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And we have got the parade.
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Tomorrow through downtown Los Angeles, the celebration at Dodger Stadium.
Every single second of it will be heard right here
beginning at nine thirty am. Dave Asa Kirsten Watson Tim
Kates at the headquarters Dodger Stadium, presented by Yamabah, also
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as Tim Cats will be your tour guide.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's right, Matt.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
We will have everything you could ever desire that you
haven't already received about this championship Dodger team and how
excited Angelinos are from coast to coast about it. And
the parade will be a great celebration of Dodger culture.
Not hey I blew off my hand or hey I'm
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painted I'd painted in my in my underwear fighting the cops,
Like let's come on, Echo Park, Come on, guys, you
guys are better than that. When you had the weird
homeless encampment, fine, but now that Echo Park has been
cleaned up, and Echo Park is a beautiful place people
to be able to enjoy nature, discover the wonders of nature.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
They were down, Yeah, that's fine, I get it. You
drunk and by the time they won, I was kind
of wasted.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I mean they were down five nothing. But now all
you got us a thumb, All right, Matt, We'll take
a little diversion and we'll get to the Week ten
college whip flock. The weather here in Boise is crisp.
It will be below fifty degrees when the game kicks
off at six o'clock local tomorrow night. Boise State football
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has had twenty years in the national spotlight, and during
these last two decades, and school has had just one
player invited to the Heisman ceremony in New York City,
one dy wonder, the soft tossing lefty cornerback our friend
Kellen Moore in twenty ten. Well six weeks from now,
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running back Ashton gent should become the second Boise player
to earn the trip to New York, but genty still
has five regular season games and most likely a Mountain
West Championship game to cement his case. He is the
nation's leading rusher with thirteen hundred and seventy six yards.
He has eighteen rushing touchdowns. It's not even November, and
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last week's win at UNLV he had statistically his worst
game of the season, just one hundred and twenty eight
yards on thirty three carries, but he was a warrior
fighting a really good UNLV defense, still averaging eight point
seven yards per carry. So we're here in Boise with
Trent Rush to call the San Diego State Boise game
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at five on Fox, and genty will be prominently featured.
The Broncos are a prohibited twenty three and a half
point favorite. Last week's picks we held steady at five hundred,
so without further ado, we'll get it cracking. This week's
ten college football picks. Arizona State is five and two.
They take on Oklahoma State three and five. Watch out them.
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Devils are three and a half point favorite at four
on FS one. While Ashton genty is the best back
in the country, this game is a showcase for two
of the best running backs in the Big twelve. ASU's
Cameron Scataboo is having a breakout season, one hundred and
fifty yards away from a thousand yard season, plus his
Devils are one went away from Bowl eligibility.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Pretty good.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
But Ollie Gordon's Okie State Cowboys are zero to five
in their Big Twelve games, and after eight games, Gordon
is even halfway to his seventeen hundred yards rushing he
had last season. The Cowboys offense is struggling with the
biggest problem for Oklahoma State is defense. They've allowed at
least thirty eight points in four straight games. I'm taking
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ASU minus the three and a half. Oklahoma State beat
Arizona State in a game I called last year, but
Arizona State this year much different team back Oregon at
Michigan eight to zero versus five and three. The Ducks
fourteen and a half point favorites at Michigan. I'm going
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on CBS enjoy the game, Matt at the Big House.
Year one in the Big Ten, Oregon is undefeated, number
one team in the country. The Ducks will be heavily
favored with four remaining games. With this Ducks team does
not control its own path to the Big Ten title game.
On the radio this week, Two Pros and a Cup
of Joe, Brady Quinn explained a real doozy brewing in
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the Big Ten tie break formula, there is a way Oregon,
Penn State in Indiana can all finish undefeated in the
conference and that the Ducks would be left out of
the Big Ten championship.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Game makes sense, Brady said.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
If Oregon, Indiana, and Penn State all finished undefeated, the
time breaker could be margin of victory versus the highest
ranked common opponent, which happens to be Ohio State. Well,
the Ducks already beat Ohio State by one point. Penn
State plays Ohio State Saturday in Indiana, and the Buckeyes
play November twenty third, So.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Sorry, guys, welcome to the conference.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
If yeah, well you don't get a full check anyway.
If Penn State in Indiana both beat Ohio State by
more than one point, that is the tie breaker that applies.
A few other pieces would need to fall into place,
like winning percentage of conference opponents. But according to Brady,
there is a possibility that an undefeated and top ranked
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Oregon team would not qualify for the Big Ten Championship game.
We'll know more in a couple of weeks, and we'll
track it as far as this week's game. He'll take
the Ducks minus the thirteen and a half in front
of Matt in Ann Arbor with the Chardonnay fleshy crowd
of the Big House. Number four Ohio State six and one,
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number five, Penn State seven and zero Buckeyes three and
a half point favorites nine am on Fox Big Ten
scenario that is easier to digest. If Ohio State and
Oregon went out, they will play each other again in
the Big Ten title game. That would be a great
rematch for Fox. But I think Penn State's gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Win this game. Whoa after losing Oregon.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
The Buckeyes trailed seventeen to fourteen in the fourth quarter
last week to Nebraska before they won.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Buck Nuts are a vulnerable team.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Penn State probably a better all around squad than Nebraska.
The Nitney Lions got to run the ball well enough
to open up their underdeveloped passing game. The X factor
will be the Penn State right end Tyler Warren, who
catches passes, runs out of the wildcat, throws the ball.
Where's the number forty four he caught like seventeen passes
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against USC.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Hey, Look he's open again. They're not covering him again.
Huh go kid?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Here? The Nitney Lions plus three and a half.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Will Howard does not look good at quarterback for Ohio State.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Well, the guy Kyle McCord that he replaced was doing
great at Syracuse and then he literally had like a
three interception, a four interception half against pitt and three
pick six is in the first half. So I guess
they're happier with Will Howard. I guess UCLA's two and
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five in Nebraska's five and three. And the thing is,
Will Howard got pushed out at Kansas State. They didn't
want it because they had Avery Johnson. Avery Johnson exactly,
So I don't you know, it's kind of a weird scenario.
Ucla Nebraska's on the Big Ten network. The Cornhuskers are
still pissed about dropping the game in Columbus last week.
They're gonna let their anger out on the Bruins. After
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playing their best game in the season against Rutgers, UCLA
had a bye week to douse their momentum. The Nebraska
black Shirts defense will bring the most pressure Ethan Garmer's
is seen all season. I just don't see how they
get rolling in this game offensively, coming off road losses
at Indiana and Ohio State. There is some pressure on
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Nebraska coach Matt Rule to deliver a big win at
home this week. Memorial Stadium will be full of fleshy
white people without the chardonnay, the revitalized Husker fan base,
and the game will be played in the mid fifty
degree range with a chance of rain. I'm taking Nebraska
minus the six and a half over UCLA. One more
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Matt Block black black, USC four and four at Washington.
