie, I was more excited about his return than Edmund's appearance as a doctor, just because I didn't know what Edmund was going to give you. But Max Muncie, home run, paying dividends already set in the lineup the way it's supposed to be. This was a guy I said right there missed this man. You didn't realize. I don't think he was planning on coming off the bench and going into God mode or coming back off the aisle, going into God mode.

But it has been a welcome, a needed addition to that lineup that has. struggled to produce at times. Just missed him. You missed Max Muncie. You missed what he brings to a lineup, both with the power, the ability to take a walk, the ability to change the opponent's thinking with one through nine.

Because now this is a true one through nine, this Dodgers lineup right now. They finally got the pieces back. You add in Tommy Edmund over who would have been the guy on opening day, James Outman. And now you have, again, I would argue the D.E.

lineup in baseball, but it's very easy for me to say that because I do a Dodger show, but it's a very, very good lineup. And to get Max back, you know, he very much, you know, did that cork and champagne flying. I don't know. It's fun to have him back. I'm trying to avoid the innuendos here, guys. I'll do the innuendo tonight on my show. I'm trying to be a good boy, is the point. That's all right. You're allowed to drop an EF bomber innuendo. Max, by the way, was on foul territory today with Eric Cratt, Scott Braun. By the way, happy birthday, Scott Braun. We appreciate you.

Happy birthday, Eric Crats and Cameron, Maibran. So don't forget to check out Fowel Territory everywhere you get your podcast and on YouTube, just like you get Dodgers territory and fair as well. Yeah, so that's good. And now, do you feel like this is finally the lineup that we had anticipated and hoped to see? I believe I saw one of your tweets like, yeah, this is a lineup I can live with. This is something that was more one through nine of an expectation. Yeah, somebody, everybody in this lineup can do some damage.

There are ways you can get creative. You don't know if Hayward is the first guy to fall, but maybe there are more moves down the road. Like as much as we love Gavin Lux, he's very, very, very much struggled versus left-handed pitching. So is Chris Taylor going to be that guy? Is Kika Hernandez going to be that guy that's getting some A-Bs versus lefties at second base?

will they do something that I really love, but I know they won't do? Will they move like Mookie Betts in from right field to play second base versus lefties and get creative in the outfield? There's some versatility, there's some optionality, there's some things they can move around. But this is, it's a lineup with a lot of good problems to have where you're able to DFA somebody of, you know, the ilk, the talent and all the stuff that comes along with Jason Hayward and still have a bunch of very, very good guys, even though chat not very happy about Chris Taylor, at home CT-161 right now,

was hitting better before he hit the IL, and he has made some more swing changes on his minor league rehab assignment. So you're hoping for the best there. But it's a very, very good lineup, one through nine, and even you could argue one through 13 when you're factoring in the bench. All right. You're not the only one wondering if they're going to mix and match. Blake Harris had this to say

on X. I do wonder now if we'll start seeing some of this in September with preparation for October. Mookie bets at second with Andy Pahas in right against left-handed pitching. Pahas has a 145 win replacement. What is that WRC plus against lefties this season? While Gavin Lux has a 12 WRC plus against lefties would make a lot of sense. So again, this is just for reference only. A lot of puzzle pieces moving around in the mix. Leave Mookiee in right, please, for God's sake. I don't need to come in innings and going back out. Like, enough, enough, enough. Quit trying to get, quit trying to be so flipping cutesy.

Enough. But if Chris Hey, if he can move around, if Kike Hernandez can move around, how could the best athlete on the team also not bounce around? I'm not saying he can't. I'm saying I just, I don't like it. Like, I just, I don't like it. It's fair. I mean, again, they have a month and a few days to kind of figure this whole thing out,

you know, bringing in the pie. has thing again that that throws a whole wrench or throws another wrench into a lot of this because you would need to make another dFA but pa has been exceptional this year versus left-handed pitching as uh as our friend blake harris noted there with the uh the weighted runs created plus but he's hitting like 3 71 or 360 versus lefties this year he's got some pop can play a very very nice right field much better than in center and if you're going to have you know still kirmyr around or if Tommy edmund's going to be your guy in center you give yourself again that optionality that creativity that this team at times has lived on, has thrived on, the platoon.

But for now, I don't think they do that. I absolutely do not think they move Mookie because they probably already feel bad enough for having to move him back out to Rightfield after all the pomp and circumstance of second base and then shortstop and then injury and yada yada, set it and forget it with Mookie and right field because he's pretty damn good at it. Weighted runs created plus. Good Lord, people. What will they think of next?

