Dodgers Territory - Dodgers Top 5 Most Impactful Player Acquisitions

Episode Date: December 26, 2024

DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas dive into the Top 5 most impactful player acquisitions of the Friedman era, exploring how these moves shaped the Dodgers' success.Alanna offers her perspective on which players have made the biggest impact in the clubhouse, while Clint highlights the on-field contributions that have propelled the team toward becoming the powerhouse they are today.Subscribe to DT on YouTube! DT is LIVE on Mondays & Thursdays at 12p PT/3p ET all year long!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Could be coal. Could be cool. Welcome to Dodgers territory. We're so happy that you're here. I am Alana Rizzo. That is my guy, Clint Paseas, talking all things, Dodgers as we wrap the 2024 season. And we look forward to when we're going to be able to be at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona for the

2025 season. I have to tell you, it's 9 degrees here, so I can't wait until spring training. Spring training will be in the best shape of our lives. That's a lie for me. I can already promise you that. That's a lie. But hope will spring eternal. The Dodgers will be, once again,

most likely favorites to win a world series, become the first team to go back to back since the Yankees of 99 and 2000. But today's show guys, a little bit different. Obviously, it's the day after Christmas. So we're not here actually live to pull the curtain back a little bit. But we did have something I wanted to talk about that.

Hopefully is fun for you and the family. We have our top Andrew Friedman era transactions, trades of all time. And I think this could be a lot of fun because, you know, Alana, we've been doing this together now for the season, for the 2024 season, but I haven't really had a chance. I'm going to steal the opportunity here to almost like interview you as if we were on my show slightly because I have a view of what I think the most important moves were that Andrew Friedman has made for the product on the field.

And I'm sure you have your opinions on those as well. But nobody, very few people had the inside view of the team and what players brought to the team when they entered that clubhouse. So that's what I really want to know from you today. And I hope people enjoy this. Like, what did some of these names add to the clubhouse, were they assholes, all that kind of stuff? Probably not. They don't trash people. We don't need to get more trouble.

But I guess without further ado, I can lead us off if you don't mind. Okay. Now I'd love it. Go ahead. We're starting five to one, right? Five to one. We'll ping pong on this one. But my fifth most impactful.

And you guys, I will also note that I'm going to cheat a lot and throw extra names in here for fun. But I got a tie at five because I've got 2017 U. Darvish and 2021 Max Scherzer. And then we could throw in, of course, Trey Turner in there because why not. It's in everything must go sale. But I mean, you look at what these two pitchers brought to the team when they came here. Max Scherzer was hugely important to that 2021 squad that had lost Trevor Bauer that did not have Clayton Kershaw that just they had some serious pitching issues that ultimately made, you know, help to them not making it to the World Series that year.

Still, bringing in somebody the ilk of Max Scherzer and the importance he had for the team in that regular season. We don't need to talk too much about what happened in the postseason and how maybe that eventually cost the Dodgers Walker Bueller in the long run because Bueller stepped up to the plate to, you know, pitch in that world, or sorry, in that NLCS. But what Scherzer brought to the team and what Darvish brought to the team in helping the organization get to the World Series for the first time since 1988.

Those two guys for me, you could pick either one as the for sure number five. But those two guys for me really that showed that Andrew Friedman with money was a different kind of animal as a player. Pobo. There it is Pobo. I look at it differently. I look at it as what has the person or duo tandem have meant to the team over the course of several years with the exception of one guy that's on my list. When I look at Max Serser, what I think of is dead arm, right? And that's just kind of what comes to mind.

And not to say, I mean, Max is going to the Baseball Hall of Fame, obviously. Okay. He's had a very good career, but I don't see that as the impact for the Dodgers. And the same thing with you Darvish. Do you think about game seven of the World Series? I think it was game seven, right? When he just absolutely got shelled as a Dodger at Dodger Stadium. So while both of those guys are tremendous talent, I don't see them as the impact that I'm looking for when we talk about this list.

