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team out of the National League West

2:50

that actually made it to the world

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series, lest we forget that was not

2:54

the Los Angeles Dodgers. Uh,

2:56

let's go through the trivia question that

2:59

we had, uh, from the other day,

3:01

which was what franchise

3:05

has never won a home

3:09

world series game yet

3:12

has won a world series and

3:16

a couple of people got right. Brian

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Jones on Twitter or Instagram or whatever

3:20

we call Twitter these days at

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be Jones, uh, diggle

3:25

76. Uh,

3:28

he's in Baton Rouge and he

3:30

says, trivia answered the national slash

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expose franchise won

3:35

four road games in 2019

3:38

and had me puking through Christmas because

3:40

of you can see there. It's

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a big time. He's the Nastaros fan. Yes,

3:45

that's correct. The Expos as

3:47

a right up there later became

3:49

the Washington nationals have never won

3:51

a home world series

3:53

game. And yet they've won a

3:55

world series. I was very careful to phrase it

3:57

like that because I can't say. what

4:00

city has never had a

4:02

home World Series game won because

4:05

the Washington Senators won

4:07

games in the world's of three

4:09

pennants that they won in the

4:11

20s and 30s and there

4:14

are a couple of teams that have like

4:16

the the Rockies have never won a home World

4:18

Series game they never won a World Series game

4:20

and The Mariners

4:22

have never won a home World

4:24

Series game Do I they remain the only

4:27

team to have never won the pennant? Hey

4:29

speaking about winning the pennant Last

4:31

year the Arizona Diamondbacks won the

4:33

pennant Such a

4:36

strange event that yes, my

4:38

voice just cracked Yeah,

4:40

the the Arizona Diamondbacks last year

4:43

snuck into the postseason And I

4:45

know the many Diamondback fans

4:47

who listen this because Miller Thomas is on the show

4:49

a bunch Yeah, they did

4:51

sneak in they barely were ahead of

4:54

San Diego and Chicago but good for

4:56

them They faced Los Angeles who had

4:59

a terrific team and they

5:01

swept them They faced the Philadelphia Phillies

5:03

who beat a great Atlanta Braves team

5:06

and it looked like the Phillies were gonna just steamroll

5:09

over Arizona after the first two games and

5:11

I'm gonna lead in game three and Falling

5:14

behind three games to two heading back to Philly,

5:16

but the Diamondbacks won

5:20

Probably the best game of the postseason last

5:22

year, which was the game seven

5:24

against Philadelphia Diamondbacks

5:26

held on they went to the World Series They

5:29

lost to Texas that heartbreak for diamond

5:31

back fans heartbreaking game one after that

5:33

It was pretty much the Rangers took

5:36

control of the rest of the series I

5:38

know they Diamondbacks split the first two games,

5:40

but it was it was

5:42

a good solid showing for Texas,

5:44

but Arizona Won the

5:47

pennant a bit ahead of schedule. I

5:49

think some people thought they were gonna be better But

5:52

there we go. Well, they made

5:54

big news today Jordan

5:57

Montgomery the last of the

5:59

pitchers on the vine. Do

6:01

you know what they did? They signed

6:03

them. So all

6:06

the people who scream about baseball needs

6:08

a salary cap. Keep

6:10

in mind the idea of

6:12

that is it's to keep the big market teams

6:14

from signing all the players and winning all the

6:16

titles. Are you talking

6:18

about Arizona? Because Arizona is trying

6:21

to make it back-to-back trips to the

6:23

World Series. Arizona

6:25

had a hell of

6:27

an off-season. They had

6:29

a terrific off-season, capsulated

6:32

by this signing. Now

6:34

Jordan Montgomery was rumored to go to the

6:36

Yankees, rumored to go to the Mets, rumored

6:38

to go to Baltimore, rumored to go to

6:40

Chicago, rumored to go to Los Angeles, rumored

6:42

to go to the Mets, to the Red

6:44

Sox. Red Sox fans were salivating over that.

6:46

Maybe he's gonna go to the Atlanta Braves,

6:48

maybe he's gonna go back to Texas, maybe

6:50

he's gonna go to St. Louis, especially because

6:52

St. Lou has had a bunch of pitching

6:54

injuries. Sonny Graves has started the year

6:57

on the disabled list or Angel List, I'm sorry, is

6:59

what they're called now. The

7:01

Mets losing, you know, aren't

7:03

gonna have anybody

7:07

really there. The Rangers losing to

7:09

Grom and losing

7:11

Scherzer. The Astros losing

7:14

Verlander. The Yankees losing

7:16

Cole. All these

7:18

pictures falling down like flies.

