Dodger Talk with Special Guest

Adam and Josh discuss the current state of the Dodgers with a Special Guest.

Episode Transcript

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Chirpin' from the pine.

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It's time to rage.
All right.
Here we are.
In Uno Mas, as they like to say.

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One more time.
I'm Josh.
Here today with good buddy Adam.
Yo, hello.
We have a special guest coming on today that's going to join us to talk, unfortunately, about the Dodgers.
But before we do that, if you're interested in what we do and you want to hear us talk about other things that are not Dodger related,
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All right, I want you to go ahead and introduce your cousin here.
Yeah, so we got a special guest, former, if I'm not mistaken, Rio Hondo High School graduate, former Cal State Long Beach dirt bag and former former MLB draft pig cousin Danny,

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special guest of the show.
Thank you so much for joining us.
How's it going, guys? It's good to be on.
It's talking talking shop talking baseball and talking Dodgers.
Nothing better than that, right?
Well, I mean, on my end, I love fucking Dodgers.
But over here, I feel a comrade over here.
There's a lot of things better than the Dodgers to talk about.
OK, I mean, we got the Olympics going on.

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I mean, you know, we're USA number one.
OK, then we can talk about that.
But, you know, all Dodger talk today.
Yeah. Well, I mean, if you want, we can take a bit of time so you can introduce yourself to.
Well, I guess our audience and also, you know, we can become familiar with you.
So what's your what's been your experience with baseball?

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It's been my entire life.
I mean, I started playing as every every child plays when they were young, played in high school, once college played ball in college, was was drafted by the Oakland A's.
And, you know, ended up not signing due to just some some arm issues and just being young and dumb thinking, you know, hey, this is going to happen every year.

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And it doesn't really work out that way.
But typically the arm issues is what gets you.
You know, I was a big boy.
So growing up, you know, six to six, three to twenty, your prototype baseball player.
And you got to, you know, live that live up kids dreams, you know, play in college, play in high school and, you know, follow baseball continuously.

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Follow the Dodgers mostly. I do follow the other team in Southern California, at least one of them.
But, you know, Dodgers are the end of the all with me.
Yeah. I mean, from as young as I can remember, I remember being like five years old and you playing baseball like nonstop.
I mean, you had your friend, one of your friends, like go and throw balls and throw balls to you and tee off and everything.

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And I just remember baseball being a big part of your life.
And then you had all these Todd McFarland action figures that were of baseball players.
So, I mean, as far as I remember you, I'm like, man, nothing but baseball stuff.
But, of course, I know you're kind of just a fanatic of sports in general.
But anyways, what are your, since we're on the subject of the Dodgers, we are currently a little over the MLB trade deadline.

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Hold on. Before we get into that, I got a question. I got to answer the question.
Sorry. Go ahead. All right. I'm just curious. What position did you play in when you played?
I was a catcher. I was a catcher. And when Oakland came around, there was a few teams that were coming around and I got to do some trips and some workouts.
Oakland, when they drafted me, asked me to become a pitcher. And, you know, I hadn't really pitched in my life, but I had a live arm.

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So, you know, I would do anything to play ball. So, I threw in the mid 90s, which, you know, back then it was really fast.
Now, you know, you got these 20 year old kids, you know, throwing into hundreds.
So, you know, times have changed a bit, but I was, I thought I was a very good catcher, but, you know, other people saw me at just a different position.

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And, and like you said, once, you know, in college, I was a catcher. So, and then like I said, I had a live arm.
And, you know, when they asked you to move and do something different, hey, I'll do whatever it takes to stay on the team and win and, you know, work my ass off.
Yeah, no, man, I was a catcher too. I was, I played catcher in third base. And so they kind of did the same thing with me.

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It was like, oh, you can, because you listen, you got to have a cannon to throw down the second, essentially, when you throw guys out.
So they all I don't know if that was like a thing back then where they, you know what, let's just put them on the mound and see what happens.
You know, and yeah, I mean, you got to have decent accuracy to throw down the second base.
I mean, you're hitting almost a pinpoint target to get some dude out that's got a head start running on you, essentially.

