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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, look who's back, Dodger manager Dave Roberts. Another World Series title. Didn't need to make a proclamation in spring training, didn't have to do any of that stuff. Just an easy seven games and there you are winning again. I guess can you compare the back to back the different feelings that you had.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad your ho hum about it. It was very difficult. Winning a championship is very difficult. Winning two is even tougher. No, I mean, there's nothing like Game seven, and a lot of things had happened. Guys stepped up, and I'm just proud of the guys. There's a lot of pressure points in that series, in the postseason and certainly in the World Series. But it certainly wasn't easy, and yeah, we've done something that hadn't been done in twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: You look at pressure, and we could see pressure. It was tangible when you're watching Game seven. But the pressure too, You're supposed to win, expected to win by you know, the media, of the you know, fans. It feels like the difference in being an underdog in winning, like when you won with the Red Sox as a player to winning when you're the favorite, the different kind of pressures are feeling that you.

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Speaker 4: Have with that, Yeah, you know, I guess, you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I guess The thing about sports is, yeah, everyone's got opinions, but you know, the David and Goliath narrative, fans, media put things together that just aren't true, and to be quite honest, people that have never been in the ring. And the Blue Jays were a very good team. They won the at least they won more baseball games than we did. But we're Goliath, and so it was a great series and we were trying to win the series. They were trying to win World Series. I don't think he was pressure. I think that what happens is as athletes, as teams, you have expectations and goals for yourself.

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Speaker 4: And.

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Speaker 3: You know, you don't want more for yourself than I think than fans.

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Speaker 4: Do.

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Speaker 3: You want to win, you expect to win. So I don't think that our pressure or pressure from the fans or media had any bearing on the game. We were trying to win for each other in the city of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Give me the move that maybe you were going to second guess yourself in Game seven and you didn't.

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Speaker 3: Probably, Well, the easiest one is hitting for Miguel Ross. He's a defensive guy. I inserted him in game six to add some infusion and energy into our club.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, that's that's probably the one.

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Speaker 3: But you know, looking at the bench, it's tough to pinch hit and anyone can say and you were probably second guessing me saying you should hit for him, and because the numbers say that, there's other guys that can hit home runs in this but it's hard to come off the bench. And I trusted my players, and you know, he made me look good and he deserved that moment. And in the postseason, what I have learned Dan is you know, it's not about the numbers. You got to trust your players. And my job is to know the players. That's my job, ultimately, that's my job. It's not to know statistics. It's about to know the heartbeat of the player. And I do believe that you know, to win eleven or this year thirteen games in October, you've got to trust your players, to know your players, and that's what we did.

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Speaker 2: But so you're saying gut feeling still has a place in the game. It feels like we're so attached to analytics. How much of what you did in Game seven was gut as opposed to analytics.

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Speaker 4: It's all got.

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Speaker 3: I think that if you look back at twenty twenty four in the postseason, it's the eye test, it's gut. But people, if you look at twenty twenty, it's eye tests, it's got. People can't get off the analytics for some reason. So these are people that are just just stuck in their ways and you're never going to change them.

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Speaker 4: But if people that really want.

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Speaker 3: To, that really watched the game and know the game, then they can see that analytics had nothing. It's about, you know, coaches trusting their players and players stepping up in big moments.

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Speaker 2: When you saw the collision in left center with Pios and ky K.

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Speaker 3: What I was a bird's r answer, and I was unbelievable. You know, they both went after it. Kek was trying to make his Willie Mays play. Pahes was just inserted and just made a next level, big moment play. And it's funny because uh key K laid down there for dead and Pies asked me if he was okay.

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Speaker 4: He says, forget that do you have the ball?

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Speaker 3: And he said, yes, I do have the ball, and he goes, He got up and ran into the dugout. So it was it was but again, and it's like Miguel Ross coming out of Game seven because he just expended all energy. It's like, that's just what fans live for, and that's what our players gave.

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Speaker 4: Both teams.

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Speaker 2: The play at the plate. How close that was? Are you ready then to ask for replay?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: That was like I was asking for replay right from the get go. Or if they would have called it, say for sure? And I was with Will Smith last night and he goes, I honestly did not realize that I took my foot off the plate to then have the wherewithal to put it down. And that's the thing, is that but even the play for me to take it, to lose momentum and then to regain to make a good throw for Will to field it get his foot back down. I mean, oh my god, it's a heartache series.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking to Dave Roberts, Dodger manager Yamamoto reminded me of Pedro. Remind me of Pedro Martinez? Are they similar build, similar size and get a very.

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Speaker 5: Similar build, very similar size.

