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October 29, 2024 41 mins
A FLEX ALERT before Game 4 of the World Series in New York. DVR with Vassegh from Yankee Stadium. Secret Textoso Roundup
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:43):
Why it Petros and Money Am five seventy LA Sports
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app an hour early because
we go until four o'clock. Dodgers on deck and then
the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth. First pitch at five eight pm.
The Dodgers a commanding three zero lead on the Yankees.
Game four of the World Series is tonight. Ben Casparrius,

(01:03):
the twenty five year old late season edition rookie, will
be taking them around and throwing out the first pitch
for the Dodgers in the bottom half of the first
going to be a bullpen game. David Vasse will join
us in about five minutes from Yankee Stadium and New
York City as our World Series coverage is brought to
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chef and you on this PA tired of the last.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Tuesday tollas mendina destel mundo tolo s mendida la verdad.
If the Dodgers clenched tonight, we will have a full
show tomorrow, obviously very celebratory. If they do not, we'll
do the same thing again, same thing one more time,
two to four, at least, we hope one more time.

(01:52):
So a very fluid week. There's already talk of a parade.
There's been talk of a parade summer saying Tim ka
and Steve Sacks and the am scam was a little
prematurely celebratory. I would offer this moment to let Tim
Kates speak for himself and perhaps combat that. But if

(02:13):
Steve Sachs says it's over, and that's a guy who
played for the Yankees and the.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Dodgers, are they kind of chickens over there now?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I mean, I guess.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Actually I was the one who said, it's ove r
you did. Why would you do that? Sacks is the
one that said, hey, pump the brakes a little bit.
This thing's not over quite.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yem.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
You're certainly trending in that direction.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well, it would be history. No one has ever won
a World Series. Now. The Red Sox of course won
in ALCS after being down three zero, but no one
has ever won a World Series after being down three zero.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
And everybody's trying to high step their predictions already. The
day you were out not long ago, Matt John Hayman
came on and said he picked the Dodgers to win
the World Series early in the year, and he sticking
by his story. Sampson Simpson, but he also liked the
Yankees to beat the Dodgers in this World series.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
That seems like very very hard to process prediction.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well, he said, in one way or the other, he's
gonna be right. So, uh, there's a lot of people
trying to do that. I just got this text on
the text. So since vic is going to be unable
to join us, I'm right up here. Nope, going to
be unable to join us.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
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Speaker 2 (03:29):
You guys got to hit the elder abuse hard. I
just heard Vic on Rogan and sometimes Rodney, and he
wouldn't back down from his prediction of Dodgers in six
instead of a sweep. If you Vic, I thought Vic
predicted Dodgers in seven, he did, right. So Vic predicted
Dodgers in seven, and he's is he saying the Yankees

(03:50):
are gonna win the next three.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
Vic is going on to say that the Yankees are
going to find somehow win the next two games and
force the games in which the Dodgers will win, because
that is part of Vick's prediction.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
You have to win three, right, they have to win tonight.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
So Vick is getting barbecued because basically he wants the
Dodgers to lose just so he can be right on
his prediction.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, it's a bullpen game tonight tomorrow, Garrett calls back
on the mound. So not entirely, you know, far fetched
for Vic to have his prediction come through. But you
want to talk about tight buttholes. This thing goes to
Saturday in a game seven.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
My god, Well, I mean, I'll tell you whose butthole
is going to be so loose that he might have
Crohn's disease. Is Don Martin because the seven games, I
mean he needs a championship. When you get the seven game.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Listen, you tell me they win in four and I
get a parade, versus they lose in seven and I
get three more games.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Take the three more games every time. Don Martin might
be dressed sitting next to Spike Lead tonight right, dressing
some ridiculous off colored New York outfit because of what
it means for the that's to make money. But certainly
the Dodgers dominant, the Dodgers proving all the haters wrong,

