February 17, 2025 • 46 mins
Spring Training Dodger Talk with David Vassegh from Glendale, Arizona.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are live in Glendale, Arizona. Welcome to Dodger Talk,
our only show of the week here on AM five
seventy LA Sports, and we've got a great show for
you tonight. We will let you here inside the Dodger Clubhouse,
inside the team meeting on Saturday for the first full
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squad meeting where Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman addressed the team.
We will share that with you in fifteen minutes. Also
coming up in thirty minutes, you will hear from one
of the key players in last year's championship run, especially
in October, the one and only two time World Series
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champion with the Dodgers, Blake Trinan. Who can ever forget
Game five, after Jack Flaherty lasted what two innings the
Dodgers had to go to their bullpen, Blake trining was
in a key spot, throwing more pitches than he had
ever thrown in a game forty six? Who can never
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forget Dave Roberts going out to the mound in the
eighth inning just checking the temperature of trying to see
where he was at. And he delivered for his manager,
he delivered for his teammates, And it's the first time
I have interviewed Blake Trying in since talking to him
in the moment on the field at Yankee Stadium after
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the Dodgers were victorious in that World Series. Just amazing,
amazing player, amazing person, an amazing competitor. Blake Trying and
we had some fun. He tried to hold me accountable
and I try to hold him accountable. What happened was
he started grabbing my microphone. And for those that know
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the first rule of broadcasting, number one rule, you never
allow anybody to grab the microphone from you. That's number one.
If you're up on a platform, if you're at the
school function and you're the MC, don't ever let anybody
grab the microphone. And I let Blake try and grab
the microphone, and you will hear that conversation coming up
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at the bottom of the hour. We had a great
first day at Camel Back Ranch. I just got back
from the Buffalo Wing Eating Contest, the seventh annual Buffalo
Wing Eating Contest. Justin Turner started this seven years ago.
Mookie Betts has taken the baton and last year's winner,
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Hero Yoshi Yamamoto's interpreter was victorious. He was not able
to defend his title. Tonight, it was Dominican assistant pitching
coach heyesus Canizalez that won the Buffalo wing eating contest,
and it was Mookie Bets, Dave Roberts, Yamamoto, Shohio Tani
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that all contributed to the fund for whoever won this
Buffalo wing eating contest. I believe the grand prize was
twenty five hundred dollars, so I'm happy for a minor
league pitching coach to get a little extra spending cash
during spring training. We do have phone lines open until
eight o'clock. Eight six six nine eighty seven, two five
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seventy is the phone number. It was actually incredible because
I brought my wife and kids over to the Buffalo
wing eating contest. My son Joseph loves to watch grown
men embarrass themselves by eating countless number of boneless wings,
and we encountered the entire team. They all showed up
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and it was similar to last year. All the players
showed up, and it was pretty incredible that you had
you had shoe A Otani and Mookie Beds standing in
this Buffalo Wild Wing restaurant right in the heart of
the Westgate Town Center here in Glendale, Arizona. And after
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we watched it for a little bit, we went across
the way to have some dinner, and all of a sudden,
in this massive outdoor mall area. If you ever been
to see the Dodgers in Glendale, Arizona, you know where
I'm talking about. There's a bunch of bunch of restaurants
in this outdoor type of mall area, and you can
hear the buzz start to generate around the courtyard that
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the Dodgers were there, that Otani was there, that Mookie
Beds was there, and it was pretty amazing to see.
It was kind of a like a tidal wave of
buzz going through that outdoor mall and yeah, show hey,
Otani was standing right there. You could have got a
great look at Otani out of uniform, in street clothes,
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hanging out with his teammates. So that was pretty cool
as well. Now at camp today, the big buzz was
Dustin May throwing to hitters for the first time this spring.
Of course, we all know about the Dustin May career arc.
He has great stuff, but it seems like sometimes the
velocity that he throws is too much for his body.
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To Tommy John surgeries. He had an unfortunate esophagus accident
where he was eating dinner, and I guess he's going
with that. He had a piece of lettuce that created
a major medical emergency, and that derailed any thoughts of
a possible comeback last year. So you had the entire
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I wouldn't say the entire team, but you had a
lot of guys stop down to see what he had
to see the way he looked, and I was told
it was remarkable. I could get into the vertical tilt
and all that, but it was plus plus stuff today
from Dustin May. From what I was told, Max Month,
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see Kei Ky Hernandez faced him and they did not
have very comfortable swings against Dustin May. And of course,
in this juncture of spring training, we always say the
pitchers are ahead of the hitter, so that's part of
this as well. But I'm not gonna sit here and
try to break down what Dustin May was doing. I
could just give you the feedback that I got from
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some of the coaches that were watching today, And I
can also tell you when there is a certain picture
on the mound, and not only front office people, but
teammates gather around the batting cage to watch it. It
means something, and everybody wanted to see and support Dustin
May because a lot of guys have been on this
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journey with him. It stood out to me that Tony
Gonsolin made it a point they were roommates for a
long time. Alex Vesia stopped down and really was making
it known that he was here to see Dustin May. So,
Blake Snell was there to see Dustin May. So a
lot of guys were interested to see what Dustin May had,
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what Dustin May had, and what does it mean? What
does it mean for Dustin May if he comes out
of spring training healthy, does he have a spot in
this rotation? I believe he does to start the year.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I believe there's a competition going on between Dustin May,
Tony Gonsolin, and Bobby Miller. Are there two spots?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Are there?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Three spots? Are there?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Just?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is there just one spot? That's contingent on whether or
not Roki Sazaki starts games to begin the North American
part of the Dodgers schedule after he starts in Japan.
Dave Roberts made that announcement last week. He's planning to
have the two Japanese pitchers start in Tokyo at the
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Tokyo Dome where they won the World Baseball Classic. That
was Yoshi Yamamoto and Roki Sazaki going up against the Cubs.
But look, Roki Sazaki is not a finished product by
any means.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He's just not.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I know, everybody keeps on hyping up this guy, but
last year was not a smooth year for him in Japan.
He has a lot to prove and I'm not going
to say that today or this year, Roki Sazaki is
going to live up to the hype. This is a project.
Any team that was signing Roki Suzaki was signing a project,
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and he he's going to start, but there's going to
be some bumps along the way, and how is he
going to handle that? How do the Dodgers handle that
as well? So that's why there's there's spots available in
the rotation. So that's the way it looks as far
as the rotation goes, because Otani eventually will be in there,
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Roki Sazaki from time to time will be in there.
Does Glass now stay healthy? He's a full participant. So
there's some question marks surrounding this eight six six, eight, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number, and saw Mooki
Bets today. He's in great spirits. He has a great
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clear head on his shoulders, and you're going to hear
his message to his teammates coming up in our next segment.
And he definitely has set the tone again for the
Dodgers like he did last year where he was so determined.
And my understanding is that during the off season he
was with P. D. Montero, one of the Dodger coaches
who is a great infield instructor, a disciple at Reggie
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Smith now on Dave Roberts's staff, and P. D. Montero
was working with Mookie Betts in the San Fernando Valley
all winter long and watching Mooki make the throws today,
it was everything that people had been talking about that, yes,
the throws are much better, and more importantly, talking to
Chris Woodward, the confidence is there. Mooki was still a
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little unsure of himself at shortstop last year. I know
it's just the backfields, I know it's just practice, but
he seems a lot more confident at that position. We're
gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When
we come back your phone calls, we have two lines
open at eight six six nine eighty seven two five
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seventy we will take you inside the Dodger Clubhouse to
hear what Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman had to say
to their teammates on the first day of full squad workouts.
And also coming up at the bottom of the hour,
you don't want to miss my conversation with one of
the heroes of the World Series, Blake Trining David Vasse
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live in Glendale, Arizona on your home for the World
Champion Dodgers AM five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers
first spring training game, Cactus League Opener is coming up
on Thursday, and you will hear it live on your
home for the World Champion Dodgers AM five to seventy
(10:45):
LA Sports. It is against the Chicago Cubs at Camelback
Ranch and it is at.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Twelve oh five on.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Thursday afternoon against the Cubs. And on Friday, the Dodgers
in cub hook up again, this time at Sloan Park,
So the Dodgers and Cubs will be facing off in Tokyo, Japan.
They're the first two teams to report to spring training
and they will face off in the first two games
of the Cactus League. And since this is our only
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live show this week from Glendale, Arizona, I may have
to do a Dodger Talk podcast exclusive for the iHeartRadio
app at some point this week. But you will hear
us live on Dodgers on Deck beginning at eleven thirty
before first pitch this Thursday at twelve five the Cactus
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League opener. Yes, it is time for Dodger Baseball and
we have your world champions covered right here on Dodgers
Radio and five to seventy LA Sports coming up at
the bottom of the hour, you will hear from Blake Trining.
In a moment, I will take you inside the Dodger
Clubhouse to hear the message for Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman.
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But first let's take some phone calls. Let's go out
to Camillo. Clay, You're on Dodger Talk with David Masse.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Clay, Hey, Hi David, thank you, enjoy you and your commentary.
