October 4, 2024 • 48 mins
Matt and David Vassegh are LIVE From Dodger Stadium for the Dodgers-Padres NLDS workouts. Manny Machado stops by to visit. MLB Insider Andy McCullough from The Athletic. MLB ON FOX Insider Ken Rosenthal.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
All right, Dave, I picked a theme for today's quotes.
Let's see of the three I read, how long it
takes you to figure out who said these things?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yogi Berra Nope, but a good guess.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I think you're gonna get it after the first one, Okay.
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand.
If you hold it too tight, you'll kill it. If
you'll hold it too loose, you'll lose it. Going it out,
vic Oh, Petros and money A five seventy LA Sports
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Speaker 2 (00:43):
All beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Thank you for the gonge Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio,
especially Dave with David Vasse and for Petros. Today for
the next four hours of three to seven show, we
are live on the field at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah. This is a very nerve wracking for me. I
feel like I've gotten BP passes for two distant relatives
and you and Tim Kates trust me. I'm just making
sure that everybody knows the rules, the etiquette. Do not
step on the grass, Kates. Don't you see that shiny
new postseason pain on the grass. They don't want anybody
coming close to it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, they don't.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, you stay on the dirt because grass is not
meant to be stepped on.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
We've been down here for about an hour, Dave, And
between the three of us, who's the only person that
got yelled at for approaching the grass too closely?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Myself? You?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So, yeah, appreciate you telling us what the rules are. Hey,
follow you're the one that nearly violated the rules.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Follow the rules, Matt, And right now the padres are
taking batting practice. You have been odd the shock in
awe of Fernando Tattis juniors batting practice. He had no
regard for life last week with fans and the pavilions
just trying to catch one of those one hundred mile
an hour exit Velo home runs. So I wish more
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superstars would do what Tatists does and take batting practice
out on the field. That's one of the great scouts
in baseball, right there, is that, right, one of the
great scouts and baseball.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Why don't you give him a shout out?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Nobody wants it, Mac, he doesn't want it. He's one
of those scouts that doesn't want to be named publicly,
and he's one of.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The looking under the radar Yeah, we are watching Tattoos
take take BP and obviously the first time in the
postseason that he was My god, it's just did you
see that?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, it's a laser to left field.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I want to put a dent in your forehead.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, it's out of the park inside of two seconds.
But remember he did not take part in the twenty
twenty two postseason. Yeah, and this was his first time
ever in the playoffs playing baseball in front of the fans.
And he's an energy guy, man, and you could see
that he certainly fed off it at that first at bat.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And that's one if there was one hole talking to
guys that have watched the Padres is they are a
very emotional team and they score runs early, but they
have a problem sustaining that energy all nine innings. So
remember the Braves game, right, they scored five runs of
your life nothing, They won five to four. They weren't
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able to tack on runs. So they're a very good team,
but very emotional team. And we'll see whether or not
they're able to ride the emotions of that two game
sweep against the Braves, who, by the way, Matt, can
I just put it into context place team that had
to play a doubleheader on Monday, fly all night cross
country without Austin Riley, without Ronald o'cunya Junior, no Chris
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Sale to start the game, wearied and battered, no Chris Sale.
And everybody's acting like the Padres just beat the twenty
seven Yankees.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Wow at twenty seven Yankees reference at three four past three.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
People, Well, I just finished listening to Mad Dog. So
that's the reason why I had the twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Game Bad Dog. I was listening to Mad Dog earlier too.
And you're not, Dave. You are not going to believe
what I heard on the Dog.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Mets are going all the way.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Nope, the dog has how rounds? Oh right, Harold, let's
get it.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Hoo.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Do you like Padres? DoD Is, What do you got?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Let me hear it? Go And Harold says, I'll tell
you something.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'll tell you something right now, show haldn He's gonna pitch.
That's breaking news right there. You're telling me he's gonna pitch.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Shoot, he's gonna pitch.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And he said mad Dog I was at the All
Star Game. I was chatting with him. He was telling
me he was at eighty seven, eighty eight. I just
saw him and doing a bullpen. He's like that guy's
throwing gas and he's he's in the bullpen warming up
like he's gonna be pitching.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Wow, that is breaking news right there.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's what I heard on the Dog Dave your reaction.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Man, I will pay you one hundred dollars. It's a
show hao five hundred dollars. Tani is able to pitch
in this NLDS as we walk across the field here
to see if we can capture the great Manny Machado
and spoil everybody's perception that he is America's greatest heel,
which he is. He really leans into can do it
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man the wwe being a heel even though he's a
great guy, because backstage we all know how great of
a guy Andre the Giant would Did we just walk
in front of what was going on there? Those were
National TV execs trying to get the cameras lined up
and make sure everything is kosher for tomorrow's game. See
that Jerks and profar great catalyst for the Padres this year.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, what do you make of that? Of that excuse
that he wasn't saying that Jerrickson was irrelevant. But the yet, bat,
I know you buy into that. Sure, sure, I'll buy
into that. I'll buy that.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Okay, I'm going to see if the great Manny Machada
will sit down here. Yeah, okay, practice is over. I'm
going to try to bring him over here. There's his buddy,
Fernando Tattoos Junior, a great man himself. I will say this,
it's funny the way baseball works. Sure, hold this for
a second, Kates, I'm gonna ask Machado, without a microphone
in hand, if he would come over.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And talk to That'd be better if you asked him.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
In case he insults you, It'd be better if we
could pick that up on Mike, if in fact that's
the case. So Dave now casually approaching Manny, seeing f
he's up for a quick couple words. He embraces a
nice hug, a nice engagement. Here's the request, and he's
and he has been declined. But certainly you can see
in his eyes, Tim, oh, look at this, he is
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coming over. Wonderful, thank you. I want to certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'm not sure if Manny's going to like this or not,
but I want to dispel the myth that he is
a heel Manny Machado is a great guy.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Got a way to bring him on.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
He's a great guy, a great teammate, a great husband,
a great father. Does that upset you that I just
peeled back the curtain and you are a great guy?
Or would you want people to continue to have this
belief that you're this monster? No, man, You're You're the best.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You're the best man, And I always appreciate you, and
every time I come out here, we're looking out for me,
over supporting me.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So I just just love the kind of words. Love it.
I was a little unsure driving here if we were
able to get you on the show whether or not
you would be happy with me, because I liking you
to a w d WE wrestler. Every opposing stadium you
go into, you are public enemy number one, but you're
the greatest guy. Even former Dodgers still come over and
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say hi to you. So I wasn't sure if you
were going to be upset that I'm taking people behind
the curtain. Now look at that smile.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Come on, You've always done, you've done, You've been the
man man since I've been here, And yeah, man, I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I've had a lot of great relationships over there. It
was a great time here.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Uh you know, I was I was a Dodger and
it's always fun, fun to come back and play here.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I've heard other other players say that they have grown
from their experiences from being with the Dodgers, or if
you played for the Lakers, same thing. Do you feel
like you grew and became this type of player took
the really big step in your career after that season?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I mean, honestly, you know, going from an organization like
Baltimore to l a, you know, one of you know,
not a big city versum organization, come into one of
the biggest organizations in.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Model baseball of sports, right.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So, yeah, so it's definitely an adjustment period that they
that you learn. You know, you're twenty six years old
and just like life, you just learn, you move on.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
People, you know, grow from it and just be better
every single year, just like me on a base off field,
every single day, you know, try to get better at
my craft, you know, and it's the same thing with
life and with everything. And you know, San Diego has
been awesome. We have had a great tender team there
every single year, great coaching staff, you know, make show
coming up over this year, you know, changing up the organization.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, it's been it's it's been fun. Man, it's been
a fun ride.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And uh, you know, I love being being a part
of the organization, being uh, you know, part of people
come up to me and look up to and you know,
be whatever type of role model could possibly be, whether
it's being a father, being a teammate, being a you know,
just a friend, or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You know, it's it's been fun being in San Diego.
Manny Machado almost had a role in the new Top
Gun movie Money. I'm not sure if you didn't know that.
What was the role? Oh man?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, I gotta keep that top secret, top gun, top
secret secret.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why? Uh what? The Dodgers have the second best home
record in baseball? You guys have the best road record.
Why have you been so good away from San Diego?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I don't know, man, I mean it's it's it's I
don't know. We have I've gotten an act quite a
few quite a few times.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I mean it's a bad question. We've been asked, Tom.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I mean it's just just don't know how to answer it, right,
you know, I don't. I don't know what it comes to.
You like this park, like playing I like playing here. Yeah,
great bottiest box, I mean, great view, and you know,
I mean it's it's, it's it's I'm a judge of
the batter's boxes.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
For every stadium I go to.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
More of the box, the box, the dirt, just how
the dirt is, how the dirt feels, if it's hard,
if a stiff, some are slippery, some you can dig inside. Yeah,
I'm more of a box guy than so.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Who's got the best box in baseball? New York Yankees
yan Stadium? Really the New York dirt is that?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What's the worst box?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You don't want to say.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I think it's like Arizona, Desert's just Boston is the
same way. It's just dry, can't get no grip.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
This feels like it's a little moist.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
This is good, this is this is a good box. Yeah,
it's a good box.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, I mean still in Californy anything californ has been
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I mean you can't go working down right for certainly
all right, before you let Manny Machada go, he's a
big Laker fan, big basketball fan. He wore number eight
when he played for the Dodgers for Kobe Bryant. What
do you think about the Lakers and the squad they've
put together this year.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I mean, I think they're gonna be solid, and they're
gonna be solid. I mean, it's it's about when you
go out there and perform and then try to try
to be the best and be the last thing standing him.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Last year was a good improvement.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I mean a lot of injuries obviously, but I think
this year, you know, they're they've They've made a nice
little addition to the team.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So this is what's so great about Manny Machado. Just
because he's talking basketball right now, talking batters boxes with us.
This guy is going to show up in a big
way in this series. None of this stuff affects when
you get between those lines.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah, man, I mean, it's just just you gotta go
out and compete, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I think at the at the end of the day,
you gotta go out there.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
When you put that uniform on, you're representing an organization,
not just yourself, you know, representing a lot of people
that are that are that are behind you. So I
gotta go out and compete for twenty seven outs and
you know, just leave it on the field and come
back out of tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
If you're at a let me ask real quick before
you're the Laker game and put you on the scoreboard there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Probably got Budut.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
But how are you feel like you're like, hey man, put
me up there. I just want to get up there going.
You're in prime time, you're at Lakers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I mean, what's it called crypt?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Are you aware? A Jersey guy or now?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Na not a big I'm not a big Jersey guy.
Shouldn't be. I haven't never never happened as a kid
a little bit, but nah, I mean it's just kind
of grow out of it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I mean I kind of liked nobody fantasy football and
stuff like that, you know, I mean I got just
for team events, but push your.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Football team Cowboys? Really Lakers? Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Was it Yankees too?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
When you were a kid, I was more of a
baseball guy, like I follow baseball players.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I wasn't really a team.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Gotcha a rod?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You know, no, mar all the short stops that were
that were in that you know, make out to hot
U right, you know you're in that conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, how many shorts stops can go to third base?
