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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Kates will take over with that David Veasse TV duties.
He's gonna join us a little bit later in this
very segment set the scene out in Milwaukee could not
have gone better. Yesterday Pee the return of Mookie Show,
Hey Goes Donner, Dogger Mookie goes Donner Donner, and Kershaw
picks up his first victory.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
They took him out a little early there. That upset
a few people.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
There, Yeah, especially when you bring in Joe Kelly was
giving up like Donner Donner, Donger in his last three
innings pitched.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So but he didn't do that, did he? No he didn't, Well,
yeah he did.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
And uh, Clayton got charged with an earned run because
he gave up that two run Jack. Things got a
little tight. And Joe Kelly but hey, you know what,
he wears that Mariachi outfitting. Man, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Just see the mural. It's time for him to perform exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, I mean he where's that? And they got the
mural and all that, So, I mean, there's that. So
who cares about all the runs he's given up?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Dodger victory And like Matt said, I'm just being a contrarian. Overall,
a big night, great night for the Dodgers. Maybe not
Joe Kelly, but overall the Dodgers, Otani and Mookie and
of course Clayton Kershaw pitch as well. Vassay is going
to join us in a moment, and we are hopeful
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that we find you happy. Tomorrow will be on from
two to four, but we'll be live from Chargers Camp,
so that'll be a fun time. And you can always
podcast whatever you miss if we're on too early for
you on the iHeartRadio app for your smartphone, and you
know how to do that, and you can stream the
show live there as well. And Matt, the best and
(02:34):
most important thing before we get to David Vasay is
everybody knows the summer tour wraps up next week on Thursday,
Special Day, Thursday from three to six at the Van's headquarters.
But we got the prizes laid out like a patient
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ethorized upon a table today for everybody to hear what
they have in store. Not the early people, not the
late people, just the people. To the people you give
anything to the early people.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Thank you. Thanks for ruining my day, Dave. We's pull
on all the stops.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It's a lot. You've ruined my that's a day ruiner.
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I got a two hour commute ahead of me from
Thousand Oaks to to Seal Beach and everything had gone
well up to this point, and that's how it's gonna end.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Great.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, I will avoid her at all costs at the
Van's headquarters, and hopefully my day will end as well
as it begins and as great as we believe it's
going to go. For these three hours plus, the show
will be three hours three to six on Thursday the
twenty second.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Here's what Davies has put together.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
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their first two home games, Week one, week four.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
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Herbert walking around on two legs. That were that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
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one hundred dollars gas card.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
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Speaker 3 (04:09):
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away one to fifty five at the Vans headquarters on
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Speaker 2 (04:44):
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Speaker 1 (04:47):
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talking about Michael Grove. I'm talking about the thousand dollars
Living Spaces gift car shop every day low prices on
a huge selection at home unishing. See what you can
save every day at Living Spaces save the bit?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh I mean thousand bucks? Talking about a whole bedroom set,
two night stands, dresser desk.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Have you even a mirror on that dresser? What about this?
Steve Van Dorn puzzo.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Grab I mean, how about a new pair of Vans
every month? One year of Vans, twelve total pairs.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That might last me for life. That's like visiting a
special hooker once a month.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Right, twelve pairs one year of Van's shoes. You want
to do what we do even though you can't.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Do this, No, you can't do what we do. Talk
go ahead, try it, but you'll fail, Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
What you can do is party like you're part of
our company, and that is the private iHeartRadio Disney California
Adventure Closed to the public, open to, iHeartRadio employees four
pack of tickets to that?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is that true? Kate's that's true?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Indeed it is?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Wow And Matt, what about Hawaii?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
When I saw it, the first thing that went through
my head.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Of course, you could be an extra in Hawaii five
ozer with James Kahan's son if it's still on.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's one thing. But I then thought, well, I mean
maybe flip me room. Wouldn't mind going out to the
Hilton Hawaiian Village there Waikiki.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, what can we get out of this? I mean,
come on, where's mine? Yeah, we're the ones doing squats
up there.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Exactly about our five night's day at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I love that property.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You're the ones pot, We're the ones doing hot hut
flips off each other's shoulders like Russian gymnasts.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We're gonna flip this to somebody at the vans. We're
not getting offered a five night's day at the Hilton
Hawaiian Village. Why to stretch of white sand beach and
all of Waikiki five sparkling pools, that Paradise Pool. Why
can't we have that right? We're your water slide show
of record. You got two kids that love water slides.
