Dodgers Territory - Mark Prior Joins, Gavin Stone ENERGY, Running Away with NL West?

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior joins DT to talk Gavin Stone, Walker Buehler's return, Dustin May's rehab update, Shohei Ohtani's pitching rehab process, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's growth in the big leagues and more!As the Dodgers return home to welcome the Reds, DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas dive into the latest from the Boys in Blue. Have the Dodgers already run away with the NL West? Is Gavin Lux figuring it out at the plate? Is Gavin Stone an unsung dude in the starting rotation?Alanna delivers a preview of the Reds series and Clint has a PSA for Shohei Ohtani bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium.We meet Jack, the pup who needs to find his furever home --> more info at http://GuidrysGuardian.orgDodgers Territory streams Mondays & Thursdays LIVE at 3p ET/12p PT on the DT YouTube channel! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, Clint, you have been singing the praises of Miguel Rojas. Miguel Rojas was on the show last week, but it is time to sing the praises as well for Gavin Lux. It appears, my friend, that he is starting to heat up offensively. Do you think he's turning the page? I'd say, yes, he's turning the page. I think he's still got a decent way to go before he gets to where he wants to be, where the team needs him to be. If the bar was really low, he's jumping over that bar. He is moving the bar up.

But with all of the kind of accolades we are throwing at him, he's still hitting just 226 in the month of May. OPS is coming up, you know, fueled by a few extra base hits, but hitting the ball harder, getting the ball off the ground a little bit. So there is some things that you like to see that we're liking seeing out of Gavin Luck so far. And I do like the conversation that you and I had with Miguel Rojas about. having to play under pressure. McGee's at a very different part of his career. Gavin Lux is still trying to prove himself. So perhaps that that weight is lifting a little bit.

Maybe there's a conversation like, hey, C-ball, hit ball, don't worry so much about what's going on. Is it sometimes just getting back to the basics? It really is. I think, you know, as much crap as the team maybe took when they decided to pull the plug on Gavin Lux at shortstop, moving back to second base and kind of get him to a more familiar a spot role position that he was in.

I think that did go a long way in getting his brain back to what made him successful when he was healthy in 22 and parts of 21 and all that. Just go play ball. Like you said, C ball, hit ball. And you know the talent is there. This kid has never failed anywhere before. So just still going to take time. We forget, did miss an entire season with that knee injury.

I don't think anybody forgot. I think we keep bringing it up, this poor kid. But you know what? When your offense slumps, as long as your defense, doesn't slump, then you're doing okay. And he's really been a stabilizing force as far as defense is concerned. This defense obviously leads major league baseball and defensive runs saved. So, hey, you know what? If the bat's not always working, just make sure Clint that the glove is. Yep. And he's been phenomenal with the glove, by the way. Just like you drew it up, we have,

I think we have a graphic coming up on the screen here, but how good has Gavin Luxe been at second base, along with, as everybody predicted, as everybody expected Max Muncie defensively at third base. But the SIS fielding Bible or whatever it is, they dropped the leaders in defensive runs saved so far. And Gavin Lux, you know, one of the top contributors to the list for the Los Angeles Dodgers when it comes to DRS so far this season. He looks really good, looks really comfortable at second base. And I'm sure that goes a long way for him as well. Well, we're going to continue to talk about the Gavin's here, not only Gavin Lux, but Gavin Stone. And he's been, you know, a nice rotational piece.

You never know exactly what you're going to get from some of these younger arms. But I like what Gavin has done so far. What's your takeaway? Stone is arguably a savior for this team so far because he was somebody that was off the radar, not really off the radar, but if things were going to have to have gone wrong, you know, it's an old Simpson's quote of, you know, One misfortune that could happen, but nine misfortunes. All the injuries happen. Emmett Sheen going down with the injury in spring training, all of a sudden pushes Gavin Stone to the forefront in that fifth starter role.

