October 21, 2024 • 39 mins
Steve Sax and Tim Cates talk with Dodgers Insider David Vassegh about the Game 6 win over the Mets in the NLCS and preparation now for the World Series matchup vs the New York Yankees
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The right quist.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
postseason tradition.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Scam is back. Baby.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is Sax and Cakes in the.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
A APPA go with Proway.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger
pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers,
get in on the show on eighty six six nine,
eighty seven two five seven now. While the Dan Patrick
Show streams on the Ihearts radio app.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff
run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
to seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's a matchup everybody wanted, the Los Angeles Dodgers and
the New York Yankees. Game one of the World Series
is coming up on Friday night as the Dodgers advance
beating the New York Mets last night in six games
of the National League Championship Series. It's Sax and Kates
in the AM. Here. You're a home of showy Otani
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in the Dodgers AMPI seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being
with us here until nine o'clock this morning. We're gonna
be here every morning all week long leading up to
Game one of the National League Championship Series. These two
teams meeting in the World Series for the first time
since nineteen eighty one. So we will go back and
check in with members of the nineteen eighty one Dodgers
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and look back at that series in which the Dodgers
and Yankees battled and the Dodgers prevailing with a World
Series championship. The Dodgers playing in their twenty second World Series,
the Yankees played in their forty first World Series. These
two teams now, well, I've squared off for will be
the twelfth time head to head in the Fall Classic.
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The Yankees lead the overall series eight to three, but
the Dodgers advancing to their fourth World Series in eight
years in Saxy Again, the national narrative is and the
questioning last night from members of the media to Dodger players, well,
you guys, you get to play the Yankees? What's that
gond you like to play the New York Yankee? What's
it gonna be like to play Wan Soto, play Aaron Judge?
What are you looking forward to about playing the Yankees? No, no, no,
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excuse me. The Yankees haven't been to the World Series
since two thousand and nine. This is the fourth trip
in the last eight years, with a good majority of
this Dodger team being on these Dodger runs the last eight, nine,
ten years. So it should be reversed. It should be
asking the Yankee players what to like to go out
to LA and face the Dodgers. What's it gonna be
like to go out and face Jack Felerity. What's it
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gonna be like to face the dogs the bullpen. That's
what the questioning should be.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Yes, And remember, I want to tell them that the
Dodgers have already beaten the Padres, all right, maybe the
second best team in all the playoffs next to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I believe it.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I mean that Padre team was stacked, right, and they
went through those guys. And this is not just national coverage,
this is global coverage of the whole world. You think
about New York and the proximity to Europe, okay, not far.
I mean you're talking about what five hour flight, six
hour flight, So the Yankees have probably got a little
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bit more panache maybe over there because of just the
proximity to New York. And so that's kind of the team.
You come out west and you go more west. Okay,
you got Japan, right, and then you've got a two
players on this team with Shohei o Tani and Yamamoto.
So those guys kind of bring those connections in. So
what you're talking about now is a global interest in
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this game, and it's gonna be huge. This This might
be you know, with the transfer of information today and
the way you know, social media is and whatnot, and
Baseball's outreach. I mean, this could be the biggest and
most prolific World Series ever, and it rightfully will be.
I one percent agree. I think the stage has never
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been bigger for Major League Baseball in twenty twenty four.
And you put the Dodgers and yankeeses against each other,
and you put Judge and Soto and standing against Yamamoto
and Mookie Bett and Freddie Freeman and oh yes, some
guy named shoe Hey Otani who happens to be the
goat and happens to be the biggest name on the planet.
I mean, this, this is gonna be unbelievable. Well, we
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told you about it last night. What a celebration it was.
In the Dodgers' clubhouse and our own David Vase, the
best of the best, gets the best.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Information on and off the field. He's got the respect
of these guys in that Dodger clubhouse for what he
does and what he brings to Dodger fans as the
communicator of Dodger information, host to Dodger Talk. You hear
him all over the station. Last night he was talking
to everybody in that Dodger clubhouse. You've heard a lot
of the interviews that Dave did last night right here
this morning with Saxon Kates in the AM. But last
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night something know, very organic happened and he was talking
and ended up talking to Brent Honeywell Junior and Max
Munsey and the interview has since gone really viral and
a lot of people just love the honest from both
of these guys from the Dodgers. Here it is last night,
postgame in the clubhouse, our own David Vasse with Max
Munsey and Brent Honeywell Jr.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Hey, Honeywell's got that turtleneck gone.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's all soaked with champagne. Brent Honeywell, how does this feel?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Win?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Is fun man?
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Winning his best field in the world, especially when you're
at the highest.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Level because.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Nobody else there's just two teams.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Less the best, best world stage. I wanted it my
whole entire life, ever since I was a little kid
I've been I wanted my whole life.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
How does it feel to be such a big part
of this Bullpen?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I can't do it without him down there. I could
have done it without them. How about this guy, Max Munsey?
What would you do without Max Munsey?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Here?
Speaker 7 (05:48):
You're here in Munsey, this dude a few times?
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Yes, all right?
Speaker 10 (05:57):
Good?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Just making sure you can drive about.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Right now, David, I feel like I'm a got more
champagne and beer than you.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Two.
Speaker 10 (06:04):
Hey, no story for you, right?
Speaker 11 (06:07):
This guy threw was.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It four innings or two dirts?
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Or two dirts?
Speaker 10 (06:11):
For us in New York?
Speaker 8 (06:11):
He came out of the game.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What what did I tell you? He said, I want
this game six?
Speaker 8 (06:18):
And you were right.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
How much does Brent Honeywell mean to this team? Just
everything he brings. That's a dog. That's a dog.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Our whole Bullpen's dogs. But this guy put him in
a musition. Hey, you need two outs, he's got you.
You need three innings, he's got you. This guy who cares, Hey,
you need someone to throw LIVEVP in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
He's got you this today.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
This guy might have gotten Moovie Bets right because he
threw him LIVEVP.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Guys do that.
Speaker 12 (06:43):
He threw VP because he wasn't He wasn't active at.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The time he threw LIVP. Rookie Betts started going off.
Speaker 11 (06:50):
Did you throw him a screwball?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
No?
Speaker 7 (06:52):
I fed him down the middle and said, cract, that's
the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's what I said.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
I told all three of them, I'm throwing it down
the middle.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
You know it's hit it as far as you can.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Brent Honeywell might be the under copper MVD of this team.
You never know.
Speaker 10 (07:07):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
This guy's a dog. He's one of the heart beats
of this team. It doesn't get stated enough. He doesn't
get enough credit. This dude's amazing in him on the bus,
in the clubhouse, in the bullpen. This dude's amazing. Lexie,
What does this team mean to you?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
As far as going back to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You were here in eighteen, you want it in twenty.
How bad do you want to ring for these guys?
And how bad do you want to break this? This
is one of the closest groups that I've ever been
to Bardo.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Man, you know, we had to get some work to
get here, but it's been amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I mean, this is this is probably the closest keep.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I've had since twenty And you know when you talking
about twenty twenty, when you're stuck in a hotel with
everybody for forty five days, yeah, you're gonna get close.
We're finding a way to do that while not being
stuck together.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
And this goes.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Back to you know, all the way back in Atlanta,
we had a team meeting.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Tyler Glastan got told.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
That he couldn't pitch anymore. That was a real kick
in the gut. But we had a team meeting.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
We said, hey, guys, look around.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
We have all stars, we have Hall of Famers, we
have guys making a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
In this clubhouse. We can still do this. And we
had to get everybody to believe in that. And our
season turned right there. And then we had five days
off and we've.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Talked about that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The last two years.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
We've had five days off, right, we didn't know how
to handle that, and coming into this year.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know, we tried multiple things, right, they let.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Fans into the stadium for a city game. We're trying
to make it a real situation. And this year us
as players, we went to the front office and said, hey,
this is what we're doing, and we told.
Speaker 10 (08:45):
Them what we want to do.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
And everyone stresses out about having the five days off,
and we treated it as a.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Reward, because it is a reward.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You grind for eight months, going back to February spring training,
this is in this is the reward.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Right.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
We played the best of the bath and we said, hey,
we earned the number one seed.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's every ward. You get five days off as ever reward.
So we wanted to treat those award. We brought into
I Doo. We had unbelievable catering.
Speaker 12 (09:15):
We had fun, We had fool table thing, bok tables.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Papa shots. We had a really good time. We were
here together as a group, were for eight hours a.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Day, and you know in the past we were here
for two three hours a day. We tried to make
it as serious as possible.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
This year, Rena said, no, we're here together. Boys.