Peach throw a little upgrade at the matt kidding me.
(07:03):
They have that belching beaver. Oh peanut butter ale downstairs.
And I take a tour Pearl Harbor hop on the
the bridge there, check out the Arizona.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean, get your voice down, keep your voice down,
that's right. Be respect somber plays, Be respectful. Five nights
day of Hilton Hawaian Village. Give it over and Bob Puzzo,
So Timmy chang see if he's going to take her
to Sean Foster right, and of course be the eleven
thousand dollars. Well, yeah, brought to you by your Southern
California Toyota dealers. Visit your Toyota dealer Toyota dot com.
(07:39):
Talk to about sweet James is gonna be there? Right,
Sweet James?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Is that right? Kates?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Is he finally gonna show up? He'll be there all right?
Puerto Rican beer. We'll drink it all. He just wanted
to give us a sip, but we're gonna drink.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It the fast times guy. Those guys will have a beer.
Those guys will have a beer. I won't make a
fool of myself this time. So the what was I saying?
The baa that oh we're promoting. We were getting to
Eto enz oi os at Japan's number one green Tea,
the tea the shoe TONI loves and drinks.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I was mentioning one of the highlights of the Thousand Oaks.
The Tarantula Hill was meeting last year's ten thousand dollars
Winter our great winner was there and had a chat
with her.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You know how I knew it was her.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
She had a sparkling ruby tiara and beautiful I believe
those were Christian Lubaton shoes with the red body. She
was very popular with the ladies and she had a
real aura. I haven't seen a woman carry herself like
that since the Devil Wears Prada movie, you know what
I mean. I know she had a real air about
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her because that's what happens, life changing eleven thousand.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Dollars and I believe even though we saw her at
in Thousand Oaks, she said she was the final finalist
and won the ten Grands. So she ended up being
the finalist that was pulled at van last year and
ends up winning the grand prize. Remember we got six
from each on site and then five and there's still
an opportunity for you to sign up online. We'll pull
(09:09):
five from five to seventy la sports dot Com, which
I'm not crazy about.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I feel like those people come out and it's like
fifty to fifty proposition that they're pms great sports talkless.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, but stuffs did well with me. I know it's legal.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know what gives George Lee and the David Weez's
of the world and the Toyota people a stone boner
of sorts is we've got more online clicks than ever
this year.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
More than jingle Ball. You know.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They that's something they like to wave around in their
corporate meetings. Matt, I don't have anything to do with us.
I'm just a caveman.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
These crazy radio days make me want to run into
the hills and hide. But I do know one thing.
We've got some great process to get away.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Darnwright. Dance monkeys.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Listen to you monkeys, get out there and dance, would you?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yes? Tim?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Was it last year that we were introduced to double
boot Guy as one of the finalists.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I don't know if that was the first time he
ever showed up. Well two years ago, yeah, two years ago, Truck.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Last year, Dave, we just confused everybody with how he
gave everything away.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Was last year the one where you could trade and
you win this and you win that.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, last year it was really last year's what I thought, really,
what I thought your Scout Master thing was going to
be at Brewery X and it ended up being a
rousing success. But I thought that it was going to
be confusing like that, like we weren't going to know
how to give out the matches and we were going
to be jeered and people were going to throw tomatoes
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at us. But it didn't end up like that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Now when they Chick blew out that giant vape cloud,
now that.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Was unreal and I blew one too. It felt good.
I will say this though, Matt Uh. People were still
happy last year at the Van's headquarters because there were
shoes and many prizes to give away at the band
and it's a hell of a show. All I'm saying
is little bit of a land of confusion there giving
away the massive amount of prizes that we had.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And look there again, going back to the conversation yesterday,
not to rehash it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But they're great prizes.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I we know you want to win them, but it's
going to be a great party if you win one.