And he, after two rough starts, you know, eight run runs over his first two outings, he has been phenomenal to ERA, 2.0 ERA over his last 36 innings and six starts on the year, four and one with a three to seven ERA. I don't know where this team would be without this dude because we still didn't have Walker Bueller at the time. We, of course, the Royal We here being the Dodgers, but they still don't have Kershaw. They still don't have Dustin May. You needed this guy and he has stepped in, stepped up, and been massive for the brand and for Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor. Yeah, speaking of Mark Pryor, why don't we ask the Dodgers pitching coach what he thinks the value of Gavin Stone is joining us now on Dodgers territory.

Mark, great to be with you. And thank you, honestly, for taking the time to be with Clint and I here. What has Gavin Stone meant to this Dodgers rotation? Yeah, I mean, I think he's hit it on the head. I mean, he's been great for us. I mean, he's definitely stepped in and picked up not only as he had quality outings. You know, he's gone deep into games, you know, multiple times, six, seven, it takes. You know, I think his outing against the Padres, I believe it was a few weeks ago at home, you know,

getting into the seventh, carrying a no-hitter deep into that game into the fifth or sixth inning. It's been impressive. You know, and Gavin, to his credit, you know, last year, you know, obviously from a performance standpoint, you know, was a little rough. You know, he had a big minor league year that previous year and he came up last year for some spot starts. And, you know, it wasn't a, you know, a natural progression of, you know, hey, he had a good minor league outings. and then he came up and he got roughed up. And to him, to his credit, he, you know, he kind of reinvented himself and really mastered, you know, being able to have a four or five pitch mix, command the bottom of the strike zone

and, you know, basically chew through hitters when his stuff's on. And I think that's what you've seen in the last three, four starts. You know, is somebody who, you know, attacks hitters, balls moving left and right. Occasionally he'll, you know, he'll go up on a guy. But he gets out. And I think he's been great for. for us and he's got a great demeanor and a lot of work that he put into this off season showed up in spring training. And I know, you know, there's been a lot of injuries and

you referenced, you know, his opportunity. But Gavin's been throwing the ball extremely well all year. I mean, he had a very dominant spring. And he was in the hunt for that last spot, whether those injuries happened or not, because we feel very confident in the way he can throw the ball. Mark, we know last year during spring training, Stoner, strike it out the world. I think he had 14Ks and like half an inning or whatever. He was phenomenal, but things did not quite click for him when he did make his major league debut, kind of relying on that change of. But like you mentioned, you know, changed a little bit of the pitch mix, added some weight,

some good weight to keep the, the, the, the velo going deep into the game. What do you think has stood out most for him when it comes to, I wouldn't call it a resurgence, but just finally seeing what the whole organization expected out of him? Yes, and I think that's, you know, one of the things that you touched on. is kind of, you know, when we have guys who have, you know, particularly like one elite pitch or a pitch that they can lean on in the minor leagues and get a lot of swing and miss, and it projects to be, you know, plus plus pitch, you get to the big leagues, you know, sometimes that doesn't always translate if that's the only thing that you can get in the strike

zone. And, you know, with Gavin, you know, he had the change up, you know, but it was about getting into proper counts, being able to have count leverage and actually get to use that pitch to convert outs. And I think when you get into, you know, big league hitters and big league game planning and the incredible, you know, talent that these guys have, they'll just wait you out. And I think that was a little bit of his, you know, you know, a little bit of his challenge last year is like, how do I get into counts without exposing my best pitch? I might get swing and miss on that first one or I might get, you know, a foul ball. It's like, but, you know, getting it's two and three times in a row. It's just not something that happens up here very often. So you've got to be

able to hide your best pitch. You got to be able to sequence and move the ball around. And I think that's what is basically what has allowed him to do different things. You know, he kind of brought back a sinker that he threw more in college that he hadn't thrown in the minor leagues. He's playing a lot of East West games with these teams and they're keeping basically trying to keep hitters caught in between pitches. And then you add on his kind of his resurgence of his change up and it's gotten back to the profile that it was in the minor leagues with a lot of depth. But he doesn't have to use it early in counts, and so he can hide it and use it, you know, latent counts. And I think that's the ability of showing how he can pitch, you know, and I think his pitchability has a skill