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So, you know, having some control, I guess, because I did see a lot of other guys that I played with that, like, yeah, they somehow converted to pitchers.
They were catchers. And then somehow throughout the years, it's like, oh, all of a sudden they started started becoming the other end of that.
The pitcher side, which, you know, I always think pitchers are idiots, but, you know, that I always say that.

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But, you know, I just thought that was interesting. So cool, cool. Good to know. All right. That was all I had to ask.
Okay. So now I guess we could transition over to Dodger baseball, which has been an arduous time, an arduous journey for this team.
They started looking real good for the first couple months and then things started to fall apart.

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What's what's been your assessment of the Dodgers team currently?
It's the injuries. You know, we have, you know, a third of our lineup, you know, our three, four, five hitters, two, three, four, five hitters, leadoff hitter, all on the DL right now.
Mookie Betts, Max Muncie. So, you know, you got some big pieces that that aren't playing. They're not productive.
They're on the bench with real no timetable of returning. We lost, you know, three fifths of our rotation with Yamamoto going down.

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Bueller hasn't been the same. He's on this ayahuasca trip down in Florida. So I'm not sure what the hell he's doing.
He should be returning. Yamamoto should be returning. He just made a bullpen. He just had a bullpen session on Friday.
So, you know, things are turning, turning up and looking up for the Dodgers. I'm not concerned.
All my friends that message me and we talk, it's right now just enjoy the magic carpet ride.

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You know, they're they're playing pretty good ball. You know, they're still competitive with with, you know, missing big pieces of their lineup.
And, you know, they did some pretty good stuff with the trade deadline. I think the Tommy Edmonds trade is a really big deal where, you know, it's really going to dictate where Mookie plays.
And I think Mookie's days are numbered at short because Tommy Edmonds is a plus defender at short and he's a plus defender in the outfield.

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I think he's arguably a go-go caliber center fielder. So you may see Andy and he pot his move over any pages, move over to to left field and move to Oscar to right.
So I think it's looking good. We just need to get our pieces back. And, you know, right now, the Dodgers we judged in October, not August, not September.

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You know, it's all about playing on Halloween and playing until, you know, November or something, you know, angel fans can't relate to.
Yeah, it's been about it's well, it's been 10 years since we made it to the playoffs. I think it was so.
But I will say that is that is a very key point that you make that honestly, the regular season almost doesn't matter as long as you got to do good enough just to get you to the dance.

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Right. Because October or September, October, that's that's the time that matters.
And it almost is irrelevant what your record was during the season, because as we've seen, I mean, in playoff sports, anything can happen.
I mean, you could have the New England Patriots go an undefeated season and then lose at the Super Bowl to the to the New York Giants and Eli Manning.
Right. So the Dodgers and the Dodgers, not to cut you off, but the Dodgers have done that.

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We won 116 games and we got down. So, you know, we've been on that on that on that ride where, you know, we win, you know, historical number of games to do what to flame out in the playoffs.
So I think as a Dodger fan in a lifelong Dodger fan, you know, you're you're.
Yeah, we know we're going to get to the postseason, as you mentioned.
And it's really what happens in the postseason, what determines, you know, how good the season was.

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You know, other other middling teams, yeah, they're happy to win, you know, 80, 90 games to be competitive.
But Dodger Gold standard is, you know, it's World Series or bus.
And that's the type of pressure that, you know, it's fun to have. It's fun to have it, you know, brings brings out the crazy fans in L.A.
selling out every night. You know, you got to tony mania, which, you know, was down the street for, you know, the first six years.

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So, you know, it's it's go big or go home for the Dodgers.
And that's awesome. It's fun to follow. It's fun to watch.
And I tell my friends just enjoy the magic carpet right to October.
Then it's like nut cutting time.
How so if there were things to pick apart from the team itself that you're not particularly enjoying or you think they're flawed in some way, what are those things that make them not as dangerous or not not as much of a threat, even though Vegas has them as a favorite for the World Series?

