Fair Territory: Can LA Force Game 7? Blue Jays 1 Win from World Series Title + New Manager Moves

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to a special Friday edition of Fair Territory, a special Halloween edition of Fair Territory, and most importantly, the Game six World Series Edition of Fair Territory. I'm Ken Rosenthal here with my friend Alana Rizzo. We are going to talk all things World Series and get into some other things as well. Alana, good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: How are you good afternoon? Always good to be with you on this Friday. Ken, is your schedule is bananas because of the World Series. But let's talk about Game six. If you're gonna have a guy on the hill, Ken for the Dodgers, you want it to be Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and back to back complete games in the postseason, something that has not been done since Kurt Shilling for the Diamondbacks in two thousand and one. He threw three straight. Obviously, the Dodgers need him to be really good. Again, this is an elimination game. This is it. But the other part of this is, even if you can count on Yamamoto to be really good, I don't know that you can count on him to pitch a complete game. That's a lot to ask. And then you have the bull coming into play and most important you have their offense coming into play, and that's been the concern here. And it's interesting, Alana. You know this because you follow the Dodgers so closely. Their offense has been in and out all season and right now it's out again. They need to find it somehow. And granted they're facing great pitching. You Savage was brilliant in Game five, but here they are against Kevin Gossman. Tonight, Dave Roberts hinted at additional lineup changes. We'll see what happens. They drop Mooky to the third spot, move Will Smith up to the second spot. Bench pahes for ours call. There's not much more they can do.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, you know what can we keep saying? What is wrong with the Dodgers? Obviously they come into this World Series as the favorites, of course, or the reigning World Series champions, But perhaps we should be asking are the Toronto Blue Jays the better team?

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Speaker 1: That's a fair question based on the way these teams have played now over one hundred and sixty two, they actually were better. They had ninety four wins, the Dodgers had ninety three. And when you watch these teams play against each other, you notice differences. The Blue Jays offense certainly has not had a problem. They are a team that attacks early in the count and they are a team that puts the ball in play, doesn't strike out much. We've been through all of this already and it's been very effective for them, even against better pitching in the postseason. Defensively, there also is a difference, and as I wrote yesterday, that play in right field, that the one the triple that got past Teo by Dalton Barsio and the diving catch Barger made on Otani on a one hundred and seventeen mile per hour shot kind of illustrated the differences between these teams. Defensively, the Dodgers are not as good defensively. They had three wild pitches in that inning as well, that four to run seven. So there's some things going on here. I knew this was gonna happen, And obviously with a they need to play better. They need to get their bullpen if they have to use it into an effective mode, and it's been a problem for them, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah can so maybe it's not what is wrong with the Dodgers, Perhaps it's what is right with the Blue Jays as Alar eleven twenty nine brings up so well in our chat by the way, you guys get your questions in for Grill and Ken. You know, one thing can besides the Dodgers being the heavy favorites coming into the series is everything we talked about it on our production call, right, So if we said apples to apples, the teams are the same. The one thing that was different was the experienced level of the Dodgers over the Blue Jays, and not just with the roster, Ken, but with the managers. Dave Roberts has been there, done that. John Schneider kind of learning on the fly but doing a very effective job. It doesn't seem like John Schneider is it's the moment's not too big for him.