Look at it as gravy. If you don't, we're giving
away a bunch of vans. I think seventy five pairs
something like that. Yes, I didn't give anything to the
early people, despite the fact the number I called to
win the TV was sixteen numbers higher than yours.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So hearly and he's.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Didn't do what you promised you would do and have
a pajama party.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
All right, let's go line them up. Let's do it,
ugly sweater contest. All right, y'all win, I get the
hell out of here. We will have drinks, food, a brewery,
X Beer Garden. Blue Ice Vodka Pee has signed one
another national brand, Number one Potato vodka made right here
(12:06):
in the USA. Blue Ice Vodka has now joined dr Pepper.
Maybe get a blue Ice and pepper. I think they
call it a bit blue ice pepper.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That's what the kids call it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, hey, bit me, would you Matt?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You know who's ready live in Milwaukee with the slide
staring at him, mocking him. It's David Vassis, the Home.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Of the Dodgers with an inside look at the Dodgers.
This is the vass Report with David Vasse.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Wearing the ten hot dogs in the face from Earld
Hirschheiser last night on the broadcast, David Vassa standing strong
and sticking by his story. Like Samson Simpson. You see
him on Spectrum Sports Net. It's Tim Kate's week on
the radio for Dodger Talking Dodger Clubhouse. Vassays on Spectrum
Sportsnet on the side line during the broadcast all week long,
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except for Saturday it's a national game. So check him
out tonight. I don't know if he's got a pregame
guest tonight on Marongo Casino Dodgers on deck. I would
imagine he does. Dodgers looking good, Dave. Last night was
a special night for the Dollygers, Was it not?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Was it not?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
It was on several fronts, not only Mookie Bets coming back,
but also driving in three runs, including a two run
home run. And everybody is not buzzing about that. They're
buzzing about the play he made in right field, first
game back all season long, where he held Jackson Churio
to a long single. It was a ball that would
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have been an automatic double if anybody except Mookie Betts
was playing right field off the wall bare hands, it
throws a strike and Churio's at first base, who's a
very fast runner. So honestly, coming to the ballpark today
and after the game last night, that's what the baseball
people are buzzing about. The defensive play Mookie Bets made
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last night. And also Clayton Kershaw pitching a really great game,
picking up his first win of the season. It looked
like it might have been a little bit of a
dicey go for Kerushaw early on, but all of a
sudden starts to you know, make eight pitch innings look
pretty easy, and he just knows how to pitch, and
that's what got him through last night.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, Dave was a great interview with Mooki after the
game as well as you got your TV duties going.
But does that just that one play I remember seeing
it happen, and just the way at ricochhety had the
angle played perfectly. He didn't try to make a miraculous
play and catch the ball. It was just gold glove
caliber defense. Does that pretty much settle it? It's like, yeah,
can you play shortstop, sure, second base, yes, but this
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is the best defensive right field or in the conversation
in baseball, let's use that to our advantage.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It felt like one of those sort of moments.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Right And I know Mooki talks about getting bored out there,
but I mean, sorry, Mooki, You're really good at right field.
That is your position. That's the fuel position that you have.
Not only can you make great athletic plays, but you
have a great seal for that position. And that play
last night that held Jurio to a single was a
great example of that. And you know it just I mean,
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like I said, I know people are making fun of
me for the analogies peanut butter or jelly avocado and
toast lukie betson right field go together and there should
be no questions about it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What about the batting order of conversation, Dave? Will that
rage I not?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
As of now, Petro's talking to Mookie more than once yesterday.
