Dodgers Territory - Ohtani Destroys a Baseball, Lux All The Way Back? Shutting Down "Mickey Mouse Ring" Talk

Episode Date: July 22, 2024

The Dodgers emerge from the All-Star break and sweep the Red Sox. Shohei Ohtani continued to dominate baseballs with his longest homer of the season, a 473-foot shot at Dodger Stadium. DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas talk about the ShoBomb and other big Dodgers topics.After a season's worth of mostly bad news, good news is finally coming for the club. Clayton Kershaw is set to make his 2024 debut this week after undergoing shoulder surgery in the offseason. Plus, Tyler Glasnow returns and Gavin Lux may finally be finding something at the plate.Also, Alanna lets the masses know why the Dodgers' 2020 championship is fully and unapologetically legitimate.Easy way to support DT is leave us a rating/review :)--Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase at drinkAG1.com/foul. If you want to take ownership of your health, it starts with AG1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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They're not a rebuilding team ever. Every year they're supposed to reload. And nobody feels sorry for a team that has that type of payroll and those types of superstars. Good afternoon and welcome to this live episode of Dodgers Territory coming off a phenomenal weekend against the Boston Red Sox. We are your host. That is Clint Paseas. I am Alana Rizzo. Thanks for being with us here on Dodgers Territory.

Like us. Subscribe to us. rate as five stars, all the things on YouTube as well as wherever you get your podcast. Clint, it is good to see you. You're a little bit under the weather. Blue balls is coming up next. But first, let's get into the showman, the greatest showman. And that, my friend, would have to be Shohei Otani, who I don't believe that home run has yet landed. Where were you? I'm assuming I don't think you were at the stadium, so I'm assuming you were watching at home. What were you thinking when you saw that ball fly? You know, sometimes,

Shohei just really loves to choose violence with that bat against these poor, innocent baseballs already being thrown. But that was an impressive feat, 473. I think it was like 119 off the bat. Showing he's got more in the tank. But what a shot from this kid. You don't see that. I love that, you know, Clayton Kirschaw came on the broadcast not very long afterwards.

You don't see that a baseball reached that area of Dodger Stadium. Milana, you know you covered baseball there for many a moon at Dodger Stadium. Usually a little more of a poll job. You're talking about straightaway left or right center field off the bat of a left handed hitter. Impressive stuff. Look at that. It ended up landing in the walkway of the center field plaza.

This is where it flew through and the ball afterwards. I tell you what, I know exactly where that is because that happened to be where I was sitting with Nomar Garcia-Para and what was the most. interesting and fun home run that I've ever seen at Dodger Stadium. Now, it was not 473 feet, Clint. It was Hyunjun Riu. And you remember this very well because it was the last start that Riu made that season at Dodger Stadium. And Oral Hersheiser, Nomar Garcia, Nomar, and myself were on the broadcast that day. And Nomar and I were out in the left field pavilion doing the broadcast out there with headsets amongst the people. We were the men and women of the people that day. And Joe and Oral

lost their shit when this happened. They were like standing up. They were like, you know, biting, biting through their tongues. Joe was so excited. I wish you could go back and see the camera shot of Joe and Oral. And I see there's no one. I know. Absolutely bananas on this home run from Kenjin Ryu.

So not the furthest, not the furthest, but certainly one of the most exciting home runs I've ever seen at Dodger Stadium because Joe Davis had been calling for it all season long, right? We knew he was going to go yard, and then he did it in what was one of his last chances. Yeah, that was one of the more fun things, I think, for Dodgers fans. Of course, winning 107 games or whatever it was that season, but the buildup, the constant talk about when is Ryu, the Babe Reuth. We made a shirt at my old job about it.

Babe Reuth, I coined the name, by the way. Waited for it. that entire season and just everything to play out the way it is day game at Dodger Stadium Sunday, his final start. I think it might have even been his final, well, was definitely his final regular season start as a Dodger, you and Nomar being out there.

