Dodgers Territory - Dodgers/Rockies series recap, Buehler IL’d, CT3 on fire?!

Episode Date: June 21, 2024

Alanna Rizzo & Clint Pasillas dish on Walker Buehler's IL stint and concerns with third base offensive production. Plus, is Chris Taylor suddenly on fire??Alanna & Clint start by reacting to the Dodgers beating the Rockies 5-3 on Thursday. Shohei Ohtani went lift off early! Plus, big day at the dish for Teoscar Hernandez. LA also survives a Freddie Freeman 9th inning scare.Rate/review DT on this page plz :)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is a rare opportunity when Clint and I get to be with you guys right after a Dodgers game. We are so happy to say that it's after a Dodgers win, a five to three victory over the Colorado Rockies in Denver before they take on the Angels and then have a crazy off day on Sunday. Clint Paceas, Alana Rizzo with you here on Dodgers Territory. Be sure to rate us five stars. Like and subscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTube as well as wherever you get your podcast.

Okay, Clint, it's great to be with you on this Thursday night before you do your other podcast. I appreciate you making time for me, sir. What is your game reaction? Obviously, Mookie is not in the lineup. So Shohay is in the leadoff spot. Makes it count right away. Yeah, Shohay, leading off, it's pretty fun to watch.

But overall, anytime this team can survive Colorado, I'm happy. They got out of there, mostly unscathed, a little bit of a scare. Freddie Freeman giving us a scare there in the bottom of the ninth or the top of the ninth, kind of stretching out a single there, stomps a little hard on the base. But he stayed in the game. Again, you're happy to take three or four in Colorado. Everybody's limbs are attached for the most part. I'm good.

I'm thrilled. Get me the hell out of Colorado. I hate that place and sorry. Wow. First of all, first of all, that is my birthplace. Okay, so summer down a little bit. Okay, I was born in Arizona. And by the way, by the way, I don't think it's because he was stomping on the bag trying to leg out that single. It is so, he's gassed.

I mean, Freddie Freeman was running as hard as Freddie Freeman can. But I tell you what, and everyone says that it's thin air. It's not. It's less dense. But anyway, it's hard to run in Colorado. And if you ask anybody that played for a long period of time in Colorado, it's very different. and very difficult to recover after a game there. So Freddie Freeman is fine.

Showy Otani goes off. Obviously, Freddie with the home run, Will Smith with the home run. So the offense was good. And then Gavin Stone, Clint gets into a little bit of trouble there in the bottom of the sixth inning. And I'm thinking, oh, here we go. And again, it's not easy to pitch at Coorsfield. That's well documented, correct? But limits the damage a little bit.

They only give up two runs from the bullpen. But we need to see these situations with Gars. Gavin. No, like we saw him pitch already against the Rockies now here, obviously, in Colorado, but he's got to make improvements each time out. Is that fair? Yeah, I mean, I love, still love what I'm seeing out of Gavin Stone. I will continue to ask, where would this team be without Gavin Stone and the ascension that he has made this year, particularly now with Walker Bueller super injured and all that, but we'll talk about that a little bit later. But love the stuff, love the poise out of stone there. he knows this team. They needed a lot out of him. Probably got a bullpen game going tomorrow

against the Angels at Dodger Stadium. So give him everything you got, does pitch into the sixth inning, around 80 pitches. Obviously, you get a little gas there day game at Colorado. It's a warm enough day over there. The cloud cover came a little bit later to cool it down a little, but I love what we saw out of stone, gave this team exactly what it needed, what they needed. And, you know, got the hell out of there when it was time. I appreciate Dave, you know, not forcing the issue there with the bases loaded and won out. But love Gavin Stone. Get him to that all-star game, but that's a whole other story.

Eric Caros, who's a friend of the program here, we had him on Dodgers territory last week, talked about a thing that you can't do at course field, Clint. And that's give up walks and you can't give them more outs to work with. And that's what Gavin Stone was doing there in the sixth inning. But again, leaves the outing with, I believe he had bases loaded, did he not? And then, you know, the bullpen comes in and shuts a down, only giving up two runs. Otani owns Coorsfield. I think most hitters Nando owned Coorsfield.

