July 26, 2025 • 33 mins
DV takes your calls after the Dodgers 5-2 victory over the Red Sox to start a weekend series. He shares his pregame conversations with Walker Buhler and Ken Rosenthal.
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Your attention, your fire and not a pisses.
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I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache one of them
con this ball's gone.
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You ready to go? Sure?
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Hell old time.
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Go to the sound grab your phone to get in
on the show called eight six six nine eighty seven
two five seven and go to the show. And now
your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 8 (00:49):
We are live at Fenway Park after the Dodgers defeat
the Red Sox five to two. Welcome the Dodger Talk
David Vass with you until eight thirty tonight here five
seventy LA Sports. We have phone lines open at eight
six six nine eighty seven two five seventy if you're
listening on the iHeartRadio app here in Boston and whereas
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at the game, we'd love to hear from you as well.
Fenway Park is one of the special ballparks in Major
League Baseball. Dodger Stadium, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park the three
oldest ballparks in Major League Baseball right now, And there
were a lot of Dodger fans here in Boston. I
flew ahead of the team and our flight from Lax
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to Logan Airport was full of Dodger fans. And just
walking to the ballpark today and walking around yesterday on
the off day. So many Dodger fans have made the
trip out here, and it's a perfect schedule right Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
you got the weekend here. So it's understandable Dodger fans
that have not been here before making the trip out
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here because it's a it's a cool place to be definitely,
and our very own Jenny Maurice Smith was the one
that you know, came up with the concepts of renovations
to maximize Fenway Park, including the seats at the top
of the Green Monster. But nonetheless, a great day here
in Boston, and it's a little sweeter when the Dodgers
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beat the Red Sox, and tonight they did five to two.
Em it's Shean with the win. He's from Boston College.
Brian Bellow, the losing pitcher, and Ben Casparius, who you
heard from after the game, picks up his first career
save and he was drenched. I had to give him
a minute because he had to regroup. He was still
in that ninth inning mode and he was using his
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other stuff. He wasn't using the ninety six fastball that
we saw glimpses of in the ninth inning. He was
relying on his sweeper and his curveball to get out.
So Tommy Edmond made a nice play on Yoshidah's ground
ball for the second out of the inning there in
the ninth inning. So you know, I feel pretty good
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about Tommy Edmond at third.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Base these days.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
And like I mentioned, when we were talking about where
the Dodgers turned to now with Tanner Scott on the
il between now and July thirty first, I said this,
and the Dodgers went to it tonight, a combination of
Alex Vesia and Ben Casparius. I talked to Alex before
the game and I asked him whether or not Dave
Roberts or anybody has communicated to him that he is
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going to close out games. He said, no, same role.
Whatever groupings of hitters they feel like they need me for,
I'm going to be ready for.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And those groupings of hitters.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
The top of the order was in the eighth inning,
Duran Bregman and Anthony Dave Roberts brunning Casparius for a story.
Yoshida and Rafaela and Gomez Gonzalez. I'm sorry, and romy
Gonzalez was hit by a pitch and that's where you
know he was able. Ben Casparius was able to get
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to Connor Wong. But nonetheless, this is the combination between
now and July thirty. First, the Dodgers are going to
have to use lad in games, and it's it's gonna
be a high wire act. If Ben Casparius is the guy.
He got his first one, so that should help him
moving forward. And it's somewhat remarkable that, you know, he
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had an MRI on his right calf and here he
is throwing ninety six two or three days later at
Fenway Park.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I mean, think about that.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Everybody was concerned that this was going to be an
extended injury for Caspirius, and here he is throwing ninety
six and picking up his first career save at Fenway
Park on Friday night. That's that's pretty remarkable. And how
about Ben Casparius. I have said this, and Dave Roberts
answered the question earlier this year and said, yes, Ben
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Casparius has been the most valuable pitcher for the Dodgers.
Think about what they've had Casparius do, and think about
what Casparius.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Has accomplished already in a career that has.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Any even lasted a full season, and that's starting a
World Series game at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
He did really well there.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
That's him being a high leverage reliever this year, being
a long man, being a piggyback guy for Shoe Otani
and here he is closing out a game at Fenway Park.
Tell me another pitcher that has done what Ben Casparius
has done for the Dodgers. And could you imagine where
the Dodgers would be without Jack Dryer and Ben Casparius
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coming of age and being ready. They would be in
a whole lot of trouble right now without Jack Dryer
and without Ben Casparius. And by the way, two drafted
and developed players. For those that say the Dodgers just
buy their players eight six, six nine, eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. Another one of those
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drafted and developed pitchers was the winner tonight, Emmit Sheehan,
who attended Boston College and was back home in some
ways here at Fenway Park. Let's head downstairs right now
to hear from tonight's winning picture on sports at LA.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
It was really cool. I had a lot of people,
a lot of family and friends and stands. That was
probably the best part. But yeah, it was awesome. Been
dreaming about pitching here for a long time, so it
was cool.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
To go out there to have a solid performance.
Speaker 10 (06:15):
First, Just how did you find settling in especially after
that second inning in which kind of the pitch coownt
got up there a little bit.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
Yeah, definitely didn't have my best stuff or execution today, honestly,
but just got to work with what you have sometimes
out there. So I felt like it went pretty well
towards the ends.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Pitching you're like any of them, nothing at BCRE.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
At one time.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, first time.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Did you just go see your family and episode was
their reaction.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
They were just all fired up to be here and
to see me. So it was really cool to see
all them and get to take pictures on the field
and all that.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So yeah, really cool.
Speaker 10 (06:47):
And I was saying that just for the two of
you to have this experience, of course, you both growing
up in Connecticut dreaming about playing in the big leagues,
playing here, just to share it with each other, to
start to say, can you talk about that?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
It was awesome.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
Yeah, and with Ben since we got drafted, so it's
it was really cool. I think he was an actual
Red Sox fan growing up, so it might have been
a little cooler for him, but it was really cool
to see him go out there and do his thing
to How big was it just to kind of get
out of that first sitting unscathed, even with the pitchcow
kind of climbing there. Yeah, I mean it was. It
was nice to not let them do any damage there.
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I think just in the future, getting ahead of guys
early and not letting them get into that spot is
going to be the focus. But yeah, fuck it was.
Markiss came after just the usual, you know, trying to
calm me down a little bit, what do you want
to go with here?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That type of thing.
Speaker 11 (07:36):
So how often would you come to games here growing up?
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Though not very often I've lived about two hours away
two and a half, so definitely went to more games
in New York than here, but it was still cool.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
All right.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
There's Mtchan from Boston College, Tonight's winning pitcher. He went
five innings tonight, gave up just two earned runs, five strikeouts,
and two walks. And really the inning that ran up
the pitch count was the first inning, a thirty two
pitch first inning for she and the Red Sox really
made him work. A lead off walk by Jared Durant
after seeing ten pitches kind of set the tone and
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She and just couldn't find it. He got Bregmant to
ground out, he hit it hard, he walked Roman Anthony,
he struck out, then Trevor Story and Yoshida to end
the inning, which was big.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
And I thought his best inning of work was the
fourth inning.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
That's where he just shut it down, especially after the
Dodgers took an early three to nothing lead. He was
able to strike out the side in order in the
fourth inning, so to me, that was his best inning tonight.
Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number coming up at eight oh five. You'll
hear from Walker Bueller and also later in the show,
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you'll hear what Ken Rosenthal has to say about the
upcoming trade deadline. Next Thursday, Let's go out to Chino Hills. Moses,
You're on Dodger Talk with David Fast Say hi, Moses.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Hey, how you doing, buddy? Long time listener, first time
called her?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
All right, welcome, Well, thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about,
you know, Mookie Betts and a little bit about the defense.
You know, these guys are champions, they're under a microscope
and and you know you don't notice it, you know,
when they're when they're not winning.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
World Series, attentions not on them but the slunter, and
and they're really can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (09:33):
You cut out for a second. What Mookie Betts didn't
even play tonight.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
It seems like like there's not enough pride, you know
that good Moses.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Did you know that Mookie Betts didn't play tonight?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I knew he was personal reasons. He'll be back on tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yes, But you you feel like a strong passion to
uh to b.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Yeah, yeah, just because it's been a while so I've
been following it. You know, you fall baseball. You follow
the Dodgers and you see the slump and you say, Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
He's gonna get out of it. He's gonna get out
of it, and and it does.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
You know, i grew up on Kobe Bryant, so I'm
used to being in that locker room actually game played.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Baseball so different to different sport completely.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
I'm talking about the mentality when you're up there and
you're saying, look, this is what I'm gonna do to
be better for my team. I'm gonna get to the
batting cages two hours earlier. I'm gonna I'm gonna hold
up right.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
There, hold up right there. How do you know Mookie
Betts doesn't do that?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
In fact, some of us around the team believe that
he puts in too many hours in the batting cage,
so already you're zero for two.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
The point was that you just don't hear that in
the media. You don't see that he's putting in the work.
And that's kind of what I wanted to hear.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
So when I read to the show, you listen to
the show, so you know, I tell you, even when
he has a day off, he was in the cage
for three hours in the middle of the game.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Then if you listen to the show and you you
saw the first interview he did right after the All
Star break, he told us, specifically me, that he went
to Nashville for the All Star break and he was
there with family and friends, and he picked up a
bat every.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Day to work on his swing.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So I love it.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, so there you go, Moses.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It doesn't It's on the radio, but it just doesn't
get pushed out like I want to hear it.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Why not do I have to? I have to push
it out there. Yeah, I understand it. I understand.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
So now you know, you could spread the word in
Chino Hills and let everybody know Mookie's put it in
the work.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You guys are awesome. Thank you so much, Dodg you
talk all.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Right, Moses, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
I mean, that's that's the reality of it, that a
lot of people around the team think that Mookie puts
in too many hours. And uh, speaking of that, I
signed up my son for Reggie's Baseball Academy summer camp.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He just finished it today.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
It was a great camp and I would love for
Mookie Bets to find his way to Reggie Smith. Reggie
Smith would would be a great mentor for Mookie Bets.
He would be fantastic. And that's why I sent my
son to his camp, because Reggie has done a great
job of understanding the biomechanics, understanding building from the ground up,
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understanding that launch angle and chasing bat speed is not
the end all be all.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
And Reggie has done such a.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Great job of teaching the teachers at his academy and Ensino.
And if you have a kid that's even nine years old,
like my son, nine to twelve years old, they have
a week long summer camp. They go from nine to noon.
And this is not an advertisement. Nobody's paid me to
say this, but my son had an incredible experience. And
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Reggie Smith is one of the all time great baseball coaches,
not only great players, but baseball coaches, and I would
strongly recommend it.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'm sending my son.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Back next year. Maybe I could sign Mookie Bets up.
Maybe I could get Reggie and Mookie together. Eight six
six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Let's go out to Irwindale, Mike, the almost home of
the La Raiders, Erwin Dale.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
How you doing, Mike.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
Good.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Good David, Well, I guess that I'm across the street
from where they were going to build it. But anyway, uh,
why he was over two. I'm gonna go four for four.
Great father, putting your kid to the baseball camp with
Reggie Smith and then she and Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernandez,
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especially Freddie coming back. Seemed like he's coming back into
his own.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's just great positive stuff coming from now. And remember
it's a couple of days ago we were three and
a half games up on the podways and look now
we're six, six games up and things are coming together,
getting out of this, uh, losing consecutives straight that we had,
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but I'm excited and uh just looking forward to the
rest of the season and getting into the playoffs and
marching our way hopefully back to the World Series.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
All right, Mike, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Appreciate it. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
The phone number. We have three lines open if you
want to get in. Now's the time. The Dodgers beat
the Red Sox. Anytime the Dodgers are Lakers beat a
Boston team, Celtics or Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
It's a good thing.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Had a whole day off yesterday and I wore my
throwback Laker shorts all over Boston, twenty four thousand steps
around Boston wearing my Lakers purple and gold, just to
remind everybody who is who is the team, who is
the city? That's La, that's for sure, And the Dodgers
reminded everybody in Beantown of that again tonight when we
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continue on Dodger Talk Live from Fenway Park, we'll hear
from Walker Bueller and also we'll get into the trade
deadline as we are getting closer to it. Next Thursday,
July thirty, first, six o'clock Eastern time. That's the trade deadline.
There are no other trade deadlines anymore in Major League Baseball.
If you want to make a trade, you gotta do
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it before six o'clock eastern next Thursday.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
So a lot to get to between now.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
In a thirty Dodgers beat the Red Sox five to
two on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
On air at AM five seventy, online at amfive seventy
lasports dot com, and available by podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
This is Dodgers off with David Masson.
Speaker 13 (16:04):
Yeah, easch Wings hits a hi drive the right center,
going back toward the triangle and drifting near the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
It's gone.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
That's a home run to TiO Oscar, a two run
shot and the Dodgers take a five to two leave
home run number fifteen for ti Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
And that was all blast.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Teoscar Hernandez that home run in the eighth inning four hundred.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And fifteen feet.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
That was deepest part of the ballpark out there and
right center field. What a home run by Teoscar Hernandez,
who also drew a bases loaded walk in the third inning.
And did you catch the Dodgers beat the Red Sox
by the way five to two. Did you catch? I'm
not sure if Sports in La caught this as well
as Nessen did. Shoey Otani was at third base, bases
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loaded walk O'tani crosses home by not touching it with
his foot, which is the usual way you see guys
do it the conventional way.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Instead, Otani was having fun and he touched home plate
with his left hand. How about that?
