Dodgers Territory - Ohtani Sho Good, Conforto Buying Time; Are the Dodgers Back?

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The Dodgers swept the Reds and have rattled off 4 wins in a row to take a 2 game lead in the NL West standings and move up above the Phillies with the second best record in the National League. DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas discuss a simple premise... are the Dodgers good again (1:04)?In the midst of another mini hot streak, will Michael Conforto survive the rest of the regular season (6:57)? And will Shohei Ohtani be the NL MVP for the rest of his career (11:37)? Alanna and Clint dive in.Baseball painter Graig Kreindler joins the show to talk about his artwork, his love of the game, and more (15:38)!Download the DraftKings Pick6 app and use code FOUL for new customers to play $5, and get $50 in Bonus Picks instantly.Earn points on rent and around your neighborhood, wherever you call home, by going to https://joinbilt.com/FOUL.Check out DT merch at dodgersterritoryshop.com!Support Guidry's Guardian at guidrysguardian.orgFind Clint on YouTube at youtube.com/@alldodgers!Subscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTube!Rate and review our podcast on Apple and Spotify!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And importantly, they now own the second best record in the National League. Welcome to this Thursday afternoon live edition of Dodgers Territory. That is Clint Paseas. I am Alana Rizzo. We are your host. We are psych that you are here. Thank you so much. Like us, subscribe.

Rate us five stars. All of the things. And support the show and style. The D.T. Store is now open. Dodgers Territory Shop.com. or you can, of course, click the store button right here on YouTube and support us. Special guest, Greg Krinler, is going to be joining us momentarily an unbelievable artist who has some beautiful Dodger-inspired work.

Excited to have Greg on the show. Much to talk about baseball-related first. Let's get to the big thing. Let's do it. All right, Dodgers sweep the Reds, two-game lead over the Padres. Clint, they did what they needed to do. That's the best way of putting it. They did what they needed to do.

You got to beat up on bad teams. I don't know if the Reds are bad. They didn't put together a very good product against the Dodgers over the course of this week. And like you said, Dodgers took care of business. Two-game lead over the Padres in the NOS. Suddenly, you could breathe a little bit. And importantly, they now own the second best record in the National League, which gives them a buy week heading into the postseason.

But everything that happened this week, you really got to love it, you got to enjoy it, and you got to keep building off of it. Yeah, so the Phillies are now not ahead of the Dodgers in terms of the seating as concerned. The Mets have swept the Phillies. So the Phillies have a Queens problem, if you will. But that gives the Dodgers a better seating if the season were to end today. So what does this mean for you with the sweep of the red? So I think are a pretty decent team.

I mean, the Reds unlikely they make the postseason, but still in the conversation about four, four and a half games back of a wildcard spot in the National League. So is everything right in the world, Clint Paceous, because the Dodgers swept the Reds? Dodgers sweep the Reds. The Padres lose a couple of games. They have a nice, I'm going to call it a comfortable two-game lead in the NOS. With the schedule coming up for both teams, I really like the Dodgers being in the driver's seat. And from this point forward, when you're talking about having it the bare minimum, the second best record in the National League, and you're talking about leading the NLW,

West by a couple of games, they are in complete control of their destiny. You stay right where you're at and just play the next 28 games or whatever it is. You're going to get a by week. You're going to move right up into the wild car, sorry, into the NLDS, have your rest. Everybody's happy. I think the biggest question for me coming out of this is, like, are the Dodgers good now or like were the Reds just a bit underwhelming? What's sort of your taste on that?

I think the Dodgers have always been good. I don't think the daughters have rattled off an unbelievable win streak at any point of the season. We did not have anything a la the Milwaukee Brewers. But the daughters have always been a talented team. What I take away from it is that you absolutely needed to, at the very minimum, take the series from the Reds. I will absolutely take the sweep. And I think that's exactly what you need to see. You're supposed to beat the teams that have a worse record than you.

