Dodgers Territory - Way Too Early Offseason Planning, Free Agency Outlook!

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

Clint shares his highlights from the parade, and more thoughts about the Los Angeles Dodgers World Series run vs the Blue Jays. Plus, a look ahead at free agency and what LA's potential offseason could look like. Could the Dodgers be in the running to sign Kyle Tucker? Should they consider a reunion with Cody Bellinger?Head to Superpower.com and use code TAKE20 at checkout for $20 off your membership. Live up to your 100-Year potential. #superpowerpod  Check out DT merch at dodgersterritoryshop.comSupport Guidry's Guardian at guidrysguardian.orgFind Clint on YouTube at youtube.com/@alldodgersSubscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTubeRate and review our podcast on Apple and SpotifySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I wasn't going to have anybody try to stay up with me and rock with us. us in the chat as it were. So it's going to be all you guys sound off in the comments. Let me know where you're representing your Dodgers fandom tonight, what you thought about that parade, what you think about your Dodgers heading into what should be and could be another busy winter for the front office. Very, very exciting times. Dodgers are back-to-back champions. Going for that three-peat. Please consider liking the show, rate the show. We're trying to get to 15,000 subscribers on YouTube. Hey, you know what we can do?

We can get there when Alana gets back. We'd appreciate it. Another one of the reasons why I'm a little bit later, feeling a little bit under the weather today. But we're going to power through. This is the Clint, you know, a flu game or something like that. I don't know. I'm not that bad.

But, hey, the Dodgers had a parade inside their city today. Why don't we talk about it a little bit in the big ticket? There was a party through the streets of L.A. that was a party at Dodger Stadium today, highlights. We're going to have more highlights later on on my other show. We're going to talk about it, me, Jeff, Kevin, but right now I wanted to dive into a few things. I kind of takeaways, high-level takeaways from that parade.

No drunk Jack Flaherty this year with the Bulldog, which was kind of funny. We, of course, miss drunk Jack Flaherty. Anthony Bonda was probably the closest to being drunk Jack Flaherty this year. but, you know, we'll always welcome somebody else getting a little shmammied. Maybe they're getting used to it, you know? The important thing is, Doc, Dave Roberts, he threw down the gauntlet. We're not stopping at a repeat.

Let's hear quickly from what Dave, or from Dave, and here what he has to say about end of this offseason and looking ahead to 2026. The last thing I say, I talked to a good friend in front of mine yesterday on the play, and he gave me the okay to use his phrase. Pat Riley What's better than you? The gauntlet is thrown down by Dave Roberts. You know, he likes putting another extra little target on our back.

Let's bring in the chat here, by the way, if I could find the right button. Seeing a few people who are out at the parade today. My buddy Zed says good parade stadium was fun. His head hurts. Ears are ringing. Vombed on a sweater already. I don't know what rhymes with ringing. Listen, I love the idea of.

Dave Roberts saying, we're going out there. We're going to run it back. Shohay Otani pretty much saying the same thing. Last year, Shohei said he wants to celebrate nine more times. He wants nine more rings. We already know Mookie Betts wants to fill up that hand. Make four of them Dodgers ring and then he can throw away. Actually, you go back to back two more times.

Or I guess that would be four. Hashtag Math Baby. I know Jeff's in the chat. You get two more rings. You can throw out that Boston ring and then you got five all Dodgers rings on his hand. not the podcast, but Dodgers World Series rings. But, yeah, Shohei Otani says he wants nine more. He's ready for another ring next year.

Muki Betts, a little more soft-spoken this year. It feels like some of the guys who have been through, who were here for 2020, this is now their third ring, they weren't as, I don't know if it's, like, excited, but, you know, there was a lot more of been there, done that. One of the things Max Muncie said, you know, getting pretty comfortable up here. I really love that.

do want to talk more about months in just a second. How about Will Smith, who on the SportsNet, L.A., part of the broadcast over on the bus, saying, does it ever get old or ask, does it ever get old? No, I want more. That's the mentality we want. One is not enough. Two is not enough. Three is not enough.

You want those kids in making their first postseason appearances this year or even second. Somebody like Justin Robleski, who was on the roster last year, was not a part of the postseason. a bunch of dudes who have varying levels, I guess, of service time with the Dodgers and postseason availability. But anyways, it's not about that. I said I want to talk about Muncie and don't worry, we'll lock it in here. I want to talk about Max Muncie, who, I don't know, man, I feel like, I feel like he was a little underrated this postseason and in this World Series. You look at a three-hit game in Game 7, of course, that massive Homer to give us hope. I said, don't give me hope.