For me, number five, and it's a guy that wasn't there for a long time, but it's a guy that I've admired his entire career. And of course, when you think of him first, you think of the Philadelphia Phillies. But for me, number five, an impact is Chase Soutley. Without a doubt, this was way before he, Jerry Hirston, Jr. called him the Silver Fox. Chase Sutley demands respect the second he walks into a clubhouse. And again, there's a lot of people that think he's a Hall of Famer. there's a lot of people that don't think the numbers warrant a Hall of Fame bid. Chase Sutley brings an energy, a work ethic, a determination, a structure, a routine to a clubhouse

that is unlike anybody else that I've ever seen from a position player side of the ledger. Okay. Chase Sutley to a position player is what my number one is to the pitchers side of things. And all you need to do is ask Kike Hernandez what Chase Utley meant to his career. And besides Utley, another guy on my list is the guy that shaped Kiki's career more than anybody. So Chase Utley and Justin Turner are on that list for me. But Chase Utley is my number five just about the way that he changed a culture. He was a big proponent too of the whole. dairy-free, gluten-free.

Dairy-free Dodgers. Basically eat air and you'll play really good. And they did. And he's just so positively impactful of the way that he goes about his business. And this is a guy that I would only go to when I really needed something. You know, it's kind of like you know when to approach Chase. And it was only when something was incredibly important because he was so routine regimented. And he was just such a huge presence in that clubhouse.

So for me, number five is the Silver Fox. And I love that. And I have some thoughts because maybe or maybe not, Utley is on my list. I love what you bring to the table there with that because that era of the team. I mean, Friedman had just taken over. Dave Roberts had just got that team. There's a lot of people that never had experienced a lot of success at the big league level yet. And you learn now from Chase Utley how to play the game right, how to be hard-nosed,

grind, show up every single day, and, you know, play, work out with intent. That's what you get with Chase Sutley. And we're still seeing some of the fruits of that labor, even, what, five, six years after he's left the organization. He's still around the organization. But yeah, I love that pick there. I don't say, I would have thought you had gotten higher on the Silver Fox, but I'm interested to see the rest of the list. For me, my number four, imagine there's a drum roll right here. And these days it might elicit a little bit of a groan. But Chris Taylor, for everything he did for this organization, you know, the first number of years, first four years in Dodger Blue,

Chris Taylor to be traded, to be acquired for scraps. Thank you, Mariners. Yeah. Two, you know, former top prospects in the game that kind of flamed out. But Chris Taylor goes on to become the starting center fielder for the Dodgers, that same 2017 team that makes it to the World Series for the first time. since 1988, countless big defensive plays, big-time homers sending the Dodgers to the, well, I guess, to the Division Series in 20, well, on 21 in that walk off against the Cardinals

in L.A., you know, the game-saving, you know, catch in Milwaukee, the, all of this, and him just being the most charismatic guy in that Dodger clubhouse as well. Chris Taylor, when you're looking at, you know, pound for pound, what Andrew Friedman had to give up and and the what chris taylor still brings to this organization to this day i mean what a phenomenal move that's all i got yeah i i i don't disagree with you i mean i think ct again this is why i refuse to give up on the dude i know he's at the tail end of his career but i do think you know again the second half of the season he had some really good productive at bats made the most of the small opportunities that he's gotten but you can't have a perennial n l west winning team

and go to the World Series three out of the last six years or whatever it is without Chris Taylor. Again, I just think he's been instrumental in the course of what's happened in this organization over his tenure as a Dodger. He's not on my top five, but I don't hate you for putting him there. Just because I have some others that I think for my list just make more sense. And again, I'm just talking about positive impact on the clubhouse. I'm not talking about personalities that were very disruptive. and, you know, you're talking about for the wrong reasons. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast.

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I think I wanted to write you and go, how did you know? Listen to the Questlove show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's my number four. So Chase Sutley is my number five. My number four has to be Corey Seeger. And the reason I put Seeger on there is not only is he a homegrown kid, which we love.

