November 1, 2024 • 34 mins
David Vassegh live from Dodger Stadium. Dodgers speeches everyone from Mookie to Freeman. Elex Michaelson talks anchoring the Dodgers victory parade with Marla Tellez. More Dodgers speeches
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Beautiful
day here in southern California. The weather was perfect for
the big Dodger parade. And a guy that was down
there in the middle of everything, a guy that does
the pre and the postgame shows, all the interviews with
the Dodgers, been with them for I think fifteen years.
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Celebrating his second World Series victory, David Vassy the say hey, kid,
HOI you Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Tim.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's not my World Series victory. It's the second time
I've been broadcasting with the Dodgers, and this is the
first time I've covered a parade for the Dodgers. I
was only twelve years old when Oral Herscheiser and Kirk
Gibson had their parade in nineteen eighty eight. And as
you saw, Tim, this city has been yearning to celebrate
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the Dodgers for a long time.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's right, and we finally did it. And I got
down to the stadium around eleven fifteen, eleven twenty, and man, that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Is first class all the way.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This team really does nothing second or third class nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
If you think about it. Tim, You know this, that
was a huge undertaking, not only by the Dodgers, but
by the LAPD by the city. Oh yeah, put together
an event like that and it went off steamless.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
And what did they say? Three million people? Four million?
How many people down there?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, about two point five million stands. We're on the
streets of LA today.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Woo.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That was great, Buddy. I loved how everybod how loose
everybody gets. Some of the players take their shirts off,
you know, and people are drinking, enjoying themselves. When they
get to the stadium, you know, the canisters go off
with all the confetti and the kids are running around
the field the confetti.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It does feel like it's a big, big family.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It really is. I mean, I'm lucky they have brought
me in to be kind of a distant cousin. I
feel like that's my family role with his team. But
I mean, everybody really does enjoy each other. And I
am a big believer on a baseball team where you're
together from day one of training camps, spring training, from
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Valentine's Day, you go to South Korea if you're the Dodgers,
and you go all the way through the world periods
you're around each other more more than you're around your
family and your kids. You've got to like the people
that you play with to be around them that much.
And I've been around teams tim where they did not
like going to the ballpark and being around each other
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and they don't.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Win, right, Yeah, it shows.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Freddie Freeman's speech was great talking about his kids and
his son who had the you know, had all the
physical challenges this year, was there at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, that was great. Max Freeman, one of his three boys,
was the one that had the medical issues and little
by little and he basically has to relearn to walk, Kim.
Not only did Freddy Freeman have a broken middle finger
while all that was going on during the season, he
also severely sprained his right angle that he had to
play on during the entire postseason, and then also had
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a strained intercostal muscle basically his ribcage strain of muscle
that attaches to the rib cage and played throughout the
postseason with those injuries and during the period of time
after the Dodgers beat the Mets to get to the
World Series, he had six days off to be able
to get all that right, and he was able to
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become the World Series MVP.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And not only that, not only did he get together
and play for the Dodgers, but he did something that
nobody's ever done, a walk off Grand Slam home run.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It's never been done in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
At that point in time, Tim, six hundred and ninety
six World Series games had been played. Nobody in the
history of the game had ever hit a walk off
Grand Slam until Freddie Freeman did it in Game one
in the tenth inning of the World Series against the Yankees.
And also in the World Series he had ten RBIs
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no National League player has ever driven in ten runs
in a World Series game.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's a World Series, and I think the record is
twelve for RBI for a for a World Series. But
the guy that also shares that record did it in
seven games and Freddy Freeman did it in five.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, I mean, Tim, this is one of the best
teams ever. Yeah, in Dodger history. Ninety eight wins and
fan record in baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And they're gonna be better next year.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Hey, if they get my guy, Blake Snell, they'll be
even better. Tim Conway's your.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Thank you, buddy. I think you're right. I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Uh, now, what happens with the team? I know two
players retired Hudson. Who's the other guy that retired today?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Kevin Kiermeyer, who is a twelve year veteran, played center
field the majority of his career with the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Dodgers acquired him after the Blue Jays let him go.
He's a defensive wizard, one of the best defensive center
fielders in baseball the last twelve years, and a great teammate.
I was told Kevin Kiermeyer knew what would rattle the Yankees,
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and he brought that to the team even though he
wasn't playing. He was on the top step and he
got the rest of the team to follow him, to
be lowed to really over celebrate, to rattle guys like
Gerrick Cole and the rest of the Yankees, and that
matters in the World Series.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You bet?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Hey, what is the Dodgers philosophy? And I don't think
it's right or wrong. I just think I'm sure there
is one about having former players show up on a
daylight today? Do they want the spotlight to be on
the current players? Is that what's going on?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah? And the former players, the ones that have a
you'll understand that it's not about what happened in the past.
It's about these guys. Yeah, and you know today is
Fernando Valenzuela's birthday. Tim, I'm not sure if you're aware
of that.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I think I am.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, today's his birthday, and he was the epitome of
being very comfortable with what he was able to do
in his career and let the players have their things
and never try to go on the field before games,
never try to insert himself. He was a family member
to those of us in the press box, and the
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current players really didn't have a relationship with him because
he never wanted it to be about him, so he
always stayed away.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Dave assays with us from the La Dodgers. When I
walked in to the stadium, I looked to my right
and there's a big picture of Fernando Vealezuela, his jersey
or his jackets. There a picture of him, and then
the actual Cy Young Award is there as well. I mean,
I thought that was unbelievable. See that the Dodgers have
it on destroyer.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
There whoa Tim Conway Junior in the very premium entrance
at Rogers Stadium. Only people with stadium tours get to
see that.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Conway, I enjoyed it, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I got to see Vin Scully's rings, six rings, five
of them from World are.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The press box? Yeah, outside the press box and for
you to see Fernando cy Young.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I mean it's cool.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Only the players get to see that. Only people like
Don Martin get to see those type of things.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now, my man, I saw the whole thing. Mymian, where
was Where was my future podcast partner Rick Monday?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
What was he doing?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Uh? He's getting ready to board a plane at Guirro Beach, Florida,
where he resides, and he actually has to take care
of his house which was hit hard by the hurricane
a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I didn't know that, all right, And what so what
are the day? Well, the Dodgers have an exit meeting.
