November 4, 2025 • 15 mins
Tim Cates joins the show to discuss the Dodgers winning the 2025 World Series!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Back on the Rob Doubles Show with Ben Darnell in
Your Afternoon Shrive, joining us now my former producer. Now
he also is the executive producer Petrosen Money Show, host
the Dodgers on Deck pregame show, co host of Dodger Talk,
host of UCLA Brewin Talk, and now you can at
MC of back to back Dodger parade. So six out
(00:28):
was it? Six hours of being the MC of that
parade yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Timmy, Yeah, on the radio, six hours of work did yesterday?
We started off at nine am with myself and Steve
Sachs and our own David Vasse, our Dodger reporter who
was on one of the three player coach buses in
the parking lot, and we went for six hours too.
Can calls afterwards with fans who were still emotional and excited,
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and just when you think you can have a celebration
in downtown LA and maybe it's getting old, yesterday happened
and there was more fans lined up in downtown LA
for that parade, and they sold out Dodger Stadium crowd
that nobody wanted to leave even if it was over,
and they were starting to blow to the streamers and
cafetti off the field from the grounds crew. Nobody wanted
to leave. It was truly a truly end of a
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great month of October.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Were you blown away by like the whole stadium was full,
filled with people packed? Were you blown away by that?
I mean, you don't normally see that. The parade's one thing,
but they all went back to the stadium and filled
it out for years in a row.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, it was amazing. A year ago they capped it
off from Petty who you talked to, was thirty thirty
five thousand, And it wasn't full last year, and there
was a lot of empty seats. And this year they
just they sold everything, or they give away every ticket,
or however they did it. That place was packed, and
it was packed while the parade was happening. A couple
of miles away in downtown Dodger Stadium was packed and
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they're watching it on the tumbo trons and everybody's drinking
and have a great time. And it was a great celebration.
It was either one or the other. Either you went
to the stadium and they're lucky to get a ticket,
or you were at the parade, and I mean it
was no Joe ten twelve people deep from barricade to
the building up and down Grand in Figaroa, which are
two main arteries through downtown. Lay that Chris crossed was
(02:12):
Fifth and sixth Street, and it was truly amazing to
see and there was no disturbances, There was no issue,
no Shenanigans, nobody being stupid out there. It was just
truly a celebration. I felt like it was just an
extail for the entire city on what was an epic
World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, truly, California love. We saw a lot of smiles.
But how does it feel, tim to be the most
hated in Major League Baseball? Because the rest of the
world hates you guys. Now you're the evil Empire of
Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So how does that feel? Have you? Guys?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Warn that Moniker?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well, yet we wear it with pride. And I think
there was a Blue Jay analyst that said that the
better team didn't win this World Series. Okay, all right, Yeah,
I know the Dodgers did two oh three and they
actually got outscored runs wise in this series. But I
mean they found a way to win in eight innings
in games with a home run. They found a way
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to win in Toronto three of the four game that
they played there, and Yoshinoba Yamamoto, what he did was
unbelievable and divis You can appreciate that as a pitcher.
I mean, I mean in an era where we got
agents and people in people's ears, and you know you
don't need to do this. You got to make ten
year contract, thanks yourself. Dude, what are you doing? You
don't have to worry about this And he says, no,
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I want to pitch, and he says, there's no option
of losing. I mean, this guy has turned in guys
to one of the heartbeats of this team and one
of the center pieces. I mean Otawni Yamamoto, I mean
Kershaw is on his way out and really wasn't you
know the guy in this world series? He was a
part of it, but not a lot. I mean, Yamamoto
has won over the city of la with his attitude
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and his grid and his desire to pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Talking to Tim Kates covers the Dodgers in La. Let
me let me ask you about that too, because the
kid he reminds me of Paidro Martinez seventy five, driven wet,
He's not show, hey, show hey is six five sixty six.
He's a huge dude. Everything he does has got eyeballs on.
It's this other kid. He comes in there and steals
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the show and wants to pitch on back to back
days in game six and Game seven, And like you said,
most guys puss out. Most guys are like, oh, I
got a bad arm or whatnot. And that guy's willing
to be a gamer to win a championship. What's he like?
