Dodgers Territory - Mr. Irrelevant, CT3 Concerns, Pitching Problems, Jackie Robinson Day!

Episode Date: April 15, 2024

Are the Dodgers OK? The weekend set against the Padres featured some fireworks between Dodgers catcher Will Smith and Friars outfielder Jurickson Profar. While no punches were thrown, Smith threw a verbal jab at the "irrelevant" Profar that made waves online. DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas dive into the headlines that saw the Padres get the last laugh in LA.The series loss also revealed some serious pitching issues for the Dodgers, who currently have 9 pitchers on the injured list. Updates from the IL plus thoughts on the struggling Chris Taylor.And finally, the celebration of Jackie Robinson Day is extra special thanks to legend Orel Hershiser.Questions/comments about the show?! DM Foul Territory on Instagram and we'll reply!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You do not win baseball games when you do that. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the live Monday edition of Dodgers Territory. We are your host. That is Clint Paseas. I am Alana Rizzo. Clint, always good to be with you. after what, three days of games where we haven't been able to talk, at least on Dodgers territory.

And it was quite the weekend. What's your biggest takeaway before we get into the biggest ticket? My biggest takeaway, my quick takeaway is I hate bulletin board material. It's fun, but I hate bulletin board material. But we got that this weekend. We did get that this weekend. That leads us right into the big ticket. What a segue, my friend.

I'm so proud of you. Try it. All right. So as Clint was mentioning, there was a bit of bulletin board material over the course of the weekend. It's always good when the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers get together. But there was an incident in which Jerkson Profar thought that perhaps Gavin Stone was throwing up and in on him. Of course, that's not the case because at the time Gavin was throwing a perfect game. Will Smith, the very quiet Dodgers starting catcher said, I don't understand what his issue was because he was. was irrelevant. It turns out Clint that he did become very relevant on Sunday night, but we can get to that in a moment. What is your take on unwritten rules, first of all? Yeah, I think bunting there in that situation. I mean, it's still relatively early-ish in the game, but not if you have a perfecto going in the fifth. Maybe you should not be trying to drop down to butt. I don't know if that was him trying to get Gavin Stone out of his rhythm. You understand trying to,

you know, play the game. Pitchers are trying to throw you off as much as hitters are trying to throw off the pitchers. But I think it's a little, it's a little cheap. It's a little hackish, a little, not what you want to see. But, you know, the fun and the excitement of Dodgers and Padres, any little thing is going to blow up and become, I guess, what it became here, which is a problem. And a little bit of bench clearing, a little bit of not so.

fracas fracas and fun in L.A. Well, as we continue with the big ticket here on Dodgers territory, it wasn't quite Carlos Quentin and Zach Granky, but there was a benches clearing situation. I always love benches clearing and the bullpen comes in. By the time the bullpen gets in, they are so unbelievably gassed. And usually whatever the incident was has kind of dissipated at that point. But I don't know that I would have thought of Shohei Otani in any other regard than this. you know that show hay is not going to throw blows you know what i mean like there's just certain guys that just don't have that personality and he's just kind of like laughing like this is a little silly what did you take on what was your take on that i love i love seeing show hey every single day

because we just keep getting treated to things like this as dodgers fans uh this is this is a personality that has been buried in in anaheim in recent years but to see that him trying to mad dog mat suey and he couldn't hold it he couldn't he broke and and uh that's a nice thing at least we have one fun little takeaway from from whatever uh not again it wasn't even a fracas they don't don't there's no reason to clear the benches at that point just get the hell over it and of course you get manny mitchado kind of in the mix there right in the middle of the whole thing i think he was one of the first people out of the dugout throwing the seeds in his mouth and and uh you know running out to to create a problem that really didn't need to happen at that

that point. Well, I think Manny Machado is the type of guy that you love when he's on your team, but he's easy to hate if he's not. And, you know, he has that personality, you know, that he's, he's the antithesis of Shohei Otani. Shohei's not going to do that, but manny is more of a fiery personality and, and that's that. However, the whole point of this is that pro far did not clap back, Clint. He didn't say anything. When he was addressing it after the fact, he just, he took the high road, your take. So this whole situation, I think the Padres, we can say are learning because in years past you might have heard them try to clap back, try to create more out of this. I applaud jerks and pro far for taking the high road

