September 20, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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whether or not he can add another couple two trees,
stolen bases or dongs onto those totals in the final
nine games of the season. This is the final homestand
of the Dodger season, three with the Rockies, three with
the Padres, before ending the season in Denver with three
against Colorado. Onto the playoffs they go. They clinched their spot,
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the first team in the National League to clinch the
spot in the playoffs yesterday, and uh yeah, and the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Will be here. Everything's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It'll be happening.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Everything is gonna be fabulous. Don't you worry. It is
going to be a hell of a playoffs. We are
gonna we are gonna rip right through the playoffs as
a great sports talk radio show, great sports talk all right, Matt.
We still got the NFL talk to come. We got
ff one report coming up. We did the college Football
whip last hour, and i'd like to celebrate, you know,
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geeking it up with Vick doing the textos, so getting
that whip out. But and Kate's tried to hug me
during the break. You know, you're off the East coast
now right now with the Chargers, and I pushed Kate's
away and I said it's too early, and then I.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Glared at him to scorely, to scorely.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah. Ronnie was like, greet shoo, so far and I
was like, dot off me, it's too early.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You do.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
All right, Matt his words the word of the day.
Now just forgive me for a moment for being an
old man. But today's word of the day is cannabis.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Usc today announced a new partnership with a popular CBD
cannabis and wellness company called Cookies. I would have preferred
Green Dragon, but whatever Cookies earlier this month, making the
Trojans the first school to partner with a cannabis company
in NCAA history. California is our home state and for
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Cookies to be involved with the premier athletic program at
the oldest private college in the state of California is
incredibly exciting for us. We are honored and excited to
be the sponsor of Trojan Athletics. Uh. That was the
statement from the company's Okay CEO, Gilbert Godfrey Berner, Milam Junior,
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Gilbert Berner, mylon Mylam Junior Berner like a well burn. Now,
I just want to say, and I don't want to
be labor this, but watching teammates for years skirt weed tests,
try to stick bleach in your pee. The oil change
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as depicted in the program with Latimer the if you
smoke weed every night, maybe don't smoke weed if that's
what you do. Hugh Jackson yelling at the team for
smoking weed, smoking weed and knowing you know, at least
a healthy percentage of the team was trying to hide
a heavy marijuana habit. I find this to be a
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very very interesting art.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They're making money, they can smoke weed. Played in the
wrong arap.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, sure did. All we had to make us feel
good at the end of the day was the three
practice airhorns to end practice. I mean that's all we had.
It's over all. The new turf shoes are out. Yeah,
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that's so sad. Congratulations to all the young people, my
god in heaven. Congratulations to sc make sure on your
way out, I mean on the way out of the room.
We used to have to take our creatine so we
could sit on the toilet for the rest of the summer.
Now on the way out of the rim, get your
weed gummies. Everybody see you can be calm and happy.
Thanks guys, fight on.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Here's my number number of the day, number the day six.
I just posted it on my Instagram story highlight of
my trip to Boone yesterday. It was not the thrashing
the Mountaineers took up the hands of South Alabama and
major Apple White. But walking into the local liquor store
seeing a six or of Hams.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Local liquor store, and in Boone, North Carolina, North Carolina,
up against the Appalachian mountains.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
There right the beautiful football stadium carved just right in
the heart of the forest.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I heard the baseball stadium. There's one of the prettiest things.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah. I did not have a chance to go check
it out because I was too busy getting drunk on Hams.
Uh if you are, if you are a consumer of
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social media and Instagram and see the photo. It was
an older gentleman. I was standing in a tailgate lot
with the you know, the old three of the beers
are gone on my fingers in one of the loops,
holding the other three dangling next to my leg, sucking
back the sixteen ounce can there. And he approached me
and said, is that is that Hams? I said, indeed,
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this is Hams waters. But you guess I haven't seen
a Hams beer in twenty years. Simple, Well, here you go,
let's drink one. And we ended up having about a
fifteen to twenty minute conversation about crappy beer from the
eighties or what was viewed as great beer but has
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now looked down upon as crappy beer. Ham Stros, the
night belongs to Michelo's Old Style, Old Style Old Milwaukee Olympia.
All of that, and this gentleman really enjoyed himself and
so did I. And it was wonderful to have beer
bring us together. Hams, beer bring us together. Whats And
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after that it was all downhill, uh blown out in
the first half. I had to relieve myself on the
side of a dorm. No, yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I'm sure Daniel Jeremiah was thrilled with that.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He was not with me. He was with his family.
Get me away from this guy. I forced Justin to
drive his home. It was a good time, but the
Hams was the highlight. And the gentleman that was willing
to humor me for about twenty minutes about.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Beer looked like a Hello a tailgate.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was. It was in a gravel parking lot full
of puddles. Justin fell in one. I'm terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'd like to think I earned that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yes he did, he earned it. He tried to jump
over it and he just did not have the athleticism.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
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Speaker 2 (08:39):
Thank you running now, huh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
We're gonna do it next. I'm at to it Biggers, Pittsburgh.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Hey at practice today justin Herbert News, coach Harbon News.
A lot going on out here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
So yes, we'll get you all that, maybe some picks
if you're interested.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Let's go. Yeah, thanks for listening, everybody. Petro Send Money
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Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well type. It's been a long week in Charlotte. Intentions good.