How about I didn't want it? I didn't want to. What? So you're not a Sabre Metrics kind of gal? No, I'm a C-A-Ball hit-ball, you know, see-ball hit-ball. Like, go with your eye test. For God's sake. All right.

All right, let's get to blue balls. Let's do it. I didn't want to have to talk about this, but it seems like we have to. Not for nothing. Freddie Fruman playing with a fracture in his finger. But Tyler Glasnow, Clint Paseas, is going to be out longer. Yeah. they had a strong difference of opinion, did Gladnau, and the organization.

He thinks he can still be pitching, but the fact that he's not throwing a baseball. There's more to the story that we will probably never hear because the Dodgers are very, very tight-lipped. As you know, Ms. Rizzo, it's not what you want to see at this point in the season, especially for a team that over the last couple of years has dealt with the injury bug late in the season, particularly when it comes to starting pitching. So you have him on the IL. Your guy who, if we're talking to Alon Arizzo, is the ace, the game one starter in the postseason. Yamamoto, who's my ace, my game one starter, making his way back. So you start to really worry

about looking at a rotation who is Jack Flaherty. And by the way, going back a little bit, Bob Nightingale on the chat, 499 Super Chat. Thank you very much, Bob, not the real. Get out of here. No, I was what to say. Flaherty got that big dick mountain energy. So we're going back to Flaherty. You got Flaherty all of a sudden is your game one starter. And behind him, Clayton Kyrshaw and Gavin Stone. It's a very, very different looking postseason rotation, or at least that top three.

So you need Glasgow now to be back. You need him to be healthy. You need this tendonitis thing to figure itself out or whatever it is. But I'm not terribly worried about them erring on the side of caution, just because they've been burned so many times. the past and i think that's where the organization is at and maybe glasnow i think dave robert said like glasnow needs to listen to his body a little bit more because he did pitch with the torn ucel for like two seasons and have some issues with that so do you have concerns about glasnow about yamamoto

about this starting rotation and where things lie not if he's really not that hurt you know what i mean like if they're just giving him the time to to catch his breath and watch the innings then i'm i'm fine with it. I mean, I rather now on August 22nd than September 22nd. I mean, you know, Dave Roberts told Jack Harris we're sort of going through it right now. I guess if the ship is righted, then I'd rather be in it right now and get the guys that we know have been good to pitch well, but not ideal is probably fair. I mean, again, 162 game season. There's a part of the season. I always say it's the middle months. It's June, July, August, where you just have to maintain, right? You just have to play 500 ball, okay? And then it's in September and October,

and then obviously April and May where you really need to ramp up to set your distance in the division. And then in September and, you know, obviously October, September, like really increase that division lead. So I'm not, I'm not that concerned yet. But yes, Flaherty or excuse me, Glasnow Yamamoto, Flaherty is very different than Flaherty, Kershaw Stone. No doubt about it. Goat Yadi, he's got to listen to doctors, especially with this history. Yeah, I mean, maybe they're just, you know, making sure that he's not. he's not pushing it. I'd rather have him in September and October than August. You know what I mean?

So I'm not too concerned yet. There is a good Yamamoto update. According to Bill Plunk of the OC Register, we always appreciate Plunk. You know, he said that, let me see if we can bring it up here. If I can just bring it up on my. Well, we know he threw a two-inning simulated game this week, looking good. And the plan is, there's him throwing baseballs again at Dodger Stadium. all is right in the world, but it could be a situation where we have one or two more Sims. And then Dave said maybe just one rehab outing before we see him back in L.A., kind of build him up at the big league level. What do you think about that? I'm fine with it.

You know, again, build him up. You know, we are basing Yamamoto's value off of one month that we've seen him play in a massive game against the Yankees in New York. I mean, this is somebody that's got to come off of this and shove. Okay. I'm not given a guy a 10-year $325 million contract for one month in 224 if that's all he was good for. So, again, not his fault. You know, I'd take 10 years $325 million. I never blame the player, you know, fault the game, not the player.

So but I need to see something from him. Okay. So if we're being very cautious with him and, you know, he's used to pitching every six days or whatever, you've got to come off of this lengthy, lengthy absence and lengthy rehab and shove. We need this guy to be the $325 million player that he is. So it's funny because we were talking, too, about a billion dollars doesn't buy much anymore. And again, Shohei's not pitching this year. So that's not necessarily fair.