Speaker 12 (09:37):
I am not questioning you as a father, you as
a husband, you as a boyfriend, whatever, but give me
three weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I need three weeks out of you to be with
the boys. We're gonna cline through this together for.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Three weeks, and then you can be the best husband
and father you can you've ever been.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
But I need three weeks out of you.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
So for eight hours a day and those five days off,
we were here together. I'm just hanging out, have your fun,
having some food, talking about what we're gonna do, get
a picture, watching watching baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We were just here for eight hours a day being boys,
and I really think that's translated into when we're.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
At now.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well said, I think in New York, no three of
us should share a room.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
What I think all three of us we should hang out,
spend quality time in New York when the.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Series goes there, David, I can't think of anything worse.
Worse because I got your shower with my dad.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
That's a bolt.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I'll take that out of maybe unbelievable candid stuff from
Max Munsey and Brentney.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
My tail off. I mean, it's beautiful, that's you know
what I can't. I'm sitting here listening to this and
I feel like I'm twenty eight years old again, going
against the Olga. That's the same kind of stop that
comes out of the guys today. It's no different. You
know what, It wasn't any different in the thirties and
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forties either. They maybe not the same music, but they
they had the same feeling, the same uh you know,
the same you know, chemistry with all the players on
the team. I just thought it was great. Eight hours
a day, that's what they do. That would this is
the difference. This is the difference in this team. When
we talk about that it factor, when we talk about
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this team really wants it. This decision to be the
best dad, you can be the best boyfriend, be the
best whatever you can be. After this is over, give
me eight hours a day instead of the two or three.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
This is this is.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
He said, just a bunch of guys being boys. This
is the difference in this team. I really wholeheartedly believe
that decision could have changed everything.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Absolutely, very candid stuff, Vira, very real.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
And you're not any of that stuff from other reporters
other than David Vassey. No, you know why, because they're
not gonna let their guard down and talk like that.
Percent it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
One hundred percent that's why it has gone viral, and
so many Dodger fans and baseball fans are like, man,
this is real stuff. This is real, great information, and
this is awesome to see what this team does to
prepare and the buy in that this team has in
fact joining us now is our own. David Vase, what
a night he had last night, David, we just heard
Brent Honeywell Junior and Max Munsey as you're talking to
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these guys, have you have you ever seen Max Munsey
open up like this before and be as candid as
he was. It felt like he was just getting it
off his chest, like Hey, Dodger fans, we're grinding, we're working.
We want this as much as you guys do. It
was awesome.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Yeah, I was surprised that he shared as much as
he did because before the first game of the postseason, guys,
Monsey laid out all of that to me, and at
that point in time, we obviously didn't know where it
was going to go. They might have done all that
and got bounced in the first round. But the one
thing that he felt good about and the rest of
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the team felt good about, is even if they lost,
they wouldn't second guess whether or not they invested everything
into trying to win. And that's the biggest thing for
this team. After the last two years. Quite frankly, I
didn't feel like they were as invested as this team
set out to be to begin the playoffs. And look,
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that's the one thing, Steve, you know this, I think
we can all relate whatever we do in life. You
don't want to have any what ifs. And if the
Dodgers didn't make it to the World Series, they would
be able to have peace of mind that they tried
everything to be invested and give it all to be
able to try to make a run. And look now
it's paid off. So kudos to Max Munsey, Will Smith.
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Those guys really were the catalysts to making sure everybody
was all in as you heard Max Mounsey described.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yeah, Dave, I know we like the Ribbia and all that.
It's only because we are very fond of you. But
that really shows, uh that you're not going to get
an interview. You're not going to have somebody put their
guard down and talk like that unless they have an
extreme reverence in the highest regard for you. So kudos
to you forgetting that interview. That's that's It says a
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lot about you, and it's just great. I also thought
it was great. They said it wasn't. It was about
the worst idea ever for you to hang out with
them in a room and.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They'd rather shower with their dad is absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Brandon Honeywell reminds all of us of Kenny Powers from
Eastbound and Down and before the playoffs started they made
him get a perm so he had a perm and
he had the shaved side because he is that guy.
He was basically out of baseball. He'll come out of
the bullpen, he'll make a start. And you heard I
mean I didn't know that he threw live BP to
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Mookie Bets and the rest of the team that I mean,
that's who he is. He's just a guy that ball
or do anything that it takes.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Dave, Dave, you know what you know, as you can see,
is the Dodgers collectively as a team have put all
their chips in the middle. They've completely bought in. Everything's
moved to the middle. They have stepped over the line,
and they have completely committed to this. That's a dangerous
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combination for the great Yankee team that's coming in here
to play them in game one. And I just want
to know you mentioned a couple of guys who were
the main guys that were stirring this drink here to
get these guys to do this, to buy in, to
spend the time the eight hours. Who were the guys
that were mainly the drivers for this.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
It was Max Munsey and Will Smith. They got Kershaw
barnesk on board, and they just wanted to get Mookie
Betts and Freddie Freeman to buy in. Those were the
last two guys they needed to buy in, and those
two guys were all in. And once it got started,
My understanding is Mookie Bets was the leader and more
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involved in all this time together just as much as
anybody else. So once they got those two guys to
buy in, you know, Steve, you get the two best
players to buy in. Yeah, you know that's all shot.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Everybody follows it.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, Dave, well, let you save your voices. It's gonna
be a long way. But real quick, what does the
next four plus days look like for this Dodgers team?
Game ones not till Friday night at five o'clock. What
do you understand as far as maybe the schedule workouts.
What they're going to do be between now and then.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Yeah, my understanding. Today they're going to get some treatment.
There's no really work being done on the field. Maybe
more rams up as the days go along. Thursday they
have a World Series media day. Did they have that
in nineteen eighty eight Saxy Media Day?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I don't remember that. No, I don't remember. No, I
don't think so.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
I'm sure Kirk Gibson was right there right at media
day front.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, oh yeah, we had a media day.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
We got John Shueho Sue who brought his camera that day.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Well, Dave want two guys to keep in mind as
we get closer to the World Series rosters being said,
do not rule out Bruce Dark Radol or Alex Vesia
coming back and being able to pitch.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That'd be awesome to get both those guys back to
help out the bullpend David, fantastic job last night. Tremendous
work in the clubhouse. I can't say it enough how
great these interviews were the candidates from all the players,
Key Ahern Nandiz nobody else is getting that information out
of him. Brent Honeywell Junior, Max Muncy, everybody you talk to,
they had the respect for you. They talked to you
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and give you great information, and that information translates to
the listeners right here on am FI seventy LA Sports.
So rest your voice. I'm sure we'll check in with
you later today on petch with some money. But great
job last night, man, Thanks David, great job.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Hey, thank you guys. If I if I had one
wish in the I wish I had a time machine
to be able to have this role with the eighty
eight Dodgers and celebrate the fruits of victory.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
What a team.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That's it. There he goes, and only David Vass said,
what a great job last night. That that I told
you that monthy Honeywell just candid Monthsy going off talking
about what they did during the bring.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I mean, really, where where are you going to hear
that stuff? No, it's great, you know you hear this
stuff on the top it, you know. I mean they
peeled the onion back there a little bit, right, That's
beautiful stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And the joking around at the end about hey, we
should hang out together in New York and I'd rather
shower with my dad.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Oh my god, that was absolutely hilarious. They they love
David they do. If they if they didn't, they're not
going there with them, believe me.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And they respect the ton out of David. So thanks
to DV for popping on this morning, late night last night.
You can hear it in his voice. It's been a
long NLC, has been a long postseason so far. But
guess what, Dodger fans, A World Series is coming up up.
The ride continues, Saxon Kates in the am. Dodgers going
to the World Series to face the New York Yankees.
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Your phone calls coming up. What a night it was
as we celebrate another NLCS for the Dodgers and a
showdown against the Yankees. But getting on Friday. Right here
are your home of the Dodgers, Afi seventy LA Sports.
It's Saxon Kate's in the am. The dogs are loose,
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Dodgers' bullpen. It's a bunch of dogs down there, caged up,
and they have been tormenting everybody in the postseason, Padres
Mets and now a World Series showdown against the New
York Yankees beginning on Friday night. Right here on five
seventy LA Sports. Steve Sacks, Tim Kates and you on
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this Monday morning, as LA celebrates yet another National League pennant,
the Dodgers advancing to their fourth World Series years, the
Dodgers going for their eighth World Series title. And how
about this the first ever chance to celebrate a World
Series championship at Dodgers Stadium. I mean, at the seven
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titles here it is nineteen fifty five against the Yankees.
Did not celebrate Dodger Stadium. There was no Dodger Stadium.
Nineteen fifty nine against the White Sox. Celebrated in Chicago,
nineteen sixty three, celebrated against the Yankees. Nineteen sixty five.
They won the World Series in Minnesota against the Twins.
Nineteen eighty one, won at Yankee Stadium against the New
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York Yankees. Nineteen eighty eight, you guys won against the
A's at the Coliseum in Oakland, twenty twenty the Dodgers.