You do a great job.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Thank you, Clay.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I want hey, I wanted to talk a little bit
about something that I saw and my friends and I
have discussed it, and I wanted to see if it
ever came up. That infamous fifth inning of the Game five,
I saw that keik A when he's running to third
took kind of a different route, and I wanted to
ask your opinion, if you've talked to him about that,
if that's come up in conversation, and do you think
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that had a role in the shortstops throughout a third
he kind of takes kind of an outward run. You
could tell that he makes a little bit of a
jog outside to go to the base clay.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It's incredible you brought that up because I was talking
about that base running play and a few other different
little things that added up to the Dodgers winning that
World Series with Dave ro Roberts last night, and he
brought up that play that was one hundred percent intentional
by Keith k a Hernandez. And I know we think
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about the clutch hits and the clutch home runs by
Keith ka in October, but what makes him such a
good player is that he is a baseball player. He
has a high baseball IQ, and in that moment his
IQ delivered, he knew he had to try to find
a way to make that throw tougher on Anthony Volpi
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to get to Josh Chisholm. So that was one hundred
percent intentional for key k to take that route from
second base to third base.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yep, that's what I thought. And I had one other
thing if you got time, Yeah, your thoughts on Aaron
Judge when Tae Oscar hit the ball to the left
center field and short hoped the sense do you think
if you watch him, do you think that the catch
that he made against these against Freeman, I see that
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he's not going full speed. Do you think there was
any way that he could have got that ball?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
There was a chance. I thought that in the moment,
it just seemed like he made a great catch. But
he made a few other blunders. The obvious one was
dropping the ball to start the Dodger rally in Game
five of that fifth inning, but there were a few
going against the wall, the one that you're talking about
in particular, where he did not play it well and
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Juan Soto had a rough time in right field during
that World Series, and that costs the Yankees and gave
the Dodgers a ninety extra feet a few different times.
The first one that comes to mind is Otani's double
that Soto did not get too quickly and made a
poor throw and labor Taurus couldn't stay in front of it,
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and Shohotani got to third base and the Dodgers tied
the score thanks to a sacrifice fly. If if Otani's
held to a double, the Dodgers don't tie the score there.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Yep, that's right, very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Appreciate it all right, be safe out there, Clay, Thanks
for the phone call. Yeah, And you know I talked
about this on sports and at LA last week. You know,
it's a reflection on Aaron Boone. How poorly the Yankees
did the little things because the tone is set with
the manager, and Dave Roberts has empowered his coaches last
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year Clayton McCullough and Dino Ebel this year Chris Woodward
and Dino Ebel among others, to hold the players accountable,
get them out there, their work, and I'll never forget
the rest of my life. Just how from day one
here in spring training the tone was set by Mookie
Betts and Freddie Freeman, and not by their words, but
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by their action and the work they put in and
that never stopped. Each and every day before every game,
they were out there working and it continued through the
World Series. And it was sobering and eye opening, honestly,
when the Yankees had the opportunity to have early work
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before every World Series game, there were no Yankees out
there doing any infield drills. It was shocking, considering how
bad they were defensively, that nobody was out there trying
to get better. But on the flip side, on the
Dodger side, you had guys that are really good defensively,
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and Keike Hernandez, Tommy Edmond, Chris Taylor, Mookie Bets, Freddie
Freeman who was on a bad right ankle among other things,
and he was still out there putting in the early
work and the Yankees never did. And that was I
know we keep saying this, but pitching, defense, base running
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were the biggest difference in that World Series. And nobody'll
ever forget the fifth inning of Game five, one of
the epic meltdowns by any team in any World Series game,
in any World Series. Inning eight six, six, seven, two,
five seventy is the phone number. This is Dodger Talk.
David Vasse live in Glendale, Arizona with the world champion
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Dodgers as they get set for trying to defend this
championship and become the first team since the Yankees twenty
five years ago to win back to back World Series championships.
And there's been a lot of talk about trying to
win one hundred and sixteen games winning back to back
World Series. But as you know, in baseball, especially if
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you start looking that far ahead, that's where you get
tripped up. And on Saturday, the Dodgers had their first
full team meeting and Mookie Betts was called upon by
Dave Roberts to speak. Freddie Freeman was called upon by
Dave Roberts to address their team and here's what they
had to say. We are taking you deep inside the
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Dodger Clubhouse. Here's Freddy Freeman and Mookie Betts on Saturday
setting the tone for the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
I mean, I think I'm just gonna harp on what
you said. Every single night since I've been a professional
baseball player is when I lay my head on my
pillar at night, did I give everything I have to
get better that day? And I've been doing that for
a long time. Special this is my fourth year. We're
in this uniform and I got to win it for
the first time in this uniform last year and that
means everything. I mean, MOOKI he's got three titles. I've
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got two, Max. A lot of these guys got two
titles in here. Like Mukey said on that video, we
want more. When you win one, you want to win
another one. You just want to keep winning and winning
and winning. And when you put on this uniform, that's
this is the epitome of baseball right here as the Dodgers.
And to be able to put this uniform on it
every day when you walk in this clubhouse, make it
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feel special because it is special to put this uniform on.
A lot of us are coming in here grinding already.
You know, we're here at seven am trying to get
our bodies ready to do this. And when you win
this thing at the end of it, everything is worth
it at the end. It really is. A lot of
us went through a lot last year to do that
and put a ring on, and I promise you guys,
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it is worth it in the end. So come in
here every day, put this uniform on and make it
mean something to you, just like talk was saying, and
we'll see you at the end of this thing.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I would say just.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Everything Freddy, say everything Doc said. I would say something
new for me this year that I'm working on, since
it's like I do have three never went back to back,
and to me, I think doing all the things that
Doc said.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Is going to be key. But I think discipline.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
I think discipline is showing up each and every day,
giving your effort, giving it what you got, working on
whatever you need to work on. But it's the only
way to do it. So we got to figure it
out and we'll be starting today with discipline, doing everything in.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
The right ways.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts addressing their teammates on
Saturday when the full squad got together for the first
time officially, and you were inside that Dodger clubhouse, And
thank you to Sue Joe and the Dodgers social media
team for posting that on the Dodgers' social media accounts,
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because that just gives you a peek inside on just
the tone and the mindset of this team. And you
heard what Mooki Bets had to say. He has three
World Series championships, he's never won back to Backworld series,
Freddie Freeman, Father Time is undefeated. Freddie is well aware
of that, and it feels like these guys Mookie Bets,
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Freddie Freeman and sho Hey Otani, along with Teoscar Hernandez
and Max Munsey, they understand, you know, what they have
here and there is a fine time that these guys
have left in their careers and they're not taking any
season for granted. And I love what they had to say.
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I love that Mookie Beds has grown into a leadership
role where he's comfortable enough to stand up and express
himself that way. If you go back to twenty twenty,
he was not as willing to be that guy, and
it's hard when you're the new guy. But he has
really grown into it and I saw it, especially last year,
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the tone he set for himself and for the team.
He really has started to become more of a leader
by example and also a voice in that clubhouse. And
I love hearing those two guys really grow into being
Dodgers and taking ownership of this team because it is
their team. Along with Otani, along with Max Munsey, it
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is their team and their time is now. The Dodgers
have you know a read a five year window here
with these players to try to make this happen and
also pass the baton to other younger players to understand
what it takes to win and put on a Dodger
uniform and really excel with that type of expectations on you.
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Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Now, Freddie Freeman had right ankle surgery.
If you heard our interview on Dodger Fest from Dodger
Fest a few weeks ago, he was pretty candid about
where the ankle was at that time. Now he's expected
to begin running this week and I was pleasantly surprised
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to see Freddie Freeman actually taking ground balls and moving
around the first base bag defensively today. That's a great
sign that his right ankle is cooperating with his timeline,
because I know the Dodgers would left Freddy to take
it as slow as possible and not rush it. But
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Freddy wants to.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Be out there.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's the type of player he is, and he's doing
everything he can to be out there and ready to
go for Tokyo Japan. So that's a great sign. Also
another observation love seeing the way that hayes on Kim
has been embraced by this team and the middle infielders,
actually all the infielders gather around the second base bag
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and start channing. Let's go Dodgers to kind of put
some pressure on Kim for the last round ball of
the workout, and if he doesn't make the play cleanly,
they all have to start the drill over again. And
he's delivered. Everybody's been marveling about his defense, his speed.
The bat is a little bit behind those two things,
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so we'll have to see whether or not he can hit.
But the Dodgers are sold already on his defense and
on his speed. Eight six six seven two five seventy
is the phone number. When we continue, you will hear
from one of the stars, the heroes of the World
Series and the Dodgers. October Run. Two time World Series
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Champion Blake Trinan is next on Dodger Talk right here
on a five to seventy LA Sports. Two time two
time World Series champion, just a monster year last year
led the Dodger bullpen in more ways than one, and
this interview is three months in the making. I remember
exactly where I was when I set up this interview
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in Dallas, Texas had Nick and Sam's Dodgers player relations
Wanderrado was sitting across from me as I text Blake
Trinan about coming on the show as he signed his
extension with the Dodgers. Blake, it's great to see you.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
You know what most people don't understand here is that
when you're a free agent, you like to be the
one to tell your family first about you signing a deal.