The Trojans are a two and a half point fave.
Four thirty PM kick both USC and UCLA Big ten
Network ouch. The Trojans snapped their three game losing street
in resounding fashion last week over lowly Rutgers forty two
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to twenty. They dragged their zero to three road record
up to dreary Gray went Seattle to face the rebuilding Huskies.
Similar to Nebraska, Jed the Fish and the Dogs. Coming
off a pair of road losses in Iowa and Indiana,
Washington's nothing close to what they were last season, maybe
their greatest year ever. They lost ten draft picks, departing transfers,
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and the whole staff, so the only thing Jed the
Fish inherited on Montlake was unrealistic expectations. The USC can win,
but it's got a coach and play smarter football. If
the Trojans game plan has to pass the ball seventy
percent of the time and have their defense be on
the field for the majority of the game, don't be
shocked if USC loses again. The USC has pissed away
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fourth quarter leads and all four losses, and.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You pissed it away, You turned it down.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Formula of questionable game management, turnovers and a gas defense.
Trojans are favored, but I'm taking the home dog Huskies
plus two and a half fock at five o'clock tomorrow,
San Diego State Boise on Fox. Five Games in Action
this week. Hopefully we'll see if we can work our
way back to you at five hundred despruit and oswegos.
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Everybody enjoy the games. And I think with three things Thursday,
Matt and the next segment, we'll get back.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, back to some Dodger talk, Back to some Dodger talk.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Three things, Three things observed following a World Series victory
and a parade that is to come beginning tomorrow here
on your home with the Dodgers and five so many
LA Sports at nine hosted by Tim Cakes.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Keep plugging it next.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Cracking Everybody, and welcome back Petros and Money. Happy to
be on the air on This Crunchy Groove Thursday live
from Albertson Stadium in Boise, Idaho and Los Angeles, where
the Dodgers are champions of Major League Baseball. Parade covered
starts at nine thirty am tomorrow. Bas Say will join
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us for one final goodbye interview. Next but right now,
it's time for Three Things Thursday.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Throw it on.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Three thingsters, well, three things from the World Series champion Dodgers.
The three Things will be twenty twenty, Walker Buller, Dave Roberts.
A lot to unpack, the first of which we start
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with it again. We did it a couple of days ago.
It has been a theme this week once the Dodgers
got that three zero lead. But let's set the tone
with a call to an understanding yet also uncomfortable David Vasse.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It's just no, they didn't win this year because I've
been hearing the Giants fans over and over.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Agad, this is a little real championship last year.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
It is it because that's Jual the third David.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
All right, Chris, I know you're emotional, man. 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 (13:49):
Good that's right, Dave.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
It was June the third, Chris, You're right, and I
know that only one team gets to celebrate the win
and the other twenty nine want to crap all over,
including that a hole Alex Verdugo, who of course was Chappie.
He was traded to Boston for bets who helped that
team win.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I thought Berdugo was our friend.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
No Verdugo not our friend, no munch. The fans won
a bitch, fine, say your piece, but players, I have
defended the COVID Championship repeatedly. Rules were the same for
all thirty teams. Dodgers the most dominant force in the
league with a record that would pencil out to one
hundred and sixteen wins, and all that got him was
a ticket to a full wild card round best of
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three in their own empty stadium, which they won two
zero over the Brewers. Then in the divisional round, the
Astros and A's played at Dodgers Stadium because that made sense,
and they had to play the Padres in Texas at
Globe Life in a best of five, won that three
to nothing, followed by an NLCS seven games, needed all
of them again at Globe Life, down three to one,
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dug out of the hole one three straight, including two
one run games in game six, in Game seven, and
then same Globe Life World Series against the Rays. In
every round they played chalk one verses eight one, verses four,
one versus two, one versus one, and they won. Instead
of needing eleven wins, they needed thirteen. Sorry, number one
seed trophy, thirteen wins, not eleven, and it was crapped on,
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it was belittled. It was an asterisk. June, the third,
David June. And I think the Dodgers got way too
much pushback for that. And I am not exaggerated when
I see this, when I say this, they got more
eye rolls than the goddamn Astros did for cheating, for
cheating with nipple buzzers that told them when a fastball
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or a curveball was about to be thrown. Fewer people
still complain or denigrate the twenty seventeen freaking Astros, MF
and the Yankees, and MF and the Dodgers. Then they
do the Dodgers winning thirteen playoff games, eleven of them
away from home, best record, and you get two home
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games in your ballpark with a team built for those dimensions.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's kind of makes sense though, right.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I mean, high high profile franchise, high profile players, gigantic payroll.
They don't care. No one cares about Houston. The fact
that Houston cheated was the big story about Houston, not
that they won a World Series or anything like that.
People are going to jump on the Dodgers if they
don't have success because of their payroll and all that,
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just like they do the Yankees as well. So it's understandable.
But yeah, those guys took a lot of incoming about
it because the third David, the third David.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It was one of the things that really surprised me.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
I was watching all the postgame celebration, all of the
postgame interviews.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, they're talking so much about something that happened four
years ago. So there's so many different components of the team.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah, one after one. After they won last night, it
was a theme those that were on the team in
twenty twenty. There's still a lot of them, Mookie Betts,
Walker Bueller, Blake Truck, Chris Taylor, Will Smith, keek A,
Max Munsey, Dave Roberts. They released yesterday four years of
frustration and made sure everybody knew how they felt and
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that everyone can stick it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We deserve this.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
We've been playing really good baseball for a lot of
years and twenty twenty and whatever, but they can't say
a whole lot about it now.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
This is something I really wanted.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I wanted this one.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
You know, there were some guys that were here with
me and twenty and you know, you hear some naysayers,
and so we didn't get the parade that I've been
talking about the last week.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
There's been a lot of people that want to discredit
twenty twenty, and I don't want to harp on this
a lot, but it's so great to see the guys
that are still here from the doc, the players front
office being able to finally silence the critics on this.
Because every year has its challenges, everybody has the same
playing phil.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
This is way better than twenty twenty. This is wow.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's incredible.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
You're finally going to get your parade, Max Mounsey, I
can't Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Were coming who.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
To a man, it floored me that they have obviously
carried this around, that this is something that has bothered
them as much as well, maybe not as much as
a bothered Chris because of those giants fans.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
They just sticking it, you know, it really get stuck
in your sideways.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
There, But that each one of them didn't just want
to celebrate twenty twenty four. They wanted to celebrate twenty
twenty and make sure everybody knew, yes, we heard you
and we heard how doesn't count teams of disappointment, don't care,
will stick it because now we got two And it
seems like each of those guys got two last night,
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not just one.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I feel as if they were vindicated. But at the
same time, all the knocks on the twenty twenty Dodgers
kind of came for fruition in twenty twenty four, like, oh,
they're gonna wear out their pictures, right, I did, you know?