The Dodgers won it in the Bubble down in Tampa,
the only time that they've actually won one. The only
time they've ever won a World Series on their home
field nineteen sixty three. I stand corrected. At the seven
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World Series championships, only one has been clenched on the
home field. That was nineteen sixty three against the Yankees
at Dodger Stadium. So not a lot of people remember that,
not alive for that. A lot of the young Dodger
fans hoping this is the first time since nineteen sixty
three that they can win a Dodger Stadium a World
Series championship.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah, and this is gonna be absolutely epic when you
consider these two teams going out. I mean, this is
it's like a build up that's been coming for a
long time. I mean, we team people were talking about
this in spring training. Look at these two teams. I mean,
this is probably gonna be a World Series matchup. Ah,
what are the odds of that? I'm looking at the
Kentucky Derby. When does a favorite ever win the Kentucky Derby?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Not very much. And it's too hard to be here.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
We are it's gonna happen. I mean, coming into this too,
you're gonna have guys that are really hot Standings swinging
a big bat. Soto swinging a big bat, Mookie Bets
and and uh you know, Sho Tani are swinging big bat.
I mean, this is gonna be just a major clash.
This is gonna be This is gonna be profound. This
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is gonna be a huge event in our country, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You know, this is a Yankees team with Jazz Chisholm.
This is a Yankees team with the names you just
rattled off. You throw Anthony Volpi, you throw in the
catcher Wells. Yeah, throwing Alex Dugo, former Dodger who we
seem to have forgotten about, batting ninth and playing left
field for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
And by the way, Tim, have you seen Chisholm throw
from third base?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No, Holy cow, good or bad? He has got a
freaking missile.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Really, Oh my god, you're talking about, you know, three
feet off the ground the whole way from from in
the hole, from like short left field. You're talking about
three feet off the ground with a little hippitie hop
when he gets near your first base. I'm telling you,
this guy's got a cannon over there. I mean, way,
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do you see this? It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
He's a pickup they made for the Miami ro like that.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, I mean, Anthony Volpi is a guy that they
absolutely love, a New Yorker, a hometown kid there, twenty
three years old, playing shortstop for the New York Yankees.
He was annointed as the next Derek Jeter. Uh as
far as possible legacy shortstop. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I mean, but you know, people, I mean, I'm I'm
saying they weren't talking about it. But Derek Jeter's like,
you know, generational. But now he's a good player, No
doubt he's a good player. I wouldn't trade him for
Tommy Edmund No, heck, no, no way, heck no.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Tommy Edmand now is cemented himself in Dodger history with
eleven runs driven in and the NLCS Ty and Corey
Seeger for the franchise record NLCS MVP.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I mean, yeah, Tim, remember this though, Rizzo, they're gonna
have an opperatity. I think if there's one spot where
you could exploit, you know, this team is going after Rizzo.
That's and the fact that Judge isn't swinging a big bat.
He may be you know it it's somebody sometime he's
going to Yeah, uh, hopefully it's when the season's over.
But Anthony Rizzo has got Remember he's got two broken
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fingers on his right hand. Remember he's a left handed hitter.
So this is the hand bottom hand that pulls the
bat through probably more important than the other hand, so
you could see them. You can see in his some
of his swings. He got one hit on an inside
pitch that he usually pulls. What did you do?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He broke his bat and.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Flared it over the shortstop. So if you can mitigate
some of the power that's coming out of Rizzo and
and not the same hitter with two broken fingers, uh,
and and and and he's playing through this simply on
a pure as much as you can stand pain basis.
It's not really anything that he's gonna do worse to
his fingers other than let him heal. But he's on
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he's on a pain basis only right now.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So it's gonna be a great series. It's gonna be
fun to see these two teams, Uh square off. Everybody's
wanted it, and we got it. Let's go to Glenn
and him. It been waiting patiently. We appreciate that. Glenn,
good morning, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I want to talk about adding players. I know they
haven't until Friday to add more players. What about Kris
Shaw and Miguel Rojash Are they gonna be able to fight.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Good question. As far as Miguel Rojas is concerned, he's
a possibility. H Clayton Kershaw has already you know, shut
it down, so he's not ramped up, he's not ready
to go. He is watching this postseason from the dugout.
But Miguel Rojas, the adductor, we'll see if he's available
to go. And that's a serious question that we're gonna
have the next couple of days to talk about. Sexy
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is do you mess with the chemistry of the position
players right now or do you leave it as it is?
I know you're getting back maybe Bruce dar Graderole and
Alex Vessia, which you need another left hander. That's the
Pitching's one thing you can mess with, maybe tinkering with
who you put on the roster. But I mean the
bench away that Chris Taylor's played.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
You know, they'll give you at I'll give you a
little subset, okay, of you know, so pitching is one thing,
but you go to hit, you know, the hitting regular players. Okay,
what about Freddie Freeman. I mean that's a no brainer.
If Freddy's ready, he If Freddy is ready, he's going
to be in there.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
No question about it. But but I you know, I can't.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I can't take Edmond out.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
How can you do that?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I mean if Miguil Rojas, he's gonna have to be
He's gonna have to be a guy off the bench
right now, now, now, now for the regular season. Okay, sure,
maybe different story because that's Edmund's role is to play everywhere.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
So but right now you kind of ride the pony, right,
and the pony's hot, so that's the pony you jump on.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, you think about Miguel Rojas's role, He's a shortstop.
He doesn't really play a lot of other positions.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
No, that's all he plays.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, And so if you're looking at him as a
bench player, role player, since Tommy Edmans now playing shortstop,
do you want Rojas off the bench where all he
can play a shortstop? Or did you rather have a
guy like a key Key Hernandez or a Chris Taylor
who or Andy Pajas who can play multiple spots in
the outfield. But for Chris Taylor who can play four
different positions right right, and Rojas only one.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Well, Rojas will have to be specific in where he plays.
If something goes down with Tommy Edmond. He can go
into shortstop. Okay, he can do that, but you might
use Rojas just off the bench to hit, you know,
if you need if you need a guy to come
in and hit, you know, maybe you use them.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
There.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
You got guys that can you can plug and play.
Like you just said, k he can play anywhere too, right,
So I mean for a short time you can do that.
But for the long haul, Rojas is a shortstop and
if he earns the position, that's where he'll be. I
really do think that that position is going to be
up for up for grabs this winter. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
We check in with Father Gary here in Burbank. He
has blessed the Dodgers all postseason a long hopefully that
continues into the World series. Father Gary, good morning.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
Hey, good morning guys. Listen, I want to thank you
for indulging me and letting me participate in your shows
these last couple of weeks. I'm really excited about this,
so let me ask you something. Two things I want
to say. One observation last night, the guys looked like
they were celebrating, but it looked like they knew that
they had more business to take care of. They weren't
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going bananas on the field. They were shaking hands, they
were nodding at each other, they were patting each other
on the back. I didn't see much of the clubhouse stuff,
but on the field it looked like they were like,
we got more business to take care of, guys.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
This is not it.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
This is just another step into the direction we want
to go. Then I have a prophecy for you, Freddie Freeman,
MVP of the World Series record. That keep that that's
going to be money.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
All right, father Gary, we appreciate it. Hopefully you can
bless that ankle a little bit and get some healing
a little sooner and faster on that ankle. For Freddie Freeman,
it wouldn't surprise me if the guy that we kind
of forgot about in Game six in the NLCS because
of Tommy Edmond and everybody else that's contributed here in
the National League Championship Series, to have Freddie Freeman back
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healthy and just put on a series a show at
the plate and just produce offensively and be named the
World Series MVP.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
I would get shocked, and everybody on the team would
be good too. They would just want a World Series Look,
the other thing about Freddie is he's a professional hitter.
That's the best compliment you can ever give a baseball player.
A guy's everyday player. He's a professional, he's in he's
a professional hitter. And that's what Freddy is. I've seen
him in stumps slumps before. I've seen him in practice
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and how he fixed those slumps. Been down in the
field watching him at every single ball line drive in
practice over the shortstop's head. What happened in the game
that night? He came out and he had three line
drives to left field for base hits out of the slump.
That's what pros do, and that's what Freddy does. He
is one of a kind. He is a tremendous hitter.
Ish in Riverside.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Next up with Saxon, Kate's and Am is the Dodgers
a punch their ticket for a World Series bit against
the Yankees.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
Is Hey Man, Kim, Hey Steve, how are you guys
doing this morning?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Man?
Speaker 11 (29:35):
Thanks, beautiful day, beautiful day. Hey, Well listen, I have
I did have a couple of comments here, but first
I'm wondering if I could wish a happy birthday shout
out to my brother Isaac Dodgers October baseball. It's pretty
much like one in the same for our family. So
I definitely want to wish my brother Isaac a happy
birthday today.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Very nice. I just did.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Thank you awesome, man, awesome, I'm awesome. So as far
as the baseball is concerned, man, I have been watching
these Yankees. They I'm not gonna lie as a fan
of baseball. They they do play some exciting ball, but
I think that we are better messed up. Steve, you
hit the nail on the head there with Rizzo. He
doesn't look like the same Rizzo from back in Chicago,
so I think that's definitely something we can exploit. But
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to the fans, hey, let's show up, let's show out.