I love watching him work. He's he's doing his mechanics
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from center field and throwing to the foul line, which
you know, that was stuff we used to do because
we didn't know any better. Now they're like, oh no, no, no,
you might hurt yourself. But everything this guy does is
kind of like old school.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
He is. He's you can appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
He's a pitcher. I totally do. I love him.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
He's he's a guy that is a little unorthodox. He
throws a javelin his or is working properly and he's strengthened.
He does things a little bit differently than other guys
do now and we see Paul Schemes kind of do
some unorthodox ways of getting ready in between starts and
it works for him. And Oral her Seizer told us
yesterday and explained it that, you know, he kind of
(05:12):
sees himself in Yamamotive in that they don't throw tremendously hard.
They can throw a lot of innings and they could
go out there multiple times. There's not a lot of
wear and tear every pitch. There's not a lot of
stress on their bodies when they pitch because they're so fluid,
and you know, you can throw ninety pitches and come
back the next day and still have that velocity, and
(05:33):
he does. He's not a chucker. He's not a guy
that's going to go out there and you know, just
empty it out there and be sore for the next
two days before he throws it again. In the pin
he is well groomed as far as his preparation, and
you see it out there, ninety five ninety six pinpoint.
I mean, what he throws, it's sort of like maddix X.
The ball tails a little bit. There's not a lot
(05:53):
of there's not a lot of effort to it, you know,
as you mentioned Pedro Martinez, there's not a lot of
just you know, effort, no ryoff, pushing off the mound,
and it's just very calm and fluid. And even in
the preyed yesterday Tims, he didn't smile. He just sat
there and nodded his head. The guy is just as
it comes. I mean, I don't know what his heart
rate is, but it's got to be like, you know,
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close to the sleeping rate. The guy is just so
calm and cool and doesn't get phazed.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
There was a great picture him sleeping with the trophy.
I mean, at least he took the trophy from everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean, he's a great guy. He is beloved
by his teammates. They they I guess it really goes
back to a year ago, want to pinpoint it. He
battled through some injuries, was kind of steeling his way
through major League baseball. He's signed this huge deal right
in the offseason, and Dodger fans and people around baseball
used to all like, who is this guy? Why did
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he get the biggest contract ever pictured? What is he
ever proven? And he got hurt, He comes back and
he pitches good for them, and then he gets to
October and I guess Keiky Hernandez kind of took him
out without his trains players said, hey man, we need
you to be you. We need you to be out
there and just be aggressive. We need you to do
out there and just pitch. And it resonated and Game
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five of the NLDS a year ago, Dodgers and Padres,
after they had come back down two games to one
of that best of five series. It was a Friday
night at Dodgers Stadium. Winner goes home or winner goes on,
loser goes home, and the Dodgers road Yama mood Pikhit
a big home run and that was his coming out party.
That was that bulldog. All Right, he's here. He's a
guy we can count worry about him anymore. And he
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went on pitch well in the postseason and then this
year thirty what start, two hundred plus strikeouts. He's going
to finish second or third in the in the Cy
Young Award behind scheme. I mean, he's a dude now,
I mean he has proven that whatever they gave him
for that three hundred million dollars is worked it so far.
Now it's a long contract obviously, but so far, so good.
And even yesterday Andrew Freeman, guy's the president of Baseball Operation,
(07:53):
joking he said, you know, we thought we knew everything
about him. You know, we did our research, we knew
what he was dying was, we knew everything about I'm
coming from Japan. That's why we wanted him so bad. Well,
we didn't know he had this in him. We did,
we didn't know he had that that that inner fight
that we've seen the last two postseasons.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
DIBs and I are talking about the unsung heroes that
always come through in World Series before this started, during
this started, and we thought we had some of the
guys peg to be that person. But for us, Miguel
Rojas never came up, never came up. How far down
the list was Miguel Rojas for you to be one
of the biggest heroes in Game seven in World Series history.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
No, if you were to ask anybody that he'd be
the guy to hit a home run with one out
and in the nine that eat of Game seven, Uh,
he'd probably be way way way down the list. I mean,
I probably put Alex call and haysum Kin in front
of him. But I mean, think of what he meant
in this World Series when he made the plays in
Game six. I mean that pick at second base to
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end Game six on the seven to four double play.