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Speaker 1: No, it hasn't been end up. By the way, our producer Mark Wiener said that that's the Dodgers' offense calling. They're probably going to call again. But regardless, the managerial thing is always interesting in the postseason because every decision is under such scrutiny. And John Schneider had a moment in Game five of the ALSS where he did not go to Jeff Hoffman for cal Rawley. He instead went with Brendan Little, and we'll know what happened. Raley hit the tying homer and then they got the big homer from Suarez and the series came back to Toronto with the Blue Jays down three games to two. That was a moment, like the moment with Barrios a few years back, that I think John Schneider learned from, and he has talked about reading situations and reacting and learning on the fly. If you remember the Barrios moment that was scripted right they pulled him, I think it was after three and or the start of the fourth, and it was no good. He was pitching well. It was a silly thing to do, and the front office was involved with that. Schneider took the hit. We all know what happened. Since then, Schneider has evolved and he is taking greater control. He has gained more confidence in his decision making and we've seen that throughout the postseason. Now each manager, every manager in the postseason is still going to do things you question, but they always have their reasons. Sometimes these things work out, sometimes they don't. It's always outcome based. So yes, he has done well and It's interesting too, Dave Roberts, a guy that before last year was really questioned for a number of his decisions in various postseasons. This isn't on him, if you ask me. This is on a team that just is not performing the way it should and that is going to be the key question here. Can the Dodgers show the resilience they showed last year when they were down two to one in the Division Series against the Padres in San Diego, throwing a bullpen game with everything against them? Can this Dodgers team rise up the way that one did? And this team you could certainly say is more talented than that one was. I don't know that they're a better team, though, and that's the question that face here.

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Speaker 2: Ken, Before we move on to the managerial moves in Major League Baseball, have two more questions for your regarding this. You talked about the team being perhaps more talented this year, but Ken, they're also aging. Are we not talking about that enough?

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Speaker 1: Well? I mentioned it in my column yesterday, and win or lose this is going to be an issue for the Dodgers. I'm sorry. Freddie Freeman thirty six, Tao Mookie thirty three, you've got other players too. Max Muntzy's thirty five not catastrophic by any of the any means, and certainly Freddy, while not as productive maybe as he was in his prime, is still a highly productive player. But it is a question that they're going to face and as they go to the off season again, no matter what happens here, it's got to be a concern, and it's got to be a concern not just because of the small sample size we're seeing in this World Series, because of what we've seen since the Wildcard round. Their offensive numbers since the Wildcard round as a team are terrible, and what we've seen Alana as we discussed, how they've gone in and out all year offensively. So while they finished second in the majors in run scored, they often didn't look like that kind of team. And that's something that, yes, the Dodgers are going to have at least examine. I don't know how you address it. Maybe you sign Kyle Tucker. That's one answer. He's only going to be twenty nine next year, but it's something that going forward could be an issue for them.

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Speaker 2: Before we move on Ken, how much is the Alex VESSI a factor impacting this team.

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Speaker 1: It's a factor, no question, and they miss him. And of course, if you don't know, he is out with a family emergency, and he was off the roster for this series. But the bullpen has been vexing them really all season. And in this series we don't have Tanner, Scott and Kirby Yates on the roster. They're off the roster making combined eighty five million in total guarantees. That's a problem. They've had Blake trying to not be the same this year, coming off a postseason last year in which he was brilliant but worked really hard. They lost Evan Phillips to Tommy John surgery, and then they traded for one reliever at the deadline blockstro got after four appearances. So their bullpen remains an issue. They've had Saki emerge and that's been great obviously and necessary, but the bullpen, yes, has been a problem area.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sasaki has kind of been non existent in the World Series as well. All right, let's move on our focus here on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal. There have been some managerial postings Ken, and there are still three teams that need a skipper. Let's start with the Washington Nationals. They hired Blake Uta, a thirty three year old, as their newest manager. What do you know about him?

