November 2, 2025 • 38 mins
The Dodgers successfully defend their World Series crown by outlasting the Blue Jays in an all-time classic Game 7. Clint Pasillas and guest analyst Ross Stripling react to the game and the series, giving some love to WS MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto for his heroic effort pitching in relief.
Will Smith hit what turned out to be the game winning home run in the 11th inning. But the LA offense slowly chipped away after Shohei Ohtani put the team in an early 3-0 hole. Max Muncy and Miguel Rojas proved to be clutch and everyone played a role in securing the third championship for the Dodgers since 2020.
Postgame recap and reactions to World Series Game 6 with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays on November 1, 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Dodgers scratch and clawed their way back, and they
are going back to back, two time champions in a row.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What is going on?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Dodgers Territory famine? All time classic. We all just witnessed,
my sweet lord. Too many heroes to name in this one.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Miguel Rojas, Will Smith, the Dodger scratch and
clawed their way back, and they are going back to back,
two time champions in a row.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Joining me today.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You don't see Alana on the screen today, My buddy,
my pal. This guy played for both of these teams.
That is Chicken Strip himself rous strippling joining us here
on Dodgers Territory.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
He does. He's the proud owner of a ring. You know.
I don't know if a proud owner.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But he has a ring at least as a Los
Angeles Dodger. And Strip stand up late for us to
hang out and react to this game Dodgey presented by
Fox Swan Ross.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What a ball game?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What a ball game? Clint, Good to see you. Thanks
for having me. Happy to talk about this series at length.
I mean too, am I h you know? Probably the
teams I think of myself in the most and you
know they lived up to the high going seven games
and then a couple extra means to to get a finale. Man,
thanks sweet lord or whatever you said when you walked in.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
That was amazing. Yeah, that was that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I mean to say this game had a bit of everything.
Would I think it's under selling the game. One thing
it didn't have was a lot of the Dodger bullpen
for a reason, they have been, respectfully speaking, asked for
most of this series, and Dave was like, no, you
are not touching at baseball. You were not touching a baseball.
You ride and die with Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Strip You've you've.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Started at the big league level a whole bunch. You've
relieved at the whole at the big league level, a
whole bunch. Talk about what Yamamoto did, come back ninety
six pitches yesterday and goes out there and gives this
team what three shutout innings to literally puts the team
on their bat on his back to win this World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I mean, that's your MVP, right could they give anyone? Okay,
he's your MVP, I mean rightfully so, dude, the day
after has turned into a total spa day for a
big league starter because of the grind to get through
a start the day before, because of what your body
feels like the next day. I used to do nothing,
and that trust me, I wanted to do something, especially
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as I got into my like low to mid thirties.
I wanted to move around the next day and do something.
And I couldn't do it. So for him to go
out there and I know it's game seven, he you know,
probably took some kind of tourt all type thing where
he's not feeling much, but your body knows deep in there, man,
it is fatigued, it is going on fumes. And for
him to throw those splitters and some of those heaters
that it was like a two to one heater end
(02:53):
of Laddie at like ninety six black in and I was.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Like this, this dude's a robot.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That was I think one of the best pitches I
saw all night. So US a World World Series MVP
as he should be. That was, I mean, just an
incredible performance throughout the whole series by him.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
In this series, you have a complete game shutout, you
follow it up with six innings one run baseball and
then a day later, you go out there and you
get the win, you don't get the save. I think
he prefers the win in this game. You saw twenty
two warming up out there, and the bullpen guys also
sound off in the chat. Let us know how you're feeling,
let us know where you're representing your Dodgers fandom. Seeing
(03:30):
the chat already going off, appreciate people with the super chats.
We're gonna get to everybody there as many people as
we can tonight. Obviously it's late for strips, so we
will try to let him get to bed at some point.
Of the people on the screen right now, you have
spent the most time with Clayton Edward Kershaw.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
He gets to go out with a third world series ring.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Tell me just talk about Kersh here and what this
means to you know, so many people that played with him,
and you know the fact that he's hanging up his cleats.
He wanted on his own accord and to go out
this way.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
How special is that?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So I was getting asked all the time who I
was rooting for in this series, and I was basically
depending on who I was talking to, kind of changing
my answer. But the one thing I was adamantly saying,
was I want Kershall to get the last out. I'm
rooting for a great series and for Clayton Kershall to
get the last out. And it seemed like it was
baby trying to happen there. I don't know if he
was going to come in a phase of our show.
I was going to be stressed as absolute hell if
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they were going to do that to my man, Clayton.
But I think the baseball gods and God in general
would have been on his side. I think he would
have pulled it off like the bases loaded one back then,
game you know, three or whatever in the fourteenth inning,
whatever you pitched, man, I will be as quick as
I can on Kersh. I have adamantly said that I
would have never made it as long as my career
without him. By no means did he take me under
(04:47):
his wing, but he did it by osmosis. I just
I learned so much about the game just watching him work,
and I just am so thankful that I was drafted
and developed by the Dodgers. They untapped things in me
that I know of or wouldn't have and just to
have been around Clayton. And now let's just say, a
father of three kids and a husband. What I learned
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from him even off the field, as far as just
how good of a person he is, genuine his heart is.
I got to ask the other day in the stands
at Dodger Stadium, who's the kindest Dodger? That was, which
I thought was an odd word, the kindest. You know,
I've never gotten out before, and it just was a
no brain.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It's Clayton. It's it's Clayton.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Even though he's as intense as he is, he has
a genuine heart and he wants everyone around him to
do great. He wasn't a huge part of this postseason,
and every time they would pay to him, he's going
ham because he wants to support his teammates and he
wants to win that ring. Like you said, I mean,
you can't find a better man, a better baseball player,
hall of famer for a reason.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, So happy for that, dude. Just generally happy this game.
You know, I get I get paid, not extremely well,
but I get paid to talk about the Dodgers. And
I've been doing it, as you know, ross Ford, for
a number of years now.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And there are some of.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
These games, particularly in this postseason, where I just like,
I don't know what the have to say here? What
are you supposed to say after a game like that?
You had a bit of everything so many points and
I have the you know, chats to prove it. With
people so many points, You're like, there's no way they
can find a way to just keep just keep the
(06:17):
luck going, keep the season alive. You know you're down
to I don't know if it's your final lot. It
was not your final out, No, it was two. I
think it was a two two out situation. Miguil Rojas
coming up there, bottom of the ninth or top of
the ninth.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Here you you're out. That's your season.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And the Toronto Blue Jays are winners of the World
Series in twenty twenty five, first ever player and MLB
history with the game tying homer and the ninth inning.
Year later of a World Series Game seven. Miggey Rowe
gave his everything for this win, for this team over these.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Last two games.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Thank God for Doc for putting that man in there,
and and him just kind of putting the team on
the back on his back in his own way with
as you know we've talked before, going on obviously you
played a couple of years with him, or at least
you have some time with him behind you at the
minor league levels. I think he was traded before you
made your big league debut. But he is somebody at
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this point in his career. He is a captain, He
is a leader, He is somebody this team. Mookie Betts,
a future Hall of Famer, looks up to Miguel Rojas
and what he brings to this roster, and you know,
to make that play, I think he actually hurt himself
making that he gets the homer, but then he makes
the play at home to keep.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
The game alive, keep the season alive for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Just one of the heroes, you know, Willie Dills also
being a hero for this team. Thoughts about about Miguel
Rojas and what he means to a clubhouse. Obviously very
different situation from what are we at eleven twelve seasons ago,
when you guys might have crossed some paths to now
knowing the type of a presence he has in that
Dodger clubhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
To speak a little bit about Mickey.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Row Yeah, double a shortstop twenty thirteen, Chattanooga, and we
couldn't hit a lick, but he's saved me a whole
bunch of earned runs back in twenty thirteen. I promise
you that, you know, it's I think if you're not
a Dodger fan, you're at home and you're just like.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
The superstar after superstar.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And then they bring that dude out here and he's,
you know, essentially a Platinum Glove winning infielder and he
hits you know, a home run when he hits like
four or five of them a year, and it just
you know, it's like, man, we got to worry about
like twelve other dudes, and Miguel Rojas is the one
that gets us. And then it's because he was ready
for that situation. He's obviously been in the big leagues
a long time. He's probably got a really slow heartbeat.
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You kind of have to to play elite defense like
he does. And he works the great at bat, gets
to a three to two pitch, he's in front of
Otani Smoltz.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
He talked about it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
He's got to get a strike right there, gets a
strike and he damages it. That's a big leaguer, man,
So I you know, and then you talk about how
the other guys in the locker room talk about him.