I mean Steve Sacks was telling him about how hard
that is to catch it, to hang onto it. The
moment wants your glove to go down and hit your
body and lodge it to hold onto the ball, and
the way he did was truly unbelievable. He made a
great play in Game seven to get the force play
at home. And keep in mind he's playing with an injury.
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He hurt himself in Game six or early in the playoffs.
He hurt himself and his lad injury is not even oblique,
but his intercostal I guess what they call it. And
he even bothered and to hit a home run with
that injury to play the defense he's played. And on
top of all this, right, Mookie Betts loved him next
to him at second base. He's he's his blanket, you know,
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so to speak, his cushion there and he talks him
through things, He helps him. He does it off the field,
and he has the last year and a half helping
Booky Bets because what should have been a both glove
a year for him and to have the two of
him out there in Game six and seven, you couldn't
have planned it any better as far as strategy defense.
And there's no way any of us thought he was
going to hit a home run. No way.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Talking to Tim Kats, a five seventy LA sports dotcher
his radio network. Also so the executive producer Petros some money,
and on and on and on. I mean, going back
forty to fifty years. Even when I played forty years
ago against the Dodgers, it was still a Laker town.
Then it was football, then it was Dodgers. Even though
the Dodgers are very successful, have the Dodgers like pushed
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anybody out of the way?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Are they more talked about than the Lakers? What do
you guys talk about on the West Coast?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Uh, it's Dodgers, Dodgers, and then yeah, oh yeah, Lebron
and the Lakers. It has been all Dodgers right now.
And once this dies down, maybe in a week or so.
I mean, I think I just looked in the Lakers
have won a couple in a row, and Lebron's hasn't
played and Austin Reeves and Luca are played well, so
we'll start getting into that. But the city is I mean,
if it was, it could have been more clear yesterday
(10:46):
that this is Stelle Laker Dodger City with the crowd
that showed up, and I mean everywhere you go, everybody's
wearing Dodger stuff, whether it's the new Dodger stuff or
old Dodger stuff, everybody's wearing Dodger stuff. And the buzz
is tremendous and it is going to continue to but
be a buzz now is this team has a chance
to maybe three P. But the Lakers would be second
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in the second order. USC football still a distant third
because they just haven't been relevant. Had the mid to
college football playoffs. The Angels might as well be in
baseball purgatory. Nobody talks about them. Yeah, I mean, you know,
they had Showy for six years and you never have
known it. You might as well thought he's still over
in Japan playing because he gets to the Dodgers, Like,
whoa look at this guy? Where'd he come from? Dodgers Lakers,
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USC football? But there's a lot of distance between one
and two and three.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right, you mentioned three P.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think the reason that a lot of people don't
like the Dodgers right now, it's not only like half
a billion dollar roster but we know that Magic Johnson
and that ownership group is going to do whatever it takes.
And you've got a really good general manager that's making
smart moves. That's why I think I think we all
hate y'all because we ain't y'all. What are the three
peat possibilities? What are some of the things this team
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is going to move around or has to move around,
And what are your thoughts on what they need to
do to make that a reality.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, two names that come to my mind, and I
saw this pop up today that the Cubs don't want
him a knock anymore the Dodgers and they take a
Japanese left hand or uh.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Get Ma Cowie as well from Japan.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh, Kyle Tucker is a name that the Dodgers certainly
used in the outfield. But if not, If not Kyle Tucker,
how about Cody Bellinger coming back to the West Coast
playing right field and no pressure there? Uh, well, they
do need another outfielder. I mean Michael confordo did not work.
He wasn't even on the roster for the postseason. So
he had a one year, eighteen million dollars deal. It
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didn't work out for him. Rewind a year ago before that,
they did the same deal for Taoska Ernandez and he
part laid that into a lucrative deal because he actually
paid off. But now they'll go and they'll try to
fill that void with somebody in the outfield. That's one,
and they probably need another starting picture. With Clayton Kershaw gone.
They've got a lot of young arms coming back. I'm
looking at it right now. Michael River, Ryan Gavinstone, Kyle Hurt,
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all guys, Tony Gonslin. There's five guys right there that
you can insert one of them into the rotation, two
of them if you need to, without even having to
make a move. And those are all guys in your organization.