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I actually took a screenshot of Otani touching home plate
with his finger instead of his foot. You could find
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Underscore DV eight six six nine seven two five seventy
is the phone number. We'll get back to the phone
calls in a moment. But earlier today, Walker Buehler received
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his World Series ring. It was cool to see his
teammates from last year's championship team come out present it
to him as they were getting ready for batting practice.
And we had a chance to catch up with Walker
Bueler earlier today and I asked him whether or not
he watches and keeps tabs on the Dodgers this season.
Speaker 14 (18:08):
Yeah, I mean obviously, I still you know, stuff pops
up everywhere, and uh yeah, it's an interesting feeling obviously,
you know, to be a part of it for so
long and then now to be here and you know,
it's it's been awesome here, kind of a fun weekend.
And you know, my birthday's on Monday too, so it's
kind of a whole thing.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
But uh no, it's been great, all right, Walker Bueller,
I forgot he dropped an S bomb in the middle
of that answer.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I mean, come on, let's go. Bueller hasn't changed a bit.
I love that though.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
I also Walker Buehler was asked about what went down
between him and the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Why is see what the Red Sox and not still
with the Dodgers.
Speaker 14 (18:47):
Yeah, I mean, I think it was an interesting situation.
I think there's obviously two sides to that, that situation,
and I think, you know, we had conversations about it,
we talked through it, and yeah, they they went and
signed guys that they wanted to sign, and I signed
with a place that I wanted to play, and it
kind of is what it is.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Do you think once you get the ring and you
go through whatever they're going to present team, that'll be
closure on your Dodger career in just the world of
the series or do you.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Already have that?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, I mean I think you already have it.
Speaker 14 (19:16):
You know, as we you know, everyone kind of knows.
I'm on a one year contract and so you never
know what's going to happen down the road. But yeah,
it's an interesting, interesting deal. I think playing against your
old team is one thing, but playing against them when
you haven't seen him since he won the whole thing
is a whole different thing. So yeah, I mean, once
I get it, I think that kind of part of
it's done. But at the end of the day, we
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will still all kind of be close or whatever for
forever and have some some really good memories of last October.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
No doubt, No doubt, Walker Bueller's last out striking out
Alex Verdugo and his pose after he did strike out
Alex Radugo and the Dodgers won the World Series will
be iconic forever. There are images that you remember, whether
it's Oral Herscheizer in Oakland being picked up by Rick
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Dempsey and being surrounded by his teammates and him pumping
his fists, or whether it is Sandy Kofax being hugged
by Johnny Roseborough running out to the mound in sixty
five at Dodger Stadium after a complete game shutout. That's
something that you'll remember. Whether it's Steve Howe on the
mound at Yankee Stadium being held up by Steve Garvey
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and the rest of those guys. I mean, those are lasting,
lasting images whenever you win the World Series and the
final out as you can.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I mean, this is just off the top of my head.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
I could see those images in my mind's eye, and
Walker Buehler is going to have that image. And obviously
twenty twenty, Julio Urias and Austin Barnes, you'll remember that
for a long time. So really special to see Walker today.
Was great to see him. He hasn't changed a bit,
and it was great to see Kershaw be the one
to present him with the ring.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
And by the way, Walker Buehler.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
He's pitching against the Dodgers on Sunday, and Dustin May
will be pitching for the Dodgers. Let's go out to
Moreno Valley. Eric, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Eric.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, Hey Dave, Yeah, miss Walker Buhler, miss his attitude
and yeah, anytime we can beat Bregman, I love it.
And yeah, Dave, I just wanted to talk. I just
wanted to talk about Freddy how he's such a cham
just bottling through his injuries and looks like his swing
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is coming back. It's awesome, man.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I have an interesting story.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I used to go to Ira Green's batting cages where
Freddy trained.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And by the way, Sean Green's dad.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, when Shawn Green was with the Blue Jays, also
with the Dodgers. Anytime the game was and Sean Green
would get a hit, his mom would give out free candy.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So that was pretty cool for that.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
That is so cool. I love that, Eric.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Yeah, and Ira Green was Freddie's kind of like along
with his dad. Even his first couple of years in
professional baseball, Freddie would still lean on Ira Green. And
Sean turned out to be a great, a great hitter,
and he learned from his dad too. So yeah, Ira
Green in Orange County certainly one of the better hitting
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coaches out there. And you think about Ira Green, you
think about Reggie Smith. They have that same type of
I don't want to say Aura, but certainly have that
type of presence that you really want to be around.
And they have such a calm patience with everybody when
you meet them, and they explain things so you can
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understand them really well. I remember going out to Reggie's
facility in Encino, you know where they had the where
they have his camps, and Reggie just showing me different
things like he shows you know, the teenagers and younger
just how you get leverage and how the base, how
your lower half is such an important part of that.
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And he's a special man and it's so great that
he has passed along what he knows to these other
coaches that can keep his legacy alive. And same with
Ira Green, Freddie Freeman, Sean Green, others know what they
were taught and can also teach it. So it always
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goes back to the teachers teaching really well the next generation.
You got to know how to teach the teachers, and
that's what those two guys have mastered. Let's go out
to Carlsbad.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Mark. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Mark.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Hey, David, nice to talk to you.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
I just want to talk to you real quick about
right field. I love Comporo, but it's just not working out.
As far as the trade deadline, I'm thinking right field and.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Bullpen. What do you think?
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Yeah, you know, the consensus is the Dodgers are looking
for an outfield bat preferably a right handed bat and
also a high leverage right handed reliever. You know, I've
been a big fan of David Bednar's of the Pirates
for a long time. Can you believe Bednar has not
given up an earn run since May twenty third. That's
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how good he's been. And he's got one more year
of team control, maybe a year.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
And a half.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
He may not cost as much as a Johan Duran
would or you know, I've given up on that class
a trade idea. I mean, that's just not going to happen.
It doesn't seem like Ryan Helsley of the Cardinals is
a rental. I have to dive deeper into what other
outfield bats may be available that the Dodgers may have
a chance to, you know, open up discussions with other
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teams about There's obviously the obvious one, Luis Robert of
the White Sox, but.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I don't know much about him. I know everybody want
to think.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Everybody thinks that once he gets out of Chicago the
South Side, that all of a sudden he's gonna be
motivated and feel better and swing.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The bat better.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
I find that hard to believe, but you know, I
feel like there's some better options out there for the Dodgers.
And speaking of the trade deadline, Fox Sports is Ken Rosenthal,
The Athletics, Ken Rosenthal, Fair Territories. Ken Rosenthal joined us
on the pregame show and we picked his brain about
the Dodgers and the trade deadline, and it is fun.
Speaker 12 (25:37):
It's fun to see all the moves that we discussed
from months and months finally come to.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Fruition or most likely not come to fruition.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
Most of the time, whatever happens is a surprise, even
though we speculate out the Yin Yang for instance, the Yankees,
oh Ohno Swars or the Yankees, Hey, they're gonna get
a Well, they didn't.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Get Aheno Swars. They got Ryan McMahon. And it's kind
of that way the whole time.