I've heard Key k rave about him as well. You know,
I think it's rare for a Latin guy to be
the leader of Latin's and the Americans to be honest,
and I think he is that. So I think that's
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just a testament to what he's done at the big
leagues and how guys respect him. And then to come
out in a situation like that and do what he did.
It's just specially he's to earn that opportunity and then
he took advantage of it.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
There's nothing better.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, that's a phenomenal point because usually it is and
say it's a divided clubhouse, but it's hard to find
that one guy that could bring everybody together. And everything
we've heard over the last couple of seasons since he's
been back, he has been that guy. Everything we've heard Tonight,
Ladies and gentlemen with us in the show. We got
William Dill Smith Dodgers legend. You got a little bit
of time in the show with Willie Dill's made his debut.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
That will real middle name, That is real.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
No, Yeah, but yeah, you got a little bit of time.
But what a season and a half maybe total with
him being around as your catcher and to see the
growth and maturity of this guy franchise catcher now for
this organization of course, inks that ginormous deal, ten year
deal at the start of last season and has just
(10:01):
been worth every penny. Grinder caught so many every single
inning in this postseason, including an eighteen inning game, something
you too are familiar with, an eighteen inning game.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Of course, you mostly had to.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Sit on your ass for that one, but mostly mostly
I don't remember if you got in that game.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But still talk about Will Smith here with the winning homer.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he'd probably be your other option
for MVP, right the one against Gosman and Game two
and then that one right there, two outs. You know,
it felt like we were going into a bottom half
of the inning there and all of a sudden Will
hits a towering home run to take the lead, and
it just you know, I saw him from the start.
I think, you know, those teams that I was a
part of were really fun. If I think of the
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twenty twenty World Series roster, which I was not on,
I have the ring for it, Like you alluded to
at the beginning. I think there's like nineteen homegrown guys
on that team. You know, you're talking Jock and Belly
and Kersh and Buehler and Urious and mean Will Smith, etc.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Et cetera.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And so I got to see him come up and
see him kind of join our crew. You know, we
were kind of a crew back in the day, and
he just fit right in.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I talked about a slow heartbeat for Rojas. He's got
a slow heart beat. We called him a politician. He
was never rattled like he was always just very matter
of fact, very to the point, and just knew what
he needed to do. And you know, you think about
a catcher for the La Dodgers coming in catching at
the time, hunjin Ru and Clayton Kershaw and Rich Hill
(11:30):
and Kintamaeta and and some of us that have been
around for a long time. And here's the reins to
this pitching staff. That's a massive undertaking. You've probably seen
a lot of catchers really struggle with that, and he
just took it and ran with it.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Man. And the thing is the bat.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think we knew the catching was there, and the
arm is obviously there as an eighty great arm out
of the draft. But for the bat to come and
now hit like four hole pretty consistently in this LA
Dodgers lineup as a catcher that I think that's thing
that maybe we didn't necessarily see happening for him. And
you're it's you know, it's it's it's real man.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
They always talk about the MV three being showhaned Mookie
and Freddy, But you know, Will Smith, he's got He
drives a nice car too, As as Mookie might say, Hey,
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And We're back and your Dodgers are the twenty twenty
five World Series champions, first team to go back to
back since the ninety nine two thousand New York Yankees.
I think I like this one a little bit more.
Joining us today is a chicken strip himself Ross rippling
pinch hitting for Alanaizzo who is on her way to
Africa because the timing her husband couldn't get the timing right,
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didn't look at a calendar and see, oh, there might
be a Game seven of the World Series on November first,
where here we're happy some of the super chats stay
deep in the moment, given some love, Dot Go Dodgers,
Chicken Strip, We miss you. Yeah, man, you were You
were always a dog, somebody that was ready and willing
to do anything that this ball club did. H and
(14:15):
for or sorry needed of you and for your manager
Dave Roberts, who now Strip. You know, by the time
you were traded, there was a lot of talk about
obviously there's there's the Kershaw narrative or whatever, but there
was a Dave Dave Roberts narrative. He was very much
a learning, growing manager. He was learning the job on
the job right right up to your first start in
(14:38):
your career, you know, needing to kind of understand, Uh,
do I let this kid go for a no no?
Or do I respect the fact that he's coming back
from Tommy John a season and a half ago. Uh,
The growth and maturity you've seen both playing for him
and now watching him from Afar. And then you know,
obviously you still talk to a lot of these people
(14:59):
in the team. I'm assuming you have some sort of
you know, contact and connection with Doc.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Just talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But the growth and maturity as a manager of Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, it's just gonna happen, right when you're just put
into these situations that he's you know, gonna be managing
for one.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Uh you alluded to me.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I feel like all the time he's having to pull
someone from like a no hitter, a perfect game, more
so early in my career, like Rich Hill in a
perfect game, and like stuff like that. You know, I mean,
he's gonna be a Hall of Fame manager, right, I mean,
he's now got multiple rings. It's not gonna slow down
anytime soon. Knock on wood for the LA Dodgers, He's
gonna win a lot more games and probably a lot
more postseason games. He's gonna be up there giving a
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Hall of Fame speech one day. I think we can
all say that, probably pretty confidently. So you know you're
going you said you're gonna learn on the job, Like
right off the bat we were playing in the NLCS
that year twenty sixteen his first year. The next year,
two years we were in the World Series. Like you're
just gonna learn a lot by going through that. He
was really high energy, which coming into a veteran clubhouse
(16:04):
that that clubhouse had, you know, a j Elis, Adrian Gonzalez,
Carl Crawford, Matt Camp, Clayton Kershaw, Brandon McCarthy, like kind
of some like saltier older dudes. And all of a
sudden you got Dave Roberts coming in, who's kind of
like a nine month old Golden Retriever, and you know
there's gonna be some learning curves there, and he figured
it out, you know, And and I think, is you know,
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really really been obviously a very good manager, good in
these situations. He's going to learn through each one. And
you're talking, you know about the bullpen. How do you
navigate essentially not having a bullpen in seven games series?
That's that's pretty tough to do. So now he's got
that under his belt. So there's really not much that
you can say he hasn't been through, hasn't had to
play chess against the other manager, you know, through some situation.
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So I just it's he's gonna have the advantage moving forward,
like obviously the advantage for the Dodgers on the field
because of the talent they have. But now you got,
you know, a coaching staff led by Dave Roberts that's
through everything as well.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, I mean really has been through everything. And you know,
I think of some of the you know, some of
the early criticisms warranted, very much well earned criticisms. You know,
looking back to that eighteen World series pulling Richie Hill
there Dick Mountain while he's in the middle of an
absolute gem, you boys go on to lose that one,
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kind of feeling like he was maybe trying to create
a narrative for Kershaw. In that twenty nineteen postseason absolute
gut punch for all of us, I can only imagine
how you Fellas felt about it. I mean, we know
we saw that clubhouse, we saw the post mortem of
that one. To be at this point now where he
has learned enough to be like, oh no, those guys
aren't working right now, Yamamoto. Let's if you say you're ready,
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I don't care, said like he did with Walker Buler
last year. But Tane had zero business pitching in that game.
He says, I'm going to go down there because what
would twenty two do? Well, now it's what would eighteen do?
And by the way, Yoshinoba Yamamoto, unsurprisingly is your World
Series MVP made official on the post game. By the way,
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Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's what we're here for.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Massive mh Dodger for life coming through. As he promised,
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as promised back to back World series Clint tell Alana
never questioned finally ending some of it's a little weird there,
but anyways, you live to breathe another day. And now
we live to breathe and see a parade.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Inside my city.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
We get to see these guys go hamm there at
Rogers Center. Deserved another another road team wins the World
series here.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You know, one of the things I did want to
ask you about, is I mean, because.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
There was a strong amount of time for this game,
we didn't know how it was gonna turn out. And
I've been somebody who has very loudly been tipping my
cap to the Toronto Blue Jays, because entering the series,
I didn't know very much about them. I ain't got
that kind of time to pay attention to an American
League East team.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I learned a lot about this ball club.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Scrappy, a bunch of dudes that I'm very happy that
that corps was able to stay together and at least
get to this point. They just seem like some good
dudes led by a good dude in John Schneider. But
what can you say about even making it to a
Game seven? What does that mean to the city of Toronto?