Stone is this year's Bobby Miller. Yeah, I mean, I think that's a good comparison. I think Bobby Miller really showed some stuff last season. Obviously, you know, he's coming back to and or he's back. But it's, I do think Gavin Stone is all-star worthy. I think he's worthy of our attention. I still need to see a more complete Dodgers starting rotation. We'll get into Clayton Krishaw in just a little bit.

But before we do that, let's talk about the balancing of the offense. Clint, we talked about the home runs. Freddie has one, Shoah has one. Will Smith had one. But Teoscar Hernandez doesn't go over the fence, but he had three hits to balance it out. Yeah, Teo stepping up. I mean, I think you could argue the entire team is stepping up in the absence of Moogie Betts. You know, everybody stopped the presses.

Chris Taylor had a couple of hits. He is five for his last 15. Sorry to put that into the ethos. If it breaks the good luck. But if Chris Taylor is hitting, things are going. well for this team in 2024. Kika Hernandez got in on the action at third base with a base hit, which is tough for also Dodgers third baseman to do. But show Hey Otani in that lead off spot. I know the lead there was into Teosker, but I want to talk show Hey Otani because Teo, we know

he could drop in some three hit games anywhere in the lineup. But showy Otani in that lead off spot in the absence of Mookie Betts has been impressive. A couple of monster bombs at a lead off spot. What do you like out of Shohei leading off for this team? I like anything anytime Show Hey is in the lineup. I mean, obviously I want Mookie in there. I mean, I think Moogie does a great job of setting the table. You know what you have behind him, obviously with Shohei and Freddie and Will Smith and all of that.

But I think that Shohei, if as long as he's not swinging outside of the zone and he stays within himself and he gets the pitches that he's meant to hit, I'm fine with him there. I mean, anywhere in the top of the lineup, I'm fine with Shoah. I mean, I think it's a better lineup with Moogie in there. But obviously, I wouldn't even like sit down on the couch before the Dodgers were already, you know, on the board won nothing. So listen, I'll take it. If he keeps doing that type of stuff, I'll take it. And as we just heard, you know, Shohei owns course field.

That place is a tough place to hit. And you know what? It's not a tough place to pitch. It's not just the home runs, Clint. It's the gaps are gigantic. So if you can, you know, use the entire field. If you can obviously hit it over the wall, that's great. But, you know, that's why there's so many doubles and triples at that park, because the gap.

gaps are huge. I cover the Rockies for five seasons, like I said, I'm from there. So not an enviable place to be if you are a pitcher, but a great place to get your offense right, for sure. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Embatta. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing. whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future.

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AI levels of your pitch, gets it in a group with your timeless. Learn more at adobe.com slash do that with acrobat. How about we look at behind the seams a little bit? I have a couple of things I want to talk to you about as far as you had mentioned what the team's doing in the absence of Mookie, but what about what this team is doing, Clint,

in the absence of Muncie? And the answer to that, Clint, is nothing. Very, very little. So what is it? Now, 32 games don't have the exact updated numbers, but about 150. Dodgers' third baseman are players that are standing in at third base and hitting in the lineup are hitting about a buck 50 since Max Muncie was sidelined with that oblique. I don't think we need any baseball scholars here to tell you that is not getting it done.

What's going on? How did that become such a black hole? for this team because they got some okay players. Miguel Rojas plays there on occasion, you know, and we love McGee Roe. What's going on with this third base situation? Yeah, you know, Kike was one for four today at the third base position. It's not an easy position to play offense or defensively, of course, on the Keystone corner. But remember back in the day when everyone was like, I don't want Max Muncie playing third base.

And I know it was because more of his defense than it was because of his offense, but I think he's gone exponentially better defensively at the third base spot. but I also think obviously we are massively missing Max Muncie's bat in that lineup. I mean, just the professional at bat that it gives you. And that's what he talked about the other day too, right? When we had him on foul territory, he was just talking about or I can remember if it was Dodgers or foul or fair. I mean, I have so many.

But, you know, when he was on foul territory talking about the fact that what's the one thing that he feels he brings to the lineup, it's the fact that he can work counts. He tires out the pitchers. He's so patient at the plate. And even when Max Muncie wasn't getting hits or hitting, you know, hitting for average, hitting for power or whatever, he was still getting on base. His on base percentage was still there because he is still so patient at the plate. He gives you a professional at that every single time. And I think that is absolutely what the Dodgers are missing.

