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October 31, 2024 • 13 mins
Craig Way reacts to his beloved LA Dodgers winning their 8th title over the Evil Empire- the New York Yankees
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Thursday. Welcome to the program here. Glad to have
you with us here on a Thursday afternoon on sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred the Zone. My name is Craig
wya do. Thank you very much for joining us. Glad
to have you with us on this Thursday afternoon. We're
with you up until five o'clock. Hey, a reminder, we
have a special edition, a basketball preview edition of Longhorn

(00:22):
Weekly with Longhorn's head basketball coach Rodney Terry, coming your
way at six o'clock tonight live from Pluckers the West.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Campus location in Austin. And I hope you can.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Join us for that one as we'll be out there
with Coach Terry at six o'clock. We'll look forward to that,
but up till then two to five here on the program.
A lot to get to on the program today, and
we're happy to bring it to you. We of course
includes the producer for this program. It's Cameron D.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Parker.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
The on the burst tipiggest stands for Dallas, as in
the team that he roots for but refuses to watch
on television. Would it be too presumptuous of me to
suggest to you that just today today only Cameron.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
The D can stand for Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yes, congratulations to you, Craig Way and the Los Angeles
Dodgers for winning the World Series yesterday. H fantastic end
to what they called a crazy year and it certainly was.
And I mean down five nothing in that game, down
two to one to the Padres before the World Series.
Did they come back down five to nothing in that game?

(01:38):
The Bronx is going crazy. You're thinking, uh, oh, first
ever team to go be down three to zero the
fours of game six, you're going back to Los Angeles
and then the fifth that he happened and the rest
is history. So congrats to Craig. Why who who's dotting
is Los Angeles Dodgers uniform?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I got the I got the Dodger row jersey, the
authentic road jersey on the day to Payterriot. Yes, And
for folks, I know there's probably a few of you
out there going, why in the world's he a Dodger fan?
What is the deal with that? He didn't grown in California,
never the lived in California. You know what, what's the
situation with that? I did just very quickly in a

(02:14):
nutshell For those who didn't know, when I grew up
in North Carolina, there was no major League baseball team.
Still isn't no major League baseball team. The other closest
ones were Atlanta, which is three hundred and thirty miles away,
and Washington when the Senators were there, so a little
long way off.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Neither were good at the time.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
My dad, when I was a little kid, used to
tell used to tell me stories and my other younger
brother coming at night.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
We were talking baseball and stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
And he had grown up a Yankee fan, and in fact,
he went to two World Series games in the early
fifties fifty two and fifty three when the Yankees played
the Dodgers, and saw two World Series games when he
got to sit in the center field bleachers on his
army id, his GIID for one dollar, got to sit
in the World Series game, to watch a game in

(02:58):
fifty two, in a game in fifty three, to see
the Dodgers and the Yankees. So he used to tell
me these stories as a Yankee fan, and I like
the team named Dodgers. My favorite color was blue. And
then the you know it is with kids, you know,
easily impression and all that. In the first package of
baseball cards I opened up. There was Bill Russell, the
Dodger shortstop. So I was hooked then and have been
ever since. Long suffering, been through the lean times and

(03:19):
the good times as well.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
And for folks, what's suffering? Listen last night?

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, it was their second World title in the last
five years, but folks had always been wanting to put
an asterisk around that one. In twenty twenty because of
the shortened season due to the pandemic, they played sixty
games and they were far and away the best team
that won forty three of the sixty in the regular
season and went on through the playoffs and won it.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
But still in the minds of some they didn't consider that,
you know, a full tile.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Even Alex Vdugo kind of said as much, but he
was just kind of feeling salty because he was involved
in the Mookie.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Bets trade and made him mad. He didn't want to
leave La and.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Went to Boston and then of course down with the Yankees,
and he turned out to be the final out of
the ballgame last night, And so there was that Prior
to that. The last time they won a World Series
was nineteen eighty eight. The Kurt Gibson home run'd been
thirty six years since they'd won a World Series in
a full season, so yeah, there was some long suffering
years in there, but I was obviously thrilled and excited.