that has really developed over the last, you know, 12 months. And I think a lot of that has to do with just the adversity that he faced last year. But we want to look at performance and judge whether it's a successful year or a rapport year, I think sometimes in the development cycle and the development curve, we can look at poor performances as a successful development year. And I think that's case in point. I think with Gavin, I think that's what you're looking at. A guy who came up, you know, got, you know, had some challenges, but got the experience of how to slow his heartbeat down, how not to try to go for swing and miss and maybe just live at the bottom of the strike zone with movement and get contact, weak contact, and just get outs, because ultimately, yeah, we all

love swing and miss. That's extremely important in the game today. But it's so is just getting weak contact and getting outs as a starter and being able to get deep into ballgames, which saves our bullpen, which collectively as a staff puts us in a better position. Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvin Krishna. And I asked him, how can company use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business. My one advice to them, pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side.

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him to know that he's back? Yeah, I mean, it's it's a great, you know, case study for guys who've been out of the game for a long time. I think we see it flashes at times. And then I think you see the inconsistency of the execution, the movement of the pitches, as well as you just, again, I think another example of the San Diego game last week is just being behind in counts. When, you know, guys like Tatis and Croninworth or positive and even counts for themselves, they can kind of lock in on one pitch and whether that's, you know, 98, you know, or whether it's, you know, a nasty slider, if they can sit on something and try to get their swing off, it can prove to be dangerous.

And so again, with Walker, it's about putting himself in position. What made Walker really effective, you know, early in his career was his ability to get into counts and then be able to use multiple pitches and keep them guessing. Right now, I think he's finding himself behind in counts. He's forcing, you know, he's forced to throw the ball a little bit more in the middle of the plate. And right now it's just been a challenge for him. But I think also, but being gone for two years, even if you're gone for spring training,

or you miss a significant time during the year. It's really hard sometimes to, you know, go through a rehab outing, go into it, you know, with, hey, I'm trying to get myself healthy. And then you all of a sudden get parachuted into the middle of the season where guys are in full, you know, they're in full, you know, mode of, you know, they've been playing. They've got 150 at bats. They're not skipping a beat, you know, where they're, whether, you know, like spring training, where it's a more of everybody kind of getting ready for the season at the same time.

And so the hitters are behind, the pitchers are behind. You know, he's in a situation where he's a little bit behind, hasn't played in two years, and these guys are in full swing of their season. So I expect him to come out of it, but he's going to have to pitch. He's going to have to execute some pitches. He's going to have to get into the strike zone a little bit more consistently and put the hitters on defense mode versus him putting himself on being in a defensive situation where he has to come and deliver a pitch that, you know, like I said,

if it's in middle, middle, these guys are going to, you know, tee off. So I got a question here. We're talking about another one of the guys who's growing into the season, growing into major league pitching. Of course, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Question from Carnivorous Lunar Activity, great name here in the chat. How close, in your opinion, is Yamamoto to peaking as a big leaguer? Oh, good.

I mean, it's a fair question. I don't know if I know the answer to that. I think what we are sending is seeing him trending, very well, trending up. And I think he's another example of, you know, early on in his first couple outings, you see what happens when you can't command the baseball as effectively as he wanted to. And I think some of that is, you know, him getting obviously used to Major League Baseball, him understanding not having a familiarity with all the hitters. But early on, he was leaving a lot of pitches in the middle of the plate,

and he was taking on some serious damage. And I think since he's, you know, kind of really focused in on making sure when he misses, he's missing in the right spots. And when he's going away, it's away and going in, it's in. You know, all the messages that you give most pitchers and every pitcher, whether they're an A ball or the big leagues, he has that ability. He has the ability to command those three or four pitches of his in the strike zone.