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously Pedro, you know, sort of a similar mix if you say the split is Pedro's change up.

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Speaker 5: And just same mindset.

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Speaker 3: You know, Pedro on game days, I've never seen he's an assassin and Yamamoto is an assassin. What he did is stuff like Pedro asked Sandy Kofasque asked, obviously.

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Speaker 4: What mad bummed in I did.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know if it was twenty twelve or twenty fourteen, one of those Giants years, but yeah, I mean, this is the guy that, yeah, not physical, but his mind Dan is just pretty spectacular.

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Speaker 2: But if you would have said, hey, beginning of the series, a Japanese born player is going to win MVP.

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Speaker 4: Jo Hey all day, yeah, all day.

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Speaker 2: But what did you learn about him in this world series or in the playoffs that maybe you didn't know?

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Speaker 3: Yeah okay, okay, yeah, not the World there is the playoffs. So I actually I knew that he's a killer. I knew it this guy, and he showed that, you know this year. Having just a tremendous years being a stop per force, pitching huge and big games, going complete game doing what he did in Milwaukee was incredible, complete games, one run. I think the first yeah, gives up a solo homer, a leadoff homer, then goes nine innings shut after that, then the next game, complete game, and then in Game three, eighteen innings, I think he was like thirteenth inning.

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Speaker 4: He's like, I'm ready to go down there.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to let a position player pitch in the game in a World Series game, and this is a one day off.

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Speaker 5: And so that showed me a lot. Freddy walks it off.

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Speaker 3: And then so yesterday or Game seven obviously was no surprise, but to go three innings was incredible.

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Speaker 2: But Otani and your you say him throughout the season ramping him up. Was he coming in in game seven or we started getting yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, no, because he started Game seven okay, and then so once he was done, he gave us three innings, and then I was like, you know what, I think he just wasn't a sharp Get him off the pitching, lock in on the hitting, and then we had some rms behind him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I thought the way you ramped him up the entire season was interesting. You know, when you have that kind of talent, but you know he's got two innings or he's got three. Like you, you got to be careful that you don't get greedy in a situation.

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Speaker 4: I guess like you do.

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Speaker 5: And it was it's hard not to be greedy.

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Speaker 3: But we went one inning, we remain steadfast one and he won in two innings, two innings, three innings. And then you know at the end that was the first time because all year he had seven, eight, nine, ten days of rest. So game seven was the first time he ever went on three days rest. So that's why you know, this guy's coming off to Tommy Johns. He is, he's our team MVP, and so he's two players and one so we couldn't get greed with him. So three days. It wasn't terribly sharp. He gave us three nings. That was that was plenty.

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Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw is joining us tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Nice.

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Speaker 2: What should I bring up to him?

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I think was going in Game seven?

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Speaker 3: He was it was either going to be the next hitter or certainly if they tied it up, if Kirk tied it up, right there, Kirk Clayton was going to take the next hitting.

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Speaker 2: How nervous were you when he was on the mound when he got that.

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Speaker 3: I was nervous in that game Game three, Game three, I bring him in in a basis loaded situation, and it goes back to again, it goes back to trust your players. Clayton and I have been through so much in my ten years with him, eighteen years obviously in his career, and we've had some loads, certainly together, and then we had some highs. But again, I'm gonna if it's going to go down, I'm gonna I'm gonna bet on playing Kershaw and I've proved that time.

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Speaker 4: And time again.

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Speaker 2: How was the celebration?

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Speaker 5: Oh so last year was insane.

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Speaker 3: We didn't get it in twenty twenty so sort of kind of butted up together in twenty four. But last yesterday's parade or two days agost parade was It was the best.

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Speaker 4: The bet they did.

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Speaker 3: They went up themselves, more people, a longer parade route.

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Speaker 4: Players were just overjoyed. It was fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Damn, you're getting used to this.

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Speaker 3: I would say it's it's I enjoy it. I wouldn't say get used to it. We already talked about the players already talked about a three pt I talked about a three peat. So I'm not making any guarantees, but I already cleared it with pat Riley on the three p Term, so we're excited.

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Speaker 5: I just think with us, you got to find some carrot.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's like we started out in South Korean twenty four, finished in the Bronx, started out in Tokyo, finish in Canada, and so we've had the longest season, the shortest offseason of anyone, travel the most mile. So you've got to have some carrot to keep our guys focused and motivated.

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Speaker 4: So the three Peter is it for us?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean you should. You want to win, you expect to win.

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Speaker 5: That's right, That's absolutely right.