You're supposed to beat the teams that on paper and in theory and, execution are worse than you are. And the Dodgers did that. What they did against the Cincinnati Reds, Clint Paseas is what they did not do against the Angels. And that's what I was so pissed off about the Angels series. It's like, you're supposed to beat these guys, right? Like, I can handle not beating the Padres in a series because the Padres are a really good team. I cannot stomach losing, not only losing the series to the Angels, but being swept by the Angels, that's inexcusable. That's inexcusable. So the Dodgers did what they needed to do. against the Reds, who again play a very sloppy brand of baseball and the Dodgers made them pay.

So that's what I take away from this. I think the Dodgers have always been good, but you've got to beat those bad teams. Yeah. And adding to the Angels conversation there, losing two or three to the Rockies. They just weren't playing a very, Dodgers weren't playing Dodger baseball at that point. And I mentioned it last night on my All Dodgers channel. I just like the way Dave Roberts might say there, using different clubs in the bag, you know. These different golf clubs in the bag, they are willing to find some grass and not always just sell out for, for homers. Sure, some ground balls sneaking under the glove of L.A.

Dela Cruz or up the middle, that might not happen against better ball clubs, more defensively inclined ball clubs, i.e., the clubs you face during the postseason. But still, taking advantage of the competition you're facing is what this team needs to do. and be willing to just do whatever it takes to move a player forward, move the ball forward, not strike out, not pop up. And again, I think we're seeing just overall something better with the club. And what I like about yesterday's win, they did it without Freddie Freeman. Alex Call was supposed to be in the lineup.

He wasn't in there. A couple of injury notes there. He got Freddie there with the, it was called the Next Stinger by Dave Roberts. Same with Alex Call. He has a lower back issue that kept him out. In your opinion, any worries, any concerns about these dudes? I'm going to talk out of both sides of my mouth. The first one is no.

I think you're forced to give Freddie Freeman a day. You have to force him out of the lineup. So I'm not worried about that. But the other side of my mouth says, in order for Freddie to actually listen and take a day, maybe something, you know, is wrong. But I'm going to go ahead and say, I think it's going to be fine. You know how much Freddie Freeman hates to be out of the lineup.

And, you know, Dave sometimes has to say, like, I'm the boss here. You are not the boss of me. I am the boss of you, Mr. Freeman. So this one out for a hot second. So no, over the course of everything I'm not concerned, what I would like to see more than that is Andy Pahas and Will Smith kind of getting going again, right? I mean, Will Smith has been on a tear and he's been unbelievable this season.

No disrespect to anything that he's done. And Andy Pahas has become a much better player than I certainly ever gave Andy Pahas credit for. but I'd like to see those guys get going again. I just wish the whole lineup was going at the same time, which I know is wishful thinking, because that typically does not happen ever. But no, I'm not concerned. Overall, I'm not concerned.

You know, you mentioned that. It's kind of funny how it works out. Willie's kind of a little bit on the down. You know, August hasn't been great to him. Same with Andy Paw. Sure, they're having their moments. They're hitting some homers, all that kind of stuff. But what's funny about this team,

especially this season, is when one dude is down, another player kind of steps up. And listen, every time we have his bags packed and he's ready to go to the moon for an extended stay, Michael Conforto finds a way to wake up just a little bit. Five hits in this series. And, you know, he mentioned team-wide. There was a little bit of a mind shift shift for him and the team coming out of that Padre series. but listen, five hits in this series,

is Michael Conforto going to survive the regular season? I mean, that's that, aha, but see, that's where you said the key phrase, though. You said regular season. I, and that's why you see, I see what you did there, a little sneaky guy. Does Michael Conforto survive the regular season? Yes, because here we are on August 20th.

Michael Conforto Clint Passius would have been gone already if the Dodgers had any intent of not keeping him. He would have been gone a long time ago. So in my opinion, Michael Conforto, is here for the long term of the regular season. Does that mean that Michael can for, gosh, Padmariama saying we may have no choice but to hope for baseball to be baseball and make Michael Conforto NLCS MVP a thing. Hey, I love that. But the thing is, what I notice is that it doesn't mean that he'll make the postseason roster. Okay. So a lot can change. And again, you're only

focused on that particular series, right? So let's say they get the buy. You're only focused on NLDS who are you matching up against in terms of opposing pictures in the DS where does Michael Comforto fit and all of that is he here until September 29th or whatever whatever the hell the postseason starts yes is he on the postseason roster for the DS that I don't know probably not and with with guys coming back we'll give the latest kind of health and injury updates we know there's some some boys on the men Heson Kim will be one of the guys coming back but he will come back with the the rosters expanding on September 1st, so that doesn't cost anybody a job or anybody any playing time immediately.