I think we talked about this before and they'll just
scat or well, a lot of them stay in town.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What what goes on now in the off season?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, my understanding is Rookie Betts is having a team
party at his house tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Whow are you going?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know. I might I might crush the party.
I'm a valley guy.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
By the way, I know where Mookie Betts lives.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Please don't announce that right now.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Why would I do that.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'm just telling you I know, but I heard also
it's going to be in a bowling alley.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It is? Look for us at Corbyn Bowls.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Buddy, what a great season you had. I know.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I love that you're still excited about the game. You
and Tim Kats still get into it and Colin here
at the at the station. I love the enthusiasm and
I love that when the you know, the the World
Series ended, players sought you out. Instead of you going
to try to get interviews, they they looked around to
see where you were and and and made sure they
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talk to you. And when Freddie Freeman talks to you,
the MVP of the World Series, he addresses you by
your name two or three times during an interview. Much
much respect.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's Freddy. He's a first class guy all around. He's
a real pro. He reminds me a lot of me
Steve Garvey when he played Tim. He's that type of guy.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, he's great, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Congratulations, have a great offseason and we'll see you in April,
all right.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Tim can't wait to see you in the hallways during
the off season.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
You're the best dude.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
David Massey, everybody the say hey kid with the Los
Angeles Dodgers. Man, was that suthing else today? The parade
and then back to the stadium. I was there at
the stadium and it was one of the great days
of my life, just being there with fifty four thousand
other Dodger fans screaming and yelling, listening to the players
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buzzed and talking about how great the team is and ah,
it was great. I really enjoyed that, and that was
a great setup. You know, usually you have a parade
like that, you'll have a parade and then it'll end
either near the coliseum and they'll be standing room only
and it's hot and there's people pushing and crazy. Nope,
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Dodgers did it first class. They put all the players
on the field, sold out the stadium. I don't know
what it was, twenty thirty bucks to get in, and
everybody behaved. It all fifty four thousand people behaved in
that stadium. That was one of the great days of
my life.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
We'll have some audio for you.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I hope you enjoyed the parade and the celebration afterwards.
The Dodgers are your twenty twenty four World Series champs.
We are the champs. They'll never be able to take
that away from us. It'll be in the history books
forever and ever and ever. You will remember the parade
you went to with your kids or your grandkids, and
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you'll have sures to share for the rest of your life.
So if you went down to the parade and you
fought traffic, and you fought the crowds, when you get
home tonight and you look at those pictures, it will
be worth it one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Take to along with you. The parade was today downtown
Los Angeles. Maybe you went, that's possible and you enjoyed yourself.
Once in a lifetime for a lot of people, But
most people will only experience one parade in their life,
maybe two, maybe two for your favorite team. I mean, look,
there might beat Lakers, Kings, Clippers, Rams, Chargers, Angels, Ducks parades,
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but there's only one La Dodgers. And I was listening
to five seventy AM was listening to Fred and Fred
Rogan and Rodney and they were talking to and I
couldn't tell who it was. I was only listen for
about five minutes or so. I think it was Ned
Klette from the LA Dodgers, and they're trying to figure
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out we're trying. Ned was trying to explain why the
Dodgers have such a great history, and I don't know if.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It's explainable or not. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I just know that the Dodgers of the premier organization
sports organization in the United States period period. There's nobody clothes.
There might be some teams that are worth more. I
think the Yankees are worth about five hundred million dollars more,
but I don't know. I don't know if that's true
or not. But I know that the LA Dodgers, they
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are a world class organization.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And I have had.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
A tremendous amount of great times and great moments in
my life thanks to that organization. I know they're with us,
you know, with five seventy AM. But I'm not just
saying this because they are with iHeartMedia since nineteen sixty nine.
Been a huge Dodger fan, and my dad would take
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us out of school for Opening Day, and we'd go
to Opening Day and watch the Dodgers and that's when
you know spring was here. You know, we don't really
have different seasons in southern California.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
We just have warm.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And we've talked about the only way that you know,
if you live in Colorado, you know the seasons are
changing because you see the trees change, you see snow
on the ground. Then you see the trees cut in
the grass come back in the spring, and then you
see the beautiful, you know, warm days of summer, and
you can see the pattern and it goes over and
over and over and you can tell where you were
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in the summer or the winter of eighty two. It
was pretty tough for the winter of eighty two. And
people always say, you know, the winter of eighty seven,
the spring of eighty five, because a lot of it
has to do with weather. But we don't have that
out here. So the only way really we really know
the seasons are changing is the seasonal department at Target.
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You know, you go back to seasonal and you go, oh,
it does hollow and stuff, but oh, it must be Falluh, oh,
this is Christmas there. Oh, winter's got to be around
the corner. You can't really tell out here winter's around
the corner unless you go to the back, the very
back of target where seasonal is, and that's when you
see the difference. But with the Dodgers, when you know
when spring is here, because you know it's opening Day,
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and baseball is the only sport that starts and finishes
in the same year. Hockey starts in the fall and
then ends in the winter after New Year's so does basketball,
so does football. But baseball starts in and finishes in
the same year, and so it's easier to follow that way.
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You know, with the Kings you have to say, oh,
remember they won the Stanley Cup in twenty eleven twenty
twelve or twenty twelve and twenty thirteen. You always have
to use both years. Not in baseball, though, not in baseball.
All right, let's say if you didn't if you missed it,
maybe you had to work. You're off work. Now you're
going home. You're gonna have a couple of beers over
the weekend. You're gonna enjoy yourself. I don't know, maybe
I smoke a little. I don't know, I don't care.