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Speaker 2: Congrats, congrat Thank you, Dan, I appreciate you man. All right, enjoy your offseason, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, take care and tell Clayton I said hello tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Alrighty, that's Dave Roberts did it again.

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Speaker 2: Are we gonna play the JJ Watten game before we bring on JJ Watt Pauline.

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Speaker 6: We have to play it and have him give the answer.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, are you ready?

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Speaker 6: You tick markin?

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay.

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Speaker 6: The game is total number of surgeries during during JJ Watt's football career. Total number. I know the answer, so I can't give it out. But Dan, you're gonna go last, Fritzy. I'm gonna go with my favorite number of eleven Marvin eighteen, Seaton fifteen, Dan nine procedures count. So it's total number of surgeries and procedures.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh okay, say hold on now, I feel like we just add. You were saying surgery top surgeries and proceed tough.

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Speaker 4: Guys don't have procedures.

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Speaker 2: That's illegal procedure on your part right there?

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Speaker 4: Bringing the guests, all right, let's bring in.

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Speaker 2: JJ want how many surgeries and procedures did you have while you were playing?

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Speaker 8: I got a few questions before I even answer that. How does Paulie know the answer? Because I don't have the answer. That's what I do here.

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Speaker 4: I don't have the You can't.

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Speaker 8: Possibly have the answer because I mean there's a few reasons why you can't. But I it's it's significant. What number do you have, Paulie?

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Speaker 3: I have?

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Speaker 6: I have nine without breaking.

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Speaker 4: Any hip along way more than that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, did you hide some procedures in surgeries? Is that what you're saying?

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Speaker 8: No, not hidden, but like there'd be a scope in the off season that's not reported anywhere that nobody ever knows about, you know, like that just because it's in the middle of the off season.

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Speaker 4: What would you guess?

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Speaker 8: I mean, if you're talking like depends on what you consider a procedure, like obviously, like I don't think like PRP shots and things like that are no siegures. But I mean actually going into my body, it's it's it's definitely double digits, maybe like fifteen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's it's brutal.

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Speaker 8: I mean I have a picture on my phone still of when I broke my leg and they opened it up. And I don't know why they showed me that picture. I don't know why they sent it to me. But you can when you can look inside and see your own bone and see all the vessels and everything and your muscles, it's it'll make it squirmish, damn.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but you kept it. It's on your phone, so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a bad ass.

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Speaker 2: You can you hold it up and show us.

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Speaker 8: I literally don't know if it would be allowed on television. It's it's a gaping hole about that big because they take it and they put calipers on it, and they spread your leg apart, and then they have to get down to the bone. And so my bone was in like it was shattered, so it was just dozens of pieces. So they stick this huge metal plate up again instant and put nine screws in there, and still in there today.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering your Hall of Fame bust. Can we do the one where you've got blood coming down your mind?

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Speaker 4: I hope so that'll be cool.

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Speaker 2: Now, do you have any control, any say in when you go in what your bust looks like?

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Speaker 8: I have no idea, I have no idea how any of that works. I'm not even. I'm not even. I don't know how that works.

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Speaker 2: I think Peyton Manning had forehead approval, like you.

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Speaker 8: Know, yeah, like you get to I assume you got to be able to pick your picture, right, you can't. I don't think you can have accessories, and I feel like blood would be an accessory.

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Speaker 2: All right, we have a poll question, whose career would you want? Yours or Clayton Kershaw's. He joins his late one championships warn championships.

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Speaker 4: I go with Clayton.

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Speaker 2: You would go with Clayton. Yeah, okay, let's take three right, Oh yeah, let's take away titles.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, then what what are you comparing? Because he did it.

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Speaker 8: For a really long time at a really really high level, so you would probably say doing it longer is better. Baseball is a very long season, one hundred and sixty two games. You're on the road away from family.

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Speaker 4: A lot. Part of the reason I retired was to be by family.

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Speaker 8: So he's probably made I mean baseball, he's probably made a quarter of a billion, at.

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Speaker 2: Least, he's made three twenty oh yeah, nice, But he.

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Speaker 8: Probably hasn't had double digit surgeries either, So that's a plus.

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Speaker 2: I opened the show talking about this Kyler Murray situation because I'm I'm baffled by this that it doesn't feel like he's your franchise quarterback too much longer there in Arizona. Now he's on the IR. Let me just start with that question. How much does the player have to say or input of going on the IR not going on an IR?

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Speaker 8: I mean it, I would say they have some say because it IR is like ken you play or not. I mean there's you know, there's situations early in the year in training camp for you stash guys and things like that.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, especially in today's.