We were just talking about our show on Monday about how we hate to see the homegrown guys leave, Walker Bueller, now a member of the Boston Red Sox. But Corey Seeger to me, I remember when he came up and I remember very, very distinctly, when he and Jock were in the dugout in Anaheim at Angel Stadium during the exhibition game at the end of the regular at the end of spring training rather before the regular season started. I took a photo and I said the Dodgers future stars because they were both up you know kind of in that exhibition and playing and you know they were the future of the team and I think Corey Seeger really cemented himself as a huge part of what the Dodgers were able to do. And again, Corey had a lot of of struggle staying healthy. He didn't really ever have many normal spring trainings. But in the biggest

moments, Corey Seeger, I mean, he's two-time World Series MVP, once with the Dodgers, once with the Rangers, I understand. But I mean, Corey just had massive, massive at-bats. And he'd step in the box and he was like no more Garcia-Para. He was already always ready to swing. It was always like he stepped into the box and it's always like he had two strikes on him, right? I mean, but he was always ready to swing and he came up clutch in so many situations and he did it without ever saying a word. He hated being interviewed. He always did it. He was always respectful. But he was so happy when Cody Bellinger started becoming the star and having an MVP season because it was like, sweet, Cody can do all the interviews now. So Corey Seeger, one of my favorite humans comes from one of my favorite families,

baseball families. I can't imagine where the Dodgers would have been without the production that savior had. And I would add to that, and, you know, we'll throw in a caveat here is, again, we're going to take some liberties with this. Obviously, Corey drafted by Ned Coletti, but still, he became a man. He became a Dodger under Friedman. So I'll 100% give you that one there. But, you know, he was another of those guys that just exemplified, play the game the right way,

don't bitch about things, you know, show up to work, put in the work, and go home. It was a job. It is a job to him. He would much rather be home with his wife and his dogs and all of that. But he plays the game the right way and sadly playing the game for the Texas Rangers these days. But yeah, if you're talking about that really that entry into, oh, man, this is going to be an insane era of Dodger baseball. Corey was that man. He was absolutely that dude.

And at a very critical position too, right? I mean, you have a shortstop, the hardest defensive position in the infield. and the expectation of production from your shortstop. And Corey was very adamant. He's like, I'm not moving over to third. I know everyone thinks I'm too tall. We'll talk to Cal Ripkin Jr. Because I'm not moving.

So that, you know, he lived up to the height and exceeded it. Yeah. I mean, still, you know, I would argue pound per pound, the best hitter of the Dodgers, you know, produced since, I don't know, Adrian Beltray. Maybe that's a very lazy take. I don't know. But if you're talking about pure hitting dudes,

I mean, Corey Seeger, he's got to be, you know, in somewhere on a high up on that list of the next 20 years. Is Seeger on the way to the Hall of Fame like Belcher? He's got to keep playing. I mean, was Adrian Beltrae a Hall of Famer before he became a Texas Ranger? Probably not. I mean, so it just, you keep playing. You let the numbers keep piling up. That's what Corey's going to be.

And the fact that he has a couple World Series as where belly, the original belly does not. I think that that plays very well. Now, maybe the media aspect, the fact that Seeger's made it very well known, he doesn't want to talk to you unless he has to or if you're not actively working. If you have the amount of black type that Seeger probably will when it's all said and done, it doesn't matter what the media says. Just got to stay healthy. Before we shift to three, we should remind you guys, please subscribe to the channel.

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But for me, number three, again, I'm cheating ever so slightly. One name we've already said, you said Chase Utley, what he brought to the team, the hard nose, play the game the right way, slide into a mofo at second base to break up that double play. That was a clean slide. I don't care. Hard nose baseball play. I'm sorry Tehada. I'm sorry, broke your damn leg. I thought my life was in massive jeopardy when we went back to New York. I was like, wait, I needed security coming off the bus because I said it was a clean slide. New Yorkers hate me for it. That's a hard nose baseball play. Yeah. Terry Collins still mad. He can't get their, they didn't get their shot at their guy. But also my number three, I think I would be surprised if he's not on your list, but David Freeze as well. The impact he made in such a short.

amount of time in a Dodger uniform, ultimately becoming the lead-off dude in that 2018 World Series run, just out of nowhere. Like, he, another, didn't necessarily want to keep playing at that point in his career, but he had a lot of fun in that final year in a Dodger uniform. And he played great. I mean, look at, look at David Freeze's final season in a Dodger uniform for his final season of his career. He hit, what, 320, 315, something like that, had 11 homers in short play.

