Dodgers Territory - Teo Hurt, Dodgers Injuries Pile Up; Mookie Tuning Out the Noise

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

Alanna Rizzo, Katie Woo, and Clint Pasillas break down the injury-riddled Los Angeles Dodgers. Teoscar Hernandez joins Kiké Hernandez on the injured list following a left hamstring injury. How long will he be out and who will take his place on the active roster? Katie shares the latest (00:49). How will playing time shake out in left field? (14:33) Behind the seams, Katie expands on her recent spotlight on Mookie Betts, who has struggled in his return from an oblique injury. What is going through Mookie's mind? Katie shares her findings. (27:09) And the red hot Phillies are coming to town. What should we expect from that series? 🌶️ Get 20% off your first order of $125 or more at MackWeldon.com with promo code FOUL If you're a Babe Ruth League player, coach, or parent, you can win exclusive signed merchandise from Foul Territory and other prizes from Simon's Heart—visit justaball.org to learn how to enter for a chance to win. Subscribe to the podcast!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dodgers-territory/id1737867013https://open.spotify.com/show/6DeDDNG60w1hfnNa5N9oTH Follow our social media channels for more content!https://x.com/LADTerritory https://www.instagram.com/ladterritory/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578546105253  Check out DT merch at https://dodgersterritoryshop.com Support Guidry's Guardian at https://guidrysguardian.org Find Clint on YouTube at https://youtube.com/@alldodgers Follow Katie's work at The Athletic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/katie-woo/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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they are good. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to this live, brand new episode of Dodgers Territory on Thursday, May 28th. I'm Alana Rizzo. That's Katie Wu, Clint Paseas with you. As always, guys, good to be with you. Thanks for being here. Rate us five stars, like and subscribe wherever you get your podcast.

Obviously, we love having you on YouTube as well as we try to make our way to 20,000 subscribers. Lots to get to today. Let's get to the big ticket. All right. Some more thoughts on getting the sweep against the Colorado Rockies. We'll talk about that. Katie, let's start with you.

I mean, since we talked about it, they needed a series in which they got the job done, righted the ship, and why not? I mean, the Colorado Rockies get a lot of teams hot. That's exactly what happened with the Dodgers. Yeah, it was a grim performance by the Colorado Rockies. Dodgers doing exactly what they need to do. I tend to stay away from saying teams need to sweep other teams because that's just hard to do in general, no matter who your opponent is.

But good to see the Dodgers go out there and take care of business against Colorado. But I know we're going to get to this later in the bowl. I can't help feeling like even though they swept the Rockies that this was kind of a disheartening series given the two players that they lost for likely a significant amount of time for both Kike Hernandez and Teoscar Hernandez. So I'm sure we'll get to that. The positive though, because it's a positive vibe off day, is that the Dodgers looked great, flirted with a no-hitter until the eighth inning last night. Shohei Otani put pitch six hitless, homered, dropped an F-bomb, was mad about his performance, everything was great.

But yeah, the injuries to me are the bigger story of this series. And unfortunately for the Dodgers and Dodgers fans, they are good. You know, Riz, you give me a lot of crap for my hate for Coorsfield and Colorado as a whole. Obviously, all of this happened at Dodger Stadium. They brought that evil upon us to Los Angeles with the injuries. We've seen too many Dodgers get hurt against the Rockies. And, yeah, the big story out of all of that, you feel good. But it's a very bittersweet kind of sweet for the Dodgers.

you lose Teoscar Hernandez. It did not look good at any moment. Obviously, we talked about it last night in the postgame show, trying to beat out, I guess, an infield hit there in the second inning, comes up lame. You see him walking back to the dugout real slow, gets down on that dugout, walks right past Dave Roberts, who comes out in the field to try to, hey, everything okay, no, things were not okay, slamming the helmet,

grab it at that hamstring. Nothing really looked good. Katie, going to you, you were there at the ballpark. We got some moves coming. We know Teo's going to be out for a while. First, let's talk about who's taking his spot on the roster, and then we'll talk about how long Teosker Hernandez could be sidelined. Yeah, Ryan Ward is coming up from AAA.