But yeah, I need him to prove why everybody was hoping that Yamamoto signed with them. Philip in the chat says honestly how can we not be nervous about the pitching I think we all are and there's too many unknowns the unknowns are never ending we're leaving a lot up to once again hope you're hoping that Yamamoto comes back you're hoping that glass now is ready to go in maybe two weeks from now as opposed to coming off the aisle right when he was eligible it's uh it's enough to kind of keep you up at night because I like going back and well I hate going back to that 2021 team that was hoping Kershaw can come back and he gets a start in in September and then he walks off the mound holding the baseball. We hear about this forearm issue or, you know, Max Scherzer that

year, Walker Bueller being gassed, Julio being gassed. If they're doing this now to make sure that they are fully healthy and ramped up, you don't need these guys going out and pitching seven, you know, shutout innings in game one of the NLDS or whatever. Let them slowly build up, get your best, and then bank on a bullpen that, if all falls well, is going to be very, very good. But right now, as we're sitting here,

it's not easy to feel comfortable and look a month and change ahead. Should the Dodgers push for the division and get the extra rest? I have two, I talk out of both sides of my mouth in this sense, but I want to know what you think. I mean, this is a club that's always going to go out there and try to win that day's ball game. They have the lineup. They have the firepower to be able to beat most of these teams out here right now.

It's just about keeping runs off the board. I've seen in 21. I'll go there again, how much they fought and burned themselves out trying to get that division from the San Francisco Giants. That's what burned them out and kind of kick their ass. Also coming off a 60 game season, you're ramping Buele. are up to 200 innings, which is still messing with him to this, to this day, potentially. I still say you go for the division. You're fighting.

You're still playing for something meaningful, and you're getting the, you're keeping that, you know, the correct mindset when you're approaching October. It shouldn't be about, oh, if we don't win, it's okay today, boys. Like, no, no, you go out there and you fucking beat that other team. That's what you're supposed to be doing. That's where these guys get paid is to beat that other team and just keep doing it. through the end of October and then there's a celebration and parade and I'll do the time and Lassauda dance at City Hall. I promise you I will do it. The thing is though I am a big,

big, big believer in momentum and I get that you want a rest, you want a breather, you want to blow to rest guys and I get that especially our pitching staff. But if you take too much time off and you can't simulate real playoff games and simulated games or BP or any of that stuff, I worry, again, it's whoever's healthy and whoever's playing the best baseball at the right time. So there's two sides of it. I get that you want the buy the rest, but I also think like if you're playing well at the end, you just keep going. You just keep going.

I don't know. It's tough. I get it from a health standpoint. You want to win the division and get the rest. From a momentum standpoint, I'd say keep going until they tell you you can't play anymore. I'm okay with it. Either way, I'm okay with it, as long as they're just striding at the right time because we've seen it before them kind of spiraling.

17 is one of those teams you can look at too. Terrible at the end of August and September, but then they found a way to turn it back on. So I really don't know which way to go with it because we've seen sort of all paths of it over the last 10 years with this organization. We've seen them be bad and then have to be good. We've seen them be good all the way through and get their ass kicked.

Andrew Friedman said last year, There's no recipe to the postseason. There isn't really guys who are postseason players. It's all about what we saw the Diamondbacks do last year. Being good at the right time, then you just win. You just keep winning. You're trying to find your way to the World Series. And then from there, you know, it's kind of a crapshoot.

Yeah, so that's exactly what I was about to say. You can do all you want. You can plan as much as you want. At the end of the day, the postseason is of fat crap shoot. All right, we're going to be right back after a quit thought from our friends, AJ Prisinski, Scott Braun, and Eric Crats. Big shout out to. America's number one meal kit, Hello Fresh, for helping us eat good during this busy time of the year for us.