And Dave's the rat that told this slapstick in Houston.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Oh you were in Dallas. How close is that to Houston.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The guy was from Washington State.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh it wasn't. The guy was from Houston.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Some dude from a like a sports reporter in Houston,
which people in the sports world in Houston are slightly
disrespected right now for good reason.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Anyways, Well, can you you actually explain this to me again?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Rip open, Let go to Mike Dave. So here's what's
gonna you know, here's not Dave, it's my show right now.
So here's what's happening. Well, you gave it up. So
Dave texts me and says, hey, word on the street
is you're a Dodger again.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And here's the specifics. I'm like, how the crap do
you know that Dave?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Well, apparently Dave in this I don't even know this
dude's name in Houston were sitting also with Wan's discussing specifics.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Dave, it's my time to talk.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I've got the microphone, I can talk, and so he's like,
when can I get you on the rumor's true?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
And I was like, I don't want all I'm about
Dave did. I started to pass physical Apparently the whole
world knew before I knew.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
And so I told Dave that when it was official,
I would get on the show with him, and then
there was some random miscommunications that led us to spring.
You can tell by his cynical laugh that he knows
I'm right.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
He was the mole. So Dave, continue with your show.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Number One, it's not my fault. People like to confide
in me. Number two, Blake Trining did not confide in
me to give me that news. Number Three, I never
tweeted any information out.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
That's just interesting that you knew Houston guy, Dave guy.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Now I find out three months later or however long
it was, that you were in the same state as
this guy.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I thought this guy was the kid that you were
playing catch with during twenty twenty on your street from.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Wawa Tosa, Wawa Tosa.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah, thanks for not actually saying where I live, Dave,
I was that close and never doing your show again.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, I'm try. Love.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I love how you explained this to me, because I
don't think we as media and also fans don't realize
in the eagerness to break news, you want to break
it to your teammates as well as your family.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
So the problem is I've got, you know, blessed a
lot of good people in my life. So I've got
like hundreds of people texting me like, hey, congrats, is
it true?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Is it true?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And I'm like, if I fil my physical this is
gonna be a weird conversation. And so everybody's asking these
questions and I got to tell everybody know it's not true,
and then wait and then text everybody all over again
and say, hey, it was true.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
So it's kind of.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Like, you know, everybody wants to be the first look
at me. Look what I did. I you know, slap
my fingers on a couple of digital icons on a phone,
and I should get a pat on the back for
being a great reporter. No, it's like, why don't you
let the player have a chance to reveal it to
you know their family and friends.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
And then I.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Find someone like Day because he's taken time to get
to know me and be a friend, or so I thought,
and then he could release it.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I never released anything.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I mean, that's what's so weird. Some dude in Houston.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
So somebody in the office knows this guy, and we
need to get to the bottom of the day.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I feel like he was from Pullman Washington.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Thirty two ounce Tomahawk's steak for you if you figure
out who the mole is?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Are you willing to fess up right now?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I am not the male? How dare you?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I'm insulted you would even say that, because I have
another question. During your long winded answer right there, was
that a humble brag when you said I have hundreds
of friends? Are you saying that you're that beloved? And we,
as mere mortals only have maybe a twenty person inner circle,
But Blake Tryning has hundreds of friends.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Are you ready to eat crop? Are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I come from a big family, so first knock me
on that. Secondly, I come from a small town, and
they are all big followers. As anybody does anything from
a small town, you support them.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
So yes, hundreds, I would say, like.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Probably close to two hundred people on any given day
of something big happening, whether it's the World Series or
the big.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Signing, I do get text hundreds.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
And it's funny that Dave tries to pull this out
because his fifty followers. He's really jealous that I've got
two hundred followers and he's.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Got a sports show. How does la put you?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
How do you get to hold a Dodger's icon on
this thing when you got fifty people listening right now,
I'll have you my two hundred and fifty, two hundred
and fifty people listening.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Number One, you made me break the cardinal rule of
giving up the mic. That's number one rule in broadcasting.
Never give up the mic when you're doing Boise State
play by play.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Just remember that I'm a jack rabbit, so thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
My wife was a voice of Say Bronco, but I'm
a South Dakota State jack rabbit.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
All right, let's go back to the text.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Hundreds of close personal friends of Blake Tryning when you
won the World series. When you won the World Series?
How much did your phone light up when you got
back to it after the celebration, just the whole experience
for you.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I had over five hundred text messages and it took
me three days to respond and I was fried. But
I did my best to respond to everybody. And the
hard part is is, because you know, like you got
God puts a lot of good people in your life,
you want to you want to respond to everybody, and
then uh, they're they want to start asking questions about
what it was like. And so then it's like, hey, guys,
just give me a couple of weeks and I'll talk
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as much as you want.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I just I need to. I need to kind of
like calm down a little bit. So but it was great.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's really it's really kind of a cool thing to
see that many people who are enjoying following your career,
and uh, but it is it.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Was quite a bit afterwards to to.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Get your mind reset and have some like, you know,
mental clarity because it's it's winning World Series amazing. It's
crazy you don't think about how much it zaps your
energy after it's done, Like how you don't really think
about how much you're getting tired through it when as
soon as that final pitch is done.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I remember getting on.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
The plane, I can barely walk, and I was like
mentally tired and felt like I had a hip replacement.
It was just so weird, but uh, it was just
it is just from like the extensive workload, you know,
in that Game five, probably which I still felt good
when I was pitching, but afterwards, I remember doing the
parade and I was like getting my hip worked on.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm like, where are the off season? I'm getting my
hip worked on?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So I think back to that World Series.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Obviously, Freddie's Grand Slam is a moment in time that
will be forever remembered. But and I know there were
a lot of great moments, but for me personally, the
second moment that flashes into my mind is when Dave
Roberts came to the mound in Game five and Freddie
Freeman believed in you. Dave Roberts believed in you, and
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you believed in yourself. Do you remember that moment or
is that one of those blackout type of things where
you're in the mid and.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I, you know, I've not really had a lot of
the time to talk to Dave about it, you know,
like he's he's right and coming out right there.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
But I remember seeing him in a moment like, frick, Dave, like,
what are you doing out here? Like I gotta know.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I'm trying to like pitch around him a little bit
because Stanton's a better matchup even though he's on fire.
I used my strengths. It's a better matchup if I execute.
And uh, when he came out, he's like he gave
me like the hands. I was like, hey, calm down,
I just want to talk and I haven't made my
mind up yet. So he comes out and talks to me,
and then we were.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Good to go.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
And then Freddie Thing came into play after the first
pitch to Stanton because I go to third base, so
Stam pops up to right field, Mookie Mooky grabs the ball,
throws it into to the lead base. I'm looking at Max,
like Max, give me the ball, and Max throws me
the ball, and I just walked to the mount and
I'm like, if he.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Was willing to put me in for more batter, then
one pitch is.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
In the issue, Like it's gotta be He's gotta be
thinking that it could have been a five or six
pitch at bat, So I got four or five pitches
here to make this one happen.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
And I just got on the mount and I didn't.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
See him coming out on my peripherals, and I was like, yes,
because I wanted to make sure that I did my
part to clean up the ending as best as I
could and give the next guy whoever was coming in
and know it's gonna be Walker th that's gonna be
HTTI a clean inning to finish the game instead of
a one plus. And finding out afterwards that Dave was
kind of on the top step trying to figure out
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if you wanted to and Freddie gave the hands down
and like, hey, back off, like I think you know
the best move here is.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
But that means that means a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
That my my my stat like my coaching staff and
manager and my teammates, you know, still thought that I
was the right guy, because I believe I was for
that moment, and but it means more when you know
that they think the same thing of you.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
So, how did this offseason feel compared to when you
wanted in twenty Obviously the world is a lot different,
but you finally got to experience a parade in LA
You got to experience everything that comes with winning the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, it was great. It was really cool.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
You know, I think you get recognized more, which is
you know, like a blessing an a curse. Right, It's like, yeah,
sometimes you just want to blend in and just be
with the people without being recognized a little bit. But
at the end of the day, it's like, it's pretty
cool to see how many people cherish that World Series
in the LA area, even I mean nationally globally, it
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doesn't matter where I'm at right now.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I walk around and people were like, oh, like, congrats
on the World Series.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
I remember going to a Boise State football game to
go watch Ashton Gent because I had to go see
him in person, and I walking up the steps and
I had like five or six people just like, yo,
congrats Champ, congrats Worlds.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I'm like the he I thought my buddies were playing
a prank on me. Like, I'm not used to being
recognized in public.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
But I mean I easily ten fifteen times at that game,
and it's not even like a baseball town, so it's kind.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Of nuts to me.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
But yeah, yeah, it's been a little bit different. The
worst part probably about it all, was seeing my contract
release before.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Before I got to do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
By that guy in Houston. Yeah, I'm random Blake tryinging source.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Yeah, on a zoom call with a guy in Dallas.
It was weird, weird, right, really weird.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I was enjoying my steak dinner. I didn't want that
to pop up. I started getting my phone buzzed. Then
I sent you the screenshot of the tweet.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Well, I've heard from a lot of people. Yeah, my
last one was fine, Dave. Before we started talking, we
start talking. All of a sudden, you start leaking. You
know what, I know Brandon Gums is around here somewhere,
and I'll make a phone call to free Friedman.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
So I was gonna compliment you before we backed out
of here. The last time I saw you the you
know obviously you know the world. Yes, I'm going to
compliment you right now.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
This is good.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
You're trying to smooth things over. You see these people.