But they still found a way to overcome the adversity,
which I think is what people in town and the
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naysayers around the world of baseball wanted. But yeah, I was,
I was interested that it was still a big topic.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
The other thing, and this was not a throwaway comment
from DV, but it was. It was delivered without a
lot of gravity to it. After they knocked off the Padres,
when Dave said, yeah, you know how they got knocked
out by the Padres. Maybe or likely Dave Roberts isn't
brought back, and now they've got a favorable matchup against
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the Mets. He beats them and wins a World Series,
He's probably headed to the Hall of Fame. And just
think about how incredibly ridiculous that sounds.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's a razor's edge, Matt.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
It's as edge nothing to do with how Dave manages.
Will fire him if the team on paper that's healthy
and better than us wins three of five, and if
we win the World Series, he'll be extended, be paid
a fortune, and likely win a couple more.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Be in the Hall of Fame. Does he deserve it?
After this run? He does?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Make no mistake, this was a Dave robber It's playoff
run he managed with balls as big as boulders in
the Padre series, leaving Bueller in after the second inning.
When the Dodgers got four back in the top of
the third to make it a one run game, a
game that they were right back in that they have
to win. But he sends Bueller back out, throws three
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more third and fourth or one two, three innings, and
the fifth he gets Tatisan profar out, Machado singles, and
then Dave still leaves him out there. He gets Boguards out.
Now they lost the game, but after a messy second
with a porous and disastrous defense behind him. Think about
what that did for Buehler versus yanking him after the
second and going to the bullpen now that they were
trailing by the slimmest of marchins. Instead he left him in.
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Buehler found something. It worked. It carried over to ten
more innings of zero earned runs after the sixth in
the second inning. Bueller threw twelve more innings in the
playoffs of six hit, thirteen strikeout, zero run ball, including
the second moment in the World Series itself, after Freddy's
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grand Slam, his coming out of the bullpen the old
oral meat Walker to steal a theme from Joe Davis
and mowing down three Yankees in a row two strikeouts
where he was juiced up on adrenaline throwing ninety seven
miles an hour. And I'm sure, as you just heard,
one of those quotes was from Walker Bueller, and I
would assume it was directed at Alex Verdugo who said
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about the twenty twenty Championship quote, anyone can ball out
for sixty games they wanted. It's the third call it
what you call it, but it's still a sixty gamer
to me. And that shut him up real quick, and
Buehler made sure he knew it after the game. So
you leave Walker in for Dave, it gives the bullpen
the rest for game four goes back to Yamamoto for
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Game five. After that shaky Game one that he only
lasted three, struck out one, gave up five, and then
he's nails in that Game five shutout we know about
the Mets series. He convinces Freddy to rest ready and
Freddie ends up sitting out to the sixth and what
does he do, ends up giving him the greatest, arguably
one of the greatest World Series hitting performances in the
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history of a century, plus Championship Series twelve, RIBBIS World
Series MVP, and Last Night. Unlike the Mets, in Game five,
down five to nothing, he does the exact opposite of
what he did in Queens. Instead of throwing Honeywell out
there and just taking his lumps and making sure the
bullpen was right, he says, now, let's get it. There's
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a lot of game left, and he went to the
big guns while Garrett Cole was pitching a gem and
it paid off, and the Yankees opened the door crack
and the Dodgers kicked it in. He pitched Bonda, Brazier
and Kopek when they were trailing five to nothing and
got the big inning, and then he puts Blake Trinon
out there for seven outs, even including a mound visit
where Blake said he was fine. Last time Blake trying
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through more than two innings was April of twenty eighteen.
Like that's the kind of balls moments that Dave Roberts
had throughout this entire playoffs.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Hold a lot of the right levers really did leave
her two thousand for all your two thousand parts.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
The biggest soap you can ever find.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
So, congratulations to people that have come on the show
many times, Walker Bueller and Dave Roberts. Congratulations to Dave Vassy,
and congratulations to Chris, what about mate and all of
those players? You're getting paid, boss, You got a lot
of sponsors on the parade coverage.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
You're gonna enjoy Split and the broth Nick and all
in multinegro In all of those places. You're gonna love them,
all enjoy it. But congratulations mostly to David Besse.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
And Tim Kates and Colin Yee who better get a ring?
They better and Dwayne McDonald freaking better, hard working radio friends.
They deserve their human rights. They do right now.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Don't send another ring to a lot of rizzo, send
it to Kate's and freaking Colin Yee.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Kates is a political refugee and he deserves his right.
We'll be back with more great sports doc David vass
We'll check in after flying home on that team players
only playing. I guess Vassay's got that kind of clout,
and we will return with him, and then we got
another twenty minutes and then we'll get you to the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
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Speaker 5 (25:01):
What more can be said? We're gonna find out. David
Vasse will be rung dry by tomorrow's end. It will
all be out everything, cards on the table, face up.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
The Dodgers are champions.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
With an inside look at the Dodgers. This is the
vass Report with David Vasse.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
The one and only David Vasse who maybe did his
best season of work this season not because the Dodgers
won a championship, just because of what he was able
to get out of the players while they were going
through the process, and how he was able to explain
day in and day out what was going on with
the Dodgers during this wild postseason. What a celebration last
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night Spectrum Sports Net of course, MBL Beat Network, and
right here on Ami seventy LA Sports our own David
Vasse on your Southern California Toyota Dealer Celebrity Hotline. Hello
Dave and congratulations.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Hey, thank you guys. I landed with the Dodgers this
morning at Lax They were greeted by the Lax Fire
Department hosing down the plane in celebration of the Dodgers
bringing back the World Series Championship. It was really special
to be able to see those players behind the scenes
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on a flight home with the World Series championship. Those
are things that you always wonder what it's like, and
I was very fortunate to be able to experience that firsthand.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Well it's been a wild ride, no doubt about it, Dave.
And you didn't get to go on the plane home
in twenty twenty. You went on an overflow COVID plane
to take you home, and I believe became infected with
COVID nineteen. What was the plane ride like back with
those guys without telling a bunch of secrets. Was it
like you thought it would be?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
It was you know this plane. I'm sure you guys
saw it by now, NFL plane that the Patriots use,
and it's the plane that Dodgers used all postseason to
kind of just be insulated away from all the distractions
that come with growing deep into the postseason. With a
lot of front office staff, the Dodgers reward a lot
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of employees, full time employees, by bringing them on the plane.