He'll put two in left field with Alex Call. Dave Roberts said last night, well, he didn't disclose Ryan Ward. It was pretty obvious because that was the only name that he mentioned that was possibly coming up. And he did say that Alex Call will see more playing time. out and left, obviously the Dodgers will keep Kyle Tucker in right. So it's, I'm not sure if it's going to be more of a traditional platoon or more of just every now and then against lefties. We'll see Ward take that start. But we'll see more from Alex Call. And he's put he's, he's had a

he's done a nice job in his role. And it's really hard to be a role player and produce off the bench consistently. And Alex Call has done that. So if there is a silver lining to losing Teo, it's that we get to see a little bit more of Alex Call and what he can do. But it's certainly not good because we were talking about this on an earlier episode. had finally hit his groove. And he looked really good. The quality of the bats overall in May, especially the last couple of weeks,

looks more tail-like. And you knew it was a bad injury when he comes, immediately the dug out, he's grabbing the back of his leg. And our gentle giant always smiling, look at that face. To Oscar Hernandez, grabs his helmet and looks like he's about to slam it against the wall. That's just very untail-like. So you know that he was dealing with something serious.

Dave Roberts said post game, while there's no initial timeline, at least a few weeks. Hamstrings are tricky guys. So we'll wait it out and see what the scans say. But this, along with Kike's severe oblique strain, just not good news. It's going to be great for Ryan Ward to be back in the big leagues, but certainly not the, especially after Kiki, what the Dodgers were looking for with a player that had really started to heat up lately.

Yeah, if you're Ryan Ward, you're excited, obviously taking advantage of any opportunity, albeit it comes via an injury. You don't want to see a teammate get hurt. But a lot of people, Clint, are wondering why it's not JT3. I mean, what are we doing? I mean, the man is crushing it in AAA. I realize it's not the big leagues, but should he have been given an opportunity, why Ward over Tubbs? Yeah, yeah, Tibbs.

James Tibbs, the third obviously had a very, is having a very nice season statistically at AAA. You look behind some of the numbers. You peel back some of the numbers. Had a cold stretch, a couple of different points in time. It happens. It's baseball. Bro is also striking out a fair amount. I think the number is like 30% of the time, maybe north of 30% of the time.

Not ideal at the AAA level. but the big factor is at this moment in time he is not on the 40 man roster and they already have enough moves enough i think the 40 man roster is probably at like you know approaching 50 55 players with all the entries i didn't do my homework on that part but they don't want to you know start his clock at this point until they feel you know it's going to be his job uh or at least have an opportunity to earn that everyday job in left field or something like that which They're plainly not at. You know, Alex Call is somebody who we anticipate seeing a lot of time.

I really like Alex Call. We were talking about Alex Call last night as well. He is somebody who, he's a guy for this team that has honestly just been a dude. And we're going to throw some Alex Call stats up on the screen here, hitting just a little under 300 on the season on base. He has been an on-base machine taking his walks. Just been very, very good, very, a very serviceable ball player. for this club. And I think, Katie, we were talking before the show. You had mentioned in the

clubhouse, they also kind of pretty much Dave laid out the fact that's most likely going to be a platoon in left with Call and Ward getting the lion's share there. Yeah, that's going to be the plan there. Again, there's no reason to move Andy Pawhizzer Kyle Tucker, obviously. So they'll look to platoon, or not third base, they'll look to platoon left field. But I thought it was interesting because Dave Roberts did say that Haissom Kim does remain an option for the them in the outfield after his emergency left field performance. Doesn't look too shabby out there. Certainly not going to be the starter by any means,

but they do have another option in case, you know, the matchup is for whatever reason, a little bit more favorable towards Kim. But as we've seen lately, that chase rates high. There hasn't been a lot of quality of bats from his song. So we'll see it's just another layer for Dave Roberts to work into because now all of a sudden there seems to be a depth test once again. As soon as we start thinking about, oh, there's going to be big roster moves,

what's the team going to do when Tommy Edmund comes back, even though it's two weeks away. These things always, unfortunately, work themselves out, usually before a big decision is being made. Now the Dodgers have to cover the next two and a half weeks because Tommy Edmund is most likely going to take the entire 20-day stint of his allotted rehab assignment to be ready to go. They're going to have to figure out how to get through these next two and a half weeks with the platoon and left and figuring out what they're going to do with their infield. Can't you make a good point about the 40-man roster spot? Those spots are valuable. And if the Dodgers were going to bring up James Tib III, and I don't think that was really even in play for them, this decision.