7:22

And it's Arizona who picked him. And

7:25

with that, the Diamondbacks

7:28

have this fantastic off-season.

7:32

They, first of all, they already

7:34

have a good rotation.

7:37

They already have Zach Gallin. They already

7:39

have Meryl Kelly. We already saw what

7:41

Brennan Fott did in the post-season last

7:43

year. They had already acquired

7:46

Eduardo Rodriguez. And

7:48

now you include Jordan Montgomery in there.

7:50

And part of the issue of Montgomery

7:52

is because he didn't have spring

7:54

training. It's probably gonna take him a few weeks

7:56

to get up to speed. Well, guess what?

7:59

With a rotation... of Rodriguez, Gallon,

8:02

Kelly, and Fott, you

8:04

don't need to rush Montgomery

8:07

up there yet. You don't need to

8:09

put him on the aft russes. You

8:11

could give him some time to extended

8:13

spring training or maybe the minor leagues

8:15

work something out to get him to

8:17

build up to speed. And

8:20

right there, Gallon,

8:22

legit Cy Young contender, Rodriguez

8:25

and Montgomery, solid pitchers. Merrill Kelly, we saw in

8:27

the post-season what he could do. Right? I

8:30

thought we saw what we could do. That's a starting five. That's

8:33

pretty freaking good. And

8:35

that was not the only thing that

8:38

the Diamondbacks did in this off-season. They

8:41

got Lourdes Gouriel Jr.

8:44

Okay? He's a good

8:46

solid hitter who will hopefully help the team.

8:49

Jock Peterson. Again,

8:51

he's not a superstar, but he's

8:54

good. And remember the whole rule that

8:56

we have when Jorge Soler and Rosario

8:58

and everyone went to the Atlanta Braves

9:00

and Jock Peterson, that

9:02

they put major leaguers throughout the

9:05

entire roster and that wound up

9:07

helping the team. Randall Grichak, another

9:09

one. Are you asking Randall Grichak

9:11

to put up Mike

9:13

Trout numbers in his prime? No, you're asking him

9:16

to be good, to

9:18

fill in a hole there. And then

9:20

you have Eugenio Suarez, who to

9:22

be your third baseman. And

9:26

the Diamondbacks are

9:28

now spending money.

9:31

We need a salary cap. Why? Teams

9:34

don't know. What we knew to do is have

9:36

teams spend money. And so now

9:38

you look and you see that the

9:40

Diamondbacks are going to go into the 2024

9:43

season as the defending

9:47

National League champion with the

9:49

players like Katell Marte coming

9:54

back after a terrific

9:56

year last year. And

9:58

you also see that they... have young

10:01

players coming up there. Andrew Jones son is

10:03

going to be there any minute now. And

10:06

then of course, you know, Jordan Lawler

10:08

is one of the best young prospects in

10:10

all of baseball, when the top prospects in

10:12

all the baseball, and you have Corbin Carroll,

10:15

who had the tremendous rookie year he had

10:17

last year. This

10:20

looks like a team that could

10:22

very well defend their

10:26

National League title. And in

10:28

fact, when we come back from

10:30

our non Shohei Ohtani run

10:32

that we're having here, let

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Let's talk about something else. The

13:52

Dodgers are the prohibited favorite

13:55

to win the National League West but

13:58

are they? I'm

14:00

gonna pick them to win the West but

14:04

you know one of the things that

14:07

happens when you see huge

14:10

upsets in the

14:12

postseason in terms of a year

14:14

where there's a prohibitive favorite to

14:17

win the division and they don't is

14:20

when another team winds up having better pitching.

14:23

I remember everyone in their moose was picked

14:25

picked the 2011 Red

14:28

Sox to win the

14:30

division that year and they

14:32

collapsed on the stretch as their pitching just couldn't

14:34

hold up and the Yankees and the Jays had

14:37

better pitching and the Rangers went on to the

14:39

World Series and I can't

14:42

help but think about the fact that

14:45

you could make a

14:47

case that the Dodgers

14:49

have the fourth best pitching staff

14:53

in the National League West. Now

14:56

I just made the case for Arizona that

14:59

they have a terrific pitching staff

15:01

especially when they let Montgomery warm

15:03

up and you know get

15:05

get back into you know get

15:07

back up to speed to

15:09

go Gallon, Kelly, Fatt,

15:11

Rodriguez, Montgomery. You're

15:14

not going to go on a long losing streak with

15:16

those five and with

15:19

a deep rotation it means you're probably

15:21

not going to wear down your bullpen.