It's not just the time change, but haven't been out
of practice last couple days. It is the acclamation to
the weather in this part of the country. Oh yeah,
is it different slightly? You know. I was with team
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photographer ty Nole. We went up to Appy State yesterday
for the game last night as they honored Daniel Jeremiah
been telling everybody that, and he was talking about how
wonderful it is to take photos out here because of
the cloud patterns they have with all the humidity, that
makes for a beautiful backdrop. And he can use a
much wider lens than he typically does. In California because
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of our lack of cloud of interesting cloud formations that
appear regularly. We have seen beautiful clouds nimbus cumulus, nimbus
clouds all week long. But standing out on the practice
field that unc Charlotte is they head out of town
to take on Indiana team that just beat the absolute
piss out of the Brules.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Have you seen Biff Poggy their coach.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I saw coach in Biff talking. I did not have
a chance to talk to Biff, But.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Does he wear any sleeveless gigantic shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I did not know that Biff was that rich. That
is one thing I found out on this trip.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh yes, like all he's just doing it for fun.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
He's just doing it for fun. Like that guy's worth
what and he's he's coaching Charlotte and he's taking them
to India, to Bloomington with a nightmare but practicing on
their fields. Uh a attacked by mosquitoes. B humidities did
about sixty percent. See it was eighty five degrees. You
step off the bus, you begin sweating immediately.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
The second you get back to the hotel, you feel
like somebody should have a cot setup for you. Like
a mash unit as you collapse from exhaustion. So certainly
the idea behind the trip makes a lot of sense.
The guy's acclimating to the weather. It's supposed to be
eighty two in Pittsburgh, a kickoff with a bunch of
humidity as well against a very physical team. Once again,
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I was corrected in trying to flex my football brain
and appear knowledgeable about things. I engaged with coach with
the question about the Steelers and.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
How you're good at that, Matt, You're good flex foot.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I said, you know, team's been how often does a
team run the same system for thirty plus a year?
Like what thirty years at this three four defense with
Pittsburgh and doesn't matter who's in it, it's always one
of the best in the league. And of course he
agreed that it is hard to do, and then he's like,
but you know, it's probably forty He goes, I'm gonna
go eighty two. I believe it was when they first
installed the three four, and they've a lot of options
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off that they'll run the four two, and they'll run
the bear. They want to kind of throw that in at us.
There are some matts they shif the bear while you're
not ready. So I did have to walk. I did
walk into that part in the pun bear trap while
trying to plant the seed about what is really truly
one of the more interesting things when you consider you've
got mel Kiper, for whatever reason, being told by the
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producers at ESPN to say something incredibly stupid. So it
comes on with a diatribe saying you should no longer
be able to keep two safeties high and play with
a shell because it's making the game boring, which I
guess I can understand because nobody's watching these games. The
NFL's ratings have plummeted recently, so why not make some
rule change.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Something off the safety if one of them's back there too.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Flus that's legitimately, I don't know if you saw that.
Legitimately what he said, He's like, we need to ban
the too high shell. It is ruining football. Explosives are down.
More teams are running the ball this year, fewer passing
because defense, this particular brand of defense that has made
its way around the NFL to counter explosive spread out
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you know, wide open passing offenses. But again, Pittsburgh has
been in this exact same defense for forty years. Forty
two years, according to coach eighty two is when they
installed it in year in, year out. Whether it's Kevin
Green or James Harrison or now TJ. Watt and and
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Alex high Smith, it just continues to chug on and
it'll be fun to watch about Greg Lloyd. Greg Lloyd
with that sweet face mask. It continues to perform and
it's one of the big reasons why the Stealers find
themselves with a winning record at least and even when
they used to have sixteen games or a winning record
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in every single one of Mike Tomlins seasons, I would
suspect this will be a very low scoring game. The
big news is Herbert today finally meeting with the media.
Was supposed to meet with him on Wednesday, waited until
today and was quite forthcoming with his answers about how
much pain he's in, what he's trying to work through.
He did acknowledge when asked what type of sprain it
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was if it was a regular or a high ankle sprain.
You hear high ankle and that usually means bad things
compared to a regular sprain. He did acknowledge it was
a high ankle, So whether or not he goes we
saw I couldn't believe he played in that game against
Jacksonville last year with the crack ribs, and clearly he
did not play very well. He looked to be in
a ton of pain, couldn't throw the ball all that well,
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and it was a pretty lopsided game. Rather quickly, we'll
see whether or not, you know, And I think this
will be the interesting one because Herbert is certain a
competitor and as a guy that wants to get out
there for every single game and has played hurt and
injured for that matter in the past. But I'll be
interested to see if coach Harbaugh can talk him out
of it, if in fact it's as bad as what
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maybe we think it is because of the way he
was describing it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
They could just take his helmet, yeah, But I.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Think a coach like Brandon Staley just wouldn't. He just
wouldn't do it. I mean, he was comfortable picking up
Joey Bos's helmet when he threw it down like a
petulant child in that playoff game against Jacksonville and handed
it back to him. But I just don't think he
was ever comfortable taking the helmet away from Herbert, and
I do think our ball would certainly be comfortable doing it,
and comfortable as the head coach of this team to
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think that that might be something that's for the greater
good for the long term health of the team, especially
against the Pitsburgh These are the top two defenses in
the league. The Chargers allow six and a half points.