He gave us hope and he set up Miguel Rojas for that ninth inning prayer. And of course, Dodgers eventually getting a Will Smith Homer. Bob's your uncle. Dodgers win the World Series. Good times had by all except for Toronto Blue Jays fans. Played mostly solid defense. But Muncie, he's just been a stalwart. He has been a staple.

And I love this. James on the Twitter X, whatever you want to call it. You know, he had that elbow injury in 2021, the final game of the regular season. It knocked him out for that postseason. They tried to hide it. They tried to pretend like he'd be okay. Like maybe he'd be available if they make it to an NLCS. We later learn he has a torn UCL.

I almost, you almost forget about the, what we expected to be a season ending knee injury amid all of the other, amongst all of the other storylines of this season. Of course, suffers that knee injury. What, two pitches, three pitches. before Clayton Kershaw strikes out as 3,000. But I love this. When you count him out, he finds a way to step up and do something. And Max Muncie, friend

of the Fowl Territory Network, dude has been nails. Dude has been an absolute gift for this team. Somebody signed off the scrap heap by this front office by Farhan's I-80. He still has one more year, technically sort of

under team control. It is a it is a, I think a, mutual or a team option, $10 million. He's going to be back. We'll have more Muncie conversations and whether or not he should be the starting third baseman. We'll have those later on in the offseason. Elisheva Jones in the chat saying Muncie is incredible.

I agree. Could you have a better third basement? Probably. But it's not always about the best talent. We know how this team wins. Sometimes it's with the guys. It's with the characters. It's with people that are willing to sacrifice for themselves,

sacrifice themselves for the better part or the better of the team, for the good of the team. And Muncie has been one of those guys. He doesn't care about the numbers of the accolades. Sure, he would love to be more respected statistically, most likely in the game. But the most important thing is the admiration and respect of your peers, of your teammates in that clubhouse. And Munce is that guy. So I wanted to make sure we give Munce a shout out. celebrate my friend good dude really really good person is max muncie and i can't wait for the next time

he's on foul territory or hey maybe uh maybe we finally get him on dodgers territory this off season when uh alana is back from dodging elephants in africa um i had so i did a show yesterday a solo show on my youtube channel if you guys saw i'd appreciate you hanging out there i had even more kind of takeaways from the World Series. Just, you know, some things kind of sparked in my brain from the, we'll say the not so humble Kike Hernandez today. Kike got me thinking a little bit more. And he had the post, you know, I'm so glad the better team didn't win, which is just a

great quote, because there was a writer or an analyst in Toronto who said, like, I don't give a shit. The better team did not win. Well, don't give him bulletin. bulletin board or social media materials because somebody like Kiki Hernandez will run with it. But as we said, as I maintained, the more I saw the Blue Jays throughout the course of that World Series, they're a good team. Very good team.

I've said I've kind of flip-flop back and forth on whether or not. I don't actually think I've ever outright said they were the better team. I will say they were playing a better brand of baseball for sure at times. The times they were playing the worst brand of baseball, base running. It costs them bigly. It costs them dearly. Of course, we're not going to get too much into the Isaiah Kiner Falafa situation because he was told by his team to stay close to that base. Don't get doubled off. That comes a night after what's his name, Barger, is doubled off at second base to end game six and send it to a game seven. So some base running things, this organization, that organization, clean up. A couple of guys getting picked off, you know, thinking they're stealing bases, but they're. and giving up because they think they're walking. The Blue Jays were good. Some Malana and I talked about heading into that series.

It was going to be about experience, a lot of the experience that Dodgers players had had. Not only that, but of course, the coaching staff and mainly Dave Roberts, who put together like a 98% masterclass of a world series. What the 2% are? I don't know. Maybe Shohay going out for that third inning,

maybe relying on Blake Trinandin one too many times, but you don't know until you know. And he had opportunities. But again, Blue Jays were good. The Dodgers were able to beat them with two cylinders misfiring or more of like a random misfire for my car dudes out there, my car people out there. At no point did the Dodgers execute a perfect game innings one through nine. You can argue that game two was maybe the best game Yamamoto going nine. But that kind of takes it out of the running for a tree.

traditional postseason game. You want your bullpen. You want to see your bullpen help you out because ideally if you're starting pitcher isn't going nine, he throws for your pitches, maybe he's available or less worn out later on in the series. We now know Yoshinov is a different animal. But pitching aside or game two aside, the lineup struggled to perform consistently and keep the line moving. We talked about they built innings. They couldn't necessarily finish innings that often. And credit to the Blue Jays on some of those for sure. I mean, looking at some of the plays defensively, Dalton Varsho is an absolute beast.