(04:16):
My wife Lindon I watched it and we were pretty
we were on pins and needles. And I watch seriously
conservative estimate somewhere between one hundred and one hundred and
twenty games a year of the Dodgers because having the
baseball package and they play a lot of late night
West Coast games, so I'd say probably in the neighborhood

(04:37):
of one hundred and ten of their one hundred and
sixty two I watched this year, So yeah, fully invested
as a fan in the gear and I saw him
in Houston play this year, and I've been to two
of their World Series games, won in Boston when Mooie
Betts was playing for the Red Sox when they won
in twenty eighteen, and then in the pandemic here in
twenty twenty, got the seem in Arlington and Globe Life
Game one was right down close to the field, seeing

(04:58):
Clayton Kershaw pitch against the race.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, I'm fully into it.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's why I'm a Dodger fan, but I'm also a
big baseball fan, and it was quite quite a night
in a number of ways. Well, we're talk more about
that coming up. Also, just to let you know what
else is coming up on the program. In the three
o'clock hour, Gene Watson, our MLB insider works with the
Chicago White Sox, will join us one final time this

(05:24):
season to recap the season and the World Series. That'll
be in the three o'clock hour. In the four o'clock hour,
we told you about this yesterday, we'll talk get into
some in depth on the College Football Playoff with Rich Clark,
the executive director of the College Football Playoff. He'll join
us on the program. He did a webinar yesterday that

(05:44):
I was linked into and watched, and he'll join us
on the program in the four o'clock hour to talk
about that. So we've got inconceivable. A little bit later
on this hour, we'll talk some NBA, also some NFL.
Is an NFL game to night. The Texans are playing
the night playing the New York Jets. We'll get into

(06:04):
all of it. I promise we'll get to all of
those things. Now. As far as the series goes, there
was a lot of you know, it was a great
deal of excitement about it being Yankees, Dodgers, and two
of the Hallmark franchises, and the two were meeting for
the twelve time, more than any other pairing of teams

(06:25):
in World Series history, and so there was all kinds
of history that was spilled out in this Freddie Freeman
becoming the first guy to homer in four consecutive games
of a World Series, and it made it six in
a row, going back to two games with Atlanta against
Houston three years ago in twenty twenty one. So he
holds the Major League record for most consecutive games with

(06:46):
a home run hit in World Series play at six,
two with Atlanta and then four in a row with
the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
And he would come up with a gigantic hit last night.
It wasn't a homer, but a big hit.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So there was that bit of history you pointed out camera,
and the Yankees were trying to become the first team
not only to achieve what was pretty much looked as
being impossible, overcoming a three to nothing deficit to win
a World Series, but in the history of the World Series,
no team had ever been able to move it beyond
game five, and in fact, twenty four times a team

(07:21):
had been up three games to none, twenty one of
the twenty four it ended in the next game a sweep.
There had not been a World Series where a team
was up three games to none that even got extended
to a fifth game since nineteen seventy. The Reds were
down three games to none to Baltimore, they won Game four,

(07:42):
and then the Orioles clinched it in Game five, so
no team had ever even gotten into Game six. The
Yankees appeared to be in prime position to do that
for two reasons. One, they jumped all over Jack Flarerty,
the Dodger starter who did not have it last night.
Aaron Judge hit a home run, John Carlo Stanton hit
a home run. Jass chisholmhit a home run. They're up

(08:03):
five to nothing and they're rolling. Not only that, Garrett
Cole was looking unhittable on the mouth, in fact, he
was unhittable for the first four innings. Also, in the
fourth inning, Aaron Judge made a great leaping catch against
the fence to take away extra basis from Freddie Freeman.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
So you're thinking Judge is back.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
All rise, he hit the home run, he made the
great catch, Aaron Judge was in was he was back.
This Yankee team looked completely different than you know, the
first three ball games, even different in the Game four.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
They looked aggressive.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
It looked like for sure this thing was going to
head back to Los Angeles for Game five. And then
in this point was raised and I'm in complete agreement
with it. If this thing gets to game six in LA,
I think all the pressure would have shifted to the
Dodgers because they're up three to nothing. An no team
that ever even let get the game six. Now, what's