Speaker 12 (26:00):
But just to see the mech machinations of teams and
how they go about it that it really is interesting
to me, just on a bigger level, not just who's
getting who right now, but the larger three hundred and
sixty degree, thirty thousand foot view of this.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
It's always fascinating, all right.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
In that vein the Dodgers, Andrew Friedman's on the record
is saying that he's looking for a right handed reliever.
Some believe they may need an outfield bad or right
handed bat. Do you believe they'll be able to pull
that off.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
The Dodgers, of course they'll be able to pull it off.
The question with them is always how badly do they
want it and what are they willing to pay for it?
And the Dodgers have been very clear going back to
the last offseason.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
But even before they hate overpaying for relievers. Andrew's been
very clear about that.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
I don't know that they will overpay for reliever, and
I don't know that they should, frankly, because relievers are volatile.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
That's one reason the Dodgers are in the position the
red right now. They're volatile.
Speaker 12 (26:58):
I would expect they will get a bat too, because
if you look at the numbers of Tao and Confordo,
that's good enough.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
So yes, they will be looking in that market as well.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Byron Buxton at media day at the All Star Game
said he wouldn't wave as no trade clause. Do you
believe if there was something in place between the Dodgers
and Twins he may reconsider?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
That is a great question.
Speaker 12 (27:22):
But if I'm the twins and my best players said
that who signed them a low market contract with me,
I would take what he says seriously and not even
broach that.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Ken Rosenthal is our guest from Fox Sports The Athletic Ken.
When you talk about Andrew Freeman not wanting to overpay
for relievers, are times different because of the way he
spent on relievers during the offseason and the window that
they have now with Otani, Freeman and Betts.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
That is a great question, David, and that's something they're
gonna have to balance because clearly they definitely are in
a situation where, yes, the next few years are very
important to them, and they want to while these guys
are still in their primes. At the same time, they've
been burned in the relief market. And you guys, I
don't need to list them all O'Neil Cruz and you're
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Don Alvarez and even Zach McKinstry his name has come up.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
He was an All Star this year. So they can
go the other way too and get lesser relievers.
Speaker 12 (28:18):
And try to make them better, which they've done a
good job of in the past in certain cases. So
I don't know which way they're going to go, But
the prices for guys like Classe and Jacks and Duran,
I'm not even sure their teams want to trade them. Yeah,
so they might be just wasting their time talking about that.
And then who else is there that is a really
big time.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Reliever that's out there.
Speaker 12 (28:39):
Felix Bautista just went on the injured list, So I'm
not sure that the lesser options might not be the
preferred options considering everything here, price, need, obviously, the shortness
of the window, if you want to perceive it that way,
It all figures into it.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
Ryan Hellsley's a name that was even talked about during
the off season. Are you you've seen trades come together
when the talks are going back all the way back
to December and January? Do you feel like teams don't
have to work as hard to get a deal done
around this time?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Things do change though his performance is not what it
was last year. It's good, it's not amazing.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
So I could see that talk happening, of course, and
that one actually makes a little bit more sense to
me than the controllable guys. We're gonna cost an arm
and a leg. Husley is a potential free agent, but
at the same time, his performance has been voluable. And
if you're gonna give up what the Cardinals going to want,
which is a premium guy, most likely it's going to
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be something where the Dodgers are uncomfortable. Now they have
a great farm system, they can afford to be uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
But we'll see if they're willing to do that.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Before I let you go.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
There is a local connection here in Boston, Jared Duran
from Long Beach State. There's been a lot of talk
about him possibly being traded. Where would you put the
percentage of that happening, whether it's to the Dodgers, the Padres,
or any other.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I would have put it actually higher before today.
Speaker 12 (30:03):
Marcelo Mayer just went on the injured list Meyer and
he is one of their left handed hitters. The Ram
is a left handed hitter. They thought they had a surplus,
now suddenly they don't have a surplus.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
So for the right package, I would move Tourane.
Speaker 12 (30:18):
It would have to be a starting pitcher, plus and
probably controllable starting pitcher. You're not trading him for a
rental because he's got three plus years of control left.
So it's a tough trade for the Red Sox to
make because he's a good player, not a great player.
Good player kind of reminds me of Johnny Damon in
some ways when Johnny Damon was really going. But at
the same time, he is a guy that they can
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dangle and basically get what they want for him, So
that one probably goes right to the end and it's
gonna be really interesting.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
All right, there's the great Ken Rosenthal. I thought he
had some good insightful answers about the trade deadline surrounding
the Dodgers and where they may turn. It makes a
lot of sense. Relief pictures are highly valladol, and he
pointed out Ryan Helsley's season not as dominant as it
was a year ago. Helsley only has thirty nine strikeouts
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his whip, which really tells the story more than an
era of a reliever one four. Hellsley's era is three
to nine. I mean, ken Lee Jansen is having a
better year than Ryan Helsley for the Angels, and ken
Lee Jansen's a rental too. I'll see ken tomorrow. He's
gonna be on the sidelines for Fox Sports. I'm gonna
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ask him about Kenley and what the market is for him,
because I wouldn't rule out Kenley Jansen. It's a rental
the Dodgers knowing better than anybody else. And you know
ken Lee loves being at home and pitching in California,
so that would be That would be another one that
I would include there. Ryan Helsley, David Bednar, Kenley Jansen.
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Those are the three that to me are the most realistic.
And by the way, Ken Rosenthal wrote in his latest
Notes column that indeed the Dodger would be willing to
include Dustin May in a trade to complete a deal.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
So he was.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
He wrote that and confirmed all that with sources, and
you can read that in the Athletic. All right, that'll
do it for us tonight from Fenway Park tomorrow, we
have two lefties on the mound. A future Hall of
Famer and one of the best in the game right now.
Clayton Kershaw will be on the mound for the Dodgers.
He's four and one with an ERA at three twenty seven,
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going up against the dominant Garrett Crochet, who's eleven and
four this year with an ERA of two nineteen. He
has one hundred and sixty five strikeouts already this season.
By the way, speaking of Major League Baseball, before we
say good night and by the way, Morocco Casino. Dodgers
on Deck begins at three o'clock tomorrow with first pitch
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at four point fifteen. Gotta give love to rookie first
baseman of the Athletics, Nick Kurtz. He had a six
to six game tonight in Houston and hit four home runs.
He's the second player in Major League Baseball since nineteen
hundred to have six hits and four home runs. The
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other you know it, Sean Green that record setting day
in Milwaukee back in two thousand and one where he
had nineteen total bases.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbank Studios.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
Thanks to Daniel West as well, and thanks to Dwayne
McDonald out here at Fenway Park in Boston. In case
you missed any of the show, you can find it
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Thanks for listening once again.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
The final score tonight the Dodgers defeat the Red Sox
five to two.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Have a great rest of your Friday. Be safe, Seal
One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
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So just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Your attention, your fire and not a pisses.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
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they want to.