He is an animal out there in center field. Beyond the lineup, the bullpen, we knew entering the postseason. It was going to be a struggle. They gave us a little bit of false hope here and there early on in the postseason. But bullpen missing. Alex Vescia, Evan Phillips, Brewsdar, Graterall, Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates, Michael Kopeck, Brock Stewart, all of these names missing.

It was a shell of itself, like the only traditional sort of bullpen arms you had. And there are at least guys from 2024 when Anthony Bonda, Blake Trindon, and they struggled. They struggled mightily. But I'm not mad at them. They gave themselves. They gave their arms to this team in 2024. So it was the starting rotation's opportunity to kind of give a little payback for the

bullpen. So it's a wash. Next year, hopefully the starting route, sorry, the lineup could help out and just make everything easy for everybody. A nice balance of starting pitching, bullpen, yada, yada. And then you have a three-peat. But even with all the things

that ostensibly went wrong, the Dodgers were still able to outlast the Blue Jays. Like I talked about a number of times this postseason or that postseason. It's the off-season now. Welcome to the party. It took a lot of plays to get there, though. It took a lot

of plays for this Dodgers team to get there. I loved this. J.J. Lamb 06 on the Twitter machine. Thinking about a few of those from all across a series game three, in particular that 18-80 games. Tommy Edmund has the error early, but he also had

he was part of that relay. He was a part of the throw to third that bounced off of Freddie Freeman's glove. Kershaw getting his job done in this postseason. He got his job done. Miguel Rojas being inserted in that lineup. Another notch in Dave Roberts's belt there.

Miguel Ross with bare hand put out Andy Pahez, steam rolling Kikei Hernandez, Otani having himself some games. Kiki ending that game six with a double play. Three solo homers in game seven to give the Dodgers the win, to give them the the Dodgers the repeat there. And of course, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. It was a team effort. And that's really cool. Sometimes you see in the postseason, sometimes you see in World Series, one guy just kind of takes over. And that's fun. That's cool.

We saw Corey Seeger do that in 2020. You've seen other guys do it in certain name here. I mean, Freddie kind of took over in 2024 with four homers, a whole bunch of ribbies. But this was a team effort, every bit of it. Is it the type of team effort that makes us feel good that doesn't raise our heart rate? No. No. We all need to kind of still breathe.

and relax and chill and me being a little sick right now. It's sometimes not the best idea to breathe deeply. But all of that to put together, here we are, back-to-back World Series champions. And I say we, because we are along for the ride the entire way. And we're primed to do it again. Got to talk a little bit more about what could be coming up in free agency next. But first, I want to tell you guys, I'm going to give a little word from our friends over fertile territory. Ftfam, if you want more information about superpower, I have real-life customer,

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And I'm like, my mom did a really good job of like, you step back and you're like, whoa, we, I don't know how we made it. So a lot of my life was like built out of like survival to get to the next place. Like my drive, my like tunnel vision of like, I got to be better. I got to achieve this was off the strengths of like I want to make a better life for us. If You knew better brings real talk from women who've lived it. Unpacking career pivots, relationship lessons and the mindset shifts that changed everything. Listen to If You Knew better with Amber Grimes on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to Dodgers Territory.