A Rod and Machado, how many go to third base? Yeah, yeah,
that's tough. You're right up there, stuff, you're on your
way to Cooperstown. I'm good. I'm good out there, though.
Man I gave up a way short stop.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Great stuff. Appreciate thank you, Manning, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Thanks, Joseph, appreciate it them. Thank you. Well, that's a
good way to get things started.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
dB.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Hey, I told you I could deliver, absolutely you always delivered.
Two things have happened that has surprised many people out there.
You Darvish and I have a close relationship that shocked A.
J Ellis and many others in the Padres clubhouse. And
now I delivered Manny Macha to the pet show.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And I will say it started off inauspiciously as we
made our way over there while they were working out,
and Dave was talking incredibly loud, almost heckling the Padres
if you will, acting as a uh as a foil
in the employe of the Dodgers, and some of them
were laughing. Yeah, they were they were getting uh, they
were getting a little laugh out of it.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
But day.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
One of the great things about Dave is does not
give a rip, absolutely doesn't give a damn.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think that's why they respond to me, right, yeah, shade.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, it's it's hot, man, it is hot. Well, what
time is it?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Three throws? So I guess this Padres coach over there,
right there, bearded guy, grizzles kind of like it feels
like they were bridges. I feel like the other coaches
that were standing around a j Ellis were relaying the
story of me, you know, going after AG and this
guy's like pointing over to me. Is I like this guy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
This guy, Yeah, he wasn't buying it. Man, Well look
at him.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
He's grizzly. He's got a white mitt For God's sake,
how many people have white mitz?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Would you say, Manny Machado is the Mike Bibbie and
Chris Webber of this rivalry, liking it to the Sacramento
Kings and Lakers rivalry. You feel like he's right up there,
has hated.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Public enemy, trying to figureut where you were going. Okay,
So Bibby tatist number one, Yeah, for certain he's Bibby.
He is uh, well, let's not forget now Doug Christy
and Rick Fox. Yeah, you know Rick Fox had to
wear Doug Christie's wife's purse of the head.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So I feel like even though Bibby and Weber, boy,
that's a great question, who was Because I was a
season ticket holder back then going to every one of
those games as a weirdo fan. I feel like we
really hated Vlade because of the flopping like he was.
He was certainly hated at Staples Center after that. I
don't feel like people hated Chris Weber like that wasn't
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it really was a lot of I think it was
Bibby and Christy were the two guys that people just
just did not lie. You had Pasia with the big shots.
I had a lot of teams, a lot of guys
on that team, and that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Team was stacked, stacked team.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They should have knock the Lakers off at least once.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, thanks to Tim donaghe exactly right, Tim donaghe got
the assist a couple of times. So I just I
will get to this next hour. But you know, when
people say this is a rivalry, it might be for
right now, but just like the Sacramento Kings, it didn't last.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well, I'll say this, Dave, and I wish it was
in the NLCS, And you know, I'll just what do
we got here?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Three?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, we got time.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The idea that baseball still is so archaic in their
approach to the postseason, and they have fixed brackets and
they have not come around to what every other league
has realized, and that's shuffle after every round. Because what
do we want. We want the two teams that had
the best season to play in the final series.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That's what we are seeking.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So as excited as I am that the Padres were
able to knock off the Braves and we're gonna get
this series that I think is going to be electric
and exciting, and it's what we wanted to see. I
want it in the NLCS, like that's what I would
have preferred. There's no reason for the Mets to be
playing the Phillies, who crapped the bed in the final
two weeks of the season to give the Dot help
give the Dodgers the best record in baseball, as they
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won their final five games to get it, and now
they get the Mets and the Dodgers get the Padres
in a five game series.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
This is the heavyweight fight.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It is the heavyweight fight, and I do agree with
what you're saying. But if the Dodgers and Phillies play
each other in the NLCS, I would say that is
a heavyweight fight of its own. The teams with the
two best records. That's the way it's set up right now.
They want the teams with the two best records to.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Be in the NLCS.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yes, and we are on a path for that to happen.
And if it's not, the Dodgers Padres Phillies would be
electric as well.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How So, I guess there's a flip side to that
as well, if I'm going to talk out of both
sides of my mouth, and that is that the Dodgers
should not have to face the Padres. If you play
one hundred and sixty two games and you post the
best record, you should be playing the team that comes
out of the bottom of the bracket with the worst
record to reward you for one hundred and sixty two
games of effort. It's because I just keep going back
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to twenty twenty one and the Dodgers Giants and what
an abject failure that was that those two teams played
in the division.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Without a doubt. That's where your argument comes into play
stronger than this year. Right, you had a one hundred
and six win Dodger team playing in a one game
elimination against the Saint Louis Cardinals, ridiculous. Without Chris Taylor's
home run, you don't get to see one and seven
win Giants versus one oh six win Dodgers. So your
argument and the trap is what took place in twenty one,
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not this year. I would be happy with the Dodgers
Phillies NLCS too. That would be incredible. Padres Phillies would
be incredible. The letdown? How much easier paths?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
How much easier of a path do you believe the
Phillies have compared to the Dodgers having it to take
on the hottest team in baseball right now versus a
Mets team that's had a hell of a Cinderella story
here to close the season.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, blame the Brewers. They're always there in the Central,
winning their division and not really having a great team
or a great record. They're kind of fraudulent. The Brewers
are a little bit of a fraud in that NL Central.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
How about the AL Central?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
By the way, supposed to be the worst division in
base now and they got three teams in the final
four in the American League, which a lot of people
are pointing to, which is why we're very hopeful if
everything works out, if you believe the odds makers and
right now Yankees number one odds do win the World Series,
Dodgers' number two odds to win the World Series. If
we could end up with a Dodgers Yankees World Series
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with Shohei Otani in his postseason debut in the Fall Classic,
you will see you will see levels of viewership that
we have not seen in decades Judge versus Otani.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That would be incredible. It would be And honestly, there's
no excuse for the Yankees not to get there. And
there's buzz out there in the Bronx that if Aaron
Boone cannot get his team to the World Series this year,
he will be probably back in the broadcasting booth because
there is no excuse now with the Guardians or Royals
in their way, that the Yankees shouldn't be in the
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World Series. The Tigers just like that, Yeah I am.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
But you're gonna get two starts from Scruble.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, but you might not get to that. But two
that if they have Scooble for two, they're in trouble.
But a scout that I respect pretty much pretty well
text me yesterday the Tigers in that Houston series. You
can play that matchup game in a short three game series.
You cannot play that matchup game for a best of five.
So that's the reason why nobody is buying this Tigers
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magic carrying over into a best of five series now,
let alone a best of seven series.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I think the Yankees and the Dodgers are in very
similar territory where you've got two teams with massive payrolls,
with absolute superstars on their roster, and they're taken on.
You know, I look, the Padres are a different animal, right.
It's a team that has a payroll north of two
hundred million that is chock full of superstars both on
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the mound and in their position.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
So it's a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
But it does feel like everybody's saying this, this needs
to be Dodgers Yankees.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's what this should be. It should be, But the
Yankees have an easier path way easier the Dodgers, Padres, Phillies.
They all have a tougher path to get to the
World Series. The Yankees should punch their ticket. There should
be more disappointment and outrage if they're not there. But
as far as the National League go, it's one of
the tougher leagues. It's the tougher league out of the
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two right now.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, it's something that we brought up on the show
earlier this week, and I said, show on other foot
for the first time, Dodgers are not expected to make it.
You got twenty two out of twenty seven of the
experts at ESPN picking the Padres doing this series. By
the way, twenty two out of twenty seven picked the
Astros to knock off the Tigers as well, So take
that for whatever it's worth. But twenty two to twenty seven,
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the majority of the big baseball brain steam heads out
there are picking the Padres to win this thing, and
I think a lot of them are kind of pointing
to that game one.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
ESPN doesn't really cover baseball that well, so I don't
really put too much stock into their experts.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Twenty two out of twenty seven sounds better than me saying, hey,
three out of the five at Sports Illustrated or four
of six at y'all.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You try and get some cash.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It's twenty two out of twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
All right, all right, all right, look at you. You
just love name dropping right out the front door.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Just what did I name drop?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Espn? Oh, that's huge name for PN experts.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Exactly right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It sounds good, right, sounds good, eighty one and experts.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
And I'm using the air quotes.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He's dead. I know if it was Joe Morgan or
John Miller or not.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's I'm trying to think of the I think the
only player on that list.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Doug Glanville is Doug Glanville exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I think it's the only one.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I don't think there are any other players exactly that list.
So take that for what it's worth. Should we try
to try to plant the seeds of discontent and revenge
in these Dodgers?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
With you? I'm with you, all right, We'll break What
are we looking at, Dave? I'm looking at Dodger third
base coach donoy but holding court in that dugout.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
We'll try to get him.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Andy McCullough is going to do his usual begging to
get on the show. Is he really We'll consider it.
We'll consider it.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
We can talk some saves the day with Andy next. Yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You what you did?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Look at that talking about that in the commercial press.
He's in exactly right. We'll be back with more. David Batsey,
uh filling in for p It's Petro some Money Live
at Dodger Stadium on Your Home of the Dodgers A
five seventy l A Sports. It's frogod Friday and as
we are live on the field at Dodger Stadium, full
(22:04):
four hour show today as we get ready for the
NLDS to get underway on Your Home of the Dodgers
AM five to seventy LA Sports Show. Hey Otani's first
foray into the MLB's postseason. Everybody's excited, including us. We
will have a parade of guests today. Told we're gonna
get some Dodgers. I believe we're gonna have a chance
to catch up with Dodger skipper Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But first day, who.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Do we got here?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Who are we talking to? Go on and ask him
a question. Let me hear what he's got to say.
What do you got for me? Let's go well. An
acclaimed author, a man that covered the Dodgers during their
back to back National League Championship runs and unfortunate endings
in the World Series, and now is a special senior
columnist for The Athletic, the one and only Andy McCullough. Andy,
(22:49):
thanks a lot for joining us. You know, David, I
just realized I've covered every Dodgers postseason run since twenty
sixteen except for twenty twenty oh interesting, Is there any there?
Do you see any connection that was going on? That
was the one time I wasn't around the team. So
you're saying the Dodgers have no chance now that you've
been assigned to this series. As soon as I got
on a flight at JFK to come out here, I
(23:12):
don't know there's two baseball teams in New York playing,
but the Athletics send me here to LA makes sense money,
He wrote at the back of Kershaw to write this book,
the last of his kying, which is still very available,
thousands of copies, thousands of copies. Your guy is not
going to pitch in this series? How is he dealing
with all that? I mean, you're better asking him. I mean,
(23:33):
I think it's a rather not I think it's a look.
I mean, when you're physically not able to compete, which
is where he seems to be at right now. I
think that that is very frustrating, But also what can
you do, Like if you can't land on your foot
and pitch. It's a toe, not an elbow or a shoulder,
that's got to be infuriating. I think the fact that
(23:55):
it is technically a toe injury, but it's like it's
a foot, like it's his foot four when you like,
you know, it's like turf toe. That's what it sounds like.
Oh wow, you got turf toe. Get on the field.
It's like that's excruciating.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That's what Eric Dickerson has told us. It was easily
the most painful interest.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
As someone who was likely suffers from attacks of gout,
which you get the gout. I have the gout, Yeah,
I have the gout and then there's no cure. You
get it like when you eat shellfish. That's a misconception.