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I don't judge. But maybe you missed it. Here are
some of the Dodgers that spoke today. Here is Bookie Bets.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
When I became a Dodger, it was for what twelve
or thirteen years.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
It's a lot of years, and we got two.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
So far, we got like eight nine years. Lest yes,
I gotta get that at least five or six.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Right, the class six sons? Right, Hey, I.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Just want to thank each and every one of y'all.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
For coming out and supporting us, and from to my teammates,
y'all don't know how much y'all mean to me. Man,
I love you guys. Hey, I got three. I'm trying
to feel his hand up out my.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Head, all right, Mookie bats.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Let's hear from Freddy Freeman when he had to say
today playing on one.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Leg, he had.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
No rod.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
Pisco's played with one leg one rim discous. He loved
you guys, He loves the Dodgers love He fe.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
F series.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
When he said that world Series MVP. Crozery, he made
you sound like a church mouse. That stadium. I've never
heard it that loud in my life, so it was
unbelievably loud.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Just it's crazy to think that it was only one
week ago. That it was Game one and he hit
that grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, and does make sense that it was louder today
than normally because you know, on any given day, especially
during the World Series, you may have twenty thirty or
forty percent of the fans in the stands rooting for
the Yankees. But today, every single person of the fifty
four thousand people were there were all major, major Dodger fans.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Good point there.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Nobody in the in the stands today would have been
from another team.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
No, not at all. And the only diehards.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Only diehards show it up today to fight the traffic
and to get in there and take the day off,
not like loose fans don't show up for this kind
of stuff. You know, a guy who's just moved to
town and you know, he turned on a Dodger game
and he watched the World Series sort of half assed
while he was, you know, doing his laundry.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
He's not there today.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Only people who have grown up, and only generational fans
were there today. People whose parents went, grandparents went. Those
are generational fans that showed up today at that stadium.
Har come back, We'll play a few more of these Dodgers.
Huge parade today and the big celebration at Dodgers Stadium afterwards.
WoT a day for Los Angeles and man, this was great.
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It wasn't It wasn't Harris, it wasn't Trump, it wasn't
Democrats Republicans. There were no ads there for politics. In
the two and a half hours I was there, I
didn't see one ad or here one person talk about
who I should vote for, who I shouldn't vote for.
It was just pure excitement the entire time I was there.
And if you were at Dodgers Stadium today, you know
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what I meant. You know exactly what I mean.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
We continue talking about the Dodgers and then noticed that
Alex Michaelson was out there today and he's with us.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
How you Bob being done with you and go Dodgers, buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I know you grew up a huge, huge Dodger fan.
Your dad was a Dodger fan, your parents were. This
was a hell of a day, man.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It was a hell of a day. It's been a
hell of a month. Yeah, how much fun was it
out there today?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Though?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Feel that much joy? Together. And it was an interesting
moment because I thought about it, and one of the
fans we interviewed said this, I hadn't really thought about
it this way. It was the only time you'll ever
go to the Dodger Stadium when there isn't an opposing team.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Every person there, every person there is a Dodger fan.
There's nobody to root against somebody rooting against them. It
was just all love. I thought that it was so fun.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, that was great, buddy. Were you down there for
the parade or were you back at the studio.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I was a Dodger Stadium AK our coverage from there.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Oh that's excellent, man. I like the fact that you
guys did live coverage.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
There were a couple of stations that did it, a
couple of stations that didn't do it. But that's a
big deal for LA to blow out programming is the right.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Choice, of course. It's it's a day that the the
city has been looking forward to. And we were so
lucky at our station to have the rights to cover
the World Series Yah and have those games. And if
you take a look at the ratings, it's clear that
LA is pretty interested in the Dodgers, So to not
cover that parade today is a journalistic malpractice but also
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pretty bad from a rating strategy perspective if you're focused
on that too.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
That's right, that is correct. What were the ratings? Have
you guys seen the local ratings?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The very high at the at the height of the
Dodgers winning, I think we were at one point three
million viewers at the adult twenty five to fifty four,
which is very, very high. And that's just locally, that's
just in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Wow, that's huge, man, that's you never get that anymore,
you know, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
But it's bigger than It's bigger than NFL. I mean,
it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Oh yeah, Were you able to grab anybody for interviews
or talk to any of the players the guys.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Not today because I was up in the booth, But
on I was able to cover games one and two
from the field, and I got to talk to Freddie
Freeman after the home run, after the grand slam that
he had in Game one, and then I was able
to talk to Jack Flaherty and talk to Dave Roberts.
I talked to Kaoscar Hernandez after his home run and
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it was really fun.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know, maybe they say this about every you know, championship,
every time you win a title, that it's more special
than the last one, But I really feel that that
that is true today. I think it all came together
with Fernando Vevenezuela his passing away, then his birthday today
on the big celebration at Dodgers Stadium, and how you know,
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the team didn't perform well in the past two years, and.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
There was a lot of talk.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
There's a lot of fans that were sort of you know,
grumbling and and you know, annoyed and pissed off. But
it all came together this year in a big way.
And for the Dodgers to beat and Diego, which is
one of the hottest teams in baseball, and then to
beat the Mets, which was the hottest team in the playoffs,
and the Yankees to beat both New York teams in
one year is incredible.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And of course the Yankees, who have more World Series
titles than any other team. I mean, really beating the
Padres turns out with the hardest thing of all. They
turned out to be the Dodgers' toughest competition the whole season,
and it is Dodgers almost lost that series. And if
they would have, there were already Dodger fans that were
chanting fire Dave Roberts, those chances would have gotten very loud,
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to the point that maybe they would have even considered
doing it, whether it was the right move or not.
And instead, Dave Roberts beats the Padres goes on to
beat the Mets, beat the Yankees, and is now viewed
as like one of the most masterful managers in years.
I mean, couldn't be a nicer guy. That it was
fun to see him out there today dancing with ice
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Cube and showing off as his dance skills.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know two things and then I know you got
to go. But one thing is I am so thrilled
and so happy that that Donkey and Lake Elson or
waited until after the Dodgers celebration to get stuck in
that well and hope that Donkey gets out. And then
number two is who do you have on the big
show tonight? The issue is and this is the last
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one before the election.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
The last one before the election. We've got two of
my favorite analysts and journalists Peter Hanby and Melanie Mason,
who are really smart breaking down everything that's happening in
the presidential race and the importance of these congressional races.