And in the World Series, in that postseason run, was just, it was an incredible addition to that lineup, even though, again, pretty much, you could say he was past his prime at that point, but he found something a little bit like Albert Pooleholz, found some lightning in a bottle, rejuvenates that career slightly in a dodger uniform. And he says, all right, I'm done after this. But those are my guess number three. I don't know. I'm so annoyed that you actually took the liberty to have two in the same category because I would have put freeze next to Utley at five. I didn't know that we were allowed to do that. I told you before. I mean, to me, Utley and Freeze are the same dude, right? Like, they're the same, like, hard-nosed baseball player, bring a ton of experience, a ton of seniority, no BS.

And Freeze was my favorite over the course of his time there, my favorite post-game walk-off interview every single time. Was dry sense of humor, hilarious, honest, raw. I adore that man. I adore David Freeze. I adore his wife. I adore. They have the most beautiful children in the world, the three of them. Oh, my gosh.

David Freeze in 2019, 315 batting average in 79 games, 186 played appearances, a slug of 599 and OPS over 1,000. The guy 100%. All right, he's my number five with Chase. My number three is a guy. He brought that dog. Yes. Yes.

He did. By the way, did you know that? His dog's name is Doug or is actually Bob, Bob the dog. Bob, Doug. After his friend Bob and his friend Bob has a dog named David, but that's for another time. All right. My number three is Freddie Freeman. And I know that this is interesting because Freddie Freeman, for all intents and purposes, did not want to be a Dodger.

He wanted to retire as an Atlanta brave. It was unbelievably emotional for him. Remember when the Dodgers went back to Atlanta as the visiting team and Freddie was going to his old clubhouse and crying? And we were like, what the hell, dude? It's not like we sent you to Afghanistan. You know, you're like, you signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. But he needed that closure with Atlanta. He grew up in the Atlanta organization.

They were his family. And it's almost like your family is cutting you loose and saying, you know what? We don't want you anymore, kid. And it ended up being one of the best Dodgers that we could have asked for. And Atlanta did great with Matt Olson after Freddie at first. It was a wonderful decision on both parts of for Freddie being in L.A. for Matt to be in Atlanta as their first baseman. But what Freddie has done in the course of his very short tenure so far as a Dodger,

and he will always go down in postseason lore as the only walk-off grand slam in World Series history against Nestor Cortez that really helped change the dynamic of the course of the World Series and honestly sent Nestor Cortez to Milwaukee. Let's be honest. Freddie Freeman is by far my number three. just the quality of human being that he is, his love of the game, his love of his family, his dad's relationship,

everything he went through with Max in the 2024 season. Freddie Freeman is my number three. Future Hall of Famer, put it on lock. Great, great pick, because I didn't have Freddie on my list, so I'm glad you brought him up. You know, we've talked a lot this off season the last couple of weeks about,

you know, few people have ingratiated themselves to the fan base as much as Taya Oscar Hernandez in a short amount of time. I mean, we were getting Freddie chance in his first at bat as a Dodger. Like we, Dodgers fans were never expecting that guy that was beating us for all those years

to sign and come, you know, come home, be in a Dodger uniform. And we hope, you know, for the rest of his career, he's in a Dodger uniform.

Hopefully after this contract is up, they're able to work out something, keep them around a la, maybe a Chase Utley deal. But yeah, great call on Freddie Freeman. As we shift to number two, I think people are going to be,

possibly annoyed at my list for kind of, again, there's a lot of cheating on my list. I admit that, but it's fine. It's the holidays. And it also kind of tapers a little bit, maybe, but even so. It's Andrew Friedman's very first deal as Dodgers player or sorry, president of baseball operation. And this is the trade that brought Kike Hernandez. Sorry, Kiki, because I pissed people off on Instagram.

No, that totally did. They were so angry at you. Sorry, Enrique Hernandez. as E Austin Barnes to the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chris Hatcher. We don't talk about him. But I mean, that deal obviously sends away D. Gordon amongst other players. But getting back,

Kike Hernandez and Austin Barnes, this is another one of those things. This is one of those deals that set forth a run of success that this team is still enjoying. Because when Guggenheim took over, you know, they had to spend some money. There was Hanley.

They were still Wanda Rebay. There was figuring out some, figuring out some things. You get the addition of Justin Turner. Pieces start falling together. But Kiki and Austin Barnes, and we've had people. I mean, Matt Kemp told us this year about how much he loved playing with Kike and that was missing his first time through in a Dodger uniform, but he comes back, plays with Kiki in 2018.