It feels like at the beginning it took him a
little bit of time to warm up to the idea,
but once he got to Milwaukee yesterday, it feels like
he really embraced it and seeing the results that he
got last night only helped that. Managers have told me
that over the years, it's one thing to go through
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what they call the process and make changes, but once
you see the results as a player, all of a sudden,
you got all the buy in in the world. So
for the Dodgers to get Mookie to buy in even
more or completely to get those results last night, the
way they happened certainly was the perfect perfect end to it.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Hey, Dave, I know you're very exciting.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're gonna be talking to Michaelkopek tonight, the best arm
in the bullpen.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
He was a starter before.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
When the starter comes out of the game, Can Kopeck
just pitch everything? Can whatever however many needs? Can we
just put him out there and not send anybody else
out moving forward?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well, he just told me that he doesn't want a
label on him because he's done virtually every pitching role
in the big league starter, long release, middleman, low leverage,
high leverage closers. So he said he doesn't want any
labels on him. And it is unique in a good
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way what the Dodgers do by giving pictures in the
bullpen groupings of hitters and not just innings. So that's
something that he has embraced as well. And Dave Roberts
has said Kopeck is moving up in the trust tree,
and rightfully so. I know a lot of people around
the Dodgers are very excited and also have visions of
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Kopek possibly closing out a World Series game for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
The One and Only David Vassy on the Southern California
Toyota Dealer Celebrity Hotline. He is in Milwaukee. The slide
is staring down on him. More on that in just
a moment. But how big of a start is this
for the Stone, Gavin Stone, your dear friend, Dave. How
badly does he need to perform tonight?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
He's trying to channel his inner Clayton Kershaw because he
was wearing a Kershaw T shirt here in Milwaukee yesterday
that he got from Road to War and it is
a big one, big one, Petro speacause.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
He did it from the Brick website. I'm sorry he
didn't get it from the one. Sorry, go ahead, you
know he did not.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
He actually he actually paid for the T shirt. I said,
I got mine for free. But you know, we could
talk about that later. But it is a It is
a big start for him because Rueler's coming back tomorrow
and Yoshi Yamamoto is expected to return the first week
of September. So the Dodgers do need a good start
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from Gavin Stone. He needs a good start out of himself.
And I think I mentioned this yesterday or the day before,
but Charlie Huff, longtime knuckleballer, is one of the great
pitching coaches the Dodgers have had in their organization for
twenty years plus. He told me it's all of nothing's
changed as far as Stone's mechanics or his stuff. It's
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just the cat and mouse chess game that he needs
to adjust. Hitters have adjusted to him. He needs to
find a way in the middle part of games to
find his legs because obviously he's at the stage of
the season where he's never been before, uncharted territories. He's
got to find his legs. He's got to be able
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to make pitches and play that cat and mouse game
with the hitters. And the only way to do that
is not in the minor leagues, but here in the
big leagues and getting that real time experience.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Dave fabulous stuff. Phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I understand that you're getting some pressure about going down
to slide from the players.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, even Kopek said he would support me. He would
wait for me at the bottom of the slide if
I go down at.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Tomorrow, if they come and wait at the bottom, you
might have to do it, Dave.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I don't want to take away from the team. It's
a pennant race. I've been preaching more urgency and edge.
I'm not sure me going down the slide really preaches that,
but some has said that I could be the example
of toughness redemption for this Dodger team. So, uh, you know,
I'm weighing my options.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's a heavyweight, that's a heavy burden. Heavy is the
head that wears that crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I was just gonna say that Pete heavy is the
head that wears the crown. Maybe he's a gester. He
provides the comedy relief, right, He's just stressful right now.
Race we need a little bit of fun, a little
bit of race.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
We need a little bit of fun. And we won
because of that, or everything went bad once Dave went
down the slide and made a joke at everything. I mean,
it could go either way.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
It's the dog days of August.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You're right by the way.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Dave Roberts when I went down the slide the last time,
he wasn't too happy with me, So you know, everybody
else was very supportive. Dave Roberts was more angry, lot.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
To think about, lot to think about. You could say,
I made it down the slide without getting hurt.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I wish I had a pet iguana to talk to,
maybe get some answers.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, I don't either. Okay, all right, Dave, have a
great I love you guys, miss you too. Be safe
out there. Try not to come homes in your arm.
Take any ass from who orl Exactly right. I had
to explain about twelve people that texted me that oral
(21:14):
doesn't mean yeah, I'm a baseball expert. He's choking. Yes
you mean oh oh yes, oh as Steven Milson.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Hey, if you're not gonna go to Dave when.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
When o Tiny grounds out and Mookie gets the hit,
gets the home run that knocks in two, then don't
go to him. Uh five innings later, Well, David say,
I'm gonna rub it in your face here.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Huh. Dave's a guest on their show. I put up
with a lot of ass. Okay, not that you're right. Hey,
I didn't appreciate what you did. I don't like the
what you did there, all right, I don't appreciate what
you did on the show last night. You're putting him
in a bad spot.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
And I gathered if I gathered a few of us
together to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Dave's a counterpuncher. Instead of just taking that hit and
retreating back in the dugout, he's gonna punch back and
he's gonna get himself in trouble.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Cooler heads prevailed last night, they did. We'll return with
the top story of the day. It's Petroson Money on
AM II seventy LA Sports. You're home of the Dodgers.