You know, they're spending two hundred million dollars of outside
money on these congressional races in California. It's crazy. You
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see all the ads that are all over your station
and all over my station because they're trying to get
people to vote, and those are really important. So we're
talking about that. But I got to say, how nice
has it been not talking about politics and just talking
about the Dodgers and uniting the city purchase. I mean,
of all this division, it's been so great to have
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the Dodgers bring it together.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We talked about this about a half hour ago that
I was at the stadium today, and you know, for
the two and a half hour hours I was there,
I didn't see one political ad and nobody, nobody identified
themselves as a Republican or a Democrat or an independent.
They were all just they came for one, you know,
one reason, and that was the root on the Dodgers,
and everybody had a common goal today.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
And to really celebrate the city of Los Angeles. Too.
I mean it really did like a celebration city. Well
not maybe not the city government, but the people of
Los Angeles. Let's focus on that experience. And a reminder,
Max Munsey said, you know where LA has the best
fan and that is true. LA has the number one
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attendance year after year for the Dodgers. The Dodgers when
they're in the World Series get the best ratings because
people are the most focused on them. And LA fans
show up and show out over and over again, and
they deserve or of that parade today for the first
time in almost forty years.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You know, going to other ballparks seems to be there,
seems to be something missing, but going to Dodgers Stadium
is almost like a mini vacation.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You get away from it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You can't see any part of the city when you're
sitting in the stands at Dodger Stadium. And they did
that on purpose, and it feels like you're in a
different world.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
And it's so beautiful, right, the colors and the sunsets
are always spectacular there, and the hills and the whole thing.
Greatest stadium in the right it really looks great.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Buddy, I'll be watching tonight. The issue is at ten
thirty and then maybe you can pop on Tuesday for
election coverage.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Would would love to join you Ding Dong with ding
Dog Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What a week.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Let's keep the celebrations, all right, Thanks man?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
All right, there he goes Elex Michaelson with Fox eleven News,
and the issue is tonight at ten thirty pm. We'll
continue with Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers. Two and a half million
people downtown, another fifty thousand people at Dodgers Stadium. Everybody
showed up, everybody behaved, and it was one of the
great days in Los Angeles. There were seventy eighty ninety
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deep along the entire route, two and a half million
people in LA and everybody behaved.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That is remarkable.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
So the speeches you may have missed today, here's Freddy
Freeman talking at Dodgers Stadium. After the parade, the entire team,
all the families went to Dodger Stadium. There were fifty
five fifty six thousand people there, all cheering on the team.
And here's Freddy Freeman speaking right around one o'clock twelve
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thirty one o'clock.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
I only have one, but I got a whole group
of guys that had my back all year. What a
special group. I don't have the same personality as Keith k.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
He shut it down.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
But from the bottom of my heart, three months ago,
when you guys, when I came back after my son
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got sick, you guys showed out from my family and
I that was one of the greatest experiences I've ever
had on the field.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
I was so touched.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
I did everything I could to get on this field
for you guys, and I'm glad I did because we
got championship.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Now, yes, thank you.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
From the bottom of my heart, I can't wait to
run this back next year.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
That's done.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Let's running back, man. It is much different to win
in this country than it is to lose. This country
loves a winner and completely ignores.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
A loser completely. There's the losers. That's why we ignore him.
All right, here's the key Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Find out what he had to say today at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
What they gotta know, guys, they're not my god.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
You guys want you to pride. We gotta pride.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Like you guys who.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
To thank you fans? I want to thank you players.
I love every single one you guys. Hey, guys, let's
get ready to run this sing. I get you too.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh yeah, okay, you know what he's say, Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Are we live? Are we live? Because the last.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Time he was interviewed, when he said are we live,
he looked around, looked left, looked right, and then he
said we're winning because we don't give an f And
he was the whole F word, and I guess the
league wasn't thrilled about it.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I got across of.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
What makes this team different from every other Dodger team.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Then the whole crowd repeated what he said, we don't
give a beep, And that was great, That was awesome.
All right, Well, look, everybody is entitled to their enthusiasm.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You know you can't.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, the Dodgers would like for guys not to swear
up there. They get into it. You know, have a
couple of drinks, you have fifty thousand people swear, you know,
cheering your name.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You just you get loose and you do crazy thing.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Dodger team don't saying about me. Hey gosh, twenty twenty
Fat fast.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
We gotta ask some.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Really tough questions.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
And guess what I said, twenty twenty decade, it's gonna
be the La Dodger decade.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Yeah, and guess what what?
Speaker 10 (31:12):
Who lost more championships than us in the twenty twenties?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Nobody?
Speaker 8 (31:16):
Totally, no worries. I finally no money and where's as cue?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Ask you where you at?
Speaker 8 (31:26):
Thank you? Get it up?
Speaker 10 (31:27):
Ruscute people. Icequ came out in game two and when
it was performance, we didn't even even play that game.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
We had already won it. Then we go to New
York and this guy he.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Used to be fat, he's not fat anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
His name is Joe.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
He can't out sad. And guess why we.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Didn't even need to play because after.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
That performance we had already won. We love do you think?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Fat Joe's manager calls him and goes, hey, I am
any publicity is great publicity and Fat Joe's like, yeah,
I know, but you know two million people are making
fun of me.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
No, no, they're no, they're not they're they're they love you.
They love you, Fat Joe, they love you.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Love you?
Speaker 9 (32:35):
What eyes we gotta play?
Speaker 8 (32:43):
I love you? I love everybody like that said, They're
not like cous.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I've been going to Dodger Stadium since nineteen sixty nine.
I've never heard it that loud in my life. You
literally had to cover your ears at some point your
head was just throbbing. It is unbelievable how loud that
audience was today, And it makes sense. Everybody out there
was a die hard, generational Dodger fan. Every single person
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who was not a single person out there who was
a casual fan, not one. Not one is at the
parade or at the stadium, not one. And it showed
Dodgers win and you heard it on KFI. We were
the station that carried the final game.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That is fantastic. What are the odds of that? That
the very first time the Dodgers win it since nineteen
eighty eight where we can have a parade and they
won it on KFI.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI Am six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's camp I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Beautiful
day here in southern California. The weather was perfect for
the big Dodger parade. And a guy that was down
there in the middle of everything, a guy that does
the pre and the postgame shows, all the interviews with
the Dodgers, been with them for I think fifteen years.