I love that. I just had some trip. No, we
don't need to get into gout talk. Are we on
the radio? Are right now? And I just thought I
was talking into it on the fan or w I
(24:34):
P that's right? Mcaut all right, I got a question
for you here we go uh show hey o Tani
first postseason?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
What kind of impact does he have? I want to
hear your answer. Let me hear it right now. Go ahead,
what do you got?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I was trying to I'm trying to see if I
could answer like Anthony Gargano. Yes, But all I can
say is Anthony Gargano is we're talking Penn State football.
But anyway, impact of show age, I mean potentially huge,
potentially serious swinging like he's you know, it sounds silly,
but like he's the X factor in this. Like the
Padres are a very good baseball team. They're a very
(25:06):
complete baseball team. They do pretty much everything well save
for maybe a couple you know, week spots defensively in
individual positions, but you know, very coherent lineup, good starting rotation.
Took a hit today losing Joe Musgrove and a high
octane back of the bullpen. The Dodgers have show Hao Toni.
They have a lot of other things as well. They
have a very good offense, they have a good bullpen,
(25:28):
they have show Heyo Tony, and so it's going to
be a real challenge for San Diego to you know,
keep him off the bases and also keep the bases
empty for when he comes up. He's, you know, the
sort of player you saw it when they were two
teams were here a week ago or whatever it was,
that he's capable of swinging a very evenly matched you
know series. Do you think he pitches? Matt said that Harold.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I heard Harold Reynolds say it on The Dog earlier
today and he said it very matter of factly. He's like,
hey man, I talked to him at the All Star Game.
You said he was at eighty seven, eighty eight. I
just watched him through Bully and that's a guy that's
throwing a bullpen like he is going to pitch.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now there's I mean. Ken Rosdahl in The Athletic wrote
about this earlier this week that like of scouts who
have seen him throwing bullpens are like, that guy is
out there like he's not just getting his work it
like he's working, you know, he's letting it eat. As
they say, I don't see it in the DS, and
I really don't see it in the CS. If they
make the World Series, I don't think it's outside the
realm of possibility. The Dodgers can issue as many non
(26:25):
denial denials as they want. They can give themselves whatever
plausible deniability and say it's not something we're actively thinking about.
That's not even an option for us, that's not on
our radar. They've said everything except for nor The vision
I have is, you know, when we were in DC
and Kershaw in the middle of the game is walking
out to the bullpen getting ready for a ninth inning.
(26:46):
I could totally see that scenario at Yankee Stadium where
sho hey Otani walks out to the Dodger bullpen and
everybody's freaking out that he's going to pitch and relief.
Can you see that too? Yeah, I mean yeah, having
been there, you know, on that freezing cold night in Washington,
d C. Chattering in the press box next to Bill
Plashky because we forgot to wear and so what's he doing? Bill,
(27:14):
to his credit, actually asked before that game. He said,
is Kershaw a vailbow? And they said absolutely not. Well,
so I had it. Look it's like you got, it's
a it's a very theatrical, it's a very dramatic type
of thing. Well Tony does not like any of that, right,
exactly exactly, And Dave Roberts is often used as a
(27:36):
like finishing type maneuver, you know, sometimes successfully and sometimes not,
using a sort of starter in that role. You know, So,
like do I think it's gonna happen? I think saying
it's like not going to happen. Why would you close
the door on something that you know one might be
like a top and would be like something that could
(27:58):
you know, you might even get like baseball on ESPN, right,
you know, like it would be a way to get
it on sports exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, we were talking about it, like Otani has an
opportunity to make this the most watched postseason in a decade,
the most watched.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
World Series, especially if it's Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Versus Yankees in two decades perhaps when baseball truly was
America's pastime. But it's you got to get there first,
And how important is tomorrow? And what do you make
of the switch to Yamamoto and the the I was
going to say excusmanding the reason why they switched to dare.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Any thoughts on this? I have a lot of thoughts
on it. And Andy McCullough, who just parachuted into Miami,
agreed with me right away that there may be something
going on with Jack Flaherty's back. No, I just text you, yeah, sure, dude,
because you'll leave me alone. I have a life. There's
a lot of books I want to read before I die.
His fastball velocity down each of the last three starts.
(28:54):
There's no question about that. The velocity has been down.
It's not down like a crazy amount. It's eighty nine
the last time. No, no, it was just the average
fastball veilosity was. His last start was eighty nine miles
an hour. I don't think that. I don't well, I
don't doubt you. You've never gotten anything wrong. But I
was looking at something that had him closer to like
ninety one, and oh that's great. Look either way, there's
(29:14):
definitely been a dip in velocity there that is unquestionable.
It's not and like, why did they push him back?
Their answer is for optionality. The Dodgers love optionality. But
the schedule hasn't changed. They have known that Yamamota would
have five days off between Game one and Game five.
What changed, I said, Jack, giving Jack Flaherty an extra day.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
It could be you're playing the role of Dave Roberts
here or Andrew Freeman he is peppering you right, Well,
yeah he would, Yeah, he wouldn't actually ask them questions
like this, can you talk about how great the chemistry?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I had a hard doctor appointment yesterday. I couldn't do
it a hard doctor. Yeah, okay, your heart pump's cool? Anybody? Wow? No,
I look, I look. I think there's a lot of
things at play. I think they want to see how
Yamamoto responds to the environment. They want to see, you know,
what his stuff plays like, and they look if he's right.
(30:08):
They know they can't hit you, darbish, So they don't
want to. They don't want to waste Yamamoto. That's the reality.
They can't hit you darbish. Well that you know, as
we have seen, it is easier to hit him if
you have an illegal sign stealing operationally. Yeah, so I
(30:32):
don't know. I look, I see why there might be,
you know, for conspiracy minded folks, there's a reason for alarm.
I think the simplest answer is, like, if Yamamoto's right,
he's a better picture than Jackvie.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
So that's kind of what I and I'm talking to
two seamts here.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I'm just the idiot at the end of the bar.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Over here in the talk of the experts, and I'm starting.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
To get in they.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Can't lose game one.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I think they lose game one and they are absolutely
host So to me, it's like, we got to throw
the best pitcher in game one.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
And look, in a five game series, you really can't
lose any game. No, Like, you know, you kind of
have to win as many of the games as you can,
preferably three. You don't want to go to Slam Diego
down one to one or down oh two, Well, you
wouldn't be down one one the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay, emotionally we're emotionally down one one.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Look, I think that I think that it's gonna be
very interesting to see how this series plays out. I
do think not having Musgrove is a real problem for
San Diego. You know, Martin Perez is probably gonna take
those innings. He's been a perfectly fine pitcher for them,
you know, but he's playing against an elite lineup in
the Dodgers, So that kind of evens things in terms
(31:43):
of rotation. But like for me, like games one and two, yeah,
you gotta at least split them because three and four roof.
You know, what does the pitching look like for those days,
and how aggressively can you use the bullpen in games
one and two knowing the uncertainty you have in three
and four. It's like, look, the Dodgers, they could they
could very easily win the World Series, right, but they're
(32:04):
gonna have to win a lot of games, like seven
to five. They're gonna have to win some games or
they're down three to zero in the third inning. Like
it's gonna take some resilience, all right, Andy McCollough from
The Athletic or Later today, we're going to see Freddy
Freeman out here. Yesterday he was taking batting practice but
would not run to first base. How big of a
part is that into this entire series? What Freddy Freeman
(32:27):
can or can I do? I mean, it's huge, it's huge.
I mean, he's had a slightly down year and he's
still one of the best hitters on the planet, you know,
and he's a huge part of the lineup in terms
of just the handedness and also the sort of looks
that you know, he created, the problems he creates for
opposing pictures. It will be interesting to see it sounds
like most likely the angle's gonna affect him, you know,
obviously running and fielding. He's a good defender. He's a
(32:50):
very good base runner as well. So like a diminished
version of him, let alone a player who's not able
to go in game one. That's a that's a big blow.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
All right, last thing, McCollough. Let's see what would we do?
What do they do?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
They do? Mary?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You know you lay down with yeah, kill saves the day?
Get Up Kids? Brand new?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Uh given the see.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Now he's really thinking that the baseball stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
He's like me, could you put in another pan there
besides brand new?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Okay, so you're not a brand new guy.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's okay. They were. Their band broke up because the
lead singer was accused of some uh you know, sort
of penous acts. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Oh that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah, we have an update from Joe Kelly, who just
texts me that he misses Petros and I can't hold
his job Kelly, how dare he?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I saw the Get Up Kids on on Sunday night
in Brooklyn. They were wonderful on tour. Right now, go
see all right, so let's do get I'll forget it.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
We won't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
That's that's a real that's a real punch to the gut.
I had to fly to Dallas to try to.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I have to listen to this indie talk and him
watching it on you two during game. He's got the hair,
he's got the glasses, he's got the figgered vines going.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
It's it's a very vibe.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Lobsters on his shirt. Where did you get that Nike
Nike outlet store, Nothing, says lobsters to give out shirts
like this to get players on the show. No, no,
it's just a comfortable hot polo.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Shirt and he loves and again it's to troll you.
The gout shellfish, Dan.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
You've got a whale on your shirts. I've come on
the show. Do I get a credit to Pep Boys?
Tim Kates will handle that, okay.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
He says, no.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
You know what, though, you go on with the Padres
and you get a gift card to have your car washed.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
It's soapy, Joe's so.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I'll buy you to that sounds great? Yeah, no, yeah,
we'll ride the bull at the double deuce. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Andy does it for the athletic. UH certainly appreciate him.
The Otani presser to join us and We certainly appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I'm sure you missed a lot. He's very candid with
all his answers.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
It seemed like it lasted about four minutes based on
when the people exited. All right, we will be back
with more from the field at Dodger Stadium. It is
the Petro Some Money Show with David Veasse in for
p getting ready for the NLDS start tomorrow five thirty
eight pm. First pitch right here on your Home of
the Dodgers AM five seventy LA Sports. It's prognant Friday
(35:21):
and as we are live on the field at Dodger Stadium,
full four hour show today as we get ready for
the NLDS to get underway on Your Home of the
Dodgers AM five to seventy LA Sports Show. Hey Otani's
first foray into the MLB's postseason. Everybody's excited, including us.
We will have a parade of guests today. Told we're
going to get some Dodgers. I believe we're going to
(35:41):
have a chance to catch up with Dodger skipper Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
But first day, who do we got here?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Who are we talking to? Go on?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Ask him a question. Let me hear what he's got
to say? What do you got for me? Let's go well.
An acclaimed author, a man that covered the Dodgers during
their back to back National League Championship runs and unfortunate
endings in the World Series, and now is a special
senior columnist for The Athletic, the one and only Andy McCullough. Andy,
thanks a lot for joining us. You know, David, I
(36:11):
just realized I've covered every Dodgers postseason run since twenty
sixteen except for twenty twenty oh interesting? Is there any
corollary there? Do you see any connection that was going on?