It was really about understanding like, hey, you know, as long as we're a misses are good misses and we're not missing into the middle of the heart of the plate, he's going to be okay. And he's another one where obviously it's a plus plus split finger. teams are not, you know, they're aware of it. They're seeking it, hunting it out, whether it's so they can take it or whether they can, you know, obviously try to hit it. But if he's behind and counts and then he's forced to throw, you know, again, fastballs in counts that he's behind and he's on the defensive. It makes it a little bit more challenging. But I think what you've seen with him is now his ability to throw all three pitches in the strike zone, whether it's early or late. I think he's keeping hitters, you know, guessing in between pitches or excuse me, between speed. needs, whether he's slowed him down with a curveball split or he's, you know, throwing a fastball down in the knees, you know, early counts. I think that's what's making his, his pitch makes extremely effective. And then he sprinkles in, you know, some sliders and some cutters in there

to keep everybody honest. So I think he's still, you know, I still think he's trending in the right direction. I think it, I think over the next, you know, half a season, once he's been around the league, he has a better familiarity with hitters. I think you're going to see a guy. who feels even more convicted in his stuff. And I think you'll seek more of these performances where he's going six or seven innings and maybe it's a run and it's a few hits here or there. But he's been extremely fun to watch the way he works, the way he goes about it. It's pretty exciting.

Have you been able to work at all pitching-wise with Shohei Otani yet, Mark? Obviously, I know he's not pitching this year, but how much have you worked with him so far? Not much. You know, I've been more just a fan like everybody else. watching him do some pretty fun things and hit the ball really hard. And fortunately, we don't have the game plan against him anymore and try to get him out. So that's a good thing. But he's, you know, he's started five, six weeks into his throwing program. As many people know, obviously the beginning of Tommy John throwing is somewhat uneventful. You know, it's 60 feet and,

you know, 60 throws. You know, it's just kind of a long, you know, arduous process. But I think as the summer goes, and we start getting into some more throwing that is, from him, you know, resembles what he will actually look like throwing a baseball. I think that's, you know, obviously when we'll get into, you know, some finer things at the pitching and the throw. Again, it's a unique situation. He's hitting. So he spends a lot of time obviously preparing for that side of the baseball.

And then why he's concurrently trying to rehab. So it's unique where he's kind of being pulled in two different directions. But he's on the fringes of, you know, listening to what we talk about with our pitchers and how we approach things. how we approach things with the delivery, some throws. He's obviously been kind of a mentor and advisor for Yamamoto too as well. So, you know, he's helping that process. So he's, I think he's hearing a lot of the things.

But as far as our intimate involvement right now, it hasn't been too deep. But I think as the summer goes and we start progressing in the long toss program and in onto the mound, you'll see us, obviously, have a few more conversations as far as what he's doing and how he's doing it and hopefully put us in a better position to you know leap for leap forward to next year guys of course we are hanging out with dodgers pitching coach mark prior great stuff from you mark this has been fun so far got another question from the chat here popping up nando 390 another one of the great names friend here on the channel mr prior will we see dust in a spot spot starter role out of the bullpen what's what's the latest with d may and what

you uh what's kind of the organization expecting for him yeah i think we see d may in at some capacity this year he's you're throwing bullpins um you know right now you know and win and where i think that's obviously a big kind of a tbd right now and whether it's a starter whether it's a spot starter whether it's some sort of you know we're leaving long relief role um you know this is kind of one of our you know just general philosophies you know we know we know we know where we're at right now, we don't know where we're going to be in a couple months. So some of it just depends on what our personnel is and where he's at in his rehab and his health, as well as he's pitching. You know, I think that obviously plays an important part, especially at that time of season,

is what his performance is like. But I do think we see him in some capacity this year. Just, you know, we don't know where we're going to be in a couple months and, you know, who's obviously we expect everybody to be healthy, but we also understand that the game is is a game of attrition. And, you know, we're going through it right now with some of our guys. So some of it will be just depending on what we're at with our pitching. And but I think we see him in some capacity because, you know, when he's healthy and when he's right, there's no question his stuff as good as anybody's in the game.

And I think we expect him to get back fully healthy. And when he does, we'll see where he's at and he'll fit into into the fold where he's needed, probably most. But I would see him in some sort of starting type role or, maybe even a long relief type role, maybe initially to kind of reaccomatimate him. And then we'll see where he's at. He's another one who hasn't, obviously pitched a little bit last year, but hasn't pitched a ton over these last few years.

So there's going to be a little bit of just kind of getting used to things again and seeing where everything's at and how it's playing. Mark Pryor, always a plethora of information. We can't thank you enough for taking the time to be with us here on Dodgers territory. We love this team. You know that. Take care and hope to talk to you soon. I appreciate it.