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Speaker 8: World where you can come back off the IR after four weeks, it's it's there's a part of that conversation is are you going to be good in four weeks or not? Or are you going to be good in less than four weeks?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 2: What what do you think is going on with the Cardinals and contamory?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I mean just literally looking at it from an outside.

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Speaker 8: First of all, I couldn't watch the game on Monday night, so I don't know what that game looked like, but it sounds like Jakobe played pretty well.

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Speaker 4: But it's I.

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Speaker 8: Mean, it seems like from what I've seen, what I've read that they are comfortable with with Percte playing quarterback and operating offense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you got to back up making forty five million dollars and it does. Yeah, but that's awkward too. I mean there's a lot of awkward stuff in the NFL. There's a whole lot of off stuff in the NFL.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think that they're also probably a coaching staff who feels some pressure, like at some point, you got to win football games. It can't be purely potential for a coaching staff before you're the one on the way out. So it becomes how do we win football games right now? And what do I think as my job on the line. You know how it is, and it's a cover of your ass society in this business, and you have to find a way to win football games or you're going to be out the door and whatever that takes. I mean, there's situations all over the league where coaches are trying to do whatever's and gms are trying to do whatever's best to keep them in that seat.

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Speaker 2: The longest we're talking to JJ Watt he'll be on the booth the Jags and Texans. That's at one Eastern on CBS. You were there for the Colts and the Steelers. What stood out with the Colts that would make you still believe that they are going to be there at the end of the season.

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Speaker 8: I mean, they fought back all the way to the end and that non side kick to which we all know is not a real chance, but they fought back all the way to the end, and even with six takeaways, they were within the potential of one score at the end of the game. So that fight and drive was there. It's their first crew punch in the mouth, and it didn't go well. I mean, six takeaways and everything that came along with a muff a punt and they just ran into a.

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Speaker 4: Bit of a buzz saw on that day.

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Speaker 8: And I watched their offense and the thing I see with their offense is when they are on schedule and when they are doing what they do best, which is first down success leading to a very efficient drive, they're unbelievable and so hard to stop. That game starts to put just the slightest question in you of Okay, if they aren't on schedule, which for most teams is difficult and they have to drop back and teams kind of just are going one dimensional at them. Can they do that? And that's what we'll have to see going forward. If another team has a chance it's to punch him in the mouth and gout that run game down the way the Steelers did. Can they pass their way out of it?

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Speaker 2: How's it been broadcasting a game in which your brother's playing in Oh, it's been.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, it's not nearly as bad as I think.

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Speaker 8: People think it would be. It's it's a job. Like it's a job. You're up there, and I know how to be professional. I know how to do my job. I'll talk to him before the game. I talked to him after the game, but during the game, like Iron handles the play by play anyway, so I have like a three or four second buffer when he makes a strip sack fumble where Ian is doing his job really well, and then I break down the play and from the fan reaction, I'm very appreciative of all the opposing fans who have been so kind because I have consciously tried to keep it extremely unbiased.

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Speaker 2: The difference, and I think I know the answer but going out to a game as opposed to be in studio.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean for me personally, like I missed the guys in the studio, But I love being in the stadium. I love the adrenaline, I love the atmosphere. I love the unpredictability of your following the game as it happens, so you need to be on your toes. It's much more kind of challenging for me. And it also during the week is much more like being a player. You're watching more film, deeper, talking to coordinators.

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Speaker 4: I really like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I told Drew Brees because he was going to be in studio with Football Night America, and I said, you got to be ready for it because there's no energy there when you go to a game. There's energy, like it's tangible when you're like I feel this, Like that's as close as you'll get to playing again. And now I just saw where Drew is going to be an analyst being out on the road with Fox. But that energy, that's as close as you can replicate it to actually playing in a game.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And like you said, like for for athletes who have been in it before, it tricks you into getting back into that mindset where you can get as close to that flow state as possible, where you're just letting your instincts and everything take over, whereas kind of like you said in the studio, you have to manufacture it for yourself a little bit more to get it going.

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Speaker 2: Best team you've seen this year is who.

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Speaker 8: When the Colts offense is humming the Colts offense for sure, team as a whole, the Rams is very good. We saw the Rams early on. The Rams are very good. And again this is just teams that I've called this year. We haven't called in the others, but that Colts offense. Man, we watch them against the Chargers and it was play at will, like Tyler Warren running wide open, Jonathan Taylor running down, they got Alec Pierce going like That offense when it is at its best is unstoppable.

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Speaker 2: You know, some people looked at the Jets and said they did great at the trade deadline. What do you think when you unload a couple of star players.