I appreciate you guys hanging out with me here on this Monday evening. If you haven't done it already, I'm assuming you guys did at some point. I'm trying to get to the store. It's a long way around. I could have just said go to the store, support us. As I say, if you haven't done it or if you did do it, that's the reason the Dodgers won. But if you're looking for a different way to support us here at Dodgers Territory, scan that QR code, go to Dodgers.

territory shop.com. The link is in the description. We have merch. We have stuff. We have things. Buy it. It really helps us out. I've got a couple of super chats and people hanging out with us in the chat as well. I'm going to get to free agency. We're going to get to things going on with the team. Two more things I wanted to say about the parade today. Of course, one big piece missing in the whole pomp and circumstance of it all is Alex Vessia. Kayla Vesia, and once again, we will say we send our love to them. I do wish, maybe I miss something, I do wish there was some sort of opportunity afforded by the organization or somebody just to give their thanks or their love to Alex Vessia,

but also at the same time, I can understand them not wanting to bring more attention to him or to the situation, just kind of let him, you know, be, be a man, go be a husband, go be away from the team. he knows this was for him. He doesn't need some sort of big show or display from the team. So he feels validated. He is very validated by this team. But beyond that, it's the final time we see Clayton Kyrusha in a Dodger's uniform coming off of an active season. Yes, he will.

He better. He will be back next year for the ring ceremony. But just some love for 22. Great speech. Alton Gonzalez with the quote here, who covers, of course, the team for ESPN, amongst other teams in the National League or baseball as a whole.

You know, last year, we all remember. Clayton says, I said I was a Dodger for life. Today, that's true. And today I get to say I'm a champion for life. That's never going away. He goes out on top. It's what we wanted. It's what we all wanted for 22.

And I am so damn happy for the man. Got some super chats. Jose Ayala, Ayala, $2. appreciate you. She says Alana called it. She promised Dodgers would be okay. And I had a text or tweet conversation with somebody about that earlier today. She said, everything's going to be great. She told us that a number of times. And back in my head, I was like, quit lying, bro. What's going on here? But she was right. She nailed it. I don't know how okay we all feel coming off of it again. But thank God we got to this point. Francisco with a couple of super chats, as he does,

we appreciate Francisco. Says Dodgers definitely need to shore up the outfield, both sides of the ball. My dream is signing King Tuck, or I'm some Kyle Tucker there, of course. Let's play right field, put the Teo experience back in left field and not reminding a Bellinger reunion, depending on the money, getting ahead of me there, getting ahead of me, Francisco. He also has $4.99 Super Chat. Also, multiple relievers are pending free agents.

The dream would be possible long-lost cousin Edwin. Of course, Edwin D is a free agent. We'll get into that in just a minute. Robert Suarez also opted out of his deal with the San Diego Padres. It tells you more about the turmoil going on down there in San Diego. And also, Steve, Speeder built five bucks. As we all just saw MLB's version of Ollie versus Frazier and the Dodgers came out on top. So many great moments on both sides, greatest series ever.

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I said I wanted to talk about free agency, and I said I wanted to talk about this team getting better, which they're going to do. And I'm going to do it now in what should be a semi-recurring off-season segment, First World Problems. Look at that. It's like Alana was here the whole time, or maybe Alana was the friends we made along the way. Guys, in case you missed it, after the final out was recorded for the World Series, a seven Dodgers. Seven Dodgers became free agents. Michael Conforto, I know everybody. Hold your applause. Andrew Heaney, Kike Hernandez, Clayton Kershaw,

Miguel Rojas, Kirby Yates. Also holds your applause for Kirby. Of course, we know Clayton is retired. Conforto will not be back. Heaney will not be back. Yates, likely not back. But the big names there on that list are Miguel Rojas and Kike Hernandez. And I've already seen a few people in the chat bring it up.

You got to bring back Kiki. you got to bring back Kike. Between the two, personally, I lean. If you had to pick one, I think I might lean Miguel Rojas, and that's not an indictment. That's not a slap in the face to Kike. I think Micky Roe just kind of brings more over the course of 162 plus the postseason as where Kike, well, you know, he doesn't necessarily always care. I don't know if he isn't always care.

But regular season isn't necessarily. his strong suit. But Miggie Roe has made it known. He wants to play one more year. There's been conflicting reports about it, but he told my buddy Doug McCain, he wants to play one more year. He wants it to be with the Dodgers. And I do, I do think he'll be back. I think they'll come together on something pretty quickly. It makes an abundance of sense for Miggie Roe to be back with this organization. There's already a niche, a niche, a spot on the roster carved out for him in a utility role and somebody who ends up playing a good amount of probably second, some third, maybe a little bit of shortstop.

And for those who are probably going to eventually ask in the back, yes, Mookie Bets is going to be your starting shortstop next year because you're not going to go out. They're not going to sign Boba Shet and they're not going to put him at shortstop because he's not that good of a shortstop. Mookie Bets straight robbed, in my opinion, on the gold glove, but that's a different argument there. Yeah, Miguel Rojas just fits this team, fits the needs so well moving into 2026. We'll talk more about that, more why.