Let's make it loud and rockus. Let us get that
Ding World Series out?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
All right? Is appreciate the phone call eight six seventy Mike,
and Fresno has been waiting patiently. Thank you for Mike.
Good morning, Hey, good morning boy.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
As a guy, that's harding to be on the phone
with Saxton Kate, ask you, I'm I can't listen to
you guys drive because they have someone else playing on
iHeart right now. But uh, I just want to say
I wanted to come down this week and be it
all right, I'm not going to go to the game,
but where's the best place to go watch the game
where I'll have they thought the biggest atmosphere, like dog
your atmosphere is.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's a that's a great I'm not sure there's so
many great Dodger viewing parties. Uh here in southern California,
a lot of local spots around Dodgers Stadium. Uh, that's
a good thing. When maybe we'll post it up on
social media. Maybe we'll get into the next couple of
days where some great viewing spots are for Dodger fans
to watch the World Series.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Because probably not at the Kate's house. You don't want
to get too much bad language of screaming at the TV. Yeah,
because uh yeah, that wouldn't be a lot of fun.
First of food to be gone quickly, and second you'd
probably not like to hear the third commentary from the
radio TV and me uh during the game that it
gets quite annoying from people and they's why what kind
of food you supporting at the house? Too?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well, it depends I like to go to the pizza.
There's a local spot here in Bourband called dinas Dino's Pizza,
which is a great spot. I love doing that. The
wife can made chicken and steakkebobs last night, so that
was that was fun to have. So but uh yeah,
I'm into the pizza and a wine. So that's that's
a big thing for us.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
We we got the scoreboards right down on the right
down the street from me, right around the corner, and
the best pizza everywhere, just amazing and the place is
jam packed. Okay, best pizza. What kind of pizza that
we Talcaroni? Just stay listen. I like the plain stuff. No,
but pepperoni and mozzailla, thin pepperoni, mozzarella and a Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
That's all I like.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
I don't know why people have a beer with it
and they blow the whole reason for having a pizza. No,
it's pizza and Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
The best ever. Okay, because I mean, people'll start people
started saying Chicago deep dish. Det I don't like the thick.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
I want the New York feel like you just gained
fourteen pounds by the time you go to bed.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
The only thing good about New York in my mind
is the pizza, the New York pizza, the big fat
you know slices that you can fold up and eat.
The chubbies. Yeah, yeah, those they're big. Those are good,
they are those are really good.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
But I like the thin slice. Brother, I'm telling you,
Pepperoni really good. Well, you you're like like an adonnas.
You watch what you eat, your count your calories, you
have cheap days. You're one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Actually, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that at all.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
He is.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Steve sax Up Jim Gates with you here until the
top of the hour. We're here all week long, getting
you ready for Game one of the World Series. Yeah,
it's happening, Dodgers Yankees Friday night, Dodgers Stadium. We'll have
all the action, We'll have all the lead up, all
the build up, all the previewing, all the great guests
right here on NFI seventy LA Sports, Sax and Kate
(33:23):
to Am on this Monday morning. Dodgers clinching the NLCS
last night with a Game six victory over the New
York Mets, a ten to five win, for the Dodgers.
The bullpen game that panned out for the Dodgers, starting
with Michael Kopek and any with Blake Trying getting the
final six outs of the game. The Dogs as they
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call themselves down there in the bullpen have emerged here
in September now October as the Dodgers relying on bullpen
games throughout the NLDS, the NLCS and Saxon no doubt
going into this World Series with Jack Flaherty, with uh
Yoshanoba Yamamoto, Walker Bueller, they've got three starters that they
can throw out there in a seven game series. But
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we're gonna at least once, at least one time, we're
gonna see a bullpen game against the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
I don't think that's a bad thing. I mean, you do.
I wish we had one extra starter, five guys that
can go out there and tow the line and do
it the traditional way. Yeah, But the Padres found out
when they got into the tooth of the Dogs what happened, Well,
it didn't go too well for them because they were
facing a different guy every inning. Just about you had
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a couple of guys, would you know, maybe bank in
a couple innings, but for the most part, it's a
new look and that's not good for the timing of
a hitter.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I love the whole Dog's mantra. I love the borrowing
of a postseason run. And you know, naming the group
after and solidarity together. I mean, you mentioned the Stuntman
back in nineteen eighty eight, you mentioned the run with
the White Sox and the group they called out of
the Bullpen. I mean, it's it's something that's pretty cool,
and it's it's something you don't see a lot. But yeah,
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for this Dodgers team, this group, I mean, with all
the superstars, they have to see that group of relievers,
the bullpen guys come together. It's almost fitting though, once
you think about it. A lot of unsung heroes down there,
a lot of guys who are at the back end
of their career, guys trying to win championships late in
their career, Guys tried to establish themselves, re establish themselves
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like Brent Honeywell Junior and Anthony Bonda, who the Dodgers
picked up mid season. Names you don't know, like Ben Casparius.
Just unsung heroes down there doing the job and doing
the job that more than they thought they'd be doing
here in October.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
And it's amazing how much the game has changed. It
used to be, you know, those guys down in the bullpen,
you had guys that would mop up because the expectation
of the starter was to go nine. You'd have guys
that would mop up, guys that would just come in.
And the middle relievers were almost like triple A guys.
I mean, they were just like, you know, who cared.
I mean, now every guy has got a you know,
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the target, two guys that this one guy can get out.
It seems so it's a much different game now. It's
much more technical. Uh, and it's much more it's more
it's much more plotted out, you know, because they go
before the game and they get up there, the brain trust,
and they say, okay, you know seventh and eighth inning.
You know, we know the closer is gonna be, but
seventheen thinning, what he got. Okay, let's let's get these
(36:20):
guys that we're gonna have, uh, you know, trying's gonna
get these three guys out, you know, and and so
on and so forth. They map out who they're gonna
get and that's how technical this is. Yeah, Dave Roberts
said it. They asked, well, what was your plan late
in the game, and he said, I had nine outs
to get and it was gonna be Daniel Hudson and
Blake trying in that combination. And then to ask Blake
(36:41):
trying to go back out there and get a two out,
say excuse me, two innings save was fantastic. He hits stuff,
tim It's wicked. It's I'm telling you coming from somebody
used to hit that stuff is wicked. I mean, you
don't want to The only thing that you can hope
for on against trying is that he hangs one. He
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makes a mistake. He's throwing that slider and and he
gets it up and he does it, you know, he
tries to snap it off too hard and he just
gives a cement mixer up there and he hangs one.
That's the only chance you got because if his his
stuff's working, if it's going down with some tilt and
going down on the zone and it has got the
action on the ball, forget it. And look he's throwing
(37:23):
ninety seven ninety eight. He's not throwing as hard as
he can either. I can promise you he's got more
in there, but the ball probably wouldn't have the same
action if he's throwing it harder. Actually, there's a certain
speed where it works, and he's figured it out. Bro,
He's figured it out, and that's where he's staying.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Eric in Hollywood, wrap things up on this Monday. You
got about thirty seconds.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Go ahead, Eric, god Jert Day shed World Series, Here
we come.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Tommy was a beast. Bullpen is a force to reckon
with the hubant rally towel says, let's.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Go all right, Eric in Hollywood, appreciate the phone call.
Eric's ant to let's go Dodgers Dodger Nation. It's a
it's a thing on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
So yeah, yeah, he's got to figure it out, right, Yeah,
he does.
Speaker 11 (38:08):
He does.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
We're gonna be with you every single day this week
leading up to Game one of the World Series on
Friday night. We're gonna get a coverage from New York.
We're gonna go back to nineteen eighty one and that
team that made a World Series run against the New
York Yankees. Will check in with some of your former
teammates during the week. So yeah, a lot of phone
calls we got some great stuff in store coming up tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday.
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Game one is on Friday, and as David Vats mentioned,
the Dodgers today a day to get some rest, a
day to recoup, get right, get some treatments, and then
they'll be back at it with workouts. Media Day on Thursday,
which is something new for the World Series. Media Day. Okay,
all right, so if you say so, media Day exactly,
(38:53):
I don't think. I don't think Baseball needs to tell
us who these guys are. It's not the Royals versus
the you know, the the Rays here or something. I mean,
come on, it's the Dodgers and the Yankees. We all
know these guys are saxy, awesome stuff. Looking forward to
a great week. We'll talk to you tomorrow. You see you, buddy.
All right, there he goes the great Steve Sacks, NEANXS
to Zach, thanks to Michelle. Thanks to you Dodger fans
for being a part of it. This morning. It's a Monday.