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They're pitching their pitching in shambles and how they pitch.
I was reading and I think it was John Heyman who put it out was the Dodgers haven't had a starting pitcher in the playoffs.
Go more than five innings in like seven or eight years, which is insane, insane.
And you guys know baseball. What do you what wins in baseball or in playoff baseball pitching and defense pitching defense?

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I'm really happy with Tyler Glass now and his power arm and Yamamoto looks like he can be that as well.
But if I was a nitpick at the Dodgers, I would say it's they're starting pitching, not going deep because you're going to just touch your bullpen and you can be having your bullpen to throw three or four innings every playoff game, especially with the high leverage innings you'll be seeing.

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It's just not a formula to win in the playoffs.
Yeah, I definitely agree with that. And it's mainly supplemented by the fact that the injuries have just amounted on them to the point that they're basically calling up their top prospects to compensate for all the injuries.

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And I have to say, man, the fact that we're even within the top five records of baseball and still holding it down with not that much offense through the five through nine part of the batting lineup, it's still it's still kind of amazing.
This team is still hanging in there and the top the NL West because, you know, San Diego, I think, is starting to creep up if I'm not mistaken as far as the NL West goes in the standings.

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But yeah, they're like four and a half games back right now.
Four and a half games. But yeah, I think the thing that I've really enjoyed the most is seeing guys get called up like Landon Nack and River Ryan.
And I think there was one other pitcher that ended up getting called up. But yeah, just really enjoying these guys that are getting called getting called up and stepping up.

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And the thing that kills me, man, is like when Dave Roberts is pulling guys when they're at least like five innings deep and they can probably go six or seven. But for whatever reason, he's just like, oh, I don't like the matchup.
I'll just get somebody from the bullpen and see what they can do with the situation. But what do you make of Dave Roberts calls as far as like pitching goes?

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I'm not a big fan of his as much as he's very likable. He's articulate. I'm not I'm not on board with him, baby and protecting these pitchers. These guys are big boys. They're all six, four strapping dudes.
Let them go ahead and throw 100, 105 pitches per game. That's not going to shadow their arms. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Dave Roberts and how he manages his bullpen or his starting pitching.

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It's you know, he talks a lot about high, high stress innings, high, high level innings and, you know, they're professional ballplayers. You know, they've done this their entire lives.
I don't think it's it's it's asking a lot to let guys, you know, put together six, six innings, seven innings that, you know, two or three runs that they give enough.
That's that's not going to with this offense that shouldn't kill them. I like again, I'm not a big fan of Dave Roberts and in his managing of of our pitchers.

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So it's something I got to you. You had mentioned Adam River, Ryan Gavin Stone and some of their top prospects.
They haven't even brought up their number like their number one pitching prospect.
It's Nick Frasso and he's supposed to have like, you know, 100 mile an hour fastball.
So he's probably next year's call up or maybe this September call up, depending what what our bull or what our arms look like in September.

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So, yeah, even the shape of the bullpen itself, man, I I'm glad some of the players ended up getting traded or DFA away.
Yarbrough got sent off, I think, in the Chicago deal.
And then, yeah, Johan Ramirez was like killing me, dude. I was watching.
I already knew it was going to be at least two runs.

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And, yeah, I just don't like the constitution of our bullpen at the moment. It's so it feels like it's constantly like hamstrung and the only saving grace is.
And I can't even say that they're saving grace is at this point.
Evan Phillips used to be really reliable as a closing starter, but then he got PTSD or self shock.
I'm not really sure what's going on there.

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Blake Trinen has been going through something I don't really know.
And the only really like consistent arm has been Banda and I think maybe Daniel Hudson.
Other than that, everybody's kind of been wonky.
Yeah, you know, our bullpen has been in shambles and it's, you know, it's going to play a big role once we get to the playoffs.
Best you had a really good first half. He's been shaky coming out of the second half.