Get more into the why about that in a second. But Kike, let's talk about Kiki. He's going to be in that conversation for sure. I love Kiki. I think he makes so much sense for this team in a number of more of the spiritual ways than necessarily the roster ways. But the roster ways, he's also very good. He's a good defender in the outfield.

the infield. He has filled in at third base admirably when he is needed. He has shown time and time again his importance to this team. But again, also the regular season struggles are getting worse. The numbers keep declining for Kike when it comes to the regular season. And yeah, ho-hum, the Dodgers are going to make it to the postseason. But to survive that again, or maybe you get a little bit of help or maybe, I don't know, just not having something close to a black hole in your lineup might help you over the course of 162. For both of those guys, maybe mainly Kike, it might come down to what the second base plan is going to be.

You do have Hessung Kim. Do they want to, you know, buy into him as an everyday second baseman? Do they want to use him as more of a utility guy? Does Tommy Edmund play more second base or more outfield? If you're not active in the outfield market at the, uh, in free agency or via trade or however, works. Does Tommy Edmund maybe play more of a Chris Taylor type of role where he plays anywhere he's needed, but not necessarily having a position? He also have to wonder if he's going to have ankle surgery this offseason, which could affect his availability to play

outfield early on next year. But seeing Ellis Shev and wanted to admit at second base, I think it makes a lot of sense for him to be the second baseman, especially if you're going to go out and get yourself an outfielder. There are certainly some outfielers that you can try to trade for or that you can try to sign. Yes, at some point, we'll talk a whole bunch about Kyle Tucker. Today is probably not today. Other in-house options for the Dodgers, more so specifically talking about the

bench side of things, which is where Miggie Row or Kike Hernandez would generally slot in. You have Alex Freeland, who we saw make his debut this season, last season. how do you want to say it. He's on the roster. Did not exactly light things up when given that opportunity. I don't know how much I buy into Alex Freeland as a guy they anoint as somebody on the 26 man roster heading into opening day. Maybe he's more of a break in case of emergency when there is an injury or something like that. But he is around. At least he is 40-man roster filler. That's important for him. Another guy that's in the organization that's probably the closest to making some sort of impact is Noah Miller. He is a glove first shortstop.

Played a AAA, hit 238 there in, I think it was fewer than 70 games this year. He's not a hitter. He's not a hitter. Very good shortstop, very good glove, very good arm, end of list. So, Kike coming back on another team-friendly deal, along with Miguel Rojas, bring yourself some competition. into spring training, maybe that's the way the Dodgers go. Again, selfishly, the fan in me would love to have the boys back together. You try to run it back. But this is a club. This is a front office that always tries to find a way to get better.

And if you can get somebody who is just leaps and bounds better than either of those guys, hey, I would prefer they go that route if we're being honest. Let's talk about the biggest Dodgers need this offseason. Everybody, we already know. We talked about it in that super chat a minute ago. It's the outfield. It's 100%. It's 150% going to be the outfield.

The big names, of course, Kyle Tucker. We're going to hear a lot about him. Cody Bellinger opted out of his deal with the New York Yankees today. Intriguing peace. And I am somebody, if you guys have watched me for a while, you know, I'm not somebody who cares about bringing guys back for the sake of bringing them back. you know, bringing them back. But at this point, maybe Cody Bellinger does make a reasonable amount of sense for this team next year. Somebody who can, you know, play some right field,

play some left field. He's not necessarily a center fielder anymore. But he could probably slot in there if you need to. But somebody who's going to hit five, six, or seven in the lineup, you think he's grown by now. You think he's kind of changed. He's, he's a veteran. He's played for a couple of different organizations. Maybe he's more willing to listen to hitting coaches. And and get some different thoughts on his swing. But I think he's also found his game. The last couple of seasons with the Dodgers, of course, he was trying to come back from that shoulder injury, the shoulder surgery.