This is how you get the foot out of the mouth.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
This is the great Blake trying and spin. He couldn't
confide in his favorite media member.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Didn't have to you already had it. How can I
confide if you already have the information I was.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I was relaying to you what was out there publicly.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
We're gonna do a do you have a Twitter?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
All right, do a Twitter? Fan pool was Dave the Mole.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I have a radio show and people are going to
listen to this and they won't respond.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I need I need a poll. Somebody put a pole up,
is Dave the Mole?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yes or no? And we'll let the people decide.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I want you to come in studio and take a
phone calls, or I could come to your bungalow here
in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah I don't have a bungalow. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Sure, if we can work out a day for the
studio and take phone calls, well, we'll just we'll do
a roast Dave on on on air, like anytime that
you guys all these years, you guys have listened to
Dave if you've been you know, kept your sanity enough
over the last like, however many years have been able
to follow him?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
For how long you've been doing this?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
This is my fourteenth season.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I wont to know how many people have followed for
more than three straight That's what I want to know
who's the diehards?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
So many, so many.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
This will be good, this will be good.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
We get on the phone, I want to hear the
best and the worst of Dave.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
What you'll be on a headset.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
I don't I've ever been in a studio. It's like
it's like you're saying, Oh, you threw a good pitch. Yeah,
it's called a fastball.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Damn, Keyk's back to.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Knows Hey, KEYK, you think he's a mole?
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Do you think he's a mole?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Somebody looked to my contract before before I got to
tell my family.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Guess who was in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
It's some guy in uh while with Tosa.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Like three months before.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Damn, dang, dude, dang, he's got nothing, people, He's just
laughing through the pain.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Who brought who decided to bring back Keek?
Speaker 4 (37:20):
I mean together he and I have won two World
Series with the Dodgers's.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Right, the trifecta. How many of you month see Blake
trying key K Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
The only World series that the daughters have been to
since I've been here have been with me and KEYK, and.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
We've won them.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Just saying MOOKI as well MOOKI also, I can't I
can't leave muk out.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Let's fall.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
You look refreshed.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
I think I just burnt all my energy out right now.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Gosh, I just boosted the morale of the Dodgers anchor
of the bullpen. This will get you through at least
the next three days.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
We paid seventy two for an anchor.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
He loves David Vasse already. By the way, Yeah, you
should be nervous.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You guys are two peas of a pod. Two peas
in a pod deflectors.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
That's not true at all. I feel like I'm being
a cuth you Dave.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Hey, I think the people are ready for this show
to end, and we'll pick up for the next one.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Okay, this is just one segment. I still have a
lot of show left.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Okay, Well, who's the next guy?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well, we'll recap the buffalo talking to No I'm gonna
talk to the fans now. This is you're the centerpiece
of the show.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
All right.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Well, just so you know, you'll never wear my glove.
But I got to hold your microphone.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Damn, I can't wait to get a nice pearl baseball,
says two time World Series champion Blake trying it.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I'm not gonna sign up til I retire, so hopefully
it says four times I love it.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
That'd be cool. Why why what?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
You don't try to make it sound like it's a
bar to anybody.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Else, Like I said, that's special to me.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Thank you all right, have a good one day.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
I feel like, man, this is like, this is like
people who don't know how to say goodbye SORRYO over
and out.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Over and out. Blake, Wow, that was a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Blake Trining, great guy, great interview, and obviously very very
combative when it comes to me. He always wants to
try to hold me accountable. And I guess I'll open
up the phone lines right now. I don't do Twitter polls,
Blake Trining, There's a bigger world out there outside of Twitter.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Do
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you believe me or do you believe Blake Trinan who
was trying to say on the mole that leaked his
contract being signed with the Dodgers to some random.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Houston TV anchor.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Oh, I mean come on eight six six nine eighty
seven two five seventy and uh, let's start out in
Sherman Oaks Oggi, you're on Dodger Talk. Can you believe
what Blake Trinon was trying to accuse me of?
Speaker 6 (39:54):
I tell you a shocked shocked I was. But this
is my theory. This is who I think it was.
I think it was someone by the Day by the
name of David Mole. Say, don't ask my source, but
you're not helping. That's when he didn't directly accuse you.
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Different initials. But you know, maybe you know.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
And when you see Blake trying to pitch, is that
the uh? Is that the personality you expected to hear?
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Oh? Absolutely, you see the break on his pitches. A
guy like that has to be has to have a
mind like that.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
He broke off a few sliders on me. Man, Wow,
that was That was not the interview I thought was
going to take place. But you know, Blake grabbed the
microphone from me. But yeah, he's a great guy. And
certainly when people look back, Aggie, like yourself at the
World Series and Blake trying it will be one of
those guys that people will remember and say without him.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
We do not win.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Absolutely. I mean you talk about defining moments that that
last thing that he pitched was a defining moment along
that long, beautiful journey.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
For sure, What did.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
You have for about it before I before I started
to take this impromptu poll that Blake Trent and wanted,
I totally understand.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
I want to speed that along, and I promise not
to grab the microphone. You can hold it right there.
We're good. What I wanted to talk about and this
was something that you touched on and I just want
to expand on. It is that window of time that
the Dodgers are in right now. For me as a fan,
having grown up watching the Dodgers through the seventies, through
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the eighties, the nineties, the drought, the McCourt years, this
wonderful time we're experiencing now. This Dodgers squad really has
a chance if things go right in the sense of
being healthy and being put in a position to really
establish themselves as a dynasty in the same breadth of
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the nineties Chicago Bulls, the Jeters and Yankees, those the
New England Patriots, those kind of dynasties where people look
back ten years down the road, twenty years later and
they go, wow, we were so lucky to see that
and experience that, And to me, that is what is
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most special about what the Dodgers are doing and how
they continue to grow and they're not about tearing it down.
They retool. And we've been so fortunate from the standpoint
of them finally getting in the series in twenty seventeen
to see them beat the Yankees. Now have two World
Series in four years. I mean, the Giants won three
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and four years from twenty ten to twenty fourteen and
from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four. The Dodgers have two.
But the Dodgers have a chance to build on last
year's success and really stripe for immortality.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
In my opinion, You're right, Augie, and I think the
players understand that as well. Thanks for the phone call,
appreciate it. And look, even Blake Trenton said it. He
signed up for two more years. He said he wants
to be a four time World Series champion by the
time it's all done with Hey, Blake tried and wanted
to know anybody that has hung with me for more
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than three years. I found somebody Isabelle in Anaheim. You
are that person that has hung with me for three
straight years and.
Speaker 9 (43:33):
More maybe by over twenty years. Bling with chill and
Doug too.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
That's right, Isabelle.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I'm gonna show Blake trying to your name and that
you have been very loyal to me.
Speaker 9 (43:48):
Yeah, yeah, you will. And I do believe you. You
did not break So I do believe you, David I
and yeah, usually give give him my phone in bitter
I will. Yeah, I was it.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I'm going to call you with Blake trying it on speakerphone. Isabelle,
you better be right.
Speaker 9 (44:07):
Yeah, yeah you got. You can get my numbers from
calling or give my numbers from Petro. Yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Everybody's got your number, Okay I would.
Speaker 9 (44:18):
Yeah, okay, but listen. The thing I do want to
say is let this stop with this dog is winning
one hundred and twenty game people. Okay, I listen. They
will win the division. It's not easy, you know, to
win back to back. Hey, if they can win back
to back, I'll be.
Speaker 6 (44:38):
To this.
Speaker 9 (44:38):
But yeah, it's a good season.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
But busy.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I got news for you too. I got I got
breaking news for you as well. Last week, speaking of
Joe and Doug, I had lunch with Doug Recorian and
he is stay one years young. Are you shocked that
Doug Recorian is still walking this earth.
Speaker 9 (44:58):
No, I'm not, but yeah, you say that last week.
How is Doug fight away?
Speaker 1 (45:04):
He hasn't changed, Isabelle. He misses you.
Speaker 9 (45:06):
Terrible well time high you could give it my number two.
I missed, Doug.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I will, I will, Isabelle, thank you for the phone
call and thank you for your faith in me and
my honesty. Yeah, how do you think that would go over?
If I if I gave Blake Trening, Isabelle and Anaheim's
phone number, or if we dowed her together speak her phone?
I guess I can get her number from Ronnie Colin,
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Kate's Petros money. They all have her number. We'll see
if that happens anyway. That'll do it for us tonight.
In case he missed any of the show, you can
find it on the iHeartRadio app. You will hear from
us again on Thursday at eleven thirty as we will
have Dodgers on deck getting you ready for first pitch
(45:56):
of the Cactus League opener between the Cubs and Dodgers
from Camelback Ranch twelve oh five. First pitch. Rick Monday
and Tim Nevertt will have the play by play for
you and it should be a fun spring training and
it certainly will be a great ride in twenty twenty five.
Thanks to Ronnie Fascio for all his help. Thanks to
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Blake Shrining for entertaining us tonight. Are you not entertained?