Thanks for having me on. All right, Mark Pryor, the Dodgers pitching coach. Tremendous talent there, obviously, was known for having the greatest mechanics ever. Could have had a really, really long career before he got hurt. Must be that a USC education that comes with Mark Pryor, giving us all the good. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Gambata.

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Call 562-314-4603 for details. It's time now, Clint Fort behind the seats. And this may seem a little bit crazy, but have the Dodgers already locked up the NL West? There's seven and a half games in the lead. Listen, you got a seven-and-a-half game lead. This team is playing really, really good baseball, but still not playing its best baseball.

baseball. We left obviously a lot of meat on the bone there that we could have talked to Mark prior with. I would love to get a bottle of booze and talk to Pryor for three or four hours about pitching. I have a passion when it comes to pitching and Dodgers pitching injuries, but we have guys. This team has guys that they're going to keep coming back, you know, the sort of internal trade deadline that we talked about in our pre-production meeting. They're going to keep getting better and we're not seeing any sort of advancements, any steps forward from the other teams in the NOS. You know, the Padres riding high,

taking two of three from the Dodgers. Then they go and get sweat by the powerhouse Rockies, which is hilarious. Deep backs are in there hanging around, lingering around, but they're not the same team so far that we saw last year in the playoffs. I don't know that it's over,

but it's feeling pretty close. Like October is the next month of the season after May here. It's fun to watch this team dominate and still not be that dominant yet. Here's my fear when it comes to a seven and a half game lead in a division race on May 16th. And obviously we're talking about this because we can and it's fun and we can't wait for people to blow us up that are not Dodgers fans. But the point is I get a little nervous.

If you kind of run away with the division so early on in the season, let's say by the all-star break, you know, they've got a 15 game lead and barring an apocalypse, they win the division. I just, it's so difficult to play good baseball at the right time when you're supposed to be doing it in the postseason. So it's like I almost feel like I wish they'd have a little bit more adversity in the regular season than they do. You know, not to say that they don't respect all of their opponents, but three and three on a road trip. I'm not super excited about that. When we had our show on last week when we said, or Monday I should say that I wanted them to bury the Giants. You know, they won the first two.

They lost the last third, but I mean, it was a bullpen game. Let's be honest. It's fine. I don't know, a little bit more adversity. I want them to play the likes of the Phillies and see how they, you know, stack up against them. The Phillies have only played three games against an opponent that has a 500 or better record. That was the Atlanta Braves, and the Braves won that series. So I want to see how the Dodgers stack up to the Phillies.

I want to see how the Dodgers stack up to some of these other good teams in the National League and you know we know that the Dodgers are going to make the postseason right but let's let's uh I don't know I'm not saying that they've locked it up but I can't imagine a world where the Dodgers don't win the division yeah yeah adding on to that before we move on to last licks I just want to say this is something I've been kind of bitching about complaining about while talking on this YouTube space talking Dodgers over the last few years that was one of the conversations after like the 21 or the 22 team. It's like just blow it all up. Don't bring anybody back. Go out and win 88 games. Try to make the postseason, you know, sneak in as a wild card,

see what happens. You don't need to always be at the very top, because we've seen it doesn't help teams in baseball anymore to have the best record in baseball to win their respective divisions or whatever. It doesn't help. If anything, it feels like it hurts. We saw that last year with the Dodgers, saw it with the Orioles, saw it with the Atlanta Braves. I don't know, baseball needs to fix itself, but I would love to see the Dodgers struggle a little bit more. And then we'd have a lot more to complain about here on this show. Oh, that's the thing.

I think we take it for granted. The Dodgers, by the way, go to Philadelphia, July 9th to the 11th. They'll be playing the fightens at Citizens Big Park at the beginning of July. But the thing is, or no, yeah, the Phillies host the Dodgers in July. The thing is, though, it's like I don't want them to struggle, but I also want them to have that fire and that eagerness. It's almost like when the Atlanta Braves back in the day, you know, won the pennant or excuse me, won the division every single year.