Again, not just the bottom of the order, but also when Max Muncie's not in there, it screws up the entire lineup. And it doesn't allow guys around him to get good pitches to see. the pitches to hit. I think one of the things he had told you guys was he lets other guys kind of be themselves. So there is kind of that void. The bottom of the lineup is kind of figuring some things out.

We know what the top of the lineup can do. It's that direct middle of the lineup that appears to be the problem. Kevin Bigio has not been any help for this team since joining us. I say us very liberally there and not contributing much to

the offense at that third base position. So boy, does this team need Max Muncie back in so many ways. Never would have thought defense would be a big thing. But I love that. Sammy Boy Smith saying, we've been talking about it off and on. I've been talking about it a shit ton on my show. Give Andre Lipsis a chance. I think he had another four-hit game or four hits over his last couple of games.

Andre Lipsis, there's zero reason to, I don't care if he can't play defense at third at a gold glove level. I don't care if this dude is not Brooks Robinson. I want to see what the bat can do. You're supposed to be able to earn the opportunity to play at the big league level by playing well at AAA. And the Dodgers are not giving this kid an opportunity. Instead, they went and did what they do. And no disrespect to Kevin Bigio,

but fans are annoyed. They're a little done with the whole dumpster dive sometimes. And it works. It works so often for this front office. But right now, this kid is earning it. And it's worth a shot to see what he can do, By the way, he was also a DFA pickup in the offseason was Andre Lipsius. Why?

I think that, I think it was Sammy that had that tweet, if we can go back to it about, you know, about Lipsius. But I think, yeah, Sammy Boy Smith, it's such a good point that he brings up because they have a 10-game lead. I mean, it's not like they're fighting for position. They're not jockeying for position in the NL West. They have enough of a cushion right now, I think, on June 20th that you can try, I mean, you tried out on DiPahas, you tried out, you know, Vargas. is back. You tried out. Obviously, James Alman, he's now back. I mean, you're still, you're still plugging away with Gavin Lux and those

types of things. Ten game lead. You have a little bit of leeway and enough people around you that can pick you up. He doesn't have to be the savior, but I mean, he could perhaps bring a spark to that position. Somebody else asked how do we fix Max? Obliques are tough, man. Obliques are really tough. I think it was Yadi. Obliques and hamstrings are so

tricky because it's like there's nothing that you can do to fix it. You just have to But you have to be patient. And I don't know a single competitive professional athlete, let alone a single competitive baseball player that wants to be patient with their rehab while they have to sit on the sideline and, you know, wait to get on the field again. But if you tweak it again, then he's out for another two months. So it's like you got to be really, really careful with obliques and with hamstring.

So there's no real fixing max. It's just trying to, yeah, Kenny Chung says the same thing that you've been screaming from the mountaintops up, you know, call it. It's biting time. I get it. And maybe they will. You know, I don't think it's too long before Kevin Bizio, you know, finds his way someplace else. And I hate that for the kid.

I really do. Justin Yannis, no Bizio or Lux equals a W. I mean, that's not fair. Come on, guys. But I get it. You know, and fans can be fans, and they should be. And that's why we love them because you're allowed to be fanatics. So, yeah, I don't know.

I mean, okay, so let's put on your managerial hat, not your front office hat, but your managerial hat. If you get to run the lineup out there tomorrow against the Angels, who were you running out there? I mean, the obvious, like, I mean, pitch or catch or whatever, but who were you running out there? Well, I think at this point, what we've learned, what a lot of fans are clamoring for us to at least see more of Miguel Vargas in the lineup.

I think the kid has earned a shot again to at least get the bat in the lineup. Defense is another one of those things. It's a question mark if I'm being real, real nice. Not setting your lineup, Clint Paseas. Where are you putting these guys defensively? Oh. I know some folks want to see Vargas at third base. He came up kind of playing third base early in his professional career.