Speaker 2 (46:22):
I was.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
We will talk to you on Thursday. Have a great
rest of your night. Fox Sports Radio with Jason Smith
is next. Have a great night, Seeya
We are live in Glendale, Arizona. Welcome to Dodger Talk,
our only show of the week here on AM five
seventy LA Sports, and we've got a great show for
you tonight. We will let you here inside the Dodger Clubhouse,
inside the team meeting on Saturday for the first full
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squad meeting where Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman addressed the team.
We will share that with you in fifteen minutes. Also
coming up in thirty minutes, you will hear from one
of the key players in last year's championship run, especially
in October, the one and only two time World Series
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champion with the Dodgers, Blake Trinan. Who can ever forget
Game five, after Jack Flaherty lasted what two innings the
Dodgers had to go to their bullpen, Blake trining was
in a key spot, throwing more pitches than he had
ever thrown in a game forty six? Who can never
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forget Dave Roberts going out to the mound in the
eighth inning just checking the temperature of trying to see
where he was at. And he delivered for his manager,
he delivered for his teammates, And it's the first time
I have interviewed Blake Trying in since talking to him
in the moment on the field at Yankee Stadium after
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the Dodgers were victorious in that World Series. Just amazing,
amazing player, amazing person, an amazing competitor. Blake Trying and
we had some fun. He tried to hold me accountable
and I try to hold him accountable. What happened was
he started grabbing my microphone. And for those that know
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the first rule of broadcasting, number one rule, you never
allow anybody to grab the microphone from you. That's number one.
If you're up on a platform, if you're at the
school function and you're the MC, don't ever let anybody
grab the microphone. And I let Blake try and grab
the microphone, and you will hear that conversation coming up
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at the bottom of the hour. We had a great
first day at Camel Back Ranch. I just got back
from the Buffalo Wing Eating Contest, the seventh annual Buffalo
Wing Eating Contest. Justin Turner started this seven years ago.
Mookie Betts has taken the baton and last year's winner,
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Hero Yoshi Yamamoto's interpreter was victorious. He was not able
to defend his title. Tonight, it was Dominican assistant pitching
coach heyesus Canizalez that won the Buffalo wing eating contest,
and it was Mookie Bets, Dave Roberts, Yamamoto, Shohio Tani
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that all contributed to the fund for whoever won this
Buffalo wing eating contest. I believe the grand prize was
twenty five hundred dollars, so I'm happy for a minor
league pitching coach to get a little extra spending cash
during spring training. We do have phone lines open until
eight o'clock. Eight six six nine eighty seven, two five
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seventy is the phone number. It was actually incredible because
I brought my wife and kids over to the Buffalo
wing eating contest. My son Joseph loves to watch grown
men embarrass themselves by eating countless number of boneless wings,
and we encountered the entire team. They all showed up
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and it was similar to last year. All the players
showed up, and it was pretty incredible that you had
you had shoe A Otani and Mookie Beds standing in
this Buffalo Wild Wing restaurant right in the heart of
the Westgate Town Center here in Glendale, Arizona. And after
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we watched it for a little bit, we went across
the way to have some dinner, and all of a sudden,
in this massive outdoor mall area. If you ever been
to see the Dodgers in Glendale, Arizona, you know where
I'm talking about. There's a bunch of bunch of restaurants
in this outdoor type of mall area, and you can
hear the buzz start to generate around the courtyard that
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the Dodgers were there, that Otani was there, that Mookie
Beds was there, and it was pretty amazing to see.
It was kind of a like a tidal wave of
buzz going through that outdoor mall and yeah, show hey,
Otani was standing right there. You could have got a
great look at Otani out of uniform, in street clothes,
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hanging out with his teammates. So that was pretty cool
as well. Now at camp today, the big buzz was
Dustin May throwing to hitters for the first time this spring.
Of course, we all know about the Dustin May career arc.
He has great stuff, but it seems like sometimes the
velocity that he throws is too much for his body.
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To Tommy John surgeries. He had an unfortunate esophagus accident
where he was eating dinner, and I guess he's going
with that. He had a piece of lettuce that created
a major medical emergency, and that derailed any thoughts of
a possible comeback last year. So you had the entire
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I wouldn't say the entire team, but you had a
lot of guys stop down to see what he had
to see the way he looked, and I was told
it was remarkable. I could get into the vertical tilt
and all that, but it was plus plus stuff today
from Dustin May. From what I was told, Max Month,
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see Kei Ky Hernandez faced him and they did not
have very comfortable swings against Dustin May. And of course,
in this juncture of spring training, we always say the
pitchers are ahead of the hitter, so that's part of
this as well. But I'm not gonna sit here and
try to break down what Dustin May was doing. I
could just give you the feedback that I got from
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some of the coaches that were watching today, And I
can also tell you when there is a certain picture
on the mound, and not only front office people, but
teammates gather around the batting cage to watch it. It
means something, and everybody wanted to see and support Dustin
May because a lot of guys have been on this
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journey with him. It stood out to me that Tony
Gonsolin made it a point they were roommates for a
long time. Alex Vesia stopped down and really was making
it known that he was here to see Dustin May. So,
Blake Snell was there to see Dustin May. So a
lot of guys were interested to see what Dustin May had,
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what Dustin May had, and what does it mean? What
does it mean for Dustin May if he comes out
of spring training healthy, does he have a spot in
this rotation? I believe he does to start the year.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I believe there's a competition going on between Dustin May,
Tony Gonsolin, and Bobby Miller. Are there two spots?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Are there?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Three spots? Are there?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Just?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is there just one spot? That's contingent on whether or
not Roki Sazaki starts games to begin the North American
part of the Dodgers schedule after he starts in Japan.
Dave Roberts made that announcement last week. He's planning to
have the two Japanese pitchers start in Tokyo at the
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Tokyo Dome where they won the World Baseball Classic. That
was Yoshi Yamamoto and Roki Sazaki going up against the Cubs.
But look, Roki Sazaki is not a finished product by
any means.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He's just not.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I know, everybody keeps on hyping up this guy, but
last year was not a smooth year for him in Japan.
He has a lot to prove and I'm not going
to say that today or this year, Roki Sazaki is
going to live up to the hype. This is a project.
Any team that was signing Roki Suzaki was signing a project,
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and he he's going to start, but there's going to
be some bumps along the way, and how is he
going to handle that? How do the Dodgers handle that
as well? So that's why there's there's spots available in
the rotation. So that's the way it looks as far
as the rotation goes, because Otani eventually will be in there,
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Roki Sazaki from time to time will be in there.
Does Glass now stay healthy? He's a full participant. So
there's some question marks surrounding this eight six six, eight, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number, and saw Mooki
Bets today. He's in great spirits. He has a great
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clear head on his shoulders, and you're going to hear
his message to his teammates coming up in our next segment.
And he definitely has set the tone again for the
Dodgers like he did last year where he was so determined.
And my understanding is that during the off season he
was with P. D. Montero, one of the Dodger coaches
who is a great infield instructor, a disciple at Reggie
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Smith now on Dave Roberts's staff, and P. D. Montero
was working with Mookie Betts in the San Fernando Valley
all winter long and watching Mooki make the throws today,
it was everything that people had been talking about that, yes,
the throws are much better, and more importantly, talking to
Chris Woodward, the confidence is there. Mooki was still a
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little unsure of himself at shortstop last year. I know
it's just the backfields, I know it's just practice, but
he seems a lot more confident at that position. We're
gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When
we come back your phone calls, we have two lines
open at eight six six nine eighty seven two five
(10:05):
seventy we will take you inside the Dodger Clubhouse to
hear what Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman had to say
to their teammates on the first day of full squad workouts.
And also coming up at the bottom of the hour,
you don't want to miss my conversation with one of
the heroes of the World Series, Blake Trining David Vasse
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live in Glendale, Arizona on your home for the World
Champion Dodgers AM five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers
first spring training game, Cactus League Opener is coming up
on Thursday, and you will hear it live on your
home for the World Champion Dodgers AM five to seventy
(10:45):
LA Sports. It is against the Chicago Cubs at Camelback
Ranch and it is at.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Twelve oh five on.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Thursday afternoon against the Cubs. And on Friday, the Dodgers
in cub hook up again, this time at Sloan Park,
So the Dodgers and Cubs will be facing off in Tokyo, Japan.
They're the first two teams to report to spring training
and they will face off in the first two games
of the Cactus League. And since this is our only
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live show this week from Glendale, Arizona, I may have
to do a Dodger Talk podcast exclusive for the iHeartRadio
app at some point this week. But you will hear
us live on Dodgers on Deck beginning at eleven thirty
before first pitch this Thursday at twelve five the Cactus
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League opener. Yes, it is time for Dodger Baseball and
we have your world champions covered right here on Dodgers
Radio and five to seventy LA Sports coming up at
the bottom of the hour, you will hear from Blake Trining.
In a moment, I will take you inside the Dodger
Clubhouse to hear the message for Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman.
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But first let's take some phone calls. Let's go out
to Camillo. Clay, You're on Dodger Talk with David Masse.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Clay, Hey, Hi David, thank you, enjoy you and your commentary.