Land in Neck. There's a sixth name, Michael Bobby Miller,
a seventh name. Those are all guys. The rookie Sasaki
could be going back to the rotation. So the rotation
is good, it's deep. They got guys coming back from
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injuries that they used in twenty four that we haven't
talked about or thought about in a few months. And Bullpen,
I mean, I was just talking to somebody who said,
you look at the roster for the Blue Jays and
the Dodgers in one of these games and you break
down their age. The Dodgers in one game had all
starters over the age of thirty. Meanwhile, the Blue Jays
all their starters I think, but one or maybe all
of them were in their twenties. So the Dodgers are
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getting a little long in the two. And then every
year that goes by, you know, that gets a little over.
Freddie Freeman gets a little older, Nax Monthy gets a
little older. How much more magic does Keik have in October?
You know you're going to have to start thinking about
two or three years down the road road. But next year,
next year certainly is doable. We looked at the division,
I mean we just saw who was it done? And
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you Darvish just now he's gonna have Tommy don surgery.
You know, they got free agents and their pitching staff down.
Michael King, I believe the free agent may not be back.
Maybe looking to break that up in San Diego and
try to get some prospects back because they went all
in here in twenty five and it didn't work. The
Giants are rebuilding. That's a good team. They can go
out and spend. They got money now, and Arizona's you know,
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kind of hanging around. Colorado's terrible, but you know it's
it's the division's winnable and as long as you win
the division. I like the Dodger's chances in October.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Kate's continued success. Brother, you know I love you. You're
all grown up. Now are your girls in college? Now?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Two of the three are in college, one's engaged to
get married actually start of college, and theeah the last
ones in high school. So then they're all over Arizona.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So all right, and give Steve Sachs my best I
love him.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I will.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's great, dude, one of the free Dodgers. I like
when you when you brought up oral Herscheizer, I nearly
had to kick myself in the groin.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Ah. He's a great guy too. Zachly would do some
health issues, uh during the season. He's good to go
now and actually lives in Sacramento, where he's from with
the A's there. He's part of the A's broadcast on television,
so he did some traveling this year pre imposted and
home games, so uh he has dialed in with the
A's as well.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So good stuff, good people, you are the best. Thank you.
Kate s tell Petro some money. I said, hello, will
do Thanks guys,
Back on the Rob Doubles Show with Ben Darnell in
Your Afternoon Shrive, joining us now my former producer. Now
he also is the executive producer Petrosen Money Show, host
the Dodgers on Deck pregame show, co host of Dodger Talk,
host of UCLA Brewin Talk, and now you can at
MC of back to back Dodger parade. So six out
(00:28):
was it? Six hours of being the MC of that
parade yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Timmy, Yeah, on the radio, six hours of work did yesterday?
We started off at nine am with myself and Steve
Sachs and our own David Vasse, our Dodger reporter who
was on one of the three player coach buses in
the parking lot, and we went for six hours too.
Can calls afterwards with fans who were still emotional and excited,
(00:53):
and just when you think you can have a celebration
in downtown LA and maybe it's getting old, yesterday happened
and there was more fans lined up in downtown LA
for that parade, and they sold out Dodger Stadium crowd
that nobody wanted to leave even if it was over,
and they were starting to blow to the streamers and
cafetti off the field from the grounds crew. Nobody wanted
to leave. It was truly a truly end of a
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great month of October.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Were you blown away by like the whole stadium was full,
filled with people packed? Were you blown away by that?
I mean, you don't normally see that. The parade's one thing,
but they all went back to the stadium and filled
it out for years in a row.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, it was amazing. A year ago they capped it
off from Petty who you talked to, was thirty thirty
five thousand, And it wasn't full last year, and there
was a lot of empty seats. And this year they
just they sold everything, or they give away every ticket,
or however they did it. That place was packed, and
it was packed while the parade was happening. A couple
of miles away in downtown Dodger Stadium was packed and
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they're watching it on the tumbo trons and everybody's drinking
and have a great time. And it was a great celebration.
It was either one or the other. Either you went
to the stadium and they're lucky to get a ticket,
or you were at the parade, and I mean it
was no Joe ten twelve people deep from barricade to
the building up and down Grand in Figaroa, which are
two main arteries through downtown. Lay that Chris crossed was
(02:12):
Fifth and sixth Street, and it was truly amazing to
see and there was no disturbances, There was no issue,
no Shenanigans, nobody being stupid out there. It was just
truly a celebration. I felt like it was just an
extail for the entire city on what was an epic
World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, truly, California love. We saw a lot of smiles.
