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lupeka and bob ryan i'm mike lupeka new york daily news melb dot com and i am bob ryan at a boston globe

and esPN.

We've kind of go back a ways of two of us.

And we're here here to tell you that this is a good time of a year for us because, as the great

Jimmy Cannon once said, baseball, gentlemen, baseball.

And last night we had a bafo ending to a Dodger game, didn't we, Mike?

And you happen to be an eyewitness.

Oh, a TV witness.

I like watching the Dodgers, as does our fine producer Tyler Pervert.

So we had been out, we've been out to dinner.

I've been watching other games.

And then I realized that the Dodgers game is not over.

And one of the joys of working for MLB.com, and if you don't own this app, you should get it.

To have MLB TV, you have access to every single game.

And so we end up, they go into the bottom of the ninth, and there was a time, Tyler, in baseball,

when there was a closer for the orioles um that was known as don full pack stanhouse because they said that earl weaver would smoke a

full pack of cigarettes in the dugout when stanhouse was trying to close out raleys to be precise

huh raleigh cigarettes okay because you like the coupons.

Yep. Okay. So, Tyler knows what we're talking about, Bob, because he watches more Dodger

baseball than I do. That is Kenley Jansen. Okay. And so it surprised me last night,

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