A lot of baseball operations people come on that don't
usually travel during the season. So the Dodgers players, as
you guys have heard, said, they just wanted them to
commit to each other for three and a half weeks,
meaning their wives and kids flew on the staff plane
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while the players had this player's only plane. So that's
the plane I was on coming back from Yankee Stadium
and the music was popping, guys were celebrating. About three
hours in things quieted down, guys went to sleep, but
the only guy that stayed awake the entire flight was
the guy that came to the Red in the ninth inning,
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Walker Buehler, And it was pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, Buehler
was taking pictures of his teammates asleep. He was shown
me the photos. You know, it was pretty cool for
him to come into the section I was sitting in
to spend some time with myself with social media Sujo.
You know, those are things that I'll always remember. No
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material thing can replace those memories and just you know,
the guys I've been with the Dodgers since twenty twelve,
I've been on a lot of flights that have been
extremely disappointing, going back to Saint Louis and thirteen and fourteen.
So to have that experience with these guys, especially some
of the guys that have been around a while, that
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that's something special to see the joy in their face.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, Dave.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
You know, look, you can't argue with the most iconic
moment of the World Series at bottom of the tenth
Grand Slam from Freddie Freeman, but you know, I think
right behind it might be Walker Buehler in that ninth inning.
For those that have a sense of history and just
kind of know what it means to have that starter
that just pitched a couple nights prior, say no, I'm
going to be the guy that gets this thing done.
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I'm going to get the last three outs, especially considering
sort of what his standing is when it comes to
all the Dodgers on this roster, that it was him
standing on the mound. Would you agree with it? Did
it feel like that it had that sort of gravity
that a lot of people felt through the TV.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Without a doubt, Matt it was really surreal to see
him come through the bullpen gates and be able to
go out there and strike his curveball, strike his fastball.
I was talking to Daniel Hudson, who's retiring now but
has always been kind of a big brother to Walker Buehler,
and he said, there was nobody else I would rather
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have on the mound in the ninth inning than Walker Bueller.
I had no doubts he was going to deliver, because
that's what he lives for. And Walker actually told me
an interesting story that I haven't shared on Twitter. He
actually had an oral Herscheizer esque moment last night because
when we saw him run out to the bullpen, that
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wasn't on the behest of Mark Pryor or Dave Roberts.
He did that on his own and once he got
down there, Mark Pryor he told me phoned the bullpen.
Buehler got on the phone and he's like, what are
you doing. You haven't even thrown a baseball yet today.
He said, I'm ready. I'm ready. I told you if
things went sideways or the way Buehler said wonky, I
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would be ready to come out of the bullpen. He
told Andrew Friedman that on the way to Yankee Stadium
on the bus, and he told Mark Pryor before the
game as well. But that's similar to Oral Herscheiser in
nineteen eighty eight Game four to close out that game,
going down to the bullpen on his own and telling
bullpen catcher coach Mark Cressey, Tommy sent me down here,
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when in fact Tommy Lissorda ever did send him down there.
Walker Bueller did the same thing.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
And awesome, have you ever seen anything like? I mean,
obviously that the oral Hrscheizer comparison. But orl Hrscheizer had
a record breaking season in nineteen eighty eight and ended
up the World Series MVP. Buehler was a guy that
the Dodgers didn't want to have to pitch, you know,
back in August, Dave, have you ever seen such a
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rise of confidence in a guy like that?
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Well, credit Dave Roberts for that as well, Petros, because
I found out in that meeting in Atlanta, the one
that everybody's talking about, where you know, I walked in
when I shouldn't have walked into that meeting. After Glassnow
was shut down, Dave Roberts challenged Walker Bueller in front
of the team to get it going, telling him we
need you to get on a heater, and Walker Bueller
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took that to heart, and once they got to the postseason,
he really took it upon himself to rise to that
occasion because that's what he lived sport. So you're right,
here's a guy that, as he told me after the
game last night, half jokingly but half serious, he had
a lot of self doubts and he thought, hey, maybe
I'll be released. I'm that bad right now, and here
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he is out shining every other pitcher the Dodgers had
in the postseason. I couldn't be happier for him because
of you know, the struggles, the self doubt and him
coming back out on the other end and yeah, he's
he's a really special player, and hopefully the Dodgers now
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bring him back right at it. He's a free agent
at the end of this year, and before October, the
Dodgers could have got him back for basically nothing, and
then he pitches really well maybe a qualifying offer. Well
maybe now it's more than that. So I think a
lot of teams Walker Bueller increased his free agency value
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with what he did in October.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, it goes both ways, you know.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
It doesn't has not got that big contract yet, maybe
blows his arm out again because he's overusing it coming
out of the bullpen. Instead it ends up paying off
for him. Could not be more happy something he said
to you after the game too, David, I'd love to
kind of have your way in on it. Seemed like
it was a real theme and they had never We
just talked about it in the last segment. I don't
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feel like we heard this before, but so many of
the guys that were on the team in twenty twenty
were double middle fingers. Hey, everybody f you now, huh
how about twenty twenty? I don't want to hear it anymore.
I was really surprised that that was a common theme
from anybody that was on the team that year.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, I was too. Obviously they had heard that, but
I didn't know that it struck them as deeply as
it obviously did. So they heard it, and obviously now
those guys like Muncy and Key k and Roker Buehler
can basically say, you know what, this validates all that.
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I always thought they just felt like they missed out
because they didn't get a parade, but obviously there is
more to it. I was a little surprised as well
that all these years later, they're still thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
All right, Dave, Well, you're gonna be working tomorrow on
the parade.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
You get to spend some time with the family tonight,
and then some much deserved time off after a great
season of reporting on the Dodgers, maybe the best baseball
reporting anybody has ever done in the history of the
world since Max Mercy in the Natural.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Maybe just for this show, I don't know about that,
but maybe just for this show.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Well, you could come on with us, But I have
a feeling that there might even have to be Like
when Stu Lance and Billy Mack went to a Podres
game to kind of bond Don might make you do
that with Rogan and Rodney so you can get along again.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I'd love to hang out with Rodney anytime.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
The Great David Massey at the Real Underscore DV. Nobody
did better work covering these Dodgers, and that is the truth. Dave,
have a great night, congratulations and joy with the family.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Thanks. We'll talk to you at nine point thirty tomorrow
morning with Tim Kats. I'll be on the bus, we'll
be ready to go. So looking forward to the first
Dodger parade since nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Eight, David, are you looking forward to it?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Man?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I am looking forward to Dave getting drunk, freaking out.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
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hour fun fact as we go all the way till
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Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's right, Matt.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
We will have everything you could ever desire that you
haven't already received about this championship Dodger team and how
excited Angelinos are from coast to coast about it. And
the parade will be a great celebration of Dodger culture.