It would cost another 40 man. We saw how valuable that was when Santiago Espinall was DFA'd. And then Kiki, of course, no fault to his own gets hurt. All of a sudden, the Dodgers would have really liked that Espinall spot back. So these 40-man spots do mean a lot. They could 60-day Kiki again. We'll get to him. But for right now, it seems like the Dodgers are going to try their depth with their AAA guys.

Their 4A guys, respectfully, if you will, and get a lot, get ready for a platoon in left for the immediate future. You mentioned Kike Hernandez. I know, it's insane. So many guys. Guys, so many dudes. You had mentioned Kike Hernandez, Katie. And I mean, my heart just breaks for the guy. You never want to see anybody get hurt.

But coming off the IL two days later, I mean, taking the swing the prior day, NBP, hurting the obliq, playing through it, everything he went through last year, the off-season surgery. He just looked so dejected. You were there at his locker when he addressed the media. What was your biggest, you know,

what did you take away from that? Yeah, dejected is the perfect word to describe the situation because when you think Kike Hernandez, you think the lively energy, he's irreplaceful. He's one of one in that clubhouse. You hear it each time he's introduced at Dodger Stadium. The fans go crazy and to see him so despondent. And he said he was embarrassed about this injury. I mean, this happened on Monday before he even took an abat. He tweaked his oblique taking BP. And we know Kike what he's been through. The injury he played through last year, World Series hero, coming back to be ready to go the day he was eligible off the 60 day, clearly just wanted

to get back with the boys and play some ball and tried to play through an oblique strain. He said he'd never experienced something like that before his career. So he wasn't sure what he was dealing with. Said he took a couple swings. They did not feel great. Could have fooled us because in his four plate appearances, he reached base all four times. But on Tuesday, on that Homer that he hit, also let's talk about how crazy it is to at Homer with such a significant oblique strain.

He said it really felt bad. And then his next did bad, he, you know, as he was running the bases just said it was not good. So made the decision to pull him out. It's going to be a long time before we see Kiki again. And you could just feel the disappointment and the frustration. And I think what stood out to me about that was not just a brutal blow for the Dodgers and for Kike, who again works so hard to get back to this club. But the fact that he was concerned that he cost a roster spot, he cost someone his job

by coming back and then ultimately wasn't able to perform. I think that says so much about the teammate that Kike is while he's over here with his season, you know, and then at least the next two months kind of up in the air, he's worried about the fact that he cost someone his job and then couldn't stay in post and make that worth it. So we're still waiting on a more definitive timeline for Kike Hernandez. It is a significant obliques strain. We're looking at probably six to eight weeks. But if you recall from the Mookie Bet situation, obliques are finicky. So it's all about recovery. But yeah, again, just brutal sad scenes all around for Kike Hernandez on Monday night or Tuesday night, excuse me.

Yeah, Kike, Taye, Tosker at the same time. And, you know, you mentioned he was somebody who was really starting to find his stride. He had been hitting for this team for the better part of the last month, one of the right-handed power bats in that lineup. So the injuries keep piling up, the Dodgers losing important options that they needed at this point. And, you know, you mix in the fact you got somebody also on that, currently on the active roster. Max Muncie, far from 100% with that right wrist. You saw him at some point kind of shaking it out after his first at bat, a swing and a miss. But all of those guys, you know, with the injuries, joining dudes like Blake Snell on the IAL, Tyler Glasnow on the IL.

Edwin Diaz on the aisle, all those guys kind of making their way back. Jack Dreyer is a name. I also threw in there, amongst all the other injuries, of course, that we were looking at on that current injured list situation, Ben Casperia, so on and so forth. A lot of people like to talk about, you know, who's Dodgers' biggest opponent. It's the 162 game regular season. It's about staying healthy. We talk about this time and time again. If the Dodgers stay healthy, they are far and away the best team in baseball.

but 162 games over 180 some odd days that is a bitch to survive and we're seeing right now I'm glad it's happening now in May rather than in August and September but it still sucks and hopefully these guys can bounce back get healthy and be ready to go when meaningful baseball for you know the Dodgers happens again in October well I think that's the thing I mean it's we always play that game with health and injury and timing and again I I think with the postseason, it's whoever is the healthiest and whoever is hot at the same time, you know, at the same time. And that's what it makes it so difficult. The Dodgers will get into the postseason.