And what does that mean to some of the dudes
in the clubhouse that you played alongside? You know, Like,
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obviously right now, that's a gut punch, but there's a
lot of things that those dudes can be proud of.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I got traded over there in twenty twenty, midway through
the COVID year, and right when I got there, we
were in Miami and we flew back up to Buffalo
at the time because we couldn't get in Toronto. And
when I was sitting in my seat on that plane ride,
I had twenty people between staff and players come up
to me and just be like, what are the Dodgers? Like?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
What do they do that we don't do? What can
we do?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
How can we get better? It was amazing and that
ended up being the rest of my career. That is
everywhere what do the Dodgers do? I promise people are
trying to trying to figure it out and follow suit.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
But what I was saying was, man, it's here.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Like at the time, I was looking at young Laddie,
Young Bo, Young Cavin Bigio, a young pitching staff Kirk
you know, coming up, didn't even know he was a player.
I thought he was a bullpen catcher, And all of
a sudden, he's catching my debut five days later, or
his debut five days later, you know, and I just now, gosh,
five years later, they have you know, they haven't gotten
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over the hump. They haven't want a ring, but that
corps has done some cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
They've made the playoffs I think four out of five years,
they went from last to first. This year almost won
a World Series. And you know, Laddie's their long term
Bo's a free agent. I hope Bo goes back. Bo's
awesome for that city. Bo's a great shortstop when he's
healthy and can really hit, you know. And I did
a similar show like this. I did it on the
Blue Jay side and they were like, you know, if
they don't if they don't win, it was that core
(21:02):
a failure.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And I was like, no, man, you're in the Al.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
East and you guys are competing against the Yankees and
the Red Sox and the weird ass Rays every year,
and like the study, you know, like, no, that is
not a failure. It is so hard to win a
ring in this league. And I hope they're holding their
head high. And as far as the fans, man, when
the Leafs lose, the Jay's take over that entire country
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and it's really cool. And I think you know that
got put on display during this series as far as
like they would pant to the crowd and they'd be
going nuts. And the stadium's got redone in the last
couple years.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
They did an awesome job on it. It's just they
do baseball right up there. So I'm glad they kind
of got their stage for a moment.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, really cool, Like I said they they were in
this series, in my opinion, still the better team. They
played a cleaner brand of baseball. Maybe in the final
couple of games here some questionable base running blenders in there.
You got George Springer coming off the bag thinking that lady,
you know, walks in the first inning or whatever. They
had another one of those yesterday as well. Maybe maybe
(22:05):
wait for the call before you guys decide that somebody
was walked. But that's another bit of learning experience, and
that's something Alanna and I talked about entering this series,
is if there's something that's gonna help the Los Angeles
Dodgers win even when they are far from being their best.
They had no bullpen, the offense was non existent. I
think they hit under two hundred in this series to
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actually win this World Series. But if there's something that's
going to help the Dodgers beat a team that's just
playing better, cleaner, you know, glue baseball, as they're calling
up there in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's going to be the experience.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's going to be the experience of all those guys
on the field who just.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Most of them won World Series last year.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But it's also going to be you know Doc going
in there, no one when to hold them, no one
went to fold them, no one when to walk away.
And you saw late in the game smartly of course,
John Schneider trying to play for the win, the walk
off there the World Series. You know, your your home team,
you can do that. But then another inning or two later,
all of a sudden, Boba Sheet is out of the game.
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It's a smart play with the way he was moving
to pinch run for him. But that's where Dave, you know,
stayed his hand, didn't make some of these moves that
maybe you might have seen him make, uh you know,
sixteen seventeen, eighteen nineteen, all of that, and that's how
you find a way Dave going to Andy poe Has
in center and then him immediately just steamrolling Key k
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This is my ball.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Bro A. That's a tough stretch for Kik getting just
barrel rolled by pae Has In the next inning, tripping
over first base, the man, Key k get off the ground. Man, Yeah,
just just yeah, just to tag on with that. Experience
is always gonna show its head in this and in
these scenarios. What I want to say is La the
Dodgers are specifically so good at capitalizing on mistakes.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
And let's pan back one year.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Aaron Judge drops the ball, Garrett Cole doesn't cover first base,
they're down five six runs in a World Series game.
They come back when when the game and win the
World Series. The Blue Jays kind of teetered a few times,
but they didn't cave. They didn't let the Dodgers take
advantage of those situations.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
That's what kept them in these games.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Let's just talk about tonight specifically, and like, what was
it the third or fourth inning? Churesers, You know, they
got him down and they he's able to get out
of it.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You Savage comes in.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
They're like, man, I don't know if we should really
be bringing him in the situation, he walks, the first
guy gets a big double play on an awesome play
by Flatty. I just feel like the Blue Jays didn't
hand over situations like maybe the Yankees or some other
teams have to LA where that's where LA just steps
on your throat and puts you away. I think that's
how Toronto was able to stick around. How you're saying
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they play a good brand of baseball. Ernie Clement, of
all people, beat a Rosa Arenas record for most hits
in a postseason. You know, it's just that they have
some guys that probably the average fan has never heard of.
They're just grinder, good baseball players. And then all the while,
yeah you got you know, George on a resurgent year
in Flatty being flatty. So they're they're they're a solid
squad man, and they're I think they're gonna be good
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for a couple of years here.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And funny enough, you know, you bring that up the
fact that Dodgers, you know, capitalize on Aaron Judge last year,
this year, Dodgers when they were given those, those opportunities
few and far between, but when they were given given them,
they capitalized. Look at yesterday, Key KM with that double play,
because I think it was Clement got a little too no,
Barger got a little too far from drag. You know,
he was not gonna score either way on that play.
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If the ball gets down, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Bro? And that sent it to a Game seven where
it's a toss up. Anybody's gonna win.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And I always said, give me the Dodgers pitching staff
because we know everybody was going to be available. But
more importantly, the good pitchers were gonna be available.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Lakes.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
With all due respect, I love I love those dudes
in there with with you, Anthony Bondo in particular, Blake,
Blake trying to in particular, did not have themselves a
good postseason, did not have themselves a good World Series.
But Dodgers don't win it in twenty four without those dudes.
But yeah, to to the Dodgers credit, you know a
lot of bit of luck, it felt like in the
series and capitalizing when you needed to, and that's how
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you go run it back. Hey, let's let's put on
your uh your GM cap here, because I don't know
what else you're doing these days. I know you're doing
finance type things because that's that's always been. It's always
been your calling. But hey, one of these days you
find yourself. Yeah, you give front office, You've always given
front office. How do you go and and run it back?
For the three pet What do the Dodgers need to
(26:23):
do in the off season to get even better?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Well, who were losing?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I'm guessing Mickey Rowe and Keith Ayr Back. Like at
this point, I feel like they've kind of proven that
they they're going to fill their cracks with guys they
like and.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Know, you know, but who's losing?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Uh yeah, right, yeah, just continue.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
But let's say on the on the bigger scale, who's
out the door free agent wise?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Really, I mean a majority of them are are pretty
much back. Months has a he has a player option
or a team option, ridiculously team friendly at ten mil.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So he's gonna be back.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
The left fielder who didn't even touch a baseball in
the postseason, Michael CONFORDO, he will be gone. But you
still have Pa Haz homegrown. You still have Ti Oscar
for another couple of seasons.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Outfield is probably an area where you want to try
to to make some moves.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
But really he right, yeah, so it's gonna be bullpenned.
So you know, the.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Bullpen can get healthy. That's the thing there, It helps
them out.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I remember, you know, going into this season, there was
you know, in the Baseball wheld there's some people being
upset about the Kirby Yates signing, the Tanner Scott signing.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
There's like, man, the doctors get everyone, and.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Then those dudes didn't throw a pitch in the postseason,
right or I know Kirby didn't you know Kopex sitting
there looking like Forrest with Tom Hanks coming off the
Castaway Island. Uh, you know, for for four rounds. It
just baseball never gonna work the way that you think
it's gonna work. And I feel like it's actually kind
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of I don't want to say odd odds not the
right word, but like Friedman went out and spent money
in the bullpen. He got some big names and some
splashy signings, and those guys weren't guys that really helped
get the ring here down the stretch. So my guess
is maybe they get away from that. I'm sure maybe
one or two of those guys are back based on contracts.
But my guess is you kind of see Friedman kind
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of between the cracks, signing more like banda type guys
that maybe we don't know very much about, but they're
Freedman specials where they're going to come in and throw
from weird angles and get outs and can get right
he's and lefties out like this Warblosky.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Guy or or Shean, you know, like it just.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Not only are they gonna sign the Otani Freddie Mookies
of the world, but they're still you know, far Han
left the Giants and is now just hovering somewhere in
the Dodgers. You know, Dungeons making moves with Friedman. That's
a scary situation for twenty nine other teams. So it
just putting on my GM hat. I would guess they're
they're going to get creative with some with some bullpen signings,
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and they're they're going to come out even stronger. You know.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's funny to to Alana's credit, she always says that
money doesn't buy you championships, it buys you good teams.