What happened? That was the one time I wasn't around
the team? So you're saying the Dodgers have no chance
now that you've been assigned to this series. As soon
as I got on a flight at JFK to come
out here, I don't know there's two baseball teams in
(36:33):
New York playing, but the Athletics sent me here to
LA makes sense. Money. He wrote up the back of
Kershaw to write this book, the last of his kying,
which is still very available, thousands of copies, thousands of copies.
Your guy is not going to pitch in this series.
How is he dealing with all that? I mean, you
better asking him. I mean, I think it's a right
(36:54):
rather not. I think it's a look. I mean, when
you're physically not able to compete, which is where he
seems to be at right now, I think that that
is very frustrating. But also what can you do, Like
if you can't land on your foot and pitch. It's
a toe, not an elbow or a shoulder, that's gotta
be infuriating. I think the fact that it is technically
(37:16):
a toe injury, but it's like it's a foot, like
it's his foot, you know, it's like turf toe. That's
what it sounds like. Oh wow, you got turf toe.
Get on the field. It's like that's excruciating.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
That's what Eric Dickerson has told us said it was
easily the most painful interest.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Counting as someone who sectually suffers from attacks of gout,
which you get the gout. I have the gout. Yeah,
I have the gout, and then there's no cure. You
get it like when you eat shellfish. That's a misconception
that I just had some trip. I need to get
into gout talk. Are we on the radio right? Now
I just thought I was talking into it like this
(37:52):
on the fan or w I P that's right?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Mcaut all right, I got a question for you. Here
we go.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Uh show he Tani first season? What kind of impact
does he have? I want to hear your answer. Let
me hear it right now. Go ahead, What do you got?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I was trying to to I'm trying to see if
I could answer like Anthony Gargano. Yes, But all I
can say is Anthony Gargano is we're talking Penn State football?
Maybe anyway?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Impact of show.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Age, I mean potentially huge, potentially serious swinging like he's
you know, it sounds silly, but like he's the X
factor in this. Like the Padres are a very good
baseball team. They're a very complete baseball team. They do
pretty much everything well save for maybe a couple you know,
week spots defensively in individual positions, but you know, very
coherent lineup, good starting rotation. Took a hit today losing
(38:40):
Joe Musgrove and a high octane back of the bullpen.
The Dodgers have show Heyo Tani. They have a lot
of other things as well. They have a very good offense,
They have a good bullpen they have show heo Toni
and so it's going to be a real challenge for
San Diego to you know, keep him off the bases
and also keep the bases empty for when he comes up. He's,
you know sort of player. You saw it when they
(39:01):
were two teams were here a week ago or whatever
it was, that he's capable of swinging a very evenly
matched you know series. Do you think he pitches? Matt
said that Harold.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I heard Harold Reynolds say it on The Dog earlier
today and he said it very matter of factly. He's like, hey, man,
I talked to him with the All Star Game. He
said he was at eighty seven, eighty eight. I just
watched him through a bully and that's a guy that's
throwing a bullpen like he is going to pitch.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Now there's I mean. Ken Rosdahl in The Athletic wrote
about this earlier this week that like, of scouts who
have seen him throwing bullpens, they're like, that guy is
out there like he's not just getting his work it
like he's working, you know, he's he's letting it eat,
as they say. I don't see it in the DS
and I really don't see it in the CS if
they make the World Series, I don't think it's outside
the realm of possibility. The Dodgers can issue as many
(39:45):
non denial denials as they want. They can give themselves
whatever plausible deniability and say it's not something we're actively
thinking about. That's not even an option for us, that's
not on our radar. They've said everything except for no
right point. The vision I have is, you know, when
we were in and Kershaw in the middle of the
game is walking out to the bullpen getting ready for
a ninth inning. I could totally see that scenario at
(40:08):
Yankee Stadium where sho hey Otani walks out to the
Dodger bullpen and everybody's freaking out that he's going to
pitch and relief. Can you see that too? Yeah? I
mean yeah, having having been there, you know, on that
freezing cold night in Washington, d C. Chattering in the
press box next to Bill Plashki because we forgot to
wear so what's he doing? Bill, to his credit, actually
(40:35):
asked before that game. He said, is Kershaw a vailbow?
And they said absolutely not. Well, so I had it. Look,
it's like you got to write that, and it's a
it's a very theatrical, it's a very dramatic type of thing. Well,
Tani does not like any of that, right, exactly exactly,
And Dave Roberts is often used as a like finishing
(40:57):
type maneuver, you know, sometimes successfully and sometimes Yeah, using
a sort of starter in that role, you know, So, like,
do I think it's gonna happen? I think saying it's
like not going to happen. Why would you close the
door on something that you know one might be like
a top five moment in the history of the World Series,
(41:17):
Like it would be like something that could you know,
you might even get like baseball on ESPN, right, you know,
like it would be a way to get it on
sports exactly.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Well, we were talking about it, like Otani has an
opportunity to make this the most watched postseason in a decade,
the most watched World Series, especially if it's Dodgers versus
Yankees in two decades perhaps when baseball truly was America's pastime.
But it's you got to get there first, and how
important is tomorrow? And what do you make of the
switch to Yamamoto and the the re I was gonna
(41:48):
say scoutsmanding the reason why they switched to any thoughts
on this.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
I have a lot of thoughts on it. And Andy McCullough,
who just parachuted into Miami, agreed with me right away
that there may be something going on with Jack Flarerty's back. No,
I just text you, yeah, sure, dude, because you'll leave
me alone. I have a life. There's a lot of
books I want to read before I die. His fastball
velocity is down each of the last three starts. There's
(42:14):
no question about that. The velocity has been down. It's
not down like a crazy amount. It's eighty nine the
last time. No, no, it was just the average fastball
velocity was. His last start was eighty nine miles an hour.
I don't think that. I don't well, I don't doubt you.
You've never gotten anything wrong. But I was looking at
something that had him closer to like ninety one, and
oh that's great. Look either way, there's definitely been a
(42:35):
dip in velocity there that is unquestionable. It's not and like,
why did they push him back? Their answer is for optionality.
The Dodgers love of optionality. But the schedule hasn't changed.
They have known that Yamamota would have five days off
between game one and game five. What changed, I said, Jack,
(42:55):
giving Jack Flarerity an extra day. It could be you're
playing the role of Dave Roberts here or Andrew Freeman.
He is right, Yeah he would, yeah you he wouldn't
actually ask them questions like this, Can you talk about
how great the chemistry? A hard doctor appointment? Yesterday? I
couldn't do it a hard doctor. Yeah, okay, your heart pumps?
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Cool?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Anybody? No, I look, I look. I think there's a
lot of things at play. I think they want to
see how Yamamoto responds to the environment. They want to see,
you know, what his stuff plays like, and they look
if he's right. They know they can't hit you, darbish,
So they don't want to. They don't want to waste Yamamoto.
(43:34):
That's the reality. They can't hit you darbish. Well that
you know, as we have seen, it is easier to
hit him if you have an illegal signs dealing operationally. Yeah,
so I don't know. I look, I see why there
(43:56):
might be you know, for conspiracy minded folks, there's a
reason for alarm. I think the simplest answer is, like
if Yamamoto's right, he's a better pitcher than Jackville.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
So that's kind of what I.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
And I'm talking to two seamts here.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I'm just the idiot at the end of the bar
over here in the talk of the experts, and I'm
gonna way back.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
I'm starting to get in the l.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
They can't lose game one. I think they lose game
one and they are absolutely hosed. So to me, it's
like we got to throw the best picture in game one, and.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Look, in a five game series, you really can't lose
any game. No, Like, you know, you kind of have
to win as many of the games as you can,
preferably three. You don't want to go to slam Diego
down one to one or down oh two, Well, you
wouldn't be down one one the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Okay, emotionally we're emotionally down one one.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Look, I think that I think that it's going to
be very interesting to see how this series plays out.
I do think not having Musgrove is a real problem
for San Diego. You know, Martine Perez is probably gonna
take those innings. He's been a perfectly fine pitcher for them,
you know, but he's playing against an elite lineup in
the Dodgers, so that kind of evens things in terms
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of rotation. But like for me, like games one and two, yeah,
you gotta at least split them because three and four roof.
You know, what does the pitching look like for those days?
And how aggressively can you use the bullpen in games
one and two knowing the uncertainty you have in three
and four. It's like, look, the Dodgers, they could they
could very easily win the World Series, right, but they're
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gonna have to win a lot of games, like seven
to five. They're gonna have to win some games or
they're down three to zero in the third inning. Like
it's gonna take some resilience. All right, Andy McColloch from
The Athletic or Later today, we're going to see Freddy
Freeman out here. Yesterday he was taking batting practice but
would not run to first base. How big of a
part is that into this entire series? What Freddy Freeman
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can or can I do? I mean, it's huge, it's huge.
I mean he's had a slightly down year and he's
still one of the best hitters on the planet, you know,
and he's a huge part of the lineup in terms
of just the handedness and also the sort of looks
that you know, he create, the problems he creates for
opposing pictures. It will be interesting to see. It sounds
like most likely the angle is gonna affect him, know,
obviously running and fielding, he's a good defender. He's a
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very good base runner as well. So like a diminished
version of him, let alone a player who's not able
to go in game one. That's a that's a big blow.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
All right, last thing with Colo, Uh, let's see what
would we do?
Speaker 3 (46:21):
What do they do they do? Mary?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Oh? You know you lay down with Yeah? Kill saves
the day? Get up kids?
Speaker 3 (46:31):
Brand new?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Uh? Given the see now he's really thinking that the
baseball stuff. He's like me, could you put in another
band there besides brand new? Okay, so you're not a
brand new guy. It's okay. They were. Their band broke
up because the lead singer was accused of some uh
you know, sort of penous acts. Yeah, that's terrible. Yeah,
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we have an update from Joe Kelly, who just texts
me that he missed his petros and I can't hold
his jobs.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Joe Kelly, how dare he anyway.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
I saw the Get Up Kids on on Sunday night
in Brooklyn. They were wonderful. We're on tour right now.
Go see the al right, so let's do get I'll
forget it.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
We won't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
That's that's a real that's a real punch to the gut,
all right. I had to fly to Dallas to try to.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
See I have to listen to this indie talk and
him watch it on YouTube during game. He's got the hair,
he's got the glasses, he's got the figured vines going.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
It's it's a very camo sort of vibe.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Lobsters on his shirt. Where did you get that Nike
Nike outlet store?
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Nothing, says lobsters trying to.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Give out shirts like this to get players on the show. No, no,
it's just a comfortable hot polo shirt and he loves
and again it's to troll you the gout shellfish. Wait, Dan,
you've got a whale on your shirts. I've come on
the show. Do I get a credit to Pep Boys?
Tim Kates will handle that, okay.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
He says.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
You know what, though, you go on with the Padres
and you get a gift card to have your car washed.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
It's soapy Joe's so I'll buy you talk to that
lined up? That sounds great. Yeah, no, yeah, we'll ride
the bull at the double deuce. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Andy does it for the athletic. Certainly appreciate him skipping
the stick the Otani presser to join us, and we
certainly appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
I'm sure you missed a lot. He's very candid with
all his answers.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
It seemed like it lasted about four minutes based on
when the people exited. All right, we will be back
with more from the field at Dodger Stadium. It is
the Petro Some Money Show with David vasse In for
p Getting ready for the nl DS start tomorrow five
thirty eight pm. First pitch right here on your Home
of the Dodgers, AM five seventy l A Sports
All right, Dave, I picked a theme for today's quotes.