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Speaker 1: I don't know much about him. I don't know that anyone does. And he was a thirty fifth round pick by Tampa Bay in twenty fifteen. He was the youngest manager in the Miners twenty eighteen, and then became the Race senior director of player development in twenty twenty three. He's obviously a guy who is extremely well thought of by the Rays and by the rest of the industry. The Nationals new head of baseball operations, Paul Deboni, came from the Red Sox and he knew about Blake but Terra, so this is why they went in that direction. And then we've had also the hiring of Tony Vitello in San Francisco from college. That's a rarity in baseball. This guy is a rarity in baseball. My phone is ringing again. And the one point I want to make here, Derek Shelton by the Twins. That was more of a traditional hire, right Derek Shelton had managed Pittsburgh, he figured he would get another chance. I'm not sure the teams here are not getting too cute, and we'll see this all plays out. Maybe Tony Vitello is great, maybe Blake but Terra is great. But I just wonder with Danny Lehman, the Dodgers bench coach, getting a lot of play with the Braves too, he seemingly could be a front runner for that job. What are we doing here. Brandon Hyde, who was a very successful manager with Baltimore, is sitting out there and seemingly not getting a shot. David Ross pretty successful with her, certainly like Hyde deserving of another chance, and hey, he's not getting a chance. So these teams are coming up with these fancy ideas and everybody's trying to reinvent the wheel. Fine, if it works, great, But at the same time, I always wonder with baseball now if teams do try to get too cute, and they do it in other areas besides this one. We'll see how this all plays out for all of these guys.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Derek Shelton going now to the Twins, and no disrespect to either guy, but ken is Derek Shelton Rocobaldelli two point zero? How do they differ?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, And certainly Shelton did not have success in Pittsburgh. That goes beyond him, obviously, it goes to the owner, it goes to the general mager. You see his record there. I don't know that you can put much on this on him at all for that. But at the same time, the twins are a team that you would think maybe would take a different tactic, or maybe woulds hire a Brandon Hide or David Ross, and yet they're going to a guy that they're real familiar with. He used to be in the organ and maybe that's the key here. But if you're asking how much different is he than Rockeballdellhi, we're going to find out. I can't imagine he's much different. But I always do like managers, not all of them, but a lot of them who get second chances because they learn in the first job things that they didn't really know, didn't really understand, and they get a better grasp of for the second job. That's why I think Hyde and Ross are worthy of another look, because they would be better in many ways this time around than they were the last time.

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Speaker 2: Well, they certainly have more experience. And even when I saw but Terra's name and congratulations to Blake I thought it was Drew. I knew nothing about Blake Terra, so it's interesting to see how that's all going to pan out for the Washington Nationals. All right, get those questions in for Grill and Ken. He has an opportunity to answer answer the call if you will. Haha, you see what I did there. We'll be back after this. A few words from our friends at foul Territory.

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Speaker 2: All right, it is time now for Grill and Ken. We're going to get those questions in from the YouTube chat. The first one is from armand is amazing. Always good to have him. He's a big contributor here on fair territory. Ken, who are the front runners for the three remaining managerial job open England? For those that don't know, it's who is it? Ken? It's the Rockies, the Padres and the Braves.

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Speaker 1: Correct, that's right? That is right? A lot and front runners. It's always tricky because you don't know exactly what's going on. And I'll start with the Braves in this regard. It's been reported that Danny Lehman, the Dodgers bench coach, is a leading name for the Braves, if not the front runner Alexanthopolis. The head of baseball operations generally operates under the radar, So when a name gets out with him regarding a free agent, a trade, or now a managerial hiring, I'm always skeptical that that is actually the name that's going to be there. But they have not made a hire, and maybe they are waiting for the Dodgers to complete the World Series and then they will go and act from there. In San Diego, it seems to be Albert Pouoholes or they're pitching coach Ruben Diebla. Those are the two names you're hearing most prominently. And in Colorado, we don't know, because Colorado has not hired a head of baseball operations yet. That should be coming any day now. We've reported at The Athletic that the finalists are Diamondback's assistant GM Amaniel Saude and Cleveland Guardian's assistant GM Matt Foreman. Once that is resolved, once they hire one of those guys, that person will then pick the manager. So we seemingly have some idea, but I don't know that we really have a total idea on any of them. San Diego seems to be one of those two guys that I mentioned, but the others I'm not so sure.

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Speaker 2: Ken, out of the three remaining openings, what is the one that should be most coveted. What's the most attractive one?

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Speaker 1: Braves and Padres are both attractive, but the Braves is a little bit more attractive to me because it seems to me that they're going to have a much better year they had it pretty much everything that could go wrong go wrong for them. Anthopolis is not accustomed to having a lack of success, and he's going to be hell bent on making the team better. And it just seems that their roster is really good. Akhun, you will be back. All these things will happen for them. Listen, san Diego's roster is awfully good as well. But they've got a couple of starting pitchers in free agency here, Dylan Cease and Michael King. They've got to redo that there are payroll questions. It's not quite as attractive as the bravest job in my opinion anyway.

