November 1, 2024 • 41 mins
Adam and Josh discuss Adam's recent trip to Dodger Stadium for The World Series Game 1.
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It's time to rage.
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Oh yeah, that's right.
Time to fucking rage it is.
Well, I mean, I don't know if it's raging.
Adam probably won't be raging because he's very happy about this obviously because today
we're going to talk about Adam getting the experience of a lifetime and going to game
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one of the fucking world series at Dodger Stadium.
I mean, that's going to a world series in general is not something that a lot of people
can fucking say.
I think.
Yeah, I think I already, I've been to a world series before in 2017.
I can't remember which game it was that I went to, but that kind of ruined the experience
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for me, especially because they fucking lost.
But I thought I'll give it another shot.
I'll fucking buy a ticket and just fuck, you know, I might as well enjoy this regardless
if they win or lose.
Yeah.
And I have to say, man, I had a bit of buyer's remorse.
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Oh, at the beginning.
At the beginning.
Yes, I had a bit of buy.
But not at the end, right?
No, it like.
All right.
Well, before we get into it fully.
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All right.
Let's go back to it.
So you had buyer's remorse a little bit once you did it.
Now I will say this to provide context.
You were debating.
You were debating buying a sixty dollar fucking sweater.
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Yes, a dog sweatshirt.
Okay.
You were you were like, I don't know if I want to spend the money.
Yeah.
And you literally dropped how much on a ticket to go to Game One of World Series.
All right.
So this might have to be a business business expense.
This is by far the most expensive episode of a podcast we've ever done.
Yeah.
The ticket.
I bought it.
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I bought it the day before the game itself.
So you got it from a reseller, right?
It was from Game Time.
And I bought it for nine sixty one.
And of course, I was out the door, right?
Out the door.
Nine sixty nine sixty one.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then it was so like it was probably closer to face value.
And I paid probably like sixteen extra dollars or roughly thereabouts.
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And I could have gotten it cheaper like the day of.
But did the prices go down?
They did.
They went because people weren't buying them or they were buying them.
I sell tickets.
I don't know if it was because people weren't buying them, but there were a slew of tickets
available and they ended up being like two hundred three hundred dollars cheaper than
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what I bought it for.
So I didn't even bother looking at that because I was also thinking because if you buy
it the day of, it's not said.
I can't remember where I bought a ticket, but I did buy it on Game Time.
But they tell you like it may take up to three hours for it to process and the ticket to
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be transferred over to you in the M.O.B.
ballpark app.
OK.
So if like you buy a ticket the day of and you let's say I got it for six hundred, right?
OK.
So if I bought it at twelve o'clock getting a great fucking deal and I showed up at the
stadium at like two or three and I'm in gridlock and I don't actually get to the stadium until
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the first any of the fucking game, I'd be fucking pissed.
That's why I bought it on Thursday as an insurance policy to make sure that I got there on time
with the ticket in hand.
But as you're saying, I mean, I was I was debating over buying a goddamn sweater for
a goddamn week or a hoodie rather.
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And then World Series happens.
Dodgers beat the Mets in a wall.
What was a four to series win for them?
So I was like, man, I don't know when the next time I'm going to be able to go to a
World Series and let alone a Dodgers versus Yankees World Series, which is like it's peak
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baseball basically.
And I will say I had a bit of buyer's remorse because it's it's not really about the cost.
It's just the it's just the amount of fucking pain being a Dodgers fan is like I've seen
so much shit from like me being a kid going through all the shitty 90s years and the 2000s
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like when Frank McCourt was the owner and I think Fox was the owner before that, like
what's Bernie Madoff?
I think I don't know if it was.
Yeah, there was some sort of like that Bernie Madoff like deal fucked the Dodgers because
they were heavily invested in that or whatever.
So there was that the team was fucking cheap.
You know, they were dog shit for a while and it wasn't until Guggenheim baseball ended
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up taking over and then installing Farhan Zaydi and Andrew Friedman as the front office
of the Dodgers.
And what is now becoming they're not exactly a baseball dynasty, but they're becoming one
of the better teams for like a decade.
2011.
I mean, dude, that shit was great.
It was like Clayton Kershaw at his best.
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They brought in Zach Greinke, who had a Cy Young caliber year and he won the Cy Young.
But it wasn't there.
Like there was the pitching was excellent, but the hitting was lacking and the bullpen
sucked.
So they made the playoffs, get bounced, make the playoffs, play the St. Louis Cardinals
like three or four times, get their ass kicked.
And then they played in the NLCS like I think in 2015 or 2016 against the New York Mets.
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And then that Chase Utley slide happened where he slid in and the dude ended up breaking
his arm because he was like he really went into him.
So then shitty year for that and then like the year that the the Cubs won in 2016 or
whatever.
Yeah.
So that the Mets one must have been 2015 Dodgers play the fucking Cubs lose and then the Cubs
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go on to win their first championship.
And I think I forgot like it's 1908.
So 108 years or some shit.
Yeah.
And something like that.
And I'll say this, too, like what's crazy, like it's it's as much as I hate the Dodgers,
right?
Because I'm an asshole.
OK, it does.
It does.
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I was a Dodgers guy from like the early 90s all the way up until maybe like the early
2000s, like right pre 9 11, maybe maybe even like 99.
I don't know what the year exactly was that this fucking thing happened that turned me
against the Dodgers forever.
Yes, it's fucking stupid.
OK.
So I was a kid and that's that sucks.
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And I wore Dodger blue all the time and I was a Dodger guy.
I love the Dodgers.
And, you know, that event happened and I fucking needed to turn.
So I the next closest team was the Angels, right?
And I got lucky in turning into them from 99 or 2000.
And then we won a World Series literally two years later, two or three years later.
Mike Sausche.
That was lucky.
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Yeah, that was luck.
All right.
That was the Angels probably by all rights should not have.
They were the wild card team that season.
So they probably by all rights should not have fucking won the actual fucking World Series
that year.
And again, haven't won a World Series since.
And if the current ownership doesn't change or change their philosophy, they probably
will never win the one again.
But it's it's crazy because like, again, I still again, I remember watching, you know,
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dude fucking my piazza, my piazza, Eric Caroll's fucking role, mindless, wrong, on to see,
dude, the fucking the cocaine addict himself, man, Rob Monahan, see, like love blowing hookers,
man.
Like, what a great what a great time that was for the Dodgers.
But they suck.
They weren't good.
Like they didn't win.
They didn't go to the playoffs much many years.
They didn't go to the World Series really ever during those periods of time.
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And I remember sitting there listening to Vince Scully.
Like that's the voice of a generation.
Right.
I mean, Vince Scully is baseball time for that.
We have the fucking clip as a goddamn thing that we use as a soundbite on this show because
Vince Scully to me just doesn't represent.
I mean, that's baseball.
That's baseball in California baseball.
I don't know if you're an angels or a fucking Padres fan.
You got nothing that compares to Vin fucking Scully.
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All right.
Tommy Lasorda fucking being like nobody's got maybe Mike Sosha kind of got there.
But like he wasn't a gangster like Tommy Lasorda fucking was.
Yeah.
I mean, but again, just to be clear, I hate the fucking Dodgers.
OK, even though I'm talking very nicely about them right now, I will say that this is a
this series thus far.
I mean, you went to game one.
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Yeah.
Game two.
So far, these two series.
Yeah.
The Dodgers are up 2-0.
OK.
These have been two great games.
I mean, regardless, game one.
What was your experience like at the stadium?
Oh, fuck.
I was working to that.
OK, because I still had said I still have shit to say about like even just like working
myself through the fucking decades.
Like, yeah, yeah, man.
Good.
Manny Ramirez.
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Oh, wait.
When you fucking arrive from Boston Red Sox because he was being a dickhead on them.
I mean, it was the greatest shit ever.
Like that year, Manny Mania was fucking or Manny Wood was made.
Dude, he hit like I don't know how many bombs he fucking hit.
He was batting like three twenty two from the second half of the season on.
And then obviously he resides with the Dodgers.
And but they never really had the team to get to the World Series.
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And it's it was always that like it was it was one thing or the other.
If it was the hitting that was on point, the fucking pitching sucked dick.
But yeah, I mean, I've been a Dodgers fan for as long as I can remember.
I remember being the fucking bleachers and seeing fucking Hideo Nomo pitch.
Like I remember fucking going to the 76 gas station that's in the ballpark itself.
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And Hideo Nomo was there with his fucking wife.
I didn't ask him for an autograph, but I would distinctly remember that in my head.
So I always remember Japanese players on the fucking Dodgers and Chan Ho Park.
