December 10, 2025 • 45 mins
Off Season Dodger Talk with David Vassegh who talk to Dodger fan favorite Andre Ethier and Jerry Hairston Jr. of SportsNet LA
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is off season Dodger Talk Winter Meetings edit year.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now Everyone's favorite Dodger Insight David Basset.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, welcome to our third consecutive Dodger Talk David Vase
live from the Sportsnet LA studios. We had just finished
access Sportsnet Dodgers Day three recapping the Winter meetings, and
Jerry Harriston Junior is going to stop by at seven
point thirty and coming up in our next segment, Andre
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eighth Year is going to join us. He just got
out of his kid's Christmas program and was eager to
join us. So everybody from Jerry Harriston Junior to Brian
Cranston to Andre eighth Year are as excited as you
are about the Dodgers wanting more, wanting a three peat.
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And we are going to have another Dodger Talk on
Friday night at seven o'clock as well. We'll have another
special guest trying to work on it. It might be
a big enough guest where they could tell us what's
going on as far as other moves the Dodgers have
up their sleeve. And look, you heard Petro some Money
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talk about it mock Pingalore from KTLA five News and
it sounded like a generic fan basically. You know, I
could have came on here. I could have gone on
Twitter weeks ago and said, Hey, I hear the Dodgers
and Tigers are talking about Tarrek's scouble. Yeah, they talked
about Trek scouble two years ago, but the Tigers were
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not going to trade him because they believed they were
going to be contenders the following year. And that's exactly
what took place. The Tigers have been very good the
last couple of years. Now, here's what I know as
far as the Trek Scouoball situation. Number One, they're GM.
Scott Harris has had multiple chances to deny and flat
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out say he is not trading terror schoolbl He never
did that and has not done that, which makes me
believe there is a very good chance that Tarrek Scuubole
gets traded before opening day. I was a little suspicious
that these were just rumors and the Tigers were just
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trying to gather information, and at the end of all
of this, they may just be doing that. But I
know a lot of people in Orlando, and I'm not
talking about media people. I'm talking about a lot of
managers and GMS in Orlando either believe Schoolball is going
to get traded or are not sure whether or not
the Tigers will trade him. What I knew now talking
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to people in Orlando that we're there and are very
familiar with what the Tigers are asking for Trek's Scoobol.
They are asking for a one year rental of Trek's Scoobol,
a package that would rival with the Padre sent to
the Nationals for Juan Soto. In case you don't know
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what that was, and Soto was under team control for
two years. The Padres sent cj Abrams, James Wood, Mackenzie Gore,
Luke Voight, and an outfielder that never materialized in another
starting pitcher that never materialized, six prospects, one that was
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ready to go, the other two a year or so
away for two years of control of Juan Soto. From
what I understand, the Tigers wants something that rivals that.
And the difference is the Tigers are trying to win,
and if they trade Trek Scoobel, they've got to sell
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to their fan base in Detroit. We just traded the
best picture the Tigers have had since Jack Morris or
Justin Verlander more recently for more than just prospects, very
winnable Ale Central and the Dodgers have those type of
players to send to Detroit. And before we go any
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further with all that, let's just make this clear. The
reason why there has been rumors and reports linking the
Dodgers to a possible trade for Trek Skoubel is not
because of their three hundred and something million dollar payroll,
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not because they have the financial wherewithal, but because of
their drafting and developing. When they don't even have first
round picks, they just forfeited their second and fifth highest
draft picks by signing Edwin Diaz. This is a testament
to Andrew Friedman, to Brandon Gomes and their scouting department
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to be able to not only go after the top
tier guys like Otani Freeman and Taoscar Hernandez and even
to a certain extent, Mookie Betts when they extended him,
but Blake Snell, Tyler Glass now guys like that. It's
not just about them going after those top tier, high
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money free agents, but also having the farm system thanks
to their player development, to be able to be even
considered by the Tigers. Said, Hey, this team may have
what we want. If the Dodgers do end up trading
for Trek Skouble, whether it's before the season or at
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the trade deadline, don't get it twisted. There's going to
be people outraged and pointing the finger that baseball's broken.
The Dodgers have all this money, uh huh. When it
comes to this, this is about their drafting, their scouting,
and their player development to have players young players prospects
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to be able to trade and be engaged with the
Tigers for a Trek Scooble. Has nothing to do with
the size of their payroll. Has everything to do with
their player development and having these players that are very talented,
whether or not they turn out to be really good
or not well right now, a lot of people believe
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they have the potential and that's why they get tagged
as a prospect and have one of the top five
farm systems according to multiple publications. So if this happens,
it's not because of the financial might of the Dodgers,
it's because of the player development system and the drafting
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under Andrew Friedman. And look if Tarrek's scouble, if the
Tigers are listening for Trek Scouble, you gotta believe Andrew
Friedman is not just going to pass on it. He's
going to be aggressive because he has the prospects to
be aggressive within reason, within reason. And don't forget Trek
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Scuble is a Scott Boris client. The chances of him
agreeing to an extension are very unlikely. Boris clients usually
go to free agency, especially in a situation like this,
especially for the premiere pitcher. Scott Boris is not going
to sign an extension. He is going to take Trek
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Scouble to the open market. Whether it's the Mets, whether
it's the Dodgers, whether it's the Pirates, whether it's the Tigers.
Trek's Scouble will be a free agent. So it's a
one year rental with the hopes of trying to bring
him back. Make no mistake about that other Dodger news
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Taoscar Hernandez, who has been rumored in trades. He told
a reporter in Spanish, I believe his I tweeted out
his name. I don't know him off the top of
my head, but I'm going to get his name right now.
He told Moisis Moisus fabion of Moises to sport this
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that he is not going to play for Team Dominican
Republic in the World Baseball Classic so he can get
the recovery that his body requires. Remember he had the
groin injury, so he is not going to play for
the World Baseball Classic. He has let Albert Poolhols know
that already, and the Athletic is reporting the Royals have
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been a team that has a lot of interest in
Taioscar Hernandez. So we'll see what happens with ta Oscar.
If you see some of the videos on his Instagram,
he looks phenomenal. He looks like he's ready for a
rebound season, and I hope that's with the Dodgers. We're
gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. We
have phone lines open at eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
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two five seventy. Andre Ethier is going to check in
outside of his kids Christmas program. Ethier a man that
spent his entire Major League career with the Dodgers and
still has strong bonds to the Dodgers, the players, the
organization is going to join us next and Jerry Harriston
Junior is going to join us. At the bottom of
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the hour. David Vasse with you until eight o'clock on
Dodger Talk live from the Sports net LA studios, five
seventy LA Sports. Thanks to the good people here at
sports net LA for allowing me to do radio magic
from their studios. We just wrapped up access sportsnet Dodgers
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at seven o'clock. I'm sure it's replaying right now and
we'll replay tomorrow morning. You can find that on sportsnt
ALA and also we have Dodger Talk for you on
Friday night at seven o'clock as well. Jerry Harriston Junior
is going to join us at the bottom of the hour.
Andre Ethier going to check in outside of his kid's
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Christmas program. But I kind of filled you in on
everything I know. When it comes to Trek's schooble am
I going to say, hey, I'm hearing Andrew Freeman's really
working hard, or there's an extension, or the Tiger's owner
has got to sign off. If you're getting so far
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down the road on a trade, the owner would be
very much involved before you got that far down the road.
And I'm not saying that it's not going to happen.
I would say that if the Tigers are indeed open
to trading Schooble. The Dodgers and Mets would be the
two favorites to land him for a one year rental
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and see where it goes from there. Eight six six
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
All right, we are joined right now by a man
that spent his entire twelve year Major League career with
the Dodgers. He still has strong ties and a lot
of Dodger pride and may have even had something to
do with Edwin d As choosing the Dodgers over the Mets.
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He's outside of his kids Christmas program. The love of
the game still very strong for Andre Ethier Dre. Thanks
a lot for calling in. How did the Christmas program go?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It went good? Thanks for having me on, Dave, you know,
into with the gotel on the mountain for the big
clothes and you know what a night you know, good night.
You know what a season it is. And like you
mentioned about our guy, our newest edition there, Edwin Diaz
had a chance to, you know, be at the MLB
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Awards there Vegas a couple of weeks ago for the
golf Term and Award show, and it happened to be
I don't know if it was meant to be or not,
but it was. I was at a table for the
Ward Show with Edwin Diaz, and that was the first
thing I said to him as soon as we sat down,
was you're gonna sign with the Dodgers, right, And of
course he gave me that smirk. And I sat there
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now for the entire two hour event and talked up
the Dodgers soon the whole time. So I don't know
if I had a had a hand in it or not,
but I like to say that I was one of
the first ones to go heavy and hard after him
that he should be a Dodger.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And you know this better than we do. Players talk
when they hear that from another player or they hear
it from current players. How much does that sway a
guy from choosing one team from the other if it's
close like it was.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I don't know
if he was taking my word, but he probably got
more annoyed with me sitting there talking to him about
the Dodgers and how great it was. And I know
his brother was on the team, and you know, he's
pretty familiar with his experience there and I mean what
to get what to start to to the offseason. I'm
not surprised that the that the Dodgers made that move,
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and I'm not surprised that the first ones to make
the big splash and let everyone else know there. You know,
no across baseball that we're not stopping by any means.