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Celebrating his second World Series victory, David Vassy the say hey, kid,
HOI you Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Tim.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's not my World Series victory. It's the second time
I've been broadcasting with the Dodgers, and this is the
first time I've covered a parade for the Dodgers. I
was only twelve years old when Oral Herscheiser and Kirk
Gibson had their parade in nineteen eighty eight. And as
you saw, Tim, this city has been yearning to celebrate
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the Dodgers for a long time.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's right, and we finally did it. And I got
down to the stadium around eleven fifteen, eleven twenty, and man, that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Is first class all the way.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This team really does nothing second or third class nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
If you think about it. Tim, You know this, that
was a huge undertaking, not only by the Dodgers, but
by the LAPD by the city. Oh yeah, put together
an event like that and it went off steamless.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
And what did they say? Three million people? Four million?
How many people down there?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, about two point five million stands. We're on the
streets of LA today.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Woo.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That was great, Buddy. I loved how everybod how loose
everybody gets. Some of the players take their shirts off,
you know, and people are drinking, enjoying themselves. When they
get to the stadium, you know, the canisters go off
with all the confetti and the kids are running around
the field the confetti.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It does feel like it's a big, big family.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It really is. I mean, I'm lucky they have brought
me in to be kind of a distant cousin. I
feel like that's my family role with his team. But
I mean, everybody really does enjoy each other. And I
am a big believer on a baseball team where you're
together from day one of training camps, spring training, from
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Valentine's Day, you go to South Korea if you're the Dodgers,
and you go all the way through the world periods
you're around each other more more than you're around your
family and your kids. You've got to like the people
that you play with to be around them that much.
And I've been around teams tim where they did not
like going to the ballpark and being around each other
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and they don't.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Win, right, Yeah, it shows.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Freddie Freeman's speech was great talking about his kids and
his son who had the you know, had all the
physical challenges this year, was there at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, that was great. Max Freeman, one of his three boys,
was the one that had the medical issues and little
by little and he basically has to relearn to walk, Kim.
Not only did Freddy Freeman have a broken middle finger
while all that was going on during the season, he
also severely sprained his right angle that he had to
play on during the entire postseason, and then also had
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a strained intercostal muscle basically his ribcage strain of muscle
that attaches to the rib cage and played throughout the
postseason with those injuries and during the period of time
after the Dodgers beat the Mets to get to the
World Series, he had six days off to be able
to get all that right, and he was able to
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become the World Series MVP.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And not only that, not only did he get together
and play for the Dodgers, but he did something that
nobody's ever done, a walk off Grand Slam home run.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It's never been done in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
At that point in time, Tim, six hundred and ninety
six World Series games had been played. Nobody in the
history of the game had ever hit a walk off
Grand Slam until Freddie Freeman did it in Game one
in the tenth inning of the World Series against the Yankees.
And also in the World Series he had ten RBIs
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no National League player has ever driven in ten runs
in a World Series game.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's a World Series, and I think the record is
twelve for RBI for a for a World Series. But
the guy that also shares that record did it in
seven games and Freddy Freeman did it in five.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, I mean, Tim, this is one of the best
teams ever. Yeah, in Dodger history. Ninety eight wins and
fan record in baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And they're gonna be better next year.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Hey, if they get my guy, Blake Snell, they'll be
even better. Tim Conway's your.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Thank you, buddy. I think you're right. I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Uh, now, what happens with the team? I know two
players retired Hudson. Who's the other guy that retired today?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Kevin Kiermeyer, who is a twelve year veteran, played center
field the majority of his career with the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Dodgers acquired him after the Blue Jays let him go.
He's a defensive wizard, one of the best defensive center
fielders in baseball the last twelve years, and a great teammate.
I was told Kevin Kiermeyer knew what would rattle the Yankees,
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and he brought that to the team even though he
wasn't playing. He was on the top step and he
got the rest of the team to follow him, to
be lowed to really over celebrate, to rattle guys like
Gerrick Cole and the rest of the Yankees, and that
matters in the World Series.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You bet?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Hey, what is the Dodgers philosophy? And I don't think
it's right or wrong. I just think I'm sure there
is one about having former players show up on a
daylight today? Do they want the spotlight to be on
the current players? Is that what's going on?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah? And the former players, the ones that have a
you'll understand that it's not about what happened in the past.
It's about these guys. Yeah, and you know today is
Fernando Valenzuela's birthday. Tim, I'm not sure if you're aware
of that.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I think I am.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, today's his birthday, and he was the epitome of
being very comfortable with what he was able to do
in his career and let the players have their things
and never try to go on the field before games,
never try to insert himself. He was a family member
to those of us in the press box, and the
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current players really didn't have a relationship with him because
he never wanted it to be about him, so he
always stayed away.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Dave assays with us from the La Dodgers. When I
walked in to the stadium, I looked to my right
and there's a big picture of Fernando Vealezuela, his jersey
or his jackets. There a picture of him, and then
the actual Cy Young Award is there as well. I mean,
I thought that was unbelievable. See that the Dodgers have
it on destroyer.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
There whoa Tim Conway Junior in the very premium entrance
at Rogers Stadium. Only people with stadium tours get to
see that.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Conway, I enjoyed it, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I got to see Vin Scully's rings, six rings, five
of them from World are.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The press box? Yeah, outside the press box and for
you to see Fernando cy Young.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I mean it's cool.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Only the players get to see that. Only people like
Don Martin get to see those type of things.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now, my man, I saw the whole thing. Mymian, where
was Where was my future podcast partner Rick Monday?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
What was he doing?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Uh? He's getting ready to board a plane at Guirro Beach, Florida,
where he resides, and he actually has to take care
of his house which was hit hard by the hurricane
a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I didn't know that, all right, And what so what
are the day? Well, the Dodgers have an exit meeting.