The Steelers allow seven and a half points per game.
So and they're not The Steelers are not a high
scoring team either. Justin Field's the backup to Russell Wilson.
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He'll be out there playing. It looks as though as
Wilson was listed as questionable today on the injury report.
So you can go into this team. What is what
is one of those uh what's the football cliche? Pee?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You can pack a running game or you can Is
that what it is? You pack a running you can
you can pack and something like that pack defense in
a running They can take the running game on the road.
It's the most it's the second most productive running game
in the NFL behind the Packers.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
A running back you can pack. It's like pitching that
Grizzly I made. That's what does that mean, all right,
so we put the over under on.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
What's that waking up a sleeping giant.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Sleeping giant? Yeah, where it is.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's exactly what it is. You can pack a running
game and they'll try to pack Gus Edwards and JK Dobbins.
JK leads the NFL in yards per carry at nine
point nine. Uh, he has a chance to make history.
He's already made Charger history in rushing for over one
hundred yards in each of the first two games of
a season. Has a chance to join just four others
if he can do it for a third consecutive time.
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Overlooked in all of that is the physical punishing nature
of the way Gus Edwards runs. He has one more
carry on the season than JK, but not nearly the production.
Yet everybody pointing out that if you want to make
the boxing analogy, the body blows of Gus Edwards or
what's setting up the knockout punches of JK Dobbins. So
if you're gonna sit Herbert, I would guess this is
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probably the week to do it. I think you probably
have an advantage of the Chargers front versus their offensive line.
They're rotating guys Fatan who's been hurt. I don't even
know if he's going to be able to play in
this one. Broderick Jones has been an incredible disappointment at tackle.
Their left tackle more has been average at best. Their
interior linemen. They're starting a rookie at center and Zach Frasier,
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so it would be an opportunity to perhaps win that
battle up front. While the Steelers certainly would have an
advantage on their front seven against a non Herbert quarterback,
be it Taylor Heineke or Eastern Stick. So if you
were looking at this game, I would probably project something
around the three to two, maybe like six to two
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range in terms of a final score. I love a
three to two, right, Let's see if we can get
a nice three to two for the first time perhaps
when they that now there's probably something back in like
the nineteen ots or something like that. But I would
suspect a very low scoring game and maybe one that
justin Herbert in fact does not play. It seems like
it lines up quite nicely if they do want to
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try to give him a bit of a rest and
see if they can still sneak out with a very
hard to come by win if Justin Herbert is not
in the game, all right, I'm one in ten.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, that's the l room for improvement.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
There is, it's room for a lot of improvement. So
I'll make these quick. I can improve to a wonderful
four and ten with a weekend. Sweet Uh, probably not,
but let's try it to not go one in thirteen.
I do take pride in being the least accurate predictor
of picks on Earth in this moment. Hard to be
this bad, yet somehow I have found a way. So
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that said, uh, quickly, I will take the Skyler Thompson
led Dolphins to lose to Seattle by more than four
and a half points. I will lay the points. Take
the Seahawks. The Panthers, as I mentioned on Monday, are
probably the worst team I have seen calling games for
the Chargers on an NFL football field. I feel comfortable
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with the Raiders. Ad is that still six and a half?
Or is that up to seven? Now, Kates, do you
know six and a half the Raiders. I'll lay the
six and a half, and then I will take the
Giants and the six and a half points against the
Moribin Browns. Their lack of tackles their h and I
will trust that that Kayvon Thibodeau and Dexter Lawrence and
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company can take advantage of that, and they can lose
by less than six and a half points if Brian
Dabo can figure out how to get a healthy kicker
on the field to kick extra points after touchdowns. So
Giants plus six and a half, Raiders minus six and
a half, Seattle minus four and half. Let's improved at
four and ten.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Huh woo woo, And we will return with David Vasse
live from Dodger Stadium, talking about history, talking about Japan,
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Tony back in the lineup after making history last night.
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Speaker 1 (20:54):
All right, it's time live from Dodger Stadium, back from
the long trip, Foreign three on the road trip and
coming home after show Haotani makes history, and what a
great job he did last night. It's David Maasse.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
With an inside look at the Dodgers. This is the
Vass Report with David Vasse.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
David Vasse, always on the spot, always ready to meet
the moment. And it was like that yesterday in Miami.
The sweltering heat of South Florida, the unbelievable twenty run
Dodger performance and showe Aotani's three jacks getting a fifty
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one to fifty one. David Maass right on top of it,
MLB Network, Spectrum Sportsnet, and our guy right here on
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It is David Masse on the Petros and Money Show.
What's cracking, Dave? How are you?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'm doing great, guys, and yes, felt the energy all
the way in Miami. How everybody was super excited about
what O'tani accomplished and the game that he had yesterday.