Just because they've won the second World Series doesn't mean
they're going to stop there. And they're going after it
again and doubling down. And I've seen a lot of
rumors here about another certain Cali Arizona boy that could
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be end up a Dodger here hopefully if the trade
comes down to it. And you know what a time
to be a Dodgor to be a doctor fan, all Right?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So I asked Brian Cranston this the other night. He's
in London on on some sort of theater. He's starring
in a theater. Play out there, my three sons. It's
one am in London. When Game seven was going on
in Toronto. We haven't talked. You haven't really shared where
you were when the Dodgers found a way somehow to
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come back to win Game seven. Where was Andre Ethier
watching Game seven of this year's World Series.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I was luckily sitting at home, uh, you know for
the night before. I I I think I hastily pushed
my kids through the neighborhood. You hurried them for trick
or treating the night before, and that next night definitely
exhausted from you know, the night of of a trick
or treating. I got a chance to sit at home
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and watch that game, and I mean, yeah, the edge
of my seat. I uh, I guess that one play
alone just sums up the game of baseball. That play
at home plate that Mickey made, and uh, you know,
with the outreach and stretch of Wales Smith there, it's
a game of inches. You hear all the time, a
game of inches. And literally the Blue Jays were that close,
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like that close from winning a World Series and the
Dodgers losing and it just slips away. And yeah, so
I was lucky to be able to sit at home
to enjoy that. I was screaming for that last you know,
six innings of the game going through it. But shows
a lot to you know, what this team has done
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with organization done. And I guess you know, you year
it over and over. You can't be more proud or
more happy for the fan base and for the city
of la for how they've rallied around this team the
last twenty years.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You said you were sitting next to Edwin Diaz at
the MLB Award Show. You were partners with Will Smith
in the golf tournament part of that week in Vegas.
What did he share with you about the World Series?
So what did you ask him about the play at
the plate, about the home run? Did you, guys, did
you try to pick his brain and figure out what
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he was feeling through all that?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, Actually a very interesting twist to that. Our first
day pairing and that golf tournament head to head was
with Blue Jay's. We were paired with Clement and the
big home run hitter walk off Joe Carter himself. Oh
wow was our pairing. Yeah, it was our pairing for
the first day and so Joe, Joe Carter had nothing
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but bad energy. He'd liked to say towards Will Smith
because he said, you try to steal my shiginn and
in Toronto, and after he was giving Will Smith a
hard time about the whole time. So, yeah, Will got
to extrapolate a little bit on that home run, and
you know, just up until that point, like he was saying,
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you know, he was really struggling to really drive the ball,
get behind a pitch. You know, he was making great contact,
just doesn't feel like it was really lining up too well.
And then that last couple of games, stuff started to
click where he was able to add a little bit
behind it, was able to get in that strong, you know,
hitting position where he could drive the ball. And he
had faced you know, pitcher a few times and knew
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what he was coming at him with, he said, and
sure enough, I think he had a homer off him.
And I thought, I don't know if he was college
or minor leagues off a similar pitch. He was saying,
so you know he had some had some spears against him,
and knews just throw that pitch, and sure enough he
did and hit a homer offit. But yeah, that play
by Big he said, after that play, and I was
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given him hard time. I said, when are we going
to get the air guitar out on the green? Are
we going to get the air the air guitar that
you had after that play at home plate or that
play you know by Kik the double play there, and
you know he was he was having a hard you know,
a fun time with that, but I mean, what an
experience to hear it from him firsthand, and then getting
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to hear it from Blue Jays on the other hand,
kind of getting to relive it again a couple of
weeks later from it. It was a great time and
for great event. And you know, Will what a what
a hero and what a guy keeps coming through those
big situations.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Must be something to do with that jersey number sixteen,
Rick Monday a big home run in the NLCS and
eighty one. You're known for being one of the most
clutch Dodgers in the last twenty five years, and Will
Smith one of the most clutch Dodgers at number sixteen.
There's something with it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I like to think it, but you know, it's still
the player, and I mean, the guy's having a great
career and you got to give him a lot of
credit for, you know, the way he's been able to
do this over the last couple of years and played
a premium position like catcher and getting up there and
handling the staff. You can just see the experience he
brought into that world series and how he's you know,
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just leveled out and able to keep calm and stay
focused on the situation. And I think that was the
thing I kind of was talking to him about on
our right around, was you know, just he said, it
was just so much energy, so much going on in
that whole series. But you look at Will and you know,
during the regular season, Will's the comics guy, and you know, no,
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no expressions, nothing, And he was the same way in
the World Series, except those couple of moments in those
you know, in Game seven where he let out the
air guitar. He you know, was pumping his fist doing
that stuff with the big homer, and you know, he's
just a steady player and it's amazing to see. And
I'm gonna say he plays golf the same exact way.
There's not a he doesn't get too excited with the
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good shot, doesn't get too excited with the bad shot.
It's the same guy out on the golf course.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Andre Ethier, number sixteen himself is joining us on Dodger Talk. Hey. Andre.
Last night, Logan White, a guy that you know really well,
announced that he's retiring from the game of baseball. He
was a big part of Nick Coletti's front office. Dan
Evans front office and even for a short time, was
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able to stick with the Dodgers through the deep adesty years.
But when the Dodgers traded for you, they didn't draft you, obviously,
but when they traded for you, I would imagine Logan
White had something to do with it. Are you familiar
with what his involvement was? How close are you to
Logan White because he drafted so many of your great teammates,
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including Kershaw and kem.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, and I think it started off like this whole
run these Dodgers are on has a lot to do
with the architect that Logan White created.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
He was the architect of this run that you're seeing
in twenty twenty five. You know, it's it started with
Clayton Karshaw, It started with Matt Camp. It started with
him drafting all those great players that showed up when
kind of when the Dodgers were hitting their stride when
Guggenheim took over. Those were the key, you know, players
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in that system that he had drafted and scouted all
those years that you know kind of has led to
this success. So you got to give him a lot
of credit. And I don't know if the fans realize
that or understand that that he was. You know, you know,
you have a GM, you have a guy like Andrew Freeman,
a guy like Ned Cletti who are there, you know,
with the team, the major league team day to day
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operate that obviously they oversee the entire top to bottom
operation of the organization. But at the same time, you
have your minor league scouting coordinators, your directors, all those
guys who run the minor leagues and are the ones
like we're seeing today, are providing the pieces for great
trade prospects, maybe graduating a guy up to the big
like a Will Smith who's a really productive player. And
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they're the ones who are the backbone of this organization
that are always there to like I said, promote those
guys add pieces when you need it if you have
the depth in your minor league system, and I don't.
I think they fly under the radar a lot. And
you know, Logan did a great job in all those years.
I mean identified arguably the best pitcher in our generation,
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if not you know, top ten pitcher of all baseball.
He identified him, wanted him, got them signed, and got
them developed in the big leagues within a couple of years.
You know, I had a great relationship with him. He
scouted me my last two years in the minor leagues
from you know, being at a higher level in Double A.
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And then of course when I was in the Fall
League with Matt Camp, Russell Martin, James Loney and those
guys in the Fall League, guys like Logan White, all
the scouting directs, all those guys are pretty much at
every one of those games all Fall League, watching their
top prospects play. So Logan was there watching those guys.
And when that was when I was in Oklahoma, he
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was there watching me also, And that's kind of how
that trade when it got proposed with A's I was
the key piece that those guys wanted and you know,
they weren't gonna stop. And you know, that was the
same story he told me a couple of years ago.
When I read it him, he goes, what what a.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Trade me we made?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
He's like, we told him that we weren't gonna, you know,
go past anyone besides you on that on that deal,
and that was our our sticky point. And you could
have you know, Milton Bradley, and we had to throw
an Antonio Perez just to make them feel good about
giving you up, and you know, I was very thankful
and obviously sitting here today to be a part of
this organization and be a Dodger changed my life, changed everything,
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you know, my trajectory of where I was, my baseball career, trajectory,
where I am in my life. And I'm thankful for
guys like him who went to that for me and
fought for me and believed in me and saw something
special in the limited time you got to see me play.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Hey, very thankful for Logan White as well. Glad that
Andre Ethier became a Dodger. I always told Nick Colletti
his first trade was his best trade, and that was
for you, Hey, before I let you go. A lot
of people feel like Max Munsey has the same type
of disgust for me as you did when you played.
Do you feel like it rivals that? Do you feel
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like Monsey's gonna send me a Christmas present? Where do
you think this stands moving forward?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, you sit here and begged me on text to
get on with you all the time. I feel like
it's charity now to get on with you. I don't know,
but Max is doing a great job. I'm glad. I'm
glad he's picked up. I feel a little bad we
shared this. I feel a little bad that people might
be getting confused that, especially your girl Lizzie there, who
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is confused. Elizabeth Olsen is confused whether you're getting bullied,
you're getting teased? H Did the players actually like you?