I mean, yeah, South Korean, but Asians like I remember Asian players on the Dodgers and
shit never got to experience for Nandomania because that was like two years after I was
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born or rather his career started like way before that.
But the 88 World Series, like I that was two years after I was born, didn't get to experience
such shit.
And then we get towards like the 2020s with like the 2020 World Series and then 2017 where
they lost against the Astros or where they cheated.
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So I don't know, like that's kind of everything leading up to this point.
So as I said before, buyers are more is a little bit because I've been burned so many
times watching the Dodgers in the playoffs that they lose.
So God damn much.
But I don't know, man, this year seemed different.
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I think I told you in I think I was telling you as the Dodgers were working through the
playoffs that this thing felt like a fucking simulation or a script.
Yeah, because I told you, man, like from the second half onwards, the bullpen for the Dodgers
had been so on point out of necessity because starting the starting pitchers had fallen
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off the map because they were getting injured or some other bullshit.
And then so to me, essentially, the bullpen had been doing dress rehearsals for the post
season and the hitting was there.
Like yeah, the hitting was there with Shohayatani, Mookie Betts, Teoscar Hernandez and like the
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the rest of the lineup.
The hitting was there.
It was whether like the starting pitching was going to show up.
And you know, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has been in addition in addition to the fucking
team, not knowing how he was going to pitch because he was coming off of his shoulder
injury that took him out for like three months from June from his start against the Yankees
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in June to September.
He only had two starts to like get ramped up again.
And he gets I think he gets fucked if I remember correctly.
He gets his shit rocked for one of the games in San Diego or rather I think it was in the
regular season.
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But he he flips the script and pitches well against the NLD, NLD series against the Padres.
And so I don't know, man, I just felt like there was this weird fucking aura about this
team and then watching.
Watching the NLCS like there's this interview with one of the relief pitchers, Brent Honeywell
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and fucking the third base and Max Muncie.
And they're talking about how like all they did for eight hours for their break for the
wild card series or like that period of time is like they all they did was hang out for
eight hours and talk baseball and like what they were going to do to the Padres and what
they were going to do to the Mets.
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And like they just kind of built like their team chemistry even further.
And I don't know, man, like just listening to that interview, I already had it in my
mind that the fucking Dodgers were going to take this series against all.
It's still being played out.
But Dodgers are essentially up to against the Yankees.
But now we're getting to the fucking game.
So I wake up, I drive to fucking Dodger Stadium at I think I arrive probably around 10 o'clock.
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So the game's at five o'clock and I'm already there.
What three or two, seven hours in advance.
Yeah.
So before I even go to the stadium, I go to a Philippe's the sandwich place and funny
enough, like 30 minutes after the fact, after, after I leave oral Hersheiser was at Philippe.
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So I probably could have fucking seen him if I stuck around long enough, but whatever.
And ironically for it being the world series, the line.
So we did an episode on Shohei Otani bobblehead night, right?
The line went from the fucking gate, Vince Scully way or whatever.
It went from the, that gate all the way down to police, the police academy and the world
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series.
There was only like a hundred people waiting outside the game.
What the fuck is going on?
That's crazy.
Yeah.
And then at like two o'clock, so I was just kind of like lingering around, you know, that's
interrupted, but just to, I think that kind of goes with the theme that we've been talking
about with like world series, super bowl, WrestleMania, the tickets are so expensive.
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The diehards aren't able to afford it for the most part.
Maybe it's rich people that are just going cause that, cause like, again, that the diehards
went to go get the Shohei Otani, right?
Like bobbleheads, they're fucking there.
Hello early.
This is the world series.
Let's be real.
I know offense to, well, I mean, fuck Shohei Otani, but no offense to him in general.
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The world series is bigger than Shohei Otani bobblehead night.
That should be, people should be lined up at nine AM, eight AM.
They should be lined up to fucking get into the building.
Right?
So sorry, go ahead.
Oh yeah.
So it paled in comparison to what Shohei Otani did on his own fucking bobblehead night.
I really don't understand why that's the case.
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Like I mean, we could speculate about it.
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, I was talking to this dude cause we were looking at like, they have this vigil
for Fernando who had recently passed away this past week.
Weird also weird timing that he fucking died like the same week the Dodgers start the world
series already bad juju for the fucking Yankees.
Yep.
That's fucked.
Cause I told you dude, it's the tragedy complex.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
That's it's playing out, especially with the way this game ended.
Yeah.
I mean, Freddie Freeman having that issue that he had with his kid or whatever.
And not only in game one, he hits the first ever walk off grand slam in extra fucking
in just not only the first walk off grand slam in history, but the first walk off grand
slam in history and it went to extra innings.
Then in game two, he hits another fucking dinger.
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Yeah.
The tragedy, the Dodgers will win this world series.
Yeah.
That's just what's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
But, so I'm talking to this guy next to me and he tells me cause we're just kind of like
shooting the shit around while we were in line.
And he's like, man, I, I drove down from Sacramento eight hours to fucking come to this game.
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And technically my grandpa's funeral is tomorrow.
But he's like, he was a Dodgers fan.
And like, I know he would have wanted me to go to this game, even though like his funeral
is the fucking tomorrow.
I'm like, damn, that's cool.
And so then I go inside the stadium and again, like the line for the gates were just, it's
minimal.
I'm like, what the fuck?
And then Kcal nine fucking asked me if I wanted to be interviewed.
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I said fucking no.
Cause I don't want to, I don't want to be on the, I don't want to be on the cameras
or whatever.
And you could have been like, yeah, check out true room in the pine.
You fucking asshole.
And so they ended up interviewing the guy I was talking to and I was like, dude, why
don't you tell him the story about your grandpa?
Cause he was talking, but they didn't get the juicy bits about like the conversation.
Yeah.
So it kind of sucked.
Well, game rage exclusive, the guy had fucking Dodger stadium that was on channel nine.
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I got his phone number.
Maybe he could.
Yeah.
And you had to write them up.
So then pretty much from there on out, I was hanging out at reserve level, which is like
the second deck from the top.
And I was hanging outside behind home plate, but it's probably like 50 yards or 30 yards
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from like where home plate is a step from where I was standing.
But I was just, I kept talking to that fucking dude.
And then in the meantime, like big, big poppy, like David Ortiz, a rod fucking Derek Jeter,
they walked right by us.
I couldn't pull out my phone quick enough, but at the same token, I was thinking, fuck
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these guys.
They picked every other team besides the Dodgers and every guy.
So I was like, I don't even care if we fuck these guys.
And then I go to my seat and then the game unfolds and I don't really want to spend so
much time on like the game itself because the game itself was like fucking amazing.
I never had any doubt that they were going to lose because of just the weird shit that
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was happening.
Fernando passing away and then also them doing like a memorial for him during the, or rather
before the game.
That was, that was cool.
Cause like, I mean, he's, I don't remember all the shit that my dad said about Fernando
cause they're technically from like the same village, but they talk highly of him because
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it was like, it's basically unlikely that somebody like him would go to the MLB and
succeed as well as he did.
Even though baseball is in Mexico, it for a lot of people of like Latin descent or whatever,
seeing somebody like that succeed is like, that is the American dream that it's possible
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for somebody to come into this country and achieve being a world series champion and
to pitch as well as he did.
That's like, that's like a, that's a story to be told for immigrants like, you know,
across the world.
And it's, it, it means so much to Mexicans because like that's our guy or whatever.
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And you know, hear my dad talk about that, my brother and it's, you know, it's wild or
whatever.
The thing they said that really pissed me off was when they were talking about Fernando
by himself, like, uh, what were they saying?
They said he had the body of a working class man and they said he had an arm of like, I
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don't know what they said, what they said, but why did you have to say he was working
class?
Obviously like the dude has got like a bit of a rotund figure in the gut, right?
Yeah.
Like they're calling him fat without, I'm like, dude, okay.
So if it were the case that the Padres were making a memorial of Tony Gwyn, who was like
a fat fuck.
I'll tell you what, man, Tony Gwyn is probably one of the greatest hitters of all time.
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Well, at least of our generation of fans.
I mean, yeah, maybe Ted Williams was the previous generation.
Tony Gwyn was a Ted Williams of our like generation.
Oh yeah.
No, I'm not, but I'm not.
What I'm saying is it's that video where that guy's doing, he's shirtless and he's doing
that skit.
He's a rollerblading and he does that flip out of the bowl and he goes, I don't know
who needs to hear this, but this is peak male performance.
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Yeah.
And listen, let's be honest, it doesn't matter what you look like.
What matters is your performance level.
Tony Gwyn had strikeouts, less strikeouts in an entire year than most dudes had in like
a fucking, I don't know, a game almost.
Like it's crazy.