Everybody on the bus on the way to the airport
felt it. The players were in awe of it, and
I expect a standing ovation for Otani when he comes
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to the plate for the first time tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I thought it was really interesting that Matt asked you
a couple days ago on our show, Dave, about the
balance between show he Otani chasing this record and trying
to figure out what to make of it because no
one's ever done it before, and the Dodgers and their
struggles and what we've dealt with in the playoffs over
the years. How did that balance out last night when
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it all ended up happening.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Well. I believe it was interesting that O'tani after the game,
in his press conference, said that he was relieved to
be able to get this behind him, because obviously he
was aware of it, just like he was aware of
going thirty for thirty in Oakland. He stole two bay
Is in the same game to get it so this
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is a good thing for him to be able to
get to this point and get to be the first
ever in the fifty to fifty club, and now in
the final nine games he could just play within the
context of the game and not trying to hit home
runs every time he's at the plate. So I'm just
relaying what he said and his feelings yesterday revealed a
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lot about how much he was aware of this getting
closer and closer, and how everybody was anticipating it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We've never seen him in the playoffs, Dave, we will
now they clinched the berth with the win yesterday as
a wild card or as a division winner, as the
best record in the National League, all things still in play.
Do you think I was thinking about the video that
Mike Trout made for him about how don't think too
hard you get stuck on the number. It's like and
he's like, yeah, whatever, dude, I'm going to knock it
out in one night. Do you think it's like a
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playoff performance indicator that here's a guy that hit a
rand slam for forty forty, a guy that did this
for fifty to fifty, that he meets the moment and
that This is something that signals good things for him
in the playoffs, that these moments are not too big
for him like they were for Mike Trout.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Without a doubt, and for Otani it feels like whatever
results he gets in the postseason won't be because he
is shying away from the moment. Talking to Dave Roberts
about it, who's managed nine playoff teams, he has seen
guys that are excellent during the regular season but start
to chase pitches outside of the strike zone. And that's
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the one thing he said, Otani is going to have
to fight in the postseason. The chances are teams are
not going to pitch to Otani. They are going to
try to get him to chase and he's got to
be willing to pass the baton to Mookie Betts and
Freddie Freeman and the rest of the Dodger lineup. He
believes that is what's going to separate Otani's playoff performance
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from being a good one to a disappointing one.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
What is it like, Dave de b a right, I
read Miguel Rojas say that he felt like he might
actually start tearing up a little bit. When it happened,
it was so emotional. What is it like being around
these especially in the case of Freddy and Mookie former MVPs,
this level of athlete that stand in awe or it
sounds like they stand in awe of this guy. And
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yet here is Mooki probably one of the five ten
best at worst players in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It feels like I'm around Shaq and Kobe that sense
of greatness with Otani and just the level that he's at,
and Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman now are in that
Gasalt type of level of really good player, but obviously
not on the Lebron James Kobe Bryant level. That's the
feeling I have now. And it feels like Mookie Betts
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understands that as well, because when I asked him after
the game yesterday, how does he view all this? And
he said, when I'm on I'm as big of a
fan as the rest of all of you guys. So
when the Padres come to town, it feels like it's
a little silly to say it's Otani versus a Machado
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led team, because Otani is head and shoulders above every
other player out there, maybe outside of Aaron Judge and
everybody else is beneath those two guys. That's the way
it feels. It's a Judge and Otani are like Kobe
and Lebron on both coasts, and the rest are the rest.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
We'll see how it translates to the postseason. I'm sure
everybody would love a Yankees Dodgers World Series. The great
David Vatsai joining us right now on the southern California
Toyota neither celebrity hotline. Reflecting on last night, the other thing,
Dave is you talked about the relief from Shoeotani. Is
it really over? I mean, because every stolen base from
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now on and every home run is another record. Is
he going to be able to switch into more of
a playoff mode as you describe.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, here we go, Petros. Already there were members of
the media talking about can he go for sixty sixty?
And I hope he resists that temptation. He is a
very focused guy. But there are nine games to go,
six of them against the Rockies, including the last three
at corps Field. It's not out of the realm of possibility.
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But if he starts chasing that, he might start to
get into those bad habits that Dave Roberts is warning against.
You don't want to chase in the postseason. You want
to play within the context of the game. And I
hope even in that three game series against the Padres
starting on Tuesday, you would hope that Otani would take
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that playoff type of approach and not try to do
it all himself, because in baseball, when you try to
do too much or you try to do it all yourself,
it always backs backfires against you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
What do we have on tap for the rotation day
of any clarity on what we might see over these
final nine games as they try to get, you know,
whatever figured out they can get figured out for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I think the only wild card here is Clayton Kershaw,
who in Miami threw an eighty three pitch bullpen session
and was telling me that it felt closer than it
has before with the big left toe and finding the
right orthotics. So he's very optimistic that he is going
to pitch sometime between now and the end of the
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regular season, and the Dodgers need to see that before
they can't commit to him pitching in a postseason game,
which I feel is fair. So that is the one
thing pitching wise to keep your eye on as far
as somebody coming back and helping them out. It's kurse
Shaw between now and the end of the regular season
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and historic knights.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Some say it was the greatest individual performance in the
history of baseball what David Vasse got to witness first
hand in Miami. I great to have you back, Dave.
I'm sure it's wonderful to be back at Dodger Stadium.
They'll get things going tonight. It's seven against the Rockies.
Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
All right, we'll see what Otani does tonight to make history.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well, hopefully we'll be against a position player. David Messe
Dodgers Rockies, first pitch at seven ten, Showy Otani sitting
on fifty one fifty one, Dodger fans, get your game
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last night.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Matt right let me with his position player whole other
hour
Speaker 1 (29:36):
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whether or not he can add another couple two trees,
stolen bases or dongs onto those totals in the final
nine games of the season. This is the final homestand
of the Dodger season, three with the Rockies, three with
the Padres, before ending the season in Denver with three
against Colorado. Onto the playoffs they go. They clinched their spot,
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the first team in the National League to clinch the
spot in the playoffs yesterday, and uh yeah, and the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Will be here. Everything's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It'll be happening.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Everything is gonna be fabulous. Don't you worry. It is
going to be a hell of a playoffs. We are
gonna we are gonna rip right through the playoffs as
a great sports talk radio show, great sports talk all right, Matt.
We still got the NFL talk to come. We got
ff one report coming up. We did the college Football
whip last hour, and i'd like to celebrate, you know,
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geeking it up with Vick doing the textos, so getting
that whip out. But and Kate's tried to hug me
during the break. You know, you're off the East coast
now right now with the Chargers, and I pushed Kate's
away and I said it's too early, and then I.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Glared at him to scorely, to scorely.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah. Ronnie was like, greet shoo, so far and I
was like, dot off me, it's too early.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You do.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
All right, Matt his words the word of the day.
Now just forgive me for a moment for being an
old man. But today's word of the day is cannabis.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Usc today announced a new partnership with a popular CBD
cannabis and wellness company called Cookies. I would have preferred
Green Dragon, but whatever Cookies earlier this month, making the
Trojans the first school to partner with a cannabis company
in NCAA history. California is our home state and for
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Cookies to be involved with the premier athletic program at
the oldest private college in the state of California is
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be the sponsor of Trojan Athletics. Uh. That was the
statement from the company's Okay CEO, Gilbert Godfrey Berner, Milam Junior,
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Gilbert Berner, mylon Mylam Junior Berner like a well burn. Now,
I just want to say, and I don't want to
be labor this, but watching teammates for years skirt weed tests,
try to stick bleach in your pee. The oil change
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as depicted in the program with Latimer the if you
smoke weed every night, maybe don't smoke weed if that's
what you do. Hugh Jackson yelling at the team for
smoking weed, smoking weed and knowing you know, at least
a healthy percentage of the team was trying to hide
a heavy marijuana habit. I find this to be a
(04:14):
very very interesting art.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They're making money, they can smoke weed. Played in the
wrong arap.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, sure did. All we had to make us feel
good at the end of the day was the three
practice airhorns to end practice. I mean that's all we had.
It's over all. The new turf shoes are out. Yeah,
(04:48):
that's so sad. Congratulations to all the young people, my
god in heaven. Congratulations to sc make sure on your
way out, I mean on the way out of the room.
We used to have to take our creatine so we
could sit on the toilet for the rest of the summer.
Now on the way out of the rim, get your
weed gummies. Everybody see you can be calm and happy.
Thanks guys, fight on.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Here's my number number of the day, number the day six.
I just posted it on my Instagram story highlight of
my trip to Boone yesterday. It was not the thrashing
the Mountaineers took up the hands of South Alabama and
major Apple White. But walking into the local liquor store
seeing a six or of Hams.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Local liquor store, and in Boone, North Carolina, North Carolina,
up against the Appalachian mountains.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
There right the beautiful football stadium carved just right in
the heart of the forest.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I heard the baseball stadium. There's one of the prettiest things.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah. I did not have a chance to go check
it out because I was too busy getting drunk on Hams.
Uh if you are, if you are a consumer of
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social media and Instagram and see the photo. It was
an older gentleman. I was standing in a tailgate lot
with the you know, the old three of the beers
are gone on my fingers in one of the loops,
holding the other three dangling next to my leg, sucking
back the sixteen ounce can there. And he approached me
and said, is that is that Hams? I said, indeed,
(06:23):
this is Hams waters. But you guess I haven't seen
a Hams beer in twenty years. Simple, Well, here you go,
let's drink one. And we ended up having about a
fifteen to twenty minute conversation about crappy beer from the
eighties or what was viewed as great beer but has
(06:43):
now looked down upon as crappy beer. Ham Stros, the
night belongs to Michelo's Old Style, Old Style Old Milwaukee Olympia.
All of that, and this gentleman really enjoyed himself and
so did I. And it was wonderful to have beer
bring us together. Hams, beer bring us together. Whats And
(07:09):
after that it was all downhill, uh blown out in
the first half. I had to relieve myself on the
side of a dorm. No, yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I'm sure Daniel Jeremiah was thrilled with that.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He was not with me. He was with his family.
Get me away from this guy. I forced Justin to
drive his home. It was a good time, but the
Hams was the highlight. And the gentleman that was willing
to humor me for about twenty minutes about.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Beer looked like a Hello a tailgate.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was. It was in a gravel parking lot full
of puddles. Justin fell in one. I'm terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'd like to think I earned that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yes he did, he earned it. He tried to jump
over it and he just did not have the athleticism.
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Thank you running now, huh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
We're gonna do it next. I'm at to it Biggers, Pittsburgh.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Hey at practice today justin Herbert News, coach Harbon News.
A lot going on out here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
So yes, we'll get you all that, maybe some picks
if you're interested.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
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Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well type. It's been a long week in Charlotte. Intentions good.