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The dude, Bondi, that guy's been amazing. I think he's been really good for the Dodgers coming in.
He's been clutch Hudson's been OK, like you said, Trident, Trident's a headcase as good as his stuff is.
He just hasn't put it together all year and maybe he show has injuries, maybe something he's just not talking about.
But I know that bullpen needs to shape up and there's no.

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It's up to the starters to go deep into games to really minimize how much the bullpen gets used.
And that that'll be exposed in the playoffs where, you know, one of the best bullpens is probably going to be San Diego.
They can sneak their way in. They're going to be, you know, they're going to make games really sure what there's with their bullpen.
Although they don't have the starting pitch in the Dodgers have, but their back end will be will be really tough to to score runs on.

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All right, so I want to go off on a bit of a tangent since you started about starting pitchers.
Well, at least in the Dodgers case, only going roughly five or six innings.
And if that I don't know if that just feels like a symptom of maybe what's going on in the MLB in general.
But I feel like I'm getting the impression that starters aren't going as deep in general in baseball,

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with the exception of guys like that are the outliers like Paul Skeens or maybe the the the leading arms in baseball itself.
But as far as like in general, man, nobody's really going that deep anymore.
No, they're not. And that's been changing for quite a few years where MLB's gone to the analytics route of, hey, we're going to shorten games.

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Our starters are going to go five or six and then we're going to bring out, you know, five or six different arms from the bullpen and try to make the game shorter.
And I think that's the direction that they're heading is trying to make the game shorter by having solid bullpens.
But as we know, as Dodger fans, you know, it's hard to find those good bullpen arms are going to, you know, Eric Ghani is not walking through those doors to shut down any inning for us right now.

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So, you know, I don't like the whole movement of baseball that starting pitchers are just throwing less and less.
You do, like you said, you have some outliers that go deep into games.
And honestly, one of the guys who who does go pretty deep is Jack Clarity. He's he's been he's been a workhorse.
He's not the greatest. He's about an average pitcher.
I think he's I think he's about 49 and 39 in his career, but he eats any and that's something the Dodgers need.

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So I'm hoping to see, you know, seven, eight innings from Jack Clarity for the next five or six starts till we hit September and October.
All right. I have I want to pose a question to you because this was somebody that I actually really liked in the beginning of the season.
And yeah, he kind of teetered off, but I don't think he deserved being traded away back to Boston.

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But James Paxton, how did you feel about that specific player and him returning back to the Boston Red Sox?
Because I thought he was actually serviceable as like an innings eater.
And I mean, you couldn't he was doing the job that you asked of him.
And I felt like they did him dirty by sending him back to the Boston Red Sox.

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Or actually, I think he got deaffayed if I'm not mistaken.
He did get deaffayed and he signed with the Red Sox.
I'm OK with it. It's a business.
And that's one of the unfortunate parts. And let's be honest, the Dodgers are covering the salary.
So does he care? No. Maybe the only thing he cares about is he's not on a winning team anymore.
But he was going less than that. He was eating innings, but he was, you know, he was struggling through four and five innings for some of his last five or six starts.

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And a lot of the insiders are saying that he was just out of gas.
He's an older guy. He's a big dude.
So they were just saying he was running out of steam. So and we just need deep starting pitching and hopefully with Yamamoto coming back in a month and Jack Flaherty glass.
Now, hopefully he can get straightened out and give us some some innings.
And again, hopefully Walker Bueller makes it back. We could, you know, I mean, those are the power arms that we're going to need in the playoffs.

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But to get back to James Paxson, I'm OK with it. You know, he did the job.
He was a piece that we needed and it's business.
It's not going to be the last time that the Dodgers let go somebody that, you know, was having a pretty good year for them.
Yeah. And to further add on to the pitching subject itself, I have actually been kind of a mate.