It was fun. Definitely, you know, it counts for the same amount of points that Shoh Hayes did, but Joe Hayes was a bit more majestic, you know, shifting gears a little bit. I was at Dodger Stadium for the G.N. Carlos Stanton,

you know, monster dung that ripped out. I think is very, very wrong. And I apologize, but it's okay. We're not on network TV on this show. Still, like, that was another pole job. You know, it's halfway, or it's not halfway. It's almost to like dead left, you know, left side, pole side to watch Shohey hit, you know, that ISO sign, get that far out there.

Craziness, insanity. Rod, Rod says, uh-uh. It was at least 500 feet. I think you're right, Rod. I mean, that was unbelievable. And how about this Graham farm or this kid, Otani might be good? Yeah, so good, Graham, that he already has 30 home runs on the season. I mean, that is just now, I mean, again, it's like every single day we're talking about something else that Shohei has done in what is already an unbelievable career.

Does it count as being hit out of the park? I don't think so because it didn't go out, right? Well, I mean, the park dimensions changed a little bit, though, from back. then I mean after after 19 is when they did the renovations out there so technically it would have been not over the roof but it would have been over like the final row of the pavilion seats so that's got to count for something right I mean you could put it like you should do something because I don't think anyone's anyone else has hit it that far certainly not in a cadre uniform so good for him I mean he's in the likes of Jean-carlo Stanton as you mentioned Mike piazza

some of those other guys as well good for him show hey you're awesome glad you're on our team on not against us anymore. David Vesk, of course, talking to him after the game, you know, and it's just, it's amazing to me what this man has been able to accomplish. And he does it so quietly and he does it so gracefully. I'm talking about Shoah, not Dave Essex. We know that Dave is not quite. But good for him.

And I think it's a, it's a fun thing to see the dugout reaction, Kershaw's reaction. He is like, I've never seen this before. And Kershaw has been a Dodger for 17 seasons, which is insane to me. And then he said, sees number 17 hit a ball 473 feet and even Kershaw's flabbergasted. A future Hall of Famers like, holy moly,

I've never seen that yet. Yeah, I don't want to be the one to say it, but I'll say it. I mean, Kershaw served up a few dongs over his time. Oh, come on. Hey,

everybody, I would go out there and give up like five home runs if I was throwing right now. I don't have a very good fastball. My cutter isn't, slider isn't as good as Kershaws. But, hey,

aren't you happy? Dodgers are only paying this show Hey, Otani kid $2 million dollars this year. I am. I am. And for the next, what, 10 years? Cutter Crawford still doesn't know what the hell hit him. Speaking of Cutters. But, you know, it's fine.

Cutter Crawford, God bless you. Kenny Chen, Stanton was down the line. Otani hit it to the deepest part of the field. Yeah, I get it, Kenny. You're right. I mean, Stanton's was impressive. Otanis was even more so. So, you know, I think it's great.

All right. So our Ken Rosenthal, who, of course, is the best MLB Network insider, or MLB insider, rather, wrote an article recently in the athletic. of course, Kenny has done this for a very long time about Shohei Otani, Ipe Mizuhara, and Nas Bolelo, the agent, the instiller relationship that protected Shohei Otani until they didn't. And that's, you know, again, I don't know, are we over this? I mean, I think it warrants the fact that despite what could have been Clint, the most obvious distraction that could have really wrecked this team and wrecked Shohei,

has really done the opposite. I mean, it did not seem that he was at all affected, what was going on, which was a big deal off the field. Obviously, Mizuhara greatly affected by it. But Shohei kind of picked up right where he left off. Yeah, I mean, I almost argue if the whole thing kind of gave Shohei a different outlook on his life, his life in baseball. I mean, you could argue it was the team change, but you could also argue as part of this. I love what Ken.

I didn't make it all the way through Ken's article yet. I had started and then we had our pre-production meeting and then I was like, oh, I should probably get back to that, but I didn't. But in starting it, I like with Ken was setting up there about the fact that, you know, all of these guys, and I also listened to him, he covers it on today's edition of Fair Territory as well. You know, it was kind of this three-headed, or really a two-headed monster of keeping people away. You know, it was, you had to have a reservation to get any sort of access to show Hey, Otani. And I think now you're seeing, you know, Dave Roberts talking about. He's a different man.