But how does it feel, tim to be the most
hated in Major League Baseball? Because the rest of the
world hates you guys. Now you're the evil Empire of
Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So how does that feel? Have you? Guys?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Warn that Moniker?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well, yet we wear it with pride. And I think
there was a Blue Jay analyst that said that the
better team didn't win this World Series. Okay, all right, Yeah,
I know the Dodgers did two oh three and they
actually got outscored runs wise in this series. But I
mean they found a way to win in eight innings
in games with a home run. They found a way
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to win in Toronto three of the four game that
they played there, and Yoshinoba Yamamoto, what he did was
unbelievable and divis You can appreciate that as a pitcher.
I mean, I mean in an era where we got
agents and people in people's ears, and you know you
don't need to do this. You got to make ten
year contract, thanks yourself. Dude, what are you doing? You
don't have to worry about this And he says, no,
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I want to pitch, and he says, there's no option
of losing. I mean, this guy has turned in guys
to one of the heartbeats of this team and one
of the center pieces. I mean Otawni Yamamoto, I mean
Kershaw is on his way out and really wasn't you
know the guy in this world series? He was a
part of it, but not a lot. I mean, Yamamoto
has won over the city of la with his attitude
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and his grid and his desire to pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Talking to Tim Kates covers the Dodgers in La. Let
me let me ask you about that too, because the
kid he reminds me of Paidro Martinez seventy five, driven wet,
He's not show, hey, show hey is six five sixty six.
He's a huge dude. Everything he does has got eyeballs on.
It's this other kid. He comes in there and steals
(04:09):
the show and wants to pitch on back to back
days in game six and Game seven, And like you said,
most guys puss out. Most guys are like, oh, I
got a bad arm or whatnot. And that guy's willing
to be a gamer to win a championship. What's he like?
I love watching him work. He's he's doing his mechanics
(04:30):
from center field and throwing to the foul line, which
you know, that was stuff we used to do because
we didn't know any better. Now they're like, oh no, no, no,
you might hurt yourself. But everything this guy does is
kind of like old school.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
He is. He's you can appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
He's a pitcher. I totally do. I love him.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
He's he's a guy that is a little unorthodox. He
throws a javelin his or is working properly and he's strengthened.
He does things a little bit differently than other guys
do now and we see Paul Schemes kind of do
some unorthodox ways of getting ready in between starts and
it works for him. And Oral her Seizer told us
yesterday and explained it that, you know, he kind of
(05:12):
sees himself in Yamamotive in that they don't throw tremendously hard.
They can throw a lot of innings and they could
go out there multiple times. There's not a lot of
wear and tear every pitch. There's not a lot of
stress on their bodies when they pitch because they're so fluid,
and you know, you can throw ninety pitches and come
back the next day and still have that velocity, and
(05:33):
he does. He's not a chucker. He's not a guy
that's going to go out there and you know, just
empty it out there and be sore for the next
two days before he throws it again. In the pin
he is well groomed as far as his preparation, and
you see it out there, ninety five ninety six pinpoint.
I mean, what he throws, it's sort of like maddix X.
The ball tails a little bit. There's not a lot
(05:53):
of there's not a lot of effort to it, you know,
as you mentioned Pedro Martinez, there's not a lot of
just you know, effort, no ryoff, pushing off the mound,
and it's just very calm and fluid. And even in
the preyed yesterday Tims, he didn't smile. He just sat
there and nodded his head. The guy is just as
it comes. I mean, I don't know what his heart
rate is, but it's got to be like, you know,
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close to the sleeping rate. The guy is just so
calm and cool and doesn't get phazed.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
There was a great picture him sleeping with the trophy.
I mean, at least he took the trophy from everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean, he's a great guy. He is beloved
by his teammates. They they I guess it really goes
back to a year ago, want to pinpoint it. He
battled through some injuries, was kind of steeling his way
through major League baseball. He's signed this huge deal right
in the offseason, and Dodger fans and people around baseball
used to all like, who is this guy? Why did
(06:48):
he get the biggest contract ever pictured? What is he
ever proven? And he got hurt, He comes back and
he pitches good for them, and then he gets to
October and I guess Keiky Hernandez kind of took him
out without his trains players said, hey man, we need
you to be you. We need you to be out
there and just be aggressive. We need you to do
out there and just pitch. And it resonated and Game
(07:08):
five of the NLDS a year ago, Dodgers and Padres,
after they had come back down two games to one
of that best of five series. It was a Friday
night at Dodgers Stadium. Winner goes home or winner goes on,
loser goes home, and the Dodgers road Yama mood Pikhit
a big home run and that was his coming out party.