(05:06):
the Dodgers in a full season where all their pitchers
get hurt, which is what everybody says about him. Well,
they did get hurt, and they're still three to zero
up on the Yankees in the World Series. Walker Buehler
was spectacular last night as Matt prophecies speaking of a prophecy,
and tonight it's a bullpen game, and our troubles are over.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Troubles are over, dude, bullpen game. Jack Flaherty, who dominated
in Game one, Hi tomorrow and if they need him,
it'll be Yamamoto game six, Walker Buehler Game seven. But again,
as dominant and good as the Yankees have been all season,
they cruised through the playoffs seven to two record in
the first two rounds, their bats have gone quiet. Aaron

(05:51):
Judge has become a villain as opposed to a hero.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
And stiff booty Leroy Gi and Carlos Stanton trying to
take home play. You're crazy, stiff boots. You think you
are crazy with your stiff booty?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Is he because you are the you are the purveyor
of this category of look alikes. Is it fair to
say that John Carlos Stanton has Feeta's face? There is
something off about.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
It, Yeah, because it's it's a villain in a European
movie face.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
It's very he has look he's quieting.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
He's got a face of a of a of a
blunt man with some sharp, uh sinister features.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Perhaps there's a little bit of a rock look. But
he's got the eyebrows of a chola. That's what it is.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
He's got the face of a bodybuilder, but the eyebrows
of a chola. And that makes it a little disconcerting,
like or disquieting, I believe, uh yeah, and it's hard.
It's hard to watch him try to stiff boot that
thing to home when it's back locked up about halfway
down third AND's just send me the rag arm t

(07:01):
o Scar throws you out on the hop.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yes, Kate, Matt Petros, may I remind you that Gean
Carlo slash Mike Stanton got hit in the face by
a pitch like ten years ago with the Miami Marlins,
drilled in the face and had to have his like
wired mouth.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Is that what happened to his face?

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Like I was saying, what's that? I don't know?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Did you have to have facial reconstruction? He just like
his jaw?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh he had like is that? Like I was said, Hey,
what's wrong with what's that bump on Darvin Ham's head?
It's like, oh, he was shot. That's a young person.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
He had multiple fractures in his face, dental damage and
stitches all over his face back in twenty fourteen. Remember
how gruesome it was?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
All right, you're telling me, no, I don't keep tabs
on the Miami Marlins. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well it was a big story though, Yes it was.
I do remember that now. Thanks Matt. Thanks for walking
me down. Sorry, well wait a.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Minute, just click on images.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, but you know what, that babaized All didn't knock
his eyebrow hairs off.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Facial f oh, Mike fires got him.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Look at his eyebrows. The ball didn't do that. The
ball didn't sculpt his eyebrows and give him an evil
uh uh soup sifter uh Phil Jackson beard thing fu
Manchu or whatever you call that thing? What do they
call that thing right under your lip? The soul patch?

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
The did Did the baseball give him a soul patched? Tim?

Speaker 4 (08:31):
No, but he gave him new teeth.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Freddie Freeman's got new teeth and judge those bivot the bone.
Oh damn it, thanks a lot, Matt, a son of
a bitch. This is not good for us.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
But you know what, the Dodgers were able to overcome
Kim Kardashian's father in law, whatever that guy is, Corey Gamble,
very true game game.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Dods overcoming obstacles. And this is another one I've placed
in front of him. Yeah, I'm looking at his rookie cards.
He looks completely different, son of a bitch. Damn it, Kates,
It's just.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
A matter of time. Before the text dos.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, it's very true. It's very true.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
I'm gonna send you guys a picture of his post surgery.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
No, just send me, show me the video Steve Steve
Sacks kicking Western Bagel guy again.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Hey, did Steve Sacks drop kick anybody today? I know
he's excited.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
No, we were waiting for somebody to uh to come
in the studio. But no, it was a clean day
for scam, clean day. All right, where's bass call him
right now?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
All right, let's yeah, man, thanks a lot for the
outrun tail spin right at the beginning of the video
game a bit.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Damn it. Oh, thanks Kate's for sending me the freaking
fracture photo.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh my god, look at his poor face? Right, I
mean something, uh just quieted out that guy's face. Yeah,
I mean, what happened to your face?