For the Los Angeles Dodgers, it buys you both because
they are, as you mentioned, somehow able to win uh
this this title without Tanner Scott, who they gave it
backed up the Brinks truck to something they they don't
do with relievers unless that reliever is Kenley Jansen, you know,
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saying Kirby Yates, this guy was fucking great last year.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Let's try to see if he'll help us run it back.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Maybe they maybe they don't go as as as flashy
and splashy, they got some really really good arms coming up.
Because as you well know and has already you know
mentioned alluded to, uh, the development. You know what the
front office is able to do with somebody with just
just a hair of talent, they can turn it into
something useful for their own needs.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
And and I love.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Something Joe Kelly said a couple of weeks ago Hunt
some podcasts where he's like, you don't need to be
around for the entire of the season. You just need
to if you're good, you need to be ready for
you know, five weeks towards the end of the season. Anyways,
start a good spot. We don't need to worry too
much about that. We'll have plenty of off season here
on the territory to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Uhs that bridge when we get there.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
When we get there, a couple more super chats, and
I'll let you get out of here. I know it's
late for you, my man, but I appreciate you hanging
out with me. Dodgers win a World Series, back to
back champions Hammy double twenty three in the chat with
ten Dollars saying kids about to have to explain why
their name is Yoshinobu.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Absolute.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's great, Elijah saying, never doubt Alana again, people had
some doubt. I think that's just how baseball works. You know,
if you if you expect the worst, you'll never be hurt.
I was living that, particularly in this game.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I didn't know. I didn't know if they had enough
magic karma left. Thank god they did.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, gain for those for those listening. I came in
to check my lighting and stuff. In the eighth inning
we were down by one and Clint was barely hanging
in there. So here we are, yeah, ninety minutes later,
and vibes are much higher.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Vibes are much much higher.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Gabriel sent us ten bucks here and that's all she wrote.
Game over, ladies and gentlemen, you're a lot of sayings
with Dodgers back to Backworld Series champions and Yama Yama,
Yama Yama, what a signing. I know you, I know.
I don't think you're as extremely online, uh probably, or
anywhere near as close to online as you might have
been in the good old Chicken strip days. But Josh Reddick,
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your former teammate, he's got a lot of shit about
a Yama Moto Yamamoto post where he's like, how do
you pay a guy who's never pitched in the league
three and twenty five million dollars. I'm it's a reasonable
take to have, you know, eat at the point, I
want to hear again from you about Yama Moto. I
know we already talked about him, but just the insanity
(31:57):
of how good this guy is just being an animal,
being a rubber band. You see him doing these weird
stretches that I would literally die if I tried. That's
why you pay somebody that kind of insane money, because
he's ready and willing to put a team on his back.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah, I mean it's you know, history tells that the
those guys can throw and throw and throw, which he
just proved went ninety six pitches in three innings the
next day, So they're typically pretty durable and their stuff
holds up. And then in today's age where you can
get track Man type ride ups on a guy. And
I don't get me wrong, I'm sure Friedman and his
cronies went to Japan and laid eyes on him many times. Yeah,
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but you can get his stuff put on a print
out right in front of you, and you can compare
it to everyone else around the league, and you're like,
that's a ninety two min hour splitter that moves like
Kevin Gosman's that's eighty three miles an hour. Oh, he
can run it up to ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
He has six pitches that he commands at will. Oh.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
He throws basically no heaters in fastball counts. That's essentially
the key to success in today's game.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah. Well, and he's twenty whatever years old.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
We'll give that man some dough and how we just
kind of talked about this with Friedman.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
That's he's not going to do that on a whim.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That was a very much a planned and executed contract
with reason, and you're seeing that right in front of your.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Face over the last forty eight hours. So that's that's
what that is.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
And to be honest, this was the postseason of the Splitter,
and that pitch has been coming back for years now,
but this postseason put it on a pedestal. When you're
talking Gosman and Hoffman and you Savage and obviously Yamamoto,
and it just it's all the way back the Splitter
and how hard that they can throw that pitch. And
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now we know exactly, based on my arm angle, what
seemed to get it on To get it to have
that insane action. I want to say, he got someone
to swing and miss it one and they showed it
in slow motion and I was like, I couldn't get
my twelve six curveball to move with that much downward action,
and that thing was at seventy three, much less ninety two.
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So it just you know, he has a unicorn pitch
that is now on the rage in our game that
is so north south. It's so hard to beat big
Ley hitters eat wet east west, but you can beat
him north south, especially with a pitch that moves like that.
So that's that's why you go sign Yamamoto right there.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I remember you jumped on foul Territory a couple weeks
a couple months back, and you talked about, you know,
shortly after announcing your retirement. It's like, you know, it
turns out something Clayton said to the dudes on MLB
Network today, It's like, it turns out you can't really
get dudes out with eighty eight ninety anymore. Well, it's
it's really hard when you have somebody else that's able
to do that with a baseball, just manipulate it any
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way he wants, and for somebody that really really loves
pitching the way I am that it's just it's sexy
to watch, but that's a that's a different kind of show.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
That's Dodgers' territory after dark.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I think so or all Dodgers, which is coming up
after I let Stripling go, give me two more minutes
with you, buddy, and then I'm gonna I'll let you go,
Kenya out of fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
As Clint, I've been following you covering the Dodgers for years.
You're great.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So are the Dodgers back to back, baby, Thank you
very much. I paid her to say that, or paid
them to say that. Her Marcus with some love, Dolanas
and a lot of called it while the rest of
us were crying in our commemorative refillable Dodgers cup. She
never doubted them for a second, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I had some doubt. I definitely had some doubt.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
And as strip said earlier when he popped in to
do some lighting and all that kind of check, I
had some doubt in this one. If you looked at
my rundown, there's a lot of doubt in that rundown
talking about things that the Dodgers need to do to
get better. Mister Morino since nine ninety nine. My way,
our way saying go get yourself some Boca del Rio
tacos and if you know, you know in the beautiful
La Pointe area.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And I'm gonna end with this from a Yo, Anthony.
Job finished. The job is finished. Any final thoughts before
we sign off here?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Strip, Yeah, I gave my dude to the Blue Jays.
I want to give my due to the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I think that eighteen inning game killed them. I think
we showed where the age gap, average age gap of
the team really came out. Where you know, the average
age of the Dodgers thirty three something in the Blue
Jays twenty seven to twenty eight. That's a big difference.
And I think Games four and Game five showed that.
And I think it's actually.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
A huge, huge tip of.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
The cap to the Dodgers to come back and win
this series in Toronto. Obviously a listers up and down
the lineup and guys that have been there from the
coaching staff down, but to still go out and do
it after an eighteen inning game, one hundred and ninety
games into a season, I want to say kudos to
the La Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
For overcoming that, and.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
I just it's impressive, man, even when you're probably the
team that's supposed to win, to go out there and
do it is something else. And to do it the
year after you already did it, that's a huge accomplishment.
People are gonna say it's bad for baseball. You know what,
if you want to go do what the Dodgers do
the blueprints there, go sign good people in the front office,
go sign good coaches, go sign good players, and you're
gonna have a good team. A lot of said it, right,
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So it's right there, guys. Let's let's be a bunch
of Dodgers, Mets, Yankees. Let's put the best product out
on the field, and let's man like that. That was
awesome baseball for seven games, really for the whole postseason,
but for seven games, that was really really awesome baseball.
And long winded final minute there, but I just I
think that was that was great. I'm really happy for
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our sport. We're in a great place. Yeah, that's that's
where I'll finish.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, series like that fantastic for the game of baseball.
Let's not worry about or even think about that potential
lockout coming.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Out down the road.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The Dodgers again, back to back title winners, back to
back World Series champion, Michael Boyer. The three peat begins
in March. No, the three peat begins on Monday when
I start talking about the off season here Dodgers Territory, Ross,
I appreciate you coming on joining me, pinch hitting for
a long and man, always fun talking baseball with you.