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I mean, I loved Mark Pryor when he was on the Cubs and everything, and to have him as part of the pitching staff, like the lead of the pitching staff, the way he's been.
And maybe just the pitching staff in general, but the way people have been having their careers revived through the Dodgers themselves, like Andrew Heaney, Tyler Anderson, a lot of the guys that were

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I'm trying to think of other names that were in relief pitching that had their their stuff revived or rather just their career extended and going on to other teams to to have like a nice sizable contract.
I have to commend the Dodgers pitching staff for just keeping everybody in tip top shape.
And I imagine that this Copac fellow, this relief pitcher Copac, I'm hoping that he ends up being the closer for the Dodgers because he's throwing 100 miles an hour and could use somebody like that for a closer.

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Yeah, I agree. Mark Pryor's done a really good job. And, you know, his demeanor, like he said when he was with the Chicago Cubs was he was really calm, really quiet on the mound, had great mechanics.
So hopefully we can get something out of out of this kid Copac. He's been on the radar for a few years with the Chicago White Sox. I had him on my fantasy team. He has a live arm.

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He just, you know, he just doesn't have the consistency of throwing strikes and to be a closer. I don't care if you throw a hundred and three, if you're a Roudis Chapman, you know, if you can't throw strikes and you're putting people on, that's not the way you're going to be closing games.
I do love his arm. He has a monster arm and he has swinging miss stuff is, which is what you want to in the playoffs. And, you know, just to close in general, you really want swinging miss stuff, which the Dodgers don't do a lot of, you know, think glass.

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I was the only guy who does a lot who leads a team and strikeouts and really has a swinging miss stuff. Everybody else that the ball gets put in play.
And as you've seen, our defense isn't all that great with Marcus Betts at short. And when Muncie was, you know, not, you know, nursing, whatever kind of injury has. So, yeah, hopefully we can turn some of the mark prior can turn some of these pieces that we got around.

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So we've had the return of Kershaw, which is been, I think, close to maybe two years at this point. And I got to say it's real. It's a real treat to see him back, man. It's it feels like a living legend is among this.
I mean, it's felt that way for the last couple years because not knowing whether he's going to just retire or maybe take his chances of maybe signing with the Rangers at some point. But one of the things that ended up looking up as far as his statistics go is that he's very close to 3000 strikeouts.

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Knowing that there's maybe well, August, September to close out the year. You think there's any possibility that he can finish off the year with 3000 strikeouts to to really add another capstone to his already legendary career.
I think if he gets enough starts and doesn't have any setbacks. Yeah, for sure. Because he was always known as a big strikeout pitcher. And granted, that was, you know, 10 years ago. But his stuff is still pretty good. Like him coming back. You're right. He is, you know, the legend's first ballot Hall of Famer.

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His curveball still there. His curveball is changing speed still there. He's missing a lot on the fastball where I saw a few of them in the 90 miles an hour and 89. But as long as he can change speeds, he'll still be able to strike people out with that with that Uncle Charlie that told the sixth curveball that honestly is probably one of the best curveball I've seen since some of the video I've seen or some of the old real tapes on Sandy Kofax. It's just a devastating curveball. So I hope he gets enough starts. I hope there's no setbacks.

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I definitely don't want him to be starting the playoffs because that means we're in some massive trouble. But yeah, I would love to see him get 3000 strikeouts before the year the season's over. And you know, if he gets relegated to the bullpen or Matt, he just can't be a number one or two starter once the playoffs come around because he just doesn't have that kind of dominant stuff anymore.

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Yeah, I don't think he does either. But I mean, I think he's roughly maybe around 50 to 60 strikeouts away from the 3000 number joining 20 other I think 19 other pitchers that have reached that 3000 club so it's already kind of a rarity to have somebody doing that.

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And judging by the fact that starting pitchers aren't going as deep. I mean, we could be seeing the very end of maybe 3000 strikeout pitchers or even 300 game winners. What do you make of that? Yeah, the three, the three game winners. I'm not sure we're going to see any any current words Kershaw I don't know Kershaw's close to 300 3000 strikeouts that that's a lot of strikeouts. I don't think we'll see the longevity. I think there's too much money involved.