Maybe some playing time, but it doesn't cost them a roster spot. Max Muncie, not too far behind him. Tommy Edmund, probably early mid-September, and you will need a couple of roster spots for those dudes. So at least on the active roster, and that's where it's going to come down to, is it going to be a Justin Dean? Yes. But Alex Freeland versus Michael Conforto, eventually when you do need to get to, you know,

pairing down your roster for the postseason and getting your 26 best players. One of those guys, perhaps two, one of those guys is not going to be on the roster. What do you got? Let me ask you this. Do you go with the veteran presence in Conforto or do you go with the seemingly hotter hand and bat, hotter glove and bat in Freeland? You know, there's always something special about a veteran on the Dodgers. I can, what I would do is I think.

think Freeland makes a little bit more sense, plus he's one of the Dodgers guys. Personally, I would do that. Is that the smart play? I don't know. We won't know. We'll never be able to know. But I do think this organization, if they, like you said, it is August 28th. If Michael Conforto is still on the roster, he's going to be on it through the month of

September, and I would not be shocked even slightly if he finds his way into or onto the NLDS roster, NLCS roster. So as Chad Moriama put it, he could be the NLCS MVP somehow. It's just going to happen. And the thing is, he has postseason experience where Alex Friedland does not. Sure, it's a decade ago with the Mets. But Conforto's kind of been there. Maybe not so much done that.

But he has been there. And I think that does mean something to this front office. Yeah, all right. So there's a topic here in the chat. All the Dodgers are veterans now in case you didn't know. Alex Freeland's not a veteran, bro. So we're saying, do you go with Alex Freeland or do you go with Michael Conforto in terms of the veteran presence over the hot hand? a ton to talk about, which is a good thing.

We love that we have a team that people care about. We love that we cover a team that is always good. We're going to be joined by Greg Kreinler here momentarily. But first, let's hear from our folks. Are we hearing from us? No way. We're hearing from us. That's technically not hearing from us.

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He starts last night, gets his first career win as a Dodger as a pitcher. He hits, he pitches, he bibles because it was his bobblehead night. He shuts down hecklers. He's just, he's the goat. He's a unicorn. Yeah, it's beyond goat. He's a unicorn. He looked really good.

And we talked about it on fair territory with Ken Rosenthal, how he's kind of brought out that splitter to right-handed hitters. So that's another, it's another tool in the Shohei Otani toolbox. He just looked really clean last night. He looked healthy, a lot of swing and miss. And it was kind of funny, too, and it was like, oh, shit, I just finished pitching. And I'm leading off the next inning. Like he's kind of like, kind of like do-do-do off the man. And then he starts to run.

I mean, again, we forget sometimes how talented this guy is on both sides of the baseball. But all I care about for him is health. You know what I mean? All I care about is that Shohei Otani is on our team. And by the way, until he's not, he's always the MVP, which it is to me a little bit, a little bit unfair. When you think about the fact, how is ever going to win this again? Let's think about it this way, Clint.

If Powell Raleigh was in the National League, how Raleigh has 50 home runs more than, you know, what is it four or five more than show hey otani at the moment i think is joe still at 45 and cal raleigh has at least 50 so if he was in the national league i still think otani even though cal raleigh i think is more valuable to the mariners than otani is to the dodger just because of the rest of the team that is surrounding show hey i still think show hey gets MVP i mean how do you not give it to show hey yeah when you have somebody who leads baseball in like so many offensive categories. And oh, by the way, ho-hum, he can go out there and be an ace and strike out nine Cincinnati Reds over five innings and just look absolutely dominant and decide to throw up, you know,

a bunch of curveballs just because, whatever, we had it working yesterday. Yeah, I don't think baseball is going to be fair. I don't think the National League is ever going to be fair outside of injury or Shoah being like, listen, I don't want it anymore. It's going to take Major League Baseball making a secondary MVP award or just the Otani Award for him. him to get every year and then everybody else gets a chance. Because when you look at Kyle Schwarber being in the conversation, I love Schwabes. I had to hate him as a Dodger fan all over the years. Very good baseball player.