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Speaker 8: I think they got a good haul for what they gave away.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the question of what are they going to do with that? And what gives you confidence in that?

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Speaker 8: Because you gave away young players that you drafted with a very similar haul.

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Speaker 4: That you just got.

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Speaker 8: So you know, I love seeing the graphic that people just put out where like the last time they had those three first round picks it was you know Breecee Hall. I think saw it like and you're like, okay, so you're giving away young talented players to hopefully find more young talented players. Yeah, I just don't know where the what the plan is there, and where the confidence should come in finding that success.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what would make me nervous is when you know, fans will say we got all these draft picks and I say, well, who's drafting? Because that's really the key, and your goal is to find players like Sauce Gardner and Quinn Williams.

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Speaker 8: Is't this That's That's my thing, is like we can have you got all the draft picks in the world, a Sauce Gardener and a Quinn Williams. Those are hard to hit and you had two of them in your building and now you're going to have to go out and replicate it. But it goes very back to our conversation from earlier. A GM can come in and say those weren't my guys. Now, you've got to give me time to get my guys. Give me these draft picks and you start. Now, maybe they do it, maybe it's maybe it works incredibly well, but it's extremely hard to hit in the draft.

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Speaker 2: Is there a quarterback you didn't get that you've seen when you've gone to a game?

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Speaker 4: What do you mean sacked? Oh? Pat?

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Speaker 8: I've never I never sacked Pat Malmes, So yeah, does he remind you of that?

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Speaker 4: I saw him last summer and we talked about a little bit.

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Speaker 8: But now he's good Man, he's good Tom. Tom likes to say that I never got him. We've had this conversation one hundred times. But I got him in the playoffs. It just doesn't counts as an official sack.

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Speaker 2: What about Rogers?

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Speaker 4: I got Rogers twice in one game.

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Speaker 8: I did the belt celebration after the first one, and he threw six touchdowns over my head.

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Speaker 4: So that was a mistake.

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Speaker 2: Who talked the most out of Mahomes, Brady and Aaron Rodgers?

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Speaker 4: Not a ton of talking, Not a ton of talking.

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Speaker 8: Rogers a little bit, Brady, if you got him fired up like you could get you get him fired up.

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Speaker 4: Pat. Pat wasn't didn't talk a whole lot. Now Andrew Luck talked a.

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Speaker 8: Lot, but that was just nice, like we would just have full blown conversations, just literal.

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Speaker 2: Like did it did it still? Did it sound like this?

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Speaker 6: Oh, you're a great defensive end, high motor, what.

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Speaker 4: Ahead, key man?

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Speaker 2: Well, he had a defensive mentality to playing offense.

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Speaker 4: It felt like he was the best man.

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Speaker 8: I love playing Andrew like literally had the most respect for him. Hit him probably harder than I've hit anybody else besides Ryan Fitzpatrick, and every time he popped back up.

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Speaker 2: What happened to Ryan Fitzpatrick.

00:26:02
Speaker 8: I had a game where I had I got fifteen quarterback hits, zero sacks, and I was just laying the hammer time after time after time, and they were on a two minute drive at the end of the game and I'm swear I hit him four times in a row, four knockdowns. Every time I was like, that's it, he's not getting back up, and every time he popped back up. So we have actually were teammates after that, and I shared those stories and I don't know what it is, but that man, he's got a little he's got some juice to his game.

00:26:33
Speaker 4: I love it. I love fits well.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: I remember Michael Strahan was telling me he had so much respect for Tom Brady when they hit him in that super Bowl, like they they were, they dominated that super Bowl, that defensive one. He said, we hit him, We hit him every time. He said he never complained. He complained about his offensive line, but he never said you would just say, good hit and get back up. But that is that more frustrating If a quarterback goes he good hit, pops back.

00:27:00
Speaker 8: Up, it's no because I don't want him to be hurt, like that's like a communisconception. But it's more frustrating to me when he looks at the ref for a flag, because that does work, like the ref will eventually throw that flag.

00:27:15
Speaker 4: So I don't want like I can't stand it when they just I'd love it.

00:27:20
Speaker 8: I would respect a quarterback when he just pops up and he appreciates that this is a violent game.

00:27:25
Speaker 2: Okay, but do you say like stump.

00:27:27
Speaker 4: Being a wolves.

00:27:30
Speaker 8: Nah, you gotta be a real punk to get me to say something like that.

00:27:33
Speaker 4: Like there's there's some young kids there. There are a couple of young kids.

00:27:36
Speaker 8: Who later in my career, I'd hit him and they would whine, and I'd be like, you don't have the right.

00:27:41
Speaker 4: To whine here, man.