Let's see of the three I read, how long it
takes you to figure out who said these things?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yogi Berra Nope, but a good guess.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I think you're gonna get it after the first one, Okay.
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand.
If you hold it too tight, you'll kill it. If
you'll hold it too loose, you'll lose it. Going it out,
vic Oh, Petros and money A five seventy LA Sports
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Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
All beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Thank you for the gonge Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio,
especially Dave with David Vasse and for Petros. Today for
the next four hours of three to seven show, we
are live on the field at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah. This is a very nerve wracking for me. I
feel like I've gotten BP passes for two distant relatives
and you and Tim Kates trust me. I'm just making
sure that everybody knows the rules, the etiquette. Do not
step on the grass, Kates. Don't you see that shiny
new postseason pain on the grass. They don't want anybody
coming close to it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, they don't.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, you stay on the dirt because grass is not
meant to be stepped on.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
We've been down here for about an hour, Dave, And
between the three of us, who's the only person that
got yelled at for approaching the grass too closely?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Myself? You?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So, yeah, appreciate you telling us what the rules are. Hey,
follow you're the one that nearly violated the rules.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Follow the rules, Matt, And right now the padres are
taking batting practice. You have been odd the shock in
awe of Fernando Tattis juniors batting practice. He had no
regard for life last week with fans and the pavilions
just trying to catch one of those one hundred mile
an hour exit Velo home runs. So I wish more
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superstars would do what Tatists does and take batting practice
out on the field. That's one of the great scouts
in baseball, right there, is that, right, one of the
great scouts and baseball.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Why don't you give him a shout out?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Nobody wants it, Mac, he doesn't want it. He's one
of those scouts that doesn't want to be named publicly,
and he's one of.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The looking under the radar Yeah, we are watching Tattoos
take take BP and obviously the first time in the
postseason that he was My god, it's just did you
see that?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, it's a laser to left field.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I want to put a dent in your forehead.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, it's out of the park inside of two seconds.
But remember he did not take part in the twenty
twenty two postseason. Yeah, and this was his first time
ever in the playoffs playing baseball in front of the fans.
And he's an energy guy, man, and you could see
that he certainly fed off it at that first at bat.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And that's one if there was one hole talking to
guys that have watched the Padres is they are a
very emotional team and they score runs early, but they
have a problem sustaining that energy all nine innings. So
remember the Braves game, right, they scored five runs of
your life nothing, They won five to four. They weren't
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able to tack on runs. So they're a very good team,
but very emotional team. And we'll see whether or not
they're able to ride the emotions of that two game
sweep against the Braves, who, by the way, Matt, can
I just put it into context place team that had
to play a doubleheader on Monday, fly all night cross
country without Austin Riley, without Ronald o'cunya Junior, no Chris
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Sale to start the game, wearied and battered, no Chris Sale.
And everybody's acting like the Padres just beat the twenty
seven Yankees.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Wow at twenty seven Yankees reference at three four past three.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
People, Well, I just finished listening to Mad Dog. So
that's the reason why I had the twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Game Bad Dog. I was listening to Mad Dog earlier too.
And you're not, Dave. You are not going to believe
what I heard on the Dog.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Mets are going all the way.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Nope, the dog has how rounds? Oh right, Harold, let's
get it.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Hoo.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Do you like Padres? DoD Is, What do you got?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Let me hear it? Go And Harold says, I'll tell
you something.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'll tell you something right now, show haldn He's gonna pitch.
That's breaking news right there. You're telling me he's gonna pitch.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Shoot, he's gonna pitch.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And he said mad Dog I was at the All
Star Game. I was chatting with him. He was telling
me he was at eighty seven, eighty eight. I just
saw him and doing a bullpen. He's like that guy's
throwing gas and he's he's in the bullpen warming up
like he's gonna be pitching.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Wow, that is breaking news right there.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's what I heard on the Dog Dave your reaction.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Man, I will pay you one hundred dollars. It's a
show hao five hundred dollars. Tani is able to pitch
in this NLDS as we walk across the field here
to see if we can capture the great Manny Machado
and spoil everybody's perception that he is America's greatest heel,
which he is. He really leans into can do it
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man the wwe being a heel even though he's a
great guy, because backstage we all know how great of
a guy Andre the Giant would Did we just walk
in front of what was going on there? Those were
National TV execs trying to get the cameras lined up
and make sure everything is kosher for tomorrow's game. See
that Jerks and profar great catalyst for the Padres this year.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, what do you make of that? Of that excuse
that he wasn't saying that Jerrickson was irrelevant. But the yet, bat,
I know you buy into that. Sure, sure, I'll buy
into that. I'll buy that.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Okay, I'm going to see if the great Manny Machada
will sit down here. Yeah, okay, practice is over. I'm
going to try to bring him over here. There's his buddy,
Fernando Tattoos Junior, a great man himself. I will say this,
it's funny the way baseball works. Sure, hold this for
a second, Kates, I'm gonna ask Machado, without a microphone
in hand, if he would come over.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And talk to That'd be better if you asked him.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
In case he insults you, It'd be better if we
could pick that up on Mike, if in fact that's
the case. So Dave now casually approaching Manny, seeing f
he's up for a quick couple words. He embraces a
nice hug, a nice engagement. Here's the request, and he's
and he has been declined. But certainly you can see
in his eyes, Tim, oh, look at this, he is
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coming over. Wonderful, thank you. I want to certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'm not sure if Manny's going to like this or not,
but I want to dispel the myth that he is
a heel Manny Machado is a great guy.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Got a way to bring him on.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
He's a great guy, a great teammate, a great husband,
a great father. Does that upset you that I just
peeled back the curtain and you are a great guy?
Or would you want people to continue to have this
belief that you're this monster? No, man, You're You're the best.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You're the best man, And I always appreciate you, and
every time I come out here, we're looking out for me,
over supporting me.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So I just just love the kind of words. Love it.
I was a little unsure driving here if we were
able to get you on the show whether or not
you would be happy with me, because I liking you
to a w d WE wrestler. Every opposing stadium you
go into, you are public enemy number one, but you're
the greatest guy. Even former Dodgers still come over and
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say hi to you. So I wasn't sure if you
were going to be upset that I'm taking people behind
the curtain. Now look at that smile.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Come on, You've always done, you've done, You've been the
man man since I've been here, And yeah, man, I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I've had a lot of great relationships over there. It
was a great time here.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Uh you know, I was I was a Dodger and
it's always fun, fun to come back and play here.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I've heard other other players say that they have grown
from their experiences from being with the Dodgers, or if
you played for the Lakers, same thing. Do you feel
like you grew and became this type of player took
the really big step in your career after that season?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I mean, honestly, you know, going from an organization like
Baltimore to l a, you know, one of you know,
not a big city versum organization, come into one of
the biggest organizations in.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Model baseball of sports, right.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So, yeah, so it's definitely an adjustment period that they
that you learn. You know, you're twenty six years old
and just like life, you just learn, you move on.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
People, you know, grow from it and just be better
every single year, just like me on a base off field,
every single day, you know, try to get better at
my craft, you know, and it's the same thing with
life and with everything. And you know, San Diego has
been awesome. We have had a great tender team there
every single year, great coaching staff, you know, make show
coming up over this year, you know, changing up the organization.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, it's been it's it's been fun. Man, it's been
a fun ride.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And uh, you know, I love being being a part
of the organization, being uh, you know, part of people
come up to me and look up to and you know,
be whatever type of role model could possibly be, whether
it's being a father, being a teammate, being a you know,
just a friend, or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You know, it's it's been fun being in San Diego.
Manny Machado almost had a role in the new Top
Gun movie Money. I'm not sure if you didn't know that.
What was the role? Oh man?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, I gotta keep that top secret, top gun, top
secret secret.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why? Uh what? The Dodgers have the second best home
record in baseball? You guys have the best road record.
Why have you been so good away from San Diego?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I don't know, man, I mean it's it's it's I
don't know. We have I've gotten an act quite a
few quite a few times.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I mean it's a bad question. We've been asked, Tom.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I mean it's just just don't know how to answer it, right,
you know, I don't. I don't know what it comes to.
You like this park, like playing I like playing here. Yeah,
great bottiest box, I mean, great view, and you know,
I mean it's it's, it's it's I'm a judge of
the batter's boxes.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
For every stadium I go to.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
More of the box, the box, the dirt, just how
the dirt is, how the dirt feels, if it's hard,
if a stiff, some are slippery, some you can dig inside. Yeah,
I'm more of a box guy than so.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Who's got the best box in baseball? New York Yankees
yan Stadium? Really the New York dirt is that?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What's the worst box?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You don't want to say.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I think it's like Arizona, Desert's just Boston is the
same way. It's just dry, can't get no grip.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
This feels like it's a little moist.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
This is good, this is this is a good box. Yeah,
it's a good box.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, I mean still in Californy anything californ has been
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I mean you can't go working down right for certainly
all right, before you let Manny Machada go, he's a
big Laker fan, big basketball fan. He wore number eight
when he played for the Dodgers for Kobe Bryant. What
do you think about the Lakers and the squad they've
put together this year.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I mean, I think they're gonna be solid, and they're
gonna be solid. I mean, it's it's about when you
go out there and perform and then try to try
to be the best and be the last thing standing him.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Last year was a good improvement.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I mean a lot of injuries obviously, but I think
this year, you know, they're they've They've made a nice
little addition to the team.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So this is what's so great about Manny Machado. Just
because he's talking basketball right now, talking batters boxes with us.
This guy is going to show up in a big
way in this series. None of this stuff affects when
you get between those lines.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah, man, I mean, it's just just you gotta go
out and compete, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I think at the at the end of the day,
you gotta go out there.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
When you put that uniform on, you're representing an organization,
not just yourself, you know, representing a lot of people
that are that are that are behind you. So I
gotta go out and compete for twenty seven outs and
you know, just leave it on the field and come
back out of tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
If you're at a let me ask real quick before
you're the Laker game and put you on the scoreboard there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Probably got Budut.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
But how are you feel like you're like, hey man, put
me up there. I just want to get up there going.
You're in prime time, you're at Lakers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I mean, what's it called crypt?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Are you aware? A Jersey guy or now?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Na not a big I'm not a big Jersey guy.
Shouldn't be. I haven't never never happened as a kid
a little bit, but nah, I mean it's just kind
of grow out of it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I mean I kind of liked nobody fantasy football and
stuff like that, you know, I mean I got just
for team events, but push your.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Football team Cowboys? Really Lakers? Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Was it Yankees too?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
When you were a kid, I was more of a
baseball guy, like I follow baseball players.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I wasn't really a team.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Gotcha a rod?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You know, no, mar all the short stops that were
that were in that you know, make out to hot
U right, you know you're in that conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, how many shorts stops can go to third base?
A Rod and Machado, how many go to third base? Yeah, yeah,
that's tough. You're right up there, stuff, you're on your
way to Cooperstown. I'm good. I'm good out there, though.