It's been too long since we've done it, so let's
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maybe connecting the offseason do it again.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But yeah, guys, that's about it.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
We appreciate you hanging out with us, like share, subscribe
the show, all that kind of stuff. If you're looking
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Speaker 2 (38:17):
Go check that one out. I'll be back.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Monday, twelve o'clock Pacific time. Trying to get the fifteen
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Speaker 4 (38:24):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
You guys can do it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Help us subscribe to the channel, like the show, rate
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Speaker 2 (38:35):
And there's a parade inside my city. That's a dumb
thing you said. Okay, bye,
The Dodgers scratch and clawed their way back, and they
are going back to back, two time champions in a row.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What is going on?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Dodgers Territory famine? All time classic. We all just witnessed,
my sweet lord. Too many heroes to name in this one.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Miguel Rojas, Will Smith, the Dodger scratch and
clawed their way back, and they are going back to back,
two time champions in a row.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Joining me today.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You don't see Alana on the screen today, My buddy,
my pal. This guy played for both of these teams.
That is Chicken Strip himself rous strippling joining us here
on Dodgers Territory.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
He does. He's the proud owner of a ring. You know.
I don't know if a proud owner.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But he has a ring at least as a Los
Angeles Dodger. And Strip stand up late for us to
hang out and react to this game Dodgey presented by
Fox Swan Ross.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What a ball game?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What a ball game? Clint, Good to see you. Thanks
for having me. Happy to talk about this series at length.
I mean too, am I h you know? Probably the
teams I think of myself in the most and you
know they lived up to the high going seven games
and then a couple extra means to to get a finale. Man,
thanks sweet lord or whatever you said when you walked in.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
That was amazing. Yeah, that was that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I mean to say this game had a bit of everything.
Would I think it's under selling the game. One thing
it didn't have was a lot of the Dodger bullpen
for a reason, they have been, respectfully speaking, asked for
most of this series, and Dave was like, no, you
are not touching at baseball. You were not touching a baseball.
You ride and die with Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Strip You've you've.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Started at the big league level a whole bunch. You've
relieved at the whole at the big league level, a
whole bunch. Talk about what Yamamoto did, come back ninety
six pitches yesterday and goes out there and gives this
team what three shutout innings to literally puts the team
on their bat on his back to win this World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I mean, that's your MVP, right could they give anyone? Okay,
he's your MVP, I mean rightfully so, dude, the day
after has turned into a total spa day for a
big league starter because of the grind to get through
a start the day before, because of what your body
feels like the next day. I used to do nothing,
and that trust me, I wanted to do something, especially
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as I got into my like low to mid thirties.
I wanted to move around the next day and do something.
And I couldn't do it. So for him to go
out there and I know it's game seven, he you know,
probably took some kind of tourt all type thing where
he's not feeling much, but your body knows deep in there, man,
it is fatigued, it is going on fumes. And for
him to throw those splitters and some of those heaters
that it was like a two to one heater end
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of Laddie at like ninety six black in and I was.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Like this, this dude's a robot.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That was I think one of the best pitches I
saw all night. So US a World World Series MVP
as he should be. That was, I mean, just an
incredible performance throughout the whole series by him.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
In this series, you have a complete game shutout, you
follow it up with six innings one run baseball and
then a day later, you go out there and you
get the win, you don't get the save. I think
he prefers the win in this game. You saw twenty
two warming up out there, and the bullpen guys also
sound off in the chat. Let us know how you're feeling,
let us know where you're representing your Dodgers fandom. Seeing
(03:30):
the chat already going off, appreciate people with the super chats.
We're gonna get to everybody there as many people as
we can tonight. Obviously it's late for strips, so we
will try to let him get to bed at some point.
Of the people on the screen right now, you have
spent the most time with Clayton Edward Kershaw.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
He gets to go out with a third world series ring.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Tell me just talk about Kersh here and what this
means to you know, so many people that played with him,
and you know the fact that he's hanging up his cleats.
He wanted on his own accord and to go out
this way.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
How special is that?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So I was getting asked all the time who I
was rooting for in this series, and I was basically
depending on who I was talking to, kind of changing
my answer. But the one thing I was adamantly saying,
was I want Kershall to get the last out. I'm
rooting for a great series and for Clayton Kershall to
get the last out. And it seemed like it was
baby trying to happen there. I don't know if he
was going to come in a phase of our show.
I was going to be stressed as absolute hell if
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they were going to do that to my man, Clayton.
But I think the baseball gods and God in general
would have been on his side. I think he would
have pulled it off like the bases loaded one back then,
game you know, three or whatever in the fourteenth inning,
whatever you pitched, man, I will be as quick as
I can on Kersh. I have adamantly said that I
would have never made it as long as my career
without him. By no means did he take me under
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his wing, but he did it by osmosis. I just
I learned so much about the game just watching him work,
and I just am so thankful that I was drafted
and developed by the Dodgers. They untapped things in me
that I know of or wouldn't have and just to
have been around Clayton. And now let's just say, a
father of three kids and a husband. What I learned
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from him even off the field, as far as just
how good of a person he is, genuine his heart is.
I got to ask the other day in the stands
at Dodger Stadium, who's the kindest Dodger? That was, which
I thought was an odd word, the kindest. You know,
I've never gotten out before, and it just was a
no brain.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It's Clayton. It's it's Clayton.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Even though he's as intense as he is, he has
a genuine heart and he wants everyone around him to
do great. He wasn't a huge part of this postseason,
and every time they would pay to him, he's going
ham because he wants to support his teammates and he
wants to win that ring. Like you said, I mean,
you can't find a better man, a better baseball player,
hall of famer for a reason.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, So happy for that, dude. Just generally happy this game.
You know, I get I get paid, not extremely well,
but I get paid to talk about the Dodgers. And
I've been doing it, as you know, ross Ford, for
a number of years now.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And there are some of.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
These games, particularly in this postseason, where I just like,
I don't know what the have to say here? What
are you supposed to say after a game like that?
You had a bit of everything so many points and
I have the you know, chats to prove it. With
people so many points, You're like, there's no way they
can find a way to just keep just keep the
(06:17):
luck going, keep the season alive. You know you're down
to I don't know if it's your final lot. It
was not your final out, No, it was two. I
think it was a two two out situation. Miguil Rojas
coming up there, bottom of the ninth or top of
the ninth.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Here you you're out. That's your season.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And the Toronto Blue Jays are winners of the World
Series in twenty twenty five, first ever player and MLB
history with the game tying homer and the ninth inning.
Year later of a World Series Game seven. Miggey Rowe
gave his everything for this win, for this team over these.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Last two games.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Thank God for Doc for putting that man in there,
and and him just kind of putting the team on
the back on his back in his own way with
as you know we've talked before, going on obviously you
played a couple of years with him, or at least
you have some time with him behind you at the
minor league levels. I think he was traded before you
made your big league debut. But he is somebody at
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this point in his career. He is a captain, He
is a leader, He is somebody this team. Mookie Betts,
a future Hall of Famer, looks up to Miguel Rojas
and what he brings to this roster, and you know,
to make that play, I think he actually hurt himself
making that he gets the homer, but then he makes
the play at home to keep.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
The game alive, keep the season alive for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Just one of the heroes, you know, Willie Dills also
being a hero for this team. Thoughts about about Miguel
Rojas and what he means to a clubhouse. Obviously very
different situation from what are we at eleven twelve seasons ago,
when you guys might have crossed some paths to now
knowing the type of a presence he has in that
Dodger clubhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
To speak a little bit about Mickey.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Row Yeah, double a shortstop twenty thirteen, Chattanooga, and we
couldn't hit a lick, but he's saved me a whole
bunch of earned runs back in twenty thirteen. I promise
you that, you know, it's I think if you're not
a Dodger fan, you're at home and you're just like.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
The superstar after superstar.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And then they bring that dude out here and he's,
you know, essentially a Platinum Glove winning infielder and he
hits you know, a home run when he hits like
four or five of them a year, and it just
you know, it's like, man, we got to worry about
like twelve other dudes, and Miguel Rojas is the one
that gets us. And then it's because he was ready
for that situation. He's obviously been in the big leagues
a long time. He's probably got a really slow heartbeat.
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You kind of have to to play elite defense like
he does. And he works the great at bat, gets
to a three to two pitch, he's in front of
Otani Smoltz.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
He talked about it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
He's got to get a strike right there, gets a
strike and he damages it. That's a big leaguer, man,
So I you know, and then you talk about how
the other guys in the locker room talk about him.
I've heard Key k rave about him as well. You know,
I think it's rare for a Latin guy to be
the leader of Latin's and the Americans to be honest,
and I think he is that. So I think that's
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just a testament to what he's done at the big
leagues and how guys respect him. And then to come
out in a situation like that and do what he did.
It's just specially he's to earn that opportunity and then
he took advantage of it.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
There's nothing better.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, that's a phenomenal point because usually it is and
say it's a divided clubhouse, but it's hard to find
that one guy that could bring everybody together. And everything
we've heard over the last couple of seasons since he's
been back, he has been that guy. Everything we've heard Tonight,
Ladies and gentlemen with us in the show. We got
William Dill Smith Dodgers legend. You got a little bit
of time in the show with Willie Dill's made his debut.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
That will real middle name, That is real.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
No, Yeah, but yeah, you got a little bit of time.
