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Dan, please act joins us. You can listen and see Dan on Amelby Tonight, which is live before and after every LCS game and every World Series game,

which means there'll be an action tonight before NLCS game 5.

And that's where we'll start with Dan.

Dan, welcome.

How are you?

Pope, Sports Pope, I'm doing good.

I'm getting affecting right now.

I'm on with the sports pope. All things are good. Well, that's fine I'm doing good. I'm getting you affecting right now. I'm on with the sports pope.

All things are good.

Well, that's fine. Listen, tonight it's about Kershaw. And listen, Kershaw has had an easy ride this year. He hasn't had to carry this team on his back. It's been a very easy ride for the Dodgers. if they extend this series by beating Kershaw, I mean, that's really going to start to damage his reputation. They need him to go out tonight and give him a game. His first game, he had a dance against Arizona, and he still gave up four homers. Second game, he pitched five innings. I mean, how about he go out there tonight and throw himself a game? I don't think it's going to happen tonight, Mike. I just don't. I think he's somewhere between April and May, like just out of spring training. He missed a lot of time with that back injury. And his ball is up in his zone, and there's a fine line, Mike. And you know this as well as I do. There's a fine line from even the great ones, Pedro, Martinez, Shilling, Smoltz. When they're just off a click, they become hitable. And he can afford to leave balls up in the zone like he did. He gave up four home runs as you touched on in a Diamondback series, only five innings in game one of this series

against the Cubs.

Mike, I don't think the Cubs look at Clayton Curshaw, the way they would have looked

at him in April, May, June, and July.

This isn't the same guy.

He's still a good pitcher, but he's not a great pitcher.

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