This organization loves that boy. The players, obviously the fans. So that's my number two right there. Kike Austin Barnes, both friends. No, one friend of the show. That's a good call by you and Kike is actually my number two. And the reason being is because Kike, like I said before, I would have him on any postseason roster ever.

We talked to Matt Kemp, a friend of the show who said that there was just a different aura when he played with Kike Hernandez back in the day. Kike just gets it. He just gets it. I mean, I know that a lot of times it looks like he's just with the theatrics and the shenanigans and stuff. But there's something about post, and the banana. There's something about the postseason Kike.

that is just, to me, it's instrumental. So without a doubt, you know, a guy that is just brings a 50, you know, 50 gloves to the yard, goes all over the field. The only position he hasn't played is catcher, you know. Let Kikee, oh, I remember that era. Remember the let Kiki catch. So, yeah, to me, it goes without saying he's not an everyday player to a lot of people. And, you know, he's a really good utility player.

He understands his role. He wants to come back to L.A. He just said that the other day. So Kiki is my number two. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. He pulls the gun.

Tells me to lie down on the ground. He identified Tremaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Termaine was sentenced to 99 years. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth. For 22 years, only two people knew the truth, until a confession changed everything.

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And how did a 2023 event called Wagageddon change the paddock forever? That day is just seared into my memory. I'm culture writer and F1 expert Lily Herman, and these are just a few of the questions I'm tackling on No Grip, a Formula One culture podcast that dives into the under-explored pockets of the sport. In each episode, a different guest and I will go deeper into the wacky mishap, scandals, and sagas, both on the track and far away from it, that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Good people. What's up? What's up? It's Questlove.

So recently I had the incredible opportunity to have a real conversation with actors and producer Jamie Lee Curtis ahead of the release of her new thriller series, Scarpetta. I can honestly say I've never done an interview like that before. You know, at one point I shut my laptop down. And we just started chatting as old friends, recent Oscar recipient. So we have some commonality there. I predicted that, by the way. And you said these words to me. dust off your mantle.

Yes. And I looked at you and I said, what? And you said, dust off your mantle. And then I left and that was it. And then when all of that happened, I remember the next morning, I think I wanted to write you and go, how did you know?

Listen to the Questlove show on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Before we get to number one, I want to expand on that, because we were all treated to some phenomenal interviews featuring yourself and Kika Hernandez, of course, him not feeling safe when the drones are out there. I think he was also somehow involved when the sewage thing happened down the left field line. What was your favorite Kike moment that not so much about him being in the postseason or whatever playing? It was your favorite you Kike moment.

There's so many Kike moments. And most of the time, they were behind my eyeballs. I didn't have eyes in the back of my head and it was always Kike when I would do the pre-first pitch hit right? So it was like Joe and Oro would do their booth stuff and then send it down to the field I would do my free first

my free my pre-first pitch hit easy for me to say and Kiki's always behind me doing something stupid. Whether he's gyrating to a song or whether he's like you know it takes the bat and is like mocking me like he's talking like this and then I turn around he's like just

swing in the bat you know And of course, the drone one when he doesn't, he didn't feel safe. I don't feel safe. He's just, he's insane. Kike's insane. And I love him for that. And, you know, again, you need that type of personality. And that's the thing. You've got to let guys be who they are to try to push Kiki into a hole and make him not have that personality is you're not going to get the best out of your guys. So a lot of funny moments with that one. That's for sure. Yeah. And I love to, I guess, promote another show. He was on that, that show, the haircut show, whatever it's called. I'm sorry. I forgot what he was on, but he talked about his struggles early in his career with Houston and how he was trying to be someone he's not.

Once he finally decided to listen to Robin Williams and be himself, then he became the Kike we now very much know and love. But without further ado, number one, before we get to number one, which is also a cheat on me. I want to cheat with an honorable mention and throw in Evan Phillips because we're talking about a dude who was a scrap. This is not my number one. This is an honorable mention. But Evan Phillips being a dude that was a scrap heap type of dude, DFAed by Tampa, Dodgers pick him up. He puts, you know, he's a nobody in 21 puts on a show when Joe Kelly hurts himself starting a game, opening a game because the Dodgers have no pitching because my number five, Max Scherzer can't answer the bell. I told you.