He was trying to get back to being that dude he was in 2019, who he never was going to be. That's not who he was. Somebody closer to who he is is the 2018 version of Cody Bellinger, not necessarily the 17 or the 19 version. Those are outliers. Prove me wrong, Cody. Come back to L.A.

and prove me wrong. But I don't hate Cody Bellinger because this is one of the reasons where we're going to have a lot of debate this offseason about people wanting Kyle Tucker. Yes, he is the sexiest free agent name that is out there 100%. But he's also going to command a lot of money for a lot of years. And the Dodgers have some prospects, some really, really good prospects that aren't necessarily super close but aren't very far away. some pundits think that Oswe de Paula could maybe make his debut next year

could at least get a cup of coffee he's got some slug he's got some pop far from a finished product I don't know if you want to go into a season expecting somebody who is not a finished product to eventually end up being an everyday guy by the end of the season or something like that so this is where I think it's important to have somebody

who is a filler a stopgap doesn't need to be a long term or a short term I'm not looking at like another Michael Conforto because he could F all the way off. With all due respect, World Series champion, Michael Conforto. But Cody Belliger Reunion, man, it doesn't not make sense to me.

He's probably going to be able to maybe get got on a three-year deal. We know that his agent, Scott Boris, loves money, and he doesn't care where it's coming from. So that means that the relationship with the Dodgers is all hunky-dory. He is fine. He has no issue. Yeah, it's stupid to sit here and say I would take Cody Bellinger over Kyle Tucker, which I'm not in a vacuum, 100% not. But when you're looking at laying everything out, I don't know how I feel about committing to another 10 years of an outfielder or 10 years of another player or whatever Kyle Tucker is going to end up getting.

So it's worth mentioning. The Dodgers are going to have the money to land Kyle Tucker. They print money. They invent money. We understand that. It doesn't really matter. But they'll have the money to land him. My buddy Cody Snavely, who covers Dodgers for Dodgers beat on the internet mentioning with just the guys that are coming off, you know, coming off the roster and free agency there. $54 million, almost $55 million coming off the books for the Dodgers. They're not going to decline those options on Muncie and Vescia. So disregard that much. but you know the expectations are

Kyle Tucker might be a 30 to 35 million dollar a year type of dude which yeah Dodgers can do that no big deal and then all of a sudden you have a really good really good problem on your hand with if Hoseway DePaul ends up coming up and tearing the cover off of the ball that just means Andy Pahez needs to be really really good or he's going to lose his spot or Teoska Hernandez figures it out or gets traded with a year or a year and a half left on his contract or whatever It's about creating, you know, creating competition.

That's the only way this team gets better is by creating competition. But that's just sort of, I don't want to dive too much more into it. I don't think the Dodgers will be very active on the pitching side of the market. The starting rotation for next year is already really, really effing stacked with the guys returning. Blake's now, Yoshinova Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow will be in there. Roki Sasaki should get another shake at the starting rotation. Gavin Stone should be back and available. I'm definitely forgetting other names.

River Ryan will be around and available as well. Shohei Otani, come on down. You will be available in the starting rotation as well. They're going to be pretty well stacked. Kyle Hurt also should be a bullpen option, but they will have pitching options on the bullpen side. Maybe you sign a couple of stopgap dudes, something like Ross Stripling mentioned to me

when he joined us after the Dodgers won the World Series, saying, you know, some of those, the kind of journeyman dudes, your Will Klein's, whatever, you're Evan Phillips types of dudes, finding those guys, supplementing him on the roster, they won't spend a lot of money. There will not be another Tanner Scott or Kirby 8 signing this coming off season. But I don't know. That's about it.

I appreciate you guys hanging out with me. Went a lot longer. Apparently, I had a lot more to say by myself today. I appreciate you guys hanging out with me. I did want to showcase the last dog we had talked about on Last Licks, and that was Lady. I know either way, Alana and Gidreys Guardian always need donations. Alana does a lot of hard work to help support dogs that need love, need help, need health care, attention, new families, all that kind of stuff. It is not a cheap job.

and lady is somebody you can help. There's also a bunch of other critters you guys can go out and help other good boys and good girls who are also good boys. So always just go to Gidre's Guardian. If you're able to get a dog, if you have a family that's ready and willing to adopt a dog,

there are so many beautiful dogs, well-trained, well-taking care of dogs available for adoption. And also, of course, they're always looking for donations. One other thought, now save the other thought. and continue the conversation over on my other

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kid here, living in Bakersfield for 21 years. Amar and Azusa, always respecting, representing, sorry, Dodger baseball. That's what it's about. Nothing brings us together like Dodger Baseball, ladies, and gentlemen. But I appreciate you guys hanging out with me. Hopefully you enjoyed

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