Speaker 6 (00:24):
Die in a row two is special.
Speaker 7 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache one of them
con this ball's gone.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
You ready to go? Sure?
Speaker 7 (00:33):
Hell old time.
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your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 8 (00:49):
We are live at Fenway Park after the Dodgers defeat
the Red Sox five to two. Welcome the Dodger Talk
David Vass with you until eight thirty tonight here five
seventy LA Sports. We have phone lines open at eight
six six nine eighty seven two five seventy if you're
listening on the iHeartRadio app here in Boston and whereas
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at the game, we'd love to hear from you as well.
Fenway Park is one of the special ballparks in Major
League Baseball. Dodger Stadium, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park the three
oldest ballparks in Major League Baseball right now, And there
were a lot of Dodger fans here in Boston. I
flew ahead of the team and our flight from Lax
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to Logan Airport was full of Dodger fans. And just
walking to the ballpark today and walking around yesterday on
the off day. So many Dodger fans have made the
trip out here, and it's a perfect schedule right Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
you got the weekend here. So it's understandable Dodger fans
that have not been here before making the trip out
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here because it's a it's a cool place to be definitely,
and our very own Jenny Maurice Smith was the one
that you know, came up with the concepts of renovations
to maximize Fenway Park, including the seats at the top
of the Green Monster. But nonetheless, a great day here
in Boston, and it's a little sweeter when the Dodgers
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beat the Red Sox, and tonight they did five to two.
Em it's Shean with the win. He's from Boston College.
Brian Bellow, the losing pitcher, and Ben Casparius, who you
heard from after the game, picks up his first career
save and he was drenched. I had to give him
a minute because he had to regroup. He was still
in that ninth inning mode and he was using his
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other stuff. He wasn't using the ninety six fastball that
we saw glimpses of in the ninth inning. He was
relying on his sweeper and his curveball to get out.
So Tommy Edmond made a nice play on Yoshidah's ground
ball for the second out of the inning there in
the ninth inning. So you know, I feel pretty good
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about Tommy Edmond at third.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Base these days.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
And like I mentioned, when we were talking about where
the Dodgers turned to now with Tanner Scott on the
il between now and July thirty first, I said this,
and the Dodgers went to it tonight, a combination of
Alex Vesia and Ben Casparius. I talked to Alex before
the game and I asked him whether or not Dave
Roberts or anybody has communicated to him that he is
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going to close out games. He said, no, same role.
Whatever groupings of hitters they feel like they need me for,
I'm going to be ready for.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And those groupings of hitters.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
The top of the order was in the eighth inning,
Duran Bregman and Anthony Dave Roberts brunning Casparius for a story.
Yoshida and Rafaela and Gomez Gonzalez. I'm sorry, and romy
Gonzalez was hit by a pitch and that's where you
know he was able. Ben Casparius was able to get
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to Connor Wong. But nonetheless, this is the combination between
now and July thirty. First, the Dodgers are going to
have to use lad in games, and it's it's gonna
be a high wire act. If Ben Casparius is the guy.
He got his first one, so that should help him
moving forward. And it's somewhat remarkable that, you know, he
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had an MRI on his right calf and here he
is throwing ninety six two or three days later at
Fenway Park.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I mean, think about that.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Everybody was concerned that this was going to be an
extended injury for Caspirius, and here he is throwing ninety
six and picking up his first career save at Fenway
Park on Friday night. That's that's pretty remarkable. And how
about Ben Casparius. I have said this, and Dave Roberts
answered the question earlier this year and said, yes, Ben
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Casparius has been the most valuable pitcher for the Dodgers.
Think about what they've had Casparius do, and think about
what Casparius.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Has accomplished already in a career that has.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Any even lasted a full season, and that's starting a
World Series game at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
He did really well there.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
That's him being a high leverage reliever this year, being
a long man, being a piggyback guy for Shoe Otani
and here he is closing out a game at Fenway Park.
Tell me another pitcher that has done what Ben Casparius
has done for the Dodgers. And could you imagine where
the Dodgers would be without Jack Dryer and Ben Casparius
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coming of age and being ready. They would be in
a whole lot of trouble right now without Jack Dryer
and without Ben Casparius. And by the way, two drafted
and developed players. For those that say the Dodgers just
buy their players eight six, six nine, eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. Another one of those
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drafted and developed pitchers was the winner tonight, Emmit Sheehan,
who attended Boston College and was back home in some
ways here at Fenway Park. Let's head downstairs right now
to hear from tonight's winning picture on sports at LA.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
It was really cool. I had a lot of people,
a lot of family and friends and stands. That was
probably the best part. But yeah, it was awesome. Been
dreaming about pitching here for a long time, so it
was cool.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
To go out there to have a solid performance.
Speaker 10 (06:15):
First, Just how did you find settling in especially after
that second inning in which kind of the pitch coownt
got up there a little bit.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
Yeah, definitely didn't have my best stuff or execution today, honestly,
but just got to work with what you have sometimes
out there. So I felt like it went pretty well
towards the ends.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Pitching you're like any of them, nothing at BCRE.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
At one time.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, first time.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Did you just go see your family and episode was
their reaction.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
They were just all fired up to be here and
to see me. So it was really cool to see
all them and get to take pictures on the field
and all that.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So yeah, really cool.
Speaker 10 (06:47):
And I was saying that just for the two of
you to have this experience, of course, you both growing
up in Connecticut dreaming about playing in the big leagues,
playing here, just to share it with each other, to
start to say, can you talk about that?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
It was awesome.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
Yeah, and with Ben since we got drafted, so it's
it was really cool. I think he was an actual
Red Sox fan growing up, so it might have been
a little cooler for him, but it was really cool
to see him go out there and do his thing
to How big was it just to kind of get
out of that first sitting unscathed, even with the pitchcow
kind of climbing there. Yeah, I mean it was. It
was nice to not let them do any damage there.
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I think just in the future, getting ahead of guys
early and not letting them get into that spot is
going to be the focus. But yeah, fuck it was.
Markiss came after just the usual, you know, trying to
calm me down a little bit, what do you want
to go with here?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That type of thing.
Speaker 11 (07:36):
So how often would you come to games here growing up?
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Though not very often I've lived about two hours away
two and a half, so definitely went to more games
in New York than here, but it was still cool.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
All right.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
There's Mtchan from Boston College, Tonight's winning pitcher. He went
five innings tonight, gave up just two earned runs, five strikeouts,
and two walks. And really the inning that ran up
the pitch count was the first inning, a thirty two
pitch first inning for she and the Red Sox really
made him work. A lead off walk by Jared Durant
after seeing ten pitches kind of set the tone and
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She and just couldn't find it. He got Bregmant to
ground out, he hit it hard, he walked Roman Anthony,
he struck out, then Trevor Story and Yoshida to end
the inning, which was big.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
And I thought his best inning of work was the
fourth inning.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
That's where he just shut it down, especially after the
Dodgers took an early three to nothing lead. He was
able to strike out the side in order in the
fourth inning, so to me, that was his best inning tonight.
Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number coming up at eight oh five. You'll
hear from Walker Bueller and also later in the show,
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you'll hear what Ken Rosenthal has to say about the
upcoming trade deadline. Next Thursday, Let's go out to Chino Hills. Moses,
You're on Dodger Talk with David Fast Say hi, Moses.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Hey, how you doing, buddy? Long time listener, first time
called her?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
All right, welcome, Well, thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about,
you know, Mookie Betts and a little bit about the defense.
You know, these guys are champions, they're under a microscope
and and you know you don't notice it, you know,
when they're when they're not winning.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
World Series, attentions not on them but the slunter, and
and they're really can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (09:33):
You cut out for a second. What Mookie Betts didn't
even play tonight.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
It seems like like there's not enough pride, you know
that good Moses.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Did you know that Mookie Betts didn't play tonight?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I knew he was personal reasons. He'll be back on tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yes, But you you feel like a strong passion to
uh to b.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Yeah, yeah, just because it's been a while so I've
been following it. You know, you fall baseball. You follow
the Dodgers and you see the slump and you say, Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
He's gonna get out of it. He's gonna get out
of it, and and it does.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
You know, i grew up on Kobe Bryant, so I'm
used to being in that locker room actually game played.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Baseball so different to different sport completely.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
I'm talking about the mentality when you're up there and
you're saying, look, this is what I'm gonna do to
be better for my team. I'm gonna get to the
batting cages two hours earlier. I'm gonna I'm gonna hold
up right.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
There, hold up right there. How do you know Mookie
Betts doesn't do that?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
In fact, some of us around the team believe that
he puts in too many hours in the batting cage,
so already you're zero for two.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
The point was that you just don't hear that in
the media. You don't see that he's putting in the work.
And that's kind of what I wanted to hear.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
So when I read to the show, you listen to
the show, so you know, I tell you, even when
he has a day off, he was in the cage
for three hours in the middle of the game.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Then if you listen to the show and you you
saw the first interview he did right after the All
Star break, he told us, specifically me, that he went
to Nashville for the All Star break and he was
there with family and friends, and he picked up a
bat every.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Day to work on his swing.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So I love it.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, so there you go, Moses.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It doesn't It's on the radio, but it just doesn't
get pushed out like I want to hear it.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Why not do I have to? I have to push
it out there. Yeah, I understand it. I understand.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
So now you know, you could spread the word in
Chino Hills and let everybody know Mookie's put it in
the work.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You guys are awesome. Thank you so much, Dodg you
talk all.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Right, Moses, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
I mean, that's that's the reality of it, that a
lot of people around the team think that Mookie puts
in too many hours. And uh, speaking of that, I
signed up my son for Reggie's Baseball Academy summer camp.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He just finished it today.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
It was a great camp and I would love for
Mookie Bets to find his way to Reggie Smith. Reggie
Smith would would be a great mentor for Mookie Bets.
He would be fantastic. And that's why I sent my
son to his camp, because Reggie has done a great
job of understanding the biomechanics, understanding building from the ground up,
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understanding that launch angle and chasing bat speed is not
the end all be all.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
And Reggie has done such a.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Great job of teaching the teachers at his academy and Ensino.
And if you have a kid that's even nine years old,
like my son, nine to twelve years old, they have
a week long summer camp. They go from nine to noon.
And this is not an advertisement. Nobody's paid me to
say this, but my son had an incredible experience. And
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Reggie Smith is one of the all time great baseball coaches,
not only great players, but baseball coaches, and I would
strongly recommend it.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'm sending my son.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Back next year. Maybe I could sign Mookie Bets up.
Maybe I could get Reggie and Mookie together. Eight six
six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Let's go out to Irwindale, Mike, the almost home of
the La Raiders, Erwin Dale.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
How you doing, Mike.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
Good.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Good David, Well, I guess that I'm across the street
from where they were going to build it. But anyway, uh,
why he was over two. I'm gonna go four for four.
Great father, putting your kid to the baseball camp with
Reggie Smith and then she and Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernandez,
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especially Freddie coming back. Seemed like he's coming back into
his own.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's just great positive stuff coming from now. And remember
it's a couple of days ago we were three and
a half games up on the podways and look now
we're six, six games up and things are coming together,
getting out of this, uh, losing consecutives straight that we had,
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but I'm excited and uh just looking forward to the
rest of the season and getting into the playoffs and
marching our way hopefully back to the World Series.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
All right, Mike, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Appreciate it. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
The phone number. We have three lines open if you
want to get in. Now's the time. The Dodgers beat
the Red Sox. Anytime the Dodgers are Lakers beat a
Boston team, Celtics or Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
It's a good thing.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Had a whole day off yesterday and I wore my
throwback Laker shorts all over Boston, twenty four thousand steps
around Boston wearing my Lakers purple and gold, just to
remind everybody who is who is the team, who is
the city? That's La, that's for sure, And the Dodgers
reminded everybody in Beantown of that again tonight when we
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continue on Dodger Talk Live from Fenway Park, we'll hear
from Walker Bueller and also we'll get into the trade
deadline as we are getting closer to it. Next Thursday,
July thirty, first, six o'clock Eastern time. That's the trade deadline.
There are no other trade deadlines anymore in Major League Baseball.
If you want to make a trade, you gotta do
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it before six o'clock eastern next Thursday.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
So a lot to get to between now.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
In a thirty Dodgers beat the Red Sox five to
two on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
On air at AM five seventy, online at amfive seventy
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Speaker 4 (16:00):
This is Dodgers off with David Masson.
Speaker 13 (16:04):
Yeah, easch Wings hits a hi drive the right center,
going back toward the triangle and drifting near the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
It's gone.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
That's a home run to TiO Oscar, a two run
shot and the Dodgers take a five to two leave
home run number fifteen for ti Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
And that was all blast.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Teoscar Hernandez that home run in the eighth inning four hundred.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And fifteen feet.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
That was deepest part of the ballpark out there and
right center field. What a home run by Teoscar Hernandez,
who also drew a bases loaded walk in the third inning.
And did you catch the Dodgers beat the Red Sox
by the way five to two. Did you catch? I'm
not sure if Sports in La caught this as well
as Nessen did. Shoey Otani was at third base, bases
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loaded walk O'tani crosses home by not touching it with
his foot, which is the usual way you see guys
do it the conventional way.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Instead, Otani was having fun and he touched home plate
with his left hand. How about that?
Speaker 8 (17:14):
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Speaker 8 (17:30):
I actually took a screenshot of Otani touching home plate
with his finger instead of his foot. You could find
it on my Twitter slash x account at the Real
Underscore DV eight six six nine seven two five seventy
is the phone number. We'll get back to the phone
calls in a moment. But earlier today, Walker Buehler received
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his World Series ring. It was cool to see his
teammates from last year's championship team come out present it
to him as they were getting ready for batting practice.