That was that bulldog. All Right, he's here. He's a
guy we can count worry about him anymore. And he
(07:30):
went on pitch well in the postseason and then this
year thirty what start, two hundred plus strikeouts. He's going
to finish second or third in the in the Cy
Young Award behind scheme. I mean, he's a dude now,
I mean he has proven that whatever they gave him
for that three hundred million dollars is worked it so far.
Now it's a long contract obviously, but so far, so good.
And even yesterday Andrew Freeman, guy's the president of Baseball Operation,
(07:53):
joking he said, you know, we thought we knew everything
about him. You know, we did our research, we knew
what he was dying was, we knew everything about I'm
coming from Japan. That's why we wanted him so bad. Well,
we didn't know he had this in him. We did,
we didn't know he had that that that inner fight
that we've seen the last two postseasons.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
DIBs and I are talking about the unsung heroes that
always come through in World Series before this started, during
this started, and we thought we had some of the
guys peg to be that person. But for us, Miguel
Rojas never came up, never came up. How far down
the list was Miguel Rojas for you to be one
of the biggest heroes in Game seven in World Series history.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
No, if you were to ask anybody that he'd be
the guy to hit a home run with one out
and in the nine that eat of Game seven, Uh,
he'd probably be way way way down the list. I mean,
I probably put Alex call and haysum Kin in front
of him. But I mean, think of what he meant
in this World Series when he made the plays in
Game six. I mean that pick at second base to
(08:52):
end Game six on the seven to four double play.
I mean Steve Sacks was telling him about how hard
that is to catch it, to hang onto it. The
moment wants your glove to go down and hit your
body and lodge it to hold onto the ball, and
the way he did was truly unbelievable. He made a
great play in Game seven to get the force play
at home. And keep in mind he's playing with an injury.
(09:13):
He hurt himself in Game six or early in the playoffs.
He hurt himself and his lad injury is not even oblique,
but his intercostal I guess what they call it. And
he even bothered and to hit a home run with
that injury to play the defense he's played. And on
top of all this, right, Mookie Betts loved him next
to him at second base. He's he's his blanket, you know,
(09:36):
so to speak, his cushion there and he talks him
through things, He helps him. He does it off the field,
and he has the last year and a half helping
Booky Bets because what should have been a both glove
a year for him and to have the two of
him out there in Game six and seven, you couldn't
have planned it any better as far as strategy defense.
And there's no way any of us thought he was
going to hit a home run. No way.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Talking to Tim Kats, a five seventy LA sports dotcher
his radio network. Also so the executive producer Petros some money,
and on and on and on. I mean, going back
forty to fifty years. Even when I played forty years
ago against the Dodgers, it was still a Laker town.
Then it was football, then it was Dodgers. Even though
the Dodgers are very successful, have the Dodgers like pushed
(10:18):
anybody out of the way?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Are they more talked about than the Lakers? What do
you guys talk about on the West Coast?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Uh, it's Dodgers, Dodgers, and then yeah, oh yeah, Lebron
and the Lakers. It has been all Dodgers right now.
And once this dies down, maybe in a week or so.
I mean, I think I just looked in the Lakers
have won a couple in a row, and Lebron's hasn't
played and Austin Reeves and Luca are played well, so
we'll start getting into that. But the city is I mean,
if it was, it could have been more clear yesterday
(10:46):
that this is Stelle Laker Dodger City with the crowd
that showed up, and I mean everywhere you go, everybody's
wearing Dodger stuff, whether it's the new Dodger stuff or
old Dodger stuff, everybody's wearing Dodger stuff. And the buzz
is tremendous and it is going to continue to but
be a buzz now is this team has a chance
to maybe three P. But the Lakers would be second
(11:07):
in the second order. USC football still a distant third
because they just haven't been relevant. Had the mid to
college football playoffs. The Angels might as well be in
baseball purgatory. Nobody talks about them. Yeah, I mean, you know,
they had Showy for six years and you never have
known it. You might as well thought he's still over
in Japan playing because he gets to the Dodgers, Like,
whoa look at this guy? Where'd he come from? Dodgers Lakers,
(11:32):
USC football? But there's a lot of distance between one
and two and three.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right, you mentioned three P.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think the reason that a lot of people don't
like the Dodgers right now, it's not only like half
a billion dollar roster but we know that Magic Johnson
and that ownership group is going to do whatever it takes.