I will be the first one to say and I
and I will go out there. I'm not gonna speak
for Max, but all the all the all the you know,
the hard times, the back and forth I've given you
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was always out of love.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
And you know that, and you.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Understand that we have, we had we we have a
great relationship.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's just about part of about being in the locker room,
being around guys that you like. You know, if if
someone's not talking to you, you know this, David, if they're
not talking to you and ignoring you, that's that's worrisome.
If they're giving you a hard time and always ripping
on you do that, that means they like you in
the locker room. And that's a part of the game,
part of baseball. And I'm glad Max, you know, picked
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up where I kind of left off with the and
always give you a hard time and making fun of
your polos and all the funny things you do, like
sliding down slides and breaking your own hand when you're
trying to have a good bit.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
All that stuffs to take care of my wrist. She
wants to hold and make me feel better.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
She might want to start a GoFundMe for you, I
think of anything.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
But what do you think?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
How do you think? How do you think max max
Is has been doing picking up where I left off.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I think he's right there. I mean, you never blew
cigar smoke in my face during an interview, so I
think he's he's right there. I feel unintentionally he has
taken the baton from you.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, but it's all we're having a good time.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah, great time.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I never feel like it's bowling like you said. I'm
just I'm happy going back to when you played that
you guys include me and that made me feel a
bigger part of it than I actually am. So I
always appreciate all you guys including me and that that
that means a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, I think I think the fans sometimes maybe lose
a little sight of that that, you know, Dave Assay,
Joe Davis, you know, the entire team, uh, you know,
the entire media team that they see on the radio,
they see on the TV that are constantly around the
team and are cover them from you know, the Dodgers
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coverage side. You know, they're all a part of this team.
They're all part of this organization. We're all working towards
one goal, and that's to give our best you know,
obviously performance on the field, performance on the radio, performance
on TV. And the reason why we're trying to do
this for the fans. We're trying to give the fans,
you know, everything they want to see on the field,
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everything they want to hear off the field, all the
behind the scenes stuff. Get personalities to come out of guys.
Here are some of you know, these conversations that guys
might be having, uh, you know, how they talk to
each other, all the fun that goes on besides that,
just pitch being played on the field. That just adds
to the you know, to the fun and keeps you
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interested in. You know, this long season we go through
every year as a ballplayer and sometimes gets monotonous. We're
with the same twenty five players for the most part,
all year long, and it's great having guys like you
who are on there because Hey, I've eaten with uh,
you know, I Russell Martin or whoever for the twentieth
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time this season. Hey Dave, Hey, you know whatever. Let's
go out to dinner and let's take the Let's take
the clubhouse staff, who are just a part of the
team and a part of this whole thing is everyone else.
And I think that's what everyone's got to see so
much as you know, our Jay, PEPs, you know Alice,
all of these guys that you know are all a
part of the team, and they mean a lot to
the players, they mean a lot to organization, and everyone
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really does care for each other in that locker room.
And I think that's the thing that you see the most.
And and you know, we talk about this all the time.
Are my biggest bonds are still with a lot of
the former players, But my biggest bonds are still with
you know, with Alex, with PEPs, with Sergio, with all
those guys in the locker room that take care of
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you in the locker room, that were guys that were
there with you having a good day, having a good
day on those bad days, there to always pick you up,
always there to kind of be a different shoulder, different
one to talk to. They're the first ones when I
go back to the stadium's exact how my kids are,
how families are doing, how my parents are, how life
is doing all that stuff. And you know, you you
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players come and go, but those mainstays in the locker
room that you know, from the staff to media, guys
like yourself, that you know, take some bested interest in
the person you know, you're You're thankful for those and
I appreciate all those relationsip I have from the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
We appreciate you. You always understood, uh you always had a
better understanding about the ecosystem and the people around you.
And that's why those relationships have lasted to this day.
And you know, my favorite eheer is not Andre Ethier,
it's his dad, Byron. That was my guy, is my guy?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah right, yeah, see, I know right. Ivery want to
get to know people's family members. It's it's a true
you know, when you play there that long, but you know,
MAXI themselves been there that long. You get to know
not just the player that shows up into that locker
room or shows up to fort of that interview. You
get to know and fans, I know understand this. They
see this. You know, players have a lot of things
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going on off the field besides just what's going you
know on you know, with what they're playing. You know,
they might have a zero for four day or a
five for five day, but there might be other things
going on in life. And it's a it's leaning on
a guy on the clubhouse staff on you know on
Scott oz Asaki are traveling sectary. He's still there. Who
was there before me? When they steer there to be like, hey,
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can you help me get a fight for my parents
to come intown? You know I didn't have time to
do it today. Can you help me organize that? Get
them a rental car?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
All that stuff?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And these guys are making your life easier so you
can go out there and keep doing your job on
the field and performing and helping this team win. And
it's you know, like you said, it's a big ecosystem
and a support group and luckily being a Dodger, they
are doing everything they can to make the players performance
on the field the best.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well, the yelp on the shelf in your house is
gonna like you You're on Santa's good list. After this
interview eat here, so great to hear from you, great
to share you with fans. And we'll do this again
in the new year when we have shows on a
regular basis.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And I'm so thankful for everyone out there, and you know,
I'm happy beyond I could ever imagine that this organization
is having so much success and that the city of
la and all the fans that the Dodger fans, new old,
however long you've been there, is getting a chance to see, uh,
this level of success and have those bragging rights across baseball.
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And I know, probably for you and being a competitor,
nothing nothing makes me more happy when you see all
the people who just can't stand the success that the
Dodgers are having because you know, they're doing their job.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I love seeing mister Met cry. That's my favorite part
of it.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I do too. I love to see I love to
see people on Twitter saying, who's the Dodgers gonna get next?
The mister Met and they have them in a Dodger's uniform,
the mister Met traded to the Dodgers. It's it's it's
it's the greatest thing. And uh and uh, you know,
being a player going through it. You know, on some
of the lean years, you never thought that this organization
would get to this and has and it's a it's
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a great place to be at and it's a great
place to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Still, with this amount of success that the team's having.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
No doubt, and you're a big part of it still
to this day, We'll look forward to seeing you at
Dodger Stadium next year and we'll talk to you, uh
in January. I'll talk to you before that. We'll share
with you with the fans in January.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
All right, stay away from slide still, that's still a
thing you need to stay away from.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I might intertube during the holidays.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, don't do that either.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
There he goes, There he goes Andre Ethier, who spent
his entire twelve year Major league career with the Dodgers,
and to this day, Tommy Lesorda would be proud. He's
a great ambassador for the team and bleeds Dodger blue.
We're gonna take a time out. We went way over
with Ethier. He had a lot to say and a
(32:35):
lot to share about his time with Will Smith and
Edwin Diaz. How about that, Andre Ethier recruiting Edwin Diaz
in November. Jerry Harriston Junior, who's here at the Sports
Net LA studios, is going to check in next. We
got a lot to get to between now at eight
o'clock right here on AM five to seventy LA sports
(32:57):
sports Net LA just wrapped Access Sportsnet Dodgers, wrapping up
Day three of the winter meetings with my guy John
Harttongue and my other guy who is with us right now,
Jerry Harriston Jr. Jay Hare Number one salute, Thank you
to the Bears, and thank you for sharing the bet
that was paid off today by Audio Joe.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Audio Joe, and he's a great person obviously, does a
great job for us here in studio, and he was
a man of his word. You know, he's a big
New York Giants fan. My Bears beat the Giants several
weeks ago, and because of that, he had to buy
a nice bottle of caved Oro the extra at Neejo,
the best tequila in the world.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Hey, you were a team player, you gave it to
the whole crew. You let me have a little sip.
You've changed my life today and everybody else is.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Here listen, am I right about how great the tequila is. Amazing.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Hopefully your show will be sponsored by cavedet or at
some point, but no, it is a great tequila. But
you know, working here, it's a family, you know, just
like the Dodgers organization. Everybody cares for each other and
it's so it's such a joy to come to work.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
When I think about you when I'm in Cincinnati, I'll
think about you in this air conditioned, cushy studio.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
It is a great place to come over with. Listen,
Dodgers Stadium. There's no place like it because you know,
the fans are the best, incredible, beautiful stadium and the
weather's always great. So yes, very fortunate when we're not
at home, when we're on the road. I'm here in
studio and you're in Cincinnati, you're in.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
The hot weather. So uh, it is still the big
League zone. Yeah, no doubt, Jay Hare.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We're talking about the Dodgers, the winter meetings, the hot stove.
Everybody wants to know what's next. You went back to
back championships. They wanted three pete you signed Edwin Diaz.
Now there's rumors about Trek Scouble. What do you believe
are the real chances a Schooble gets traded to any
team and b that the Dodgers may be that team.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
If you're the Detroit Tigers, you got to figure out
are you going to extend u Tarrek Scooble. Obviously he's
probably the best left handed pitcher in all of baseball.
Some say he's the best picture in all of baseball.
If you're going to keep them, you extend them, great,
more power to you. But if you don't think you're
gonna re sign him, you can't hold onto him. You
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have to trade him because he is such a huge piece.