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And there's honestly the uptick in Tommy John surgery. So, you know, I don't know if people's arms are going to make it to to have that kind of longevity and have those 15 years 1617 year careers, where they're able to, you know, rack up those kind of numbers.
And then the money to I don't I don't know if, you know, people will play that long as well with, you know, the crazy contracts being handed out to, you know, average starting pitchers, you know, glass now, like it's mentioned was, you know, an average pitcher and he just got a four year 110 million dollar deal.

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So I just don't think the longevity is there and I just don't see any any of those kind of arms. Paul schemes, you know, he's one of the young aces, one of the young studs, you know, when he comes up for his big contract, he'll be a 300 million dollar player, if not something crazier than that.
And after his first contract, does he really need to keep playing? Probably not. So I just don't see people having those long careers and putting up those kind of, you know, magical numbers that we grew up watching and seeing.

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And on the subject of Paul schemes, who is from California itself, what, where do you think a potential landing spot post pirates post pirates contract because I mean, I'm watching him pitch these last couple of games and I'm thinking, man, they're not really doing him
a service by having him go six or seven innings. I mean, he had, I think, any of the last three starts, rather within his last three starts, he went eight innings deep and there's no run support and teams like not really doing him a favor.

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So it's like, well, he's just going to write out his rookie contract and maybe see where he can go to maybe play on a more competitive team or maybe just the team that's going to give him the most money. Where do you think Paul schemes is going to end up in the MLB landscape?
I mean, it always goes back to like the top market. So you got, you know, the Yankees who are probably back at the brings truck, the Dodgers will be out to the Mets, you know, they're always throwing money around. Not, not wisely.

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You know, I can't say the angels won't try to throw money, especially because he's a full routine kid.
I just, I mean, I can't imagine him going to the angels because they're not competitive, but, you know, I could see him going to the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, or just the highest bidder because at that point he gets one massive deal.

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And, you know, like any picture, you go to the highest bidder and, you know, that's where I see him, just whoever's going to give him that blank check and then fill it out is where he's going to be headed.
But what I love to see him in blue, man, what kind of payroll the Dodgers have in a couple of years. And, you know, right now it's a little premature to have that discussion.

(26:55):
I think let's see what Otani looks like next year before we start trying to, you know, get Paul schemes anywhere else. And I think he's under control for the next six years with the Pirates.
So he won't be going anywhere anytime soon. And if you've heard some of Paul schemes interviews, he actually wants to go back into the Air Force. So I, again, I don't see him playing, having a 15 year career.

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I'm sure he'll have one mega deal and then make his way back because he was trying to be a pilot in the Air Force, which is pretty bad ass for that dude.
Yeah, modern day Ted Williams.
Yeah, yeah.
So I guess maybe to come to a close.
How do you figure, or where do you figure the Dodgers will be as far as like the playoff picture, how things will shake out for the playoff brackets and maybe what what stage the Dodgers will end up.

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I mean, I see the Dodgers, you know, I won't say rolling through a playoffs, but if they get healthy and you have Yamamoto, you know, stone glass now throwing that that's a tough three or the beat and with their offensive Marcus Betts comes back.
Max Muncie comes back again from his phantom injury where it's just now about pain tolerance and he's not playing and that really, you know, makes me question Muncie's stones.

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Yeah, I just don't see them getting beat in the playoffs, they're going to be a tough out for anybody, especially with Atlanta losing you know some of their best players.
Early in the year so it'll be hard, especially with the Dodger having Tommy Edmonds if he does play short, you can move Mookie Betts back to center and you know have really three big, big gloves out there and some bats out there.

