And we're alive on the field at Dodger Stadium, your home of the Dodgers final hour of our pre-game production before we handed over to Tim Cates and Marango Casino Dodgers on deck first pitch at 110 p.m.

our thoughts with our dear friend Charlie Steiner recovering from a back issue so

Stephen Nelson we've been chatting with them all morning long here going to be on

the call it looks fantastic with Rick Monday from the

Galpin Motors broadcast booth. We are here until the top of the hour. We have had an

incredible show up to this point. Fred Rodney Petros and we still got an hour to go.

All right now it is a pleasure to welcome Andrew Rodney, Petros, and we still got an hour to go.

All right, now it is a pleasure to welcome Andrew Friedman to the show, so thank you for

hanging out.

You excited on this opening day?

Very, and thank you guys for being out here and it's pretty electric already.

Let's get into it Andrew. Will Smith, getting him done.

How satisfying and how good is it for you guys to get that that situation done knowing that you've got

your catcher for the foreseeable future.

Yeah I think you just nailed it. A, we know him so incredibly well and the way he competes,

the way he prepares, all way he prepares all that he

pours into the game planning and how much he cares about leading a pitching staff

obviously hits in the middle of our order but I think the biggest thing is

there's a real scarcity at that

position that is a really hard position to fill and when you have someone that's

that good don't let them get away you know it's interesting and it seems longer deals more players longer

deals I don't know just caught me by surprise ten years and that's not something

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