Dodgers are in Milwaukee and they're Hi. Thank you for listening, everybody.
Petrason Money on this tu of to Mono Tuesday, tired
of the last Tuesday, todos mentida deskta mundo No lie that.
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On Thursday, August twenty second, we're gonna be at the
Van's headquarters in Coasta, Mesa. That's a Thursday show. A
week from Thursday, someone's gonna get the eleven grand brought
to you by Toyota. We got a trip five nights
to the Hilton Hawaiian Village. My God, a huge Westinghouse
TV sixty five inches, stay in a Vegas hotel, thousand
(23:02):
dollars living spaces, get yourself a duvet cover, wonderful stuff.
So we want to see you there and celebrate the
end of the summer correctly. But right now it's time
for the top story of the day. For uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
For all the bitching and moaning and pitching a fit,
for all this whining, crying, pitching a fit. It's got
to stop some time. So why don't I quit? Get
over it? Get over it?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
The Dodgers are in first place.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
You might as well be reading the lyrics to imagine
as well.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's our imagine all right, it's our.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It really is, It's our American pie.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It really is. Fire is the Devil's only friend?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
No song is quoted more on this show. I don't
think I'd be very and it's because it sucks. Yes,
I believe that to be the case.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
They spent five minutes on an Eagles documentary on Get
Over It to try to verify or validate their late
career songwriting, which cannot be validated.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
No, except that for that seven year period you wrote
about forty hits, and that's great.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Most people can write one.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You don't need to add get over it for the
hell freezes over tour?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Dare I say need to happen? Get over it?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Eagles.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
The Dodgers are in first place. Yes, they are not
in the NL West, not in the National League, but
in baseball. Their seventy and forty nine record twenty one
games over five hundred and five eighty eight win percentage
best record the NL West, in the National League, and
they are tied with Cleveland in Baltimore, Baltimore for the
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best record in baseball. It is a ninety five win pace.
And perhaps that's why.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
We've been.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Pitching and moaning and pitching a fit, because we're used
to seeing the doctors win one hundred games. It would
be odd not to have a single one hundred game
winner between the thirty teams in baseball. You'd have to
go all the way back to twenty sixteen for the
last time we didn't have at least three. We have
had at least three, if not four, every single year
in baseball. Teams that have over one hundred wins and
(25:39):
you have to go back to twenty fourteen for the
last time. We did not have any ten years ago.
By the way, team with the best record in baseball
ninety eight wins. Care to take a guess? Giants, Los
Angeles Angels, Oh hey, let's go. I have the best
record in baseball sixty four that year. The three teams
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right now at seventy and forty nine Orioles, Guardians, Dodgers
would have to finish thirty and thirteen in order to
hit the century mark. Seems like a tall task, considering
that would be about a seven hundred win percentage, one
hundred and twenty two points higher than what they have
right now. At this pace, the Dodgers are a twenty
five and eighteen team, not a thirty and thirteen team.
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Five wins better seems a little steep. So maybe that's
why there's been some negativity. And maybe I don't know.
I don't feel like we're the only ones. I feel
like the tone surrounding the Dodgers has a bit of
a negative slant this year, at least in the you know,
like post All Star break. The way they finish the
first half, with those losses to the Dodgers courtesy of
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the bullpen, watching their lead shrink from nine to three
and to two and a half games actually at one
point over the Padres, And maybe that's it. We're just
used to these Dodger teams winning one hundred and ten
games on hundred and five games, one hundred and six games,
and right now they're on pace for ninety five, which
just so happens to be in twenty twenty four, the
best record in baseball?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Are your concerns no longer your concerns?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Well, that's what I got to ask as I catalog
all the bs, I push all the prospects I've demanded
to be traded, as you look at your shovel, as
I look at it, and what do I see on there?