I think we talked about this before and they'll just
scat or well, a lot of them stay in town.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What what goes on now in the off season?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, my understanding is Rookie Betts is having a team
party at his house tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Whow are you going?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know. I might I might crush the party.
I'm a valley guy.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
By the way, I know where Mookie Betts lives.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Please don't announce that right now.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Why would I do that.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'm just telling you I know, but I heard also
it's going to be in a bowling alley.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It is? Look for us at Corbyn Bowls.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Buddy, what a great season you had. I know.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I love that you're still excited about the game. You
and Tim Kats still get into it and Colin here
at the at the station. I love the enthusiasm and
I love that when the you know, the the World
Series ended, players sought you out. Instead of you going
to try to get interviews, they they looked around to
see where you were and and and made sure they
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talk to you. And when Freddie Freeman talks to you,
the MVP of the World Series, he addresses you by
your name two or three times during an interview. Much
much respect.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's Freddy. He's a first class guy all around. He's
a real pro. He reminds me a lot of me
Steve Garvey when he played Tim. He's that type of guy.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, he's great, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Congratulations, have a great offseason and we'll see you in April,
all right.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Tim can't wait to see you in the hallways during
the off season.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
You're the best dude.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
David Massey, everybody the say hey kid with the Los
Angeles Dodgers. Man, was that suthing else today? The parade
and then back to the stadium. I was there at
the stadium and it was one of the great days
of my life, just being there with fifty four thousand
other Dodger fans screaming and yelling, listening to the players
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buzzed and talking about how great the team is and ah,
it was great. I really enjoyed that, and that was
a great setup. You know, usually you have a parade
like that, you'll have a parade and then it'll end
either near the coliseum and they'll be standing room only
and it's hot and there's people pushing and crazy. Nope,
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Dodgers did it first class. They put all the players
on the field, sold out the stadium. I don't know
what it was, twenty thirty bucks to get in, and
everybody behaved. It all fifty four thousand people behaved in
that stadium. That was one of the great days of
my life.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
We'll have some audio for you.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I hope you enjoyed the parade and the celebration afterwards.
The Dodgers are your twenty twenty four World Series champs.
We are the champs. They'll never be able to take
that away from us. It'll be in the history books
forever and ever and ever. You will remember the parade
you went to with your kids or your grandkids, and
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you'll have sures to share for the rest of your life.
So if you went down to the parade and you
fought traffic, and you fought the crowds, when you get
home tonight and you look at those pictures, it will
be worth it one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Take to along with you. The parade was today downtown
Los Angeles. Maybe you went, that's possible and you enjoyed yourself.
Once in a lifetime for a lot of people, But
most people will only experience one parade in their life,
maybe two, maybe two for your favorite team. I mean, look,
there might beat Lakers, Kings, Clippers, Rams, Chargers, Angels, Ducks parades,
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but there's only one La Dodgers. And I was listening
to five seventy AM was listening to Fred and Fred
Rogan and Rodney and they were talking to and I
couldn't tell who it was. I was only listen for
about five minutes or so. I think it was Ned
Klette from the LA Dodgers, and they're trying to figure
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out we're trying. Ned was trying to explain why the
Dodgers have such a great history, and I don't know if.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It's explainable or not. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I just know that the Dodgers of the premier organization
sports organization in the United States period period. There's nobody clothes.
There might be some teams that are worth more. I
think the Yankees are worth about five hundred million dollars more,
but I don't know. I don't know if that's true
or not. But I know that the LA Dodgers, they
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are a world class organization.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And I have had.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
A tremendous amount of great times and great moments in
my life thanks to that organization. I know they're with us,
you know, with five seventy AM. But I'm not just
saying this because they are with iHeartMedia since nineteen sixty nine.
Been a huge Dodger fan, and my dad would take
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us out of school for Opening Day, and we'd go
to Opening Day and watch the Dodgers and that's when
you know spring was here. You know, we don't really
have different seasons in southern California.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
We just have warm.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And we've talked about the only way that you know,
if you live in Colorado, you know the seasons are
changing because you see the trees change, you see snow
on the ground. Then you see the trees cut in
the grass come back in the spring, and then you
see the beautiful, you know, warm days of summer, and
you can see the pattern and it goes over and
over and over and you can tell where you were
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in the summer or the winter of eighty two. It
was pretty tough for the winter of eighty two. And
people always say, you know, the winter of eighty seven,
the spring of eighty five, because a lot of it
has to do with weather. But we don't have that
out here. So the only way really we really know
the seasons are changing is the seasonal department at Target.
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You know, you go back to seasonal and you go, oh,
it does hollow and stuff, but oh, it must be Falluh, oh,
this is Christmas there. Oh, winter's got to be around
the corner. You can't really tell out here winter's around
the corner unless you go to the back, the very
back of target where seasonal is, and that's when you
see the difference. But with the Dodgers, when you know
when spring is here, because you know it's opening Day,
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and baseball is the only sport that starts and finishes
in the same year. Hockey starts in the fall and
then ends in the winter after New Year's so does basketball,
so does football. But baseball starts in and finishes in
the same year, and so it's easier to follow that way.
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You know, with the Kings you have to say, oh,
remember they won the Stanley Cup in twenty eleven twenty
twelve or twenty twelve and twenty thirteen. You always have
to use both years. Not in baseball, though, not in baseball.
All right, let's say if you didn't if you missed it,
maybe you had to work. You're off work. Now you're
going home. You're gonna have a couple of beers over
the weekend. You're gonna enjoy yourself. I don't know, maybe
I smoke a little. I don't know, I don't care.