Not hey I blew off my hand or hey I'm
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painted I'd painted in my in my underwear fighting the cops,
Like let's come on, Echo Park, Come on, guys, you
guys are better than that. When you had the weird
homeless encampment, fine, but now that Echo Park has been
cleaned up, and Echo Park is a beautiful place people
to be able to enjoy nature, discover the wonders of nature.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
They were down, Yeah, that's fine, I get it. You
drunk and by the time they won, I was kind
of wasted.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I mean they were down five nothing. But now all
you got us a thumb, All right, Matt, We'll take
a little diversion and we'll get to the Week ten
college whip flock. The weather here in Boise is crisp.
It will be below fifty degrees when the game kicks
off at six o'clock local tomorrow night. Boise State football
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has had twenty years in the national spotlight, and during
these last two decades, and school has had just one
player invited to the Heisman ceremony in New York City,
one dy wonder, the soft tossing lefty cornerback our friend
Kellen Moore in twenty ten. Well six weeks from now,
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running back Ashton gent should become the second Boise player
to earn the trip to New York, but genty still
has five regular season games and most likely a Mountain
West Championship game to cement his case. He is the
nation's leading rusher with thirteen hundred and seventy six yards.
He has eighteen rushing touchdowns. It's not even November, and
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last week's win at UNLV he had statistically his worst
game of the season, just one hundred and twenty eight
yards on thirty three carries, but he was a warrior
fighting a really good UNLV defense, still averaging eight point
seven yards per carry. So we're here in Boise with
Trent Rush to call the San Diego State Boise game
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at five on Fox, and genty will be prominently featured.
The Broncos are a prohibited twenty three and a half
point favorite. Last week's picks we held steady at five hundred,
so without further ado, we'll get it cracking. This week's
ten college football picks. Arizona State is five and two.
They take on Oklahoma State three and five. Watch out them.
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Devils are three and a half point favorite at four
on FS one. While Ashton genty is the best back
in the country, this game is a showcase for two
of the best running backs in the Big twelve. ASU's
Cameron Scataboo is having a breakout season, one hundred and
fifty yards away from a thousand yard season, plus his
Devils are one went away from Bowl eligibility.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Pretty good.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
But Ollie Gordon's Okie State Cowboys are zero to five
in their Big Twelve games, and after eight games, Gordon
is even halfway to his seventeen hundred yards rushing he
had last season. The Cowboys offense is struggling with the
biggest problem for Oklahoma State is defense. They've allowed at
least thirty eight points in four straight games. I'm taking
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ASU minus the three and a half. Oklahoma State beat
Arizona State in a game I called last year, but
Arizona State this year much different team back Oregon at
Michigan eight to zero versus five and three. The Ducks
fourteen and a half point favorites at Michigan. I'm going
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on CBS enjoy the game, Matt at the Big House.
Year one in the Big Ten, Oregon is undefeated, number
one team in the country. The Ducks will be heavily
favored with four remaining games. With this Ducks team does
not control its own path to the Big Ten title game.
On the radio this week, Two Pros and a Cup
of Joe, Brady Quinn explained a real doozy brewing in
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the Big Ten tie break formula, there is a way Oregon,
Penn State in Indiana can all finish undefeated in the
conference and that the Ducks would be left out of
the Big Ten championship.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Game makes sense, Brady said.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
If Oregon, Indiana, and Penn State all finished undefeated, the
time breaker could be margin of victory versus the highest
ranked common opponent, which happens to be Ohio State. Well,
the Ducks already beat Ohio State by one point. Penn
State plays Ohio State Saturday in Indiana, and the Buckeyes
play November twenty third, So.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Sorry, guys, welcome to the conference.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
If yeah, well you don't get a full check anyway.
If Penn State in Indiana both beat Ohio State by
more than one point, that is the tie breaker that applies.
A few other pieces would need to fall into place,
like winning percentage of conference opponents. But according to Brady,
there is a possibility that an undefeated and top ranked
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Oregon team would not qualify for the Big Ten Championship game.
We'll know more in a couple of weeks, and we'll
track it as far as this week's game. He'll take
the Ducks minus the thirteen and a half in front
of Matt in Ann Arbor with the Chardonnay fleshy crowd
of the Big House. Number four Ohio State six and one,
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number five, Penn State seven and zero Buckeyes three and
a half point favorites nine am on Fox Big Ten
scenario that is easier to digest. If Ohio State and
Oregon went out, they will play each other again in
the Big Ten title game. That would be a great
rematch for Fox. But I think Penn State's gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Win this game. Whoa after losing Oregon.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
The Buckeyes trailed seventeen to fourteen in the fourth quarter
last week to Nebraska before they won.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Buck Nuts are a vulnerable team.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Penn State probably a better all around squad than Nebraska.
The Nitney Lions got to run the ball well enough
to open up their underdeveloped passing game. The X factor
will be the Penn State right end Tyler Warren, who
catches passes, runs out of the wildcat, throws the ball.
Where's the number forty four he caught like seventeen passes
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against USC.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Hey, Look he's open again. They're not covering him again.
Huh go kid?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Here? The Nitney Lions plus three and a half.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Will Howard does not look good at quarterback for Ohio State.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Well, the guy Kyle McCord that he replaced was doing
great at Syracuse and then he literally had like a
three interception, a four interception half against pitt and three
pick six is in the first half. So I guess
they're happier with Will Howard. I guess UCLA's two and
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five in Nebraska's five and three. And the thing is,
Will Howard got pushed out at Kansas State. They didn't
want it because they had Avery Johnson. Avery Johnson exactly,
So I don't you know, it's kind of a weird scenario.
Ucla Nebraska's on the Big Ten network. The Cornhuskers are
still pissed about dropping the game in Columbus last week.
They're gonna let their anger out on the Bruins. After
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playing their best game in the season against Rutgers, UCLA
had a bye week to douse their momentum. The Nebraska
black Shirts defense will bring the most pressure Ethan Garmer's
is seen all season. I just don't see how they
get rolling in this game offensively, coming off road losses
at Indiana and Ohio State. There is some pressure on
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Nebraska coach Matt Rule to deliver a big win at
home this week. Memorial Stadium will be full of fleshy
white people without the chardonnay, the revitalized Husker fan base,
and the game will be played in the mid fifty
degree range with a chance of rain. I'm taking Nebraska
minus the six and a half over UCLA. One more
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Matt Block black black, USC four and four at Washington.
The Trojans are a two and a half point fave.