If he's around, it doesn't hurt to try him there. But I think lineup-wise, they're not that far off. I like what Dave is running out there. So my managerial hat would probably be something very similar to what we're seeing. I would just probably not have a whole lot of Kike Hernandez and Kevin Vigio in the lineup. Even again, even Chris Taylor, kind of figuring some things out right now. One guy I will tell you, Miggie Rose in there at shortstop every day. Yeah, shocking, shocking.

You would put McGee behind the plate if it meant that Meggy was in the line. That's mad at my wedding right there. I mean, honest to God, I'm a little concerned about you and your love affair with Miguel Rojas. I love defense. I'm sorry. I just love defense. How do I get it? I get it. He's a gold glove middle infielder. He's a gold glove shortstop. I get that completely. And he's a really good dude. Before we say goodbye, I have no idea how long our shows are now because it's post game. We can talk all night. Let's talk about Clayton Kersha. Had a great rehab start with the Oklahoma City quakes. Or the Rancho Kuka Munggo Quakes, rather, I apologize. I love to see. All I care about is is that he gets out of his healthy. I couldn't care less what he's using in his arsenal, what his velocity is, what any of it is. Just please. obviously that's the patented Kirshaerbaw curveball but like let's let's get out of this healthy um

is he close what do you think i think he's right on track and listen to uh the post game words from kersh and it sounds exactly like standard clayton kershaw which is he doesn't want to be doing this he wants to be doing big league action but he knows this is part of uh you know part of the the steps for you know towards getting back to the big league mound but uh did you know averaged i think It was 88 to 90 miles an hour on the fastball, which is about where you expect Kersh right now coming off of a significant enough shoulder operation for surgery in his lifetime. I think we're probably very much. This is like his first spring training start. So we got another month before Kershaw is really ready to go.

I don't think they're going to rush him. I don't think there's any reason to rush him. There's no need to. To be one of those guys that if we're just, we're looking at the calendar right now, let's put it a month. put it a month out that puts them right after all-star break time do you think alana do you think clayton kershaw could be one of the first five guys starting for this team right after the all-star break no because he doesn't need to be i i really don't i mean he could be but i don't i don't need i don't need to see colitin honestly until september i really don't um i you know keep his arm fresh um

again if he's already out on rehab assignments he's probably going to come back uh and you know of July, beginning of August, but I don't need him back until that point. Unless, you know, the Dodgers start really closing the gap or, you know, that the lead in the NL West starts to diminish. Then I'll be like, oh gosh, you know, but because I do want them to win the division again just for pride's sake and just because they're the freaking Dodgers. So I don't need Kirsch back until September, but he is probably going to come back a little bit more. What I am a little bit more concerned about is again if postseason started today which obviously it does not you know who are the top three who who do you feel super confident in right now that is going to get you through a

five game series yeah it got a lot worse with yoshinaubu yamamoto being out and we don't know how long it's going to be out so your number one is real easy at least with tyler glasnow every everything in my fiber of my being tells me that gavin stone has earned that second second start but after that it starts to get real real up in the air we know one option will not be walker beuller at least right now if the postseason started right now kershaw still being out james paxon's the only other living dude so if that's uh your third guy give me land and knack instead and it makes me nervous right i mean in goodness we have four months before that is an issue that we need but that's scary that's not a good to pitching depth right there and

obviously um you know good that bobby miller's back good that kersha's coming back back. Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Embatta. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing, whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes.

Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? They will come point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Conton?

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Grab your docs. Your permits up your pitch gets it in with your timeless. Learn more at Adobe.com slash do that with acrobat. Walker Bueller all of a sudden has right hip inflammation. I don't buy that at all. I think Walker Bueller needs a blow. And perhaps he's getting that IL stint right now because of the amount of off days. I mean, obviously they're off on Sunday, which is odd.

And then I think they're off, you know, Thursday. and then perhaps the following Monday. So he's placed on the I.L. Because of hip inflammation. But I think it's just because he needs some time to figure things out mechanically to get back to where he feels that he should probably be at this point. I think we both said five, six starts and we'll kind of have a better gauge of where he's at. And he doesn't like what he's doing.