Speaker 3 (10:03):
I don't know. Maybe a spherical object hitted one hundred
and one hour.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's people like you. It' the word like you. That
Kelly Taylor from nine to two one oh didn't want
to go out after she burnt her neck. That's right,
you know, she didn't want to be judged by people
like It's almost like you.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Damn it. You know, and it's game and it's game three,
like it's already in game four here, and I could
have said something and I didn't. But then last night
when he was gunning for home, I was like, man,
there's something there.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Oh he got hit in the face. He didn't get
hitting the legs. There's no excuse for him running in
half speed.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
No, I know, but that's the only reason why I
brought it up. Otherwise, he's, you know, kind of been
a non factor here in the series. Saved the home
run he hit in Game one, but that was overcome
by Freddy and that was the story. So yeah, I mean, if.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Vassa wants to raise somebody again like you did against
Adrian Gonzoz, oh he could take it. Maybe a night's
versus night race here, not about versus Vassa. I think
Dave's got at least of thirty steps on him.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Is that it.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Just thirty? Is he ready?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
This says My family loves to call gian Carlo handsome
Squidward handsome squid word. You've got the real squid word though,
Nick Wright doing his show right there in the rap.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Oh, I mean talk about time and place, guys, what
a time to be alive. Our show is based in
New York. Almost everything's based in la us.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Somebody just sent me one of his high school football
pictures and his face is so full of promise.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, is god. This is terrible. This is a horrible development.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Not only that, I think Cody Bellinger impregnated his X
a couple times. He's that right, that is right?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh wait boy, well, may he hit a home run
in a losing effort tonight and make it two in
the World Series. You can't pin this on Jean Carlos.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Why because his face is.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
No I mean, may he? May he be aired? The
incoming from those idiot Yankee fans are gonna call everybody out,
and you guys are terrible humiliated.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
And I'm surprised at you too, because we were there
that day at Chargers practice when Jim Harbaud did the
video about bullying right and all that, and said, hey,
all this has gotta be over and things are out
of control, like we're doing too much. And you were
there that day. We got the message loud and clearer.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
And certainly, who am I to talk as weird looking
as I am? I mean, I have no business, but
it was.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
You know, look, at what the callers are saying. Now,
this is six sixty sixty one. I just watched that
movie Mask. What the f is wrong with that? Dude? Space.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
It's kind of what the whole movie is about.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
That.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
It's kind of the theme of the movie Soft and Billowy.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
This says like Mark Hamill before and then during Empire
strikes back in hope, he was handsome, then different it
Empire strikes back. You're right? What happened at Mark Hamil's pays.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
God, get us out of this conversation. It's spiraling, Oh God,
that cannot be a real picture that Kate sent us.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yes, it's real, Matt oh Here's another text from the
nine o nine. It just says, wow, Matt.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh Man, listen, I apologize, I retract. I didn't know.
I feel bad.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
David Vasse the Home of the Dodgers inside, look at
the Dodgers. This is the Vassie Report with David Vasse.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
It's like we.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Started the show the other day and that car Chase
and the woman died. I know, right?

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Davidasse joining us live doing a hero's work from New
York City? Will he be headed home tomorrow? Only as
Bob Marley said, time will tell. We'll see what happens
in this bullpen game. David Vasse Spectrum Sportsnet and MLB
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(14:10):
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live from New York City.

Speaker 7 (14:16):
What's cracking, Dave Hey, I did ride the subway today
the Yankee Stadium. I took the four train express, got
to Yankee Stadium safe and sound, and already talked to
Austin Barnes and Mark Pryor is going to be our
pregame guest as we get closer to the first pitch.
He's kind of been the brains behind these bullpen games.

(14:36):
He was the one that really presented the first idea
before Game four, the NLDS and how to deploy it.
So it's a big night here in New York and
the Dodgers are no strangers to sweeping the Yankees. They
did that in nineteen sixty three, only time the Dodgers
have celebrated a World Series championship on their home field,

(14:57):
and they also beat the Yankees in six games across
the street at the Old Yankee stadium in nineteen eighty one,
so they're looking to do that again, beat the Yankees
for the fourth time in their franchise history.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
So, Dave, I hope I don't steal any thunder from
the pregame and whether or not you want to share
this the pregame conversation with Mark Pryor, But an interesting selection,
right to go with the twenty five year old rookie
is the guy that's going to walk out there in
the bottom of the first inning against the top of
that order and try to keep this crowd quiet. Why
did they go with Ben Casparius?