I see Clayton Kershaw. I see some of that. He
pitched great yesterday, he was great, So I guess I
scratched that one off the list.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
The Dodgers need him the rest of the way.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
They have no other options because all their guys need
Tommy John River Ryan the latest. He'll miss all of
next year, I mean Dustin May's careers. Who knows. Bobby
Miller struggled all season with his health so that's something
they got to figure out.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Clayton.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I was watching the game yesterday as you were, as
Tim was. Everyone was around town with that gray beard
with a pretty significant boiler going, I think, probably bigger
than we've seen the front porch. Let's go the hell,
you know, don't like a guy from the eighties, they've
b all swollen whatever, that's what they got, uh And
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after watching the broadcast, try like hell to suggest without
a doubt, because I had to hear it for nine innies,
that Otani should be batting leadoff.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You know what, I don't care. I just don't care.
I don't give a rats ass, you know the thing.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And I guess maybe it's because I'm old, But like
the leadoff guy, it's not even a great spot. Like
when we were young it was third Barry Bonds, Albert Pools.
And then you go back to the you know, three
four generations earlier, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Then you go all the way back.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
The leadoff means everything now Matt explained it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Like greatest lead off hitter ever, Ricky Anderson. That's what
I think. Guy that gets on base, steals bunch, basses.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The Ricky Henderson triple walk and steal two bases.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Right, And I guess since show Atani is the team's
top base steeler with thirty three one every three and
a half games, mookis second leading base stealer ten but
in forty three fewer games Advana Joe Tani. So whatever, dude,
take it, keep it. But with the return of Muki,
which should have been celebrated, and it was to over
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and over again at every at.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Bats, say well, this makes so much sense, it's so obvious.
And then to call out DV on the TV for
it to make him open his mic and defend himself.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Just whatever.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You know, what about the walk strikeout ratio, that's not close.
Moki one point three to five walks per strikeout doesn't
just double Otani's zero point five to six, which is
one half of one walk for every k. He's the
only guy on the team that has more walks than strikeouts.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And then the leadoff.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You want walks, you want that guy on base, so
the next guys that come up can knock him in,
but it doesn't matter. Otani is gonna lead off. I
will be happy to put this to bed. And it's
funny because right now, in like twenty twenty three, twenty
twenty four, currently in baseball, the best hitters hit second.
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Mike Trout has been the two hitter his entire career.
Freddy Freeman, when he was winning the MVP and in
the top five every year, was the second hitter. Aaron
Judge too, Corey Sieger two, Goldie, Paul Gold coming up,
Derek Jeter.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's right, it's gold. Jeez Jee's telling I hit second. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
js go tell them.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
By the way, we live in the same building. And again,
it doesn't matter. They have the best record in baseball.
So if Otani wants to hit the lead off and
steal a bunch of basses and be the first forty
forty guy or maybe even fifty to fifty guy, of
the hell knows, go get it, just as long as
it just just stopped.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That's the one thing I don't need do not need
to be told how obvious it is that shohe should
be the leadoff hitter, because it's not obvious, but it
is what it is. And he's not moving now because
Mookie's already back and they're pushing this whole left right,
left right thing, which apparently was not.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Plain issue at the start of the.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Centers that he knows it's the cheat code like contract
to win MLB playoff game.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right up, down, up, down, left right, left right, BA start.
They got the best record in baseball, my Padres rant.
I thought about that from Tarantula Hill. They're coming for you,
Matt about, and then I started thinking about it. I'm like,
wait a minute, kind of an idiot, am I? I
go on this rant about the Padres trading all these
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prospects for all these top flight dudes. The Dodgers made
three World Series and they won one with homegrown prospects
Clayton Kershaw Walker Bueller, Kenley Jansen, Julio Urias, Cody Bellinger,
Corey Seeger. Padres had not even been to a World
Series and they've made one NLCS.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So well, then you were in that one a long
time ago when Tony Gwynn was a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yes, the Kevin Brown maybe what was that like ninety
yeah something, So yeah, do what you do, sell it,
puffed your chest out, talk about how bright you are
and how forward thinking you are. I haven't even been
to a World Series, so don't want to hear that,
so I apologize.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Sorry. Seventy and forty nine.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
So you're still okay with Otani hitting shut off?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
She'd lead off.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Because he makes them billions of dollars and they're not
going to tell him anything.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And you know what, he wants to be the forty
forty guy. Go get it, man. Let's celebrate that accomplishment
because I have been waiting to see a forty forty guy.