But yeah, Fernando Valenzuela, same thing.
Yeah, sure.
He didn't look, he wasn't shredded.
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He wasn't like a fucking.
He wasn't like a pencil, pencil thin fucker like Oral Hersheiser.
Yeah, Oral Hersheiser.
And again, Oral Hersheiser, another, I don't know, peak Dodger of like that mid to late
nineties fucking period where, or maybe even early nineties or whatever.
Eighties.
Eighties to nineties.
Yeah, he was, he was a fucking peak member of that Dodgers fucking, you know, team or
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whatever.
Yeah.
You know, when they weren't really doing jack shit.
But anyways, so yeah, he wasn't, Fernando Valenzuela wasn't a peak Adonis.
He was a physical performance, right?
Yeah.
So I'm like, why did you even fucking mention that?
This is a memorial for him.
Why are you calling him working class?
Like as if.
I gotta bring that up.
As if it's supposed to be endearing, but it comes across as more as condescending.
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It is.
Yeah.
It's giving him his flowers, but then also fucking saying he's fat.
Yeah.
But anyways, they did the flyover.
That shit was cool because they had like F-16s and then I think like a blue hornet or I don't
know.
Yeah, there were, the video you sent me, there were three F-18s and one F-16 in the middle
of the thing.
Oh, okay.
Nevermind.
That was sweet.
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That was sweet as fuck, man.
That was pretty cool.
Yeah.
So as I was saying, the game fucking unravels and like, I'll just get to the key points.
Yeah.
Dodgers take the lead on Sac Fly, John Carlos Stanton, Jack Flirty, who I was, I didn't
know what the fuck to expect out of him.
I was thinking if he could give us four, four innings, that'd be fucking amazing, especially
if they were scoreless.
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So Dodgers take the lead.
John Carlos Stanton has a person.
I think Aaron Judge got on base or Juan Soto got on base and then John Carlos Stanton hits
like a ball.
It wasn't even a bad pitch.
He just like swung out in front of it and like he just dug it out and it fucking ended
up in left field like by the foul pole.
I was like, fuck my life, dude.
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So everybody was like, the guy that I was sitting next to, he was like, fuck man.
He's like, fuck, fuck.
He literally said, fuck the entire goddamn game.
And he's like, oh, I don't know why I came.
He's like, man, I'm not ready for this shit.
I'm like, man, you see him like mellow out, man.
So we get towards the end of the game where the Dodgers get themselves in a position to
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tie it up in the ninth with, I can't remember who singled, but I think it was another sack
fly situation that they ended up, it was Mookie Betts hitting a ball in center field, Aaron
Judge catching it and then the runner advancing and getting to home plate to make it 2-2.
And then we get to the 10th inning where the fucking Yankees take the 3-2 lead because
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Blake Trine gave up a run.
And then we end up in fucking the 10th fucking inning where everybody's like, fuck dude,
what the fuck is going to happen?
And it was a roller coaster of a game because the Dodgers are in the lead and the Yankees
then we square it up in the ninth.
Like I thought the Dodgers were going to walk it off in the ninth and then we get to the
10th, I didn't know this, but they don't do the rule where there's a runner on the second
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base like in the regular season.
It just plays out like a regular inning, like in the playoffs.
So I was like, oh cool, so then there's no runners on base.
If somebody gets a single, it's not automatically like a most likely a-
A score.
A RBI single, right?
So that was cool.
So then we get to the bottom of the 10th, two outs, the bases are fucking loaded.
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They walk Mookie Betts to make the bases loaded because they're like, well, Freddie hasn't
fucking hit since he's been back or rather like in the playoffs, like he hasn't been
too hot.
So it's like, okay, we'll take our chances.
So then the Yankees fucking put Nestor Cortez who hasn't pitched in two goddamn months.
That was terrible.
That was a shitty decision, man.
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So then he fucking pitches them inside like a fucking meatball, dude.
I'll tell you what, okay, because Freddie Freeman is a left-handed batter.
Yeah.
He's a right-handed pitcher and that angle that you're throwing at, if you throw anything
on the inside half-
You just see it, right?
It's gone.
You just, you see it, you know exactly what it is and you're fucking chucking it to wherever.
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And the second, I'll be honest with you, cause I watched that game too, right?
The second I saw his, the ball come out of his hand, I'm like, it's gone.
He just hit a grand fucking slam.
There's no fucking way that this ball is going to maintain in the park.
And I saw it at the trajectory and I'm like, it's going to be on the inside half.
Yes, for sure.
It's done.
And the second he makes contact with it, I'm like, it's gone.
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It's done.
It's fucking toast.
Dude, I mean, I couldn't tell from him throwing the ball, but the launch angle, like when
you see it-
Gone.
You just knew, dude, because-
No doubt.
Yeah, it was a no doubter.
And man, crowd erupts.
Yeah.
The dude that was like livid about the run that the Yankees scored to put them up three-two.
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Oh man, we were like, he was like covering his face.
Like he was putting his head on my shoulders throughout Freddie Freeman's at bat.
And then like we were watching the, the at bat unfold.
And when he fucking hit that ball, we were like fucking jumping.
And then we hugged for like the entirety of Freddie Freeman rounding the bases and shit.
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And then him eventually meeting like the rest of the team and shit.
We hugged for like a good five fucking minutes.
And there was this dickhead fucking Yankees fan that was just like talking mad shit.
And he would go up and down the fucking alleyways of like the sections and shit.
And he's like, oh fuck, you fucked the Dodgers and all this bullshit.
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And dude, he, he did not hear a fucking peep out of him after Freddie Freeman got that
homer.
And then it, you know, it was more like playful banter because that guy ended up walking to
this other dickhead that was like a Dodgers fan that was talking shit to him too.
And they ended up like shaking hands or whatever.
It was more like, you know, banter, you know, yeah, shit talking, but it wasn't like bad
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blood or anything.
Right.
And that's one of the things that's great about baseball is like that game was an excellent
fucking game.
I mean, there's no going extra innings game one of the world series that extra innings
in the world series is rare enough to have it happen game one.
And then to have it end in the way it did, it brings people together, man.
Even like you didn't know this fucking guy.
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And that's one thing that's great about baseball.
I feel like more than any other sport, man, that shit, like it's such a fucking toss up
because of the way that the game goes and the way it's played that when you experience
this shit with somebody, it's like, fuck man, I don't know you, but like we're on the same
side and like, fuck yeah, man.
Like it's crazy.
Yeah.
The, uh, I mean, I was already thinking if the Dodgers, cause the top of the order for
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that game, the bottom of the 10th, they had Tommy Edmond, who's basically a lead off hitter.
Like he's small, but he can just get on base.
Yeah.
Uh, they started that he was at the bottom of the order in nine, right?
And then it's Shohei Otani who flyed out and then Mookie Betts gets on.
And then I forget who else gets on base.
And then that leads to like Freddie Freeman, right?
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Yeah.
So knowing that going into the 10th, that it was setting up for the top of the order
to, to essentially like bat for the win, uh, for the walk off.
I was like, this game's over.
Like even, even if I wasn't sure, like in the mind, I just felt like it was happy.
It was going to happen because of the shit that already happened during the season with
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Freddie's kid, like having, I figured it was called like Gary air syndrome or whatever
the fuck it was called.
And his kid like having to walk, learning how to walk again.
Because he had paralysis in his fucking legs and um, it, like you couldn't fucking write
this any better, dude.
Like especially for this guy that hadn't hit during the playoffs because his fucking ankles
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fucked and that was the other thing.
It was very much like Kurt Gibson in the fucking 1980 world series.
Uh, couldn't fucking walk and Freddie, who's probably knocked up with cortisone shots like
every six hours or who the fuck knows.
And uh, it's so strange that it just ended up rhyming with something that happened 40
or 36 years ago, wherever the, I don't know the math, but even Joe Davis, who was the
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Dodgers commentator gave something that was shades of Vince Cully.
She's gone.
Like that's, that's the fucking call from the 98 or the 88 world series.
So uh, man, that was like peak fucking baseball.
I literally saw the greatest game of baseball, like in my opinion, it's the greatest postseason
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victory ever.
It's the greatest game of baseball I've ever fucking seen.
Um, game two, just to kind of gloss over it.
Uh, man, there was so much shit talked about Yamamoto coming to the Dodgers and him being
paid $325 million.
And uh, yeah, he didn't really exhibit signs of his like excellency throughout the season.
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Like he, we saw flashes of him doing well and funny enough, like the one game that he
actually performed extremely well was against the Yankees.
He carved their fucking shit up because the Yankees are one of the worst teams that end
up chasing pitches and that's exactly what he fucking did against them.