And with trading him, you got to go out there
and get a plethora of young talent. Now, on the
flip side, Dodgers got what a lot of young talent.
Everybody talks about the Dodgers' money, which they do have
a lot of money. But I think the most important
part of the Dodgers that people fail to realize. They
have an incredible pharm system. They draft well, sign well.
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I think more importantly, they develop players so they're in position.
If the Tigers aside to part ways with Screwball, they
can be positioned to have the necessary pieces to trade
for that elite starter.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
All right, I'm gonna ask you another question, because on
the show tonight you talked about the Dodgers needing to
add an outfielder. I'm gonna give you a hypothetical here
of players that have been rumored to be available. Out
of these three outfielders, who fits the Dodgers the best.
Would it be Brendan Donovan of the Cardinals, Jared Durant
of the Red Side, Harrison Bader who finished the year
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with the Phillies.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Oh wow, you know all three are winning ball players,
really good players in their own right. I've always been
a Harrison Batter fan, man. I know he can play
elite defensive center field. I think that's the biggest need
for us, specially with Keith cary Nannis. We have a
feeling he will resign with the Dodgers, but he just
had surgery. He may take some time to get to
gim back healthy. Obviously, Tommy Edmund had ankle surgery as well.
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We don't know what his time pool table is. I think,
more importantly with the Dodgers, I would love to see
task her Nanis go back to left field. I know
he loves right field, but look at the season he
had as a left fielder, especially offensively. Right field, especially
Dodgers statement is very demanding. It's not an easy place
to play. So if you get in a center fielder,
you can move Paez who's got an elite arm to
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right field, tail to left, and a guy like a
Harrison Bader who covers tremendous ground in center field and
he's a winning type player. So listen, all three guys
will be a great fit for the Dodgers. But if
I had to choose one, you know, Harrison Bader Man,
he's got some swag. Man, He's got that that I'd
like to see in a player, tough out in the
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batter's box, he's got some pop, but more importantly, he
ain't afraid to run in the walls and make that
catch what you needed.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
He seems to be a Jerry Harrison type of player.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I mean he's he's old school. You know, I love
all school type of players. Really, I can make a
case for Jerant, who I love his his style of
player as well.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
He's a great player. Donovan is also a really good player.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
But I think if those three guys, I would say
maybe Baitter maybe fits us a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Jerry harriston JUNR. We're hanging out at sports net La tonight.
We finished Access Sportsnet Dodgers. We got Radio Magic going
for you on Dodger Talk until eight o'clock. Going back
to Trek schoolball. If the Dodgers were able to find
a trade match with the Tigers, are you comfortable with
it just being a one year rental? Because Scott Boris
(37:59):
is his agent, we all know he'll take him to
free agency.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
I would be comfortable with that because we've seen in
the past when we traded for Bookie Betts. You know,
he came here and fell in love with La I
think that could be a possibility.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Listen, I played for nine different franchise. I loved everywhere.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
I played every city, but there's nothing like La Man,
the weather, the people, the fan base, the camaraderie that
this team has really built, especially in recent years. So
if you get a guy like Schooble and he's here
and he sees what entails being a Dodger and being
on this team, he may want to say, you.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Know what, I don't want to leave this place.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
And obviously the Dodgers do have the money they do
have the resources to make that happen, So I would
be optimistic if he does come that he'd want to.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Resign here at this point in time, with the Dodgers
having the success they've had, winning back to back championships
and wanting more a guy like Edwin Diaz or any
other free agent out there, doesn't it say something about
what type of player they are that, if all things
are equal, I'm choosing the Dodgers. And conversely, for players
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that say no, thanks, doesn't it say that maybe winnings.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Not number one for them? Well, it is.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
And first of all, to go back to your first point,
the Dodgers are in the position because they not only win,
but they have created a culture that players want to
be here.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Listen, players talk all the time.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
When I played, you knew where where the places to
play were, how teams organizations treated their players. And you
gotta remember, Alexis Diaz was a Dodger last year as well,
and I'm sure he told his brother. Me and my
brother played in the Biglies at the same time. We
talked about places that we played. Hey don't go here,
or hey, you want to go play for this organization?
So it's no secret that the Dodgers are beloved by
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so many players. You know, Bryce Harper have talked about
the Dodgers. How listen, they do everything the right way.
Why are you hating on them? You want every organization
to be just like that. So it's just a testament
of the people, not just the players, the character of
the people that they go out and get to make
sure we get the right people in place. And that's
why guys want to come and play for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
All right, Before I let you go, I gotta get
this out of the way. Brad Paisley continues to call
me and text me and say, Jerry Harriston is our treasure.
I completely disagree with him. I feel like he does
that to upset me. But Brad Paisley really is entertained
by you and Nomar and how you try to, you know,
(40:32):
get to Nomar's level, and Nomar seems to brush you off.
Can you set the record straight and just give a
shout out to Brad Well?
Speaker 5 (40:39):
First of all, Brad Paisley is one of the best entertainers,
not just country musicians, best entertainers there is on the planet.
I love his commercials as well with Peyton Manning. We
all know he's a huge Dodger fan, and he brought
the house down when he sung the national anthem at
Dodgers Stadium once again.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
He is has become a really good friend, and I
do agree with him on Nomar. I agree with him
on Nomar listen anytime, you know, being obviously it's not
It's not lost on me, you know, being on TV
here in La we get so many entertainers with us, musicians, actors,
actresses that watch us because they see the Dodgers and
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we're on before and after. And I'm extremely humbled to
Brad for him saying that. And so many people like
our senior Hall I have become friends with Jason Bateman.
I run into it into him all the time. Just
so many great people, all walks of life that share
the same common interest, and that's the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
How fortunate are we?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Can you take us behind the scenes? Do you think
Nomar likes you?
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I know Nomar loves me. I hate Listen.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
I'm gonna say something here. I may get no More
in trouble. No more is actually going to take me
to dinner tomorrow night. Who So that's how me and Nomar.
We've been friends for decades. I know we kind of
play a little bit because we have a lot of
fun on air. But listen, I used to work out
with Nomar when we played against each other when he's
the Red Sox and I was with the Baltimore Orioles.
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I've always respected Nomar. He is one of the best
players I've ever played against, and he should be in
the Hall of Fame. Alan Trammel rightfully sols a Hall
of Famer. Harold Baines rightfully, sol's a.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
No more goes to your par You go back and
look at his seven eight year stretch. He deserves to
be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Well, I guess dinner's on Nomar after you said that,
I mean, Nomar is going to be paying tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Why do you think I'm going.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Hey, it's been awesome these last three days. I love
doing the show with you guys. You're so nice to
me and treat me so well. So thank you for
the time and love love being around you guys.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
You know the Dodger fans are second to none, and
they love you. Dave say, I listened to the callers,
Dave Wagner is one of my boys.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
He calls it all the.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
Time, and it's always fun doing the show from Dodger Stadium.
And then after we're done with the post game, I
get in my car and I take the thirty five
minute drive back home. I get a chance to listen
to you and the great Dodger fan base.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
So that's always a treat for me.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Oh man, I don't know how to respond to these compliments,
but thank you for them, and we'll just end it there.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I like tequila.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yeah, let no mar Garcia Para know that. Jerry all right?
There he goes Jerry Harriston Junior. We had three straight
days of TV together here at the Sports and at
LA Studios during the winter meetings. I'm sure guys like
Skip Schumacher were wondering, where's David Vassa. Where's David Vassa? Well,
I got news for you, everybody. I stayed back in
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LA and had a great time in this cushy studio
and was able to really be productive back here in LA,
not just hanging out with other baseball people out there
in Orlando. So I mean, who could pass up three
straight days with Jerry Harriston Junior. You tell me that
was the big win for me. All right. Our next
(43:52):
show will be on Friday night, seven o'clock, another Dodger Talk.
We'll see whether or not the Edwin d As deal
is official by then. If it is, who knows, Timmy
Trumpet himself may join us on Friday night. We'll keep
track of whether or not the Tigers are really considering
trading Tarrek Schuble. Seems like they're asking a lot. Like
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I said before, we got to Ethier and Jerry Harriston Junior.
From what I hear, the Tigers are asking for as
much as the Nationals got in return from the Padres
for two years of control of Juan Soto. Trek schoubl
the greatest pitcher right now in baseball, but a one
(44:38):
year rental and a Scott Boris client. He will be
going to free agency, so no matter where he goes,
he's a one year rental. And the Tigers are asking
for as much as the Nationals got for two years
of Juan Soto. That's gonna be hard to get from
any team. All right, that'll do it for us tonight
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on Dodger Talk. In case you missed any of the show,
you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks to
Ronnie Fossio back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Stu
Mitchell and Jack de Root and Chris Whitty out here
at sportsnet LA. Thanks to Ethier and Jerry Harriston Jr.
For joining the show as well. We'll be back with
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you on Friday night at seven o'clock having some drinks
with the all time leading scorer in Pac ten history.
Tomorrow night, the one and only Don McClain. So night
off from Dodger Talk, but the party lives on with
McClain out there in Westlake Village. Have a great rest
of your night, Seeya.