There's nothing that gets me going more than knowing, Hey,
that guy, he can hit home runs. Andy's fast, it's great.
Seventy and forty nine, best record in baseball. Mookie's out
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for two months. Months, he's out for three months. Ten
pictures literally, I'm not just saying ten is an arbitrary number.
Ten pitchers down, Will Smith's slumping for the last two months,
Gavin Lux slumping for the first two months. Outman, who
was supposed to be a savior. He's in Oklahoma City.
Best record in baseball. I'm no steamhead, I'm a fool.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well oral Hersheizer said last night that I have a
baseball experts. That's exactly right. I heard it. Take that
to the bank.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And Nelson added the old p I know nothing. I'll
put my head down. I will proceed forward, assuming all
will be well in this regular season.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
But yeah, and here to me, I know what's going on, right.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I gotta, you know, tip my cap to the seam
heads in these spots.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Just because I use cheats doesn't mean I'm not smart man.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
May the race be tight as tight as it was
in twenty twenty one when they knocked out the Cardinals
and the wild Card the Giants in the division series
that fell to the Braves in the NLCS because Max
Scherzer was BS free agent BS. In the MLB schedule,
BS Dodgers win one hundred and six games and have
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a considerably tougher path than the freaking Braves.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
When won eighty eight out the.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Gate, I've heard people say eighty eight and out the
gate since then, and I feel bad for holding Charlie
accountable to that. The rest of the call was way
overdone and didn't make much sense. But eighty eight is
out the gate. People do say that, well.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Okay, and not to one up you, But everywhere I
go people say there is joy in Mudville.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Well that was all the reference we understood, though probably
maybe not super appropriate for Los Angeles, California, and over
one hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yes, eighty eight is eighty eight, and out the eight.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
There is joy in Mudville is not from the twentieth century.
It's from the nineteenth cent.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And out the gate.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
So are we riding the snake of August? Matt?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I think so. I think it's just I can't you know.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's one of those where I'm like, what they got
the best record in baseball?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I've been doing all this bitching.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Are you saying you were looking too close?
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Matt?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You couldn't tell the forest from the trees.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I think I was.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I think I could. I could not see the forest
for the trees. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
You thought you were looking at somebody's scalp, and then
the camera panned out and it was really their pubes.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
It's really the bush, That's what That's exactly what it was.
You know. I think I start at the base of
the shaft right there.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I think some of your concerts are still very viable.
I mean last Thursday we were talking to Assay. We're
out there at Dodger Stadium. Insa put Eric Carros's poots
on a grill, got after oral, got after Gav got
after that Michael.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Grove Massa's Burning Bridges with Michael Grove and Eric Carros
and Oral Hershide and they got the best record in baseball.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Come on, River, Ryan didn't know he was going under
the knife last Thursday. Things could change in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Welcome to the club, River, We'll.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Be back with's some textus so some reaction. I can't
say it enough because it's a Thursday. Want to make
sure we plant that seed. And you know that the
twenty twenty four PMS Summer Tour finaleus on a Thursday.
It is a week from Thursday, twenty second is when
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we will be at the Van's headquarters in Coast to Mesa,
not this Thursday. A week from Thursday, the Van's headquarters
at fifteen eighty eight South Coast Drive. We got a
lot music, fast times. They played last year fantastic, absolutely delivered.
It was a great party. We got food, drinks, Brewery
Cks beer, Garden Blue Ice vodka and by the.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Last year it went really well. It went great.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
It was a great party and obviously all the great
prizes and if you haven't signed up yet, sign up
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Speaker 1 (37:07):
All right, Matt, we have some text USA's a lot
of reaction text us a.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Fine brought to you by your so cal Toyota dealers.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
We make it easy, some of it cruel even Uh,
what happened to Matt?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yes, yes, what the hell happened to Matt? He's backpedaling
on his Otani stance. Did he get a visit from
the Japanese yakuza last night and they made him an
offer he could not refuse.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I am down a digit, just a pinky though, just
a pinky, which I'm totally fine with.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
No surf it and broken anyway.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No surfing for a week till that skin flap gets flapped.