It's not just the time change, but haven't been out
of practice last couple days. It is the acclamation to
the weather in this part of the country. Oh yeah,
is it different slightly? You know. I was with team
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photographer ty Nole. We went up to Appy State yesterday
for the game last night as they honored Daniel Jeremiah
been telling everybody that, and he was talking about how
wonderful it is to take photos out here because of
the cloud patterns they have with all the humidity, that
makes for a beautiful backdrop. And he can use a
much wider lens than he typically does. In California because
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of our lack of cloud of interesting cloud formations that
appear regularly. We have seen beautiful clouds nimbus cumulus, nimbus
clouds all week long. But standing out on the practice
field that unc Charlotte is they head out of town
to take on Indiana team that just beat the absolute
piss out of the Brules.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Have you seen Biff Poggy their coach.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I saw coach in Biff talking. I did not have
a chance to talk to Biff, But.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Does he wear any sleeveless gigantic shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I did not know that Biff was that rich. That
is one thing I found out on this trip.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh yes, like all he's just doing it for fun.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
He's just doing it for fun. Like that guy's worth
what and he's he's coaching Charlotte and he's taking them
to India, to Bloomington with a nightmare but practicing on
their fields. Uh a attacked by mosquitoes. B humidities did
about sixty percent. See it was eighty five degrees. You
step off the bus, you begin sweating immediately.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
The second you get back to the hotel, you feel
like somebody should have a cot setup for you. Like
a mash unit as you collapse from exhaustion. So certainly
the idea behind the trip makes a lot of sense.
The guy's acclimating to the weather. It's supposed to be
eighty two in Pittsburgh, a kickoff with a bunch of
humidity as well against a very physical team. Once again,
(11:47):
I was corrected in trying to flex my football brain
and appear knowledgeable about things. I engaged with coach with
the question about the Steelers and.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
How you're good at that, Matt, You're good flex foot.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I said, you know, team's been how often does a
team run the same system for thirty plus a year?
Like what thirty years at this three four defense with
Pittsburgh and doesn't matter who's in it, it's always one
of the best in the league. And of course he
agreed that it is hard to do, and then he's like,
but you know, it's probably forty He goes, I'm gonna
go eighty two. I believe it was when they first
installed the three four, and they've a lot of options
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off that they'll run the four two, and they'll run
the bear. They want to kind of throw that in at us.
There are some matts they shif the bear while you're
not ready. So I did have to walk. I did
walk into that part in the pun bear trap while
trying to plant the seed about what is really truly
one of the more interesting things when you consider you've
got mel Kiper, for whatever reason, being told by the
(12:44):
producers at ESPN to say something incredibly stupid. So it
comes on with a diatribe saying you should no longer
be able to keep two safeties high and play with
a shell because it's making the game boring, which I
guess I can understand because nobody's watching these games. The
NFL's ratings have plummeted recently, so why not make some
rule change.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Something off the safety if one of them's back there too.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Flus that's legitimately, I don't know if you saw that.
Legitimately what he said, He's like, we need to ban
the too high shell. It is ruining football. Explosives are down.
More teams are running the ball this year, fewer passing
because defense, this particular brand of defense that has made
its way around the NFL to counter explosive spread out
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you know, wide open passing offenses. But again, Pittsburgh has
been in this exact same defense for forty years. Forty
two years, according to coach eighty two is when they
installed it in year in, year out. Whether it's Kevin
Green or James Harrison or now TJ. Watt and and
(13:49):
Alex high Smith, it just continues to chug on and
it'll be fun to watch about Greg Lloyd. Greg Lloyd
with that sweet face mask. It continues to perform and
it's one of the big reasons why the Stealers find
themselves with a winning record at least and even when
they used to have sixteen games or a winning record
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in every single one of Mike Tomlins seasons, I would
suspect this will be a very low scoring game. The
big news is Herbert today finally meeting with the media.
Was supposed to meet with him on Wednesday, waited until
today and was quite forthcoming with his answers about how
much pain he's in, what he's trying to work through.
He did acknowledge when asked what type of sprain it
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was if it was a regular or a high ankle sprain.
You hear high ankle and that usually means bad things
compared to a regular sprain. He did acknowledge it was
a high ankle, So whether or not he goes we
saw I couldn't believe he played in that game against
Jacksonville last year with the crack ribs, and clearly he
did not play very well. He looked to be in
a ton of pain, couldn't throw the ball all that well,
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and it was a pretty lopsided game. Rather quickly, we'll
see whether or not, you know, And I think this
will be the interesting one because Herbert is certain a
competitor and as a guy that wants to get out
there for every single game and has played hurt and
injured for that matter in the past. But I'll be
interested to see if coach Harbaugh can talk him out
of it, if in fact it's as bad as what
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maybe we think it is because of the way he
was describing it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
They could just take his helmet, yeah, But I.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Think a coach like Brandon Staley just wouldn't. He just
wouldn't do it. I mean, he was comfortable picking up
Joey Bos's helmet when he threw it down like a
petulant child in that playoff game against Jacksonville and handed
it back to him. But I just don't think he
was ever comfortable taking the helmet away from Herbert, and
I do think our ball would certainly be comfortable doing it,
and comfortable as the head coach of this team to
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think that that might be something that's for the greater
good for the long term health of the team, especially
against the Pitsburgh These are the top two defenses in
the league. The Chargers allow six and a half points.
The Steelers allow seven and a half points per game.
So and they're not The Steelers are not a high
scoring team either. Justin Field's the backup to Russell Wilson.