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I don't judge. But maybe you missed it. Here are
some of the Dodgers that spoke today. Here is Bookie Bets.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
When I became a Dodger, it was for what twelve
or thirteen years.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
It's a lot of years, and we got two.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
So far, we got like eight nine years. Lest yes,
I gotta get that at least five or six.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Right, the class six sons? Right, Hey, I.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Just want to thank each and every one of y'all.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
For coming out and supporting us, and from to my teammates,
y'all don't know how much y'all mean to me. Man,
I love you guys. Hey, I got three. I'm trying
to feel his hand up out my.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Head, all right, Mookie bats.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Let's hear from Freddy Freeman when he had to say
today playing on one.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Leg, he had.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
No rod.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
Pisco's played with one leg one rim discous. He loved
you guys, He loves the Dodgers love He fe.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
F series.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
When he said that world Series MVP. Crozery, he made
you sound like a church mouse. That stadium. I've never
heard it that loud in my life, so it was
unbelievably loud.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Just it's crazy to think that it was only one
week ago. That it was Game one and he hit
that grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, and does make sense that it was louder today
than normally because you know, on any given day, especially
during the World Series, you may have twenty thirty or
forty percent of the fans in the stands rooting for
the Yankees. But today, every single person of the fifty
four thousand people were there were all major, major Dodger fans.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Good point there.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Nobody in the in the stands today would have been
from another team.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
No, not at all. And the only diehards.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Only diehards show it up today to fight the traffic
and to get in there and take the day off,
not like loose fans don't show up for this kind
of stuff. You know, a guy who's just moved to
town and you know, he turned on a Dodger game
and he watched the World Series sort of half assed
while he was, you know, doing his laundry.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
He's not there today.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Only people who have grown up, and only generational fans
were there today. People whose parents went, grandparents went. Those
are generational fans that showed up today at that stadium.
Har come back, We'll play a few more of these Dodgers.
Huge parade today and the big celebration at Dodgers Stadium afterwards.
WoT a day for Los Angeles and man, this was great.
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It wasn't It wasn't Harris, it wasn't Trump, it wasn't
Democrats Republicans. There were no ads there for politics. In
the two and a half hours I was there, I
didn't see one ad or here one person talk about
who I should vote for, who I shouldn't vote for.
It was just pure excitement the entire time I was there.
And if you were at Dodgers Stadium today, you know
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what I meant. You know exactly what I mean.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
We continue talking about the Dodgers and then noticed that
Alex Michaelson was out there today and he's with us.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
How you Bob being done with you and go Dodgers, buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I know you grew up a huge, huge Dodger fan.
Your dad was a Dodger fan, your parents were. This
was a hell of a day, man.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It was a hell of a day. It's been a
hell of a month. Yeah, how much fun was it
out there today?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Though?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Feel that much joy? Together. And it was an interesting
moment because I thought about it, and one of the
fans we interviewed said this, I hadn't really thought about
it this way. It was the only time you'll ever
go to the Dodger Stadium when there isn't an opposing team.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Every person there, every person there is a Dodger fan.
There's nobody to root against somebody rooting against them. It
was just all love. I thought that it was so fun.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, that was great, buddy. Were you down there for
the parade or were you back at the studio.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I was a Dodger Stadium AK our coverage from there.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Oh that's excellent, man. I like the fact that you
guys did live coverage.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
There were a couple of stations that did it, a
couple of stations that didn't do it. But that's a
big deal for LA to blow out programming is the right.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Choice, of course. It's it's a day that the the
city has been looking forward to. And we were so
lucky at our station to have the rights to cover
the World Series Yah and have those games. And if
you take a look at the ratings, it's clear that
LA is pretty interested in the Dodgers, So to not
cover that parade today is a journalistic malpractice but also
(20:18):
pretty bad from a rating strategy perspective if you're focused
on that too.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
That's right, that is correct. What were the ratings? Have
you guys seen the local ratings?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The very high at the at the height of the
Dodgers winning, I think we were at one point three
million viewers at the adult twenty five to fifty four,
which is very, very high. And that's just locally, that's
just in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Wow, that's huge, man, that's you never get that anymore,
you know, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
But it's bigger than It's bigger than NFL. I mean,
it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Oh yeah, Were you able to grab anybody for interviews
or talk to any of the players the guys.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Not today because I was up in the booth, But
on I was able to cover games one and two
from the field, and I got to talk to Freddie
Freeman after the home run, after the grand slam that
he had in Game one, and then I was able
to talk to Jack Flaherty and talk to Dave Roberts.
I talked to Kaoscar Hernandez after his home run and
(21:20):
it was really fun.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know, maybe they say this about every you know, championship,
every time you win a title, that it's more special
than the last one, But I really feel that that
that is true today. I think it all came together
with Fernando Vevenezuela his passing away, then his birthday today
on the big celebration at Dodgers Stadium, and how you know,
(21:44):
the team didn't perform well in the past two years, and.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
There was a lot of talk.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
There's a lot of fans that were sort of you know,
grumbling and and you know, annoyed and pissed off. But
it all came together this year in a big way.
And for the Dodgers to beat and Diego, which is
one of the hottest teams in baseball, and then to
beat the Mets, which was the hottest team in the playoffs,
and the Yankees to beat both New York teams in
one year is incredible.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And of course the Yankees, who have more World Series
titles than any other team. I mean, really beating the
Padres turns out with the hardest thing of all. They
turned out to be the Dodgers' toughest competition the whole season,
and it is Dodgers almost lost that series. And if
they would have, there were already Dodger fans that were
chanting fire Dave Roberts, those chances would have gotten very loud,
(22:33):
to the point that maybe they would have even considered
doing it, whether it was the right move or not.
And instead, Dave Roberts beats the Padres goes on to
beat the Mets, beat the Yankees, and is now viewed
as like one of the most masterful managers in years.
I mean, couldn't be a nicer guy. That it was
fun to see him out there today dancing with ice
(22:55):
Cube and showing off as his dance skills.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know two things and then I know you got
to go. But one thing is I am so thrilled
and so happy that that Donkey and Lake Elson or
waited until after the Dodgers celebration to get stuck in
that well and hope that Donkey gets out. And then
number two is who do you have on the big
show tonight? The issue is and this is the last
(23:18):
one before the election.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
The last one before the election. We've got two of
my favorite analysts and journalists Peter Hanby and Melanie Mason,
who are really smart breaking down everything that's happening in
the presidential race and the importance of these congressional races.