No. It was after last night's, you know, his eighth start on the season, it was everything I expected. out of Bueller, especially in Colorado, like him to go to Colorado. I'm sorry, I'm going to crap on Coorsfield again because that's just not a place where pitchers should live or be or ever exist. Baseball should not exist at Coorsfield or in Colorado. I'm sorry again, but nothing was ever in the stars to line up for a positive outcome for Walker Bueller.

Your breaking stuff isn't as good in Colorado, and he doesn't have his best pitch over his career, his fastball. So he was going to get beat up. He did get beat up. And after the game, he was dejected. You know, he kind of hinted that they were already in, you know, talking about the idea of giving him a blow, kind of giving him that mental reset, whether it be just missing a start, a couple of weeks, a month. But he is, he's in it right now. And you hate to see this out of Walker's first time he's probably ever really been challenged in his life because this guy's always been very good at what he does.

are how worried are you do you is this like a major concern with where walker beeler is at um or is this something where maybe a month you've seen it happen before a month off kind of just put the baseball down you know pick it back up in a couple weeks and hopefully everything kind of resets what do you think i mean i don't know that he has the luxury to put it down for a month um but i do think i do think that i throw every single outing at course field out i never pay attention to i mean even the best in the game can't figure it out at course field and I get it and I disagree that they shouldn't have baseball but I do know that it's incredibly difficult to pitch there and they will never win anything there they just they don't spend the money they're they're loyal to a fault

guys don't want to go there I mean look at frigging Chris Bryant I mean wow I'm so glad that Dodgers did not sign Chris Bryant but um you know and that kid was a golden spikes award when I remember presenting him that award at Dodger Stadium when he was coming out of college or coming out of high school in Vegas. And I was with MLB Network the first time. So, I mean, that was a thousand years ago. And it's just amazing how career trajectories can change. But to your point, I throw out any course field outing.

But Walker wasn't that, you know, wasn't himself before pitching at course field. So I do think he needs a mental reset. I do think he needs to work on some things mechanically. That four-seem fastball is not working for him right now. Guys are hitting it. His breaking stuff isn't there. A month, no, but maybe a week and change. Maybe he's on the IL for a couple weeks.

Or maybe you bring him back. As long as he's still doing baseball activities and he's facing live hitters, maybe you bring him back after the All-Star game. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not. I'm not sold on our starting pitching.

I haven't been all season. It's a little concerning for sure. I think we've hit that point, and I will give you that. I think I was more bullish on the starting pitching than you were entering the season. I remember us talking a bit about this before we even started this show. You were relying on a kid coming from Japan

and hoping he figured it out. Well, he kind of did, but then the injury happened. That's the other factor you always got to throw in there. And the fact that, you know, Tyler Glassnow is never throwing more than 120, 120 112 one season, that's a big time concern. Gavin Stone has never thrown as many innings as he's going to throw this year. So at some point, you need to worry about or wonder if they're going to start tapering back his innings a little bit.

So it's kind of, it's decision-making time a little bit for this team. Are they going to go out and get somebody, you know, make a big splash at the deadline? Brandon Gomes, the Dodgers GM recently spoke about the idea. He said the Yamamoto situation and the Mookie Betz situation does not change their thinking as they approach the trade deadline. Of course, we know how they choose their words very carefully. So I don't know if that means their plan was always to go out and get another starter or to try to go get a shortstop. But I feel at this point right now, one more injury. and you're looking real, you're looking real bad if October were starting tomorrow.

No doubt, no doubt. I think they need to go out and get a frontline starter. And I think maybe at this point, maybe they need to get another infielder, a third basement. I, you know, I don't know. But they are one massive injury away in their starting rotation from being in a world of hurt. And I hate to say that because there has been for years so much depth in our pitching staff.

But again, everybody needs more pitching, period. Let's get to last looks. This week's pup is Kaya. Look at that baby. She was being pampered, Clint. Her name is Kaya. I have to tell you that unfortunately, black dogs get overlooked quite a bit.

She is wonderful. She's about a year old. She is super healthy. She's wonderful with kids. In fact, her foster sister is the one that put that little bow on her. She's great with kids. She's great with other dogs. She's about to get spayed on July 15th.