Speaker 7 (15:30):
Well, Number one, he has shown that he's not scared
from the moment. Number Two, he's got really good stuff
and they're going to need nine to eleven outs from
him at some point in the game. And there really
isn't any better option, I guess than Casparius. They want
to see where this game goes before they start to
deploy their high leverage believers because if things go sideways

(15:53):
on them. We've seen Dave Roberts tell Ken Rosenthal in
the middle of games that the Dodgers are trailing that
he's going to kind of not completely conceded game, but
certainly not try to win it and save it for
the next day. And being up three games to none,
the Dodgers have that luxury to throw Caspiraus out there

(16:15):
to see how long he can go and how many
outs he can get, and then decide whether or not
they're going all in to try to win this game
or try to, you know, conserve these relievers that have
been used quite a bit for a game.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
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it matter? Is the place totally deflated or do you

(16:51):
think they can find something? Well?

Speaker 7 (16:54):
From what I've been told, it's kind of a flatline
team right now, a very flat team that doesn't seem
to have a lot of light. Listening to what they
said after the game last night, it doesn't seem like
they have a lot of fight left in them. But
the Dodgers understand, and Mark Pryor has been through this before.

(17:15):
An upsetting the Championship series loss. We all know that
about the Bartman game and all that, and Dave Roberts
has been on the other side, being on the team
that came back after being down oh three. So really
the tone of the Dodgers is let's not get too
far ahead of ourselves. But definitely the Dodgers have a
stranglehold on the Yankees, who aren't playing well, and like

(17:38):
I said, I've been told that they don't really seem
to have a lot of lights.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Dave, last night we talked about Walker Buehler before the game.
You said, you know, you love the mentality, the approach.
I assume that means you were not surprised at all.
But what was it like being around him after you know,
kind of the guy that embodies, you know, everything the
Dodgers are and the guy that sort of has the
greatest Dodger identity on this roster.

Speaker 7 (18:03):
Well, the one thing for Walker Bueller. You could say
all that, but when he walked out for his pregame
warm ups, he got the loudest booze I have heard
from any opposing sand base screaming at a pitcher warming
up for a regular season game or a postseason game.
And to me, that is probably played into Bueler locking

(18:23):
it in as early as he did. He said after
the game that, you know, he hates to admit this,
but the adrenaline of a World Series game made him
focus even more to be able to have the stuff
that he had not to mention, you know, talking to
Yonder Alonso from MLB Network while we were waiting to
go on the field last night, he said, the biggest
key to Bueller's success last night was his cut fastball.

(18:46):
His cut fastball was keeping the Yankee hitters off balance.
They couldn't identify whether or not it was just a
regular fastball or that cutter that was moving away from
righty's and moving in on lefty. So that was a
big pitch for him last night and he just seemed
to have the Yankees off balance all night long.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Any word on hall Otani's feeling, that shoulder probably pretty.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
Sore, you know, Petros, He's a guy that has a
lot of time in between at bat to get treatment
on that shoulder. It's not like when Cody Bellinger was
playing center field, there was no time for trainers to
work on him in between at bat. So he's getting
a lot of treatment in between at bats to be
able to loose, be loose, to be able to swing

(19:31):
the bat. And I mean, how about last night the
Yankees did the Dodgers and Otani a huge favor. Clark
Schmidt the very first better of the game. Otani, with
a bad shoulder, throws four straight balls to walk him
to start the game. Otani never swung the bat. It's like,
thank you very much. And that's when you kind of
felt like things were not going to go well for