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He'll be out there playing. It looks as though as
Wilson was listed as questionable today on the injury report.
So you can go into this team. What is what
is one of those uh what's the football cliche? Pee?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You can pack a running game or you can Is
that what it is? You pack a running you can
you can pack and something like that pack defense in
a running They can take the running game on the road.
It's the most it's the second most productive running game
in the NFL behind the Packers.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
A running back you can pack. It's like pitching that
Grizzly I made. That's what does that mean, all right,
so we put the over under on.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
What's that waking up a sleeping giant.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Sleeping giant? Yeah, where it is.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's exactly what it is. You can pack a running
game and they'll try to pack Gus Edwards and JK Dobbins.
JK leads the NFL in yards per carry at nine
point nine. Uh, he has a chance to make history.
He's already made Charger history in rushing for over one
hundred yards in each of the first two games of
a season. Has a chance to join just four others
if he can do it for a third consecutive time.
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Overlooked in all of that is the physical punishing nature
of the way Gus Edwards runs. He has one more
carry on the season than JK, but not nearly the production.
Yet everybody pointing out that if you want to make
the boxing analogy, the body blows of Gus Edwards or
what's setting up the knockout punches of JK Dobbins. So
if you're gonna sit Herbert, I would guess this is
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probably the week to do it. I think you probably
have an advantage of the Chargers front versus their offensive line.
They're rotating guys Fatan who's been hurt. I don't even
know if he's going to be able to play in
this one. Broderick Jones has been an incredible disappointment at tackle.
Their left tackle more has been average at best. Their
interior linemen. They're starting a rookie at center and Zach Frasier,
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so it would be an opportunity to perhaps win that
battle up front. While the Steelers certainly would have an
advantage on their front seven against a non Herbert quarterback,
be it Taylor Heineke or Eastern Stick. So if you
were looking at this game, I would probably project something
around the three to two, maybe like six to two
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range in terms of a final score. I love a
three to two, right, Let's see if we can get
a nice three to two for the first time perhaps
when they that now there's probably something back in like
the nineteen ots or something like that. But I would
suspect a very low scoring game and maybe one that
justin Herbert in fact does not play. It seems like
it lines up quite nicely if they do want to
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try to give him a bit of a rest and
see if they can still sneak out with a very
hard to come by win if Justin Herbert is not
in the game, all right, I'm one in ten.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, that's the l room for improvement.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
There is, it's room for a lot of improvement. So
I'll make these quick. I can improve to a wonderful
four and ten with a weekend. Sweet Uh, probably not,
but let's try it to not go one in thirteen.
I do take pride in being the least accurate predictor
of picks on Earth in this moment. Hard to be
this bad, yet somehow I have found a way. So
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that said, uh, quickly, I will take the Skyler Thompson
led Dolphins to lose to Seattle by more than four
and a half points. I will lay the points. Take
the Seahawks. The Panthers, as I mentioned on Monday, are
probably the worst team I have seen calling games for
the Chargers on an NFL football field. I feel comfortable
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with the Raiders. Ad is that still six and a half?
Or is that up to seven? Now, Kates, do you
know six and a half the Raiders. I'll lay the
six and a half, and then I will take the
Giants and the six and a half points against the
Moribin Browns. Their lack of tackles their h and I
will trust that that Kayvon Thibodeau and Dexter Lawrence and
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company can take advantage of that, and they can lose
by less than six and a half points if Brian
Dabo can figure out how to get a healthy kicker
on the field to kick extra points after touchdowns. So
Giants plus six and a half, Raiders minus six and
a half, Seattle minus four and half. Let's improved at
four and ten.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Huh woo woo, And we will return with David Vasse
live from Dodger Stadium, talking about history, talking about Japan,
talking about kviv A hopone, Dodgers, Rockies, Tonight's show, al
Tony back in the lineup after making history last night.
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Speaker 1 (20:54):
All right, it's time live from Dodger Stadium, back from
the long trip, Foreign three on the road trip and
coming home after show Haotani makes history, and what a
great job he did last night. It's David Maasse.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
With an inside look at the Dodgers. This is the
Vass Report with David Vasse.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
David Vasse, always on the spot, always ready to meet
the moment. And it was like that yesterday in Miami.
The sweltering heat of South Florida, the unbelievable twenty run
Dodger performance and showe Aotani's three jacks getting a fifty
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What's cracking, Dave? How are you?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'm doing great, guys, and yes, felt the energy all
the way in Miami. How everybody was super excited about
what O'tani accomplished and the game that he had yesterday.
Everybody on the bus on the way to the airport
felt it. The players were in awe of it, and
I expect a standing ovation for Otani when he comes
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to the plate for the first time tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I thought it was really interesting that Matt asked you
a couple days ago on our show, Dave, about the
balance between show he Otani chasing this record and trying
to figure out what to make of it because no
one's ever done it before, and the Dodgers and their
struggles and what we've dealt with in the playoffs over
the years. How did that balance out last night when
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it all ended up happening.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Well. I believe it was interesting that O'tani after the game,
in his press conference, said that he was relieved to
be able to get this behind him, because obviously he
was aware of it, just like he was aware of
going thirty for thirty in Oakland. He stole two bay
Is in the same game to get it so this
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is a good thing for him to be able to
get to this point and get to be the first
ever in the fifty to fifty club, and now in
the final nine games he could just play within the
context of the game and not trying to hit home
runs every time he's at the plate. So I'm just
relaying what he said and his feelings yesterday revealed a
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lot about how much he was aware of this getting
closer and closer, and how everybody was anticipating it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We've never seen him in the playoffs, Dave, we will
now they clinched the berth with the win yesterday as
a wild card or as a division winner, as the
best record in the National League, all things still in play.