15:24

Now chances are they're not going to

15:26

go seven, eight, nine innings like

15:28

the Atlanta Braves did way back when

15:32

but if they get about five

15:34

and two thirds to six innings to start

15:36

you're not going to wear down the bullpen

15:38

and that's a case for

15:40

one of the best starting rotations in

15:43

all of baseball. Let's

15:45

go over to San Diego who yes

15:47

they just lost the Cy Young Award winner

15:49

to San Francisco. We'll get to

15:51

San Francisco in just a minute but

15:54

when you take a look at the team that

15:56

they have on the field right now they

15:59

essentially flip They

16:03

flipped Snell for

16:06

Dylan Cease, right? That's

16:08

pretty much what they just did, right? And

16:11

now you have Cease

16:14

on the team, you have Darvish on the

16:16

team, Musgrove on the team, Michael

16:19

King, who I love from the

16:22

Yankees, and then my favorite, Ducklebell, or

16:24

Matt Waldron on the team. That's

16:26

not a great rotation, but it's

16:29

pretty darn good. Then

16:31

we head over to San Francisco, who

16:34

just plugged Blake Snell into the

16:36

rotation. They already have Logan Webb,

16:38

who's a very good pitcher. They

16:40

already have Jordan Hicks, who's

16:42

looked really great in spring training. They

16:45

have the phenom that is Kyle Harrison.

16:48

And currently right now on the

16:50

disabled list, or injured list, sorry, Old

16:52

Habits Die Hard, they have Alex Cobb, and

16:55

they have Robbie Ray. Now Robbie Ray barely

16:57

pitched last year, but he's not

16:59

that far removed from being a Cy Young

17:01

Award winner. And if

17:03

he comes back and Cobb comes back

17:05

and Snell comes back and they all

17:08

pitch well, then do you know

17:10

what? Then

17:12

that's a terrific rotation. Then

17:14

you have Los Angeles. Now

17:16

I'm not going to overreact to

17:19

one start with Yamamoto

17:21

pitching. Besides, we know AP had money on

17:23

that game. That

17:25

was a joke before anyone starts to

17:27

talk about me breaking the law. Their

17:32

rotation right now is Tyler Glasnow,

17:34

who's not bad. A

17:36

lot of youngsters like Bobby Miller

17:39

and Gavin Stone are going to

17:41

get some starts. Paxson's

17:43

going to get some starts. Yamamoto, who

17:45

we're all hoping, I'm hoping

17:49

that there was a bit of a

17:51

fluke in the first game. Then

17:53

you cross your fingers that they'll get back. Walker Bueller or

17:55

Tony Gonsolin or Dustin May or the great Clayton Cr Kershaw

18:00

back in time to pitch at one

18:02

point or another this season. But

18:05

there's a lot more holes in the Dodgers

18:07

starting rotation than in any of the other

18:09

ones I just mentioned. The Dodgers

18:11

are star studs. The Dodgers are filled with

18:14

MVPs. And I wonder,

18:16

I wah, wah, wah, wah

18:18

wonder if the Otani

18:20

thing may turn into a rallying point

18:23

for the team. I've seen stranger things

18:25

happen in baseball. I still think the

18:27

Dodgers are a 95 to

18:29

100 win team, but the every other team

18:31

in that division that doesn't play in Denver,

18:33

sorry, Rocky fans, not your year. Have

18:37

an argument that they have a better starting rotation than the

18:39

Dodgers, which means the chances

18:41

of any of those other teams going

18:43

on prolonged losing streaks has

18:46

greatly been reduced. The

18:49

Diamondbacks look terrific right now, better

18:51

than the team that won the pennant last year.