He's more open with his teammates almost immediately after the incidents that happened there while they were coming back from Korea or just after game one in Korea. So if you're looking for a silver lining to an absolutely awful situation for Shohei Otani, if it kind of got him to open up more and become this guy, I guess that's what you take. it cost them $17 million and a friendship. But I love this version of Show Hey, O'Tani that we did not see in Anaheim. And I don't know if it's because it's, hey, here it comes. I don't know if it's because the angels suck or and nobody cares about them or it's just kind of a new lease on, a new outlook on life for Shohei. What do you think?

Well, forget the fact that it was millions of dollars and a wrecked friendship. I mean, he's in prison now. So, I mean, on top of the money that he lost and the friendship that he lost and obviously, he won't work in baseball ever again. likely won't work in professional sports ever again. Now he's got a lot of time to think about what it was that he did. It's important, though, when you have your star like that, for them to be able to be somewhat insulated.

Not to the point, though, where they're kept completely away from their teammates or the fan base. I mean, the reason that Shohei Otani can make $700 million from the Dodgers is because the fans are paying those prices. And I know that I know that Guggenheim is a tremendous ownership group, but they have to be getting the money from someplace. So you can't insulate him from the fan base and certainly not from his own teammates. Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Embatta.

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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? There will come a point, when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point.

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So Kirsch, coming back. I'm going to pitch against the Giants. Glasnow is supposed to be coming back this week as well. And it still looks like Yamamoto is hoping to be able to return this season. But in the short term, how excited are you to see Kirsch make his 2024 debut? Anytime you can get Clayton Kirsch out back in the mound for the last. the Los Angeles Dodgers. It's a good damn time. So Kershaw Day comes. It was the day I was honestly hoping. I kind of had it circled on the calendar last week when they were talking about, here's the

opportunity, but it's against the Giants. It's a day game at Dodgers Stadium. All of the key ingredients you want to a Clayton Kershaw start. Now it's not going to be like we saw back in, what was it, 2013. He's not going to hit the lone home run to keep the Dodgers the win. He's probably not in a pitch anywhere near a complete game shut out. But the fact that it's finally positive health news. It's it's positive news coming from the injured list instead of another guy getting hurt or another setback or a torn esophagus or an elbow thing or a shoulder. It's something positive. The Dodgers this week get Glasnow back who was, you know, very wink wink, injured, looked more like a stroke I had there than a wink. But he was very super injured. But they

get Glasnow back, they get Kershaw back, and things trending in the right direction to where maybe, maybe they don't need to go as crazy at the deadline. Do you think, do you think this week is kind of the pivot point for this team in how they attack the deadline? I had a conversation with Brandon Goams, the vice president of baseball operations and the general manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers on our high heat show a couple of days ago. And I said, listen, I'm coming to you as a fan right now. You guys have lost seven of your last eight games as far as a starter ERA is, you know, through the roof. It was like, I don't know, eight and a half. I don't remember all the statistics at the moment. I said, but tell me why I should feel confident that we have enough.

I said we because whatever that we have enough starting pitching. And he, you know, very diplomatically, God bless you, Clint, very diplomatically said that they believe that they will do what it takes to get what they need, that they feel very confident in the guys that they do have coming back. And I said, well, what about balance? Like, okay, you assume these guys are coming back, but how do we know that they're going to produce or they're not going to have, you know, a bunch of rust to knock off and those types of things? And again, this is a team that's very confident. And I do know that Andrew Friedman will go after what he has available to do, to give the team what they need. But this is what makes me a little bit nervous. Tonight it's left-hander Blake Snell going up

against possibly River Ryan making his major league debut. Then you got Jordan Hicks going up against Landon Nack and then you have TBD going up against Glasdao. So we need, and I've said this time and time again, we need more pitching. Yeah, if you look right now today, the first like five guys that will be making starts for this team coming out of the All-Star break, that's not very good. That is not a championship quality starting five. With all due respect to guys like Justin Robleski and Landon Nack and, you know, so forth, James Paxton, who has been there, done that as a major leaguer. Those are just not the guys. Those are not the guys that instill, well, that put fear in the hearts of the enemy and instill a lot of confidence in people like us who watch this team,