And um, so he basically proved all the fucking haters wrong.
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And I mean, we should have expected this because this, this is the guy that won two back to
back sour, Mura, sour, Mura awards, which are equivalent to the Cy Young awards.
He had a sub two ERA.
Uh, so like the dude was good.
I didn't give a fuck.
Like if he was going to perform well in the regular season, nobody gives a shit about
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that shit.
It's all that matters in the playoff.
Yeah.
Like the Dodgers postseason, I've seen it numerous times.
Clayton Kershaw three times Cy Young award winner, sub two ERA.
Like at one point is every time every time who gives a shit, dude, I don't give a fuck
about the regular season.
The guy is not clutch when it comes to the postseason, right?
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Yamamoto who had been pedestrian, like pretty much throughout the season ended up being
like the best player.
Like he did six and one third inning for the second game.
And I'll say this too.
Okay.
Just cause this series has been touted from the beginning as Aaron judge versus Shohei
Otani, right?
Yeah.
The thing is in throughout two games, both of them really haven't done shit.
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Like the most impactful moments of the game have not been attributed to them at all.
And they're basically like, to be perfectly honest, both of them have essentially been
non-factors realistically offensively in this series.
And I actually kind of like that.
I think that's cool to see guys that aren't typically your ones who, again, they're stepping
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up in the playoffs, maybe in the regular season.
Listen, Shohei Otani went 50 and 50 or whatever fucking for the first time ever, right?
And not to go on a rant about Shohei Otani, but his time on the angels and like everything
that he did to me, like this kind of shows like Shohei Otani is a very selfish player.
He's very much like, he's not like a team player guy essentially.
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And again, him coming in and taking a dude's number, that's the fucking prime example of
that, right?
And yes, individually he does great.
Just like he did for the angels, individually he was a standout player.
But when it comes to, this is his first appearance in really the post season since he's been
in the major leagues.
Yeah.
And granted, I don't know what the exact numbers are for the post season previous to the world
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series, but thus far through two games in the world series, he's been non-effective
at all in terms of offense.
He's gotten on base, but it's not like-
He's like two for fucking nine or two for 10 or something like that.
Yeah.
And he's just like the course of the thing and it's like, he's not putting up the numbers
he was putting up against.
He got thrown out in game two, trying to steal second and he fucking dislocated his shoulder.
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Yeah.
And that wasn't even necessary.
I mean, sure, it's like to have the potential to score one more insurance run in the, I
forgot what any it was, but he didn't have to do that and he ended up getting injured
and it's like, whatever dude, whatever.
And I think that going into games three, four and five in New York, I think narratively
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how I don't think that the MLB, again, I don't think they want this to end in four.
They don't want a sweep to happen.
No, I don't think they do either.
I think the Yankees take the next three games and then I think they go back to Dodger Stadium,
the Dodgers pick up six, it's tied three, three.
I think they take this to game seven, man.
I think that's what needs to happen.
I don't think it goes to game seven.
I think for sure, maybe they lose two and they take one in-
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They win it in, or they take one in New York, come back and win it in six.
But I'd be shocked to see it go four, one, the series-
There's no way.
Yeah.
Yeah, five, one because I don't think, I don't want to say you want to leave it the chance
to take it to game six and bring it back to-
LA.
LA and for them to win it then, because you don't want to take, dude, you want to win the
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World Series as soon as possible.
If you're two wins away, you want to sweep.
Yeah, you want to win it now.
But because of baseball wanting this, or even for people to hate this scenario but can't
help but watch, this thing has to go to at least six.
So I'm already prepared for this thing to end up being a six game series in my head.
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But best case, it ends up being five, four, four, one because I just don't see how the
Yankees, I just don't personally see how the Yankees can pull out of this.
And if you get another round of Yamamoto, that's fucking it.
You're toast.
Nobody's touching that splitter, nobody's touching that curve ball.
If Jack Flaherty gives another fucking quality start, then that's also a no-no.
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It really all hinges on how this game plays out with Walker Bueller, who also just came
off of getting his second Tommy John surgery.
And he has proven he's been capable of pitching in the playoffs, which he did against the
Mets.
So all we need to see is if he ends up getting the win tomorrow, and then if they lose the
next two games, fuck it, whatever.
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Take it back home, win game six, and be done with it.
The only criticism I had of Yamamoto was I think he did a great job because he got the
job done, right?
I felt like his pitch count went a little higher too quickly because he threw like 19
pitches in the first inning.
Oh yeah, he's notorious for that.
The first fucking inning, dude, it's every fucking start.
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He just can't get out within 30 pitches or less, and this was also the case.
So he got up to like 50-something pitches in like three innings, but I'll give him this.
He went like what, five and a half or six innings?
He went to like six and a third or six and two thirds.
Six and a third or something like that, or six and two thirds.
He did the job, man.
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He fucking earned that World Series win.
And the fucking thing is he only pitched 85 pitches.
Motherfuckers in the 80s and probably in the 70s and 90s, they threw 140 pitches in one
fucking game, dude.
And they were going like eight innings, maybe eight in like a third.
So it's like, man, I'm really tired of seeing these guys being coddled or being pulled out.
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Let them fucking pitch, dude.
They're starting pitching.
But anyways, long story short, I think I witnessed the greatest playoff game ever fucking played
to see the first walk off grand slam, dude.
I'll never forget that shit.
That is embedded in my memory.
I didn't even pull out my phone to record this shit because there's plenty of people
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that have video of this shit.
I didn't even want to take the chance.
I'm like, I'm not going to pull my phone and miss out on this guy fucking hitting this grand
slam.
Like my eyes were fucking locked in and I have that shit embedded in my head.
So at the very least, like we get to talk about it here on this fucking episode.
So yeah, for sure.
And you know, it's cool.
Like, Hey, I got to see Shohei Otani's first home run and his first dislocation game as
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a major league baseball player.
All right.
Like that was pretty sweet.
You got to see fucking the first walk off grand slam in a world series history.
Yeah.
Uh, fucking amazing.
Great, great times all around.
Oh yeah, dude, I think baseball has never been in a better position.
Like it's more interesting in the NFL to me.
It's always been there.
I mean, baseball is like my number one sport, but like football, I guess is like the number
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one priority for the U S but I don't know about this now, dude.
I think baseball is like, baseball is coming back.
It's coming up.
All right.
And, uh, you know, we'll see where it goes.
But anyways, uh, shit, you got anything more to add for this one?
No, I mean, fuck.
Well, I guess we'll talk about when they win the world series, I guess, or if whatever
that happens happens.
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Maybe we'll see the Dodgers win.
I will say this.
I have been an asshole and I've been going around to places and saying go Yankees and
cause I hate the Dodgers.
So like everybody in LA wants to murder me at this point and, uh, you know, it's fine.
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I'll take it.
I debated buying a Yankee hat just to be an asshole, but I'm not paying 50 bucks for a
goddamn hat that I'm going to work for two weeks.
Fitted cap dude.
Fuck that.
Fuck that.
All right.
That was also not including shipping.
It would have been like $75.
Oh, fuck my life.
Just to wear it for like two weeks.
No fuck way.
No fucking way.
So I ended up just on a side note, I ended up going on to NHL shop.
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I bought a golden Knights hat for fucking like $8 a flex fit.
It's that shitty fanatics material.
We'll do an episode about fanatics material shit.
Cause it's garbage.
Dude, the fucking the hockey jerseys have the fucking fanatics stitching.
And I'm like, fuck this dude.
What's funny too is the MLB shop is run by fanatics, but guess what?
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They're still wearing Nike jerseys.
It's like, well yeah, like fucking Nike makes the jerseys, right?
Yeah.
So sold by fanatics or whatever.
Yeah.
It's, I don't think the MLB is going to fucking risk going to fanatics jersey.
I think Nike licensed them making the jerseys.
Yeah.
So they're going to have that, but the shitty quality, but now they're going back to what
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they were before next year.
But I'm sure there's going to be a clearance for Jersey.
So if you want to buy a shitty Jersey, buy a shitty fanatics angels Jersey for fucking
nothing and then disintegrate like 10, 10 minutes later in a week.
But yeah.
So, and then I also bought some Patriots hats for fuck.
Cause those are on sale too.
So that's one of the things that's great about your teams that suck is that you don't, it's
cheap as shit.
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I bought some Patriots hats that were from like 2022.
All right.
I got them for like $9.
I think I spent $40 including shipping and they're going to be here Tuesday.
So the gold Knights hat, fuck man.
It got here in a day.
Got here the next day and I paid $22 with shipping and the hat.
It's fucking insane.
So it is.
Fantastic.
All right.
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That'll be the end of it.
We'll catch you guys on the next one.