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terms at pick six dot draftkings.com slash promos. It is an absolute pleasure to be joined by a friend and an unbelievably talented artist, Greg Kreinler, who has been so inspirational in terms of painting our national pastime. He is an artist. He is a baseball fan. Greg, thanks for being here. It is so great to see you again. And I am just so inspired by your work.

I'm not an art aficionado. I don't understand it. But man, your stuff will be. So cool. How are you, first of all? I'm doing well. Thank you so much for having me on again. You're welcome. Yeah, it's good to see you too. Let's start with, of course, this is Dodgers territory. So we're going to showcase what you have done in terms of the Dodgers. Let's bring up the first one that we have. Clint, if you can push the button, if you will. Everybody knows this. Of course, that is Jackie Robinson.

And tell me about the photograph first, because for those of you that don't know, Greg, he, paints based on photograph. So tell me about the artist and what you liked about this particular piece. Yeah, well, the image is based on just the specific black and white photograph. I think it's pretty well known of Jackie. I want to say that it might have been on some of those early Apple or Mac ads or something like that. So I'd kind of always been really into that image. And it just so happened that I had a client who is also a big Dodger fan, a big Shohei fan and big Robinson fan. And he kind of vived with it in the same way. So he commissioned me to paint it for him.

Yeah, that's an insane piece right there. I mean, Alana was whenever I'm like, I'm told, hey, we're going to have an artist on. I was like, how do we make this something where it's like, you got to see the art in real life to really enjoy it. But even coming through the screen, I think something really shows. about these photos. Getting this one here, Sandy Kofax, I mean, such an iconic moment. Got the kick there. Yeah, tell us about this particular piece, painting Kofax, what makes kind of, I guess, painting somebody, the artwork of creating, you know, with stencils and all

these things, somebody else's photo, creating a human being, and it looks as good as you make it look. Thank you, Clint. You're being very nice. It's, I mean, it's a, challenge. The thing is the majority of the photography that I work from is black and white. And I kind of, you know, take it as my job to breathe life back into these guys, you know, whether they've been long gone or whether they're still alive. Thankfully, Sandy is still with us. But I'm trying to kind of put the viewer into that specific game, that specific moment as much as I can. But I, you know, as as much as I, as much as I, I enjoy doing these paintings, I can't not give props to the many men and women who have been

photographing the game for over 100 years at this point. So, you know, people like Charles Conlin and Robert Rigger and Walter Yoss, like, these are the people whose shoulders I stand on to do these things. Let me ask you this because one time I asked you, one time I asked you if, you know, you could paint my, you know, my husband or an active player or whatever. And that's not really what you do. How do you decide, Greg, who you know, who you paint in terms of photography and do they all have to be former players? And is there any chance you would do like, you know, like a Paul Skeen's one day or a Freddie Freeman, a Mookie Betts, you know, Clayton Kershaw, of course, who's headed to Cooperstown? Yeah, I mean, I won't lie, you know, the majority of

the draw for me is if I'm kind of going back to, I guess, you know, the golden era of the sport or even before that, mainly because I think when we think of those players for the most part, we think of those like grainy black and white images. And, you know, the, the, I think the draw for me is kind of bringing them back to life in color. Whereas, you know, today it's kind of like if you're watching, you know, show hey pitch or hit a home run, you're seeing every, you know, every second of every at bat or every pitch from so many different angles and it's in color, it's in 4D or 4K or whatever. So there's a little bit less of a draw,