both as fans and as, you know, media and all that. You need some help. You need help internally, and they might need, definitely need, at least one bit of help externally. And if it's going to be somebody, it's got to be more of a front line person. We've heard a lot about Scoob, we've heard a lot about Garrett Crochet, but still need these guys to come back and be healthy and produce. And then you get into that whole thing where you have good problems to have. If they stay healthy and they're good, then it's better to have five guys that are potentially, you know, could be starting game one, could be starting game three in a postseason series,

or you move them to the bullpen and everybody finds their kind of place to eat at the table. I think we want to get our guests in here, too, as everybody continues on Dodgers territory here to get your questions. And Sammy Boy Smith, I believe next year, Lux can be a zero point zero war guy this year in the playoffs. I don't seem doing anything really. Maybe Dodgers are gambling on his injury that was holding him back. I mean, we, meaning you, have ripped apart Gavin Lux on this show. And now let's give Gavin Lux some love because I don't know how long it's going to last, but he seems to have turned a corner. you know, Pahas yesterday and then Gavin going the other way.

It was good to see. And he's had a couple of a couple, two, three good games here. So let's give him some love too. Yeah, 429 with an OPS over 1,400 over his last seven games, six of those being starts. I like what Dave Roberts said on Sunday, of course, Dave Roberts has championed Gavin Lux. Over the course of the season, given him a massive runway. They said initially it was going to be 150 at bats. And now we're kind of into the 300 in that territory.

And maybe once again, Dodgers and Dave Roberts, they are being rewarded for their patience with some of these guys. You can be patient when you have a big enough lead in your division and all that kind of stuff. You're not necessarily worried about this month. But props to Gavin for kind of figuring some things out. He had mentioned to media after the game yesterday talking about the mental side of the game, kind of being an ass kick or two. him and I've argued that his biggest enemy, his biggest problem as a big leaguer is always going to

be himself because he's going to beat himself up, kind of kick himself when things don't go right. And then he listens to people like me, probably too much. And I understand that. I get pissed when people have something borderline negative, even borderline positive. Don't talk nice about me. Who do you think you are? But anyways, you know, you pay attention to that. And, you know, it's got to be absolutely tough for somebody who, you know,

never had to struggle, you know, at any point coming up as a professional, you know, playing high school ball in, in Kenosha and all this kind of stuff. But then it starts to snowball on you. One problem becomes another problem, becomes an injury. And everybody saying, like, why is this guy still here? Well, the talent is in there. It's just maybe he just needed a mental blow that was the All-Star break. That was always my argument. I don't think he's done. I don't. I I've never thought he was done as a big leaguer. It was more about let him get away. Let him kind of mentally reset for just a little bit.

Colossal Jack Gors says he had an enormous runway. And you know what? Sometimes it takes, you know, planes a little bit longer to take off from that runway, I guess. But, you know, it's a good problem to have. If Lux has figured it out and a lot, I want to know if you buy into a very small sample size, if he's figured it out. That's a great problem to have for one when Mookie Betts eventually. does come back and if Max Muncie comes back, you have suddenly a good, like, depth in your

infield. But are you buying, you know, this version of Lux we're seeing? I, again, I'm still not, I'm still not ready to give up on him. I mean, this is the looks I thought we could have. I'm going to need to see it a lot more consistently. But I will say this. I think the 2025 Dodgers infield looks completely different than it does right now. I mean, aside from Freddie Freeman and Moogie Betts being somewhere in that infield, maybe not. I don't see that any of these guys are going to be key factors, meaning that Miguel Rojas's, the Miguel Vargas is, the Max Muncie, perhaps, yes, because he's still under contract and he's going to be healthy. But it's going to be a very different looking, particularly middle of the infield next year for the Dodgers. But somebody on

our chat just made a good point, you know, like maybe depending upon what the Dodgers really foresee as their need, which it's a starting arm, hello. Maybe Gavin Lux's trade value goes up. I hate to see that for him. I don't want him to perform well just so he gets traded and he's worth more. But you never know. I mean, you got to win now. The Dodgers have to win now.

They are not at the liberty and do not have the luxury to, they're not a rebuilding team ever. Every year they're supposed to reload. And nobody feels sorry for a team that has that type of payroll and those types of superstars and MVP's all the way over the roster. Not going to you are too harsh. I've been soft on the kid over the course of my time covering him. I've been hard.