Evan Phillips goes out there and throws up like three and a third score list or whatever. You know, that was Evan Phillips' Brent Honeywell moment. but to now be at a point where he's in that argument where he is the Dodgers closer unofficially, officially at times. That's my honorable mention, but my number one, it's the trio from this year because without the addition of Tommy Edmund, Michael Kopeck, and Jack Flaherty, the Dodgers do not win the 2024 World Series. You had to have those dudes. And the precision in which Andrew Friedman and Brandon Goams and company navigated the trade deadline in 2024, it was beautiful. it was magical and ultimately it led to world series championship number eight for your

Los Angeles Dodgers. So that's my number one. It's three dudes. It's the trio. And I am done now cheating. I got to, I got to say, I, no, I do not agree with you. Like how can you have a top five list of most impactful Dodgers over the course of This is trade?

This is like his biggest trades. My time. Okay. Well, I'm different. I'm, okay, that's fine. Whatever. But for me, as far as impact, and it's a tie for me, I mean, an equal tie. Number one for me, Justin Turner, Clayton Kirschaw.

You don't have two people that have more impact on this team over the course of the last 10 years, last 10 plus years, than J.T. and Kirsch. And I understand Kirsch, I didn't pitch a ton this year. I understand JT's not even on the damn team. But over the course of time that I've been covering this team and been in love with this team to the point where that's given me ulcers. Justin Turner has had the most impact on that team from a position player's side than any other player that I have witnessed since I started covering the team full time in 2014. And keep in mind, Justin Turner and I, and I've told the story before, we started on the exact same day because I started basically covering this team, let's just say, first day

of spring training of 2014. And that's when Ned Coletti decided to invite J.T. As a non-roster invitee after the New York Metropolitan's decided to non-tender him. And he came to spring training without a job and ended up getting a job. Remember, as the second baseman of the Los Angeles Dodgers and ended up becoming, I know we don't have captains in L.A., but was a captain of that team. And the guy would post whether he was 0 for 5 with three errors or 5 for 5.

with the game winning RBI. He would post every single game. He always held himself accountable. He showed up. He played every day. So J.T. for me on the position player's side. And without a doubt, imagine, imagine where this club would be without Clayton Kershaw in his Dodger tenure of just being the ace of this staff as long as he has.

And God, I hope he finishes his career in a Dodger uniform. He will. He says he wants to. and credit to Andrew Friedman bringing those dudes back understanding that yeah maybe he's not the guy who initially signed either of them

but understanding the impact them essentially having an open door policy with Clayton Kirshaw return anytime you decide you're ready to come back they've done that the last three years drunk and you know slightly smoked out Kershaw with his Stogee

at the World Series Championship says I'll be back I've been Dodger for life and and JT you know coming back at Kenley's wedding agreeing to return to the Dodgers, bringing Kenley back with him. All of that, definitely Friedman instrumental in bringing those dudes, keeping them here for as long as they were here or are here and continuing the run of success that the Los Angeles Dodgers team has had.

But those are our top 10 plus much plus players. If you guys feel different, sound off in the comments below. before we sign off though Alana I think you got a dog you should tell people about so I'm going to throw the last next yeah I appreciate that very much all right guys I need your help and I need your help badly this is cash

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he is good with other dogs Collies are incredibly active, very smart dog. So a family that's active likes to hike, likes to walk, likes to do things would be the best fit for him. As a foster, you do not pay for anything. So no cash outlay for cash as a foster. But please reach out if you can foster him because I am doing my best to avoid him going to a shelter because he will not make it out of the shelter alive. So please, please, please, please share cash. Guys, it's a best time of year to bring a new.

bundle of joy into the house and it should always be a dog never children always bring a dog home yes you can't just give them up when you feel like it either it's a lifetime commitment please absolutely but guys hopefully you enjoyed this a little bit different episode of dodgers territory i had a lot of fun i think alana you probably had some fun doing this too it's not your usual stuff don't worry we'll be we'll be back to talking about who the dodgers should sign and sasaki and all that stuff on monday so guys make sure you are subscribed to the channel hit that notification bell to know When we are live, that really helps out. Rate and review the show in this podcast form.

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