00:27:45
Speaker 8: How's your soccer team? We're doing good, man, we're doing good. Espaniel's doing really well. We're in six in La Liga and Burnley's currently out of the relegation zone in the Premier League.

00:27:54
Speaker 4: Big match coming up this weekend, so a lot of fun.

00:27:57
Speaker 2: Is your son going to play football or soccer?

00:28:01
Speaker 8: We're definitely gonna have him in soccer to start, because of the ball skills and the agility. But I mean, let's be honest here, Dan, he's in a ninety nine percentile for height and weight.

00:28:09
Speaker 4: He's uh, he's not gonna have the.

00:28:11
Speaker 8: Endurance to be out there running around for ninety minutes on a pitch.

00:28:14
Speaker 4: He's a big boy.

00:28:16
Speaker 2: Is he bench is he bench pressing?

00:28:19
Speaker 8: He does wheelbarrow walks right now, so he's big on the wheelbarrow walks.

00:28:23
Speaker 2: So yeah, old old school.

00:28:27
Speaker 4: I like it.

00:28:29
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you, Safe travels, and uh, thanks for joining us.

00:28:34
Speaker 4: Thank you guys. Have a great day, miss y'all.

00:28:36
Speaker 2: That's a JJ. He's got the uh Jags and the Texans coming up. One of his old teams there had the Colts and the Steelers and uh Burnley. Burnley is out a relegation Seaton, I think so. Yeah. That was an Espanol hat that he was wearing too, So he's he's got a little foot in Spain foot in England.

00:28:57
Speaker 4: It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

00:28:59
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00:29:10
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw, the recently retired three time Cy Young winner and future Hall of Famer. We spoke to him yesterday and the first question I asked was, how's retirement.

00:29:23
Speaker 4: Day one? Pretty good? Yeah, so far, so good.

00:29:27
Speaker 2: You know what's gonna happen though, You know how your body adapts to certain times of the year. Oh yeah, you know, come February, you're gonna be bringing the kids outside, You're gonna get loose, You're in a long tossing and all of that. So get ready for that because you're gonna face that. Plus everybody's gonna be out of the house and you're gonna be like, what am I doing?

00:29:48
Speaker 9: Yeah, everybody says there are a lot of guys that I talked to you said, Opening day is the day where you're like, man, I'm not there. You know, it's a weird. So I Opening Day is gonna be a weird one. But to be fair, I haven't been in spring training in a couple of years. I've kind of planned some surgeries pretty well, kind of missed spring training, So that'll be that won't be too new for me.

00:30:09
Speaker 2: What was this World Series like as opposed to the other ones.

00:30:14
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean last year was really cool because we got the parade, you know, I think you know, after the COVID World Series not getting to do the parade or anything, and then getting to do that last year.

00:30:24
Speaker 4: It was kind of a celebration of almost two.

00:30:26
Speaker 9: World series, you know, and so that that was awesome. But for me personally to be a part of this one more than I was last year and to get to see you know, just to feel feel a little bit more a part of it, and then the parade this year was insane. It was it was so much bigger, so much longer, so many people, and that's just really special. You know, your last one to get to kind of celebrate with the fans and you know, tell them thank you, tell them how much they you know, supported us and our team and me personally for so long.

00:30:59
Speaker 4: And it was just so fun. Man, it was so cool.

00:31:03
Speaker 2: The importance of having your kids at an age where they can appreciate seeing dad out there.

00:31:08
Speaker 4: How important was that to you? Yeah, I'm thankful for that. You know. My oldest three, I think will definitely.

00:31:13
Speaker 9: I don't know, do you remember stuff when you're five? I think you do. Yeah, my my it's close. But at least my.

00:31:21
Speaker 4: Oldest too, I think, had a blast.

00:31:24
Speaker 9: You know, my oldest son, Charlie got to be in the dugout a lot this year, got to be in the you know, shag BP do all the stuff, and so he was super invested in.

00:31:32
Speaker 4: It this year.

00:31:33
Speaker 9: And I'm thankful they'll remember me that I had a job at some point.

00:31:38
Speaker 4: You know, it'll be good. It was just it was so fun and memorable.

00:31:42
Speaker 9: And I mean my wife rock stars, she's pregnant right now and traveling from Toronto to Dallas and school back to LA to Toronto, I.

00:31:51
Speaker 4: Mean, just doing it all.

00:31:52
Speaker 9: So it was it's good to be home and good to get to celebrate with the fans.

00:31:57
Speaker 2: Have you seen the video of your wife and this stands when you're on the mound. Oh my god.