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Time to fucking rage it is.
Well, I mean, I don't know if it's raging.
Adam probably won't be raging because he's very happy about this obviously because today
we're going to talk about Adam getting the experience of a lifetime and going to game
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one of the fucking world series at Dodger Stadium.
I mean, that's going to a world series in general is not something that a lot of people
can fucking say.
I think.
Yeah, I think I already, I've been to a world series before in 2017.
I can't remember which game it was that I went to, but that kind of ruined the experience
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for me, especially because they fucking lost.
But I thought I'll give it another shot.
I'll fucking buy a ticket and just fuck, you know, I might as well enjoy this regardless
if they win or lose.
Yeah.
And I have to say, man, I had a bit of buyer's remorse.
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Oh, at the beginning.
At the beginning.
Yes, I had a bit of buy.
But not at the end, right?
No, it like.
All right.
Well, before we get into it fully.
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All right.
Let's go back to it.
So you had buyer's remorse a little bit once you did it.
Now I will say this to provide context.
You were debating.
You were debating buying a sixty dollar fucking sweater.
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Yes, a dog sweatshirt.
Okay.
You were you were like, I don't know if I want to spend the money.
Yeah.
And you literally dropped how much on a ticket to go to Game One of World Series.
All right.
So this might have to be a business business expense.
This is by far the most expensive episode of a podcast we've ever done.
Yeah.
The ticket.
I bought it.
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I bought it the day before the game itself.
So you got it from a reseller, right?
It was from Game Time.
And I bought it for nine sixty one.
And of course, I was out the door, right?
Out the door.
Nine sixty nine sixty one.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then it was so like it was probably closer to face value.
And I paid probably like sixteen extra dollars or roughly thereabouts.
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And I could have gotten it cheaper like the day of.
But did the prices go down?
They did.
They went because people weren't buying them or they were buying them.
I sell tickets.
I don't know if it was because people weren't buying them, but there were a slew of tickets
available and they ended up being like two hundred three hundred dollars cheaper than
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what I bought it for.
So I didn't even bother looking at that because I was also thinking because if you buy
it the day of, it's not said.
I can't remember where I bought a ticket, but I did buy it on Game Time.
But they tell you like it may take up to three hours for it to process and the ticket to
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be transferred over to you in the M.O.B.
ballpark app.
OK.
So if like you buy a ticket the day of and you let's say I got it for six hundred, right?
OK.
So if I bought it at twelve o'clock getting a great fucking deal and I showed up at the
stadium at like two or three and I'm in gridlock and I don't actually get to the stadium until
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the first any of the fucking game, I'd be fucking pissed.
That's why I bought it on Thursday as an insurance policy to make sure that I got there on time
with the ticket in hand.
But as you're saying, I mean, I was I was debating over buying a goddamn sweater for
a goddamn week or a hoodie rather.
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And then World Series happens.
Dodgers beat the Mets in a wall.
What was a four to series win for them?
So I was like, man, I don't know when the next time I'm going to be able to go to a
World Series and let alone a Dodgers versus Yankees World Series, which is like it's peak
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baseball basically.
And I will say I had a bit of buyer's remorse because it's it's not really about the cost.
It's just the it's just the amount of fucking pain being a Dodgers fan is like I've seen
so much shit from like me being a kid going through all the shitty 90s years and the 2000s
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like when Frank McCourt was the owner and I think Fox was the owner before that, like
what's Bernie Madoff?
I think I don't know if it was.
Yeah, there was some sort of like that Bernie Madoff like deal fucked the Dodgers because
they were heavily invested in that or whatever.
So there was that the team was fucking cheap.
You know, they were dog shit for a while and it wasn't until Guggenheim baseball ended
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up taking over and then installing Farhan Zaydi and Andrew Friedman as the front office
of the Dodgers.
And what is now becoming they're not exactly a baseball dynasty, but they're becoming one
of the better teams for like a decade.
2011.
I mean, dude, that shit was great.
It was like Clayton Kershaw at his best.
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They brought in Zach Greinke, who had a Cy Young caliber year and he won the Cy Young.
But it wasn't there.
Like there was the pitching was excellent, but the hitting was lacking and the bullpen
sucked.
So they made the playoffs, get bounced, make the playoffs, play the St. Louis Cardinals
like three or four times, get their ass kicked.
And then they played in the NLCS like I think in 2015 or 2016 against the New York Mets.
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And then that Chase Utley slide happened where he slid in and the dude ended up breaking
his arm because he was like he really went into him.
So then shitty year for that and then like the year that the the Cubs won in 2016 or
whatever.
Yeah.
So that the Mets one must have been 2015 Dodgers play the fucking Cubs lose and then the Cubs
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go on to win their first championship.
And I think I forgot like it's 1908.
So 108 years or some shit.
Yeah.
And something like that.
And I'll say this, too, like what's crazy, like it's it's as much as I hate the Dodgers,
right?
Because I'm an asshole.
OK, it does.
It does.
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I was a Dodgers guy from like the early 90s all the way up until maybe like the early
2000s, like right pre 9 11, maybe maybe even like 99.
I don't know what the year exactly was that this fucking thing happened that turned me
against the Dodgers forever.
Yes, it's fucking stupid.
OK.
So I was a kid and that's that sucks.
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And I wore Dodger blue all the time and I was a Dodger guy.
I love the Dodgers.
And, you know, that event happened and I fucking needed to turn.
So I the next closest team was the Angels, right?
And I got lucky in turning into them from 99 or 2000.
And then we won a World Series literally two years later, two or three years later.
Mike Sausche.
That was lucky.
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Yeah, that was luck.
All right.
That was the Angels probably by all rights should not have.
They were the wild card team that season.
So they probably by all rights should not have fucking won the actual fucking World Series
that year.
And again, haven't won a World Series since.
And if the current ownership doesn't change or change their philosophy, they probably
will never win the one again.
But it's it's crazy because like, again, I still again, I remember watching, you know,
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dude fucking my piazza, my piazza, Eric Caroll's fucking role, mindless, wrong, on to see,
dude, the fucking the cocaine addict himself, man, Rob Monahan, see, like love blowing hookers,
man.
Like, what a great what a great time that was for the Dodgers.
But they suck.
They weren't good.
Like they didn't win.
They didn't go to the playoffs much many years.
They didn't go to the World Series really ever during those periods of time.
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And I remember sitting there listening to Vince Scully.
Like that's the voice of a generation.
Right.
I mean, Vince Scully is baseball time for that.
We have the fucking clip as a goddamn thing that we use as a soundbite on this show because
Vince Scully to me just doesn't represent.
I mean, that's baseball.
That's baseball in California baseball.
I don't know if you're an angels or a fucking Padres fan.
You got nothing that compares to Vin fucking Scully.
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All right.
Tommy Lasorda fucking being like nobody's got maybe Mike Sosha kind of got there.
But like he wasn't a gangster like Tommy Lasorda fucking was.
Yeah.
I mean, but again, just to be clear, I hate the fucking Dodgers.
OK, even though I'm talking very nicely about them right now, I will say that this is a
this series thus far.
I mean, you went to game one.
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Yeah.
Game two.
So far, these two series.
Yeah.
The Dodgers are up 2-0.
OK.
These have been two great games.
I mean, regardless, game one.
What was your experience like at the stadium?
Oh, fuck.
I was working to that.
OK, because I still had said I still have shit to say about like even just like working
myself through the fucking decades.
Like, yeah, yeah, man.
Good.
Manny Ramirez.
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Oh, wait.
When you fucking arrive from Boston Red Sox because he was being a dickhead on them.
I mean, it was the greatest shit ever.
Like that year, Manny Mania was fucking or Manny Wood was made.
Dude, he hit like I don't know how many bombs he fucking hit.
He was batting like three twenty two from the second half of the season on.
And then obviously he resides with the Dodgers.
And but they never really had the team to get to the World Series.
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And it's it was always that like it was it was one thing or the other.
If it was the hitting that was on point, the fucking pitching sucked dick.
But yeah, I mean, I've been a Dodgers fan for as long as I can remember.
I remember being the fucking bleachers and seeing fucking Hideo Nomo pitch.
Like I remember fucking going to the 76 gas station that's in the ballpark itself.
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And Hideo Nomo was there with his fucking wife.
I didn't ask him for an autograph, but I would distinctly remember that in my head.
So I always remember Japanese players on the fucking Dodgers and Chan Ho Park.
I mean, yeah, South Korean, but Asians like I remember Asian players on the Dodgers and
shit never got to experience for Nandomania because that was like two years after I was
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born or rather his career started like way before that.
But the 88 World Series, like I that was two years after I was born, didn't get to experience
such shit.