18:54

And quite frankly, I'm not

18:57

quite ready to instantly

19:00

anoint the Dodgers as

19:02

the prohibitive winners, especially

19:05

if they keep in mind, if

19:07

any injuries or for the lack

19:10

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19:12

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19:15

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19:17

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22:00

because that's the law. I got

22:02

a lot of people responding a lot of nice comments a

22:04

lot of not so nice comments Some

22:06

people not liking my microphone. I'll work on the

22:09

microphone I had some

22:11

people saying he's innocent so proven guilty I'm aware

22:13

it's not a court of law and I actually

22:15

didn't say he was guilty I don't know if

22:17

Otani is guilty of anything at this point All

22:20

right, and I've had some people say

22:23

I'm a hater of the Dodgers and

22:25

some people saying one person said I'm

22:27

from Japan He's my hero. Please show

22:29

him respect. I love Otani.

22:31

I Want him to

22:33

play very well. I Want

22:36

to see the best players on the

22:38

brightest stage? I live in Los

22:40

Angeles County. You think I don't want to see Otani

22:43

Playing well here, but I'm

22:46

gonna bring up one specific email

22:48

or one specific comment that I got on

22:52

YouTube from Cameron

22:56

koi He

23:00

took a lot of issues. I'm gonna take this apart He

23:04

said the first story is referred to wasn't

23:06

a story that Otani ever told as explained

23:08

as his statement Apek kept him in the

23:10

dark by controlling all the communications back and

23:12

forth on this issue Okay,

23:16

let me address that for a second what?

23:20

so we know that Otani's

23:24

crisis management team Put

23:27

together the ESPN interview

23:30

which in that interview

23:32

the story of Ape

23:35

went on this big gambling binge

23:39

Otani was like what the hey, I'll

23:42

cover it knock it off. That's

23:44

what the first story that Otani's

23:47

crisis management team Set

23:50

up with ESPN now

23:53

Nobody could look me in the eye

23:55

and say a good crisis management team

23:58

would not vet the story

24:01

and get the approval

24:03

of the client. That's

24:05

what a crisis management does. They

24:08

create the story to manage the

24:10

crisis, not say, quick,

24:12

get the guy in front of a camera. Should

24:14

we see what he's gonna say?

24:17

No. Should we talk to our client

24:19

about it? No. Is it possible that

24:21

the new crisis manager team just threw him

24:23

out there without knowing what he was gonna

24:25

say and without talking to their client first?

24:28

It's possible, but

24:30

not probable. It's possible

24:32

that they were that incompetent and

24:35

that Otani hired a really horrible crisis

24:37

management team. I'm

24:39

just not convinced.

24:43

Next statement. So know

24:45

that first section, the first story

24:48

of Otani covered the cost was

24:52

put out there by Otani's team. And

24:56

Epe controlled the

24:58

communications. Okay. Otani

25:01

began any idea of what was going on

25:03

until Epe was talking to the team. But

25:06

that was after it was set up, the

25:08

crisis management team set up the interview. The

25:11

crisis management team never talked to their client. That

25:14

seems strange to me. If

25:18

the Otani team had worked at a new story

25:20

to help Epe out to be a

25:22

criminal, that would put Otani in a much worse

25:24

position. This is a great point that you made,

25:26

Cameron. This is a great point.

25:28

And there is a video by Pitching

25:31

Ninja, who is a baseball expert who's

25:33

also a lawyer, who brought that up

25:35

as well. And

25:37

if indeed Otani

25:40

starts to press charges against

25:44

Epe, then I'm

25:47

really buying the Epe was a

25:49

thief story. I buy either story.

25:53

I buy the Otani covered his friends'

25:55

deaths. And I buy

25:57

the Epe story. stealing

26:00

money from him story. I just

26:02

don't buy both of them because

26:04

they contradict each other and the

26:06

same group put those stories out,

26:09

put out contradictory stories. That's what's

26:11

suspicious. But you're

26:13

right, if they start pressing charges then

26:16

okay, the he's a thief story

26:18

has a lot of credence because

26:20

they'll start going through the finances.

26:22

They'll start going through all the

26:25

things and if he

26:28

shows that he was indeed

26:31

just covering his gambling debts while publicly

26:33

calling him a thief, that sets up

26:36

all sorts of libel issues. That's a

26:38

great point. I haven't

26:40

seen any charges filed yet. Again,

26:42

tiny red flag but that's a good point you

26:44

made there. In respect

26:47

of how he managed to make transfers

26:50

to the bookie without Otani's knowledge,

26:53

that's a question that needs to be answered.