And you've got a really good general manager that's making
smart moves. That's why I think I think we all
hate y'all because we ain't y'all. What are the three
peat possibilities? What are some of the things this team
(11:58):
is going to move around or has to move around,
And what are your thoughts on what they need to
do to make that a reality.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, two names that come to my mind, and I
saw this pop up today that the Cubs don't want
him a knock anymore the Dodgers and they take a
Japanese left hand or uh.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Get Ma Cowie as well from Japan.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh, Kyle Tucker is a name that the Dodgers certainly
used in the outfield. But if not, If not Kyle Tucker,
how about Cody Bellinger coming back to the West Coast
playing right field and no pressure there? Uh, well, they
do need another outfielder. I mean Michael confordo did not work.
He wasn't even on the roster for the postseason. So
he had a one year, eighteen million dollars deal. It
(12:40):
didn't work out for him. Rewind a year ago before that,
they did the same deal for Taoska Ernandez and he
part laid that into a lucrative deal because he actually
paid off. But now they'll go and they'll try to
fill that void with somebody in the outfield. That's one,
and they probably need another starting picture. With Clayton Kershaw gone.
They've got a lot of young arms coming back. I'm
looking at it right now. Michael River, Ryan Gavinstone, Kyle Hurt,
(13:02):
all guys, Tony Gonslin. There's five guys right there that
you can insert one of them into the rotation, two
of them if you need to, without even having to
make a move. And those are all guys in your organization.
Land in Neck. There's a sixth name, Michael Bobby Miller,
a seventh name. Those are all guys. The rookie Sasaki
could be going back to the rotation. So the rotation
is good, it's deep. They got guys coming back from
(13:23):
injuries that they used in twenty four that we haven't
talked about or thought about in a few months. And Bullpen,
I mean, I was just talking to somebody who said,
you look at the roster for the Blue Jays and
the Dodgers in one of these games and you break
down their age. The Dodgers in one game had all
starters over the age of thirty. Meanwhile, the Blue Jays
all their starters I think, but one or maybe all
of them were in their twenties. So the Dodgers are
(13:45):
getting a little long in the two. And then every
year that goes by, you know, that gets a little over.
Freddie Freeman gets a little older, Nax Monthy gets a
little older. How much more magic does Keik have in October?
You know you're going to have to start thinking about
two or three years down the road road. But next year,
next year certainly is doable. We looked at the division,
I mean we just saw who was it done? And
(14:08):
you Darvish just now he's gonna have Tommy don surgery.
You know, they got free agents and their pitching staff down.
Michael King, I believe the free agent may not be back.
Maybe looking to break that up in San Diego and
try to get some prospects back because they went all
in here in twenty five and it didn't work. The
Giants are rebuilding. That's a good team. They can go
out and spend. They got money now, and Arizona's you know,
(14:28):
kind of hanging around. Colorado's terrible, but you know it's
it's the division's winnable and as long as you win
the division. I like the Dodger's chances in October.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Kate's continued success. Brother, you know I love you. You're
all grown up. Now are your girls in college? Now?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Two of the three are in college, one's engaged to
get married actually start of college, and theeah the last
ones in high school. So then they're all over Arizona.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So all right, and give Steve Sachs my best I
love him.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I will.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's great, dude, one of the free Dodgers. I like
when you when you brought up oral Herscheizer, I nearly
had to kick myself in the groin.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Ah. He's a great guy too. Zachly would do some
health issues, uh during the season. He's good to go
now and actually lives in Sacramento, where he's from with
the A's there. He's part of the A's broadcast on television,
so he did some traveling this year pre imposted and
home games, so uh he has dialed in with the
A's as well.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So good stuff, good people, you are the best. Thank you.
Kate s tell Petro some money. I said, hello, will
do Thanks guys,
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