This is off season Dodger Talk Winter Meetings edit year.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now Everyone's favorite Dodger Insight David Basset.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, welcome to our third consecutive Dodger Talk David Vase
live from the Sportsnet LA studios. We had just finished
access Sportsnet Dodgers Day three recapping the Winter meetings, and
Jerry Harriston Junior is going to stop by at seven
point thirty and coming up in our next segment, Andre
(00:30):
eighth Year is going to join us. He just got
out of his kid's Christmas program and was eager to
join us. So everybody from Jerry Harriston Junior to Brian
Cranston to Andre eighth Year are as excited as you
are about the Dodgers wanting more, wanting a three peat.
(00:50):
And we are going to have another Dodger Talk on
Friday night at seven o'clock as well. We'll have another
special guest trying to work on it. It might be
a big enough guest where they could tell us what's
going on as far as other moves the Dodgers have
up their sleeve. And look, you heard Petro some Money
(01:11):
talk about it mock Pingalore from KTLA five News and
it sounded like a generic fan basically. You know, I
could have came on here. I could have gone on
Twitter weeks ago and said, Hey, I hear the Dodgers
and Tigers are talking about Tarrek's scouble. Yeah, they talked
about Trek scouble two years ago, but the Tigers were
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not going to trade him because they believed they were
going to be contenders the following year. And that's exactly
what took place. The Tigers have been very good the
last couple of years. Now, here's what I know as
far as the Trek Scouoball situation. Number One, they're GM.
Scott Harris has had multiple chances to deny and flat
(01:57):
out say he is not trading terror schoolbl He never
did that and has not done that, which makes me
believe there is a very good chance that Tarrek Scuubole
gets traded before opening day. I was a little suspicious
that these were just rumors and the Tigers were just
(02:19):
trying to gather information, and at the end of all
of this, they may just be doing that. But I
know a lot of people in Orlando, and I'm not
talking about media people. I'm talking about a lot of
managers and GMS in Orlando either believe Schoolball is going
to get traded or are not sure whether or not
the Tigers will trade him. What I knew now talking
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to people in Orlando that we're there and are very
familiar with what the Tigers are asking for Trek's Scoobol.
They are asking for a one year rental of Trek's Scoobol,
a package that would rival with the Padre sent to
the Nationals for Juan Soto. In case you don't know
(03:04):
what that was, and Soto was under team control for
two years. The Padres sent cj Abrams, James Wood, Mackenzie Gore,
Luke Voight, and an outfielder that never materialized in another
starting pitcher that never materialized, six prospects, one that was
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ready to go, the other two a year or so
away for two years of control of Juan Soto. From
what I understand, the Tigers wants something that rivals that.
And the difference is the Tigers are trying to win,
and if they trade Trek Scoobel, they've got to sell
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to their fan base in Detroit. We just traded the
best picture the Tigers have had since Jack Morris or
Justin Verlander more recently for more than just prospects, very
winnable Ale Central and the Dodgers have those type of
players to send to Detroit. And before we go any
(04:09):
further with all that, let's just make this clear. The
reason why there has been rumors and reports linking the
Dodgers to a possible trade for Trek Skoubel is not
because of their three hundred and something million dollar payroll,
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not because they have the financial wherewithal, but because of
their drafting and developing. When they don't even have first
round picks, they just forfeited their second and fifth highest
draft picks by signing Edwin Diaz. This is a testament
to Andrew Friedman, to Brandon Gomes and their scouting department
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to be able to not only go after the top
tier guys like Otani Freeman and Taoscar Hernandez and even
to a certain extent, Mookie Betts when they extended him,
but Blake Snell, Tyler Glass now guys like that. It's
not just about them going after those top tier, high
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money free agents, but also having the farm system thanks
to their player development, to be able to be even
considered by the Tigers. Said, Hey, this team may have
what we want. If the Dodgers do end up trading
for Trek Skouble, whether it's before the season or at
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the trade deadline, don't get it twisted. There's going to
be people outraged and pointing the finger that baseball's broken.
The Dodgers have all this money, uh huh. When it
comes to this, this is about their drafting, their scouting,
and their player development to have players young players prospects
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to be able to trade and be engaged with the
Tigers for a Trek Scooble. Has nothing to do with
the size of their payroll. Has everything to do with
their player development and having these players that are very talented,
whether or not they turn out to be really good
or not well right now, a lot of people believe
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they have the potential and that's why they get tagged
as a prospect and have one of the top five
farm systems according to multiple publications. So if this happens,
it's not because of the financial might of the Dodgers,
it's because of the player development system and the drafting
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under Andrew Friedman. And look if Tarrek's scouble, if the
Tigers are listening for Trek Scouble, you gotta believe Andrew
Friedman is not just going to pass on it. He's
going to be aggressive because he has the prospects to
be aggressive within reason, within reason. And don't forget Trek
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Scuble is a Scott Boris client. The chances of him
agreeing to an extension are very unlikely. Boris clients usually
go to free agency, especially in a situation like this,
especially for the premiere pitcher. Scott Boris is not going
to sign an extension. He is going to take Trek
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Scouble to the open market. Whether it's the Mets, whether
it's the Dodgers, whether it's the Pirates, whether it's the Tigers.
Trek's Scouble will be a free agent. So it's a
one year rental with the hopes of trying to bring
him back. Make no mistake about that other Dodger news
(07:50):
Taoscar Hernandez, who has been rumored in trades. He told
a reporter in Spanish, I believe his I tweeted out
his name. I don't know him off the top of
my head, but I'm going to get his name right now.
He told Moisis Moisus fabion of Moises to sport this
(08:13):
that he is not going to play for Team Dominican
Republic in the World Baseball Classic so he can get
the recovery that his body requires. Remember he had the
groin injury, so he is not going to play for
the World Baseball Classic. He has let Albert Poolhols know
that already, and the Athletic is reporting the Royals have
(08:34):
been a team that has a lot of interest in
Taioscar Hernandez. So we'll see what happens with ta Oscar.
If you see some of the videos on his Instagram,
he looks phenomenal. He looks like he's ready for a
rebound season, and I hope that's with the Dodgers. We're
gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. We
have phone lines open at eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
(08:56):
two five seventy. Andre Ethier is going to check in
outside of his kids Christmas program. Ethier a man that
spent his entire Major League career with the Dodgers and
still has strong bonds to the Dodgers, the players, the
organization is going to join us next and Jerry Harriston
Junior is going to join us. At the bottom of
(09:16):
the hour. David Vasse with you until eight o'clock on
Dodger Talk live from the Sports net LA studios, five
seventy LA Sports. Thanks to the good people here at
sports net LA for allowing me to do radio magic
from their studios. We just wrapped up access sportsnet Dodgers
(09:39):
at seven o'clock. I'm sure it's replaying right now and
we'll replay tomorrow morning. You can find that on sportsnt
ALA and also we have Dodger Talk for you on
Friday night at seven o'clock as well. Jerry Harriston Junior
is going to join us at the bottom of the hour.
Andre Ethier going to check in outside of his kid's
(10:02):
Christmas program. But I kind of filled you in on
everything I know. When it comes to Trek's schooble am
I going to say, hey, I'm hearing Andrew Freeman's really
working hard, or there's an extension, or the Tiger's owner
has got to sign off. If you're getting so far
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down the road on a trade, the owner would be
very much involved before you got that far down the road.
And I'm not saying that it's not going to happen.
I would say that if the Tigers are indeed open
to trading Schooble. The Dodgers and Mets would be the
two favorites to land him for a one year rental
(10:44):
and see where it goes from there. Eight six six
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
All right, we are joined right now by a man
that spent his entire twelve year Major League career with
the Dodgers. He still has strong ties and a lot
of Dodger pride and may have even had something to
do with Edwin d As choosing the Dodgers over the Mets.
(11:08):
He's outside of his kids Christmas program. The love of
the game still very strong for Andre Ethier Dre. Thanks
a lot for calling in. How did the Christmas program go?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It went good? Thanks for having me on, Dave, you know,
into with the gotel on the mountain for the big
clothes and you know what a night you know, good night.
You know what a season it is. And like you
mentioned about our guy, our newest edition there, Edwin Diaz
had a chance to, you know, be at the MLB
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Awards there Vegas a couple of weeks ago for the
golf Term and Award show, and it happened to be
I don't know if it was meant to be or not,
but it was. I was at a table for the
Ward Show with Edwin Diaz, and that was the first
thing I said to him as soon as we sat down,
was you're gonna sign with the Dodgers, right, And of
course he gave me that smirk. And I sat there
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now for the entire two hour event and talked up
the Dodgers soon the whole time. So I don't know
if I had a had a hand in it or not,
but I like to say that I was one of
the first ones to go heavy and hard after him
that he should be a Dodger.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And you know this better than we do. Players talk
when they hear that from another player or they hear
it from current players. How much does that sway a
guy from choosing one team from the other if it's
close like it was.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I don't know
if he was taking my word, but he probably got
more annoyed with me sitting there talking to him about
the Dodgers and how great it was. And I know
his brother was on the team, and you know, he's
pretty familiar with his experience there and I mean what
to get what to start to to the offseason. I'm
not surprised that the that the Dodgers made that move,
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and I'm not surprised that the first ones to make
the big splash and let everyone else know there. You know,
no across baseball that we're not stopping by any means.