And then we get towards like the 2020s with like the 2020 World Series and then 2017 where
they lost against the Astros or where they cheated.
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So I don't know, like that's kind of everything leading up to this point.
So as I said before, buyers are more is a little bit because I've been burned so many
times watching the Dodgers in the playoffs that they lose.
So God damn much.
But I don't know, man, this year seemed different.
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I think I told you in I think I was telling you as the Dodgers were working through the
playoffs that this thing felt like a fucking simulation or a script.
Yeah, because I told you, man, like from the second half onwards, the bullpen for the Dodgers
had been so on point out of necessity because starting the starting pitchers had fallen
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off the map because they were getting injured or some other bullshit.
And then so to me, essentially, the bullpen had been doing dress rehearsals for the post
season and the hitting was there.
Like yeah, the hitting was there with Shohayatani, Mookie Betts, Teoscar Hernandez and like the
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the rest of the lineup.
The hitting was there.
It was whether like the starting pitching was going to show up.
And you know, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has been in addition in addition to the fucking
team, not knowing how he was going to pitch because he was coming off of his shoulder
injury that took him out for like three months from June from his start against the Yankees
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in June to September.
He only had two starts to like get ramped up again.
And he gets I think he gets fucked if I remember correctly.
He gets his shit rocked for one of the games in San Diego or rather I think it was in the
regular season.
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But he he flips the script and pitches well against the NLD, NLD series against the Padres.
And so I don't know, man, I just felt like there was this weird fucking aura about this
team and then watching.
Watching the NLCS like there's this interview with one of the relief pitchers, Brent Honeywell
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and fucking the third base and Max Muncie.
And they're talking about how like all they did for eight hours for their break for the
wild card series or like that period of time is like they all they did was hang out for
eight hours and talk baseball and like what they were going to do to the Padres and what
they were going to do to the Mets.
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And like they just kind of built like their team chemistry even further.
And I don't know, man, like just listening to that interview, I already had it in my
mind that the fucking Dodgers were going to take this series against all.
It's still being played out.
But Dodgers are essentially up to against the Yankees.
But now we're getting to the fucking game.
So I wake up, I drive to fucking Dodger Stadium at I think I arrive probably around 10 o'clock.
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So the game's at five o'clock and I'm already there.
What three or two, seven hours in advance.
Yeah.
So before I even go to the stadium, I go to a Philippe's the sandwich place and funny
enough, like 30 minutes after the fact, after, after I leave oral Hersheiser was at Philippe.
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So I probably could have fucking seen him if I stuck around long enough, but whatever.
And ironically for it being the world series, the line.
So we did an episode on Shohei Otani bobblehead night, right?
The line went from the fucking gate, Vince Scully way or whatever.
It went from the, that gate all the way down to police, the police academy and the world
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series.
There was only like a hundred people waiting outside the game.
What the fuck is going on?
That's crazy.
Yeah.
And then at like two o'clock, so I was just kind of like lingering around, you know, that's
interrupted, but just to, I think that kind of goes with the theme that we've been talking
about with like world series, super bowl, WrestleMania, the tickets are so expensive.
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The diehards aren't able to afford it for the most part.
Maybe it's rich people that are just going cause that, cause like, again, that the diehards
went to go get the Shohei Otani, right?
Like bobbleheads, they're fucking there.
Hello early.
This is the world series.
Let's be real.
I know offense to, well, I mean, fuck Shohei Otani, but no offense to him in general.
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The world series is bigger than Shohei Otani bobblehead night.
That should be, people should be lined up at nine AM, eight AM.
They should be lined up to fucking get into the building.
Right?
So sorry, go ahead.
Oh yeah.
So it paled in comparison to what Shohei Otani did on his own fucking bobblehead night.
I really don't understand why that's the case.
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Like I mean, we could speculate about it.
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, I was talking to this dude cause we were looking at like, they have this vigil
for Fernando who had recently passed away this past week.
Weird also weird timing that he fucking died like the same week the Dodgers start the world
series already bad juju for the fucking Yankees.
Yep.
That's fucked.
Cause I told you dude, it's the tragedy complex.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
That's it's playing out, especially with the way this game ended.
Yeah.
I mean, Freddie Freeman having that issue that he had with his kid or whatever.
And not only in game one, he hits the first ever walk off grand slam in extra fucking
in just not only the first walk off grand slam in history, but the first walk off grand
slam in history and it went to extra innings.
Then in game two, he hits another fucking dinger.
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Yeah.
The tragedy, the Dodgers will win this world series.
Yeah.
That's just what's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
But, so I'm talking to this guy next to me and he tells me cause we're just kind of like
shooting the shit around while we were in line.
And he's like, man, I, I drove down from Sacramento eight hours to fucking come to this game.
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And technically my grandpa's funeral is tomorrow.
But he's like, he was a Dodgers fan.
And like, I know he would have wanted me to go to this game, even though like his funeral
is the fucking tomorrow.
I'm like, damn, that's cool.
And so then I go inside the stadium and again, like the line for the gates were just, it's
minimal.
I'm like, what the fuck?
And then Kcal nine fucking asked me if I wanted to be interviewed.
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I said fucking no.
Cause I don't want to, I don't want to be on the, I don't want to be on the cameras
or whatever.
And you could have been like, yeah, check out true room in the pine.
You fucking asshole.
And so they ended up interviewing the guy I was talking to and I was like, dude, why
don't you tell him the story about your grandpa?
Cause he was talking, but they didn't get the juicy bits about like the conversation.
Yeah.
So it kind of sucked.
Well, game rage exclusive, the guy had fucking Dodger stadium that was on channel nine.
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I got his phone number.
Maybe he could.
Yeah.
And you had to write them up.
So then pretty much from there on out, I was hanging out at reserve level, which is like
the second deck from the top.
And I was hanging outside behind home plate, but it's probably like 50 yards or 30 yards
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from like where home plate is a step from where I was standing.
But I was just, I kept talking to that fucking dude.
And then in the meantime, like big, big poppy, like David Ortiz, a rod fucking Derek Jeter,
they walked right by us.
I couldn't pull out my phone quick enough, but at the same token, I was thinking, fuck
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these guys.
They picked every other team besides the Dodgers and every guy.
So I was like, I don't even care if we fuck these guys.
And then I go to my seat and then the game unfolds and I don't really want to spend so
much time on like the game itself because the game itself was like fucking amazing.
I never had any doubt that they were going to lose because of just the weird shit that
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was happening.
Fernando passing away and then also them doing like a memorial for him during the, or rather
before the game.
That was, that was cool.
Cause like, I mean, he's, I don't remember all the shit that my dad said about Fernando
cause they're technically from like the same village, but they talk highly of him because
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it was like, it's basically unlikely that somebody like him would go to the MLB and
succeed as well as he did.
Even though baseball is in Mexico, it for a lot of people of like Latin descent or whatever,
seeing somebody like that succeed is like, that is the American dream that it's possible
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for somebody to come into this country and achieve being a world series champion and
to pitch as well as he did.
That's like, that's like a, that's a story to be told for immigrants like, you know,
across the world.
And it's, it, it means so much to Mexicans because like that's our guy or whatever.
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And you know, hear my dad talk about that, my brother and it's, you know, it's wild or
whatever.
The thing they said that really pissed me off was when they were talking about Fernando
by himself, like, uh, what were they saying?
They said he had the body of a working class man and they said he had an arm of like, I
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don't know what they said, what they said, but why did you have to say he was working
class?
Obviously like the dude has got like a bit of a rotund figure in the gut, right?
Yeah.
Like they're calling him fat without, I'm like, dude, okay.
So if it were the case that the Padres were making a memorial of Tony Gwyn, who was like
a fat fuck.
I'll tell you what, man, Tony Gwyn is probably one of the greatest hitters of all time.
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Well, at least of our generation of fans.
I mean, yeah, maybe Ted Williams was the previous generation.
Tony Gwyn was a Ted Williams of our like generation.
Oh yeah.
No, I'm not, but I'm not.
What I'm saying is it's that video where that guy's doing, he's shirtless and he's doing
that skit.
He's a rollerblading and he does that flip out of the bowl and he goes, I don't know
who needs to hear this, but this is peak male performance.
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Yeah.
And listen, let's be honest, it doesn't matter what you look like.
What matters is your performance level.
Tony Gwyn had strikeouts, less strikeouts in an entire year than most dudes had in like
a fucking, I don't know, a game almost.
Like it's crazy.
But yeah, Fernando Valenzuela, same thing.
Yeah, sure.
He didn't look, he wasn't shredded.
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He wasn't like a fucking.
He wasn't like a pencil, pencil thin fucker like Oral Hersheiser.