Four thirty PM kick both USC and UCLA Big ten
Network ouch. The Trojans snapped their three game losing street
in resounding fashion last week over lowly Rutgers forty two
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to twenty. They dragged their zero to three road record
up to dreary Gray went Seattle to face the rebuilding Huskies.
Similar to Nebraska, Jed the Fish and the Dogs. Coming
off a pair of road losses in Iowa and Indiana,
Washington's nothing close to what they were last season, maybe
their greatest year ever. They lost ten draft picks, departing transfers,
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and the whole staff, so the only thing Jed the
Fish inherited on Montlake was unrealistic expectations. The USC can win,
but it's got a coach and play smarter football. If
the Trojans game plan has to pass the ball seventy
percent of the time and have their defense be on
the field for the majority of the game, don't be
shocked if USC loses again. The USC has pissed away
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fourth quarter leads and all four losses, and.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You pissed it away, You turned it down.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Formula of questionable game management, turnovers and a gas defense.
Trojans are favored, but I'm taking the home dog Huskies
plus two and a half fock at five o'clock tomorrow,
San Diego State Boise on Fox. Five Games in Action
this week. Hopefully we'll see if we can work our
way back to you at five hundred despruit and oswegos.
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Everybody enjoy the games. And I think with three things Thursday,
Matt and the next segment, we'll get back.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, back to some Dodger talk, Back to some Dodger talk.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Three things, Three things observed following a World Series victory
and a parade that is to come beginning tomorrow here
on your home with the Dodgers and five so many
LA Sports at nine hosted by Tim Cakes.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Keep plugging it next.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Cracking Everybody, and welcome back Petros and Money. Happy to
be on the air on This Crunchy Groove Thursday live
from Albertson Stadium in Boise, Idaho and Los Angeles, where
the Dodgers are champions of Major League Baseball. Parade covered
starts at nine thirty am tomorrow. Bas Say will join
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us for one final goodbye interview. Next but right now,
it's time for Three Things Thursday.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Throw it on.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Three thingsters, well, three things from the World Series champion Dodgers.
The three Things will be twenty twenty, Walker Buller, Dave Roberts.
A lot to unpack, the first of which we start
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with it again. We did it a couple of days ago.
It has been a theme this week once the Dodgers
got that three zero lead. But let's set the tone
with a call to an understanding yet also uncomfortable David Vasse.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It's just no, they didn't win this year because I've
been hearing the Giants fans over and over.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Agad, this is a little real championship last year.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
It is it because that's Jual the third David.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
All right, Chris, I know you're emotional, man. 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 (13:49):
Good that's right, Dave.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
It was June the third, Chris, You're right, and I
know that only one team gets to celebrate the win
and the other twenty nine want to crap all over,
including that a hole Alex Verdugo, who of course was Chappie.
He was traded to Boston for bets who helped that
team win.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I thought Berdugo was our friend.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
No Verdugo not our friend, no munch. The fans won
a bitch, fine, say your piece, but players, I have
defended the COVID Championship repeatedly. Rules were the same for
all thirty teams. Dodgers the most dominant force in the
league with a record that would pencil out to one
hundred and sixteen wins, and all that got him was
a ticket to a full wild card round best of
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three in their own empty stadium, which they won two
zero over the Brewers. Then in the divisional round, the
Astros and A's played at Dodgers Stadium because that made sense,
and they had to play the Padres in Texas at
Globe Life in a best of five, won that three
to nothing, followed by an NLCS seven games, needed all
of them again at Globe Life, down three to one,
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dug out of the hole one three straight, including two
one run games in game six, in Game seven, and
then same Globe Life World Series against the Rays. In
every round they played chalk one verses eight one, verses four,
one versus two, one versus one, and they won. Instead
of needing eleven wins, they needed thirteen. Sorry, number one
seed trophy, thirteen wins, not eleven, and it was crapped on,
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it was belittled. It was an asterisk. June, the third,
David June. And I think the Dodgers got way too
much pushback for that. And I am not exaggerated when
I see this, when I say this, they got more
eye rolls than the goddamn Astros did for cheating, for
cheating with nipple buzzers that told them when a fastball
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or a curveball was about to be thrown. Fewer people
still complain or denigrate the twenty seventeen freaking Astros, MF
and the Yankees, and MF and the Dodgers. Then they
do the Dodgers winning thirteen playoff games, eleven of them
away from home, best record, and you get two home
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games in your ballpark with a team built for those dimensions.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's kind of makes sense though, right.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I mean, high high profile franchise, high profile players, gigantic payroll.
They don't care. No one cares about Houston. The fact
that Houston cheated was the big story about Houston, not
that they won a World Series or anything like that.
People are going to jump on the Dodgers if they
don't have success because of their payroll and all that,
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just like they do the Yankees as well. So it's understandable.
But yeah, those guys took a lot of incoming about
it because the third David, the third David.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It was one of the things that really surprised me.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
I was watching all the postgame celebration, all of the
postgame interviews.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, they're talking so much about something that happened four
years ago. So there's so many different components of the team.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah, one after one. After they won last night, it
was a theme those that were on the team in
twenty twenty. There's still a lot of them, Mookie Betts,
Walker Bueller, Blake Truck, Chris Taylor, Will Smith, keek A,
Max Munsey, Dave Roberts. They released yesterday four years of
frustration and made sure everybody knew how they felt and
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that everyone can stick it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We deserve this.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
We've been playing really good baseball for a lot of
years and twenty twenty and whatever, but they can't say
a whole lot about it now.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
This is something I really wanted.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I wanted this one.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
You know, there were some guys that were here with
me and twenty and you know, you hear some naysayers,
and so we didn't get the parade that I've been
talking about the last week.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
There's been a lot of people that want to discredit
twenty twenty, and I don't want to harp on this
a lot, but it's so great to see the guys
that are still here from the doc, the players front
office being able to finally silence the critics on this.
Because every year has its challenges, everybody has the same
playing phil.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
This is way better than twenty twenty. This is wow.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's incredible.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
You're finally going to get your parade, Max Mounsey, I
can't Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Were coming who.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
To a man, it floored me that they have obviously
carried this around, that this is something that has bothered
them as much as well, maybe not as much as
a bothered Chris because of those giants fans.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
They just sticking it, you know, it really get stuck
in your sideways.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
There, But that each one of them didn't just want
to celebrate twenty twenty four. They wanted to celebrate twenty
twenty and make sure everybody knew, yes, we heard you
and we heard how doesn't count teams of disappointment, don't care,
will stick it because now we got two And it
seems like each of those guys got two last night,
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not just one.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I feel as if they were vindicated. But at the
same time, all the knocks on the twenty twenty Dodgers
kind of came for fruition in twenty twenty four, like, oh,
they're gonna wear out their pictures, right, I did, you know?