But what a season and a half maybe total with
him being around as your catcher and to see the
growth and maturity of this guy franchise catcher now for
this organization of course, inks that ginormous deal, ten year
deal at the start of last season and has just
(10:01):
been worth every penny. Grinder caught so many every single
inning in this postseason, including an eighteen inning game, something
you too are familiar with, an eighteen inning game.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Of course, you mostly had to.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Sit on your ass for that one, but mostly mostly
I don't remember if you got in that game.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But still talk about Will Smith here with the winning homer.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he'd probably be your other option
for MVP, right the one against Gosman and Game two
and then that one right there, two outs. You know,
it felt like we were going into a bottom half
of the inning there and all of a sudden Will
hits a towering home run to take the lead, and
it just you know, I saw him from the start.
I think, you know, those teams that I was a
part of were really fun. If I think of the
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twenty twenty World Series roster, which I was not on,
I have the ring for it, Like you alluded to
at the beginning. I think there's like nineteen homegrown guys
on that team. You know, you're talking Jock and Belly
and Kersh and Buehler and Urious and mean Will Smith, etc.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Et cetera.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And so I got to see him come up and
see him kind of join our crew. You know, we
were kind of a crew back in the day, and
he just fit right in.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I talked about a slow heartbeat for Rojas. He's got
a slow heart beat. We called him a politician. He
was never rattled like he was always just very matter
of fact, very to the point, and just knew what
he needed to do. And you know, you think about
a catcher for the La Dodgers coming in catching at
the time, hunjin Ru and Clayton Kershaw and Rich Hill
(11:30):
and Kintamaeta and and some of us that have been
around for a long time. And here's the reins to
this pitching staff. That's a massive undertaking. You've probably seen
a lot of catchers really struggle with that, and he
just took it and ran with it.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Man. And the thing is the bat.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think we knew the catching was there, and the
arm is obviously there as an eighty great arm out
of the draft. But for the bat to come and
now hit like four hole pretty consistently in this LA
Dodgers lineup as a catcher that I think that's thing
that maybe we didn't necessarily see happening for him. And
you're it's you know, it's it's it's real man.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
They always talk about the MV three being showhaned Mookie
and Freddy, But you know, Will Smith, he's got He
drives a nice car too, As as Mookie might say, Hey,
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Speaker 1 (13:30):
And We're back and your Dodgers are the twenty twenty
five World Series champions, first team to go back to
back since the ninety nine two thousand New York Yankees.
I think I like this one a little bit more.
Joining us today is a chicken strip himself Ross rippling
pinch hitting for Alanaizzo who is on her way to
Africa because the timing her husband couldn't get the timing right,
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didn't look at a calendar and see, oh, there might
be a Game seven of the World Series on November first,
where here we're happy some of the super chats stay
deep in the moment, given some love, Dot Go Dodgers,
Chicken Strip, We miss you. Yeah, man, you were You
were always a dog, somebody that was ready and willing
to do anything that this ball club did. H and
(14:15):
for or sorry needed of you and for your manager
Dave Roberts, who now Strip. You know, by the time
you were traded, there was a lot of talk about
obviously there's there's the Kershaw narrative or whatever, but there
was a Dave Dave Roberts narrative. He was very much
a learning, growing manager. He was learning the job on
the job right right up to your first start in
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your career, you know, needing to kind of understand, Uh,
do I let this kid go for a no no?
Or do I respect the fact that he's coming back
from Tommy John a season and a half ago. Uh,
The growth and maturity you've seen both playing for him
and now watching him from Afar. And then you know,
obviously you still talk to a lot of these people
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in the team. I'm assuming you have some sort of
you know, contact and connection with Doc.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Just talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But the growth and maturity as a manager of Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, it's just gonna happen, right when you're just put
into these situations that he's you know, gonna be managing
for one.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Uh you alluded to me.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I feel like all the time he's having to pull
someone from like a no hitter, a perfect game, more
so early in my career, like Rich Hill in a
perfect game, and like stuff like that. You know, I mean,
he's gonna be a Hall of Fame manager, right, I mean,
he's now got multiple rings. It's not gonna slow down
anytime soon. Knock on wood for the LA Dodgers, He's
gonna win a lot more games and probably a lot
more postseason games. He's gonna be up there giving a
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Hall of Fame speech one day. I think we can
all say that, probably pretty confidently. So you know you're
going you said you're gonna learn on the job, Like
right off the bat we were playing in the NLCS
that year twenty sixteen his first year. The next year,
two years we were in the World Series. Like you're
just gonna learn a lot by going through that. He
was really high energy, which coming into a veteran clubhouse
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that that clubhouse had, you know, a j Elis, Adrian Gonzalez,
Carl Crawford, Matt Camp, Clayton Kershaw, Brandon McCarthy, like kind
of some like saltier older dudes. And all of a
sudden you got Dave Roberts coming in, who's kind of
like a nine month old Golden Retriever, and you know
there's gonna be some learning curves there, and he figured
it out, you know, And and I think, is you know,
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really really been obviously a very good manager, good in
these situations. He's going to learn through each one. And
you're talking, you know about the bullpen. How do you
navigate essentially not having a bullpen in seven games series?
That's that's pretty tough to do. So now he's got
that under his belt. So there's really not much that
you can say he hasn't been through, hasn't had to
play chess against the other manager, you know, through some situation.
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So I just it's he's gonna have the advantage moving forward,
like obviously the advantage for the Dodgers on the field
because of the talent they have. But now you got,
you know, a coaching staff led by Dave Roberts that's
through everything as well.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, I mean really has been through everything. And you know,
I think of some of the you know, some of
the early criticisms warranted, very much well earned criticisms. You know,
looking back to that eighteen World series pulling Richie Hill
there Dick Mountain while he's in the middle of an
absolute gem, you boys go on to lose that one,
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kind of feeling like he was maybe trying to create
a narrative for Kershaw. In that twenty nineteen postseason absolute
gut punch for all of us, I can only imagine
how you Fellas felt about it. I mean, we know
we saw that clubhouse, we saw the post mortem of
that one. To be at this point now where he
has learned enough to be like, oh no, those guys
aren't working right now, Yamamoto. Let's if you say you're ready,
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I don't care, said like he did with Walker Buler
last year. But Tane had zero business pitching in that game.
He says, I'm going to go down there because what
would twenty two do? Well, now it's what would eighteen do?
And by the way, Yoshinoba Yamamoto, unsurprisingly is your World
Series MVP made official on the post game. By the way,
Dodger's Territory presented by Fox One. Check that out, Juju
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in the chat fort nine nine, it's the second year
of Dodgers Territory and we go back to back. So right,
Alana and I are undefeated.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's what we're here for.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Massive mh Dodger for life coming through. As he promised,
three hundred dollars super chat. That's insanity right there. But
as promised back to back World series Clint tell Alana
never questioned finally ending some of it's a little weird there,
but anyways, you live to breathe another day. And now
we live to breathe and see a parade.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Inside my city.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
We get to see these guys go hamm there at
Rogers Center. Deserved another another road team wins the World
series here.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You know, one of the things I did want to
ask you about, is I mean, because.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
There was a strong amount of time for this game,
we didn't know how it was gonna turn out. And
I've been somebody who has very loudly been tipping my
cap to the Toronto Blue Jays, because entering the series,
I didn't know very much about them. I ain't got
that kind of time to pay attention to an American
League East team.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I learned a lot about this ball club.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Scrappy, a bunch of dudes that I'm very happy that
that corps was able to stay together and at least
get to this point. They just seem like some good
dudes led by a good dude in John Schneider. But
what can you say about even making it to a
Game seven? What does that mean to the city of Toronto?
And what does that mean to some of the dudes
in the clubhouse that you played alongside? You know, Like,
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obviously right now, that's a gut punch, but there's a
lot of things that those dudes can be proud of.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I got traded over there in twenty twenty, midway through
the COVID year, and right when I got there, we
were in Miami and we flew back up to Buffalo
at the time because we couldn't get in Toronto. And
when I was sitting in my seat on that plane ride,
I had twenty people between staff and players come up
to me and just be like, what are the Dodgers? Like?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
What do they do that we don't do? What can
we do?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
How can we get better? It was amazing and that
ended up being the rest of my career. That is
everywhere what do the Dodgers do? I promise people are
trying to trying to figure it out and follow suit.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
But what I was saying was, man, it's here.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Like at the time, I was looking at young Laddie,
Young Bo, Young Cavin Bigio, a young pitching staff Kirk
you know, coming up, didn't even know he was a player.