And it was like, all right, then they'd start, you know, the season the next year. And Bobby Cox would be like, all right, you get 40 games to dick around. And then we got to get it going. It's like you almost take for granted how good this team is year and year out. I just need them to be playing really good baseball at the right time in the postseason when it matters. All right, time now for Laslix. And I was trying to convince our producer, Jeremy Meyer, that he absolutely needs to adopt this dog. And I realize that Jeremy doesn't live in Southern California, but there are ways to get Jack to Jeremy. Look at this puppy, Clint Paceas.

Jack is a four-month-old German Shepherd mix. Is that not the cutest guy? I know you guys listening can't see Jack right now, but make sure you check out Dodgers territory on YouTube TV on the Fowell territory channel later because my goodness he is the he's just a cutie pie he's a german shepherd mix he's four months old he's working on potty training he's getting there he's working on his commands he's just a baby i was born a dog i identify a dog as a dog what mama says i'm just a baby as my dog's looking at me right now um he's available for adoption through healing hounds rescue uh he's healthy he's eager to learn He needs an active family, a fenced yard. Check him out.

You can go to giddreysgarden.org. You can check us out on Instagram and on Twitter as well. Jack, Jack is such a good boy. Jack is a ridiculously dapper and handsome dog, right? You brought some good ones here to the show, but that one, that one is, you know, I may need to get rid of a couple of cats and add a third dog here. Sorry, sorry, Mrs. FROP. Don't say that.

Don't say that. All animals deserve a loving home. but Jack is wonderful. All right, we're getting ready to close out our show here on this Thursday afternoon. What do you have coming up on, and we got, you know, before we get to the Reds series, what do you have coming up on your program? Thursday, bro. Thursday, yes, we will be live at 530 on my channel tonight talking more, 530 Pacific time,

talking more about your Dodgers. I'm probably going to break down some of the things on my show that we spoke about with Mark prior because, again, I'm kind of, you know, I'm riding that rush of talking, you know, talk with prior there. But yeah, two been, all Dodgers here on YouTube, all Dodgers with Clint Macias. Hey, that's me here on YouTube. Not 6 p.m. today.

It will be 5.30 because we got a Dodger game at 710. And it is Shohei Otani Bobblehead Night at Dodger Stadium as the Dodgers welcome the Reds. And this is going to be an absolute shit show at Dodger Stadium tonight. Everybody wants this goddamn bobblehead. The Dodgers also decided to bring a gas tank to an already burning fire by announcing that they have 1,700 extra, I guess their road, like alternate bobbleheads. Guys, leave your weapons at home. Be nice. Don't tell me. You know, just be friendly to the freaking ushers.

They can't control. Yeah, it's not their fault. They have a certain allotment. They don't know what they have. These people, you know, they're just. doing their damn job. Be nice to people there. Get your bobblehead. Don't choose violence. Be friendly. And if you can't get

one, go spend an absurd amount of money on offer up or what have you. Not a sponsor, but we'll take the money from them. Yeah, I'll take the money from eBay too, which a lot of these Otani bobbleheads are going to end up on. But again, the ushers and the support staff

at Dodger Stadium had no control over when you decided to get there. So be nice to them. Here's one thing I want to take away before we say goodbye on this. Don't let this Red Series, Clint be a trap series. And I say that because they're coming off a three and three road trip against two divisional opponents. We've talked about the seven and a half game lead in the NLS, but the Reds are still a major league baseball team. So don't use this as a trap series. You're home. You're feeling comfortable. You're sleeping in your own bed. The whole deal.

Just dominate. Dominate. Please. Thank you. That's my, thanks for coming to my TED talk. I love it. Yeah. I was worried about that with that Marlins series. Of course, the Dodgers end up giving it to the Marlins when they met them when they need to do it again. They need to do it again. Reds haven't been as good as some people hoped, but, you know, Dodgers better. Yeah, all right. Have a good show tonight. All Dodgers, of course.

Clint is going to have that tonight Thursday. Good series against the Reds. Clint and I will be back with you on Monday at 12 Pacific 3 p.m. Eastern. Go Dodgers. We'll see you guys later. Subscribe. Fidelity active ETFs have the flexibility to shift and transform as markets do the same. So instead of just riding.

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