But they still found a way to overcome the adversity,
which I think is what people in town and the
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naysayers around the world of baseball wanted. But yeah, I was,
I was interested that it was still a big topic.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
The other thing, and this was not a throwaway comment
from DV, but it was. It was delivered without a
lot of gravity to it. After they knocked off the Padres,
when Dave said, yeah, you know how they got knocked
out by the Padres. Maybe or likely Dave Roberts isn't
brought back, and now they've got a favorable matchup against
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the Mets. He beats them and wins a World Series,
He's probably headed to the Hall of Fame. And just
think about how incredibly ridiculous that sounds.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's a razor's edge, Matt.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
It's as edge nothing to do with how Dave manages.
Will fire him if the team on paper that's healthy
and better than us wins three of five, and if
we win the World Series, he'll be extended, be paid
a fortune, and likely win a couple more.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Be in the Hall of Fame. Does he deserve it?
After this run? He does?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Make no mistake, this was a Dave robber It's playoff
run he managed with balls as big as boulders in
the Padre series, leaving Bueller in after the second inning.
When the Dodgers got four back in the top of
the third to make it a one run game, a
game that they were right back in that they have
to win. But he sends Bueller back out, throws three
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more third and fourth or one two, three innings, and
the fifth he gets Tatisan profar out, Machado singles, and
then Dave still leaves him out there. He gets Boguards out.
Now they lost the game, but after a messy second
with a porous and disastrous defense behind him. Think about
what that did for Buehler versus yanking him after the
second and going to the bullpen now that they were
trailing by the slimmest of marchins. Instead he left him in.
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Buehler found something. It worked. It carried over to ten
more innings of zero earned runs after the sixth in
the second inning. Bueller threw twelve more innings in the
playoffs of six hit, thirteen strikeout, zero run ball, including
the second moment in the World Series itself, after Freddy's
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grand Slam, his coming out of the bullpen the old
oral meat Walker to steal a theme from Joe Davis
and mowing down three Yankees in a row two strikeouts
where he was juiced up on adrenaline throwing ninety seven
miles an hour. And I'm sure, as you just heard,
one of those quotes was from Walker Bueller, and I
would assume it was directed at Alex Verdugo who said
(21:25):
about the twenty twenty Championship quote, anyone can ball out
for sixty games they wanted. It's the third call it
what you call it, but it's still a sixty gamer
to me. And that shut him up real quick, and
Buehler made sure he knew it after the game. So
you leave Walker in for Dave, it gives the bullpen
the rest for game four goes back to Yamamoto for
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Game five. After that shaky Game one that he only
lasted three, struck out one, gave up five, and then
he's nails in that Game five shutout we know about
the Mets series. He convinces Freddy to rest ready and
Freddie ends up sitting out to the sixth and what
does he do, ends up giving him the greatest, arguably
one of the greatest World Series hitting performances in the
(22:07):
history of a century, plus Championship Series twelve, RIBBIS World
Series MVP, and Last Night. Unlike the Mets, in Game five,
down five to nothing, he does the exact opposite of
what he did in Queens. Instead of throwing Honeywell out
there and just taking his lumps and making sure the
bullpen was right, he says, now, let's get it. There's
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a lot of game left, and he went to the
big guns while Garrett Cole was pitching a gem and
it paid off, and the Yankees opened the door crack
and the Dodgers kicked it in. He pitched Bonda, Brazier
and Kopek when they were trailing five to nothing and
got the big inning, and then he puts Blake Trinon
out there for seven outs, even including a mound visit
where Blake said he was fine. Last time Blake trying
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through more than two innings was April of twenty eighteen.
Like that's the kind of balls moments that Dave Roberts
had throughout this entire playoffs.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Hold a lot of the right levers really did leave
her two thousand for all your two thousand parts.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
The biggest soap you can ever find.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
So, congratulations to people that have come on the show
many times, Walker Bueller and Dave Roberts. Congratulations to Dave Vassy,
and congratulations to Chris, what about mate and all of
those players? You're getting paid, boss, You got a lot
of sponsors on the parade coverage.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
You're gonna enjoy Split and the broth Nick and all
in multinegro In all of those places. You're gonna love them,
all enjoy it. But congratulations mostly to David Besse.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
And Tim Kates and Colin Yee who better get a ring?
They better and Dwayne McDonald freaking better, hard working radio friends.
They deserve their human rights. They do right now.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Don't send another ring to a lot of rizzo, send
it to Kate's and freaking Colin Yee.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Kates is a political refugee and he deserves his right.
We'll be back with more great sports doc David vass
We'll check in after flying home on that team players
only playing. I guess Vassay's got that kind of clout,
and we will return with him, and then we got
another twenty minutes and then we'll get you to the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
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Speaker 5 (25:01):
What more can be said? We're gonna find out. David
Vasse will be rung dry by tomorrow's end. It will
all be out everything, cards on the table, face up.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
The Dodgers are champions.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
With an inside look at the Dodgers. This is the
vass Report with David Vasse.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
The one and only David Vasse who maybe did his
best season of work this season not because the Dodgers
won a championship, just because of what he was able
to get out of the players while they were going
through the process, and how he was able to explain
day in and day out what was going on with
the Dodgers during this wild postseason. What a celebration last
(25:48):
night Spectrum Sports Net of course, MBL Beat Network, and
right here on Ami seventy LA Sports our own David
Vasse on your Southern California Toyota Dealer Celebrity Hotline. Hello
Dave and congratulations.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Hey, thank you guys. I landed with the Dodgers this
morning at Lax They were greeted by the Lax Fire
Department hosing down the plane in celebration of the Dodgers
bringing back the World Series Championship. It was really special
to be able to see those players behind the scenes
(26:24):
on a flight home with the World Series championship. Those
are things that you always wonder what it's like, and
I was very fortunate to be able to experience that firsthand.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Well it's been a wild ride, no doubt about it, Dave.
And you didn't get to go on the plane home
in twenty twenty. You went on an overflow COVID plane
to take you home, and I believe became infected with
COVID nineteen. What was the plane ride like back with
those guys without telling a bunch of secrets. Was it
like you thought it would be?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
It was you know this plane. I'm sure you guys
saw it by now, NFL plane that the Patriots use,
and it's the plane that Dodgers used all postseason to
kind of just be insulated away from all the distractions
that come with growing deep into the postseason. With a
lot of front office staff, the Dodgers reward a lot
(27:16):
of employees, full time employees, by bringing them on the plane.