And we had a chance to catch up with Walker
Bueler earlier today and I asked him whether or not
he watches and keeps tabs on the Dodgers this season.
Speaker 14 (18:08):
Yeah, I mean obviously, I still you know, stuff pops
up everywhere, and uh yeah, it's an interesting feeling obviously,
you know, to be a part of it for so
long and then now to be here and you know,
it's it's been awesome here, kind of a fun weekend.
And you know, my birthday's on Monday too, so it's
kind of a whole thing.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
But uh no, it's been great, all right, Walker Bueller,
I forgot he dropped an S bomb in the middle
of that answer.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I mean, come on, let's go. Bueller hasn't changed a bit.
I love that though.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
I also Walker Buehler was asked about what went down
between him and the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Why is see what the Red Sox and not still
with the Dodgers.
Speaker 14 (18:47):
Yeah, I mean, I think it was an interesting situation.
I think there's obviously two sides to that, that situation,
and I think, you know, we had conversations about it,
we talked through it, and yeah, they they went and
signed guys that they wanted to sign, and I signed
with a place that I wanted to play, and it
kind of is what it is.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Do you think once you get the ring and you
go through whatever they're going to present team, that'll be
closure on your Dodger career in just the world of
the series or do you.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Already have that?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, I mean I think you already have it.
Speaker 14 (19:16):
You know, as we you know, everyone kind of knows.
I'm on a one year contract and so you never
know what's going to happen down the road. But yeah,
it's an interesting, interesting deal. I think playing against your
old team is one thing, but playing against them when
you haven't seen him since he won the whole thing
is a whole different thing. So yeah, I mean, once
I get it, I think that kind of part of
it's done. But at the end of the day, we
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will still all kind of be close or whatever for
forever and have some some really good memories of last October.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
No doubt, No doubt, Walker Bueller's last out striking out
Alex Verdugo and his pose after he did strike out
Alex Radugo and the Dodgers won the World Series will
be iconic forever. There are images that you remember, whether
it's Oral Herscheizer in Oakland being picked up by Rick
(20:08):
Dempsey and being surrounded by his teammates and him pumping
his fists, or whether it is Sandy Kofax being hugged
by Johnny Roseborough running out to the mound in sixty
five at Dodger Stadium after a complete game shutout. That's
something that you'll remember. Whether it's Steve Howe on the
mound at Yankee Stadium being held up by Steve Garvey
(20:30):
and the rest of those guys. I mean, those are lasting,
lasting images whenever you win the World Series and the
final out as you can.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I mean, this is just off the top of my head.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
I could see those images in my mind's eye, and
Walker Buehler is going to have that image. And obviously
twenty twenty, Julio Urias and Austin Barnes, you'll remember that
for a long time. So really special to see Walker today.
Was great to see him. He hasn't changed a bit,
and it was great to see Kershaw be the one
to present him with the ring.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
And by the way, Walker Buehler.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
He's pitching against the Dodgers on Sunday, and Dustin May
will be pitching for the Dodgers. Let's go out to
Moreno Valley. Eric, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Eric.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, Hey Dave, Yeah, miss Walker Buhler, miss his attitude
and yeah, anytime we can beat Bregman, I love it.
And yeah, Dave, I just wanted to talk. I just
wanted to talk about Freddy how he's such a cham
just bottling through his injuries and looks like his swing
(21:38):
is coming back. It's awesome, man.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I have an interesting story.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I used to go to Ira Green's batting cages where
Freddy trained.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And by the way, Sean Green's dad.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, when Shawn Green was with the Blue Jays, also
with the Dodgers. Anytime the game was and Sean Green
would get a hit, his mom would give out free candy.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So that was pretty cool for that.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
That is so cool. I love that, Eric.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Yeah, and Ira Green was Freddie's kind of like along
with his dad. Even his first couple of years in
professional baseball, Freddie would still lean on Ira Green. And
Sean turned out to be a great, a great hitter,
and he learned from his dad too. So yeah, Ira
Green in Orange County certainly one of the better hitting
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coaches out there. And you think about Ira Green, you
think about Reggie Smith. They have that same type of
I don't want to say Aura, but certainly have that
type of presence that you really want to be around.
And they have such a calm patience with everybody when
you meet them, and they explain things so you can
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understand them really well. I remember going out to Reggie's
facility in Encino, you know where they had the where
they have his camps, and Reggie just showing me different
things like he shows you know, the teenagers and younger
just how you get leverage and how the base, how
your lower half is such an important part of that.
(23:13):
And he's a special man and it's so great that
he has passed along what he knows to these other
coaches that can keep his legacy alive. And same with
Ira Green, Freddie Freeman, Sean Green, others know what they
were taught and can also teach it. So it always
(23:33):
goes back to the teachers teaching really well the next generation.
You got to know how to teach the teachers, and
that's what those two guys have mastered. Let's go out
to Carlsbad.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Mark. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Mark.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Hey, David, nice to talk to you.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
I just want to talk to you real quick about
right field. I love Comporo, but it's just not working out.
As far as the trade deadline, I'm thinking right field and.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Bullpen. What do you think?
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Yeah, you know, the consensus is the Dodgers are looking
for an outfield bat preferably a right handed bat and
also a high leverage right handed reliever. You know, I've
been a big fan of David Bednar's of the Pirates
for a long time. Can you believe Bednar has not
given up an earn run since May twenty third. That's
(24:28):
how good he's been. And he's got one more year
of team control, maybe a year.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
And a half.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
He may not cost as much as a Johan Duran
would or you know, I've given up on that class
a trade idea. I mean, that's just not going to happen.
It doesn't seem like Ryan Helsley of the Cardinals is
a rental. I have to dive deeper into what other
outfield bats may be available that the Dodgers may have
a chance to, you know, open up discussions with other
(24:56):
teams about There's obviously the obvious one, Luis Robert of
the White Sox, but.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I don't know much about him. I know everybody want
to think.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Everybody thinks that once he gets out of Chicago the
South Side, that all of a sudden he's gonna be
motivated and feel better and swing.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The bat better.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
I find that hard to believe, but you know, I
feel like there's some better options out there for the Dodgers.
And speaking of the trade deadline, Fox Sports is Ken Rosenthal,
The Athletics, Ken Rosenthal, Fair Territories. Ken Rosenthal joined us
on the pregame show and we picked his brain about
the Dodgers and the trade deadline, and it is fun.
Speaker 12 (25:37):
It's fun to see all the moves that we discussed
from months and months finally come to.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Fruition or most likely not come to fruition.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
Most of the time, whatever happens is a surprise, even
though we speculate out the Yin Yang for instance, the Yankees,
oh Ohno Swars or the Yankees, Hey, they're gonna get
a Well, they didn't.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Get Aheno Swars. They got Ryan McMahon. And it's kind
of that way the whole time.