Man I gave up a way short stop.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Great stuff. Appreciate thank you, Manning, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Thanks, Joseph, appreciate it them. Thank you. Well, that's a
good way to get things started.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
dB.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Hey, I told you I could deliver, absolutely you always delivered.
Two things have happened that has surprised many people out there.
You Darvish and I have a close relationship that shocked A.
J Ellis and many others in the Padres clubhouse. And
now I delivered Manny Macha to the pet show.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And I will say it started off inauspiciously as we
made our way over there while they were working out,
and Dave was talking incredibly loud, almost heckling the Padres
if you will, acting as a uh as a foil
in the employe of the Dodgers, and some of them
were laughing. Yeah, they were they were getting uh, they
were getting a little laugh out of it.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
But day.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
One of the great things about Dave is does not
give a rip, absolutely doesn't give a damn.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think that's why they respond to me, right, yeah, shade.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, it's it's hot, man, it is hot. Well, what
time is it?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Three throws? So I guess this Padres coach over there,
right there, bearded guy, grizzles kind of like it feels
like they were bridges. I feel like the other coaches
that were standing around a j Ellis were relaying the
story of me, you know, going after AG and this
guy's like pointing over to me. Is I like this guy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
This guy, Yeah, he wasn't buying it. Man, Well look
at him.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
He's grizzly. He's got a white mitt For God's sake,
how many people have white mitz?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Would you say, Manny Machado is the Mike Bibbie and
Chris Webber of this rivalry, liking it to the Sacramento
Kings and Lakers rivalry. You feel like he's right up there,
has hated.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Public enemy, trying to figureut where you were going. Okay,
So Bibby tatist number one, Yeah, for certain he's Bibby.
He is uh, well, let's not forget now Doug Christy
and Rick Fox. Yeah, you know Rick Fox had to
wear Doug Christie's wife's purse of the head.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So I feel like even though Bibby and Weber, boy,
that's a great question, who was Because I was a
season ticket holder back then going to every one of
those games as a weirdo fan. I feel like we
really hated Vlade because of the flopping like he was.
He was certainly hated at Staples Center after that. I
don't feel like people hated Chris Weber like that wasn't
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it really was a lot of I think it was
Bibby and Christy were the two guys that people just
just did not lie. You had Pasia with the big shots.
I had a lot of teams, a lot of guys
on that team, and that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Team was stacked, stacked team.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They should have knock the Lakers off at least once.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, thanks to Tim donaghe exactly right, Tim donaghe got
the assist a couple of times. So I just I
will get to this next hour. But you know, when
people say this is a rivalry, it might be for
right now, but just like the Sacramento Kings, it didn't last.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well, I'll say this, Dave, and I wish it was
in the NLCS, And you know, I'll just what do
we got here?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Three?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, we got time.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The idea that baseball still is so archaic in their
approach to the postseason, and they have fixed brackets and
they have not come around to what every other league
has realized, and that's shuffle after every round. Because what
do we want. We want the two teams that had
the best season to play in the final series.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That's what we are seeking.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So as excited as I am that the Padres were
able to knock off the Braves and we're gonna get
this series that I think is going to be electric
and exciting, and it's what we wanted to see. I
want it in the NLCS, like that's what I would
have preferred. There's no reason for the Mets to be
playing the Phillies, who crapped the bed in the final
two weeks of the season to give the Dot help
give the Dodgers the best record in baseball, as they
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won their final five games to get it, and now
they get the Mets and the Dodgers get the Padres
in a five game series.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
This is the heavyweight fight.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It is the heavyweight fight, and I do agree with
what you're saying. But if the Dodgers and Phillies play
each other in the NLCS, I would say that is
a heavyweight fight of its own. The teams with the
two best records. That's the way it's set up right now.
They want the teams with the two best records to.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Be in the NLCS.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yes, and we are on a path for that to happen.
And if it's not, the Dodgers Padres Phillies would be
electric as well.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How So, I guess there's a flip side to that
as well, if I'm going to talk out of both
sides of my mouth, and that is that the Dodgers
should not have to face the Padres. If you play
one hundred and sixty two games and you post the
best record, you should be playing the team that comes
out of the bottom of the bracket with the worst
record to reward you for one hundred and sixty two
games of effort. It's because I just keep going back
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to twenty twenty one and the Dodgers Giants and what
an abject failure that was that those two teams played
in the division.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Without a doubt. That's where your argument comes into play
stronger than this year. Right, you had a one hundred
and six win Dodger team playing in a one game
elimination against the Saint Louis Cardinals, ridiculous. Without Chris Taylor's
home run, you don't get to see one and seven
win Giants versus one oh six win Dodgers. So your
argument and the trap is what took place in twenty one,
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not this year. I would be happy with the Dodgers
Phillies NLCS too. That would be incredible. Padres Phillies would
be incredible. The letdown? How much easier paths?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
How much easier of a path do you believe the
Phillies have compared to the Dodgers having it to take
on the hottest team in baseball right now versus a
Mets team that's had a hell of a Cinderella story
here to close the season.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, blame the Brewers. They're always there in the Central,
winning their division and not really having a great team
or a great record. They're kind of fraudulent. The Brewers
are a little bit of a fraud in that NL Central.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
How about the AL Central?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
By the way, supposed to be the worst division in
base now and they got three teams in the final
four in the American League, which a lot of people
are pointing to, which is why we're very hopeful if
everything works out, if you believe the odds makers and
right now Yankees number one odds do win the World Series,
Dodgers' number two odds to win the World Series. If
we could end up with a Dodgers Yankees World Series
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with Shohei Otani in his postseason debut in the Fall Classic,
you will see you will see levels of viewership that
we have not seen in decades Judge versus Otani.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That would be incredible. It would be And honestly, there's
no excuse for the Yankees not to get there. And
there's buzz out there in the Bronx that if Aaron
Boone cannot get his team to the World Series this year,
he will be probably back in the broadcasting booth because
there is no excuse now with the Guardians or Royals
in their way, that the Yankees shouldn't be in the
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World Series. The Tigers just like that, Yeah I am.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
But you're gonna get two starts from Scruble.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, but you might not get to that. But two
that if they have Scooble for two, they're in trouble.
But a scout that I respect pretty much pretty well
text me yesterday the Tigers in that Houston series. You
can play that matchup game in a short three game series.
You cannot play that matchup game for a best of five.
So that's the reason why nobody is buying this Tigers
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magic carrying over into a best of five series now,
let alone a best of seven series.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I think the Yankees and the Dodgers are in very
similar territory where you've got two teams with massive payrolls,
with absolute superstars on their roster, and they're taken on.
You know, I look, the Padres are a different animal, right.
It's a team that has a payroll north of two
hundred million that is chock full of superstars both on
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the mound and in their position.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
So it's a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
But it does feel like everybody's saying this, this needs
to be Dodgers Yankees.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's what this should be. It should be, But the
Yankees have an easier path way easier the Dodgers, Padres, Phillies.
They all have a tougher path to get to the
World Series. The Yankees should punch their ticket. There should
be more disappointment and outrage if they're not there. But
as far as the National League go, it's one of
the tougher leagues. It's the tougher league out of the
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two right now.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, it's something that we brought up on the show
earlier this week, and I said, show on other foot
for the first time, Dodgers are not expected to make it.
You got twenty two out of twenty seven of the
experts at ESPN picking the Padres doing this series. By
the way, twenty two out of twenty seven picked the
Astros to knock off the Tigers as well, So take
that for whatever it's worth. But twenty two to twenty seven,
(20:27):
the majority of the big baseball brain steam heads out
there are picking the Padres to win this thing, and
I think a lot of them are kind of pointing
to that game one.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
ESPN doesn't really cover baseball that well, so I don't
really put too much stock into their experts.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Twenty two out of twenty seven sounds better than me saying, hey,
three out of the five at Sports Illustrated or four
of six at y'all.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You try and get some cash.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It's twenty two out of twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
All right, all right, all right, look at you. You
just love name dropping right out the front door.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Just what did I name drop?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Espn? Oh, that's huge name for PN experts.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Exactly right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It sounds good, right, sounds good, eighty one and experts.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
And I'm using the air quotes.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He's dead. I know if it was Joe Morgan or
John Miller or not.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's I'm trying to think of the I think the
only player on that list.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Doug Glanville is Doug Glanville exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I think it's the only one.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I don't think there are any other players exactly that list.
So take that for what it's worth. Should we try
to try to plant the seeds of discontent and revenge
in these Dodgers?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
With you? I'm with you, all right, We'll break What
are we looking at, Dave? I'm looking at Dodger third
base coach donoy but holding court in that dugout.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
We'll try to get him.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Andy McCullough is going to do his usual begging to
get on the show. Is he really We'll consider it.
We'll consider it.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
We can talk some saves the day with Andy next. Yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You what you did?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Look at that talking about that in the commercial press.
He's in exactly right. We'll be back with more. David Batsey,
uh filling in for p It's Petro some Money Live
at Dodger Stadium on Your Home of the Dodgers A
five seventy l A Sports. It's frogod Friday and as
we are live on the field at Dodger Stadium, full
(22:04):
four hour show today as we get ready for the
NLDS to get underway on Your Home of the Dodgers
AM five to seventy LA Sports Show. Hey Otani's first
foray into the MLB's postseason. Everybody's excited, including us. We
will have a parade of guests today. Told we're gonna
get some Dodgers. I believe we're gonna have a chance
to catch up with Dodger skipper Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But first day, who.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Do we got here?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Who are we talking to? Go on and ask him
a question. Let me hear what he's got to say.
What do you got for me? Let's go well. An
acclaimed author, a man that covered the Dodgers during their
back to back National League Championship runs and unfortunate endings
in the World Series, and now is a special senior
columnist for The Athletic, the one and only Andy McCullough. Andy,
(22:49):
thanks a lot for joining us. You know, David, I
just realized I've covered every Dodgers postseason run since twenty
sixteen except for twenty twenty oh interesting, Is there any there?
Do you see any connection that was going on? That
was the one time I wasn't around the team. So
you're saying the Dodgers have no chance now that you've
been assigned to this series. As soon as I got
on a flight at JFK to come out here, I
(23:12):
don't know there's two baseball teams in New York playing,
but the Athletics send me here to LA makes sense money,
He wrote at the back of Kershaw to write this book,
the last of his kying, which is still very available,
thousands of copies, thousands of copies. Your guy is not
going to pitch in this series? How is he dealing
with all that? I mean, you're better asking him. I mean,
(23:33):
I think it's a rather not I think it's a look.
I mean, when you're physically not able to compete, which
is where he seems to be at right now. I
think that that is very frustrating, But also what can
you do, Like if you can't land on your foot
and pitch. It's a toe, not an elbow or a shoulder,
that's got to be infuriating. I think the fact that
(23:55):
it is technically a toe injury, but it's like it's
a foot, like it's his foot four when you like,
you know, it's like turf toe. That's what it sounds like.
Oh wow, you got turf toe. Get on the field.
It's like that's excruciating.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
That's what Eric Dickerson has told us. It was easily
the most painful interest.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
As someone who was likely suffers from attacks of gout,
which you get the gout. I have the gout, Yeah,
I have the gout and then there's no cure. You
get it like when you eat shellfish. That's a misconception.
