Dodger Blue Dream
Dodger Blue Dream is a fan's chronicle of the Los Angeles Dodgers dynastic run (including back-to-back World Series Championships) from Spring of 2024, until now. Aesthetically, DBD is more documentary than chat show. Music, sound design, story-editing, and "soundscapes" help tell the story of the team's ups and downs, from a personal perspective. It's an elaborately produced essay, addressed to diehard fans, casuals, and non-fans alike. A passionate look at America's national pastime. A love letter to baseball, and to audio, from a born-and-raised Angeleno.
Episodes
Shohei Ohtani shocks the world with an Instagram post.
The first installment in Dodger Blue Dream, a documentary chronicling the 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers baseball season, from start to finish.
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The Dodgers fire Shohei Ohtani's interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, after he allegedly steals millions of dollars from Ohtani to pay off gambling debts to a bookmaker in Orange County, who is now federal investigation for illegal gambling.
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A 37-page federal criminal complaint answers questions about how Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, allegedly stole $16 million from Ohtani to pay debts Mizuhara had accrued with an allegedly illegal bookmaker.
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In his quest to become "a legend in the game," Mookie Betts, the Dodgers dapper and diminuitive leadoff man, attempts the impossible: playing shortstop at the professional level for the first time, at the age of 31.
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On Father's Day at Dodger Stadium, the baseball gods appeared out of a cloudless Los Angeles sky, and struck down one of our best player with a ruthless blow. A companion piece to our previous episode, "Mookie's Best."
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Shohei Ohtani is the first player to both pitch and hit simultaneously at the Major League level since Babe Ruth. But this year, Shohei is not pitching. What is Shohei capable of when he puts down the ball and the mitt, and focuses instead on the stick?
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A listener submits a question — "Is Shohei Ohtani holding his breath when he swings?" — and we answer.
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A long-distance podcast portrait of the fabulous and famously friendly firstbaseman, Freddie Freeman. In 5 parts.
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This week is an inflection point in the Dodgers 2024 season — especially for our starting pitching — in a year where we have seen many rookies take the mound.
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At Dodger stadium on Monday, we saw an ovation to remember for the Dodgers' firstbaseman, Freddie Freeman, as he returned from caring for his 3-year-old son Maximus, who had been stricken with a rare illness 10 days earlier.
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The dog days of August are here. As we take stock of where this billion-dollar Dodgers team is at, we find we've got... first-place problems. With chef, lifelong Dodger fan, and friend Wesley Avila, and Fabain Ardaya of The Athletic.
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Mookie Betts — the dapper and diminutive darling of the 2024 Dodgers — returns! After almost two months away with a broken hand. But why isn't Mookie bedding down with his teammates on their road trip? Turns out this superstar spurns the supernatural. And we play musical positions with Mr. Mook, with analysis on why Number 50 is heading back to Right Field.
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Shohei Ohtani is on the precipice of making history, by becoming the sixth player in Major League history to hit 40 homeruns and steal 40 bases in a single season.
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A portrait of Max Muncy — one of the funkiest, fieriest Dodgers of all — as he returns from the injured list. And not a moment too soon. Plus, tacos with chef Wesley Avila.
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Shohei Ohtani becomes the first Dodger (and sixth player ever) to hit 40 homeruns and steal 40 bases in a single season. And he got there in the most-dramatic way imaginable, at Dodger Stadium this weekend.
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On Friday night in Arizona, after giving up a homerun to Corbin Carroll, Clayton Kershaw unceremoniously walked off the mound, into the dugout, and disappeared into the darkened tunnel to the visiting clubhouse. And I remember thinking, "I might have just watched Clayton Kershaw throw the last pitch of his Hall of Fame career."
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A portrait of Teoscar Hernandez — the Dodgers' big-smilin', hard-hittin', sunflower seed-tossin' leftfielder. (He's clutch.)
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto was supposed to be the Dodgers golden boy in 2024. But he missed most of the season with a rotator cuff injury. His return comes at a time of uncertainty for the Dodgers starting rotation, in the middle of the fight for the NL West title, with October just around the corner.
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Re-capping the Dodgers 9-0 win over the Braves in Atlanta.
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Re-capping the Dodgers 11-9 loss against the Marlins in Miami.
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