00:32:03
Speaker 4: She's not a reliever wife, Dan, She's a starter wife.

00:32:07
Speaker 9: That's just that's just too much stress to not know when you're coming in and to get to do all that.

00:32:12
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think she was. She was feeling it, uh to say the least.

00:32:17
Speaker 2: Okay, but are you nervous in that moment?

00:32:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean for sure. I think I think we all are.

00:32:24
Speaker 2: I don't know if you allow yourself to get like you have to play a mind game that I got to be confident. I can't have any doubt or be nervous.

00:32:33
Speaker 4: I think you have.

00:32:33
Speaker 9: Both, though I think it's not doubt, like you you're confident you can do your job. But you know, warming up in the pen, hearing that phone ring kind of all new stuff for me.

00:32:43
Speaker 4: It's like that phone rings it's like an adrenaline pump, you know, And so you know, all that running in, trying.

00:32:51
Speaker 9: To feel your legs and trying to execute pitches and all that. You know, at the end of the day, I'm just so glad I got that out because that was the last time I ever pitched, and.

00:33:01
Speaker 4: You know, it could have gone sideways. So I'm just glad.

00:33:04
Speaker 9: I'm just glad I got that last out and I thought it was going to be a bigger out, but we ended up playing like seven more innings.

00:33:09
Speaker 4: You know, so I think, uh, it's just it.

00:33:13
Speaker 9: Was a crazy game. And like I said last time, a Dodger stated and fish it was awesome.

00:33:18
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said that you were probably coming in in game seven.

00:33:23
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, so I had no idea there was one out.

00:33:28
Speaker 9: So when Kirk grounded into that double play, I thought I was coming in the game like tie game, Uh, extra innings. I'm pitching with two outs, and I left you up to bat, and then Bardo, our bullpen coach, just said, hey, we just want to you know.

00:33:45
Speaker 4: I had no idea, no idea. That was amazing though.

00:33:49
Speaker 2: So it's a delayed reaction.

00:33:52
Speaker 9: Yeah, I just I didn't believe in my first and then yeah, I turned around, saw everybody out there and ran out.

00:33:59
Speaker 4: There and got to celebrate again. Man, just amazing.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: Talking to the Dodgers Clayton Kershaw no former Dodger Clayton Kershaw, yeah, or Dodger unemployed. What are you going to do the rest of your life?

00:34:11
Speaker 9: I don't know, man, you know, I've got a lot of kids, so obviously I'll do that for a while. And I love baseball.

00:34:16
Speaker 4: I do. I love baseball. I have a passion for it.

00:34:20
Speaker 9: I feel like I can help in some regard, in some way, but I have no idea what that looks like. I obviously don't, you know, feel the need or want to travel too much right now. So you know, there's some cush gigs out there, you know, some special assistant jobs and different things like that that if the Dodgers are gracious enough to let me do that at some point, I think I'd definitely be interested in that. But you know, we have a baby coming in December, and everybody says I have to figure out how to play golf, so maybe I'll try that.

00:34:49
Speaker 4: I don't know. I really don't have any idea. It's kind of nice, though, the no plan plan.

00:34:55
Speaker 2: It's kind of be weird though. You're watching the ninth inning from the bullpen. Yeah, yeah, so you don't even have comfort, you don't have company. It's just you and the bullpen catcher. I'm guessing. Yeah.

00:35:08
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, there's a few guys, a few of us left down there. But hey, what an amazing what Yama did. I mean, that was I don't think. I don't know if you'll ever see that again in baseball. It's like a guy that pitched Game six, come in and not just get one or two outs, but go too and I think it was two and two thirds or something. So it's just just incredible, superhuman.

00:35:32
Speaker 4: Stuff from Yama.

00:35:33
Speaker 9: And there's a lot of guys that went out of their comfort zone for us to win this World Series. And I think that's what makes the Dodgers so special.

00:35:40
Speaker 7: Man.

00:35:40
Speaker 4: A lot of superstars.

00:35:41
Speaker 9: Obviously, but a lot of guys willing to go above and beyond to help us, which.

00:35:45
Speaker 4: Is really cool.

00:35:46
Speaker 2: Yamamoto, I said this to your manager, former manager. He reminded me of Payedro Martinez, similar size and just feels like he can throw every single day.

00:35:57
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I cannot believe what he did and how I mean, I don't know how he felt the next day for him to do that. Man, just like and he's you know, he's been on the Japanese schedule, you know, coming over from Japan, and then even this year, you know, Doc protected him a lot, you know, basically pitching on a weak rest for six days.

00:36:16
Speaker 4: The whole time.