in this situation. You almost wonder if they learned a little bit of something as an organization from that awful incident at the beginning of last season with the crying Kershaw meme and then their whole season kind of spiraled from that point on. It almost feels it's eerily similar to last season. But now the Dodgers, the shoes on the other foot, the whole irrelevant thing, which I want to get your thoughts on Will Smith's irrelevant, because I don't think, I think it was a little bit misinterpreted by the media, but you know what? They took the high road and the Padres take two of three in Los Angeles. Well, I think that's always the case that if it's taken out of context, that is bulletin board material, but you have to know where it's coming from. You have to know the source,

right? Will Smith doesn't say anything ever. So the fact that he said irrelevant, I don't think he meant it as saying that, you know, it's not as if Jerkson ProFar was Mr. Irrelevant, the last pick of the NFL draft. He was just saying in that moment, it was an irrelevant situation that happened. And I don't think Will was trying to incite anything about it. He just didn't understand why Jerkson Profar, in my opinion, I didn't talk to Will about it. But in my opinion, he was saying, like, why is Jerks and Profar making a big deal out of this? Like, the dude's not trying to hit you. He's in the middle of a perfect game. So again, I mean, you take it, you take it and you run with it, if that's what you wanted to do. Ultimately, though, Jerksson.

and ProFAR decided not to say anything about it or address that we actually have the sound if you want to take a listen. Finally, you had the conversation yesterday at home plate with Will Smith. They had some things to say after the game. How did that impact your mindset entering this game? And what does it mean to now win this series the day after? Oh, it feels good. You know, I'm not a media talker.

You know, I like to just play, man. Just that's it. I'm not going to say anything in the media. That's not me. Fair enough, Jerkson. Congratulations on the win and thanks so much for the time. Thank you. Again, he takes the high road.

I'm fine with that. But I mean, beyond all of this, Clint, the Dodgers did not have a good series. They didn't have a good weekend. You can talk about this until we're blue in the face. Pantone 294 blue in the face. The point is they gave up 14 walks on Sunday. They didn't play well.

Their pitching's a mess. And there's bigger issues than just whether or not Jerks and ProFAR should have laid down the bun. Yeah, if we're looking at the totality of this series, the Friday game, that extra innings game, that's a winnable game. And that one, to me, as a fan, as also somebody who watches this team and has covered this team for money for a number of years, that's one that is frustrating to me because usually, you know, in the Manfred era, you get the extra innings and you have a situation

here where they actually, the Padres do not score in the top of the 10th inning. the Dodgers are primed to walk it off very easily. We have a runner on second base, but for some reason, Chris Taylor, who could not, at the moment, love Chris Taylor, cannot hit water if he fell out of an effing boat to quote Tommy LaSorda. He's struggling right now. Send him up there to bunt, but no, he's up there. He's taking G-hacks.

And he strikes out, or at least he does not advance the runner, the very next runner, professional at bat, Miguel Rojas, grounds out to the right side, could have potentially scored a run there, could have won a game, but not. And I don't like that situation. Dave Roberts did talk about the game. The idea of pinch hitting CT in that situation was not even considered. I think there's some things there. I understand Dave likes his guys, but in this situation, you got to try to win that game on Friday. And it felt like, you know, they, they weren't trying to step on on anybody's throats. At Big O, when Tire Trouble is what you're focused on, our team of experts say,

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Despite having the best record in baseball during that span, they can't figure out this format. And maybe extra inning games are not going to be the Dodgers bugaboo in the regular season. But you would be hard pressed to think that there might not be closer games in the postseason. I think we can all agree that the Dodgers are going to make the postseason. But can they get out of the first round and go deep in the season? into the playoffs. That is what this team is supposed to do. We know they're built for the regular season, but we need them to get beyond that. And you're going to have close games because you're

going up against every team's ace and the best teams in the league at that point. So my question to you is, is this a big deal now about this situation in extra inning games? Does that concern you? El Capitan said the sky is falling Dodgers lost. No, but we do expect perfection, right? Like we do expect them not to make these stupid mistakes. And 14 walks in one game, that's unacceptable. Yeah, if we're talking extra innings, I'm not a fan of this, this like co-ed softball rule. I want to know how you feel about it.