(39:16):
It's great to be a Dodger fan. And it's gonna
be a great week leading up to the twenty twenty
four World Series. We got all your coverage. Don't go
anywhere We are your home of the Dodgers, you're a
home of shoe Otani, and you're a home of the
twenty twenty four World Series. A f I seventy LA
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
postseason tradition.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Scam is back. Baby.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is Sax and Cakes in the.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger
pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers,
get in on the show on eighty six six nine,
eighty seven two five seven now. While the Dan Patrick
Show streams on the Ihearts radio app.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff
run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
to seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's a matchup everybody wanted, the Los Angeles Dodgers and
the New York Yankees. Game one of the World Series
is coming up on Friday night as the Dodgers advance
beating the New York Mets last night in six games
of the National League Championship Series. It's Sax and Kates
in the AM. Here. You're a home of showy Otani
(01:09):
in the Dodgers AMPI seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being
with us here until nine o'clock this morning. We're gonna
be here every morning all week long leading up to
Game one of the National League Championship Series. These two
teams meeting in the World Series for the first time
since nineteen eighty one. So we will go back and
check in with members of the nineteen eighty one Dodgers
(01:31):
and look back at that series in which the Dodgers
and Yankees battled and the Dodgers prevailing with a World
Series championship. The Dodgers playing in their twenty second World Series,
the Yankees played in their forty first World Series. These
two teams now, well, I've squared off for will be
the twelfth time head to head in the Fall Classic.
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The Yankees lead the overall series eight to three, but
the Dodgers advancing to their fourth World Series in eight
years in Saxy Again, the national narrative is and the
questioning last night from members of the media to Dodger players, well,
you guys, you get to play the Yankees? What's that
gond you like to play the New York Yankee? What's
it gonna be like to play Wan Soto, play Aaron Judge?
What are you looking forward to about playing the Yankees? No, no, no,
(02:13):
excuse me. The Yankees haven't been to the World Series
since two thousand and nine. This is the fourth trip
in the last eight years, with a good majority of
this Dodger team being on these Dodger runs the last eight, nine,
ten years. So it should be reversed. It should be
asking the Yankee players what to like to go out
to LA and face the Dodgers. What's it gonna be
like to go out and face Jack Felerity. What's it
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gonna be like to face the dogs the bullpen. That's
what the questioning should be.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Yes, And remember, I want to tell them that the
Dodgers have already beaten the Padres, all right, maybe the
second best team in all the playoffs next to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I believe it.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I mean that Padre team was stacked, right, and they
went through those guys. And this is not just national coverage,
this is global coverage of the whole world. You think
about New York and the proximity to Europe, okay, not far.
I mean you're talking about what five hour flight, six
hour flight, So the Yankees have probably got a little
(03:11):
bit more panache maybe over there because of just the
proximity to New York. And so that's kind of the team.
You come out west and you go more west. Okay,
you got Japan, right, and then you've got a two
players on this team with Shohei o Tani and Yamamoto.
So those guys kind of bring those connections in. So
what you're talking about now is a global interest in
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this game, and it's gonna be huge. This This might
be you know, with the transfer of information today and
the way you know, social media is and whatnot, and
Baseball's outreach. I mean, this could be the biggest and
most prolific World Series ever, and it rightfully will be.
I one percent agree. I think the stage has never
(03:57):
been bigger for Major League Baseball in twenty twenty four.
And you put the Dodgers and yankeeses against each other,
and you put Judge and Soto and standing against Yamamoto
and Mookie Bett and Freddie Freeman and oh yes, some
guy named shoe Hey Otani who happens to be the
goat and happens to be the biggest name on the planet.
I mean, this, this is gonna be unbelievable. Well, we
(04:19):
told you about it last night. What a celebration it was.
In the Dodgers' clubhouse and our own David Vase, the
best of the best, gets the best.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Information on and off the field. He's got the respect
of these guys in that Dodger clubhouse for what he
does and what he brings to Dodger fans as the
communicator of Dodger information, host to Dodger Talk. You hear
him all over the station. Last night he was talking
to everybody in that Dodger clubhouse. You've heard a lot
of the interviews that Dave did last night right here
this morning with Saxon Kates in the AM. But last
(04:47):
night something know, very organic happened and he was talking
and ended up talking to Brent Honeywell Junior and Max
Munsey and the interview has since gone really viral and
a lot of people just love the honest from both
of these guys from the Dodgers. Here it is last night,
postgame in the clubhouse, our own David Vasse with Max
Munsey and Brent Honeywell Jr.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Hey, Honeywell's got that turtleneck gone.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's all soaked with champagne. Brent Honeywell, how does this feel?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Win?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Is fun man?
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Winning his best field in the world, especially when you're
at the highest.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Level because.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Nobody else there's just two teams.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Less the best, best world stage. I wanted it my
whole entire life, ever since I was a little kid
I've been I wanted my whole life.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
How does it feel to be such a big part
of this Bullpen?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I can't do it without him down there. I could
have done it without them. How about this guy, Max Munsey?
What would you do without Max Munsey?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Here?
Speaker 7 (05:48):
You're here in Munsey, this dude a few times?
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Yes, all right?
Speaker 10 (05:57):
Good?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Just making sure you can drive about.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Right now, David, I feel like I'm a got more
champagne and beer than you.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Two.
Speaker 10 (06:04):
Hey, no story for you, right?
Speaker 11 (06:07):
This guy threw was.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It four innings or two dirts?
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Or two dirts?
Speaker 10 (06:11):
For us in New York?
Speaker 8 (06:11):
He came out of the game.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What what did I tell you? He said, I want
this game six?
Speaker 8 (06:18):
And you were right.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
How much does Brent Honeywell mean to this team? Just
everything he brings. That's a dog. That's a dog.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Our whole Bullpen's dogs. But this guy put him in
a musition. Hey, you need two outs, he's got you.
You need three innings, he's got you. This guy who cares, Hey,
you need someone to throw LIVEVP in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
He's got you this today.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
This guy might have gotten Moovie Bets right because he
threw him LIVEVP.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Guys do that.
Speaker 12 (06:43):
He threw VP because he wasn't He wasn't active at.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The time he threw LIVP. Rookie Betts started going off.
Speaker 11 (06:50):
Did you throw him a screwball?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
No?
Speaker 7 (06:52):
I fed him down the middle and said, cract, that's
the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's what I said.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
I told all three of them, I'm throwing it down
the middle.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
You know it's hit it as far as you can.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Brent Honeywell might be the under copper MVD of this team.
You never know.
Speaker 10 (07:07):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
This guy's a dog. He's one of the heart beats
of this team. It doesn't get stated enough. He doesn't
get enough credit. This dude's amazing in him on the bus,
in the clubhouse, in the bullpen. This dude's amazing. Lexie,
What does this team mean to you?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
As far as going back to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You were here in eighteen, you want it in twenty.
How bad do you want to ring for these guys?
And how bad do you want to break this? This
is one of the closest groups that I've ever been
to Bardo.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Man, you know, we had to get some work to
get here, but it's been amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I mean, this is this is probably the closest keep.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I've had since twenty And you know when you talking
about twenty twenty, when you're stuck in a hotel with
everybody for forty five days, yeah, you're gonna get close.
We're finding a way to do that while not being
stuck together.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
And this goes.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Back to you know, all the way back in Atlanta,
we had a team meeting.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Tyler Glastan got told.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
That he couldn't pitch anymore. That was a real kick
in the gut. But we had a team meeting.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
We said, hey, guys, look around.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
We have all stars, we have Hall of Famers, we
have guys making a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
In this clubhouse. We can still do this. And we
had to get everybody to believe in that. And our
season turned right there. And then we had five days
off and we've.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Talked about that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The last two years.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
We've had five days off, right, we didn't know how
to handle that, and coming into this year.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know, we tried multiple things, right, they let.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Fans into the stadium for a city game. We're trying
to make it a real situation. And this year us
as players, we went to the front office and said, hey,
this is what we're doing, and we told.
Speaker 10 (08:45):
Them what we want to do.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
And everyone stresses out about having the five days off,
and we treated it as a.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Reward, because it is a reward.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You grind for eight months, going back to February spring training,
this is in this is the reward.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Right.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
We played the best of the bath and we said, hey,
we earned the number one seed.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's every ward. You get five days off as ever reward.
So we wanted to treat those award. We brought into
I Doo. We had unbelievable catering.
Speaker 12 (09:15):
We had fun, We had fool table thing, bok tables.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Papa shots. We had a really good time. We were
here together as a group, were for eight hours a.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Day, and you know in the past we were here
for two three hours a day. We tried to make
it as serious as possible.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
This year, Rena said, no, we're here together. Boys.
Speaker 12 (09:37):
I am not questioning you as a father, you as
a husband, you as a boyfriend, whatever, but give me
three weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I need three weeks out of you to be with
the boys. We're gonna cline through this together for.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Three weeks, and then you can be the best husband
and father you can you've ever been.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
But I need three weeks out of you.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
So for eight hours a day and those five days off,
we were here together. I'm just hanging out, have your fun,
having some food, talking about what we're gonna do, get
a picture, watching watching baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We were just here for eight hours a day being boys,
and I really think that's translated into when we're.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
At now.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well said, I think in New York, no three of
us should share a room.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
What I think all three of us we should hang out,
spend quality time in New York when the.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Series goes there, David, I can't think of anything worse.