26:55

We agree there too. Now

26:57

is it possible? And you brought

27:00

up an idea of maybe

27:02

he was more than an interpreter and he

27:04

had an authority akin a power

27:06

of attorney. Well now

27:09

who's saying things we don't have evidence for? Yes,

27:12

there have been lots of instances where celebrities

27:15

have been taken advantage of. If

27:18

this is a situation where

27:20

Ipe who was would

27:23

be in charge of things a

27:25

way like Colonel Tom Parker was with

27:27

Elvis, then look up

27:31

what that relationship was where basically

27:33

Elvis was huge but had no

27:35

control of his money or anything

27:37

like that. If that's indeed what

27:39

was happening and Ipe is Colonel

27:41

Parker to Otani's Elvis, then

27:44

this will be very intriguing and

27:46

completely make the contradiction

27:48

of the stories make a little more sense.

27:52

Now if he was his best friend

27:54

and sort of go-to lackey and everything

27:56

like that, then I don't see

27:58

him having that kind of... power. Certainly not more

28:01

power than the crisis management team. But

28:03

this is one of the things we're gonna have to see how

28:05

it unfolds. And again,

28:07

I think you made a great point

28:09

about the idea of if charges are

28:11

filed, then yeah, he's opening himself up

28:14

to liable and he's hopefully has smarter

28:16

lawyers than he has a crisis management

28:18

team. All right? Now

28:20

whether or not he does have the power of attorney, I

28:23

have no idea. Why

28:25

do you discount what Otani said, the new story,

28:29

when we never got an unfiltered first story?

28:32

I would argue we got an unfiltered first story.

28:35

The story that was taught, that

28:37

was put out there by Otani's

28:39

crisis management team. And then all

28:41

of a sudden, we got a new

28:43

story from prior accounts, not directly from Otani,

28:46

Ipe, now a known liar.

28:48

Well that's what the reports

28:51

say, based on his claims of our

28:53

college degree and everything. Okay, or

28:57

other intermediary like this crisis management team.

29:00

It paid very well, may be a liar. He

29:03

very well may be a con artist.

29:05

He very well be one of these

29:07

people who knows how to manipulate things,

29:09

including wire transfers. But

29:11

I do want to bring up something. Someone

29:14

in my school bought

29:16

something that we needed for my

29:19

class. And I

29:21

reimbursed them through

29:23

Venmo. I got

29:26

no shorter than three emails

29:29

regarding a $63

29:31

Venmo transfer. One

29:34

was a call from the bank, one was

29:36

a text, and one was an email. Over

29:39

63 bucks of school

29:41

supplies. Not 4.5 million dollars

29:46

to wired to

29:48

a gambling ring. And

29:50

mind you, this is a thing that kind of floats

29:53

around my head as well. It's

29:56

really hard to make wire transfers. It's

29:58

really hard to make huge wire transfers. transfers and

30:01

for a bank to not

30:03

do anything would make

30:05

them liable. Now I

30:07

don't know much about finances, but I

30:10

have learned that banks tend

30:12

to want to avoid

30:14

certain awful things, especially what

30:16

involves wire transfers, which is

30:18

a federal crime if you're

30:22

committing wire fraud. So

30:25

the fact that nobody knew that

30:27

was going on, there were no alerts being sent, no

30:29

one sent an email, rocket

30:31

money didn't send a, hey, did you send $4.5

30:33

million? They didn't

30:35

call. Like I got like, hey Sully, did

30:38

you fill up your gas tank

30:41

at Lake Arrowhead? Yes, I filled up my

30:43

gas tank at Lake Arrowhead. Thank you for

30:45

calling. Hey Shohei, did you transfer $4.5

30:47

million to a guy named Clem? I

30:51

don't know the name of the guy, I just called him Clem. That

30:55

still stinks to high heaven. And

30:58

I don't care how much power of attorney you have, memos

31:02

are going to be sent to Shohei. I

31:04

don't care how much in control Epe

31:07

is of his finances, if he's complete Colonel

31:09

Parker, things are going to

31:11

be sent there. They're one time only passwords

31:13

that are sent back and forth. Finally

31:17

he says, while I acknowledge there's still questions we

31:19

answered, it appears to me your strong opinions matters

31:21

not based on solid footing at any early stage.