I'm going to just bounce the ball right back to you. How do you feel about this extra innings rule, the runner on second base rule? I hate the fact that they do it in the postseason. I think I'm okay with it in the regular season only because I am a big fan of pay of play and let's go and let's keep that you know let's keep it moving i don't like three and a half four hour games i think when you get to the postseason though it should be back to traditional baseball although then on the other side of talking out of the other side of my mouth if you're doing something one way for 162 games then flipping the switch in postseason is that necessarily

unfair i'm not certain i don't mind it i guess i don't mind the ghost runner um on on on second base um to start extra innings. But what I do mind is when you're losing games because you have no command of the strike zone or when you are losing games because you're not willing to shake things up and lay down a bunch just to try to do something different. Shane Rochester says walks will kill you. I feel like they're focusing too much on hitting and good pitching. I don't think he meant hood pitching, but good pitching is what wins games, but you got to play that small ball. I agree. I mean, I think there are times, yes, we know this line. up can mash right like we get that and chicks dig the long ball i get it but i do have an affinity

for moving guys you know station to station moving a guy over 90 feet like figure you know do something else to change it up you don't have to hit the ball out of the yard every single time maybe trying something else um could have made the difference in losing the series versus you know winning the series yeah sometimes you got to just keep the line moving do your part to get that runner over again that is your winning run. You could have had the winning run on third base with one out. You got to do something different in that situation. Sunday, very much a very different game, kind of talked around it, see some of the comments as well talking about the walks. You can't win very many ball games when you issue 14 walks as a pitching staff. Yeah, Clint, what does Roberts do about CT? Love the guy.

I really do. But he's hitting, he's hitting 0.34. Now granted, he has, what, 37 played appearances? I think he's had 32 at bats. He doesn't get to play every day. But if you're hitting 0.34, 0.34. Did I mention 0.34? You're not going to get a lot of playing time. What do you do in that situation? I saw at least one comment in the chat here, calling for the Phantom IL stint. Dave has said he's going to keep running his guys out there. They need to figure it out. they have a track record of success. But for Chris Taylor, that track record feels like it's getting further and further away, did not have a terrible, you know, 20, 23 season when it was all put together.

But he goes through these lulls, these highs and lows. Alana, you've seen it in your career covering the team as well. What you do, though, I don't know. Do you find a way to have that phantom I. L. Stent give him an opportunity to sort of figure some things out at the plate. But he's not the only problem. He's not that it's that whole bottom of the lineup that is kind of makes us want to rip our hair out at time. You know, it's tough to watch.

But again, far from the only problem when I will bring it up again, 14 walks on Sunday. That is that is a massive issue. And you do not win baseball games when you do that. Well, they're starting to do the same thing that they did last year, whereas the bottom part of the order last year was a huge issue. We knew the top of the order was great. And that was even without show hey. And Jack Harris has this to say for what it's worth. Dave Roberts addressed both concerns post game.

Though we called today's pitching alarming, he maintained confidence in both James Pacton. We'll clean that up. He said of Pacton's command and the bullpen. We just got to be more consistent. But overall, we're fine. I mean, what do you want him to say that? We're terrible right now. And that kind of leads us into blue balls, which are our social media guru, Derek Lewandowski,

has a great point because he says every team in the league is having pitching problems right now. He's not wrong. I mean, this is not just a Dodgers issue. He said, but forget Robo Omps. Maybe we should have Robo Arm. And there was a slew of Dodgers pitching injuries that happened. Now, Bobby Miller is on the IL. You had mentioned I saw your tweet that they don't think it's serious,

but still, that's the last thing you want to hear when you don't have Walker Bueller yet, who's going to throw again on Thursday in another rehab assignment. But this is a little, a little bit concerning. What did you originally thought when you heard Bobby was going on the IL? What was the tweet we had or the comment we had a little bit ago? the sky is falling. That's not what you want to see at this point. Obviously, you're getting a lot of,

you're having a lot of pitching woes, some struggles, because these are not the guys they anticipated going into the season. I think, Alana, you and I kind of talked a little bit before we even started doing Dodgers territory. And one of the questions you said, like this bullpen doesn't look the most pretty on paper. But I said, these were the guys the Dodgers really loved. There was a quote, I wish I would have found it, but there was a quote from a couple seasons ago from Andrew Friedman,

where it's usually when the bullpen keeps him up at night and he's worried about it. Those are the ones that are good, but the ones where he feels like very confident about the bullpen. Those are the ones that have kind of led to struggles for the teams, for the team in different seasons. And this is one of those seasons. They like the bullpen. So far, it's been an issue.