Just because they've won the second World Series doesn't mean
they're going to stop there. And they're going after it
again and doubling down. And I've seen a lot of
rumors here about another certain Cali Arizona boy that could
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be end up a Dodger here hopefully if the trade
comes down to it. And you know what a time
to be a Dodgor to be a doctor fan, all Right?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So I asked Brian Cranston this the other night. He's
in London on on some sort of theater. He's starring
in a theater. Play out there, my three sons. It's
one am in London. When Game seven was going on
in Toronto. We haven't talked. You haven't really shared where
you were when the Dodgers found a way somehow to
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come back to win Game seven. Where was Andre Ethier
watching Game seven of this year's World Series.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I was luckily sitting at home, uh, you know for
the night before. I I I think I hastily pushed
my kids through the neighborhood. You hurried them for trick
or treating the night before, and that next night definitely
exhausted from you know, the night of of a trick
or treating. I got a chance to sit at home
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and watch that game, and I mean, yeah, the edge
of my seat. I uh, I guess that one play
alone just sums up the game of baseball. That play
at home plate that Mickey made, and uh, you know,
with the outreach and stretch of Wales Smith there, it's
a game of inches. You hear all the time, a
game of inches. And literally the Blue Jays were that close,
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like that close from winning a World Series and the
Dodgers losing and it just slips away. And yeah, so
I was lucky to be able to sit at home
to enjoy that. I was screaming for that last you know,
six innings of the game going through it. But shows
a lot to you know, what this team has done
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with organization done. And I guess you know, you year
it over and over. You can't be more proud or
more happy for the fan base and for the city
of la for how they've rallied around this team the
last twenty years.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You said you were sitting next to Edwin Diaz at
the MLB Award Show. You were partners with Will Smith
in the golf tournament part of that week in Vegas.
What did he share with you about the World Series?
So what did you ask him about the play at
the plate, about the home run? Did you, guys, did
you try to pick his brain and figure out what
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he was feeling through all that?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, Actually a very interesting twist to that. Our first
day pairing and that golf tournament head to head was
with Blue Jay's. We were paired with Clement and the
big home run hitter walk off Joe Carter himself. Oh
wow was our pairing. Yeah, it was our pairing for
the first day and so Joe, Joe Carter had nothing
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but bad energy. He'd liked to say towards Will Smith
because he said, you try to steal my shiginn and
in Toronto, and after he was giving Will Smith a
hard time about the whole time. So, yeah, Will got
to extrapolate a little bit on that home run, and
you know, just up until that point, like he was saying,
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you know, he was really struggling to really drive the ball,
get behind a pitch. You know, he was making great contact,
just doesn't feel like it was really lining up too well.
And then that last couple of games, stuff started to
click where he was able to add a little bit
behind it, was able to get in that strong, you know,
hitting position where he could drive the ball. And he
had faced you know, pitcher a few times and knew
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what he was coming at him with, he said, and
sure enough, I think he had a homer off him.
And I thought, I don't know if he was college
or minor leagues off a similar pitch. He was saying,
so you know he had some had some spears against him,
and knews just throw that pitch, and sure enough he
did and hit a homer offit. But yeah, that play
by Big he said, after that play, and I was
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given him hard time. I said, when are we going
to get the air guitar out on the green? Are
we going to get the air the air guitar that
you had after that play at home plate or that
play you know by Kik the double play there, and
you know he was he was having a hard you know,
a fun time with that, but I mean, what an
experience to hear it from him firsthand, and then getting
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to hear it from Blue Jays on the other hand,
kind of getting to relive it again a couple of
weeks later from it. It was a great time and
for great event. And you know, Will what a what
a hero and what a guy keeps coming through those
big situations.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Must be something to do with that jersey number sixteen,
Rick Monday a big home run in the NLCS and
eighty one. You're known for being one of the most
clutch Dodgers in the last twenty five years, and Will
Smith one of the most clutch Dodgers at number sixteen.
There's something with it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I like to think it, but you know, it's still
the player, and I mean, the guy's having a great
career and you got to give him a lot of
credit for, you know, the way he's been able to
do this over the last couple of years and played
a premium position like catcher and getting up there and
handling the staff. You can just see the experience he
brought into that world series and how he's you know,
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just leveled out and able to keep calm and stay
focused on the situation. And I think that was the
thing I kind of was talking to him about on
our right around, was you know, just he said, it
was just so much energy, so much going on in
that whole series. But you look at Will and you know,
during the regular season, Will's the comics guy, and you know, no,
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no expressions, nothing, And he was the same way in
the World Series, except those couple of moments in those
you know, in Game seven where he let out the
air guitar. He you know, was pumping his fist doing
that stuff with the big homer, and you know, he's
just a steady player and it's amazing to see. And
I'm gonna say he plays golf the same exact way.
There's not a he doesn't get too excited with the
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good shot, doesn't get too excited with the bad shot.
It's the same guy out on the golf course.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Andre Ethier, number sixteen himself is joining us on Dodger Talk. Hey. Andre.
Last night, Logan White, a guy that you know really well,
announced that he's retiring from the game of baseball. He
was a big part of Nick Coletti's front office. Dan
Evans front office and even for a short time, was
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able to stick with the Dodgers through the deep adesty years.
But when the Dodgers traded for you, they didn't draft you, obviously,
but when they traded for you, I would imagine Logan
White had something to do with it. Are you familiar
with what his involvement was? How close are you to
Logan White because he drafted so many of your great teammates,
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including Kershaw and kem.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, and I think it started off like this whole
run these Dodgers are on has a lot to do
with the architect that Logan White created.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
He was the architect of this run that you're seeing
in twenty twenty five. You know, it's it started with
Clayton Karshaw, It started with Matt Camp. It started with
him drafting all those great players that showed up when
kind of when the Dodgers were hitting their stride when
Guggenheim took over. Those were the key, you know, players
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in that system that he had drafted and scouted all
those years that you know kind of has led to
this success. So you got to give him a lot
of credit. And I don't know if the fans realize
that or understand that that he was. You know, you know,
you have a GM, you have a guy like Andrew Freeman,
a guy like Ned Cletti who are there, you know,
with the team, the major league team day to day
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operate that obviously they oversee the entire top to bottom
operation of the organization. But at the same time, you
have your minor league scouting coordinators, your directors, all those
guys who run the minor leagues and are the ones
like we're seeing today, are providing the pieces for great
trade prospects, maybe graduating a guy up to the big
like a Will Smith who's a really productive player. And
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they're the ones who are the backbone of this organization
that are always there to like I said, promote those
guys add pieces when you need it if you have
the depth in your minor league system, and I don't.
I think they fly under the radar a lot. And
you know, Logan did a great job in all those years.
I mean identified arguably the best pitcher in our generation,
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if not you know, top ten pitcher of all baseball.
He identified him, wanted him, got them signed, and got
them developed in the big leagues within a couple of years.
You know, I had a great relationship with him. He
scouted me my last two years in the minor leagues
from you know, being at a higher level in Double A.
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And then of course when I was in the Fall
League with Matt Camp, Russell Martin, James Loney and those
guys in the Fall League, guys like Logan White, all
the scouting directs, all those guys are pretty much at
every one of those games all Fall League, watching their
top prospects play. So Logan was there watching those guys.
And when that was when I was in Oklahoma, he
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was there watching me also, And that's kind of how
that trade when it got proposed with A's I was
the key piece that those guys wanted and you know,
they weren't gonna stop. And you know, that was the
same story he told me a couple of years ago.
When I read it him, he goes, what what a.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Trade me we made?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
He's like, we told him that we weren't gonna, you know,
go past anyone besides you on that on that deal,
and that was our our sticky point. And you could
have you know, Milton Bradley, and we had to throw
an Antonio Perez just to make them feel good about
giving you up, and you know, I was very thankful
and obviously sitting here today to be a part of
this organization and be a Dodger changed my life, changed everything,
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you know, my trajectory of where I was, my baseball career, trajectory,
where I am in my life. And I'm thankful for
guys like him who went to that for me and
fought for me and believed in me and saw something
special in the limited time you got to see me play.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Hey, very thankful for Logan White as well. Glad that
Andre Ethier became a Dodger. I always told Nick Colletti
his first trade was his best trade, and that was
for you, Hey, before I let you go. A lot
of people feel like Max Munsey has the same type
of disgust for me as you did when you played.
Do you feel like it rivals that? Do you feel
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like Monsey's gonna send me a Christmas present? Where do
you think this stands moving forward?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, you sit here and begged me on text to
get on with you all the time. I feel like
it's charity now to get on with you. I don't know,
but Max is doing a great job. I'm glad. I'm
glad he's picked up. I feel a little bad we
shared this. I feel a little bad that people might
be getting confused that, especially your girl Lizzie there, who
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is confused. Elizabeth Olsen is confused whether you're getting bullied,
you're getting teased? H Did the players actually like you?