So she'll be available for adoption after that. end of July. If you're interested in learning more about Kaya, hit us up at giddreysgarden. Orr, where you could hit me up. Slide into my DMs, as the kids say, to learn a little bit about Kaya. We have a fan question about what's that? Yeah, yeah, only about the dogs. Don't be fixed. Don't just start going in there to ask me all kinds of weird questions about feet. All right. So Kenny Chong has this to say, PK and McGee-Rot tandem looked a bit rough on a couple of plays, got in each other's way. And that's a point that he brings up obviously we were watching the broadcast on sports net la and it almost seemed like

they were not communicating enough or i mean maybe it's because they're both used to playing so many infield positions it's like all right who's is this even though obviously the short stops the captain of the infield but it it did seem like they're a little equivocado if you if you want in spanish yeah i think that's just uh two captains kind of uh you know trying to play two spots they're not familiar playing together. So usually that kind of stuff is, is addressed, is worked on during spring training. It's the first time these two dudes have played those positions together. So I'm not terribly worried about it. We saw a lot of that earlier in the season two with Teosca Hernandez and Andy Paez. Now, you know, Teo's kind of given some space to Paixas to make some plays. So you're

feeling, feeling pretty good about that situation. But I think Kike, you know, premium defender. And of course, you've got a gold glove caliber player. If he can hit, he would win a gold glove. But we know he can't always hit to the standards that win you gold gloves because it's, you know, the voting is stupid on that. But that's a whole other topic. I feel about them figuring some things out together if they're going to be working together for a while. Yeah, which is stupid because the gold glove award is a defensive award. Before we let you go, before we let our viewers go and our listeners go, do you care about the angels?

Is it a rivalry to you? do you care about these next two games why are you giving me that look man listen if there's if there's something i hate more than coors field that's the angels as an organization i'm sorry i'm gonna keep saying i'm sorry that's the title of this episode clint's sorry about something hey nobody told me we were drinking for this episode the hell alana oh please it's thursday night this is fair it's six o'clock it's six o'clock in massachusetts bro it's six o'clock in massachusetts and i'm off tomorrow so whatever well wow wait you get days off that's important impressive.

And that is surprising for you. You're a little out there. You're like, you know, give me some work. But anyway, no, it's not a rivalry. Both teams need to have, you know, played each other or be playing for something for it to be a rivalry. This is just, you know, two teams that share the five freeway that are meeting up at Dodger Stadium for two games instead of three.

And the Dodgers have that odd Sunday off day, again, you already kind of brought up, but no, not a rivalry to me. You have, you feel different. It's not a rivalry to me. It hasn't been a rivalry to me in a long time. It's like I always say, too, with the Dodgers and the Padres. That to me is not a rivalry until it becomes a lot more balanced. I mean, I understand. Podreys knocked him out of this postseason last year. I get it. They threw a parade after they, I get it. Okay, fine. But the point is, I just don't think it's a rivalry. I mean, Giants Dodgers, that's a rivalry. Yankees, Red Sox, and that even Yankees Red Sox doesn't even feel. Obviously, it is still a rivalry, but there's not as much juice,

although the Red Sox are one game out, which is amazing of a postseason spot. I feel like Yankees Orioles is becoming something. Oh, you got something to say? By the way, didn't you say on our production meeting that you were going to grab a drink before you logged on to the link? So I don't, I don't. I grabbed the monster. I say not a sponsor, a monster, please sponsor your boy. I have put so much money in your pocket over the years. But it's funny. I give you crap about drinking. I didn't, I didn't, well, not drinking, but drinking without me. And the beer fairy just opened the door and brought, no, no sponsor, but they, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the Rocky Mountains are blue on this can. The only Rocky Mountains I like, but I'll save

that. And I tell you what, uh, the, the, the Rockies are blue because they lost again to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Um, Diane, thank you. Be like, be like Diane Schroeder. Smash the like button for Clinton Alana. Yes, girl. Yes, Diane, thank you. Yes. Thanks for watching. Like and subscribe to our new YouTube page. And please rate five stars like and subscribe to Dodgers territory podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your pods. Clint and I are back on Monday. Enjoy your weekend. Go Dodgers. Beat those angels. We'll see you next time. I see it. 7 p.m. my channel tonight. Oh, yeah. Clint's still working. I'll be drinking. Bye. Bye. Bye. Fidelity active ETFs have the flexibility to

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