but at the same time, I do like painting some of the modern guys. And I think I'd mentioned to you online that I actually do have to start a painting of Shohei very soon. So I'm excited and also kind of intimidated because he's kind of like the unicorn of baseball right now. So it's a lot to live up to. what is i would almost ask like what's the hardest one to you know creation you've ever had to make i'm sure they all have their own challenges in some way shape or form what i'm kind of curious about is what

is the challenge of picking the right photo is it always just somebody commissioning be like hey i want this one you make this one pretty real please or is it something where it's like i want a photo of Shoho Itani. Find me the best, most indelible image of Shohei. Or, of course, you know, this one, Jackie stealing home plate there in the World Series, maybe stealing. I don't know. They didn't have replay back in the day. But what is the challenge there of picking the right photo to work with? Well, I mean, it depends. It can kind of go both ways because there's some people who might contact me and say, okay, you know, I want Jackie, you know, this specific image and and that's it. You know, really going to settle for anything less. But other times they give me a bit more freedom and

they say, okay, I'd like something done of Jackie, you know, maybe, maybe in like the first couple years that he was in the league, you know, maybe at bat. So I'll kind of look through, you know, stock photo houses or whatever collection of photos that I have and try to find something. For me, I'm usually drawn towards the photography that has kind of a strong sense of light to it. if there's something kind of dynamic about the light, whether it's, you know, bright, sunny day, and, you know, you see these great crisp shadows, or it can even be kind of like, you know, an overcast day and maybe, maybe the play that is being portrayed is kind of, you know, solemn or something like that. I'll also vibe to that. It all kind of varies, but I feel like it definitely

goes back mainly to the quality of light within the picture. Greg, let me ask you this, and I'm going to get our chat involved here. Steve Saldivar wants to know how does painting in color, no, it's all good, it's all good. How does painting in color challenge the artist? Oh, man, that's tough. So the thing is, so when I do these paintings, I'm trying to not think of it as like a Ted Turner thing. Not that there's anything wrong with Ted Turner, but, you know, since I guess I've been painting for so long and I did a lot of painting from life, whether it was painting from a model or painting kind of plan air stuff outside, you know, a lot of like direct observation. It's kind of like taking everything that I've learned from that in, I guess, however many years that I've been painting and trying to imbue that into each particular image. It's tough.

You know, like what makes a sunny day look like a sunny day? You know, what is the color temperature of this light compared to the color temperature of this shadow? This is all stuff that you gotta kind of, or at least I have to take into consideration when I'm doing these paintings. And I think that's kind of how it fosters the illusion. But at the same time, it's still something

that's not an exact science, and it's something I'm always trying to get better at. But I'm really happy and really happy and really grateful to be able to have that challenge and be able to do it. You know, there was somebody who had something of a question, but they were rude to us in the chat earlier, so I'm not going to read their question. What I am going to point out is just looking behind you,

you got to have a lot of stuff to be an artist. What is a storage situation like for you? How does a family feel about everything, taking up all the space in their house? That's one of the things I noticed. My great-grandfather was a painter, was an artist, and there was just always so much stuff. And obviously, you need to make a, what does it, break a couple eggs to make an omelet. You need to make a little mess to make something beautiful.

But yeah, what's a situation like there over at the crime of home? Well, luckily, it's not too bad. I do have my own studio in our three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. And it's basically, you know, courted off from the kids and our dog. there are canvases everywhere. I'm not going to lie. And the majority of it is stuff that has been commissioned that's kind of in like varying states of completion. Again, you know, I'm super lucky in that I have people, you know, commissioning me to do these things. And it's great to kind of get a painting out and get it to them and have them be happy. At the same time, I always kind of think, oh, well, this is great. Now you can make room for another painting to kind of put in there. But the kids understand, the dog kind of understands.

My wife is incredibly understanding because she's an author herself. So not so much when it comes to the storage part. I mean, she understands that, but the fact that she's also a creative really helps. So she kind of understands that, you know, I kind of need to be in the studio kind of doing my thing, you know, breaking brushes and cursing it myself. And I know that she needs to be, you know, in her room writing, like banging your head on the keyboard. So we respect that. We know that. So, you know, we're very good for each other in that sense. I have two questions before Clint has his final one. Greg, first is how does one commission you?