Worse because I got your shower with my dad.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
That's a bolt.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I'll take that out of maybe unbelievable candid stuff from
Max Munsey and Brentney.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
My tail off. I mean, it's beautiful, that's you know
what I can't. I'm sitting here listening to this and
I feel like I'm twenty eight years old again, going
against the Olga. That's the same kind of stop that
comes out of the guys today. It's no different. You
know what, It wasn't any different in the thirties and
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forties either. They maybe not the same music, but they
they had the same feeling, the same uh you know,
the same you know, chemistry with all the players on
the team. I just thought it was great. Eight hours
a day, that's what they do. That would this is
the difference. This is the difference in this team. When
we talk about that it factor, when we talk about
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this team really wants it. This decision to be the
best dad, you can be the best boyfriend, be the
best whatever you can be. After this is over, give
me eight hours a day instead of the two or three.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
This is this is.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
He said, just a bunch of guys being boys. This
is the difference in this team. I really wholeheartedly believe
that decision could have changed everything.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Absolutely, very candid stuff, Vira, very real.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
And you're not any of that stuff from other reporters
other than David Vassey. No, you know why, because they're
not gonna let their guard down and talk like that.
Percent it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
One hundred percent that's why it has gone viral, and
so many Dodger fans and baseball fans are like, man,
this is real stuff. This is real, great information, and
this is awesome to see what this team does to
prepare and the buy in that this team has in
fact joining us now is our own. David Vase, what
a night he had last night, David, we just heard
Brent Honeywell Junior and Max Munsey as you're talking to
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these guys, have you have you ever seen Max Munsey
open up like this before and be as candid as
he was. It felt like he was just getting it
off his chest, like Hey, Dodger fans, we're grinding, we're working.
We want this as much as you guys do. It
was awesome.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Yeah, I was surprised that he shared as much as
he did because before the first game of the postseason, guys,
Monsey laid out all of that to me, and at
that point in time, we obviously didn't know where it
was going to go. They might have done all that
and got bounced in the first round. But the one
thing that he felt good about and the rest of
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the team felt good about, is even if they lost,
they wouldn't second guess whether or not they invested everything
into trying to win. And that's the biggest thing for
this team. After the last two years. Quite frankly, I
didn't feel like they were as invested as this team
set out to be to begin the playoffs. And look,
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that's the one thing, Steve, you know this, I think
we can all relate whatever we do in life. You
don't want to have any what ifs. And if the
Dodgers didn't make it to the World Series, they would
be able to have peace of mind that they tried
everything to be invested and give it all to be
able to try to make a run. And look now
it's paid off. So kudos to Max Munsey, Will Smith.
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Those guys really were the catalysts to making sure everybody
was all in as you heard Max Mounsey described.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yeah, Dave, I know we like the Ribbia and all that.
It's only because we are very fond of you. But
that really shows, uh that you're not going to get
an interview. You're not going to have somebody put their
guard down and talk like that unless they have an
extreme reverence in the highest regard for you. So kudos
to you forgetting that interview. That's that's It says a
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lot about you, and it's just great. I also thought
it was great. They said it wasn't. It was about
the worst idea ever for you to hang out with
them in a room and.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They'd rather shower with their dad is absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Brandon Honeywell reminds all of us of Kenny Powers from
Eastbound and Down and before the playoffs started they made
him get a perm so he had a perm and
he had the shaved side because he is that guy.
He was basically out of baseball. He'll come out of
the bullpen, he'll make a start. And you heard I
mean I didn't know that he threw live BP to
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Mookie Bets and the rest of the team that I mean,
that's who he is. He's just a guy that ball
or do anything that it takes.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Dave, Dave, you know what you know, as you can see,
is the Dodgers collectively as a team have put all
their chips in the middle. They've completely bought in. Everything's
moved to the middle. They have stepped over the line,
and they have completely committed to this. That's a dangerous
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combination for the great Yankee team that's coming in here
to play them in game one. And I just want
to know you mentioned a couple of guys who were
the main guys that were stirring this drink here to
get these guys to do this, to buy in, to
spend the time the eight hours. Who were the guys
that were mainly the drivers for this.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
It was Max Munsey and Will Smith. They got Kershaw
barnesk on board, and they just wanted to get Mookie
Betts and Freddie Freeman to buy in. Those were the
last two guys they needed to buy in, and those
two guys were all in. And once it got started,
My understanding is Mookie Bets was the leader and more
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involved in all this time together just as much as
anybody else. So once they got those two guys to
buy in, you know, Steve, you get the two best
players to buy in. Yeah, you know that's all shot.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Everybody follows it.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, Dave, well, let you save your voices. It's gonna
be a long way. But real quick, what does the
next four plus days look like for this Dodgers team?
Game ones not till Friday night at five o'clock. What
do you understand as far as maybe the schedule workouts.
What they're going to do be between now and then.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Yeah, my understanding. Today they're going to get some treatment.
There's no really work being done on the field. Maybe
more rams up as the days go along. Thursday they
have a World Series media day. Did they have that
in nineteen eighty eight Saxy Media Day?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I don't remember that. No, I don't remember. No, I
don't think so.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
I'm sure Kirk Gibson was right there right at media
day front.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, oh yeah, we had a media day.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
We got John Shueho Sue who brought his camera that day.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Well, Dave want two guys to keep in mind as
we get closer to the World Series rosters being said,
do not rule out Bruce Dark Radol or Alex Vesia
coming back and being able to pitch.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That'd be awesome to get both those guys back to
help out the bullpend David, fantastic job last night. Tremendous
work in the clubhouse. I can't say it enough how
great these interviews were the candidates from all the players,
Key Ahern Nandiz nobody else is getting that information out
of him. Brent Honeywell Junior, Max Muncy, everybody you talk to,
they had the respect for you. They talked to you
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and give you great information, and that information translates to
the listeners right here on am FI seventy LA Sports.
So rest your voice. I'm sure we'll check in with
you later today on petch with some money. But great
job last night, man, Thanks David, great job.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Hey, thank you guys. If I if I had one
wish in the I wish I had a time machine
to be able to have this role with the eighty
eight Dodgers and celebrate the fruits of victory.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
What a team.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That's it. There he goes, and only David Vass said,
what a great job last night. That that I told
you that monthy Honeywell just candid Monthsy going off talking
about what they did during the bring.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I mean, really, where where are you going to hear
that stuff? No, it's great, you know you hear this
stuff on the top it, you know. I mean they
peeled the onion back there a little bit, right, That's
beautiful stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And the joking around at the end about hey, we
should hang out together in New York and I'd rather
shower with my dad.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Oh my god, that was absolutely hilarious. They they love
David they do. If they if they didn't, they're not
going there with them, believe me.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And they respect the ton out of David. So thanks
to DV for popping on this morning, late night last night.
You can hear it in his voice. It's been a
long NLC, has been a long postseason so far. But
guess what, Dodger fans, A World Series is coming up up.
The ride continues, Saxon Kates in the am. Dodgers going
to the World Series to face the New York Yankees.
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Your phone calls coming up. What a night it was
as we celebrate another NLCS for the Dodgers and a
showdown against the Yankees. But getting on Friday. Right here
are your home of the Dodgers, Afi seventy LA Sports.
It's Saxon Kate's in the am. The dogs are loose,
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Dodgers' bullpen. It's a bunch of dogs down there, caged up,
and they have been tormenting everybody in the postseason, Padres
Mets and now a World Series showdown against the New
York Yankees beginning on Friday night. Right here on five
seventy LA Sports. Steve Sacks, Tim Kates and you on
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this Monday morning, as LA celebrates yet another National League pennant,
the Dodgers advancing to their fourth World Series years, the
Dodgers going for their eighth World Series title. And how
about this the first ever chance to celebrate a World
Series championship at Dodgers Stadium. I mean, at the seven
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titles here it is nineteen fifty five against the Yankees.
Did not celebrate Dodger Stadium. There was no Dodger Stadium.
Nineteen fifty nine against the White Sox. Celebrated in Chicago,
nineteen sixty three, celebrated against the Yankees. Nineteen sixty five.
They won the World Series in Minnesota against the Twins.
Nineteen eighty one, won at Yankee Stadium against the New
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York Yankees. Nineteen eighty eight, you guys won against the
A's at the Coliseum in Oakland, twenty twenty the Dodgers.