(19:53):
Clark Schmidt last night.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Real quick, Dave, before we let you go. Garrett Cole's
pitching tomorrow. If they win this game, any concern at all,
any like, let's kind a little you can still kind
of see the way this thing gets, so any of
that at all.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
Yeah, I'm getting that sense from Dave Roberts that, you know,
they've got to win this game and not try to
and not have his players believe that they've won this
series already, because you're right, Matt, if they lose this game,
the Yankees got Garrett Cole on the mounds, and then
after that, you know, anything can happen. You come back
to La it's a three to two series, and then

(20:33):
the Yankees really can have that type of mentality where
they only have to win one game. So yeah, that's
definitely in the back of their mind. And the Dodgers
have been able to have that unique approach where they're
able to just stay with their preparation and worry about
winning today. So I don't feel like any of these
guys are going to be distracted thinking they can just

(20:53):
show up tonight and win.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Well, Dave, you've won just by showing up yourself on
the pregame. Have a great night, Dave. You deserve all
the celebration and all the fanfare and excitement that that
event gives to all of us. Enjoy your night.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
Okay, thanks guys, We'll hopefully see you in LA tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Thank you, Dave, David bess Hey, Game four, Mark Pryor
brains behind the bullpen game forgot to ask about Stanton.
I didn't want to. I want to just forget that
it ever happened.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
But we got texts.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
I know, put a pin in them. It's only a
two hour show.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
How many of those text say the stands guy's game
face on for tonight?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Oh sweet Jesus, this says. My wife says, forget his face,
look at his ass. In that batter stance. That thing
is poppin.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's true story.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
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Speaker 3 (22:05):
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Speaker 2 (22:07):
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Speaker 3 (22:10):
Is he a dude's dude or is he a dude
who wrote that someone's stupid?

Speaker 2 (22:16):
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Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's now time for the top story of the damn
story of Well, how many times have we been on
the other side of this coin? Pretty much all of
them save the twenty twenty shortened season. The COVID Classic,
a world series title that has a banner, has rings.

(23:02):
Tim Kates doesn't have one, even though he should an
MVP playing in Texas because he better get one this time.
If they finish this thing off, he better And I'm
planting the seeds right now.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
It better happened. But it don't better happen. We've been
disrespected in the past.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
If it doesn't, it's going to be a robbery. There's
a book, COVID Curveball, to acknowledge that it happened, Yet
still it was never embraced. I gotta do, is ask Chris.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
That was a big moment.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
The guy behind this called the David Vader collapse.

Speaker 8 (23:38):
Year after year after year and they wear down and
the big payroll stars wear down, and the one year
they win, it's a sixty game season. It's effectively June
to third is what after sixty games? So I mean
to call that a championship. It kissed me off they
didn't win this year because I've been hearing the Giants
fans over and over said.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
This is a little real champion. Well year, it is it?

Speaker 8 (24:02):
Because that's you their all.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Right, Chris, I know you're emotional.

Speaker 8 (24:08):
Man.

Speaker 9 (24:08):
I know sports helps us out and we get fully invested,
but you don't need to get that emotional. And I understand, man,
I understand, but look, they played under the same rules
as everybody else last year.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
You're making me uncomfortable. How many post playoff exit interviews
have we done with Andrew Friedman year in, year out? Crapshoot, Matt,
and he's a champion for coming on with us talking
for a solid fifteen minutes about what went wrong and
how the playoffs are what crap shoot, crapshoot. How many
June swoons here we go again, this team can't stay healthy.

(24:45):
How many July denials about their best record in baseball
not meaning a damn thing because I don't care. Call
me back in October, August, Accusations that this is on
Dave Roberts and his poor management decisions and maybe he's
the reason why this team can't get over the hump.
September screens, that it's not the talent but the lack

(25:07):
of passion. Ah, they steady, heartbeat, devoid of emotion. It's
smothers success in the postseason. They're all rhetorical questions because
we know the answer to how many a lot there
have been a mountain, a flurry never ending? Are the answers?
A team with the talent the Dodgers display, the homegrown development,

(25:30):
the checks, the massive checks spent on free agents and
taxpayer penalties. A roster replete with former All Stars with
MVPs with World Series champions regularly and routinely comes up
short in the playoffs. Now, sometimes the incoming they take
isn't warranted. They did win the NL pennant in seventeen.