Let's start there. And then I have one question that is probably going to make you not want to be friends with me anymore. Oh, no. Well, I mean, if you want to commission me, you can always find my website or find me on social. and pretty easy to get a hold of. The problem is I have an extensive backlog of commission work right now. I love that for you. I really appreciate it. I've been telling people that the wait list is over 11 years, which is insane. And it doesn't even sound real, but it is. And I'm so grateful. But if you know, if you are interested and you feel like waiting, then we can make something else. I have so excited for you. That makes my heart burst.

That's fantastic. Good for you, Greg Kreiner. All right. My question for you is you, I would imagine being born in New York. The way that your name is spelled, we've discussed this before, is because your parents were Yankees fans,

Craig Nettles, obviously. So how'd you like the World Series last year, my friend, with the Dodgers and the Yankees? Oh, I got to go. This is over. It was tough. It was tough. It was tough to watch, especially those last few games.

But you know what? This might sound a little crazy. I mean, I'm a Yankee fan. I bleed pinstripes and everything. My mother, Brooklyn Dodgers fan. So there is a love for the Dodgers anyway. But at the same time, since I'm, like, so concerned with, you know, painting guys who played 70 years ago, I feel like my heart is more in what happened in the past than it is the present.

So I'm able to kind of disassociate myself a little bit. At least that's what I keep telling myself. And it means that I don't have to go to therapy for it, I guess. That was a tough series, man. That's the healthy way of looking at. Well, I guess I have to cap this and let you get out of here. I have kind of a similar question, but a different way. asked a different way. When you hear

Dodgers, it's the name Dodgers, what is that kind of feeling? It can be one word, three words, something simple. What kind of feeling does that elicit for you? Oh, well, honestly, it feels like family. And it sounds weird again, you know, saying that I was kind of brought up a Yankee fan.

Because I like to think of my mother and her brother when they were kind of growing up in Brooklyn and in Queens, you know, going to Ebbets Field with my grandfather. That sense of community, like that lineage, that is just super important to me. So, you know, whenever I think of the Dodgers, for the most part, with the exception of last October, it's a very warm and fuzzy feeling. Love that, love that.

Well, Greg, we appreciate the time, the history you bring here and also the history you put into your work. It's beautiful stuff. guys we'll make sure we link his website in the description of this video and all that so people could find the work and get on that very very long waiting list to get yourself some work commissioned he didn't he won't do dog portraits or anything like that maybe not i mean money talks but uh great we appreciate the time my friend thank you guys thank you so much for having me on always talk to there my friend be good thank you same to you take care we will be back after a

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of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience,

the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah.

My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with quantum? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large, large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. All right, everybody, meet Chip. He's a good boy. He's about 18 months old.

He is leased trained, potty trained, loves other dogs, is super happy, suite. He needs an adopter. He is being fostered right now in the Los Felis area there in Southern California. He's completely vaccinated, completely healthy, and just needs a forever home. So please hit us up at giddreysgarden.org or on my socials if you want more information. Clint. By the way, somebody in our chat, I think it was Martin, said that they would like for you to have a black and white picture and for Greg to paint you. So there you have that. Get on the waiting list. everyone for that. Yeah, the right pose.

The right pose. What's coming up on All Dodgers with Clint Paseas tonight? Is it a YouTube-only member show? Yeah, it's our first one. We've talked about this for our supporters of the channel on Patreon and YouTube members, to which we are extremely thankful for the folks. So it's not really giving back, but it's something different. It is whatever people want to talk about.

It's like AMA on crack or whatever, but we are having our first members-only watch party, not watch party, a member-only live stream tonight, myself, Jeff Snyder. the other guy, Kevin Skinner, the other guy. We're going to be live at 8 o'clock Pacific time, just hanging out with the chat, talking about whatever people want to talk about, the nitty-gritty. And maybe I'll answer what pose I would pick

if Greg were, you know, painting my photo. Maybe one of these. I don't know. It's got to be something. Something really adorable. I love that. I love an 11-year waiting list. I'm so happy for that guy's.