Yeah, Oral Hersheiser.
And again, Oral Hersheiser, another, I don't know, peak Dodger of like that mid to late
nineties fucking period where, or maybe even early nineties or whatever.
Eighties.
Eighties to nineties.
Yeah, he was, he was a fucking peak member of that Dodgers fucking, you know, team or
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whatever.
Yeah.
You know, when they weren't really doing jack shit.
But anyways, so yeah, he wasn't, Fernando Valenzuela wasn't a peak Adonis.
He was a physical performance, right?
Yeah.
So I'm like, why did you even fucking mention that?
This is a memorial for him.
Why are you calling him working class?
Like as if.
I gotta bring that up.
As if it's supposed to be endearing, but it comes across as more as condescending.
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It is.
Yeah.
It's giving him his flowers, but then also fucking saying he's fat.
Yeah.
But anyways, they did the flyover.
That shit was cool because they had like F-16s and then I think like a blue hornet or I don't
know.
Yeah, there were, the video you sent me, there were three F-18s and one F-16 in the middle
of the thing.
Oh, okay.
Nevermind.
That was sweet.
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That was sweet as fuck, man.
That was pretty cool.
Yeah.
So as I was saying, the game fucking unravels and like, I'll just get to the key points.
Yeah.
Dodgers take the lead on Sac Fly, John Carlos Stanton, Jack Flirty, who I was, I didn't
know what the fuck to expect out of him.
I was thinking if he could give us four, four innings, that'd be fucking amazing, especially
if they were scoreless.
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So Dodgers take the lead.
John Carlos Stanton has a person.
I think Aaron Judge got on base or Juan Soto got on base and then John Carlos Stanton hits
like a ball.
It wasn't even a bad pitch.
He just like swung out in front of it and like he just dug it out and it fucking ended
up in left field like by the foul pole.
I was like, fuck my life, dude.
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So everybody was like, the guy that I was sitting next to, he was like, fuck man.
He's like, fuck, fuck.
He literally said, fuck the entire goddamn game.
And he's like, oh, I don't know why I came.
He's like, man, I'm not ready for this shit.
I'm like, man, you see him like mellow out, man.
So we get towards the end of the game where the Dodgers get themselves in a position to
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tie it up in the ninth with, I can't remember who singled, but I think it was another sack
fly situation that they ended up, it was Mookie Betts hitting a ball in center field, Aaron
Judge catching it and then the runner advancing and getting to home plate to make it 2-2.
And then we get to the 10th inning where the fucking Yankees take the 3-2 lead because
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Blake Trine gave up a run.
And then we end up in fucking the 10th fucking inning where everybody's like, fuck dude,
what the fuck is going to happen?
And it was a roller coaster of a game because the Dodgers are in the lead and the Yankees
then we square it up in the ninth.
Like I thought the Dodgers were going to walk it off in the ninth and then we get to the
10th, I didn't know this, but they don't do the rule where there's a runner on the second
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base like in the regular season.
It just plays out like a regular inning, like in the playoffs.
So I was like, oh cool, so then there's no runners on base.
If somebody gets a single, it's not automatically like a most likely a-
A score.
A RBI single, right?
So that was cool.
So then we get to the bottom of the 10th, two outs, the bases are fucking loaded.
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They walk Mookie Betts to make the bases loaded because they're like, well, Freddie hasn't
fucking hit since he's been back or rather like in the playoffs, like he hasn't been
too hot.
So it's like, okay, we'll take our chances.
So then the Yankees fucking put Nestor Cortez who hasn't pitched in two goddamn months.
That was terrible.
That was a shitty decision, man.
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So then he fucking pitches them inside like a fucking meatball, dude.
I'll tell you what, okay, because Freddie Freeman is a left-handed batter.
Yeah.
He's a right-handed pitcher and that angle that you're throwing at, if you throw anything
on the inside half-
You just see it, right?
It's gone.
You just, you see it, you know exactly what it is and you're fucking chucking it to wherever.
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And the second, I'll be honest with you, cause I watched that game too, right?
The second I saw his, the ball come out of his hand, I'm like, it's gone.
He just hit a grand fucking slam.
There's no fucking way that this ball is going to maintain in the park.
And I saw it at the trajectory and I'm like, it's going to be on the inside half.
Yes, for sure.
It's done.
And the second he makes contact with it, I'm like, it's gone.
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It's done.
It's fucking toast.
Dude, I mean, I couldn't tell from him throwing the ball, but the launch angle, like when
you see it-
Gone.
You just knew, dude, because-
No doubt.
Yeah, it was a no doubter.
And man, crowd erupts.
Yeah.
The dude that was like livid about the run that the Yankees scored to put them up three-two.
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Oh man, we were like, he was like covering his face.
Like he was putting his head on my shoulders throughout Freddie Freeman's at bat.
And then like we were watching the, the at bat unfold.
And when he fucking hit that ball, we were like fucking jumping.
And then we hugged for like the entirety of Freddie Freeman rounding the bases and shit.
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And then him eventually meeting like the rest of the team and shit.
We hugged for like a good five fucking minutes.
And there was this dickhead fucking Yankees fan that was just like talking mad shit.
And he would go up and down the fucking alleyways of like the sections and shit.
And he's like, oh fuck, you fucked the Dodgers and all this bullshit.
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And dude, he, he did not hear a fucking peep out of him after Freddie Freeman got that
homer.
And then it, you know, it was more like playful banter because that guy ended up walking to
this other dickhead that was like a Dodgers fan that was talking shit to him too.
And they ended up like shaking hands or whatever.
It was more like, you know, banter, you know, yeah, shit talking, but it wasn't like bad
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blood or anything.
Right.
And that's one of the things that's great about baseball is like that game was an excellent
fucking game.
I mean, there's no going extra innings game one of the world series that extra innings
in the world series is rare enough to have it happen game one.
And then to have it end in the way it did, it brings people together, man.
Even like you didn't know this fucking guy.
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And that's one thing that's great about baseball.
I feel like more than any other sport, man, that shit, like it's such a fucking toss up
because of the way that the game goes and the way it's played that when you experience
this shit with somebody, it's like, fuck man, I don't know you, but like we're on the same
side and like, fuck yeah, man.
Like it's crazy.
Yeah.
The, uh, I mean, I was already thinking if the Dodgers, cause the top of the order for
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that game, the bottom of the 10th, they had Tommy Edmond, who's basically a lead off hitter.
Like he's small, but he can just get on base.
Yeah.
Uh, they started that he was at the bottom of the order in nine, right?
And then it's Shohei Otani who flyed out and then Mookie Betts gets on.
And then I forget who else gets on base.
And then that leads to like Freddie Freeman, right?
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Yeah.
So knowing that going into the 10th, that it was setting up for the top of the order
to, to essentially like bat for the win, uh, for the walk off.
I was like, this game's over.
Like even, even if I wasn't sure, like in the mind, I just felt like it was happy.
It was going to happen because of the shit that already happened during the season with
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Freddie's kid, like having, I figured it was called like Gary air syndrome or whatever
the fuck it was called.
And his kid like having to walk, learning how to walk again.
Because he had paralysis in his fucking legs and um, it, like you couldn't fucking write
this any better, dude.
Like especially for this guy that hadn't hit during the playoffs because his fucking ankles
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fucked and that was the other thing.
It was very much like Kurt Gibson in the fucking 1980 world series.
Uh, couldn't fucking walk and Freddie, who's probably knocked up with cortisone shots like
every six hours or who the fuck knows.
And uh, it's so strange that it just ended up rhyming with something that happened 40
or 36 years ago, wherever the, I don't know the math, but even Joe Davis, who was the
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Dodgers commentator gave something that was shades of Vince Cully.
She's gone.
Like that's, that's the fucking call from the 98 or the 88 world series.
So uh, man, that was like peak fucking baseball.
I literally saw the greatest game of baseball, like in my opinion, it's the greatest postseason
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victory ever.
It's the greatest game of baseball I've ever fucking seen.
Um, game two, just to kind of gloss over it.
Uh, man, there was so much shit talked about Yamamoto coming to the Dodgers and him being
paid $325 million.
And uh, yeah, he didn't really exhibit signs of his like excellency throughout the season.
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Like he, we saw flashes of him doing well and funny enough, like the one game that he
actually performed extremely well was against the Yankees.
He carved their fucking shit up because the Yankees are one of the worst teams that end
up chasing pitches and that's exactly what he fucking did against them.
And um, so he basically proved all the fucking haters wrong.
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And I mean, we should have expected this because this, this is the guy that won two back to
back sour, Mura, sour, Mura awards, which are equivalent to the Cy Young awards.