I thought he was a bullpen catcher, And all of
a sudden, he's catching my debut five days later, or
his debut five days later, you know, and I just now, gosh,
five years later, they have you know, they haven't gotten
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over the hump. They haven't want a ring, but that
corps has done some cool stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
They've made the playoffs I think four out of five years,
they went from last to first. This year almost won
a World Series. And you know, Laddie's their long term
Bo's a free agent. I hope Bo goes back. Bo's
awesome for that city. Bo's a great shortstop when he's
healthy and can really hit, you know. And I did
a similar show like this. I did it on the
Blue Jay side and they were like, you know, if
they don't if they don't win, it was that core
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a failure.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And I was like, no, man, you're in the Al.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
East and you guys are competing against the Yankees and
the Red Sox and the weird ass Rays every year,
and like the study, you know, like, no, that is
not a failure. It is so hard to win a
ring in this league. And I hope they're holding their
head high. And as far as the fans, man, when
the Leafs lose, the Jay's take over that entire country
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and it's really cool. And I think you know that
got put on display during this series as far as
like they would pant to the crowd and they'd be
going nuts. And the stadium's got redone in the last
couple years.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
They did an awesome job on it. It's just they
do baseball right up there. So I'm glad they kind
of got their stage for a moment.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, really cool, Like I said they they were in
this series, in my opinion, still the better team. They
played a cleaner brand of baseball. Maybe in the final
couple of games here some questionable base running blenders in there.
You got George Springer coming off the bag thinking that lady,
you know, walks in the first inning or whatever. They
had another one of those yesterday as well. Maybe maybe
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wait for the call before you guys decide that somebody
was walked. But that's another bit of learning experience, and
that's something Alanna and I talked about entering this series,
is if there's something that's gonna help the Los Angeles
Dodgers win even when they are far from being their best.
They had no bullpen, the offense was non existent. I
think they hit under two hundred in this series to
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actually win this World Series. But if there's something that's
going to help the Dodgers beat a team that's just
playing better, cleaner, you know, glue baseball, as they're calling
up there in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's going to be the experience.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's going to be the experience of all those guys
on the field who just.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Most of them won World Series last year.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But it's also going to be you know Doc going
in there, no one when to hold them, no one
went to fold them, no one when to walk away.
And you saw late in the game smartly of course,
John Schneider trying to play for the win, the walk
off there the World Series. You know, your your home team,
you can do that. But then another inning or two later,
all of a sudden, Boba Sheet is out of the game.
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It's a smart play with the way he was moving
to pinch run for him. But that's where Dave, you know,
stayed his hand, didn't make some of these moves that
maybe you might have seen him make, uh you know,
sixteen seventeen, eighteen nineteen, all of that, and that's how
you find a way Dave going to Andy poe Has
in center and then him immediately just steamrolling Key k
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This is my ball.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Bro A. That's a tough stretch for Kik getting just
barrel rolled by pae Has In the next inning, tripping
over first base, the man, Key k get off the ground. Man, Yeah,
just just yeah, just to tag on with that. Experience
is always gonna show its head in this and in
these scenarios. What I want to say is La the
Dodgers are specifically so good at capitalizing on mistakes.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
And let's pan back one year.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Aaron Judge drops the ball, Garrett Cole doesn't cover first base,
they're down five six runs in a World Series game.
They come back when when the game and win the
World Series. The Blue Jays kind of teetered a few times,
but they didn't cave. They didn't let the Dodgers take
advantage of those situations.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
That's what kept them in these games.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Let's just talk about tonight specifically, and like, what was
it the third or fourth inning? Churesers, You know, they
got him down and they he's able to get out
of it.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You Savage comes in.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
They're like, man, I don't know if we should really
be bringing him in the situation, he walks, the first
guy gets a big double play on an awesome play
by Flatty. I just feel like the Blue Jays didn't
hand over situations like maybe the Yankees or some other
teams have to LA where that's where LA just steps
on your throat and puts you away. I think that's
how Toronto was able to stick around. How you're saying
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they play a good brand of baseball. Ernie Clement, of
all people, beat a Rosa Arenas record for most hits
in a postseason. You know, it's just that they have
some guys that probably the average fan has never heard of.
They're just grinder, good baseball players. And then all the while,
yeah you got you know, George on a resurgent year
in Flatty being flatty. So they're they're they're a solid
squad man, and they're I think they're gonna be good
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for a couple of years here.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And funny enough, you know, you bring that up the
fact that Dodgers, you know, capitalize on Aaron Judge last year,
this year, Dodgers when they were given those, those opportunities
few and far between, but when they were given given them,
they capitalized. Look at yesterday, Key KM with that double play,
because I think it was Clement got a little too no,
Barger got a little too far from drag. You know,
he was not gonna score either way on that play.
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If the ball gets down, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Bro? And that sent it to a Game seven where
it's a toss up. Anybody's gonna win.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And I always said, give me the Dodgers pitching staff
because we know everybody was going to be available. But
more importantly, the good pitchers were gonna be available.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Lakes.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
With all due respect, I love I love those dudes
in there with with you, Anthony Bondo in particular, Blake,
Blake trying to in particular, did not have themselves a
good postseason, did not have themselves a good World Series.
But Dodgers don't win it in twenty four without those dudes.
But yeah, to to the Dodgers credit, you know a
lot of bit of luck, it felt like in the
series and capitalizing when you needed to, and that's how
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you go run it back. Hey, let's let's put on
your uh your GM cap here, because I don't know
what else you're doing these days. I know you're doing
finance type things because that's that's always been. It's always
been your calling. But hey, one of these days you
find yourself. Yeah, you give front office, You've always given
front office. How do you go and and run it back?
For the three pet What do the Dodgers need to
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do in the off season to get even better?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Well, who were losing?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I'm guessing Mickey Rowe and Keith Ayr Back. Like at
this point, I feel like they've kind of proven that
they they're going to fill their cracks with guys they
like and.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Know, you know, but who's losing?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Uh yeah, right, yeah, just continue.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
But let's say on the on the bigger scale, who's
out the door free agent wise?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Really, I mean a majority of them are are pretty
much back. Months has a he has a player option
or a team option, ridiculously team friendly at ten mil.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So he's gonna be back.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
The left fielder who didn't even touch a baseball in
the postseason, Michael CONFORDO, he will be gone. But you
still have Pa Haz homegrown. You still have Ti Oscar
for another couple of seasons.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Outfield is probably an area where you want to try
to to make some moves.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
But really he right, yeah, so it's gonna be bullpenned.
So you know, the.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Bullpen can get healthy. That's the thing there, It helps
them out.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I remember, you know, going into this season, there was
you know, in the Baseball wheld there's some people being
upset about the Kirby Yates signing, the Tanner Scott signing.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
There's like, man, the doctors get everyone, and.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Then those dudes didn't throw a pitch in the postseason,
right or I know Kirby didn't you know Kopex sitting
there looking like Forrest with Tom Hanks coming off the
Castaway Island. Uh, you know, for for four rounds. It
just baseball never gonna work the way that you think
it's gonna work. And I feel like it's actually kind
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of I don't want to say odd odds not the
right word, but like Friedman went out and spent money
in the bullpen. He got some big names and some
splashy signings, and those guys weren't guys that really helped
get the ring here down the stretch. So my guess
is maybe they get away from that. I'm sure maybe
one or two of those guys are back based on contracts.
But my guess is you kind of see Friedman kind
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of between the cracks, signing more like banda type guys
that maybe we don't know very much about, but they're
Freedman specials where they're going to come in and throw
from weird angles and get outs and can get right
he's and lefties out like this Warblosky.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Guy or or Shean, you know, like it just.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Not only are they gonna sign the Otani Freddie Mookies
of the world, but they're still you know, far Han
left the Giants and is now just hovering somewhere in
the Dodgers. You know, Dungeons making moves with Friedman. That's
a scary situation for twenty nine other teams. So it
just putting on my GM hat. I would guess they're
they're going to get creative with some with some bullpen signings,
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and they're they're going to come out even stronger. You know.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's funny to to Alana's credit, she always says that
money doesn't buy you championships, it buys you good teams.