(25:51):
The Astros were cheating.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Woll Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Twenty eighteen, they win the NL pennet again. They won
a World Series in what some say was the most
difficult playoff run ever for a top seed because of
the extra round and the lack of home field advantage.
But it came after a sixty game season. Just ask
Chris's friends in San Francisco. They won't let him enjoy it. So,
of course this season, the one where they're stepped smile.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Off your face, Chris, Well, you're San Francisco friends, and
we say no, the.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
One where they're seven hundred million dollars. One of a
kind unicorn is not fully operational, can only hit instead
of providing his career thirty eight to nineteen record is
three out one era, a one eight to two whip
and six hundred eight career strikeouts at the top of
the rotation. When he was signed, it was even mentioned,
let's think about next year because that's when Otani's gonna

(26:41):
be back in the rotation. They said, give twenty five
year old Yoshi yama Moto a season to acclimate. You know,
he's playing with a you know what's a different ball, guys.
It's a different ball. It's different, the seams are different.
Throw in to the best players in the world and
watch Yama motos settle in and start winning. Multiple Cy
Youngs in twenty twenty five started with Mookie Betts playing
shortstop every day because Cavin Lucks got the knob blocks

(27:04):
couldn't feel his position. Only to have Mooki on a tour.
It envy the pim Mookie I'm calling it takes a
pitcher off the hand. He misses two months, and in
those two months, somehow, some way, a thirty five year
old known for defense, Miguel Rojas finds the Fountain of Youth,
hits over three hundred and helps the Dodgers tread water.

(27:24):
They sign a perennially injured ace, and after starting at
a cy young pace, he gets injured. The greatest regular
season pitcher of his generation and perhaps ever, decides they
give it a go again. He returns, and he leaves
almost as quickly as we celebrated his adjustment coming back
on twenty five.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
I'm coming back, and without both of the guys, I'm
coming back. Oh, Clayton's not done yet.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
With their new I can't pitch, but I can be
a magazine model with my abs. Check out my celebration
without both of those guys getting hurt, and by min,
I mean without question, we don't have Ucker Buehler a
postseason dog with all that emotion at Yankee Stadium. With
that playoff resume, then most pitchers envy. As we detailed yesterday,

(28:11):
the most Dodger of all Dodgers on this postseason roster
puts his stamp on the postseason, even a game that
he started and gave up six runs thanks to suspect
defense behind him extending a second inning that ended in
a loss, but he went out for three more gave
the Bully the rest so they could dominate Game four
and force a Game five. After that he throws nine
shutout innings and looks like the Walker Bueller that helped

(28:33):
guide them to the twenty eighteen World Series and win
it in twenty twenty. Crapshoot crapshoot Man not even out
there if all these guys stay healthy, and who knows
if old freaking private pecks and Oppenheimer Face can perform
like he can on the mound with all that pressure.
Freddie Freeman dusts his ankle.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Oppenheimer Face really man well.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Freddie Freeman hurts his ankle in the penultimate series of
the regular season, skips the final four games, misses three
and a half of the eleven playoff games in the
first two rounds while hitting seven to thirty two that's
a two to eighteen average, zero extra base hits, six strikeouts,
just a single ribby in the seven and a half
games he did play. And unless something goes horribly wrong

(29:17):
as in historically it's never happened in the World Series
before historically wrong, a team a lot of zero, it.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Must have gone wrong. If you're listening to this.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
He's gonna be the World Series MVP. Aaron Judge had
a historic regular season, blew the doors off any other
hitter in baseball in OPS two hundred points higher than
the second best mark in the American League, and his
WAR ten point eight three games better. His overall ops
awe hundred points better than sho Heyo Tani, the best

(29:48):
hitter in the National League. His WAR one point six better.
Crazy numbers. World Series he's won for twelve with seven
strike that's crapshoot. Brent Honeywell, Remember when Brent was designated
for assignment and we were apoplectic that they made room
for Chris Taylor. Yeah, kicking and screaming, And then what happens.
A guy with a two six three ERA clears waivers,

(30:12):
nobody claims them. In a tight playoff race with sevent
teams still vine for the wild card, no one claims
that guy claimed he accepts his assignment, determined to make
it back in September, gets left off the NLDS roster,
only to be put on the NLCS roster. Pitches seven
to two thirds lets the high leverage guy's rest. They

(30:33):
clinched the pennant and DV in the middle of it
all gets the story of the postseason from Honeywell and
Max Muntzi themselves.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
As a dog, our whole bullpen's dogs. But this guy
put him in a position.