You do a great job.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Thank you, Clay.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I want hey, I wanted to talk a little bit
about something that I saw and my friends and I
have discussed it, and I wanted to see if it
ever came up. That infamous fifth inning of the Game five,
I saw that keik A when he's running to third
took kind of a different route, and I wanted to
ask your opinion, if you've talked to him about that,
if that's come up in conversation, and do you think
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that had a role in the shortstops throughout a third
he kind of takes kind of an outward run. You
could tell that he makes a little bit of a
jog outside to go to the base clay.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It's incredible you brought that up because I was talking
about that base running play and a few other different
little things that added up to the Dodgers winning that
World Series with Dave ro Roberts last night, and he
brought up that play that was one hundred percent intentional
by Keith k a Hernandez. And I know we think
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about the clutch hits and the clutch home runs by
Keith ka in October, but what makes him such a
good player is that he is a baseball player. He
has a high baseball IQ, and in that moment his
IQ delivered, he knew he had to try to find
a way to make that throw tougher on Anthony Volpi
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to get to Josh Chisholm. So that was one hundred
percent intentional for key k to take that route from
second base to third base.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yep, that's what I thought. And I had one other
thing if you got time, Yeah, your thoughts on Aaron
Judge when Tae Oscar hit the ball to the left
center field and short hoped the sense do you think
if you watch him, do you think that the catch
that he made against these against Freeman, I see that
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he's not going full speed. Do you think there was
any way that he could have got that ball?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
There was a chance. I thought that in the moment,
it just seemed like he made a great catch. But
he made a few other blunders. The obvious one was
dropping the ball to start the Dodger rally in Game
five of that fifth inning, but there were a few
going against the wall, the one that you're talking about
in particular, where he did not play it well and
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Juan Soto had a rough time in right field during
that World Series, and that costs the Yankees and gave
the Dodgers a ninety extra feet a few different times.
The first one that comes to mind is Otani's double
that Soto did not get too quickly and made a
poor throw and labor Taurus couldn't stay in front of it,
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and Shohotani got to third base and the Dodgers tied
the score thanks to a sacrifice fly. If if Otani's
held to a double, the Dodgers don't tie the score there.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Yep, that's right, very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Appreciate it all right, be safe out there, Clay, Thanks
for the phone call. Yeah, And you know I talked
about this on sports and at LA last week. You know,
it's a reflection on Aaron Boone. How poorly the Yankees
did the little things because the tone is set with
the manager, and Dave Roberts has empowered his coaches last
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year Clayton McCullough and Dino Ebel this year Chris Woodward
and Dino Ebel among others, to hold the players accountable,
get them out there, their work, and I'll never forget
the rest of my life. Just how from day one
here in spring training the tone was set by Mookie
Betts and Freddie Freeman, and not by their words, but
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by their action and the work they put in and
that never stopped. Each and every day before every game,
they were out there working and it continued through the
World Series. And it was sobering and eye opening, honestly,
when the Yankees had the opportunity to have early work
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before every World Series game, there were no Yankees out
there doing any infield drills. It was shocking, considering how
bad they were defensively, that nobody was out there trying
to get better. But on the flip side, on the
Dodger side, you had guys that are really good defensively,
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and Keike Hernandez, Tommy Edmond, Chris Taylor, Mookie Bets, Freddie
Freeman who was on a bad right ankle among other things,
and he was still out there putting in the early
work and the Yankees never did. And that was I
know we keep saying this, but pitching, defense, base running
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were the biggest difference in that World Series. And nobody'll
ever forget the fifth inning of Game five, one of
the epic meltdowns by any team in any World Series game,
in any World Series. Inning eight six, six, seven, two,
five seventy is the phone number. This is Dodger Talk.
David Vasse live in Glendale, Arizona with the world champion
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Dodgers as they get set for trying to defend this
championship and become the first team since the Yankees twenty
five years ago to win back to back World Series championships.
And there's been a lot of talk about trying to
win one hundred and sixteen games winning back to back
World Series. But as you know, in baseball, especially if
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you start looking that far ahead, that's where you get
tripped up. And on Saturday, the Dodgers had their first
full team meeting and Mookie Betts was called upon by
Dave Roberts to speak. Freddie Freeman was called upon by
Dave Roberts to address their team and here's what they
had to say. We are taking you deep inside the
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Dodger Clubhouse. Here's Freddy Freeman and Mookie Betts on Saturday
setting the tone for the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
I mean, I think I'm just gonna harp on what
you said. Every single night since I've been a professional
baseball player is when I lay my head on my
pillar at night, did I give everything I have to
get better that day? And I've been doing that for
a long time. Special this is my fourth year. We're
in this uniform and I got to win it for
the first time in this uniform last year and that
means everything. I mean, MOOKI he's got three titles. I've
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got two, Max. A lot of these guys got two
titles in here. Like Mukey said on that video, we
want more. When you win one, you want to win
another one. You just want to keep winning and winning
and winning. And when you put on this uniform, that's
this is the epitome of baseball right here as the Dodgers.
And to be able to put this uniform on it
every day when you walk in this clubhouse, make it
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feel special because it is special to put this uniform on.
A lot of us are coming in here grinding already.
You know, we're here at seven am trying to get
our bodies ready to do this. And when you win
this thing at the end of it, everything is worth
it at the end. It really is. A lot of
us went through a lot last year to do that
and put a ring on, and I promise you guys,
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it is worth it in the end. So come in
here every day, put this uniform on and make it
mean something to you, just like talk was saying, and
we'll see you at the end of this thing.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I would say just.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Everything Freddy, say everything Doc said. I would say something
new for me this year that I'm working on, since
it's like I do have three never went back to back,
and to me, I think doing all the things that
Doc said.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Is going to be key. But I think discipline.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
I think discipline is showing up each and every day,
giving your effort, giving it what you got, working on
whatever you need to work on. But it's the only
way to do it. So we got to figure it
out and we'll be starting today with discipline, doing everything in.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
The right ways.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts addressing their teammates on
Saturday when the full squad got together for the first
time officially, and you were inside that Dodger clubhouse, And
thank you to Sue Joe and the Dodgers social media
team for posting that on the Dodgers' social media accounts,
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because that just gives you a peek inside on just
the tone and the mindset of this team. And you
heard what Mooki Bets had to say. He has three
World Series championships, he's never won back to Backworld series,
Freddie Freeman, Father Time is undefeated. Freddie is well aware
of that, and it feels like these guys Mookie Bets,
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Freddie Freeman and sho Hey Otani, along with Teoscar Hernandez
and Max Munsey, they understand, you know, what they have
here and there is a fine time that these guys
have left in their careers and they're not taking any
season for granted. And I love what they had to say.
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I love that Mookie Beds has grown into a leadership
role where he's comfortable enough to stand up and express
himself that way. If you go back to twenty twenty,
he was not as willing to be that guy, and
it's hard when you're the new guy. But he has
really grown into it and I saw it, especially last year,
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the tone he set for himself and for the team.
He really has started to become more of a leader
by example and also a voice in that clubhouse. And
I love hearing those two guys really grow into being
Dodgers and taking ownership of this team because it is
their team. Along with Otani, along with Max Munsey, it
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is their team and their time is now. The Dodgers
have you know a read a five year window here
with these players to try to make this happen and
also pass the baton to other younger players to understand
what it takes to win and put on a Dodger
uniform and really excel with that type of expectations on you.
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Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Now, Freddie Freeman had right ankle surgery.
If you heard our interview on Dodger Fest from Dodger
Fest a few weeks ago, he was pretty candid about
where the ankle was at that time. Now he's expected
to begin running this week and I was pleasantly surprised
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to see Freddie Freeman actually taking ground balls and moving
around the first base bag defensively today. That's a great
sign that his right ankle is cooperating with his timeline,
because I know the Dodgers would left Freddy to take
it as slow as possible and not rush it. But
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Freddy wants to.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Be out there.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's the type of player he is, and he's doing
everything he can to be out there and ready to
go for Tokyo Japan. So that's a great sign. Also
another observation love seeing the way that hayes on Kim
has been embraced by this team and the middle infielders,
actually all the infielders gather around the second base bag
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and start channing. Let's go Dodgers to kind of put
some pressure on Kim for the last round ball of
the workout, and if he doesn't make the play cleanly,
they all have to start the drill over again. And
he's delivered. Everybody's been marveling about his defense, his speed.
The bat is a little bit behind those two things,
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so we'll have to see whether or not he can hit.
But the Dodgers are sold already on his defense and
on his speed. Eight six six seven two five seventy
is the phone number. When we continue, you will hear
from one of the stars, the heroes of the World
Series and the Dodgers. October Run. Two time World Series
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Champion Blake Trinan is next on Dodger Talk right here
on a five to seventy LA Sports. Two time two
time World Series champion, just a monster year last year
led the Dodger bullpen in more ways than one, and
this interview is three months in the making. I remember
exactly where I was when I set up this interview
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in Dallas, Texas had Nick and Sam's Dodgers player relations
Wanderrado was sitting across from me as I text Blake
Trinan about coming on the show as he signed his
extension with the Dodgers. Blake, it's great to see you.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
You know what most people don't understand here is that
when you're a free agent, you like to be the
one to tell your family first about you signing a deal.
And Dave's the rat that told this slapstick in Houston.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Oh you were in Dallas. How close is that to Houston.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The guy was from Washington State.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh it wasn't. The guy was from Houston.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Some dude from a like a sports reporter in Houston,
which people in the sports world in Houston are slightly
disrespected right now for good reason.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Anyways, Well, can you you actually explain this to me again?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Rip open, Let go to Mike Dave. So here's what's
gonna you know, here's not Dave, it's my show right now.