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Speaker 2: All right, next question comes from ev Underscore Warrior Ken. If we go to Game seven, should show Hey, oh we're gonna well go go back to the one on the screen, should show Hey o Tawani start. If it goes to game seven, should show Hey start.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's going to be a question that's going to come up. And the reason he would start the game is because when you look at where the Dodgers are and where he is, he will be available for an inning or two. He would almost have to be an opener. So if you're going to use him, you might as well use him as the art of the game when you can keep him in as the DH. If you use him at the end of the game, then you've got to put him in the outfield, and that becomes something he hasn't done, and it's a little bit more problematic. Now I can see show Hey knowing what little we do about him. I can see him wanting to close out the World Series the way he closed out the WBS thing. But it's a safer bet if you want to use him by using him early in the game and at the start of the game and then keeping him in as the DH. Now, Tyler Glass now is lined up for that game? Am I right? Alana? That's Glass now? Game?

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Speaker 2: It is correct?

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Speaker 1: Okay, correct? So you'd have Tyler Glass now you can start him, or you can use a Tani for an inning or two and then go to Glass. Now, as long as that he knew glassdow knew that that was the plan, I don't imagine it would be that disruptive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, we all know this better than anybody can. Is that it's Johnny Holstaff. The second the first guy gets into trouble, here comes everybody else trying to force the issue. All right, justin Antonucci fifty one to eighty. Here's the question, would it surprise you can if a playoff caliber team like the Padres or the Braves in this case, I guess to hire Albert Poolhols, who has no real managerial experience. It doesn't seem like you need didn't have any experience to get these jobs.

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Speaker 1: That's right, And you go back to Aaron Boone. When Aaron Boone was hired, actually I was critical of the move because he had no managerial or coaching experience at any level. He had just been on ESPN and come off the field. And yet it worked out pretty well for Aaron Boone. Regardless of what you think of him lately, overall, the record is good. He certainly has proven he can handle the job. He's not incompetent, despite what some people might believe, so it would be somewhat surprising. But we've seen teams do this now, and we've seen teams reach for less experienced people in that position. Stephen Vote is another great example. Stephen Vote was really pretty much coming off the field as well. Dave Ross the same. So these are not that exceptional to these kinds of decisions anymore.

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Speaker 2: Okay, five seven one four. Will Roberts pull Yamamoto early if he's struggling or just live and die can with him regardless due to the leaky bullpen? I mean, it's not an enviable decision.

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Speaker 1: Correct, it's not, And it's a great question, and certainly it is dependent on where they are in the game, where Yamamoto is, where they are in the lineup. I don't mean to evade the question, but we have to see how this plays out. And I think the real question that you're answering or you're asking here is will he stay with him an extra hitter or an extra inning to buy more time to try to cover more outs before he goes to the bullpen. That is going to be the flashpoint of this game, perhaps and it's going to be really interesting to see what Dave Roberts does. He'll have Sasaki for two innings at some point if he needs him, and he'll have others available as well. But that bullpen hasn't been great, let's face it, and I'm sure he would prefer Yamamoto to go as deep into this game as possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, complete game, great, it's three in the postseason. We'll take it. This is question next that's coming up.

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Speaker 3: Ken.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely love this is from a Cowboys in Choir seventy two fifty nine says, regardless of Toronto wins, how much does the World Series Championship appeal? Actually there's two different questions that are saying the same thing. How much does the World Series Championship enhance the Blue Jays appeal for mar que names in free agency? I love this question.