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time now, Clint for last licks. This is Sheldon, part of our Big Bang Theory litter. What a sweet baby boy. Three months old, completely healthy, up to date on all of his vaccinations that he is old enough for. He still has to get his rabies vaccination when he's old enough and he still needs to be neutered, but he's microchipped. He's ready to go. Forever family. Where are you? He is American Bulldog and German Shepherd mix. Sweet, sweet boy, if you're interested in adopting or learning more about Sheldon, please reach out to giddreysgarden.org or certainly hit me up on any of the socials. Okay, Shohay Otani, isn't it amazing how we don't talk about him that much? And if he keeps going, he'll probably win the American League again, or excuse me, the MVP in the

National League. Yeah, you know, it's funny. We were talking even before the season started, you and I, you were saying, like, is it all we're going to be talking about? Is it Shohay, Show Hey, Showing, what about the rest of this team? now here we are late august show hey almost feels sometimes like an afterthought at least when we're talking about all the different pieces and broken parts of this team but show hey quietly also very loudly approaching that 40 40 mark would be the first dodger to ever hit the 40 40 mark with the

stolen bases and the home runs there he's also having a very very interesting august because he's hitting kind of like crap, but he's also hitting with a lot of pop. But it's, it's, it's funny that Dodger Shoheyotani, just how much different he is than Angel Show Heyo Tani. I don't know if that's, I think, I think that's enough right there. You don't need to explain it. It's just he was the guy and now he's a guy here. I'm imagining he very, very much appreciates that. Oh, no doubt, no doubt. It reminds me very much when Cody Bellinger got called up and Corey Seeger was so happy when Cody was doing so well because in all the pressure, especially interviews, got taken off of Seag because he hates interviews.

Yeah, Shohay's still a man in a group of the men. You know what I mean? And it's funny, too, because by the way, Perry Menagian, apparently the angels said that he's coming back next year. They kind of slid that under the radar after we reported her Ken Rosenthal was saying that Scott Service was probably going to be fired. So the angels are like, we'll go ahead and send this now. We're going to bring the guy back even though our team sucks.

But Shohei, think about if he was in the American League still. I mean, there would be quite the race between Aaron Judge, Bobby Witt, Jr. and Shohei. But in the National League, Clint, he could very well win another MVP award because it looks like Catelle Marte is on the shelf. And he may, you know, be out of it for a little bit. Yeah, I think if he gets that 40, you know, 4040 could happen this weekend. It would be, like I said, the fastest, I don't think I actually said it here, but the fastest 40-40 in baseball history, unless I misread something.

I think you could pretty much call Show Hey, O'Donnie, your National League MVP, and you wouldn't be thinking too far outside the bun with that one. He's very, very good at hitting the baseball. But I don't want to get into next year. I wonder what that's going to look like, but I saw a comment. I want to find the comment. I probably should have had it more ready here, but my bad. My bad. Mr. Classic saying, show Hey, trying to stat pad to distract.

distracted with his stat padding. So I wasn't to ask you, do you think at this point, again, he's hitting under 200 this month, but he has eight homers, I think it is, hitting into some bad luck. Do you think he's chasing production at this point? No, I don't think he thinks that way. I don't think he goes up to the plate and says, okay, I need to do this. I don't think he thinks about his stats. I think he is such a guy that is so routine oriented and process oriented that I don't ever think that Shohei thinks results. I think he thinks, and again, I I've never even had a conversation with the man. But just from what I've heard and what I've seen,

I really do believe that he is all about, he's very process oriented. And even in BP, when he does take it out on the field, which is not often. But even in the cage in Dodger Stadium, the things that he notices, when things are just, you know, an inch askew. Like something's afoot. Something doesn't make sense here. I mean, I think he's just so cerebral about the way that he goes about his business that I don't think he thinks of stats and padding stats or anything like that.

really don't. I think he's just all about the process. And I mean, the numbers speak for themselves. He doesn't have to worry about the results. It's funny that, I mean, I'm saying, is he chasing production? We're barely talking about him. He's also, I think, an RBI away. He's right on 90 already at this point. We're not even at September. Dude is pretty damn good. And he said, I think it was on Monday, he was talking about with his posture, feeling a little bit off there as opposed to anything with the swing or anything like that. And Dave was even mentioning maybe he's chasing a little bit more. I'm sure he'll piece it together. And then for the first time in Major League Baseball history, we will see playoff Otani. And I'm very, very excited and curious to see

that because if it's anything like WBC, Otani, it's going to be a lot. That's going to be a lot. I love the WBC so much. Yes, I can't wait to see Shohei Otani in the postseason. All right, we're almost done here on Dodgers territory. What's coming up on all Dodgers with Clint Paseas? Well, I would be stupid to not talk about what the people want to talk about, which is Chris Taylor. So we'll be back tonight, 6 p.m. Pacific time on my YouTube channel, All Dodgers with myself. Producer Kevin will be joining me. We've got a lot to talk about there, breaking down more with the Hayward situation. And, hey, are they done with this roster?

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