So here's what's happening. Well, you gave it up. So
Dave texts me and says, hey, word on the street
is you're a Dodger again.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And here's the specifics. I'm like, how the crap do
you know that Dave?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Well, apparently Dave in this I don't even know this
dude's name in Houston were sitting also with Wan's discussing specifics.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Dave, it's my time to talk.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I've got the microphone, I can talk, and so he's like,
when can I get you on the rumor's true?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
And I was like, I don't want all I'm about
Dave did. I started to pass physical Apparently the whole
world knew before I knew.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
And so I told Dave that when it was official,
I would get on the show with him, and then
there was some random miscommunications that led us to spring.
You can tell by his cynical laugh that he knows
I'm right.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
He was the mole. So Dave, continue with your show.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Number One, it's not my fault. People like to confide
in me. Number two, Blake Trining did not confide in
me to give me that news. Number Three, I never
tweeted any information out.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
That's just interesting that you knew Houston guy, Dave guy.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Now I find out three months later or however long
it was, that you were in the same state as
this guy.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I thought this guy was the kid that you were
playing catch with during twenty twenty on your street from.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Wawa Tosa, Wawa Tosa.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah, thanks for not actually saying where I live, Dave,
I was that close and never doing your show again.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, I'm try. Love.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I love how you explained this to me, because I
don't think we as media and also fans don't realize
in the eagerness to break news, you want to break
it to your teammates as well as your family.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
So the problem is I've got, you know, blessed a
lot of good people in my life. So I've got
like hundreds of people texting me like, hey, congrats, is
it true?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Is it true?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And I'm like, if I fil my physical this is
gonna be a weird conversation. And so everybody's asking these
questions and I got to tell everybody know it's not true,
and then wait and then text everybody all over again
and say, hey, it was true.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
So it's kind of.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Like, you know, everybody wants to be the first look
at me. Look what I did. I you know, slap
my fingers on a couple of digital icons on a phone,
and I should get a pat on the back for
being a great reporter. No, it's like, why don't you
let the player have a chance to reveal it to
you know their family and friends.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
And then I.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Find someone like Day because he's taken time to get
to know me and be a friend, or so I thought,
and then he could release it.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I never released anything.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I mean, that's what's so weird. Some dude in Houston.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
So somebody in the office knows this guy, and we
need to get to the bottom of the day.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I feel like he was from Pullman Washington.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Thirty two ounce Tomahawk's steak for you if you figure
out who the mole is?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Are you willing to fess up right now?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I am not the male? How dare you?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I'm insulted you would even say that, because I have
another question. During your long winded answer right there, was
that a humble brag when you said I have hundreds
of friends? Are you saying that you're that beloved? And we,
as mere mortals only have maybe a twenty person inner circle,
But Blake Tryning has hundreds of friends.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Are you ready to eat crop? Are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I come from a big family, so first knock me
on that. Secondly, I come from a small town, and
they are all big followers. As anybody does anything from
a small town, you support them.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
So yes, hundreds, I would say, like.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Probably close to two hundred people on any given day
of something big happening, whether it's the World Series or
the big.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Signing, I do get text hundreds.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
And it's funny that Dave tries to pull this out
because his fifty followers. He's really jealous that I've got
two hundred followers and he's.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Got a sports show. How does la put you?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
How do you get to hold a Dodger's icon on
this thing when you got fifty people listening right now,
I'll have you my two hundred and fifty, two hundred
and fifty people listening.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Number One, you made me break the cardinal rule of
giving up the mic. That's number one rule in broadcasting.
Never give up the mic when you're doing Boise State
play by play.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Just remember that I'm a jack rabbit, so thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
My wife was a voice of Say Bronco, but I'm
a South Dakota State jack rabbit.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
All right, let's go back to the text.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Hundreds of close personal friends of Blake Tryning when you
won the World series. When you won the World Series?
How much did your phone light up when you got
back to it after the celebration, just the whole experience
for you.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I had over five hundred text messages and it took
me three days to respond and I was fried. But
I did my best to respond to everybody. And the
hard part is is, because you know, like you got
God puts a lot of good people in your life,
you want to you want to respond to everybody, and
then uh, they're they want to start asking questions about
what it was like. And so then it's like, hey, guys,
just give me a couple of weeks and I'll talk
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as much as you want.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I just I need to. I need to kind of
like calm down a little bit. So but it was great.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's really it's really kind of a cool thing to
see that many people who are enjoying following your career,
and uh, but it is it.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Was quite a bit afterwards to to.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Get your mind reset and have some like, you know,
mental clarity because it's it's winning World Series amazing. It's
crazy you don't think about how much it zaps your
energy after it's done, Like how you don't really think
about how much you're getting tired through it when as
soon as that final pitch is done.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I remember getting on.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
The plane, I can barely walk, and I was like
mentally tired and felt like I had a hip replacement.
It was just so weird, but uh, it was just
it is just from like the extensive workload, you know,
in that Game five, probably which I still felt good
when I was pitching, but afterwards, I remember doing the
parade and I was like getting my hip worked on.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm like, where are the off season? I'm getting my
hip worked on?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So I think back to that World Series.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Obviously, Freddie's Grand Slam is a moment in time that
will be forever remembered. But and I know there were
a lot of great moments, but for me personally, the
second moment that flashes into my mind is when Dave
Roberts came to the mound in Game five and Freddie
Freeman believed in you. Dave Roberts believed in you, and
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you believed in yourself. Do you remember that moment or
is that one of those blackout type of things where
you're in the mid and.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I, you know, I've not really had a lot of
the time to talk to Dave about it, you know,
like he's he's right and coming out right there.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
But I remember seeing him in a moment like, frick, Dave, like,
what are you doing out here? Like I gotta know.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I'm trying to like pitch around him a little bit
because Stanton's a better matchup even though he's on fire.
I used my strengths. It's a better matchup if I execute.
And uh, when he came out, he's like he gave
me like the hands. I was like, hey, calm down,
I just want to talk and I haven't made my
mind up yet. So he comes out and talks to me,
and then we were.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Good to go.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
And then Freddie Thing came into play after the first
pitch to Stanton because I go to third base, so
Stam pops up to right field, Mookie Mooky grabs the ball,
throws it into to the lead base. I'm looking at Max,
like Max, give me the ball, and Max throws me
the ball, and I just walked to the mount and
I'm like, if he.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Was willing to put me in for more batter, then
one pitch is.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
In the issue, Like it's gotta be He's gotta be
thinking that it could have been a five or six
pitch at bat, So I got four or five pitches
here to make this one happen.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
And I just got on the mount and I didn't.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
See him coming out on my peripherals, and I was like, yes,
because I wanted to make sure that I did my
part to clean up the ending as best as I
could and give the next guy whoever was coming in
and know it's gonna be Walker th that's gonna be
HTTI a clean inning to finish the game instead of
a one plus. And finding out afterwards that Dave was
kind of on the top step trying to figure out
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if you wanted to and Freddie gave the hands down
and like, hey, back off, like I think you know
the best move here is.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
But that means that means a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
That my my my stat like my coaching staff and
manager and my teammates, you know, still thought that I
was the right guy, because I believe I was for
that moment, and but it means more when you know
that they think the same thing of you.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
So, how did this offseason feel compared to when you
wanted in twenty Obviously the world is a lot different,
but you finally got to experience a parade in LA
You got to experience everything that comes with winning the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, it was great. It was really cool.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
You know, I think you get recognized more, which is
you know, like a blessing an a curse. Right, It's like, yeah,
sometimes you just want to blend in and just be
with the people without being recognized a little bit. But
at the end of the day, it's like, it's pretty
cool to see how many people cherish that World Series
in the LA area, even I mean nationally globally, it
(34:03):
doesn't matter where I'm at right now.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I walk around and people were like, oh, like, congrats
on the World Series.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
I remember going to a Boise State football game to
go watch Ashton Gent because I had to go see
him in person, and I walking up the steps and
I had like five or six people just like, yo,
congrats Champ, congrats Worlds.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I'm like the he I thought my buddies were playing
a prank on me. Like, I'm not used to being
recognized in public.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
But I mean I easily ten fifteen times at that game,
and it's not even like a baseball town, so it's kind.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Of nuts to me.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
But yeah, yeah, it's been a little bit different. The
worst part probably about it all, was seeing my contract
release before.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Before I got to do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
By that guy in Houston. Yeah, I'm random Blake tryinging source.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Yeah, on a zoom call with a guy in Dallas.
It was weird, weird, right, really weird.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I was enjoying my steak dinner. I didn't want that
to pop up. I started getting my phone buzzed. Then
I sent you the screenshot of the tweet.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Well, I've heard from a lot of people. Yeah, my
last one was fine, Dave. Before we started talking, we
start talking. All of a sudden, you start leaking. You
know what, I know Brandon Gums is around here somewhere,
and I'll make a phone call to free Friedman.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
So I was gonna compliment you before we backed out
of here. The last time I saw you the you
know obviously you know the world. Yes, I'm going to
compliment you right now.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
This is good.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
You're trying to smooth things over. You see these people.