Of course, eight of those 14 walks comes from James Paxton. They get bailed out a lot from four double plays. but it comes down to they don't have a lot of the guys they expect in there, whether it be Bobby Miller in the starting rotation, whether it be Emmett Sheehan available in the starting rotation. And of course, there's other guys. You've seen some struggles out of JP Fire Eisen coming back from injury. And you mentioned Bueller, still waiting on him.

There's just a lot of pieces aren't where there's supposed to be Blake Trident as well that we got over the weekend there as well. I found out that Walker Bueller got hit in the knuckle. I almost fell off my chair. I was like, God, no. But then I saw his Instagram page and he said, my knuckles fine back out there on Thursday. I was like, I seriously, I mean,

it was talk about the sky falling. When I saw that he took that off of his hand, I was like, for the love of God, but it seems like he's gonna be okay and all things are moving forward as he throws the ball again for his way. I think it's his fourth rehab start on Thursday and hopefully he gets back at the beginning of May,

which is like in two weeks from now. But again, it wasn't just the bullpen Clint that I was concerned about. I've been concerned about the depth of the Dodgers starting pitching all the way throughout going into the season. You know, so... At Big O, when Tire Trouble is what you're focused on, our team of experts say, bring it on. Now through April 12th, get $80 in-rebat savings on four select in-stock Michelin passenger or light truck tires with installation purchase. Plus get an additional $80 in instant savings from Big O.

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So he walks out to fireball. It's only the second or third time. We've seen him in Dodger Blue. He's been on the roster for two years. We're barely seeing him now. But he wants to have fireball by Pitbull, of course, Mr. Worldwide, shout out. A friend of the show, one of these days. But, yeah, to have fireballs your walkout saying, I'll tell you, when I see him coming out

to the bull or coming out of the bullpen right now, I do want to take a shot. Whether it's fireball, something strong, give me a nice shot of whiskey because it has been painful in the early goings watching JP Firerise. And you need him to figure it out. But you also need people like Blake Trinen, who I had said, I don't know if you saw the comebacker that he took in spring training. And then the report is, oh, he has a bruised lung. There's no other issues.

He's going to come with us to Korea. He might be on the opening day roster there in Korea. Turns out, like I figured, like I said, like I boldly predicted on all Dodgers, guys subscribe, by the way. He has two fractured ribs. Unsurprising you get hit by a line drive by a baseball. These things hurt. And you get fractured ribs along with the bruised lungs.

So he's another one of those guys that they were expecting to be ready. A bruisedarque rattle, barely getting off the mound, not available until later in May. There's just a lot of issues, a lot of problems. I know. So how do you stack the problems? What is the one injury that is most concerning to you? Because it's like Bobby Miller has a little smoke. Blake Trinon has two broken ribs and it Emmett Sheehan's the longer way out.

He's not necessarily even throwing yet or getting right. I mean, what, I mean, is there. Is there, are you, are we ranking these injuries? Um, I mean, Bobby Miller is kind of tough. They say he's going to pick up a baseball like you mentioned in again, in seven days and kind of see where he's at. But when you're talking about that shoulder inflammation, we know those are the sort of things that can kind of resurface as a season.

goes along. So I would rather them err on the side of caution. But if you do err on the side of caution, then you remain in a tough situation when it comes to the health of your starting rotation. You're asking a lot out of Walker Bueller if he were to come back after one more start. The bullpen, to me, might be kind of the number one area of concern. When you're talking position player side, they're only missing Jason Hayward right now. That's not a massive loss. You'd like to get the veteran leadership in there at the bottom of the lineup. But the bullpen losing, missing Gratterol and missing Trinan right now has really put them, I think, in an unadventageous spot early in the season, but we should know. You know what? Not for nothing. Hang on,