The Dodgers won it in the Bubble down in Tampa,
the only time that they've actually won one. The only
time they've ever won a World Series on their home
field nineteen sixty three. I stand corrected. At the seven
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World Series championships, only one has been clenched on the
home field. That was nineteen sixty three against the Yankees
at Dodger Stadium. So not a lot of people remember that,
not alive for that. A lot of the young Dodger
fans hoping this is the first time since nineteen sixty
three that they can win a Dodger Stadium a World
Series championship.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah, and this is gonna be absolutely epic when you
consider these two teams going out. I mean, this is
it's like a build up that's been coming for a
long time. I mean, we team people were talking about
this in spring training. Look at these two teams. I mean,
this is probably gonna be a World Series matchup. Ah,
what are the odds of that? I'm looking at the
Kentucky Derby. When does a favorite ever win the Kentucky Derby?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Not very much. And it's too hard to be here.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
We are it's gonna happen. I mean, coming into this too,
you're gonna have guys that are really hot Standings swinging
a big bat. Soto swinging a big bat, Mookie Bets
and and uh you know, Sho Tani are swinging big bat.
I mean, this is gonna be just a major clash.
This is gonna be This is gonna be profound. This
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is gonna be a huge event in our country, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You know, this is a Yankees team with Jazz Chisholm.
This is a Yankees team with the names you just
rattled off. You throw Anthony Volpi, you throw in the
catcher Wells. Yeah, throwing Alex Dugo, former Dodger who we
seem to have forgotten about, batting ninth and playing left
field for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
And by the way, Tim, have you seen Chisholm throw
from third base?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No, Holy cow, good or bad? He has got a
freaking missile.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Really, Oh my god, you're talking about, you know, three
feet off the ground the whole way from from in
the hole, from like short left field. You're talking about
three feet off the ground with a little hippitie hop
when he gets near your first base. I'm telling you,
this guy's got a cannon over there. I mean, way,
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do you see this? It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
He's a pickup they made for the Miami ro like that.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, I mean, Anthony Volpi is a guy that they
absolutely love, a New Yorker, a hometown kid there, twenty
three years old, playing shortstop for the New York Yankees.
He was annointed as the next Derek Jeter. Uh as
far as possible legacy shortstop. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I mean, but you know, people, I mean, I'm I'm
saying they weren't talking about it. But Derek Jeter's like,
you know, generational. But now he's a good player, No
doubt he's a good player. I wouldn't trade him for
Tommy Edmund No, heck, no, no way, heck no.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Tommy Edmand now is cemented himself in Dodger history with
eleven runs driven in and the NLCS Ty and Corey
Seeger for the franchise record NLCS MVP.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I mean, yeah, Tim, remember this though, Rizzo, they're gonna
have an opperatity. I think if there's one spot where
you could exploit, you know, this team is going after Rizzo.
That's and the fact that Judge isn't swinging a big bat.
He may be you know it it's somebody sometime he's
going to Yeah, uh, hopefully it's when the season's over.
But Anthony Rizzo has got Remember he's got two broken
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fingers on his right hand. Remember he's a left handed hitter.
So this is the hand bottom hand that pulls the
bat through probably more important than the other hand, so
you could see them. You can see in his some
of his swings. He got one hit on an inside
pitch that he usually pulls. What did you do?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He broke his bat and.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Flared it over the shortstop. So if you can mitigate
some of the power that's coming out of Rizzo and
and not the same hitter with two broken fingers, uh,
and and and and he's playing through this simply on
a pure as much as you can stand pain basis.
It's not really anything that he's gonna do worse to
his fingers other than let him heal. But he's on
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he's on a pain basis only right now.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So it's gonna be a great series. It's gonna be
fun to see these two teams, Uh square off. Everybody's
wanted it, and we got it. Let's go to Glenn
and him. It been waiting patiently. We appreciate that. Glenn,
good morning, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I want to talk about adding players. I know they
haven't until Friday to add more players. What about Kris
Shaw and Miguel Rojash Are they gonna be able to fight.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Good question. As far as Miguel Rojas is concerned, he's
a possibility. H Clayton Kershaw has already you know, shut
it down, so he's not ramped up, he's not ready
to go. He is watching this postseason from the dugout.
But Miguel Rojas, the adductor, we'll see if he's available
to go. And that's a serious question that we're gonna
have the next couple of days to talk about. Sexy
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is do you mess with the chemistry of the position
players right now or do you leave it as it is?
I know you're getting back maybe Bruce dar Graderole and
Alex Vessia, which you need another left hander. That's the
Pitching's one thing you can mess with, maybe tinkering with
who you put on the roster. But I mean the
bench away that Chris Taylor's played.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
You know, they'll give you at I'll give you a
little subset, okay, of you know, so pitching is one thing,
but you go to hit, you know, the hitting regular players. Okay,
what about Freddie Freeman. I mean that's a no brainer.
If Freddy's ready, he If Freddy is ready, he's going
to be in there.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
No question about it. But but I you know, I can't.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I can't take Edmond out.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
How can you do that?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I mean if Miguil Rojas, he's gonna have to be
He's gonna have to be a guy off the bench
right now, now, now, now for the regular season. Okay, sure,
maybe different story because that's Edmund's role is to play everywhere.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
So but right now you kind of ride the pony, right,
and the pony's hot, so that's the pony you jump on.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, you think about Miguel Rojas's role, He's a shortstop.
He doesn't really play a lot of other positions.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
No, that's all he plays.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, And so if you're looking at him as a
bench player, role player, since Tommy Edmans now playing shortstop,
do you want Rojas off the bench where all he
can play a shortstop? Or did you rather have a
guy like a key Key Hernandez or a Chris Taylor
who or Andy Pajas who can play multiple spots in
the outfield. But for Chris Taylor who can play four
different positions right right, and Rojas only one.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Well, Rojas will have to be specific in where he plays.
If something goes down with Tommy Edmond. He can go
into shortstop. Okay, he can do that, but you might
use Rojas just off the bench to hit, you know,
if you need if you need a guy to come
in and hit, you know, maybe you use them.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
There.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
You got guys that can you can plug and play.
Like you just said, k he can play anywhere too, right,
So I mean for a short time you can do that.
But for the long haul, Rojas is a shortstop and
if he earns the position, that's where he'll be. I
really do think that that position is going to be
up for up for grabs this winter. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
We check in with Father Gary here in Burbank. He
has blessed the Dodgers all postseason a long hopefully that
continues into the World series. Father Gary, good morning.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
Hey, good morning guys. Listen, I want to thank you
for indulging me and letting me participate in your shows
these last couple of weeks. I'm really excited about this,
so let me ask you something. Two things I want
to say. One observation last night, the guys looked like
they were celebrating, but it looked like they knew that
they had more business to take care of. They weren't
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going bananas on the field. They were shaking hands, they
were nodding at each other, they were patting each other
on the back. I didn't see much of the clubhouse stuff,
but on the field it looked like they were like,
we got more business to take care of, guys.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
This is not it.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
This is just another step into the direction we want
to go. Then I have a prophecy for you, Freddie Freeman,
MVP of the World Series record. That keep that that's
going to be money.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
All right, father Gary, we appreciate it. Hopefully you can
bless that ankle a little bit and get some healing
a little sooner and faster on that ankle. For Freddie Freeman,
it wouldn't surprise me if the guy that we kind
of forgot about in Game six in the NLCS because
of Tommy Edmond and everybody else that's contributed here in
the National League Championship Series, to have Freddie Freeman back
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healthy and just put on a series a show at
the plate and just produce offensively and be named the
World Series MVP.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
I would get shocked, and everybody on the team would
be good too. They would just want a World Series Look,
the other thing about Freddie is he's a professional hitter.
That's the best compliment you can ever give a baseball player.
A guy's everyday player. He's a professional, he's in he's
a professional hitter. And that's what Freddy is. I've seen
him in stumps slumps before. I've seen him in practice
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and how he fixed those slumps. Been down in the
field watching him at every single ball line drive in
practice over the shortstop's head. What happened in the game
that night? He came out and he had three line
drives to left field for base hits out of the slump.
That's what pros do, and that's what Freddy does. He
is one of a kind. He is a tremendous hitter.
Ish in Riverside.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Next up with Saxon, Kate's and Am is the Dodgers
a punch their ticket for a World Series bit against
the Yankees.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
Is Hey Man, Kim, Hey Steve, how are you guys
doing this morning?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Man?
Speaker 11 (29:35):
Thanks, beautiful day, beautiful day. Hey, Well listen, I have
I did have a couple of comments here, but first
I'm wondering if I could wish a happy birthday shout
out to my brother Isaac Dodgers October baseball. It's pretty
much like one in the same for our family. So
I definitely want to wish my brother Isaac a happy
birthday today.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Very nice. I just did.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Thank you awesome, man, awesome, I'm awesome. So as far
as the baseball is concerned, man, I have been watching
these Yankees. They I'm not gonna lie as a fan
of baseball. They they do play some exciting ball, but
I think that we are better messed up. Steve, you
hit the nail on the head there with Rizzo. He
doesn't look like the same Rizzo from back in Chicago,
so I think that's definitely something we can exploit. But
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to the fans, hey, let's show up, let's show out.