He had a sub two ERA.
Uh, so like the dude was good.
I didn't give a fuck.
Like if he was going to perform well in the regular season, nobody gives a shit about
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that shit.
It's all that matters in the playoff.
Yeah.
Like the Dodgers postseason, I've seen it numerous times.
Clayton Kershaw three times Cy Young award winner, sub two ERA.
Like at one point is every time every time who gives a shit, dude, I don't give a fuck
about the regular season.
The guy is not clutch when it comes to the postseason, right?
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Yamamoto who had been pedestrian, like pretty much throughout the season ended up being
like the best player.
Like he did six and one third inning for the second game.
And I'll say this too.
Okay.
Just cause this series has been touted from the beginning as Aaron judge versus Shohei
Otani, right?
Yeah.
The thing is in throughout two games, both of them really haven't done shit.
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Like the most impactful moments of the game have not been attributed to them at all.
And they're basically like, to be perfectly honest, both of them have essentially been
non-factors realistically offensively in this series.
And I actually kind of like that.
I think that's cool to see guys that aren't typically your ones who, again, they're stepping
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up in the playoffs, maybe in the regular season.
Listen, Shohei Otani went 50 and 50 or whatever fucking for the first time ever, right?
And not to go on a rant about Shohei Otani, but his time on the angels and like everything
that he did to me, like this kind of shows like Shohei Otani is a very selfish player.
He's very much like, he's not like a team player guy essentially.
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And again, him coming in and taking a dude's number, that's the fucking prime example of
that, right?
And yes, individually he does great.
Just like he did for the angels, individually he was a standout player.
But when it comes to, this is his first appearance in really the post season since he's been
in the major leagues.
Yeah.
And granted, I don't know what the exact numbers are for the post season previous to the world
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series, but thus far through two games in the world series, he's been non-effective
at all in terms of offense.
He's gotten on base, but it's not like-
He's like two for fucking nine or two for 10 or something like that.
Yeah.
And he's just like the course of the thing and it's like, he's not putting up the numbers
he was putting up against.
He got thrown out in game two, trying to steal second and he fucking dislocated his shoulder.
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Yeah.
And that wasn't even necessary.
I mean, sure, it's like to have the potential to score one more insurance run in the, I
forgot what any it was, but he didn't have to do that and he ended up getting injured
and it's like, whatever dude, whatever.
And I think that going into games three, four and five in New York, I think narratively
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how I don't think that the MLB, again, I don't think they want this to end in four.
They don't want a sweep to happen.
No, I don't think they do either.
I think the Yankees take the next three games and then I think they go back to Dodger Stadium,
the Dodgers pick up six, it's tied three, three.
I think they take this to game seven, man.
I think that's what needs to happen.
I don't think it goes to game seven.
I think for sure, maybe they lose two and they take one in-
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They win it in, or they take one in New York, come back and win it in six.
But I'd be shocked to see it go four, one, the series-
There's no way.
Yeah.
Yeah, five, one because I don't think, I don't want to say you want to leave it the chance
to take it to game six and bring it back to-
LA.
LA and for them to win it then, because you don't want to take, dude, you want to win the
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World Series as soon as possible.
If you're two wins away, you want to sweep.
Yeah, you want to win it now.
But because of baseball wanting this, or even for people to hate this scenario but can't
help but watch, this thing has to go to at least six.
So I'm already prepared for this thing to end up being a six game series in my head.
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But best case, it ends up being five, four, four, one because I just don't see how the
Yankees, I just don't personally see how the Yankees can pull out of this.
And if you get another round of Yamamoto, that's fucking it.
You're toast.
Nobody's touching that splitter, nobody's touching that curve ball.
If Jack Flaherty gives another fucking quality start, then that's also a no-no.
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It really all hinges on how this game plays out with Walker Bueller, who also just came
off of getting his second Tommy John surgery.
And he has proven he's been capable of pitching in the playoffs, which he did against the
Mets.
So all we need to see is if he ends up getting the win tomorrow, and then if they lose the
next two games, fuck it, whatever.
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Take it back home, win game six, and be done with it.
The only criticism I had of Yamamoto was I think he did a great job because he got the
job done, right?
I felt like his pitch count went a little higher too quickly because he threw like 19
pitches in the first inning.
Oh yeah, he's notorious for that.
The first fucking inning, dude, it's every fucking start.
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He just can't get out within 30 pitches or less, and this was also the case.
So he got up to like 50-something pitches in like three innings, but I'll give him this.
He went like what, five and a half or six innings?
He went to like six and a third or six and two thirds.
Six and a third or something like that, or six and two thirds.
He did the job, man.
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He fucking earned that World Series win.
And the fucking thing is he only pitched 85 pitches.
Motherfuckers in the 80s and probably in the 70s and 90s, they threw 140 pitches in one
fucking game, dude.
And they were going like eight innings, maybe eight in like a third.
So it's like, man, I'm really tired of seeing these guys being coddled or being pulled out.
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Let them fucking pitch, dude.
They're starting pitching.
But anyways, long story short, I think I witnessed the greatest playoff game ever fucking played
to see the first walk off grand slam, dude.
I'll never forget that shit.
That is embedded in my memory.
I didn't even pull out my phone to record this shit because there's plenty of people
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that have video of this shit.
I didn't even want to take the chance.
I'm like, I'm not going to pull my phone and miss out on this guy fucking hitting this grand
slam.
Like my eyes were fucking locked in and I have that shit embedded in my head.
So at the very least, like we get to talk about it here on this fucking episode.
So yeah, for sure.
And you know, it's cool.
Like, Hey, I got to see Shohei Otani's first home run and his first dislocation game as
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a major league baseball player.
All right.
Like that was pretty sweet.
You got to see fucking the first walk off grand slam in a world series history.
Yeah.
Uh, fucking amazing.
Great, great times all around.
Oh yeah, dude, I think baseball has never been in a better position.
Like it's more interesting in the NFL to me.
It's always been there.
I mean, baseball is like my number one sport, but like football, I guess is like the number
(37:56):
one priority for the U S but I don't know about this now, dude.
I think baseball is like, baseball is coming back.
It's coming up.
All right.
And, uh, you know, we'll see where it goes.
But anyways, uh, shit, you got anything more to add for this one?
No, I mean, fuck.
Well, I guess we'll talk about when they win the world series, I guess, or if whatever
that happens happens.
So anyways, uh, if you want to hear more of our shit, go to game rage magazine on YouTube,
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Maybe we'll see the Dodgers win.
I will say this.
I have been an asshole and I've been going around to places and saying go Yankees and
cause I hate the Dodgers.
So like everybody in LA wants to murder me at this point and, uh, you know, it's fine.
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I'll take it.
I debated buying a Yankee hat just to be an asshole, but I'm not paying 50 bucks for a
goddamn hat that I'm going to work for two weeks.
Fitted cap dude.
Fuck that.
Fuck that.
All right.
That was also not including shipping.
It would have been like $75.
Oh, fuck my life.
Just to wear it for like two weeks.
No fuck way.
No fucking way.
So I ended up just on a side note, I ended up going on to NHL shop.
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I bought a golden Knights hat for fucking like $8 a flex fit.
It's that shitty fanatics material.
We'll do an episode about fanatics material shit.
Cause it's garbage.
Dude, the fucking the hockey jerseys have the fucking fanatics stitching.
And I'm like, fuck this dude.
What's funny too is the MLB shop is run by fanatics, but guess what?
(39:19):
They're still wearing Nike jerseys.
It's like, well yeah, like fucking Nike makes the jerseys, right?
Yeah.
So sold by fanatics or whatever.
Yeah.
It's, I don't think the MLB is going to fucking risk going to fanatics jersey.
I think Nike licensed them making the jerseys.
Yeah.
So they're going to have that, but the shitty quality, but now they're going back to what
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they were before next year.
But I'm sure there's going to be a clearance for Jersey.
So if you want to buy a shitty Jersey, buy a shitty fanatics angels Jersey for fucking
nothing and then disintegrate like 10, 10 minutes later in a week.
But yeah.
So, and then I also bought some Patriots hats for fuck.
Cause those are on sale too.
So that's one of the things that's great about your teams that suck is that you don't, it's
cheap as shit.
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I bought some Patriots hats that were from like 2022.
All right.
I got them for like $9.
I think I spent $40 including shipping and they're going to be here Tuesday.
So the gold Knights hat, fuck man.
It got here in a day.
Got here the next day and I paid $22 with shipping and the hat.
It's fucking insane.
So it is.
Fantastic.
All right.
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That'll be the end of it.
We'll catch you guys on the next one.
That was sweet.
That was chirping from the pine.
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