(09:02):
going back to game six? And you had Rodin ready
to go for the Yankees? Heel could go in game seven. Yes,
the Dodgers would have Yama Mota ready for Game six
and if necessary, Walker Buler.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
For Game seven.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
But it just it all the momentum riding in the
way the Yankees were swinging the bats and all this,
and even when they weren't scoring, they were keeping the
Dodgers pitching on the ropes. Dave Roberts was having his
pitcher after pitcher. All of a sudden it became a
bullpen game because Flairdy lasted just an inning and a third.
So now he's just he's burning up pitchers, going through
just trying to keep the Dodgers on the fringe of contention.

(09:36):
Then we get to the fifth inning, Garrett Cole was
not allowed to hit, he'd walked a baut Her, not
allowed to hit. Key k Hernandez comes to the plate.
He's batting I believe, sixth, and he lines a single
the left. Okay, so Garrett Cole showed a little bit

(09:57):
of the human touch.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Hey, he's human. He gave up a base hit. In fact,
in maybe even think of Rocky for he's.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Got you know or whatever, you know, the drago that.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
That he bleeds like everybody else.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, so then it looked like with the next man
coming to the plate, Tommy Edmund that it was going
to be a routine fly ball to center and it
was going to be out number one with a runner
at first base. Aaron Judge comes running in and the
Fox camera showed this on replay. You couldn't see it

(10:27):
in real time, but John Smalllt, who I think is
an outstanding analyst, pointed it out. He said Judge took
his eyes off the ball, just for a moment to
see if Hernandez was straying too far from first base,
and in that moment he lost. The ball went right
off his glove, he dropped it and then he scrambled,
picked up, fired to second. Hernandez was able to hustle

(10:48):
and slide in the second. So now you have runners
at first and second with no out. Okay, you know,
but we you know, we've we've seen cold work through
issues in the past, and he probably able to do it.
Then comes Will Smith. He hits a ground ball in
the hole at short and then Volpi Anthony Boltby picks

(11:10):
it up. He really only has one play and that's
to go to third, and so he did. The problem
was the throw bounced in. So now that's a second
error in the inning on the feeler's choice, and now
the bases are loaded with nobody out. Well, then Cole
seems to settle back in. He then strikes out Gavin

(11:30):
Lucks for out number one. He strikes out Shoeo Tani
for out number two. It looks like he's got it
recovered and he's going to get out of the inning,
and it really looks like it when he gets Mookie
Betts to have a hit. A top spin ground ball
spinning toward first, it looks like it's going to be
a routine three to one play to the bag, and
the inning's going to be over or maybe even three unassisted.

(11:52):
Problem was Anthony Rizzo. When the ball was spinning with
all that top spin, it kind of curved towards second,
and so when he went and scooped it up, that
stopped any four momentum he might have had gone to the.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Bag at first.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Meanwhile, Garrett Cole, who started to run the bag, said
he took the wrong angle and then he just froze.
He stopped, and so Betts was easily able to beat
Rizzo to the bag. So the inning's still going. It's
still two outs. A run has scored, but it's still
five to one. It's still two outs. All Garrett coll

(12:27):
has to do is get one more out. Freddie Freeman
rips a line drive single the center to run score
five to three. Still, he only needs one more out
to get out of the inning. Taey Oscar Andiz rips
a double to the gap in the left center. Now
the game is tied at five. And then he got
out of the inning. And even though the Yankees went
back up on the sack pine six. The Dodgers came

(12:48):
back with a pair of sack flies, one in the eighth,
one in the ninth, and so they get the win.
So it was stunning to a lot of people to
see the way that that kind of melt down.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
And we'll recap a little bit.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
We need to break there's a couple of quotes I
want to get to and get your thoughts on it
cam about how this wound up, and then we're going
to get into some football as well. So in an
amazing end to the World Series and quite unexpected and
yet maybe not. We'll get to that coming up when
we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone
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