This is how you get the foot out of the mouth.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
This is the great Blake trying and spin. He couldn't
confide in his favorite media member.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Didn't have to you already had it. How can I
confide if you already have the information I was.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I was relaying to you what was out there publicly.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
We're gonna do a do you have a Twitter?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
All right, do a Twitter? Fan pool was Dave the Mole.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I have a radio show and people are going to
listen to this and they won't respond.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I need I need a poll. Somebody put a pole up,
is Dave the Mole?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yes or no? And we'll let the people decide.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I want you to come in studio and take a
phone calls, or I could come to your bungalow here
in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah I don't have a bungalow. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Sure, if we can work out a day for the
studio and take phone calls, well, we'll just we'll do
a roast Dave on on on air, like anytime that
you guys all these years, you guys have listened to
Dave if you've been you know, kept your sanity enough
over the last like, however many years have been able
to follow him?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
For how long you've been doing this?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
This is my fourteenth season.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I wont to know how many people have followed for
more than three straight That's what I want to know
who's the diehards?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
So many, so many.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
This will be good, this will be good.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
We get on the phone, I want to hear the
best and the worst of Dave.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
What you'll be on a headset.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
I don't I've ever been in a studio. It's like
it's like you're saying, Oh, you threw a good pitch. Yeah,
it's called a fastball.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Damn, Keyk's back to.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Knows Hey, KEYK, you think he's a mole?
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Do you think he's a mole?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Somebody looked to my contract before before I got to
tell my family.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Guess who was in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
It's some guy in uh while with Tosa.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Like three months before.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Damn, dang, dude, dang, he's got nothing, people, He's just
laughing through the pain.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Who brought who decided to bring back Keek?
Speaker 4 (37:20):
I mean together he and I have won two World
Series with the Dodgers's.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Right, the trifecta. How many of you month see Blake
trying key K Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
The only World series that the daughters have been to
since I've been here have been with me and KEYK, and.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
We've won them.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Just saying MOOKI as well MOOKI also, I can't I
can't leave muk out.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Let's fall.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
You look refreshed.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
I think I just burnt all my energy out right now.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Gosh, I just boosted the morale of the Dodgers anchor
of the bullpen. This will get you through at least
the next three days.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
We paid seventy two for an anchor.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
He loves David Vasse already. By the way, Yeah, you
should be nervous.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You guys are two peas of a pod. Two peas
in a pod deflectors.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
That's not true at all. I feel like I'm being
a cuth you Dave.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Hey, I think the people are ready for this show
to end, and we'll pick up for the next one.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Okay, this is just one segment. I still have a
lot of show left.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Okay, Well, who's the next guy?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well, we'll recap the buffalo talking to No I'm gonna
talk to the fans now. This is you're the centerpiece
of the show.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
All right.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Well, just so you know, you'll never wear my glove.
But I got to hold your microphone.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Damn, I can't wait to get a nice pearl baseball,
says two time World Series champion Blake trying it.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I'm not gonna sign up til I retire, so hopefully
it says four times I love it.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
That'd be cool. Why why what?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
You don't try to make it sound like it's a
bar to anybody.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Else, Like I said, that's special to me.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Thank you all right, have a good one day.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
I feel like, man, this is like, this is like
people who don't know how to say goodbye SORRYO over
and out.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Over and out. Blake, Wow, that was a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Blake Trining, great guy, great interview, and obviously very very
combative when it comes to me. He always wants to
try to hold me accountable. And I guess I'll open
up the phone lines right now. I don't do Twitter polls,
Blake Trining, There's a bigger world out there outside of Twitter.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Do
(39:26):
you believe me or do you believe Blake Trinan who
was trying to say on the mole that leaked his
contract being signed with the Dodgers to some random.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Houston TV anchor.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Oh, I mean come on eight six six nine eighty
seven two five seventy and uh, let's start out in
Sherman Oaks Oggi, you're on Dodger Talk. Can you believe
what Blake Trinon was trying to accuse me of?
Speaker 6 (39:54):
I tell you a shocked shocked I was. But this
is my theory. This is who I think it was.
I think it was someone by the Day by the
name of David Mole. Say, don't ask my source, but
you're not helping. That's when he didn't directly accuse you.
(40:14):
Different initials. But you know, maybe you know.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
And when you see Blake trying to pitch, is that
the uh? Is that the personality you expected to hear?
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Oh? Absolutely, you see the break on his pitches. A
guy like that has to be has to have a
mind like that.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
He broke off a few sliders on me. Man, Wow,
that was That was not the interview I thought was
going to take place. But you know, Blake grabbed the
microphone from me. But yeah, he's a great guy. And
certainly when people look back, Aggie, like yourself at the
World Series and Blake trying it will be one of
those guys that people will remember and say without him.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
We do not win.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Absolutely. I mean you talk about defining moments that that
last thing that he pitched was a defining moment along
that long, beautiful journey.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
For sure, What did.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
You have for about it before I before I started
to take this impromptu poll that Blake Trent and wanted,
I totally understand.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
I want to speed that along, and I promise not
to grab the microphone. You can hold it right there.
We're good. What I wanted to talk about and this
was something that you touched on and I just want
to expand on. It is that window of time that
the Dodgers are in right now. For me as a fan,
having grown up watching the Dodgers through the seventies, through
(41:43):
the eighties, the nineties, the drought, the McCourt years, this
wonderful time we're experiencing now. This Dodgers squad really has
a chance if things go right in the sense of
being healthy and being put in a position to really
establish themselves as a dynasty in the same breadth of
(42:04):
the nineties Chicago Bulls, the Jeters and Yankees, those the
New England Patriots, those kind of dynasties where people look
back ten years down the road, twenty years later and
they go, wow, we were so lucky to see that
and experience that, And to me, that is what is
(42:26):
most special about what the Dodgers are doing and how
they continue to grow and they're not about tearing it down.
They retool. And we've been so fortunate from the standpoint
of them finally getting in the series in twenty seventeen
to see them beat the Yankees. Now have two World
Series in four years. I mean, the Giants won three
(42:48):
and four years from twenty ten to twenty fourteen and
from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four. The Dodgers have two.
But the Dodgers have a chance to build on last
year's success and really stripe for immortality.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
In my opinion, You're right, Augie, and I think the
players understand that as well. Thanks for the phone call,
appreciate it. And look, even Blake Trenton said it. He
signed up for two more years. He said he wants
to be a four time World Series champion by the
time it's all done with Hey, Blake tried and wanted
to know anybody that has hung with me for more
(43:23):
than three years. I found somebody Isabelle in Anaheim. You
are that person that has hung with me for three
straight years and.
Speaker 9 (43:33):
More maybe by over twenty years. Bling with chill and
Doug too.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
That's right, Isabelle.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I'm gonna show Blake trying to your name and that
you have been very loyal to me.
Speaker 9 (43:48):
Yeah, yeah, you will. And I do believe you. You
did not break So I do believe you, David I
and yeah, usually give give him my phone in bitter
I will. Yeah, I was it.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I'm going to call you with Blake trying it on speakerphone. Isabelle,
you better be right.
Speaker 9 (44:07):
Yeah, yeah you got. You can get my numbers from
calling or give my numbers from Petro. Yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Everybody's got your number, Okay I would.
Speaker 9 (44:18):
Yeah, okay, but listen. The thing I do want to
say is let this stop with this dog is winning
one hundred and twenty game people. Okay, I listen. They
will win the division. It's not easy, you know, to
win back to back. Hey, if they can win back
to back, I'll be.
Speaker 6 (44:38):
To this.
Speaker 9 (44:38):
But yeah, it's a good season.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
But busy.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I got news for you too. I got I got
breaking news for you as well. Last week, speaking of
Joe and Doug, I had lunch with Doug Recorian and
he is stay one years young. Are you shocked that
Doug Recorian is still walking this earth.
Speaker 9 (44:58):
No, I'm not, but yeah, you say that last week.
How is Doug fight away?
Speaker 1 (45:04):
He hasn't changed, Isabelle. He misses you.
Speaker 9 (45:06):
Terrible well time high you could give it my number two.
I missed, Doug.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I will, I will, Isabelle, thank you for the phone
call and thank you for your faith in me and
my honesty. Yeah, how do you think that would go over?
If I if I gave Blake Trening, Isabelle and Anaheim's
phone number, or if we dowed her together speak her phone?
I guess I can get her number from Ronnie Colin,
(45:33):
Kate's Petros money. They all have her number. We'll see
if that happens anyway. That'll do it for us tonight.
In case he missed any of the show, you can
find it on the iHeartRadio app. You will hear from
us again on Thursday at eleven thirty as we will
have Dodgers on deck getting you ready for first pitch
(45:56):
of the Cactus League opener between the Cubs and Dodgers
from Camelback Ranch twelve oh five. First pitch. Rick Monday
and Tim Nevertt will have the play by play for
you and it should be a fun spring training and
it certainly will be a great ride in twenty twenty five.
Thanks to Ronnie Fascio for all his help. Thanks to
(46:17):
Blake Shrining for entertaining us tonight. Are you not entertained?
Speaker 2 (46:22):
I was.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
We will talk to you on Thursday. Have a great
rest of your night. Fox Sports Radio with Jason Smith
is next. Have a great night, Seeya
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