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Speaker 1: It is a good question, and it's interesting to me. The Blue Jays, yes, in recent years, have had trouble getting the big free agents, but there have been reasons for that. In each case, Otani and Yamamoto and Sasaki just wanted to play for the Dodgers. Soto wanted to play for the Yankees. It seemed at the time. I'm sorry the Mets at the time, and it wasn't necessarily a statement on the Blue Jays or on Toronto that those players chose to be elsewhere. If you go back to the nineties, when the Jays, of course won back to Backworld Series in ninety two or ninety three, Ronto was a destination for players. They liked playing in Toronto. They didn't mind going there and being in a different country or anything like that. Now there are challenges to playing in Toronto, there's no question about it. You do have the extra customs when you're traveling back and forth. But Kevin Gossman signed with the Blue Jays, George Springer signed with the Blue Jays, Jeff Hoffman signed with the Blue Jays. It's not like this place is considered undesirable. In fact, it's one of the great cities in the world. Every time i'm here, it amazes me. It's culturally diverse, it's got everything you would want, restaurants, it's clean, everything you want. It's almost like a better version of New York in some ways. So to me, it shouldn't be a problem for Toronto Blue Jays to attract free agents regardless in the circumstances that we've mentioned, it just seemed that they weren't the team of choice for those particular players.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. Toronto's a great city. I have been there several times. I love it every single time that I go. Coming up, we are gonna talk dude and Dork of the week. Ken and I both have our selection set. We'll be back right after this break.

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Speaker 1: Dude, Dude, dude.

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Speaker 2: All right, time for Dude of the Week, and Ken and I have both selected a Toronto Blue Jay. Ken, you have the honors.

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Speaker 1: Treya Savage and Treya Savage. What he did in Game five most strikeouts by a rookie pitcher in a World Series Game twelve, I don't know what more we can say about him. This guy started this season in the Florida State League in the need and jumped every level to get to the big leagues at twenty two he is unquestionably for me, the dude of the week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pitching in front of about three hundred and sixty seven people and then he's absolutely shoving in the world's congratulations to Trey Savage and his entire family because it's been fun to see the emotions and everything going on with the entire clan. Mine is Will Klein. I mean, to me, Will Klein Ken was kind of like the Brent Honeywell of last year for the Dodgers or the Nathan Valdi in twenty eighteen. And again, you know, lower has been pretty good in this in this series as well. But to me, Will kleinb coming out of the bullpen and pitching I want to say four shutout innings I believe if I'm remembering that correctly in relief has been such a fun thing to see for him. Perhaps nobody knew much about the guys, unless you, of course, are following the Blue Jays all the time. But huge, huge, gutsy performance, and he certainly deserves a lot of credit because relievers need love. To Ken Rosenthal, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's one thing, I know you're misspoke. Just he had a brain cramp he's with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: I mean's sorry, Well yeah, my bad will flyin. That's what I meant with Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: I apologize and don't jump on a lot anyone. We all make mistakes. I do it all.

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Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, Trey is savage with the Blue Jays, will climb with the Daughter's iypologiss all right. Time Now for the dork of the week. That is not me. All right, my faux pa, of course, but that is not I'm not going to pick myself this dork of the week, although I should ken Who is yours?

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Speaker 1: My dork of the week? Is anyone anyone thinking it would be a good idea to shut down the sport of baseball after the Collective Argaining Agreement expires December one, twenty twenty six. This sport is doing really well. The World Series is getting better ratings than I think a lot of people expected, considering that Canada does not count in the ratings. It's been a very electric World Series, really intriguing, so many big stars, so many good things happening. This sport is thriving. Can it be improved? Absolutely, it can be improved, and it can be improved as I've said many times before, without a salary cap, there are other things you can do to get a better collective bargaining agreement to make it somewhat more of a financially level playing field. So, anyone thinking of shutting down the sport, and I'm sure there are a few owners out there who are thinking of shutting down the sport. Dork of the week, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: One way to improve the sport without a salary cap is to read the room. My dork of the week is Major League Baseball for deciding it was a good idea to have the Jonas Brothers perform a concert in the middle of a World Series game. If I'm the starting pitchers in either one of those games, I'm thinking, what the heck is happening. I am all for the Stand Up for Cancer movement. That's a very incredible movement, and it's been a part of Major League Baseball in the World Series for a number of years, and that part I love. But then to switch over to a concert in a time and a game ken that is not a natural break. It was almost as if Major League Baseball was trying to have a halftime show in a World Series game. That's not the appropriate time, that's not the appropriate field. Had nothing to do with Toronto, it had nothing to do with Fox. This was Major League Baseball's decision of doing this, and it was just not the right move in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: Well, I will say this, I don't know where that idea came from, but there are times I feel where MLB is like the dorky kid at school trying to be cool and not saying that the sports shouldn't try to be cooler. We've talked about this and promoting players and all that, but this was a reach and a lot of people didn't like it. A lot of people don't like a lot of things. That's the way of the world right now, but this to me was a stretch. As you said, Alana, yeah, just.