I will be the first one to say and I
and I will go out there. I'm not gonna speak
for Max, but all the all the all the you know,
the hard times, the back and forth I've given you
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was always out of love.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
And you know that, and you.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Understand that we have, we had we we have a
great relationship.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's just about part of about being in the locker room,
being around guys that you like. You know, if if
someone's not talking to you, you know this, David, if they're
not talking to you and ignoring you, that's that's worrisome.
If they're giving you a hard time and always ripping
on you do that, that means they like you in
the locker room. And that's a part of the game,
part of baseball. And I'm glad Max, you know, picked
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up where I kind of left off with the and
always give you a hard time and making fun of
your polos and all the funny things you do, like
sliding down slides and breaking your own hand when you're
trying to have a good bit.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
All that stuffs to take care of my wrist. She
wants to hold and make me feel better.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
She might want to start a GoFundMe for you, I
think of anything.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
But what do you think?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
How do you think? How do you think max max
Is has been doing picking up where I left off.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I think he's right there. I mean, you never blew
cigar smoke in my face during an interview, so I
think he's he's right there. I feel unintentionally he has
taken the baton from you.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, but it's all we're having a good time.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah, great time.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I never feel like it's bowling like you said. I'm
just I'm happy going back to when you played that
you guys include me and that made me feel a
bigger part of it than I actually am. So I
always appreciate all you guys including me and that that
that means a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, I think I think the fans sometimes maybe lose
a little sight of that that, you know, Dave Assay,
Joe Davis, you know, the entire team, uh, you know,
the entire media team that they see on the radio,
they see on the TV that are constantly around the
team and are cover them from you know, the Dodgers
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coverage side. You know, they're all a part of this team.
They're all part of this organization. We're all working towards
one goal, and that's to give our best you know,
obviously performance on the field, performance on the radio, performance
on TV. And the reason why we're trying to do
this for the fans. We're trying to give the fans,
you know, everything they want to see on the field,
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everything they want to hear off the field, all the
behind the scenes stuff. Get personalities to come out of guys.
Here are some of you know, these conversations that guys
might be having, uh, you know, how they talk to
each other, all the fun that goes on besides that,
just pitch being played on the field. That just adds
to the you know, to the fun and keeps you
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interested in. You know, this long season we go through
every year as a ballplayer and sometimes gets monotonous. We're
with the same twenty five players for the most part,
all year long, and it's great having guys like you
who are on there because Hey, I've eaten with uh,
you know, I Russell Martin or whoever for the twentieth
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time this season. Hey Dave, Hey, you know whatever. Let's
go out to dinner and let's take the Let's take
the clubhouse staff, who are just a part of the
team and a part of this whole thing is everyone else.
And I think that's what everyone's got to see so
much as you know, our Jay, PEPs, you know Alice,
all of these guys that you know are all a
part of the team, and they mean a lot to
the players, they mean a lot to organization, and everyone
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really does care for each other in that locker room.
And I think that's the thing that you see the most.
And and you know, we talk about this all the time.
Are my biggest bonds are still with a lot of
the former players, But my biggest bonds are still with
you know, with Alex, with PEPs, with Sergio, with all
those guys in the locker room that take care of
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you in the locker room, that were guys that were
there with you having a good day, having a good
day on those bad days, there to always pick you up,
always there to kind of be a different shoulder, different
one to talk to. They're the first ones when I
go back to the stadium's exact how my kids are,
how families are doing, how my parents are, how life
is doing all that stuff. And you know, you you
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players come and go, but those mainstays in the locker
room that you know, from the staff to media, guys
like yourself, that you know, take some bested interest in
the person you know, you're You're thankful for those and
I appreciate all those relationsip I have from the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
We appreciate you. You always understood, uh you always had a
better understanding about the ecosystem and the people around you.
And that's why those relationships have lasted to this day.
And you know, my favorite eheer is not Andre Ethier,
it's his dad, Byron. That was my guy, is my guy?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah right, yeah, see, I know right. Ivery want to
get to know people's family members. It's it's a true
you know, when you play there that long, but you know,
MAXI themselves been there that long. You get to know
not just the player that shows up into that locker
room or shows up to fort of that interview. You
get to know and fans, I know understand this. They
see this. You know, players have a lot of things
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going on off the field besides just what's going you
know on you know, with what they're playing. You know,
they might have a zero for four day or a
five for five day, but there might be other things
going on in life. And it's a it's leaning on
a guy on the clubhouse staff on you know on
Scott oz Asaki are traveling sectary. He's still there. Who
was there before me? When they steer there to be like, hey,
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can you help me get a fight for my parents
to come intown? You know I didn't have time to
do it today. Can you help me organize that? Get
them a rental car?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
All that stuff?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And these guys are making your life easier so you
can go out there and keep doing your job on
the field and performing and helping this team win. And
it's you know, like you said, it's a big ecosystem
and a support group and luckily being a Dodger, they
are doing everything they can to make the players performance
on the field the best.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well, the yelp on the shelf in your house is
gonna like you You're on Santa's good list. After this
interview eat here, so great to hear from you, great
to share you with fans. And we'll do this again
in the new year when we have shows on a
regular basis.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And I'm so thankful for everyone out there, and you know,
I'm happy beyond I could ever imagine that this organization
is having so much success and that the city of
la and all the fans that the Dodger fans, new old,
however long you've been there, is getting a chance to see, uh,
this level of success and have those bragging rights across baseball.
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And I know, probably for you and being a competitor,
nothing nothing makes me more happy when you see all
the people who just can't stand the success that the
Dodgers are having because you know, they're doing their job.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I love seeing mister Met cry. That's my favorite part
of it.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I do too. I love to see I love to
see people on Twitter saying, who's the Dodgers gonna get next?
The mister Met and they have them in a Dodger's uniform,
the mister Met traded to the Dodgers. It's it's it's
it's the greatest thing. And uh and uh, you know,
being a player going through it. You know, on some
of the lean years, you never thought that this organization
would get to this and has and it's a it's
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a great place to be at and it's a great
place to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Still, with this amount of success that the team's having.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
No doubt, and you're a big part of it still
to this day, We'll look forward to seeing you at
Dodger Stadium next year and we'll talk to you, uh
in January. I'll talk to you before that. We'll share
with you with the fans in January.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
All right, stay away from slide still, that's still a
thing you need to stay away from.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I might intertube during the holidays.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, don't do that either.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
There he goes, There he goes Andre Ethier, who spent
his entire twelve year Major league career with the Dodgers,
and to this day, Tommy Lesorda would be proud. He's
a great ambassador for the team and bleeds Dodger blue.
We're gonna take a time out. We went way over
with Ethier. He had a lot to say and a
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lot to share about his time with Will Smith and
Edwin Diaz. How about that, Andre Ethier recruiting Edwin Diaz
in November. Jerry Harriston Junior, who's here at the Sports
Net LA studios, is going to check in next. We
got a lot to get to between now at eight
o'clock right here on AM five to seventy LA sports
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sports Net LA just wrapped Access Sportsnet Dodgers, wrapping up
Day three of the winter meetings with my guy John
Harttongue and my other guy who is with us right now,
Jerry Harriston Jr. Jay Hare Number one salute, Thank you
to the Bears, and thank you for sharing the bet
that was paid off today by Audio Joe.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Audio Joe, and he's a great person obviously, does a
great job for us here in studio, and he was
a man of his word. You know, he's a big
New York Giants fan. My Bears beat the Giants several
weeks ago, and because of that, he had to buy
a nice bottle of caved Oro the extra at Neejo,
the best tequila in the world.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Hey, you were a team player, you gave it to
the whole crew. You let me have a little sip.
You've changed my life today and everybody else is.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Here listen, am I right about how great the tequila is. Amazing.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Hopefully your show will be sponsored by cavedet or at
some point, but no, it is a great tequila. But
you know, working here, it's a family, you know, just
like the Dodgers organization. Everybody cares for each other and
it's so it's such a joy to come to work.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
When I think about you when I'm in Cincinnati, I'll
think about you in this air conditioned, cushy studio.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
It is a great place to come over with. Listen,
Dodgers Stadium. There's no place like it because you know,
the fans are the best, incredible, beautiful stadium and the
weather's always great. So yes, very fortunate when we're not
at home, when we're on the road. I'm here in
studio and you're in Cincinnati, you're in.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
The hot weather. So uh, it is still the big
League zone. Yeah, no doubt, Jay Hare.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We're talking about the Dodgers, the winter meetings, the hot stove.
Everybody wants to know what's next. You went back to
back championships. They wanted three pete you signed Edwin Diaz.
Now there's rumors about Trek Scouble. What do you believe
are the real chances a Schooble gets traded to any
team and b that the Dodgers may be that team.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
If you're the Detroit Tigers, you got to figure out
are you going to extend u Tarrek Scooble. Obviously he's
probably the best left handed pitcher in all of baseball.
Some say he's the best picture in all of baseball.
If you're going to keep them, you extend them, great,
more power to you. But if you don't think you're
gonna re sign him, you can't hold onto him. You
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have to trade him because he is such a huge piece.
And with trading him, you got to go out there
and get a plethora of young talent. Now, on the
flip side, Dodgers got what a lot of young talent.