31:25

I honestly have no idea how you could say that

31:27

because everything I said is

31:30

based upon the articles and reports and

31:32

my own skepticism of the story. So

31:35

I'm going to just cross that off. Hopefully

31:37

Fotani's short story, this, I'm

31:40

sorry, this made me laugh. If Fotani's story

31:42

that he articulated proves to be true, you'll

31:44

be man enough to admit you were wrong

31:46

in your assessment of the entire situation. My

31:50

manhood's not in question here. And

31:54

I stated my

31:56

own skepticism of a story that

31:58

did indeed that factually

32:01

changed. That's not in

32:03

question. Otani's camp

32:05

gave two different stories, and

32:08

one of them requires some giant

32:10

leaps of logic that may be

32:12

true if Ape was

32:14

indeed controlling the way Colonel Parker

32:16

controlled Elvis. Or

32:19

wrong in the assessment of the entire situation. I'm

32:22

not going to say that because my

32:25

assessment of the situation is something

32:27

smells fishy. That's from

32:29

my assessment, that's factually true.

32:33

Whatever situation turns out to

32:35

be correct, I'll say,

32:37

hmm, they should have just said that

32:39

from the beginning. But

32:43

if I'm wrong about anything, I'll

32:45

admit it. I've not made a

32:47

positive statement about his guilt or anything. I'll

32:49

tell you what I think happened. Here's

32:52

what I think happened. I

32:55

think Ape

32:57

went on a wild gambling spree, and

32:59

I think he probably is a guy who's not

33:01

entirely honest about all sorts of stuff, and

33:04

is not entirely honest about all sorts

33:06

of things financially. And he kept

33:08

it from everyone until he got out of control, and

33:11

Otani smacked his forehead and said, what are you

33:13

doing? Schmuck! I'll take care

33:15

of it, but you knock it off. And it

33:17

came to a head. And the crisis

33:19

management team did one thing, lawyers

33:21

whispered in their ear, and another thing turned out,

33:24

they changed the story. That's what I

33:26

think happened. If I'm wrong with

33:28

my scenario, and it turns out that he was

33:30

a thief, and Colonel Tom Parker the

33:32

whole time, I will come on

33:35

here, and that'll be the lead story that

33:37

my thought was wrong. I'm not

33:39

saying those things are what happened. That's how

33:41

I, that's my hypothesis of what happened, based

33:44

upon what we know. But if

33:46

we find out more stuff, I'll

33:48

be like, wow, this

33:50

is a story that is not yet completely

33:53

unfolded. And unlike an episode of Colombo,

33:55

we don't see what was done first at the beginning of

33:57

the show. This is gonna unfold in a way that's not

33:59

gonna happen. weird way and they

34:01

made it worse by changing their story. But

34:04

hey, I just want to thank, I do want

34:07

to thank, I'm

34:09

sorry, Cameron Koy2874 for

34:11

writing a very, very

34:15

thoughtful response on YouTube. Sorry I checked it

34:17

a little bit at the end. I just,

34:19

I always get the whole thing of,

34:22

are you man enough to admit this? Of course! If

34:24

I say something I'm wrong, I'll be the first one to

34:26

say it. But

34:28

I don't know what I'm wrong about. I'm saying

34:31

I don't buy it and

34:33

I don't. And so there you

34:35

go. And tomorrow we're

34:37

gonna have on Dr. Paul

34:39

Seminger who is gonna talk about the great

34:41

book Roy White from Compton to the Bronx

34:44

and talk a little bit about the

34:46

Yankees of several generations. I've been holding

34:48

off of that because Ohtani has just

34:50

become this snowball across this week. I

34:53

also have another episode coming up this weekend, part

34:55

two of my conversation with Bob Kendrick

34:57

from the National Negro Leagues Museum. And

35:00

starting Thursday we got games. Finally we

35:02

got games. There's no trivia question today

35:04

because I recorded that episode with Dr. Seminger

35:06

a few days ago and there I didn't know

35:09

who was gonna answer the trivia question there. Pardon

35:12

me to wrap this up.

35:14

Talking about the

35:17

Diamondbacks looking to defend their National

35:19

League title and hopefully the Shohei

35:21

Ohtani thing we can put in

35:23

the rearview mirror once we figure

35:25

out which one of the two stories

35:28

are true. It's a choose-your-own-adventure story. Which

35:30

one will it be? This has been

35:33

locked on MLB for the

35:35

26th day of March going in. It will

35:37

probably be here on the 27th.

35:40

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