Speaker 10 (30:45):
Well, hey, you need two outs, he's got you. You
need three, he's got you. This guy who carries he
needs someone to throw live BP in San Diego, He's
got you this to day. This guy might have gotten
Movie Vets right because he threw him LIVEVP.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
I don't know if you guys he's throw LIBYP because
he wasn't. He wasn't active at the time he thrill LIVP.
Mookie Bets started going off. Did you throw him a screwball?

Speaker 1 (31:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
I bet him down the middle and said, crack of
the ballpark. That's what I say. I told all three
of them, I'm throwing it down the middle. You know,
want you to hit it as far as you can.
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Crap shoot. Brent Honeywell designated for assignment, clears waivers and,
according to Max Muntsey, gets Mookie Bets right. Tommy Edmund
had a broken wrist and a sprained ankle. He had
not played a game this season, but Andrew Friedman trades
for him anyway and tells us he had two prior

(31:41):
tells David Vesse, I have two priorities. This offseason, signed
show Atani and trade for Tommy Edmund and he's your
NLCS MVP. And were it not for Freddie hitting the
Grand Slam and home run in each of the subsequent games,
he very well could be. And maybe I don't know, Katese,
he still could be. The World Series MVP could go.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Seven games like crap shoot? May you know I want
to say that, cluck, crap shoot man. I want to
say that they had the right attitude.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Attitude Brent Honeywell, mock turtleneck of Dicky makes all the difference. Now.
They may have been favored by the odds makers, but
the seam heads never believe. Twenty four to twenty seven.
Pick the Padres, including Jessica Mendoz even though she worked
for the Dodgers. Shame just sit it out, set it out,
Sit it out. Jess down to one, so it's not

(32:29):
going to be there. Never forget, Never forget, Jess. We
were demanding a complete overhaul the way they develop pitchers.
Stop chasing v low, get your guys healthy. We're going
through it again instead, one win away from a parade
thanks to a commanding three zero World Series lead with
a bullpen game tonight, Flaherty tomorrow if they need them.

(32:53):
I'm guessing we feel pretty good about it. No more crap. Shoot,
no days are gone. This is like going to the
table and you know you're gonna win. Hey, you know
what I want? What do you want? I want the
freaking hard ways, all of them. Give me twenty five
on each of the hard ways. And bang forty four
Reggie Jackson, Bang thirty three, Scottie Pippen, bang fifty five.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Really, I mean there's there's allegations on the texto. So
this says you guys are going long on purpose. The
people want to hear texto. Soos hold Matt's feet to
the fire. I'm stretching it. Charlie Steiner, twenty twenty. Oh balls,
two strikes two out Urius to Adamis.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Call strike three.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
The Dodgers win. Finally, the weight is over.

Speaker 11 (33:46):
The Dodgers are the champions of twenty twenty, in a
year like no other where joy has been so hard
to come by. Tonight, tears of joy let them tonight
there is joy in Muddville.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
The curse of eighty eight is eighty eight out out
the gate, and.

Speaker 11 (34:09):
The Dodgers are celebrating out of the middle of the field,
between home plate and the pitchers bound the Dodgers for
the first time since nineteen eighty eight thirty two seasons.
Are the champions of baseball?

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Oh fifty five, hardweight juniors, say sixty six, Mario Lemeux.
We're playing the field, We're playing the come, we're hopping,
we're seeing Ian crap shooting.