Good dude. That's good. An unbelievable artist. All right. So thought for the road. I don't know if you happen to hear. here at Kike Hernandez was on a podcast. I believe it's called La Plattica.

And he was talking about when the team travels with Shohei, it's like they're not even a baseball team anymore, Clint, they are the Beatles. So I ask you this, who would be your mania? You know how there used to be Beatles mania? Who's your mania? Yeah, that's funny. You and I talked about this earlier, and I just, I don't know that I have anything. Like, it's the whole idea of putting somebody on a pedestal.

It feels weird to me. I've been around, as you know, like I've been around these players. Like, as a baseball fan, a sports fan, you idolize these people. Listen, I've been in an elevator with Clayton Kershaw. I've talked to him. That should be somebody who is the goat. You know, we probably shouldn't have, but we shook hands of Shoahotani in spring training. Same with Yamamoto or whatever.

It's like they're just normal people. Dave Roberts, you know, not that he's some sort of mythic. God or whatever, but still. I'll tell you that much. The man never has to buy dinner and ask. That's fair. I didn't know what you're doing this, so I decided to take you off the screen. But I don't know.

Again, I'm bad about this because, I don't know, I don't have like the, that idle sort of thing. If anything, I guess it would be the Beatles. If somehow John Lennon can come back to life, like I'm a Beatles fan, that's my number one band. Yeah. Get out of here. Yeah.

And, and, uh, I want something about you. Yeah. You should come by on karaoke nights. I love doing the whole Abbey Road medley. Much of the chagrined. Actually, people enjoy it, but it's my chance to take over, which clearly I love to do. All right. So if we get to 100,000 subscribers, 100,000 subscribers for Dodger's territory, I will send you to London and Abbey Road.

How about that? I'm in. I think you're safe, but I'm in and I appreciate the idea. I didn't say it was going to be tomorrow. We will get there. Guys, subscribe like mofos to hurt Alamos Bank account. I tell everybody so I can send Clint to London.

My mania would have to be like a number of karaoke, geez, a number of country artists that all got together, tailgate, bonfire, everyone has like their favorite beverage, like the best wine, the best bourbon, whatever it is that you drink, and everybody's like tailgating and has,

all of us are just around singing a bunch of great country songs. But the thing, the caveat is they would have to want to be there. It couldn't be just like me wishing that this would happen. Like they would have to be as equally excited about the opportunity to hang with me and Chris. Then we would be having them there. I have like so many like probably Luke Combs songs going through my head with this one. It's like on any given Friday night you have you get the boys together with your beer, your truck, you double wide, your girl, your dog.

That's right. You got to bring the dog. Can I pet that dog? Can I pet that dog? Yeah, that would be mine, but I mean, it's never going to happen. Yeah, well, I like that your one mania was just having a country rager in some backfield somewhere. On some dirt. I would do it in my cul-de-sac.

It doesn't need to be like in the backwoods of Alabama. I would do it right here. So, yeah, anyway. Hey, before we sign off. Huh? Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. I'm sure people will have questions about Alana.

So I will make sure to be as mean as. possible. Before we sign off, much earlier in the chat, we appreciate Raphael for sending a $5 super chat. Thank you very much, Raphael. But I guess it's not really an ask. It's more of a statement. He has seen enough out of Edgardo Henriquez to be of the mindset that baby Bazooka belongs in that postseason roster in that postseason bullpen. And I have to agree. We talked about this last night. Dude has been nails. 11 innings. No earn runs so far this season for Edgaro. Yeah, he's he's the man and I take him over Kirby 8th with all due respect. Respectfully. My question is with Bazooka though. It's like you have no idea what you're going to get.

Well, yeah, Bazookas out. This is about Henriquez. They call him Baby Bazooka. Oh, oh, I apologize. Never mind. I read that wrong. I read that wrong. Never mind. Okay. Yeah. All right. Whatever. That's fine. Respectfully. All right, guys, we appreciate you. By the way, Clint and I are back Sunday post game. That's our next show. Sunday post game. We appreciate you guys.

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