They're just trying to manage the MASH unit that is L.A. right now, for those of you that are too young to understand MASH, look it up. But it's, you know, we all have every single, every single club deals with it. It just seems like we're getting hit really hard right now. But this is the beauty of this farm system. This is the beauty of this front office. They will always have a way to figure this out. I fully believe that. And, you know, they just have to maneuver through the minutia of all of these different injuries to key guys.

And one thing we haven't talked about, really, is the fact that, you know, this is a team that's another year older. I mean, we don't have a very young team, you guys. So that's a factor in it as well with Kike and Teo and, you know, Mookie and Freddie and such and such. So, but that's okay. We're gonna get to postseason. It's gonna be great. All right, much more to come. But first award from our friends at Felt Territory.

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kind of getting his head right and no more social media kind of. Tell us about that. Yeah, we know we all know what Mookie Betts has been through the start of the season, certainly not by any means something that he would have liked, both production and health wise. He missed four weeks that a week strain.

He's come back and he just hasn't looked like Mookie bets at the plate. And we know this. It's been a focal point for Mookie all season. He's been dropped down in the order to fourth and was talking to Mookie the other day at Dodger Stadium. And he said, you know, what's really caught him off guard essentially is not the struggles. You know, he's slumped before. He's a 13 year veteran.

It's not the highs and the lows or coming back from the oblique strain. It was the outside noise that has taken a surprising toll on Muky Betts. He says right there, there's so much hate out there. It's kind of unbelievable. And I when you listen to these athletes and it's not just mooky who has to deal with this obviously, it's the vast majority of professional athletes. He just said that the outside noise got to be so much that it was better for him to just take his social media off his phone completely. Now, of course, if you follow Muky Betts, still see things being posted on his Instagram story or things like that. Most athletes have a team that does content.

But right now, Mookie's not looking at anything because he said it was impacting his sleep and impacting his mindset. And it was getting really difficult for him to just kind of lock in and make the change that he knows he needs to. And when you talk to Mookie, you know, it's hard because he's entering his age 33 season. And I asked him, do you feel like as you get older in your career or you advance in your career, that the things that you used to do to find success and get get out of your slumps are harder to do.

And he said he's essentially had to relearn things because what he did when he was younger doesn't work anymore. And he's had to do this trial and error process. And it takes time. We know this. And it's frustrating for him too. You know, even after there's two Homer game on Tuesday,

he felt like, you know, it was just a step in the right direction, but still plenty of work to be done. But I do want to share this quote with you guys from that story because as he went on to say that, you know, he's still working through things at the trial and error process. He did say that this is where he feels like he's at his prime in his career. Here's the quote.

Mookiee Betz said, I think I'm so much more knowledgeable about the game now. I truly believe I'm a better player now. I just need to find that cue to keep up with what's going. Once I find that cue, we saw last year in September, I can still play. I can still be who I am. So I think all of this is a combination of a player with vastly high expectations, knowing the standards he set for himself have not been met, combating the changes in his career that he needs to make to find that success again and cutting

out the outside noise that has admittedly maybe even caught him off guard with how it's impacted him this season. Riz, what are your thoughts about Mookie? You've been around this guy. You've covered him as well. I've seen his entire Dodger career and yeah, it keeps getting tougher for Mookie. What it says to me is something that I think we need to be reminded about is that these guys are people before they are players.

And just because they make a lot of money, and I understand that they make a lot of money, there also are only 760 players, I believe, that are good enough to start on an opening day roster, whatever 26 times 30 is. Okay. There's only that many people in the world that are good enough to be on a major league baseball roster. Mookie Betts is a, in my opinion, a future Hall of Famer. He will be in Cooperstown. He is a four-time World Series champion.