Speaker 12 (26:00):
But just to see the mech machinations of teams and
how they go about it that it really is interesting
to me, just on a bigger level, not just who's
getting who right now, but the larger three hundred and
sixty degree, thirty thousand foot view of this.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
It's always fascinating, all right.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
In that vein the Dodgers, Andrew Friedman's on the record
is saying that he's looking for a right handed reliever.
Some believe they may need an outfield bad or right
handed bat. Do you believe they'll be able to pull
that off.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
The Dodgers, of course they'll be able to pull it off.
The question with them is always how badly do they
want it and what are they willing to pay for it?
And the Dodgers have been very clear going back to
the last offseason.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
But even before they hate overpaying for relievers. Andrew's been
very clear about that.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
I don't know that they will overpay for reliever, and
I don't know that they should, frankly, because relievers are volatile.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
That's one reason the Dodgers are in the position the
red right now. They're volatile.
Speaker 12 (26:58):
I would expect they will get a bat too, because
if you look at the numbers of Tao and Confordo,
that's good enough.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
So yes, they will be looking in that market as well.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Byron Buxton at media day at the All Star Game
said he wouldn't wave as no trade clause. Do you
believe if there was something in place between the Dodgers
and Twins he may reconsider?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
That is a great question.
Speaker 12 (27:22):
But if I'm the twins and my best players said
that who signed them a low market contract with me,
I would take what he says seriously and not even
broach that.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Ken Rosenthal is our guest from Fox Sports The Athletic Ken.
When you talk about Andrew Freeman not wanting to overpay
for relievers, are times different because of the way he
spent on relievers during the offseason and the window that
they have now with Otani, Freeman and Betts.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
That is a great question, David, and that's something they're
gonna have to balance because clearly they definitely are in
a situation where, yes, the next few years are very
important to them, and they want to while these guys
are still in their primes. At the same time, they've
been burned in the relief market. And you guys, I
don't need to list them all O'Neil Cruz and you're
(28:09):
Don Alvarez and even Zach McKinstry his name has come up.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
He was an All Star this year. So they can
go the other way too and get lesser relievers.
Speaker 12 (28:18):
And try to make them better, which they've done a
good job of in the past in certain cases. So
I don't know which way they're going to go, But
the prices for guys like Classe and Jacks and Duran,
I'm not even sure their teams want to trade them. Yeah,
so they might be just wasting their time talking about that.
And then who else is there that is a really
big time.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Reliever that's out there.
Speaker 12 (28:39):
Felix Bautista just went on the injured list, So I'm
not sure that the lesser options might not be the
preferred options considering everything here, price, need, obviously, the shortness
of the window, if you want to perceive it that way,
It all figures into it.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
Ryan Hellsley's a name that was even talked about during
the off season. Are you you've seen trades come together
when the talks are going back all the way back
to December and January? Do you feel like teams don't
have to work as hard to get a deal done
around this time?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Things do change though his performance is not what it
was last year. It's good, it's not amazing.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
So I could see that talk happening, of course, and
that one actually makes a little bit more sense to
me than the controllable guys. We're gonna cost an arm
and a leg. Husley is a potential free agent, but
at the same time, his performance has been voluable. And
if you're gonna give up what the Cardinals going to want,
which is a premium guy, most likely it's going to
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be something where the Dodgers are uncomfortable. Now they have
a great farm system, they can afford to be uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
But we'll see if they're willing to do that.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Before I let you go.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
There is a local connection here in Boston, Jared Duran
from Long Beach State. There's been a lot of talk
about him possibly being traded. Where would you put the
percentage of that happening, whether it's to the Dodgers, the Padres,
or any other.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I would have put it actually higher before today.
Speaker 12 (30:03):
Marcelo Mayer just went on the injured list Meyer and
he is one of their left handed hitters. The Ram
is a left handed hitter. They thought they had a surplus,
now suddenly they don't have a surplus.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
So for the right package, I would move Tourane.
Speaker 12 (30:18):
It would have to be a starting pitcher, plus and
probably controllable starting pitcher. You're not trading him for a
rental because he's got three plus years of control left.
So it's a tough trade for the Red Sox to
make because he's a good player, not a great player.
Good player kind of reminds me of Johnny Damon in
some ways when Johnny Damon was really going. But at
the same time, he is a guy that they can
(30:38):
dangle and basically get what they want for him, So
that one probably goes right to the end and it's
gonna be really interesting.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
All right, there's the great Ken Rosenthal. I thought he
had some good insightful answers about the trade deadline surrounding
the Dodgers and where they may turn. It makes a
lot of sense. Relief pictures are highly valladol, and he
pointed out Ryan Helsley's season not as dominant as it
was a year ago. Helsley only has thirty nine strikeouts
(31:09):
his whip, which really tells the story more than an
era of a reliever one four. Hellsley's era is three
to nine. I mean, ken Lee Jansen is having a
better year than Ryan Helsley for the Angels, and ken
Lee Jansen's a rental too. I'll see ken tomorrow. He's
gonna be on the sidelines for Fox Sports. I'm gonna
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ask him about Kenley and what the market is for him,
because I wouldn't rule out Kenley Jansen. It's a rental
the Dodgers knowing better than anybody else. And you know
ken Lee loves being at home and pitching in California,
so that would be That would be another one that
I would include there. Ryan Helsley, David Bednar, Kenley Jansen.
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Those are the three that to me are the most realistic.
And by the way, Ken Rosenthal wrote in his latest
Notes column that indeed the Dodger would be willing to
include Dustin May in a trade to complete a deal.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
So he was.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
He wrote that and confirmed all that with sources, and
you can read that in the Athletic. All right, that'll
do it for us tonight from Fenway Park tomorrow, we
have two lefties on the mound. A future Hall of
Famer and one of the best in the game right now.
Clayton Kershaw will be on the mound for the Dodgers.
He's four and one with an ERA at three twenty seven,
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going up against the dominant Garrett Crochet, who's eleven and
four this year with an ERA of two nineteen. He
has one hundred and sixty five strikeouts already this season.
By the way, speaking of Major League Baseball, before we
say good night and by the way, Morocco Casino. Dodgers
on Deck begins at three o'clock tomorrow with first pitch
(32:48):
at four point fifteen. Gotta give love to rookie first
baseman of the Athletics, Nick Kurtz. He had a six
to six game tonight in Houston and hit four home runs.
He's the second player in Major League Baseball since nineteen
hundred to have six hits and four home runs. The
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other you know it, Sean Green that record setting day
in Milwaukee back in two thousand and one where he
had nineteen total bases.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbank Studios.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
Thanks to Daniel West as well, and thanks to Dwayne
McDonald out here at Fenway Park in Boston. In case
you missed any of the show, you can find it
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Thanks for listening once again.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
The final score tonight the Dodgers defeat the Red Sox
five to two.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Have a great rest of your Friday. Be safe, Seal
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