Let's make it loud and rockus. Let us get that
Ding World Series out?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
All right? Is appreciate the phone call eight six seventy Mike,
and Fresno has been waiting patiently. Thank you for Mike.
Good morning, Hey, good morning boy.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
As a guy, that's harding to be on the phone
with Saxton Kate, ask you, I'm I can't listen to
you guys drive because they have someone else playing on
iHeart right now. But uh, I just want to say
I wanted to come down this week and be it
all right, I'm not going to go to the game,
but where's the best place to go watch the game
where I'll have they thought the biggest atmosphere, like dog
your atmosphere is.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's a that's a great I'm not sure there's so
many great Dodger viewing parties. Uh here in southern California,
a lot of local spots around Dodgers Stadium. Uh, that's
a good thing. When maybe we'll post it up on
social media. Maybe we'll get into the next couple of
days where some great viewing spots are for Dodger fans
to watch the World Series.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Because probably not at the Kate's house. You don't want
to get too much bad language of screaming at the TV. Yeah,
because uh yeah, that wouldn't be a lot of fun.
First of food to be gone quickly, and second you'd
probably not like to hear the third commentary from the
radio TV and me uh during the game that it
gets quite annoying from people and they's why what kind
of food you supporting at the house? Too?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well, it depends I like to go to the pizza.
There's a local spot here in Bourband called dinas Dino's Pizza,
which is a great spot. I love doing that. The
wife can made chicken and steakkebobs last night, so that
was that was fun to have. So but uh yeah,
I'm into the pizza and a wine. So that's that's
a big thing for us.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
We we got the scoreboards right down on the right
down the street from me, right around the corner, and
the best pizza everywhere, just amazing and the place is
jam packed. Okay, best pizza. What kind of pizza that
we Talcaroni? Just stay listen. I like the plain stuff. No,
but pepperoni and mozzailla, thin pepperoni, mozzarella and a Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
That's all I like.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
I don't know why people have a beer with it
and they blow the whole reason for having a pizza. No,
it's pizza and Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
The best ever. Okay, because I mean, people'll start people
started saying Chicago deep dish. Det I don't like the thick.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
I want the New York feel like you just gained
fourteen pounds by the time you go to bed.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
The only thing good about New York in my mind
is the pizza, the New York pizza, the big fat
you know slices that you can fold up and eat.
The chubbies. Yeah, yeah, those they're big. Those are good,
they are those are really good.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
But I like the thin slice. Brother, I'm telling you,
Pepperoni really good. Well, you you're like like an adonnas.
You watch what you eat, your count your calories, you
have cheap days. You're one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Actually, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that at all.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
He is.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Steve sax Up Jim Gates with you here until the
top of the hour. We're here all week long, getting
you ready for Game one of the World Series. Yeah,
it's happening, Dodgers Yankees Friday night, Dodgers Stadium. We'll have
all the action, We'll have all the lead up, all
the build up, all the previewing, all the great guests
right here on NFI seventy LA Sports, Sax and Kate
(33:23):
to Am on this Monday morning. Dodgers clinching the NLCS
last night with a Game six victory over the New
York Mets, a ten to five win, for the Dodgers.
The bullpen game that panned out for the Dodgers, starting
with Michael Kopek and any with Blake Trying getting the
final six outs of the game. The Dogs as they
(33:45):
call themselves down there in the bullpen have emerged here
in September now October as the Dodgers relying on bullpen
games throughout the NLDS, the NLCS and Saxon no doubt
going into this World Series with Jack Flaherty, with uh
Yoshanoba Yamamoto, Walker Bueller, they've got three starters that they
can throw out there in a seven game series. But
(34:07):
we're gonna at least once, at least one time, we're
gonna see a bullpen game against the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
I don't think that's a bad thing. I mean, you do.
I wish we had one extra starter, five guys that
can go out there and tow the line and do
it the traditional way. Yeah, But the Padres found out
when they got into the tooth of the Dogs what happened, Well,
it didn't go too well for them because they were
facing a different guy every inning. Just about you had
(34:32):
a couple of guys, would you know, maybe bank in
a couple innings, but for the most part, it's a
new look and that's not good for the timing of
a hitter.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I love the whole Dog's mantra. I love the borrowing
of a postseason run. And you know, naming the group
after and solidarity together. I mean, you mentioned the Stuntman
back in nineteen eighty eight, you mentioned the run with
the White Sox and the group they called out of
the Bullpen. I mean, it's it's something that's pretty cool,
and it's it's something you don't see a lot. But yeah,
(35:02):
for this Dodgers team, this group, I mean, with all
the superstars, they have to see that group of relievers,
the bullpen guys come together. It's almost fitting though, once
you think about it. A lot of unsung heroes down there,
a lot of guys who are at the back end
of their career, guys trying to win championships late in
their career, Guys tried to establish themselves, re establish themselves
(35:23):
like Brent Honeywell Junior and Anthony Bonda, who the Dodgers
picked up mid season. Names you don't know, like Ben Casparius.
Just unsung heroes down there doing the job and doing
the job that more than they thought they'd be doing
here in October.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
And it's amazing how much the game has changed. It
used to be, you know, those guys down in the bullpen,
you had guys that would mop up because the expectation
of the starter was to go nine. You'd have guys
that would mop up, guys that would just come in.
And the middle relievers were almost like triple A guys.
I mean, they were just like, you know, who cared.
I mean, now every guy has got a you know,
(35:59):
the target, two guys that this one guy can get out.
It seems so it's a much different game now. It's
much more technical. Uh, and it's much more it's more
it's much more plotted out, you know, because they go
before the game and they get up there, the brain trust,
and they say, okay, you know seventh and eighth inning.
You know, we know the closer is gonna be, but
seventheen thinning, what he got. Okay, let's let's get these
(36:20):
guys that we're gonna have, uh, you know, trying's gonna
get these three guys out, you know, and and so
on and so forth. They map out who they're gonna
get and that's how technical this is. Yeah, Dave Roberts
said it. They asked, well, what was your plan late
in the game, and he said, I had nine outs
to get and it was gonna be Daniel Hudson and
Blake trying in that combination. And then to ask Blake
(36:41):
trying to go back out there and get a two out,
say excuse me, two innings save was fantastic. He hits stuff,
tim It's wicked. It's I'm telling you coming from somebody
used to hit that stuff is wicked. I mean, you
don't want to The only thing that you can hope
for on against trying is that he hangs one. He
(37:03):
makes a mistake. He's throwing that slider and and he
gets it up and he does it, you know, he
tries to snap it off too hard and he just
gives a cement mixer up there and he hangs one.
That's the only chance you got because if his his
stuff's working, if it's going down with some tilt and
going down on the zone and it has got the
action on the ball, forget it. And look he's throwing
(37:23):
ninety seven ninety eight. He's not throwing as hard as
he can either. I can promise you he's got more
in there, but the ball probably wouldn't have the same
action if he's throwing it harder. Actually, there's a certain
speed where it works, and he's figured it out. Bro,
He's figured it out, and that's where he's staying.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Eric in Hollywood, wrap things up on this Monday. You
got about thirty seconds.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Go ahead, Eric, god Jert Day shed World Series, Here
we come.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Tommy was a beast. Bullpen is a force to reckon
with the hubant rally towel says, let's.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Go all right, Eric in Hollywood, appreciate the phone call.
Eric's ant to let's go Dodgers Dodger Nation. It's a
it's a thing on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
So yeah, yeah, he's got to figure it out, right, Yeah,
he does.
Speaker 11 (38:08):
He does.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
We're gonna be with you every single day this week
leading up to Game one of the World Series on
Friday night. We're gonna get a coverage from New York.
We're gonna go back to nineteen eighty one and that
team that made a World Series run against the New
York Yankees. Will check in with some of your former
teammates during the week. So yeah, a lot of phone
calls we got some great stuff in store coming up tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday.
(38:32):
Game one is on Friday, and as David Vats mentioned,
the Dodgers today a day to get some rest, a
day to recoup, get right, get some treatments, and then
they'll be back at it with workouts. Media Day on Thursday,
which is something new for the World Series. Media Day. Okay,
all right, so if you say so, media Day exactly,
(38:53):
I don't think. I don't think Baseball needs to tell
us who these guys are. It's not the Royals versus
the you know, the the Rays here or something. I mean,
come on, it's the Dodgers and the Yankees. We all
know these guys are saxy, awesome stuff. Looking forward to
a great week. We'll talk to you tomorrow. You see you, buddy.
All right, there he goes the great Steve Sacks, NEANXS
to Zach, thanks to Michelle. Thanks to you Dodger fans
for being a part of it. This morning. It's a Monday.
(39:16):
It's great to be a Dodger fan. And it's gonna
be a great week leading up to the twenty twenty
four World Series. We got all your coverage. Don't go
anywhere We are your home of the Dodgers, you're a
home of shoe Otani, and you're a home of the
twenty twenty four World Series. A f I seventy LA
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