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It's hard to see anybody, you know, really beating the Dodgers this year, especially with how how amazing Otani's been.
I know I watched some angel games last year to watch them, but that dude's delivered and dense and he's going to go 40-40.
You know something every angels fan seems to cringe at where he's setting these crazy records for the Dodgers.
Yeah, I think I mean on the subject of Otani real quick. Man, I can't I've gone to a few games and the way he hits the ball doesn't sound like anybody else and the numbers.

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The numbers he's been putting up have been ridiculous and I read this statistic about because I think he has had a direct impact as far as tourism in Los Angeles goes.
We went from I think a hundred and seventy thousand a hundred and like seventy thousand people from Japan traveling to to Los Angeles and then with the acquisition of Shohei Otani that that number has tripled.

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So it's now around 450,000 or something something along along the lines of that and it's just the amount of people that he's bringing the fanaticism.
I mean you go to these games and you see these people like lining up hours before the game to show hey Bobble pop Bobblehead night.
I mean dude, I was out there.
I think maybe four or five hours in advance and the line already started at the Vince Vince Gully Avenue like the gates.

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It was already going down towards the police Academy.
And I think as far as I think as far as future prospects go for the Dodgers when it comes to Japanese baseball duties open the gates to basically have the Dodgers be the front runners for I think every player and one player being rookie Sasaki who's somebody that I kind of talked to you about before we hopped on.

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And I'm not sure if you've gotten a chance to see him pitch through the videos that I sent you but that's the next generational talent that a lot of people are excited about and potentially could come to them will be next year.
And they do and the Dodgers will probably with the Yankees and the Giants will have like the top choices of all the foreign players coming over and it's just be real. The Dodgers have the biggest and deepest pockets. You know they they don't mind spending and they're spending pretty wisely on on you know their international stars.

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So yeah I can't imagine that they wouldn't continue that train especially because they have yellow model and Ohtani here and the fan base and you know all that you know will play a huge role into you know the next wave of you know Japanese stars coming over and you know hopefully making the Dodgers a lot better and a lot deeper and continuing this run.
But the Dodgers need to do is you know close one of these World Series off and you know make that seven hundred million dollar contract worth it for for us and for themselves as well. You know they're generating. They did exactly what they wanted to do with this Ohtani signing.

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He was already a star in Anaheim. He just seems to have leveled up and become a bigger star here in you know the real proper Los Angeles. And it's been amazing watch. It's just it's been insane how good he is and how good a hitter he is.
I mean like you said on TV on the radio it sounds like a cannon goes off every time he hits a home run the ball comes off jumps off his back. It's it's he's been you know everything is advertising and then some. I don't know of any L.A. friend that just you know isn't isn't well by him on a daily basis.

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And do the dude can run like I knew he could run with the angels but he's really turned it loose this year and man that being six four two thirty that you can fly. He's fast as hell. So it's been it's been fun to watch.
I could say it's been fun to watch the Dodgers this year and you know we got to just enjoy the magic carpet right into October and you know try to close it off and you know stop being you know the Atlanta Braves of the early and late 90s.

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Oh man that's like nightmare fuel for me the fucking double the double digit division champs numerous years and then not even have the the World Series turnout for them that many times that's we certainly have become that like the last 10 years and that that just gives me nightmares.
That sucks.
That sucks.

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Well anyways really appreciate you coming on and if you have more free time to share with us to talk more baseball or even just sports in general because I mean we're getting closer and closer towards football and obviously hockey and NBA.
So if you got any opinions on that man we'd love to have you back.

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Awesome. Yeah let me know we'll try to do this again in a couple of weeks. Yeah it's been fun. It was a lot of fun talking about with you guys and especially Dodger baseball. Yeah maybe we'll have to sprinkle in a couple other teams and or different sports.
I'm all up for anything. All right cool man. Thanks for hopping on cousin Danny the special guest for chirping from the pine and we'll see him in the future weeks hopefully and maybe he'll give us some more Dodger talk and more sports talk in general.

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So stick around folks. Yeah stick around or maybe he'll have an unfortunate accident and never be able to come on and talk about the doctor again. Who knows.
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