I've been harsh. I've been soft. I've been everything under the sun. I've interacted with him a number of times in the clubhouse, you know, personally and all that. I like the kid. And sometimes you just need a little tough love, I guess, at the big league level. But I also try to avoid talking about him because I know how much he does pay attention to stuff like this. this and it's just not good for the mental health of for him and his game in the long run.

But we can't not talk about it if this is what, you know, we're supposed to be doing here on the internet. I agree with you. All right. Another fan question for you here on Dodgers territory is in regards to the screwball. So if we can bring that one, we can bring that one. Oh, my girl.

All right. Is anyone else impressed by the screwball appearance? Thoughts, Clint? Brent Honeywell, bringing back the old school. because if you're a Dodger and you have Honey on the back of your jersey, I think you need to be able to throw a screwball. I'm not mistaken. Rick Honeycutt did have a decent screwball back in his day, unless I am mistaken.

But Brent Honeywell, I don't think we have a video of it. But it is fun to see that. And Brent Honeywell, one of those guys, you know, the Dodgers in dire straits when it comes to injuries and all this kind of stuff, pick him up off the, you know, the clearance rack from, I believe he was with the Brewers. and so far, you know, solid in small sample size with this team. But anytime you can see a screwball, it's fun. It is fun to see a screwball in Dodger Blue, I guess we'll say.

Is screwball a Eiff's pitch or a knuckleball? I love a good Eiffis. I mean, give me some in Dodger Blue with that 68 Eiffis, him peeling up the mound to make the play. Oh, that was a good time. That was a good time. All right. Thank you to that grinky. I would be remiss if I did not talk about Miguel Rojas. We were talking about blue balls of getting a bunch of guys back,

but your boy, McGee Roe, who you're constantly bringing flowers to, he left the game with right forearm tightness. And typically when I hear that, I think of a pitcher and I think Tommy John. So I hope that that is not the case for Miguel Rojas, but they can ill afford to have Muggy down for any extended period of time. time with moogie down, Lux's just trying to figure it out. Bargis not the answer at third. Max's still out. I mean, this is not something that I don't think the Dodgers can sustain. Yeah, this is definitely, well, luckily, Miggi Roe isn't concerned. He's not even slightly

concerned. But with how this season is gone, I immediately start getting into that. Oh, no, this is another one of those things where it just really starts to fall apart. But he said it was he was using like a heavier bath than he's used to doing like one hand drills and i think it just kind of agitated the forearm a little bit he is no spring chicken so if he gets a day or two off this week i'm not terribly concerned they don't even want to send them out for imaging um shouldn't be a major issue but if they don't you know biggie row has to miss some time now we're talking about being in a real real bad spot in the infield um you don't have a short stop you don't have a shortstop You really don't. Kike Hernandez, you know, great weekend.

He had a very nice weekend against the Red Sox as part of that sweep. But still, Kike Hernandez is not a, you know, it wouldn't be a long-term solution, obviously, at shortstop. But still, you need, this is where you worry or you wonder about them needing that extra piece, whether it's in the infield, in the outfield, or both. But you lose Miggie Roe, you're hurting. All right. Kike Hernandez tides it up, of course, in the night. He singles in the 10th to tie it up. Then he scores the winning run in the 11th.

And by the way, congratulations to Kiki on hitting 10 years. Service time. He is fully vested. Good for him. That is incredibly hard to do. We'll be right back after a word from AG1. Crats here from FT. I wasn't feeling as focused as I wanted to be and heard some buzz about AG1.

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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? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with quantum? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large, large problem.

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She's about to be spayed in about a month to help control the pet population and also to lengthen her life. She's a year and a half old. She's wonderful. She's in La Haber, California right now. If you're interested in adopting Kayap, please reach out. Guidry's Guardian.org or you can hit me up on social for all of the information. I don't know if you saw Clint before we say goodbye, a couple of things we wanted to address. Did you happen to see the podcast between Muky Betts and Kenley Jansen when the Red Sox were obviously in L.A.