Nondo 390. Dave Roberts cannot manage a pitching staff. I think Dave Roberts does a good job managing what he's been given. And not for nothing, the Dodgers are not the only ones dealing with this. I love Kenley Jansen to death. But Kenley yesterday in the game against the Boston Red Sox, or excuse me, with the Boston Red Sox had traffic on the bases. And he got the save, which was his 424 save, which actually ties Franco on the all time list in saves. I think Kelly's a future Hall of Famer. But he gives me Ajita sometimes. He has traffic on the bases.

The Orioles game. Craig Kimberle comes out of the bullpen, almost blows that save after the Orioles had a phenomenal come from behind when, when Jackson Holiday finally got his first big league hit. You have Josh Hader, who I thought was one of the best closers in the game, and he's been shitting the bed for the Houston Astros. So it's not just the Dodgers. I think the bullpen is the hardest piece of a roster puzzle to put together. So they've got to figure this out, though, because when they do get to the postseason,

it's going to come down to pitching and defense, as it always does, and it very well could come down to bullpens. And this is not the bullpen to get it done. No, there's a couple of good pieces in there. You really like Evan Phillips in there. Just to throw it out there, I know, I know this is stepping back for a second, but I loved this super chat from IB Stroke. And he says, I really like CT3 in that situation. That's a quote from Dave Roberts there. You can throw that in. I really like Evan Phillips in that situation. I really like Ryan Brazier in that situation. Why the way, Ryan Brazier? Not the same guy. I think the clock might have struck midnight on Ryan Brazier. It's given up all. all five inherited runners. They've all scored. That's a problem. But yeah, the bullpins are one of those things that are just, it's a constant, it's a constant process.

Like Andrew Friedman said, it keeps them up at night because you're trying to find every little way to fix the bullpen. The numbers have not been good. What is the 20, 21st worst bullpen in baseball at this point in the season. We saw this last year. They found a way to piecemeal something together. They have some options. if you do see Kyle Hurt coming up at some point, there's Land and NAC down at AAA. They have a few pieces.

They're going to ride this out for now because, again, it is early. This is still a team that is in first place in the National League West, but we need things to complain about, and it is something that's concerning when you don't want to see them get bounced in the first round again. It's not anything to complain about. It's a legitimate concern. Bottom of lineup can be fixed internally, but not so sure about the bullpins. situation. I agree with you. I don't know that there's anybody in the Dodgers farm system that's

going to come in and be able to, you know, make that much of a difference. The big pieces are the ones that are hurt. That's the problem. Jose Jimenez says Robert's pulled Rich Hill after four innings with seven Ks in the World Series. Haven't trusted him since then. All right, Jose, you got to let that go, babe. You got to let that go. All right. Let's move on to the last licks. And I, we can't not have a Dodgers territory, Clint, without talking about the late great Jackie Robinson. Today is April 15. of course, 77 years ago today, April 15th, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Of course, Branch Rookie signed him. A lot of people don't know that Branch Riqui also signed Roberto Clemente, too. So Branch Rookie signing Jackie Robinson to a major league deal,

and he has made such an unbelievable impact, not only on Major League Baseball and not only on the lives of African Americans, but I can very well say that if it wasn't for Jackie's struggles in his sacrifices, I very well would not be sitting here right now. So when you think of Jackie Robinson, what do you think of? I think of a very, very patient man, of a very, very good man, a sweet man who endured just absolute hell to pave the way for so many, just any sort of people of color in baseball. So the first word I think of there, that's that man is a hero. And, uh, properly, I feel enshrined by Major League Baseball. You got a great statue at Dodger Stadium.

I have a replica of it over here, by the way, I made sure to move it down in honor of Jackie Robinson Day. One thing I do love that we saw drop today is your former colleague, Mr. Oral Hersheiser, making sure that Jackie, along with Roy Campanella and some others are forever enshrined in the Negro League Museum after purchasing, what was it, a lot of, I think, 10 paintings or 10? This is a really cool story. Thanks for bringing this up.