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Speaker 2: Read the room, have a little bit of feel all right. If you are watching on television, Thank you guys so much for joining us. We will see you next time we have a couple more minutes with our YouTube family. Right after this, Ken, you and I were talking about how awesome a city like Toronto is and it has been one of my favorite places to go for a number of years. What's the scene been like there, Because this is a country I mean, I know Toronto's a city, but the country of cam a city of Toronto. This is a fan base that is hungry. They so desperately would love to have a World championship in their corner. What's it been like for you.

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Speaker 1: It's been really cool to see people so excited and there are a ton of people wearing Blue Jays gear out and about. Of course, you saw the watch parties at Rogers Center for the games in Los Angeles. They had thirty thousand people for Game five and apparently it was an electric environment in there. Is talking with some of the security guards in the ballpark yesterday and they were saying it was incredible the scene. So yes, it has been on it just as you said, a really cool atmosphere, a really great thing to see a city that has not had a World Series in thirty two years come alive like this. They love their Blue Jays, hear, just like fans in all cities love their teams. And it has been a lot of fun to be here during the Blue Jays run. We've been my team at Fox on them for all three of the see all three of them series, so it's been very cool.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's been it's been great to see all of the fans obviously enjoying it, but the broadcasters and you know, Dan Shulman and Buck Martinez and Hazel May and so many others. Of course, I'm not trying to single anybody out, but just the enthusiasm, and it's been it's been a ton of fun to see. What are you looking forward to tonight? Ken, in terms of what do you need to see? Game six obviously on the brink for the Blue Jays and the Dodgers trying to force the issue.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's a very simple storyline. Can Yamamoto do it again? And if he does it again, then we have a really interesting scenario because then the question becomes can the Dodgers get to Gossman? And they did somewhat in the previous game. Of course, he pitched great and then he gave up a little bit in the seventh inning, So that to me is what this is about.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, we look forward to it. We want to thank you guys certainly for being with us here on Fair Territory all new episodes. Of course, before I let you go, though, do you expect Springer to start?

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Speaker 3: Ken?

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Speaker 2: You've had these conversations with John Schneider. Obviously he's always been available off the bench, but is he going to be in a starting lineup?

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Speaker 1: I will say this Initially, when Schneider said that to me, I can't remember which game was, Game four, I believe when I asked him in game when he was very positive about Springer's outlook, I was skeptical, and I remained somewhat skeptical. But they have continued to say that he is available and that he could have started the last game, So I sort of do expect him to start to I based on their comments, I don't know that they're bluffing. In fact, I asked someone with the Blue Jays at one point, Hey, is this decoy stuff or what tell me the truth? And they said, no, he is available, so we shall see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's interesting too because the last couple of games they haven't needed them in that big situation, because there's been enough of a cushion, certainly in Game five, that he was not needed in that situation. All right, So anyway, fair Territory is done. We will be back next week. Of course. Today's Foul Territory Todd Frazer, Eric krat Scott Broun has Kevin Pillar, Tim Kerchin and Patie Wou and don't forget guys. Both Foul Territory and Dodgers Territory will have live posting shows right after the game. Will be next time