You know, they're spending two hundred million dollars of outside
money on these congressional races in California. It's crazy. You
(23:41):
see all the ads that are all over your station
and all over my station because they're trying to get
people to vote, and those are really important. So we're
talking about that. But I got to say, how nice
has it been not talking about politics and just talking
about the Dodgers and uniting the city purchase. I mean,
of all this division, it's been so great to have
(24:02):
the Dodgers bring it together.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We talked about this about a half hour ago that
I was at the stadium today, and you know, for
the two and a half hour hours I was there,
I didn't see one political ad and nobody, nobody identified
themselves as a Republican or a Democrat or an independent.
They were all just they came for one, you know,
one reason, and that was the root on the Dodgers,
and everybody had a common goal today.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
And to really celebrate the city of Los Angeles. Too.
I mean it really did like a celebration city. Well
not maybe not the city government, but the people of
Los Angeles. Let's focus on that experience. And a reminder,
Max Munsey said, you know where LA has the best
fan and that is true. LA has the number one
(24:47):
attendance year after year for the Dodgers. The Dodgers when
they're in the World Series get the best ratings because
people are the most focused on them. And LA fans
show up and show out over and over again, and
they deserve or of that parade today for the first
time in almost forty years.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You know, going to other ballparks seems to be there,
seems to be something missing, but going to Dodgers Stadium
is almost like a mini vacation.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You get away from it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You can't see any part of the city when you're
sitting in the stands at Dodger Stadium. And they did
that on purpose, and it feels like you're in a
different world.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
And it's so beautiful, right, the colors and the sunsets
are always spectacular there, and the hills and the whole thing.
Greatest stadium in the right it really looks great.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Buddy, I'll be watching tonight. The issue is at ten
thirty and then maybe you can pop on Tuesday for
election coverage.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Would would love to join you Ding Dong with ding
Dog Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What a week.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Let's keep the celebrations, all right, Thanks man?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
All right, there he goes Elex Michaelson with Fox eleven News,
and the issue is tonight at ten thirty pm. We'll
continue with Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers. Two and a half million
people downtown, another fifty thousand people at Dodgers Stadium. Everybody
showed up, everybody behaved, and it was one of the
great days in Los Angeles. There were seventy eighty ninety
(26:05):
deep along the entire route, two and a half million
people in LA and everybody behaved.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That is remarkable.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
So the speeches you may have missed today, here's Freddy
Freeman talking at Dodgers Stadium. After the parade, the entire team,
all the families went to Dodger Stadium. There were fifty
five fifty six thousand people there, all cheering on the team.
And here's Freddy Freeman speaking right around one o'clock twelve
(26:43):
thirty one o'clock.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
I only have one, but I got a whole group
of guys that had my back all year. What a
special group. I don't have the same personality as Keith k.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
He shut it down.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
But from the bottom of my heart, three months ago,
when you guys, when I came back after my son
(27:35):
got sick, you guys showed out from my family and
I that was one of the greatest experiences I've ever
had on the field.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
I was so touched.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
I did everything I could to get on this field
for you guys, and I'm glad I did because we
got championship.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Now, yes, thank you.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
From the bottom of my heart, I can't wait to
run this back next year.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
That's done.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Let's running back, man. It is much different to win
in this country than it is to lose. This country
loves a winner and completely ignores.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
A loser completely. There's the losers. That's why we ignore him.
All right, here's the key Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Find out what he had to say today at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
What they gotta know, guys, they're not my god.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
You guys want you to pride. We gotta pride.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Like you guys who.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
To thank you fans? I want to thank you players.
I love every single one you guys. Hey, guys, let's
get ready to run this sing. I get you too.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh yeah, okay, you know what he's say, Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Are we live? Are we live? Because the last.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Time he was interviewed, when he said are we live,
he looked around, looked left, looked right, and then he
said we're winning because we don't give an f And
he was the whole F word, and I guess the
league wasn't thrilled about it.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I got across of.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
What makes this team different from every other Dodger team.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Then the whole crowd repeated what he said, we don't
give a beep, And that was great, That was awesome.
All right, Well, look, everybody is entitled to their enthusiasm.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You know you can't.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, the Dodgers would like for guys not to swear
up there. They get into it. You know, have a
couple of drinks, you have fifty thousand people swear, you know,
cheering your name.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You just you get loose and you do crazy thing.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Dodger team don't saying about me. Hey gosh, twenty twenty
Fat fast.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
We gotta ask some.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Really tough questions.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
And guess what I said, twenty twenty decade, it's gonna
be the La Dodger decade.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Yeah, and guess what what?
Speaker 10 (31:12):
Who lost more championships than us in the twenty twenties?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Nobody?
Speaker 8 (31:16):
Totally, no worries. I finally no money and where's as cue?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Ask you where you at?
Speaker 8 (31:26):
Thank you? Get it up?
Speaker 10 (31:27):
Ruscute people. Icequ came out in game two and when
it was performance, we didn't even even play that game.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
We had already won it. Then we go to New
York and this guy he.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Used to be fat, he's not fat anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
His name is Joe.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
He can't out sad. And guess why we.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Didn't even need to play because after.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
That performance we had already won. We love do you think?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Fat Joe's manager calls him and goes, hey, I am
any publicity is great publicity and Fat Joe's like, yeah,
I know, but you know two million people are making
fun of me.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
No, no, they're no, they're not they're they're they love you.
They love you, Fat Joe, they love you.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Love you?
Speaker 9 (32:35):
What eyes we gotta play?
Speaker 8 (32:43):
I love you? I love everybody like that said, They're
not like cous.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I've been going to Dodger Stadium since nineteen sixty nine.
I've never heard it that loud in my life. You
literally had to cover your ears at some point your
head was just throbbing. It is unbelievable how loud that
audience was today, And it makes sense. Everybody out there
was a die hard, generational Dodger fan. Every single person
(33:14):
who was not a single person out there who was
a casual fan, not one. Not one is at the
parade or at the stadium, not one. And it showed
Dodgers win and you heard it on KFI. We were
the station that carried the final game.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That is fantastic. What are the odds of that? That
the very first time the Dodgers win it since nineteen
eighty eight where we can have a parade and they
won it on KFI.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
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