I love that. I just had some trip. No, we
don't need to get into gout talk. Are we on
the radio? Are right now? And I just thought I
was talking into it on the fan or w I
(24:34):
P that's right? Mcaut all right, I got a question
for you here we go uh show hey o Tani
first postseason?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
What kind of impact does he have? I want to
hear your answer. Let me hear it right now. Go ahead,
what do you got?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I was trying to I'm trying to see if I
could answer like Anthony Gargano. Yes, But all I can
say is Anthony Gargano is we're talking Penn State football.
But anyway, impact of show age, I mean potentially huge,
potentially serious swinging like he's you know, it sounds silly,
but like he's the X factor in this. Like the
Padres are a very good baseball team. They're a very
(25:06):
complete baseball team. They do pretty much everything well save
for maybe a couple you know, week spots defensively in
individual positions, but you know, very coherent lineup, good starting rotation.
Took a hit today losing Joe Musgrove and a high
octane back of the bullpen. The Dodgers have show Hao Toni.
They have a lot of other things as well. They
have a very good offense, they have a good bullpen,
(25:28):
they have show Heyo Tony, and so it's going to
be a real challenge for San Diego to you know,
keep him off the bases and also keep the bases
empty for when he comes up. He's, you know, the
sort of player you saw it when they were two
teams were here a week ago or whatever it was,
that he's capable of swinging a very evenly matched you
know series. Do you think he pitches? Matt said that Harold.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I heard Harold Reynolds say it on The Dog earlier
today and he said it very matter of factly. He's like,
hey man, I talked to him at the All Star Game.
You said he was at eighty seven, eighty eight. I
just watched him through Bully and that's a guy that's
throwing a bullpen like he is going to pitch.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now there's I mean. Ken Rosdahl in The Athletic wrote
about this earlier this week that like of scouts who
have seen him throwing bullpens are like, that guy is
out there like he's not just getting his work it
like he's working, you know, he's letting it eat. As
they say, I don't see it in the DS, and
I really don't see it in the CS. If they
make the World Series, I don't think it's outside the
realm of possibility. The Dodgers can issue as many non
(26:25):
denial denials as they want. They can give themselves whatever
plausible deniability and say it's not something we're actively thinking about.
That's not even an option for us, that's not on
our radar. They've said everything except for nor The vision
I have is, you know, when we were in DC
and Kershaw in the middle of the game is walking
out to the bullpen getting ready for a ninth inning.
(26:46):
I could totally see that scenario at Yankee Stadium where
sho hey Otani walks out to the Dodger bullpen and
everybody's freaking out that he's going to pitch and relief.
Can you see that too? Yeah, I mean yeah, having
been there, you know, on that freezing cold night in Washington,
d C. Chattering in the press box next to Bill
Plashky because we forgot to wear and so what's he doing? Bill,
(27:14):
to his credit, actually asked before that game. He said,
is Kershaw a vailbow? And they said absolutely not. Well,
so I had it. Look it's like you got, it's
a it's a very theatrical, it's a very dramatic type
of thing. Well Tony does not like any of that, right,
exactly exactly, And Dave Roberts is often used as a
(27:36):
like finishing type maneuver, you know, sometimes successfully and sometimes not,
using a sort of starter in that role. You know, So,
like do I think it's gonna happen? I think saying
it's like not going to happen. Why would you close
the door on something that you know one might be
like a top and would be like something that could
(27:58):
you know, you might even get like baseball on ESPN, right,
you know, like it would be a way to get
it on sports exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, we were talking about it, like Otani has an
opportunity to make this the most watched postseason in a decade,
the most watched.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
World Series, especially if it's Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Versus Yankees in two decades perhaps when baseball truly was
America's pastime. But it's you got to get there first,
And how important is tomorrow? And what do you make
of the switch to Yamamoto and the the I was
going to say excusmanding the reason why they switched to dare.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Any thoughts on this? I have a lot of thoughts
on it. And Andy McCullough, who just parachuted into Miami,
agreed with me right away that there may be something
going on with Jack Flaherty's back. No, I just text you, yeah, sure, dude,
because you'll leave me alone. I have a life. There's
a lot of books I want to read before I die.
His fastball velocity down each of the last three starts.
(28:54):
There's no question about that. The velocity has been down.
It's not down like a crazy amount. It's eighty nine
the last time. No, no, it was just the average
fastball veilosity was. His last start was eighty nine miles
an hour. I don't think that. I don't well, I
don't doubt you. You've never gotten anything wrong. But I
was looking at something that had him closer to like
ninety one, and oh that's great. Look either way, there's
(29:14):
definitely been a dip in velocity there that is unquestionable.
It's not and like, why did they push him back?
Their answer is for optionality. The Dodgers love optionality. But
the schedule hasn't changed. They have known that Yamamota would
have five days off between Game one and Game five.
What changed, I said, Jack, giving Jack Flaherty an extra day.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
It could be you're playing the role of Dave Roberts
here or Andrew Freeman he is peppering you right, Well,
yeah he would, Yeah, he wouldn't actually ask them questions
like this, can you talk about how great the chemistry?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I had a hard doctor appointment yesterday. I couldn't do
it a hard doctor. Yeah, okay, your heart pump's cool? Anybody? Wow? No,
I look, I look. I think there's a lot of
things at play. I think they want to see how
Yamamoto responds to the environment. They want to see, you know,
what his stuff plays like, and they look if he's right.
(30:08):
They know they can't hit you, darbish, So they don't
want to. They don't want to waste Yamamoto. That's the reality.
They can't hit you darbish. Well that you know, as
we have seen, it is easier to hit him if
you have an illegal sign stealing operationally. Yeah, so I
(30:32):
don't know. I look, I see why there might be,
you know, for conspiracy minded folks, there's a reason for alarm.
I think the simplest answer is, like, if Yamamoto's right,
he's a better picture than Jackvie.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
So that's kind of what I and I'm talking to
two seamts here.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I'm just the idiot at the end of the bar.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Over here in the talk of the experts, and I'm starting.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
To get in they.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Can't lose game one.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I think they lose game one and they are absolutely
host So to me, it's like, we got to throw
the best pitcher in game one.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
And look, in a five game series, you really can't
lose any game. No, Like, you know, you kind of
have to win as many of the games as you can,
preferably three. You don't want to go to Slam Diego
down one to one or down oh two, Well, you
wouldn't be down one one the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay, emotionally we're emotionally down one one.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Look, I think that I think that it's gonna be
very interesting to see how this series plays out. I
do think not having Musgrove is a real problem for
San Diego. You know, Martin Perez is probably gonna take
those innings. He's been a perfectly fine pitcher for them,
you know, but he's playing against an elite lineup in
the Dodgers, So that kind of evens things in terms
(31:43):
of rotation. But like for me, like games one and two, yeah,
you gotta at least split them because three and four roof.
You know, what does the pitching look like for those days,
and how aggressively can you use the bullpen in games
one and two knowing the uncertainty you have in three
and four. It's like, look, the Dodgers, they could they
could very easily win the World Series, right, but they're
(32:04):
gonna have to win a lot of games, like seven
to five. They're gonna have to win some games or
they're down three to zero in the third inning. Like
it's gonna take some resilience, all right, Andy McCollough from
The Athletic or Later today, we're going to see Freddy
Freeman out here. Yesterday he was taking batting practice but
would not run to first base. How big of a
part is that into this entire series? What Freddy Freeman
(32:27):
can or can I do? I mean, it's huge, it's huge.
I mean, he's had a slightly down year and he's
still one of the best hitters on the planet, you know,
and he's a huge part of the lineup in terms
of just the handedness and also the sort of looks
that you know, he created, the problems he creates for
opposing pictures. It will be interesting to see it sounds
like most likely the angle's gonna affect him, you know,
obviously running and fielding. He's a good defender. He's a
(32:50):
very good base runner as well. So like a diminished
version of him, let alone a player who's not able
to go in game one. That's a that's a big blow.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
All right, last thing, McCollough. Let's see what would we do?
What do they do?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
They do? Mary?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You know you lay down with yeah, kill saves the day?
Get Up Kids? Brand new?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Uh given the see.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Now he's really thinking that the baseball stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
He's like me, could you put in another pan there
besides brand new?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Okay, so you're not a brand new guy.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's okay. They were. Their band broke up because the
lead singer was accused of some uh you know, sort
of penous acts. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Oh that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah, we have an update from Joe Kelly, who just
texts me that he misses Petros and I can't hold
his job Kelly, how dare he?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I saw the Get Up Kids on on Sunday night
in Brooklyn. They were wonderful on tour. Right now, go
see all right, so let's do get I'll forget it.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
We won't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
That's that's a real that's a real punch to the gut.
I had to fly to Dallas to try to.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I have to listen to this indie talk and him
watching it on you two during game. He's got the hair,
he's got the glasses, he's got the figgered vines going.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
It's it's a very vibe.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Lobsters on his shirt. Where did you get that Nike
Nike outlet store, Nothing, says lobsters to give out shirts
like this to get players on the show. No, no,
it's just a comfortable hot polo.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Shirt and he loves and again it's to troll you.
The gout shellfish, Dan.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
You've got a whale on your shirts. I've come on
the show. Do I get a credit to Pep Boys?
Tim Kates will handle that, okay.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
He says, no.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
You know what, though, you go on with the Padres
and you get a gift card to have your car washed.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
It's soapy, Joe's so.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I'll buy you to that sounds great? Yeah, no, yeah,
we'll ride the bull at the double deuce. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Andy does it for the athletic. UH certainly appreciate him.
The Otani presser to join us and We certainly appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I'm sure you missed a lot. He's very candid with
all his answers.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
It seemed like it lasted about four minutes based on
when the people exited. All right, we will be back
with more from the field at Dodger Stadium. It is
the Petro Some Money Show with David Veasse in for
p getting ready for the NLDS start tomorrow five thirty
eight pm. First pitch right here on your Home of
the Dodgers AM five seventy LA Sports. It's prognant Friday
(35:21):
and as we are live on the field at Dodger Stadium,
full four hour show today as we get ready for
the NLDS to get underway on Your Home of the
Dodgers AM five to seventy LA Sports Show. Hey Otani's
first foray into the MLB's postseason. Everybody's excited, including us.
We will have a parade of guests today. Told we're
going to get some Dodgers. I believe we're going to
(35:41):
have a chance to catch up with Dodger skipper Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
But first day, who do we got here?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Who are we talking to? Go on?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Ask him a question. Let me hear what he's got
to say? What do you got for me? Let's go well.
An acclaimed author, a man that covered the Dodgers during
their back to back National League Championship runs and unfortunate
endings in the World Series, and now is a special
senior columnist for The Athletic, the one and only Andy McCullough. Andy,
thanks a lot for joining us. You know, David, I
(36:11):
just realized I've covered every Dodgers postseason run since twenty
sixteen except for twenty twenty oh interesting? Is there any
corollary there? Do you see any connection that was going on?
What happened? That was the one time I wasn't around
the team? So you're saying the Dodgers have no chance
now that you've been assigned to this series. As soon
as I got on a flight at JFK to come
out here, I don't know there's two baseball teams in
(36:33):
New York playing, but the Athletics sent me here to
LA makes sense. Money. He wrote up the back of
Kershaw to write this book, the last of his kying,
which is still very available, thousands of copies, thousands of copies.