Do you think I was thinking about the video that
Mike Trout made for him about how don't think too
hard you get stuck on the number. It's like and
he's like, yeah, whatever, dude, I'm going to knock it
out in one night. Do you think it's like a
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playoff performance indicator that here's a guy that hit a
rand slam for forty forty, a guy that did this
for fifty to fifty, that he meets the moment and
that This is something that signals good things for him
in the playoffs, that these moments are not too big
for him like they were for Mike Trout.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Without a doubt, and for Otani it feels like whatever
results he gets in the postseason won't be because he
is shying away from the moment. Talking to Dave Roberts
about it, who's managed nine playoff teams, he has seen
guys that are excellent during the regular season but start
to chase pitches outside of the strike zone. And that's
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the one thing he said, Otani is going to have
to fight in the postseason. The chances are teams are
not going to pitch to Otani. They are going to
try to get him to chase and he's got to
be willing to pass the baton to Mookie Betts and
Freddie Freeman and the rest of the Dodger lineup. He
believes that is what's going to separate Otani's playoff performance
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from being a good one to a disappointing one.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
What is it like, Dave de b a right, I
read Miguel Rojas say that he felt like he might
actually start tearing up a little bit. When it happened,
it was so emotional. What is it like being around
these especially in the case of Freddy and Mookie former MVPs,
this level of athlete that stand in awe or it
sounds like they stand in awe of this guy. And
(25:24):
yet here is Mooki probably one of the five ten
best at worst players in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It feels like I'm around Shaq and Kobe that sense
of greatness with Otani and just the level that he's at,
and Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman now are in that
Gasalt type of level of really good player, but obviously
not on the Lebron James Kobe Bryant level. That's the
feeling I have now. And it feels like Mookie Betts
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understands that as well, because when I asked him after
the game yesterday, how does he view all this? And
he said, when I'm on I'm as big of a
fan as the rest of all of you guys. So
when the Padres come to town, it feels like it's
a little silly to say it's Otani versus a Machado
(26:12):
led team, because Otani is head and shoulders above every
other player out there, maybe outside of Aaron Judge and
everybody else is beneath those two guys. That's the way
it feels. It's a Judge and Otani are like Kobe
and Lebron on both coasts, and the rest are the rest.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
We'll see how it translates to the postseason. I'm sure
everybody would love a Yankees Dodgers World Series. The great
David Vatsai joining us right now on the southern California
Toyota neither celebrity hotline. Reflecting on last night, the other thing,
Dave is you talked about the relief from Shoeotani. Is
it really over? I mean, because every stolen base from
(26:53):
now on and every home run is another record. Is
he going to be able to switch into more of
a playoff mode as you describe.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, here we go, Petros. Already there were members of
the media talking about can he go for sixty sixty?
And I hope he resists that temptation. He is a
very focused guy. But there are nine games to go,
six of them against the Rockies, including the last three
at corps Field. It's not out of the realm of possibility.
(27:23):
But if he starts chasing that, he might start to
get into those bad habits that Dave Roberts is warning against.
You don't want to chase in the postseason. You want
to play within the context of the game. And I
hope even in that three game series against the Padres
starting on Tuesday, you would hope that Otani would take
(27:44):
that playoff type of approach and not try to do
it all himself, because in baseball, when you try to
do too much or you try to do it all yourself,
it always backs backfires against you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
What do we have on tap for the rotation day
of any clarity on what we might see over these
final nine games as they try to get, you know,
whatever figured out they can get figured out for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I think the only wild card here is Clayton Kershaw,
who in Miami threw an eighty three pitch bullpen session
and was telling me that it felt closer than it
has before with the big left toe and finding the
right orthotics. So he's very optimistic that he is going
to pitch sometime between now and the end of the
(28:30):
regular season, and the Dodgers need to see that before
they can't commit to him pitching in a postseason game,
which I feel is fair. So that is the one
thing pitching wise to keep your eye on as far
as somebody coming back and helping them out. It's kurse
Shaw between now and the end of the regular season
(28:50):
and historic knights.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Some say it was the greatest individual performance in the
history of baseball what David Vasse got to witness first
hand in Miami. I great to have you back, Dave.
I'm sure it's wonderful to be back at Dodger Stadium.
They'll get things going tonight. It's seven against the Rockies.
Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
All right, we'll see what Otani does tonight to make history.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well, hopefully we'll be against a position player. David Messe
Dodgers Rockies, first pitch at seven ten, Showy Otani sitting
on fifty one fifty one, Dodger fans, get your game
debut a lot at Shakey's Pizza Parlor. Get yourself a
bread stick, enjoy your Shaky's Pizza chicken at Mojo's right
now at Shaky's dot com, and you could be enjoyed
it before first pitch. I thought, that's what he did
(29:31):
last night.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Matt right let me with his position player whole other
hour
Speaker 1 (29:36):
A great sports talk quick its f wonderport Dead and
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