This is awesome. So Oral, Bulldog Hersheiser, he celebrated the purchase of 10 Dodger art pieces of world-renowned artist Dave Hobrecht, including this masterpiece right here, which is this is a very famous piece. This is called Grace featuring Jackie Robinson, of course, praying around a dinner table with former Dodger Great's Roy Campanella and Don Newcomb and Social Rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. This is the painting that's going to be staying at the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City. And Bob Kendrick, who is the president of the Negro Leagues Museum,

was so excited that it was sold to oral, obviously, who was a great Dodger in his own right, but it's in the right hands. And having grace at the Negro Leagues Museum is so apprehend. to celebrate such a poignant painting. And it's just awesome. So congratulations to Orel for being able to purchase those 10 Dodgers art pieces, but also for the museum, for being able to have that specific piece and to be able to display it so other people can go to the Kansas City Negro

League Museum, which if you have not been there, I highly recommend it. It's a tremendous, tremendous place. So they can go and enjoy it too. So it wasn't just about, of course, Jackie. I mean, Don Neuylumann. Don Newcomb had conversations with Martin Luther King Jr. And there was so many people that were trying to make the world a better place for African Americans and people of color.

And what Jackie has done not only for the sport, but for America and civil rights across the nation is really incredible. So it's hard to believe it's been 77 years ago. But his beautiful widow, Rachel Robinson, is 101 years old. Today she's going to be at City Field. They are honoring her there. and his son, David, is throwing up the first pitch before the Mets game today. So just what a legend and what a force. Yeah, I love, I always love when you see Martin Luther King's quote about,

like I could not have done this without somebody. Obviously, I'm but I'm butching the quote, but I could not have done this without somebody like Jackie Robinson. He was the real kind of spearhead to the social rights movement, to civil rights movement. And, you know, I think everybody needs to get a little bit better again at some point in time. But, but thankfully, we had a good start there with Jackie Robinson. And happy Jackie Robinson day to everybody.

I had a conversation one time with Magic Johnson, who obviously is one of the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers and had a, you know, a hall of fame career with the member of the Lakers. And we were just talking about Jackie's impact. And he said, you know, if it wasn't for Jackie, I wouldn't be here. I said, if it wasn't for Jackie, I wouldn't be here. So it's not just males. It's not just African-Americans. It's so many different people of color and genders and just the opening of so many doors for people that are here because of the sacrifices that Jackie Robinson made.

And I remember there was a quote, and again, I'm paraphrasing. And I certainly don't want to to botch it up. But, you know, Branch Rookie who signed Jackie told him, I don't, you know, I want you to turn away when it's not that I want you to stick up to these people. I want you to like basically not let them bother you. And that's very difficult to do. Just, you know, think about the personalities that that you and I have and someone is in our face and being mean to us and saying racist things to us. And I don't know that I could look away like Jackie did.

I don't know that I could not retaliate and fight back. And, you know, to have the strength that he had, to see the bigger picture of how it wasn't just about him, how he was representing so many other people is really incredibly special. So thank you, Jackie, for everything. And, you know, I'm honored to have been with an organization that is the one that signed, Jackie. I agree. That's all I got. I agree. All right. What's coming up on your show, All Dodgers tonight? You do this all the time. So tell our listeners and our viewers what they can expect from you.

Today we are back. I will be live at 6 p.m. It's Monday over reactions. We've got a text line. We've got a call in line. So I also threw out a feeler on Twitter to get some fun interactions from pissed off people. And people always are pissed off when the Dodgers lose two of three to the San Diego Padres. So tube in for that one. That's going to be a good time. Plus we'll talk more. I'll dive in more to the pitching situation.

And I'm going to talk about Andy Paez and when he could come up and maybe be the savior for the team. So again, 6 p.m. Pacific, all Dodgers. Yeah. Another home run for Pawhaz. I don't think he's the savior. I think that's a little bit of an overstep. Talk about Monday overreaction, Clint. I'm putting up in the streets. Oh, okay, okay. He could be a nice boost to the bottom of that lineup. For everybody listening to Dodgers territory right now, we appreciate it. Go to YouTube or wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe if you like what we're doing. Tell us about it. If you don't like what we're doing, I'm so sorry. We'll try to get better.

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