That's right, p I hit lead off my junior and
senior year at LaCosta Canyon. It was the best I
got such a bone, daddy before the game, because everyone's
eyes were on me from the first pitch BOOKI is
probably Musseloso. He is the second fiddle to our Japanese
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king Verdada Mano. I mean you pile up one hundred ribes.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
We talked of essay about it.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, you know, and he was able to get a
dig in yesterday.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Well, if he's got the better risk, I guess it
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Tell money not to be a hater quitter, be like
the band on the Titanic.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
And go down with the ship. Yeah, at least you'll
die with your pride.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Essay. Uh, you know, we're the band on the Titanic.
Every October or September around here at your Dodge station, accurate.
And Don Martin is saying, like, it's okay, We're gonna
go to Tarantula Hill.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
We're having a Christmas party. Excuse me, it's you gonna
have karaoke. Don't give away all these prizes. We got
a bunch of sponsors and booths. They're gonna have booths
out there.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
P I cannot wait until the ETO n O O,
your deal is due for renewal, and their team says
no because of Smith's endless rants. Ohtani is a listener
and he's gonna hit Smith where it hurts. No, not
in his baby dogger, his wallet. Don Martin will clipper
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Darrell his ass and punch Matt into the trash.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
It's a lot there.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I'd like to say, yes, given a choice, I would
rather be punched in my baby dogger than in my wallet.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Most definitely.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
What if your wallet's in your front pocket at the time.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Oh, let's see, then that's not okay. Like I'm a
tourist over in Italy. Make sure you keep your chipsy
O anywhere. Put your wallet in your front pocket.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Vultures and thieves. Vultures and thieves are everywhere.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Hey pee, tell Smith to shut your f up, quit
pitching about the Dodgers, and face the reality that the
Raiders are gonna all over easton Stick in week one.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I am anxious to see Justin Herbert get out of
that boot sooner than later.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
I will say that, don't backtrack. Money. One game doesn't
invalidate your concerns.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
But you know how I react. I am a game
by game that's reactor.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
And perhaps you guys haven't been around here in August,
you know. Instead of coming on and being like this
guy's toe was a little jacked up and he didn't camp,
we go in depth Dodger game for Dodger game, and
I prefer it. I prefer it. It was my first
promote at Tarantula Hill. I've never seen him in my life.
But it took me one second to spot Dave weeese.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
That's a great That is a great text though.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
So inside information, but truly fabulous. David Vassa should pretend
to slide is Blake Snell and ride it.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I am if you want to be dog. The early
people got good vibes and thousand oaks on Friday, but
no UCLA head coach. No, no, they were not comfortable. No,
we're in LA.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Did we hear from them after that? Cat's like, hey,
sorry about that, noe.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
P.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Can we not have Dave go down to slide but
still get him hopped up on those painkillers?
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Oh it's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Well they're one of the same.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Maybe he still is.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Hopped up on those painkillers from a couple of years ago.
And finally you think it like created a problem ever
since the slide.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I couldn't get off the sauce. My second family had
an intervention with me.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
I was in pain.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
What do they want.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Need of that hill billy heroin hooksick coudo. That slide
is making Davis bitch. He's getting punked by the slide.
Tell him to show some edge.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
You're looking at slide while you're looking at me like that.
Who think you are down here on the field judging me?
Think you got the best of me?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Huh? Think I'm glad you see you.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
And finally, Matt, hey p I recall you were saying
recently that the Panic Brothers were a caricature of Don
Martin's worrying. Is Matt contemporaneous flip flop from panic to
belief in a world series win? A part of that?
You can set your watch by it. You can't set
your watch by the trepidation this time of year, because
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we expect like a beaten dog, we expect to be
slapped in the face, do we not?
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah? Yeah, I think so. I think you know.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
He opens the Sunday paper and we cower and run
in fear, even though we're not gonna get beat with it.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
D Backs come to town. We laugh at him, laugh
at Leavello Padres. Have some dorky guys running around talking
about a goose. We laugh at them. Laughed at the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
We did.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Arizona joked about peeing in their pool. Young Jenry, you
not able to climb the fence.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Kates killed that Boston reporter.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Literally, he sat next to Kates and he was dead
months later.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Months. It's hard, Yeah, it's hard. It's hard this time
of year, so there's a lot of emotions that run
through the show. We like to call it great sports,
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