And Kenley still lives there in the offseason. But we're in L.A. talking about the 2020 championship. Yeah, I saw the clip for sure. I didn't see the entire episode yet. By the way, Mookie Bet, shout out. What can't he do also a podcaster? Maybe he should join us on the show one of these days. But, of course, the question brought up that 2020 championship.

Everybody who didn't win it wants to call it Mickey Mouse. I just hear a lot of sad. I hear a lot of tears from people. I want you to riff on this. I've talked a lot about the 2020 championship over the years. I want your thoughts. This goes up my ass sideways. when people say that 2020 was a Mickey Mouse championship.

First of all, as far as I remember, every single team, all 30 played 60 games, right? It wasn't just the Dodgers that played 60 and everybody else played 162. And I tell you what, I traveled with this team. I was in the bubble in Texas for two weeks or however long we were there. I would argue that it is harder to win in a pandemic than it is in a non-pandemic year. The way that they had to be quarantined and do everything in a completely different way, that year versus any other year, I would venture to say is harder. Every single team had the same rules.

Every single team had the same amount of games. Every single team had the same restrictions. So I don't want to hear it. If this was, let's say, you know, Yankees fans are upset about this or Giants fans or Astros fans or whomever. If your team won the championship in that year, you'd have the complete opposite opinion. So I don't want to hear an asterisk is next to the Dodgers 2020 championship. I don't want to hear it because we were lucky to have a season in 2020. So the fact that we even had baseball played, I remember every single time the team was on the road.

I was at Dodger Stadium. We were broadcasting in a pitch black Dodger Stadium. The only booths that were on were mine, Joe and Oral, and then the radio booths both English and Spanish. The rest of the stadium was pitch black when they were on the road. And you walk out into the parking lot and pitch black stadium with no fans at Dodger Stadium. That was nuts. So to do everything that they had to do, win it in 60 games in a bubble in Texas.

I would venture to say that that is harder. And again, any fan from any other team, if your team was the champion in 2020, you'd be saying the exact same thing. So stop. Yeah. Yeah, no, I agree. And I think that was one of the things Kenley said. Like, if anything, I would argue, it was harder. Everybody made the postseason that year.

You had an extra round to kind of make it through. But I agree with what you're saying. Everybody had, they started from the same exact starting point, all going to trying to reach that end point, which is, you know, raising the piece of metal at the end of the season. The Dodgers did it right. 2020 was right. I have this argument with people from time to time where I say,

I fully take this 2020 World Series championship to be fully, legitimate and I look at the Lakers bubble championship that year. I don't look at that one with the same legitimacy because there was an old Lakers team. And yeah, that was his Lakers territory. There's an old Lakers team that got a long break in, you know, towards the end of their season and then got a short ramp up and then got into their bubble. The NBA championship in 20. Yeah, the Lakers won it.

That's awesome. We love that here in Los Angeles. But everybody had started from the same exact starting point. in MLB and that's why it will always be a legitimate, fully legitimate world series championship. That year sucked because the fans got jipped of the parade for the Dodgers and they got jipped for the parade for the Lakers in the same season. That'll probably never happen again where both teams win it in the same year. All right, Scott Braun, of course, main host on foul territory had a comment. We're going to get this comment in, but we also want

you guys to continue to get your comments in because we're going to have a ton of trade talk on our next show on Thursday. Scott's asking what's the wish list for the Dodgers right now at the trade deadline. I have a stocking full of wish list for the Dodgers. So get your questions in. Clint, what do you have coming up on your show tonight? Well, one, we'll be talking back off of what you said. Well, one, we'll be talking more about that tonight on all Dodgers. Also previewing the debut of River Ryan. But Scott Braun, guys, I want you guys to sound off in the comments. We'll get to your comments, like Alana said, in our next episode, which will either be Wednesday or Thursday. So stay tubed on all of the platforms to know when we are going live.

What I want, what's on my wish list is a lot of fun pieces for this Dodgers. But we're talking more about it tonight, along with voicemails, I'll be hearing from one of my friends in this YouTube space about River Ryan and a whole bunch of stuff, other things. So 6 p.m. Pacific Time, all Dodgers with Clint will see us here on the YouTube machine. Tube in. All right. And don't forget, again, fair territory, foul territory, Dodgers territory. We got all the territories, hammering territory.

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