Your guy is not going to pitch in this series.
How is he dealing with all that? I mean, you
better asking him. I mean, I think it's a right
(36:54):
rather not. I think it's a look. I mean, when
you're physically not able to compete, which is where he
seems to be at right now, I think that that
is very frustrating. But also what can you do, Like
if you can't land on your foot and pitch. It's
a toe, not an elbow or a shoulder, that's gotta
be infuriating. I think the fact that it is technically
(37:16):
a toe injury, but it's like it's a foot, like
it's his foot, you know, it's like turf toe. That's
what it sounds like. Oh wow, you got turf toe.
Get on the field. It's like that's excruciating.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
That's what Eric Dickerson has told us said it was
easily the most painful interest.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Counting as someone who sectually suffers from attacks of gout,
which you get the gout. I have the gout. Yeah,
I have the gout, and then there's no cure. You
get it like when you eat shellfish. That's a misconception
that I just had some trip. I need to get
into gout talk. Are we on the radio right? Now
I just thought I was talking into it like this
(37:52):
on the fan or w I P that's right?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Mcaut all right, I got a question for you. Here
we go.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Uh show he Tani first season? What kind of impact
does he have? I want to hear your answer. Let
me hear it right now. Go ahead, What do you got?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I was trying to to I'm trying to see if
I could answer like Anthony Gargano. Yes, But all I
can say is Anthony Gargano is we're talking Penn State football?
Maybe anyway?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Impact of show.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Age, I mean potentially huge, potentially serious swinging like he's
you know, it sounds silly, but like he's the X
factor in this. Like the Padres are a very good
baseball team. They're a very complete baseball team. They do
pretty much everything well save for maybe a couple you know,
week spots defensively in individual positions, but you know, very
coherent lineup, good starting rotation. Took a hit today losing
(38:40):
Joe Musgrove and a high octane back of the bullpen.
The Dodgers have show Heyo Tani. They have a lot
of other things as well. They have a very good offense,
They have a good bullpen they have show heo Toni
and so it's going to be a real challenge for
San Diego to you know, keep him off the bases
and also keep the bases empty for when he comes up. He's,
you know sort of player. You saw it when they
(39:01):
were two teams were here a week ago or whatever
it was, that he's capable of swinging a very evenly
matched you know series. Do you think he pitches? Matt
said that Harold.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I heard Harold Reynolds say it on The Dog earlier
today and he said it very matter of factly. He's like, hey, man,
I talked to him with the All Star Game. He
said he was at eighty seven, eighty eight. I just
watched him through a bully and that's a guy that's
throwing a bullpen like he is going to pitch.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Now there's I mean. Ken Rosdahl in The Athletic wrote
about this earlier this week that like, of scouts who
have seen him throwing bullpens, they're like, that guy is
out there like he's not just getting his work it
like he's working, you know, he's he's letting it eat,
as they say. I don't see it in the DS
and I really don't see it in the CS if
they make the World Series, I don't think it's outside
the realm of possibility. The Dodgers can issue as many
(39:45):
non denial denials as they want. They can give themselves
whatever plausible deniability and say it's not something we're actively
thinking about. That's not even an option for us, that's
not on our radar. They've said everything except for no
right point. The vision I have is, you know, when
we were in and Kershaw in the middle of the
game is walking out to the bullpen getting ready for
a ninth inning. I could totally see that scenario at
(40:08):
Yankee Stadium where sho hey Otani walks out to the
Dodger bullpen and everybody's freaking out that he's going to
pitch and relief. Can you see that too? Yeah? I
mean yeah, having having been there, you know, on that
freezing cold night in Washington, d C. Chattering in the
press box next to Bill Plashki because we forgot to
wear so what's he doing? Bill, to his credit, actually
(40:35):
asked before that game. He said, is Kershaw a vailbow?
And they said absolutely not. Well, so I had it. Look,
it's like you got to write that, and it's a
it's a very theatrical, it's a very dramatic type of thing. Well,
Tani does not like any of that, right, exactly exactly,
And Dave Roberts is often used as a like finishing
(40:57):
type maneuver, you know, sometimes successfully and sometimes Yeah, using
a sort of starter in that role, you know, So, like,
do I think it's gonna happen? I think saying it's
like not going to happen. Why would you close the
door on something that you know one might be like
a top five moment in the history of the World Series,
(41:17):
Like it would be like something that could you know,
you might even get like baseball on ESPN, right, you know,
like it would be a way to get it on
sports exactly.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Well, we were talking about it, like Otani has an
opportunity to make this the most watched postseason in a decade,
the most watched World Series, especially if it's Dodgers versus
Yankees in two decades perhaps when baseball truly was America's pastime.
But it's you got to get there first, and how
important is tomorrow? And what do you make of the
switch to Yamamoto and the the re I was gonna
(41:48):
say scoutsmanding the reason why they switched to any thoughts
on this.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
I have a lot of thoughts on it. And Andy McCullough,
who just parachuted into Miami, agreed with me right away
that there may be something going on with Jack Flarerty's back. No,
I just text you, yeah, sure, dude, because you'll leave
me alone. I have a life. There's a lot of
books I want to read before I die. His fastball
velocity is down each of the last three starts. There's
(42:14):
no question about that. The velocity has been down. It's
not down like a crazy amount. It's eighty nine the
last time. No, no, it was just the average fastball
velocity was. His last start was eighty nine miles an hour.
I don't think that. I don't well, I don't doubt you.
You've never gotten anything wrong. But I was looking at
something that had him closer to like ninety one, and
oh that's great. Look either way, there's definitely been a
(42:35):
dip in velocity there that is unquestionable. It's not and like,
why did they push him back? Their answer is for optionality.
The Dodgers love of optionality. But the schedule hasn't changed.
They have known that Yamamota would have five days off
between game one and game five. What changed, I said, Jack,
(42:55):
giving Jack Flarerity an extra day. It could be you're
playing the role of Dave Roberts here or Andrew Freeman.
He is right, Yeah he would, yeah you he wouldn't
actually ask them questions like this, Can you talk about
how great the chemistry? A hard doctor appointment? Yesterday? I
couldn't do it a hard doctor. Yeah, okay, your heart pumps?
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Cool?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Anybody? No, I look, I look. I think there's a
lot of things at play. I think they want to
see how Yamamoto responds to the environment. They want to see,
you know, what his stuff plays like, and they look
if he's right. They know they can't hit you, darbish,
So they don't want to. They don't want to waste Yamamoto.
(43:34):
That's the reality. They can't hit you darbish. Well that
you know, as we have seen, it is easier to
hit him if you have an illegal signs dealing operationally. Yeah,
so I don't know. I look, I see why there
(43:56):
might be you know, for conspiracy minded folks, there's a
reason for alarm. I think the simplest answer is, like
if Yamamoto's right, he's a better pitcher than Jackville.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
So that's kind of what I.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
And I'm talking to two seamts here.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I'm just the idiot at the end of the bar
over here in the talk of the experts, and I'm
gonna way back.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
I'm starting to get in the l.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
They can't lose game one. I think they lose game
one and they are absolutely hosed. So to me, it's
like we got to throw the best picture in game one, and.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Look, in a five game series, you really can't lose
any game. No, Like, you know, you kind of have
to win as many of the games as you can,
preferably three. You don't want to go to slam Diego
down one to one or down oh two, Well, you
wouldn't be down one one the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Okay, emotionally we're emotionally down one one.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Look, I think that I think that it's going to
be very interesting to see how this series plays out.
I do think not having Musgrove is a real problem
for San Diego. You know, Martine Perez is probably gonna
take those innings. He's been a perfectly fine pitcher for them,
you know, but he's playing against an elite lineup in
the Dodgers, so that kind of evens things in terms
(45:03):
of rotation. But like for me, like games one and two, yeah,
you gotta at least split them because three and four roof.
You know, what does the pitching look like for those days?
And how aggressively can you use the bullpen in games
one and two knowing the uncertainty you have in three
and four. It's like, look, the Dodgers, they could they
could very easily win the World Series, right, but they're
(45:24):
gonna have to win a lot of games, like seven
to five. They're gonna have to win some games or
they're down three to zero in the third inning. Like
it's gonna take some resilience. All right, Andy McColloch from
The Athletic or Later today, we're going to see Freddy
Freeman out here. Yesterday he was taking batting practice but
would not run to first base. How big of a
part is that into this entire series? What Freddy Freeman
(45:47):
can or can I do? I mean, it's huge, it's huge.
I mean he's had a slightly down year and he's
still one of the best hitters on the planet, you know,
and he's a huge part of the lineup in terms
of just the handedness and also the sort of looks
that you know, he create, the problems he creates for
opposing pictures. It will be interesting to see. It sounds
like most likely the angle is gonna affect him, know,
obviously running and fielding, he's a good defender. He's a
(46:10):
very good base runner as well. So like a diminished
version of him, let alone a player who's not able
to go in game one. That's a that's a big blow.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
All right, last thing with Colo, Uh, let's see what
would we do?
Speaker 3 (46:21):
What do they do they do? Mary?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Oh? You know you lay down with Yeah? Kill saves
the day? Get up kids?
Speaker 3 (46:31):
Brand new?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Uh? Given the see now he's really thinking that the
baseball stuff. He's like me, could you put in another
band there besides brand new? Okay, so you're not a
brand new guy. It's okay. They were. Their band broke
up because the lead singer was accused of some uh
you know, sort of penous acts. Yeah, that's terrible. Yeah,
(46:57):
we have an update from Joe Kelly, who just texts
me that he missed his petros and I can't hold
his jobs.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Joe Kelly, how dare he anyway.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
I saw the Get Up Kids on on Sunday night
in Brooklyn. They were wonderful. We're on tour right now.
Go see the al right, so let's do get I'll
forget it.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
We won't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
That's that's a real that's a real punch to the gut,
all right. I had to fly to Dallas to try to.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
See I have to listen to this indie talk and
him watch it on YouTube during game. He's got the hair,
he's got the glasses, he's got the figured vines going.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
It's it's a very camo sort of vibe.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Lobsters on his shirt. Where did you get that Nike
Nike outlet store?
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Nothing, says lobsters trying to.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Give out shirts like this to get players on the show. No, no,
it's just a comfortable hot polo shirt and he loves
and again it's to troll you the gout shellfish. Wait, Dan,
you've got a whale on your shirts. I've come on
the show. Do I get a credit to Pep Boys?
Tim Kates will handle that, okay.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
He says.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
You know what, though, you go on with the Padres
and you get a gift card to have your car washed.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
It's soapy Joe's so I'll buy you talk to that
lined up? That sounds great. Yeah, no, yeah, we'll ride
the bull at the double deuce. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Andy does it for the athletic. Certainly appreciate him skipping
the stick the Otani presser to join us, and we
certainly appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
I'm sure you missed a lot. He's very candid with
all his answers.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
It seemed like it lasted about four minutes based on
when the people exited. All right, we will be back
with more from the field at Dodger Stadium. It is
the Petro Some Money Show with David vasse In for
p Getting ready for the nl DS start tomorrow five
thirty eight pm. First pitch right here on your Home
of the Dodgers, AM five seventy l A Sports
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