Speaker 10 (34:41):
Man.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
I don't know most of those terms.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
You know.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
I never played craps on a table, only in the corner.
Oh no, yeah, the guys from the team you might
know about the hard way, but you don't know about
my life. On Mackenzie's lucky leg.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Don't move in my life. I'll keep it right there.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
We gotta get in under this election. Otherwise the parade's
gonna be under Marshall law. Maman and the fence are
just gonna squeeze us a down.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Can't do it, guys, can't do the parade. Make sure
you take your emergency card that I issued you. It's
gonna get you on the streets on the fifth.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
It expires on November first.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Oh no, we're gonna die. We're gonna die like dogs.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Without my card. Whatever. We'll be back with mar text
ussel snacks.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
Beautiful, well done, that's yours some money, the furious. I'm
not gonna hide who we are, just horse shakess. We
are rolling until four o'clock and then Tim Kate's taking over.
That say joined us about a half hour ago, said
that Mark Pryor will be his pregame guest, talking about

(36:10):
the bullpen game, that they will unleash tonight, Ben Casparius,
the twenty five year old rookie. We'll get the start, Kasparias.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Hide who we are, all right, Matt.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
We have a few Texas secret text us up line
brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers. We
make it easy.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Stanton ran like he had a roll of corners up
his ass and it was laundry day. Matt's right. I
see leather face when I see sank. God, may you
did this keep Zach Effrin safe from mad money Center?

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Oh man, I mean it's been like ten years. You
think i'd have.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Known Mickey Rourke in nine and a half week. Looks
like James Dean, or like Giancarlos Stanton pre caving in
of his bloated pumpkin face. You're a class act money.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, yeahmar I, son of a bitch. I didn't know.
And were it not for Kate's I'm guessing a lot
of well now it would have it would have come out.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Stanton takes baseball to face after surgery. He wakes up
and says, from now on, I'm no longer Mike. My
name is young.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Toggle true story.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
You should see geon Mike stance on the MLB video game.
She Meet all up in your face, she Meet.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
That's my old nickname.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Just because dude got nailed in the face where the
baseball means we have to pretend he's not funny. Looking
this point more personal towards me, Matt Petros, I was
listening to yesterday's podcast, and you're lamenting watching the Dodger

(38:07):
game by yourself. I can sympathize. I keep trying to
get my kids to watch a series with me, and
they just want to watch effing TikTok, and I don't
even have a beatof bunker, so I end up watching
it all on my phone on the patio, yelling at
my kids that they're missing something historic, while my wife
gets mad at me because I'm scaring the neighbors. Sadly,

(38:30):
it is such an app description of my life is
mac gonna mak yeah back to you? Is Matt gonna
make fun of Helen Keller's dictation?

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Next very timely reference.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Money has a pretty liberal definition of the word we
when he says we were appoplectic, tell Kates to ease
up on the effing parade crap s ain't done yet.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, people that listen, they lose tonight and it's still
three to one, and people scam. What three to one
by p Dewe scam is gonna take some incoming, especially
if Kate's was claiming parade and sacks he was saying,
chill out.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
You just heard whatssay said. They had no spirit. They
got no spirit. They don't they don't have what?

Speaker 7 (39:30):
What?

Speaker 3 (39:30):
What what? They're booking their trip to the Virgin Islands.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Thanks a lot. I've been listening to these jomboy types.
It's always if only the Yankees did this, blah blah blah,
mail box heads, please, the Dodgers are dominating you. It's true.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
How they got the series they wanted. They desperately need
the Yankees to at least win one, get this thing
to five. Let's not get result they had hoped for.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
It's a wonderful day to be a Dodger. We'll see
if that continues through the evening in the Chili East,
and that gray, soulless stone toll booth known as New
Yankee Stadium a terrible place to celebrate the worst. He
might as well be in freaking the trap. So the

(40:28):
roof ripped off, so a big of a piece of
crap it is.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
You need the same monument fork, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Kate's just set in my ear like Stan's face. You
own that Kates.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
That is terrible.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Kates is mad. He changed his name from Mike.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
Yes, I remember him in Verdighills High School.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
When he had a different looking face. Oh wow, what,
oh my god, what you just said? M hmmm, with
a different name and a different face name face?

Speaker 2 (41:10):
She Meet all right, your she Meets show record returns
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