Boston still has not recovered from trading mokey bets. The fan base hasn't recovered. The team certainly has not recovered from trading mooky bets. He immediately makes your team better. Think of all that he has done selflessly, moving from right field to short, doing a very good job as a defensive shortstop, the most difficult, demanding defensive position on the middle of the infield or on the infield in general,

maybe with the exception of a catcher who's a part of every single play. But it does wear on people. When you hold yourself to that expectation of being the greatness that he is, I mean, think about the Michael Jordans of the world and the Kobe Bryant's of the world, the Tom Brady's of the world, you know, those types of guys, they're a little off in terms of their competitive fire and their need to lock in and focus. And Mookie, there's nobody that is more upset about the way that he's playing than Mookie. So, you know, remember last year when it was basically Brianna that was like,

like quit trying to listen to everybody else around you, you know, listen to yourself. I think that's kind of what the social media thing is too. And by the way, he's allowed to have outside interest besides baseball, okay? Like he's allowed to, you know, have his podcast. He's allowed to learn how to play the guitar. He's allowed, I mean, he's a 300 bowler. The man has a lot of talents. There's a lot.

It's okay for these guys to get away from this game every once in a while. I feel like Mookie is going to be okay. Again, I mean, when you have a team like the. Dodgers that has expectations that are set as high as they are. Every little thing when a superstar is not performing is going to be under the microscope. It's going to be magnified. He has been inconsistent. And I think that's where, you know, people have their frustration is that you get a really good game from him, but he then he drops off. But he knows that. And it's not as if he's not trying. They're still in first place. Okay. It's going to be okay. He's had a he's had,

Think about every single season with Mookie. It's never been a normal start, right? Remember when he got traded from Boston? We didn't even know if he was ever going to wear a Dodger uniform because of COVID. And then we had because, you know, and then the lockout or whatever the order was. It was like COVID, then the lockout. Then, you know, then he got sick. And then, you know, he lost a billion pounds.

And he's already a little dude. So Mookie's going to be fine. And thankfully, he has a supporting cast around him that that can, you know, pick him up. Yeah, you brought up a lot of the points I wanted to touch on there, especially when you're talking about Mookie. I'm going to reiterate again. Actually, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to do this because in the field that we are in that I've been doing now for 10 years talking to people in front of a camera, mostly nobody here. Now people here.

We appreciate you guys hanging out with us. Hit that like button, subscribe. Mookie, you all appreciate it. I have a lot of different thoughts about this. I think back to last year you're talking about that point after. Brianna told him just, hey, don't worry about anything. Just go be yourself. And I think David Vassay kind of as a guy who championed, hey, let's get everybody at the

stadium. Let's cheer for Mookie Betts. You know, we had the standing ovation. People like to look at that as a turnaround point for him last year. It didn't really happen for him until another two or three games after that. But good vibes will go a long way for Mookie. But really what I want to get to is we are in the business here in this format. of being critical, pointing out the worst.

Usually we have to talk about the worst. That's what sells. Oh, this guy is struggling. What are they going to do with him? Are they going to release this guy or whatever? A lot of people take that and build upon it. They think, oh, man, these people hate Mookie Betts. They want to send him to the moon or whatever.

It's like, no, we want Mookie to be right. We want Mookie to be happy, enjoy going to work, and be good at his job, because obviously that means the Dodgers are playing better. They're going to be in a better position. I think also fully flippant agree that Mookie should be able to go out there, play some golf, bowl, hang out, be a normal human being. It's a weird world we live in where so many of us assholes are in front of a camera and can say whatever we want. And sadly, we've seen it with some players on this team as well. Things, even we say, get back to them and it can affect their day.

Now, they are in a very, they're in a front-facing business where, they are going to get spoken about a lot, sometimes good, sometimes bad. So it's about having that thick skin, not to say that Muky does not, but I guess ultimately what I'm getting at is everybody, just have some grace for these dudes, for these people. They're trying, they're damnedest. There are very few people that don't want to succeed for the Dodgers and for the team and for the fans as well. And hell, for their own pocketbooks in the future.

It's just, it's a, sports suck. Sports, fandom, all that kind of stuff. It could really, really suck. And I appreciate, Katie, you kind of given this, not that Moogie necessarily needs a platform, but opening up, getting behind the seams, if you will, you know, with Mooky and kind of where he's at mentally. Because when we talk to Nelly on Monday, you know, Mookie saying, kind of get out of here, the vibe's not being right. That's with Mooky that, that worries me. He's a human being.