Everybody talks about the Dodgers' money, which they do have
a lot of money. But I think the most important
part of the Dodgers that people fail to realize. They
have an incredible pharm system. They draft well, sign well.
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I think more importantly, they develop players so they're in position.
If the Tigers aside to part ways with Screwball, they
can be positioned to have the necessary pieces to trade
for that elite starter.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
All right, I'm gonna ask you another question, because on
the show tonight you talked about the Dodgers needing to
add an outfielder. I'm gonna give you a hypothetical here
of players that have been rumored to be available. Out
of these three outfielders, who fits the Dodgers the best.
Would it be Brendan Donovan of the Cardinals, Jared Durant
of the Red Side, Harrison Bader who finished the year
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with the Phillies.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Oh wow, you know all three are winning ball players,
really good players in their own right. I've always been
a Harrison Batter fan, man. I know he can play
elite defensive center field. I think that's the biggest need
for us, specially with Keith cary Nannis. We have a
feeling he will resign with the Dodgers, but he just
had surgery. He may take some time to get to
gim back healthy. Obviously, Tommy Edmund had ankle surgery as well.
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We don't know what his time pool table is. I think,
more importantly with the Dodgers, I would love to see
task her Nanis go back to left field. I know
he loves right field, but look at the season he
had as a left fielder, especially offensively. Right field, especially
Dodgers statement is very demanding. It's not an easy place
to play. So if you get in a center fielder,
you can move Paez who's got an elite arm to
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right field, tail to left, and a guy like a
Harrison Bader who covers tremendous ground in center field and
he's a winning type player. So listen, all three guys
will be a great fit for the Dodgers. But if
I had to choose one, you know, Harrison Bader Man,
he's got some swag. Man, He's got that that I'd
like to see in a player, tough out in the
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batter's box, he's got some pop, but more importantly, he
ain't afraid to run in the walls and make that
catch what you needed.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
He seems to be a Jerry Harrison type of player.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I mean he's he's old school. You know, I love
all school type of players. Really, I can make a
case for Jerant, who I love his his style of
player as well.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
He's a great player. Donovan is also a really good player.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
But I think if those three guys, I would say
maybe Baitter maybe fits us a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Jerry harriston JUNR. We're hanging out at sports net La tonight.
We finished Access Sportsnet Dodgers. We got Radio Magic going
for you on Dodger Talk until eight o'clock. Going back
to Trek schoolball. If the Dodgers were able to find
a trade match with the Tigers, are you comfortable with
it just being a one year rental? Because Scott Boris
(37:59):
is his agent, we all know he'll take him to
free agency.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
I would be comfortable with that because we've seen in
the past when we traded for Bookie Betts. You know,
he came here and fell in love with La I
think that could be a possibility.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Listen, I played for nine different franchise. I loved everywhere.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
I played every city, but there's nothing like La Man,
the weather, the people, the fan base, the camaraderie that
this team has really built, especially in recent years. So
if you get a guy like Schooble and he's here
and he sees what entails being a Dodger and being
on this team, he may want to say, you.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Know what, I don't want to leave this place.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
And obviously the Dodgers do have the money they do
have the resources to make that happen, So I would
be optimistic if he does come that he'd want to.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Resign here at this point in time, with the Dodgers
having the success they've had, winning back to back championships
and wanting more a guy like Edwin Diaz or any
other free agent out there, doesn't it say something about
what type of player they are that, if all things
are equal, I'm choosing the Dodgers. And conversely, for players
(39:07):
that say no, thanks, doesn't it say that maybe winnings.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Not number one for them? Well, it is.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
And first of all, to go back to your first point,
the Dodgers are in the position because they not only win,
but they have created a culture that players want to
be here.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Listen, players talk all the time.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
When I played, you knew where where the places to
play were, how teams organizations treated their players. And you
gotta remember, Alexis Diaz was a Dodger last year as well,
and I'm sure he told his brother. Me and my
brother played in the Biglies at the same time. We
talked about places that we played. Hey don't go here,
or hey, you want to go play for this organization?
So it's no secret that the Dodgers are beloved by
(39:48):
so many players. You know, Bryce Harper have talked about
the Dodgers. How listen, they do everything the right way.
Why are you hating on them? You want every organization
to be just like that. So it's just a testament
of the people, not just the players, the character of
the people that they go out and get to make
sure we get the right people in place. And that's
why guys want to come and play for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
All right, Before I let you go, I gotta get
this out of the way. Brad Paisley continues to call
me and text me and say, Jerry Harriston is our treasure.
I completely disagree with him. I feel like he does
that to upset me. But Brad Paisley really is entertained
by you and Nomar and how you try to, you know,
(40:32):
get to Nomar's level, and Nomar seems to brush you off.
Can you set the record straight and just give a
shout out to Brad Well?
Speaker 5 (40:39):
First of all, Brad Paisley is one of the best entertainers,
not just country musicians, best entertainers there is on the planet.
I love his commercials as well with Peyton Manning. We
all know he's a huge Dodger fan, and he brought
the house down when he sung the national anthem at
Dodgers Stadium once again.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
He is has become a really good friend, and I
do agree with him on Nomar. I agree with him
on Nomar listen anytime, you know, being obviously it's not
It's not lost on me, you know, being on TV
here in La we get so many entertainers with us, musicians, actors,
actresses that watch us because they see the Dodgers and
(41:18):
we're on before and after. And I'm extremely humbled to
Brad for him saying that. And so many people like
our senior Hall I have become friends with Jason Bateman.
I run into it into him all the time. Just
so many great people, all walks of life that share
the same common interest, and that's the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
How fortunate are we?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Can you take us behind the scenes? Do you think
Nomar likes you?
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I know Nomar loves me. I hate Listen.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
I'm gonna say something here. I may get no More
in trouble. No more is actually going to take me
to dinner tomorrow night. Who So that's how me and Nomar.
We've been friends for decades. I know we kind of
play a little bit because we have a lot of
fun on air. But listen, I used to work out
with Nomar when we played against each other when he's
the Red Sox and I was with the Baltimore Orioles.
(42:07):
I've always respected Nomar. He is one of the best
players I've ever played against, and he should be in
the Hall of Fame. Alan Trammel rightfully sols a Hall
of Famer. Harold Baines rightfully, sol's a.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
No more goes to your par You go back and
look at his seven eight year stretch. He deserves to
be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Well, I guess dinner's on Nomar after you said that,
I mean, Nomar is going to be paying tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Why do you think I'm going.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Hey, it's been awesome these last three days. I love
doing the show with you guys. You're so nice to
me and treat me so well. So thank you for
the time and love love being around you guys.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
You know the Dodger fans are second to none, and
they love you. Dave say, I listened to the callers,
Dave Wagner is one of my boys.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
He calls it all the.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
Time, and it's always fun doing the show from Dodger Stadium.
And then after we're done with the post game, I
get in my car and I take the thirty five
minute drive back home. I get a chance to listen
to you and the great Dodger fan base.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
So that's always a treat for me.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Oh man, I don't know how to respond to these compliments,
but thank you for them, and we'll just end it there.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I like tequila.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yeah, let no mar Garcia Para know that. Jerry all right?
There he goes Jerry Harriston Junior. We had three straight
days of TV together here at the Sports and at
LA Studios during the winter meetings. I'm sure guys like
Skip Schumacher were wondering, where's David Vassa. Where's David Vassa? Well,
I got news for you, everybody. I stayed back in
(43:30):
LA and had a great time in this cushy studio
and was able to really be productive back here in LA,
not just hanging out with other baseball people out there
in Orlando. So I mean, who could pass up three
straight days with Jerry Harriston Junior. You tell me that
was the big win for me. All right. Our next
(43:52):
show will be on Friday night, seven o'clock, another Dodger Talk.
We'll see whether or not the Edwin d As deal
is official by then. If it is, who knows, Timmy
Trumpet himself may join us on Friday night. We'll keep
track of whether or not the Tigers are really considering
trading Tarrek Schuble. Seems like they're asking a lot. Like
(44:16):
I said before, we got to Ethier and Jerry Harriston Junior.
From what I hear, the Tigers are asking for as
much as the Nationals got in return from the Padres
for two years of control of Juan Soto. Trek schoubl
the greatest pitcher right now in baseball, but a one
(44:38):
year rental and a Scott Boris client. He will be
going to free agency, so no matter where he goes,
he's a one year rental. And the Tigers are asking
for as much as the Nationals got for two years
of Juan Soto. That's gonna be hard to get from
any team. All right, that'll do it for us tonight
(44:59):
on Dodger Talk. In case you missed any of the show,
you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks to
Ronnie Fossio back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Stu
Mitchell and Jack de Root and Chris Whitty out here
at sportsnet LA. Thanks to Ethier and Jerry Harriston Jr.
For joining the show as well. We'll be back with
(45:19):
you on Friday night at seven o'clock having some drinks
with the all time leading scorer in Pac ten history.
Tomorrow night, the one and only Don McClain. So night
off from Dodger Talk, but the party lives on with
McClain out there in Westlake Village. Have a great rest
of your night, Seeya.
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