A lot of baseball operations people come on that don't
usually travel during the season. So the Dodgers players, as
you guys have heard, said, they just wanted them to
commit to each other for three and a half weeks,
meaning their wives and kids flew on the staff plane
(27:38):
while the players had this player's only plane. So that's
the plane I was on coming back from Yankee Stadium
and the music was popping, guys were celebrating. About three
hours in things quieted down, guys went to sleep, but
the only guy that stayed awake the entire flight was
the guy that came to the Red in the ninth inning,
(28:02):
Walker Buehler, And it was pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, Buehler
was taking pictures of his teammates asleep. He was shown
me the photos. You know, it was pretty cool for
him to come into the section I was sitting in
to spend some time with myself with social media Sujo.
You know, those are things that I'll always remember. No
(28:25):
material thing can replace those memories and just you know,
the guys I've been with the Dodgers since twenty twelve,
I've been on a lot of flights that have been
extremely disappointing, going back to Saint Louis and thirteen and fourteen.
So to have that experience with these guys, especially some
of the guys that have been around a while, that
(28:47):
that's something special to see the joy in their face.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, Dave.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
You know, look, you can't argue with the most iconic
moment of the World Series at bottom of the tenth
Grand Slam from Freddie Freeman, but you know, I think
right behind it might be Walker Buehler in that ninth inning.
For those that have a sense of history and just
kind of know what it means to have that starter
that just pitched a couple nights prior, say no, I'm
going to be the guy that gets this thing done.
(29:11):
I'm going to get the last three outs, especially considering
sort of what his standing is when it comes to
all the Dodgers on this roster, that it was him
standing on the mound. Would you agree with it? Did
it feel like that it had that sort of gravity
that a lot of people felt through the TV.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Without a doubt, Matt it was really surreal to see
him come through the bullpen gates and be able to
go out there and strike his curveball, strike his fastball.
I was talking to Daniel Hudson, who's retiring now but
has always been kind of a big brother to Walker Buehler,
and he said, there was nobody else I would rather
(29:46):
have on the mound in the ninth inning than Walker Bueller.
I had no doubts he was going to deliver, because
that's what he lives for. And Walker actually told me
an interesting story that I haven't shared on Twitter. He
actually had an oral Herscheizer esque moment last night because
when we saw him run out to the bullpen, that
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wasn't on the behest of Mark Pryor or Dave Roberts.
He did that on his own and once he got
down there, Mark Pryor he told me phoned the bullpen.
Buehler got on the phone and he's like, what are
you doing. You haven't even thrown a baseball yet today.
He said, I'm ready. I'm ready. I told you if
things went sideways or the way Buehler said wonky, I
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would be ready to come out of the bullpen. He
told Andrew Friedman that on the way to Yankee Stadium
on the bus, and he told Mark Pryor before the
game as well. But that's similar to Oral Herscheiser in
nineteen eighty eight Game four to close out that game,
going down to the bullpen on his own and telling
bullpen catcher coach Mark Cressey, Tommy sent me down here,
(30:58):
when in fact Tommy Lissorda ever did send him down there.
Walker Bueller did the same thing.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
And awesome, have you ever seen anything like? I mean,
obviously that the oral Hrscheizer comparison. But orl Hrscheizer had
a record breaking season in nineteen eighty eight and ended
up the World Series MVP. Buehler was a guy that
the Dodgers didn't want to have to pitch, you know,
back in August, Dave, have you ever seen such a
(31:25):
rise of confidence in a guy like that?
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Well, credit Dave Roberts for that as well, Petros, because
I found out in that meeting in Atlanta, the one
that everybody's talking about, where you know, I walked in
when I shouldn't have walked into that meeting. After Glassnow
was shut down, Dave Roberts challenged Walker Bueller in front
of the team to get it going, telling him we
need you to get on a heater, and Walker Bueller
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took that to heart, and once they got to the postseason,
he really took it upon himself to rise to that
occasion because that's what he lived sport. So you're right,
here's a guy that, as he told me after the
game last night, half jokingly but half serious, he had
a lot of self doubts and he thought, hey, maybe
I'll be released. I'm that bad right now, and here
(32:13):
he is out shining every other pitcher the Dodgers had
in the postseason. I couldn't be happier for him because
of you know, the struggles, the self doubt and him
coming back out on the other end and yeah, he's
he's a really special player, and hopefully the Dodgers now
(32:33):
bring him back right at it. He's a free agent
at the end of this year, and before October, the
Dodgers could have got him back for basically nothing, and
then he pitches really well maybe a qualifying offer. Well
maybe now it's more than that. So I think a
lot of teams Walker Bueller increased his free agency value
(32:56):
with what he did in October.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, it goes both ways, you know.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
It doesn't has not got that big contract yet, maybe
blows his arm out again because he's overusing it coming
out of the bullpen. Instead it ends up paying off
for him. Could not be more happy something he said
to you after the game too, David, I'd love to
kind of have your way in on it. Seemed like
it was a real theme and they had never We
just talked about it in the last segment. I don't
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feel like we heard this before, but so many of
the guys that were on the team in twenty twenty
were double middle fingers. Hey, everybody f you now, huh
how about twenty twenty? I don't want to hear it anymore.
I was really surprised that that was a common theme
from anybody that was on the team that year.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, I was too. Obviously they had heard that, but
I didn't know that it struck them as deeply as
it obviously did. So they heard it, and obviously now
those guys like Muncy and Key k and Roker Buehler
can basically say, you know what, this validates all that.
(33:58):
I always thought they just felt like they missed out
because they didn't get a parade, but obviously there is
more to it. I was a little surprised as well
that all these years later, they're still thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
All right, Dave, Well, you're gonna be working tomorrow on
the parade.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
You get to spend some time with the family tonight,
and then some much deserved time off after a great
season of reporting on the Dodgers, maybe the best baseball
reporting anybody has ever done in the history of the
world since Max Mercy in the Natural.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Maybe just for this show, I don't know about that,
but maybe just for this show.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Well, you could come on with us, But I have
a feeling that there might even have to be Like
when Stu Lance and Billy Mack went to a Podres
game to kind of bond Don might make you do
that with Rogan and Rodney so you can get along again.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I'd love to hang out with Rodney anytime.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
The Great David Massey at the Real Underscore DV. Nobody
did better work covering these Dodgers, and that is the truth. Dave,
have a great night, congratulations and joy with the family.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Thanks. We'll talk to you at nine point thirty tomorrow
morning with Tim Kats. I'll be on the bus, we'll
be ready to go. So looking forward to the first
Dodger parade since nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Eight, David, are you looking forward to it?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Man?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I am looking forward to Dave getting drunk, freaking out.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
We'll be right back with your dead and alive guy
birth the other day, your quick hits and the final
hour fun fact as we go all the way till
about six thirty because of the Clippers, stay with us
on this crunching group Thursday. The Dodgers are champions.
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