You know, stuff that people says, I have a really good friend that is a wife of a major league pitcher for a different team, not on the Dodgers. And the vitrile that he gets and that she gets on her Instagram page with people wishing death threats or threatening to kill him or wishing him, you know, a deadly disease because he didn't pitch well. I mean, you guys, enough. Like, it's absolutely ridiculous. And eventually, it gets to these guys. And I'm, you know, I understand. I can understand. I mean, just the little amount of vitriol I get compared to what some of these guys get.

It is. It bothers you. And it affects you. So you got to shut out that outside noise, you know? And it's not always easy to do. It's not always easy to do. Absolutely. That's what we're telling people to have a heart.

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Guidry's Guardian.org. Again, she's in San Diego, Texas. But we'll travel. We'll travel her if it's the right family. All right, big series coming up, Katie. The Phillies are now 29 and 27. What's that? So I got that for you, Riz.

Trip shop show, our friend. Oh, thanks, trip show. Appreciate you guys. Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah, so anyway, so they're 20 and 8 since the firing of Rob Thompson, making Don Mattingly, their interim manager through the end of the year. They're coming off a sweep. We love this.

Of the San Diego Padres. Katie, they get to miss, thankfully, Christian Sanchez, who is out of this world right now in terms of his pitching. But this is another measure. This is another series that I, you know, I love to lock in for. What do you think? Yeah, I know the Phillies did not get off to the hottest of starts in April. But, you know, different manager, different ball club. Obviously, Dodgers fans well familiar with what Don Maddenly can do, 20 and 8, like you mentioned, Alana. And they pitched really well. No Christopher Sanchez,

but they do see another certified stud in Jesus Lazardo. He'll pitch either Saturday or Sunday, Philly still figuring out that rotation. But this is a team where you look at the names, similar very similar to the Dodgers. You look at the names, you look at the star power. And even when they're struggling, you think that can't be for long. So I know it's, you know, maybe not the Phillies team overall record wise that we'd expect to see, but you still can't take them for granted. And it is a kind of a measuring stick for the Dodgers now. They've done what they needed to do against the Rockies. They came off a really good home stand to care of business against the Brewers and the Padres. Can they continue this trend against this Phillies club? You're looking at

their numbers there. They pitched well. They don't hit well. So it should be. a nice get right outing for Justin Rebleski. We'll see how Roki Sasaki can build. And then, of course, Yamamoto for the series finale on Sunday. Yeah, I'm feeling good about it, guys. Feeling good about it. You got your aces. I really need to see Robo get back on track.

That's the guy here. He's absolutely due. Sasaki and other build start would be good as well. Tough, definitely tough matchup here. You're mentioning the offense pretty middle of the pack, even in the Donny ball game. era. They're still kind of middle of pack. Pitching is absolutely taken off for them since, I mean, it's not because they fired Rob Thompson, but, you know, there is a clear line of demarcation,

and there was one guy, and then here's another guy. Pitching has been really good. ERA under three. I think they're like third in baseball team ERA-wise, but offense, you know, Dodgers pitching should be able to keep them in place, keep them in check. Just got to put some points on the board against them. That's really all you got to do. And, and, um, Before we end up getting out of here, Katie, you said we could be looking for a bullpen move heading into the series for the Dodgers? I think just based on the off day today, yes, and the amount of games coming up, they'll have three straight into a four game set against Arizona on the road. And then another three game homestand against the Angels. You're just looking maybe for some fresh arm recycling some things.

It would not surprise me to see a bullpen move coming up just to replenish that lights out bullpen. And shout out to your guy, Clint Kyle Hurt, first career, save. That fastball change-up combo is nasty. And he's getting better and better with his post-game interviews. We see progress all around for Kyle Hurt. That's a guy that is an absolute dog. I love that kid. Happy to see the success and getting some respect on his damn name because he has deserved it.

If there's nothing else to add, I can hit that button. We start playing some music. We can get out of here. everybody enjoy your off day. We appreciate you guys joining us on an off day edition of DT. Get yourself some merch. I haven't updated the graphic, but at least we're wearing some stuff.

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