For the Los Angeles Dodgers, it buys you both because
they are, as you mentioned, somehow able to win uh
this this title without Tanner Scott, who they gave it
backed up the Brinks truck to something they they don't
do with relievers unless that reliever is Kenley Jansen, you know,
(29:25):
saying Kirby Yates, this guy was fucking great last year.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Let's try to see if he'll help us run it back.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Maybe they maybe they don't go as as as flashy
and splashy, they got some really really good arms coming up.
Because as you well know and has already you know
mentioned alluded to, uh, the development. You know what the
front office is able to do with somebody with just
just a hair of talent, they can turn it into
something useful for their own needs.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
And and I love.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Something Joe Kelly said a couple of weeks ago Hunt
some podcasts where he's like, you don't need to be
around for the entire of the season. You just need
to if you're good, you need to be ready for
you know, five weeks towards the end of the season. Anyways,
start a good spot. We don't need to worry too
much about that. We'll have plenty of off season here
on the territory to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Uhs that bridge when we get there.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
When we get there, a couple more super chats, and
I'll let you get out of here. I know it's
late for you, my man, but I appreciate you hanging
out with me. Dodgers win a World Series, back to
back champions Hammy double twenty three in the chat with
ten Dollars saying kids about to have to explain why
their name is Yoshinobu.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Absolute.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's great, Elijah saying, never doubt Alana again, people had
some doubt. I think that's just how baseball works. You know,
if you if you expect the worst, you'll never be hurt.
I was living that, particularly in this game.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I didn't know. I didn't know if they had enough
magic karma left. Thank god they did.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, gain for those for those listening. I came in
to check my lighting and stuff. In the eighth inning
we were down by one and Clint was barely hanging
in there. So here we are, yeah, ninety minutes later,
and vibes are much higher.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Vibes are much much higher.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Gabriel sent us ten bucks here and that's all she wrote.
Game over, ladies and gentlemen, you're a lot of sayings
with Dodgers back to Backworld Series champions and Yama Yama,
Yama Yama, what a signing. I know you, I know.
I don't think you're as extremely online, uh probably, or
anywhere near as close to online as you might have
been in the good old Chicken strip days. But Josh Reddick,
(31:35):
your former teammate, he's got a lot of shit about
a Yama Moto Yamamoto post where he's like, how do
you pay a guy who's never pitched in the league
three and twenty five million dollars. I'm it's a reasonable
take to have, you know, eat at the point, I
want to hear again from you about Yama Moto. I
know we already talked about him, but just the insanity
(31:57):
of how good this guy is just being an animal,
being a rubber band. You see him doing these weird
stretches that I would literally die if I tried. That's
why you pay somebody that kind of insane money, because
he's ready and willing to put a team on his back.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah, I mean it's you know, history tells that the
those guys can throw and throw and throw, which he
just proved went ninety six pitches in three innings the
next day, So they're typically pretty durable and their stuff
holds up. And then in today's age where you can
get track Man type ride ups on a guy. And
I don't get me wrong, I'm sure Friedman and his
cronies went to Japan and laid eyes on him many times. Yeah,
(32:35):
but you can get his stuff put on a print
out right in front of you, and you can compare
it to everyone else around the league, and you're like,
that's a ninety two min hour splitter that moves like
Kevin Gosman's that's eighty three miles an hour. Oh, he
can run it up to ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
He has six pitches that he commands at will. Oh.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
He throws basically no heaters in fastball counts. That's essentially
the key to success in today's game.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah. Well, and he's twenty whatever years old.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
We'll give that man some dough and how we just
kind of talked about this with Friedman.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
That's he's not going to do that on a whim.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That was a very much a planned and executed contract
with reason, and you're seeing that right in front of your.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Face over the last forty eight hours. So that's that's
what that is.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
And to be honest, this was the postseason of the Splitter,
and that pitch has been coming back for years now,
but this postseason put it on a pedestal. When you're
talking Gosman and Hoffman and you Savage and obviously Yamamoto,
and it just it's all the way back the Splitter
and how hard that they can throw that pitch. And
(33:43):
now we know exactly, based on my arm angle, what
seemed to get it on To get it to have
that insane action. I want to say, he got someone
to swing and miss it one and they showed it
in slow motion and I was like, I couldn't get
my twelve six curveball to move with that much downward action,
and that thing was at seventy three, much less ninety two.
(34:03):
So it just you know, he has a unicorn pitch
that is now on the rage in our game that
is so north south. It's so hard to beat big
Ley hitters eat wet east west, but you can beat
him north south, especially with a pitch that moves like that.
So that's that's why you go sign Yamamoto right there.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I remember you jumped on foul Territory a couple weeks
a couple months back, and you talked about, you know,
shortly after announcing your retirement. It's like, you know, it
turns out something Clayton said to the dudes on MLB
Network today, It's like, it turns out you can't really
get dudes out with eighty eight ninety anymore. Well, it's
it's really hard when you have somebody else that's able
to do that with a baseball, just manipulate it any
(34:43):
way he wants, and for somebody that really really loves
pitching the way I am that it's just it's sexy
to watch, but that's a that's a different kind of show.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
That's Dodgers' territory after dark.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I think so or all Dodgers, which is coming up
after I let Stripling go, give me two more minutes
with you, buddy, and then I'm gonna I'll let you go,
Kenya out of fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
As Clint, I've been following you covering the Dodgers for years.
You're great.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So are the Dodgers back to back, baby, Thank you
very much. I paid her to say that, or paid
them to say that. Her Marcus with some love, Dolanas
and a lot of called it while the rest of
us were crying in our commemorative refillable Dodgers cup. She
never doubted them for a second, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I had some doubt. I definitely had some doubt.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
And as strip said earlier when he popped in to
do some lighting and all that kind of check, I
had some doubt in this one. If you looked at
my rundown, there's a lot of doubt in that rundown
talking about things that the Dodgers need to do to
get better. Mister Morino since nine ninety nine. My way,
our way saying go get yourself some Boca del Rio
tacos and if you know, you know in the beautiful
La Pointe area.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And I'm gonna end with this from a Yo, Anthony.
Job finished. The job is finished. Any final thoughts before
we sign off here?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Strip, Yeah, I gave my dude to the Blue Jays.
I want to give my due to the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I think that eighteen inning game killed them. I think
we showed where the age gap, average age gap of
the team really came out. Where you know, the average
age of the Dodgers thirty three something in the Blue
Jays twenty seven to twenty eight. That's a big difference.
And I think Games four and Game five showed that.
And I think it's actually.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
A huge, huge tip of.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
The cap to the Dodgers to come back and win
this series in Toronto. Obviously a listers up and down
the lineup and guys that have been there from the
coaching staff down, but to still go out and do
it after an eighteen inning game, one hundred and ninety
games into a season, I want to say kudos to
the La Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
For overcoming that, and.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
I just it's impressive, man, even when you're probably the
team that's supposed to win, to go out there and
do it is something else. And to do it the
year after you already did it, that's a huge accomplishment.
People are gonna say it's bad for baseball. You know what,
if you want to go do what the Dodgers do
the blueprints there, go sign good people in the front office,
go sign good coaches, go sign good players, and you're
gonna have a good team. A lot of said it, right,
(37:00):
So it's right there, guys. Let's let's be a bunch
of Dodgers, Mets, Yankees. Let's put the best product out
on the field, and let's man like that. That was
awesome baseball for seven games, really for the whole postseason,
but for seven games, that was really really awesome baseball.
And long winded final minute there, but I just I
think that was that was great. I'm really happy for
(37:21):
our sport. We're in a great place. Yeah, that's that's
where I'll finish.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, series like that fantastic for the game of baseball.
Let's not worry about or even think about that potential
lockout coming.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Out down the road.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The Dodgers again, back to back title winners, back to
back World Series champion, Michael Boyer. The three peat begins
in March. No, the three peat begins on Monday when
I start talking about the off season here Dodgers Territory, Ross,
I appreciate you coming on joining me, pinch hitting for
a long and man, always fun talking baseball with you.
It's been too long since we've done it, so let's
(37:57):
maybe connecting the offseason do it again.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But yeah, guys, that's about it.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
We appreciate you hanging out with us, like share, subscribe
the show, all that kind of stuff. If you're looking
for investment advice, don't hit up ROSSI. He's probably got
enough going on there. All Dodgers postgame is coming up
on my other YouTube channel.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Go check that one out. I'll be back.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Monday, twelve o'clock Pacific time. Trying to get the fifteen
thousand subscribers.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
You guys can do it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Help us subscribe to the channel, like the show, rate
and review us as a podcast. That's the only way
the Dodgers are going back to back is if you
do that. Thank you guys for watching Dodger's territory presented
by Fox One.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
And there's a parade inside my city. That's a dumb
thing you said. Okay, bye,
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