00:36:17
Speaker 9: So for him with no days to go out there and do it, I'm thankful for Y'ama.

00:36:23
Speaker 4: He got me one more World Series. So thank you Yama. It was amazing.

00:36:27
Speaker 2: Did you ever pitch to Otani? Yeah with the Angels.

00:36:32
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:36:33
Speaker 9: Check the numbers. Damn check the numbers. I never gave up a hit to show me, and I will have that for the rest of my life. I think he was like, oh for ten or eleven or something.

00:36:42
Speaker 4: Wow.

00:36:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you don't rub that in, do you.

00:36:46
Speaker 4: I haven't told him yet. I didn't know how he would take it.

00:36:49
Speaker 2: But I got the numbers. He's oer for eleven with four strikeouts.

00:36:54
Speaker 4: Yeah it feels good.

00:36:55
Speaker 2: He owned the greatest player in the history of the sport.

00:37:00
Speaker 4: Yeah it feels great. I'll take that all day.

00:37:03
Speaker 2: Did anybody ever ask you how to pitch him knowing your success?

00:37:07
Speaker 4: I mean guys asked me on our team.

00:37:09
Speaker 9: Obviously, I would never say anything to anybody else, but I think I just you can't throw middle speed pitches.

00:37:15
Speaker 4: And unfortunately now that's all I throw is middle speed. I don't know if that would have done very well.

00:37:19
Speaker 9: Now, man, those like the slider change up mid eighties upper eighties. I don't care how good it is. I don't feel confident throwing that stuff. So you got to throw really hard or throw soft.

00:37:31
Speaker 2: Like okay, But at what point do you know I can't do this. I can't fool people like I can't be Clayton Krushel anymore.

00:37:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I.

00:37:41
Speaker 9: Think over the course of this season, I really started to feel it more like I was able to pitch okay, you know, and had a decent season, which I'm super thankful for, and I was healthy for it. But you know, sometimes you look up there and I was throwing you know, eighty seven eighty eight mile an hour fastballs, and I felt healthyletely healthy, and you know, it just it just felt like it was the right time, Like this was not going to work for that much longer. And so in the day and age that we have now of velocity, like even ninety one ninety two is not potentially enough, like you can get away with it as a starter if you know what you're doing. But it just didn't really feel like I had I had enough in the tank to do it for.

00:38:24
Speaker 4: One more year.

00:38:25
Speaker 9: And you know, Ellen and I even going into the season where like, hey, this kind of feels like the last one.

00:38:30
Speaker 4: And so.

00:38:32
Speaker 9: You know this last month, knowing that it was over and getting to do this the way it was, just couldn't write a better script.

00:38:38
Speaker 4: Man, is unbelievable.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: If you were going to name your soon to be born baby after one of your teammates, former teammates, who would it be.

00:38:46
Speaker 9: Well, I'm having a girl, but if I was having a boy, I guess the question is who do I like the most man?

00:38:57
Speaker 4: Right now? Maybe Yoshinobu.

00:39:04
Speaker 2: Just Yoshi, right, yeah, yeah, you go Yoshi.

00:39:07
Speaker 4: I was a big Mario Kart fan growing up. You go, Yoshi.

00:39:10
Speaker 2: Hey, congratulations, And I still go back. I get people during COVID when you were in your office and you were showing how you grip. I mean you were our first zoom guest and when you showed us all of your pitches. I still have people saying how much they appreciated that and learned from that. And I always go back to that, because do you have a baseball by you here?

00:39:35
Speaker 4: Yeah? Give me fifteen seconds. Oh wait, nope, I got one, got it?

00:39:40
Speaker 2: Okay, give me the grip of your last pitch as a major leaguer.

00:39:44
Speaker 4: All right, I was a slider.

00:39:45
Speaker 9: I threw all sliders because basically my fastball on their slider are the same pitch.

00:39:49
Speaker 4: So I just.

00:39:51
Speaker 9: So I just kind of did this. It's like a four seing grip, but I just get the top. I think this is like a I think he opened beer cans with this.

00:40:00
Speaker 2: You might be using that a lot, Yeah, I might.

00:40:04
Speaker 9: And then I just kind of angle my fingers so it's it's literally like a fastball with a slight angle of the fingers and uh yeah, I threw that slider the most of any pitch for the last few years and saved my career.

00:40:19
Speaker 4: Got to stick around a little longer.

00:40:20
Speaker 2: Well, congrats, congrats with the baby coming up and in retirement. We appreciate your time, Clayton.

00:40:26
Speaker 4: Thanks man always full man. Appreciate it.

00:40:29
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw