October 24, 2024 • 40 mins
Steve Sax and Tim Cates giveaway tickets to Game 1 of the World Series. Former Dodgers catcher and World Series MVP Steve Yeager.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The right quick.
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 Saxon Cakes in the a app BA Go
with Proway. 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. We've
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been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes.
Here they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven
LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Our three Saxon Kate's and the AM on this Thursday morning,
October twenty fourth. Thanks for being with us live in
local on your home of the Dodgers Game one the
World Series tomorrow night Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck starts
at four, first pitch at five oho eight. We'll be
live at a local all day tomorrow, beginning at six
(01:07):
am with SCAM nine AM. Rogan and Rodney will take
over at noon. Petro some money. We'll be flexed back
and starting early leading up to Morongo Casino. Dodgers on
deck at four again, first pitch at five eight to
our World Series coverage here on SCAM, brought to you
by Chef Manitos seasoning, your seasoning partner, the Dodgers. It's
World Series time. Bring out the chef in you. Steve
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Jeger gonna join us at the bottom of the hour
and talk a little Fernando talk about the nineteen eighty
one World Series and that championship win over the New
York Yankees. But yesterday, Saxe, Rogan and Rodney, We're live
at Hollywood Park Casino from noon until three, and we
had hundreds of Dodger fans show up and register to
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win Game one tickets to the World Series. Right here.
When you're home with the Dodgers AM Phi seven e
LA Sports, you register. Yesterday they were put into a
hopper and one lucky Dodger fan was just selected during
the break as the winner. And we're gonna call them
right now on the air. Have not reached out to
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them at all. Hopefully they pick up the phone when
they call. We've been telling you have your phone on
you if you were right out and registered yesterday at
Hollywood Park. So let's go ahead. Is this one or
two tickets? It's two tickets. Wow, it's two tickets. So
here we go. Let's call this person. Well let's try
that again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
We go.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Uh all right, just called the person on the air.
Here we go, should be ringing. There we go. Hopefully
they pick up Saxy be very anti, they don't.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Not too early to call.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
No, Aaron, please, Hey, how's it going? Hey, Aaron, you're
live on the radio on n FI seventy l as words,
Tim Kate, Steve Sacks. How you doing?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Oh? Good, good in yourself?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know, we're just chilling here talking a little Dodgers
Baseball about Otani, whether or not you'll pitch in the
World Series, and just kind of kicking around all the
scenarios and storylines leading up to Game one tomorrow. What
are you doing tomorrow night?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Nothing, not much?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, all right, Yes you are doing something. Yeah, you're
doing something now. Congratulations there, and you're going to Game
one of the World Series.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Awesome man. Have you ever been to a World Series
game before?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
No? I've never been there.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
No, No, No, how big of a Dodger fan. Are
you I'm a.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Huge Dodger fan.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, who's that in.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The background, my sister, sister? Now, oh, are you all right?
Have you decided? I thought about maybe in the last
twenty four hours since going out to Rogan and Rodney
and maybe maybe dreaming of going to the World Series
and winning these tickets. Have you thought about who maybe
you're gonna take to the game tomorrow night?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Do you want to? Do you want to announce officially
who you're taking to the World Series tomorrow night. It's
going to disappoint a lot of people who are.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
He's not going to put himself in a bind right now?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Erin?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Where are you from? Where are you from? Erin East
l A man? All right, So I imagine a big
Dodger fan growing up. How about Fernando Valenzuela. Was he
somebody you guys?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I took a photo with him?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, I met him.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Nice. You were at it and you were at a
Hollywood park yesterday with Rogan and Rodney. Easy signing, no
problem signing up. It was an easy process.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yes, yes, Hey, Aeron, I got ask you a questions.
Have you ever met Tim Kates?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Well, you haven't You haven't meached the promm, reached the
promised land yet. When you meet Tim Kates like you
met Fernando, you'll say, Man, now I'm complete, right, yeah,
exactly right.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Congratulations to you. Thanks, thanks for listening to am FI
seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being out at the Hollywood
Park Casino yesterday with Rogan and Rodney. It's give me
a great Game one of the World Series tomorrow, Dodgers
and Yankees and Aaron, You're going on, man, you are going.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Thank you, Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Thank you all right, Aaron, congratulations. We'll put you on hold.
We got your information, so we will reach out to
you today aerin in East LA and get you your
tickets for Game one of the World Series. How cool
was that a guy wins tickets to Game one of
the World Series and all he had to do Saxy
would show up yesterday and fill out his information and
register to win. Guess what we got another opportunity for
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you listening right now thinking dang it, I didn't win,
or man, I missed out yesterday. I couldn't get out
the Hollywood part. Another chance coming up, Another chance, today
Wow the Inland Empire, Rancho Kuca Manga Bjay's Restaurant in
brew House between noon and three today. The Rogan and
Rodney Show will be out there from noon to three.
Noon to three Rogan and Rodney Show, Bjay's Restaurant in
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brew In, Rancho Cucamonga. Get out there.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's free.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All you do is sign up, Crazy, fill out your
information and you're registered. And then tomorrow same time, eight
am tomorrow morning, right here on Saxon Kate's in the am,
We're gonna pull a winner and announce him and call
him on the air for Game two of the World.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Hey, Crazy, not to go. You gotta show up.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I mean, what are you waiting for. You don't have
to sign up and pay to do anything. You don't
to register and give blood or anything. All you can
do is sign up.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And that's a great place to get a meal too. Absolutely,
get one of those pazookies. You love those those cookies
at the ice cream on top with all the caramel
and whipped cream and all that. They're great. We haven't
right by here where I live. Yeah, they're amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You're a glutton and you love eating all all all
the sugar and stuff sexy. Look at you, you see
what I mean right now? Of course, congratulations to Aaron
and easta like it's that simple. He registered yesterday and
he's a winner today. You wouldn't announce who he's taken
to the world, you know what, Saxy. That sounded to
me like a guy who didn't want to tell either
his wife or somebody close to him that they weren't going, or.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Some close friend.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, take it.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, he's kind of like gonna, you know, not put
that out on the airways right now.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I mean, he said his sister was in the background
yelling at how she's been. She probably thinks she's going. Yeah,
and he.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Probably wanted to go, and he said, no, no, no,
I promise Bob at work, I'm gonna take him or
or somebody else.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, somebody else is going. I'm sure he's got some
buddies now all ringing him up and texting him saying, hey, man,
I heard you on five seventy. I want to go
with you.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Congratulations to Aaron again. Your opportunity for game two tickets
is this afternoon at BJ's Restaurant and brew House in
Rancho Cucamugga with the Rogan and Rodney Show. All right,
let's go back out to the phones. Daniel in Pasadena, Daniel,
thanks for wait. How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Hey, I'm doing great.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
About to drop my boys off.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
The school is listening to you guys, and been listening
to you since the Dodgers in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Crawesome. Appreciate that, Daniel. You guys fired up for Game
one the World Series. Are the boys ready?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yeah, we're talking about what we want to make your dinner.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You gotta make sure you put your stuff on. Tomorrow
could represent tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
We're scided, we're pumped.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, it's it's gonna be a fun.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Kids are well indoctrinated.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Way to go. Kids are ready to go, Daniel. Appreciate
appreciate you checking in this morning.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Meg.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Get those kids to school, be safe and get ready
for an exciting world series coming up here on About.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That is is? Uh? Daniel has the kids listening to
a five seventy Uh. You know, they sound like they're
like in the second or third grade and they're already
tuning in. They're they're they're indoctrinated for life.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh, they're gonna be listeners forever, Michael and Torrens. Thanks
for waiting patiently. You're on a five seventy l A
Sports with Sax and Kates in the morning. Michael, go ahead,
you're on the air.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
All right, Hey guys, good morning morning, Steve. I played
against you in high school.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You did last year?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
You played for Marshall High. Where'd you go to baseball game? Been?
I went to Folesome, Okay, I was. I was a
sophomore and I got called up to the show and
an injury. Anyway, the most amazing baseball player I've ever
seen until show. Heytni's game the other day and that
was the best I've ever seen. I think it was
your third at BET. I went out to the picture
and I said, hey, you know, let's not waste our time.
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It's almost fastball across the outside corner. I hope he
doesn't hit a triple. It was, it was, It was amazing.
Now I want to talk about Fernando a little bit.
You know, anybody who's ever known anything about baseball, even
if they never saw him play, knows what pos he's
going to be in in that statue, don't we all.
I don't even have to describe it. We all know
what it's going to be. And when I think of
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that picture, I hear Vin Scully talking about, you know,
having spend a lifetime listening to Vinnie. And the thing
about Fernando that keeps occurring to me is people talk
about how nice he was and what a wonderful guy
he was to meet. There was a way that he
that he held himself and the way that he walked
that that had a confidence that you know, didn't come
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out of his mouth. You know, we all walked, some
of us strut you know, he strode, he broke well
who was walking out to that mound? He said, this
is what I'm gonna do. And when he was walking
off and he was going, see, I told.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
You, yeah, awesome, You're right, Mike.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I appreciate right, buddy. All right, somebody who competed against
you in high school saxy and put you on that
high I know right where that is. You guys spank
full some imagine you guys probably both raised them right, just.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Beat him dirty. You know. Our our team, Uh, my
brother and I when we were I was a fresh
I was a sophomore on the varsity. My brother was
a senior. My brother four to one hitters in high school.
Just mowed people down just through the fastball. That's all
he did. He didn'tven put fingers down. And anyway, our
school was like not even seven hundred people in the
whole school, and we were spanking schools that had like
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three four thousand people, just whooping them because my brother
was just mowing them down.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So the Saxon brothers were just carrying the martials.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Brothers were just putting some whooping on some people. I
mean this little tiny school out in the sticks, little
tiny school, Marshall High School, James Marshall High School, and
we were beating school's way over three thousand kids. And yeah,
my brother was like the best player in northern California.
He was just dominating people.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, that's awesome, it's great, that's awesome. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is our number here.
Congratulations to Aaron from East LA. He was our winner
of the Game one World Series tickets. He did it
by registering at Hollywood Park Casino yesterday with Rogan and
Ronnie and again. Your chance to win Game two World
Series tickets is at BJ's Restaurant in brew House in
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Rancho Cucamunga between noon and three today, it'll be Fred
Rogan and Ned Pillti will be out there joining Fred today. Yeah,
and Ned one of the architects of the Dodgers in
the early in the mid two thousands, and then handed
it off to Andrew Freeman, who continued this run of
Dodgers winning divisions and going to the playoffs now twelve
straight years. He'll be out there with Fred today between
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noon and three this afternoon, I sent you a pitcher
of sexually. Somebody tweeted at me some photos of you
playing in Venezuela in nineteen eighty one, because you mentioned
yesterday that you didn't go to the parade in nineteen
eighty one, that when the World Series was over, Steve
Sacks got on a plane went down to Venezuela to
play a little winter ball, and somebody has some photos
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of you down there.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I saw that. I saw it, and that thing about
me running around third right there, there was a picture
of me doing the trot. You know, there was a
home run trot, and I never hit very many, so
I knew when I was doing it that was off
at Dave Stewart.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Was it really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Hit dead center field. I remember it very well. Yes, yep, wasn't.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Dave Stewart a Dodger. Yeah, you guys played on different
teams in Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
He was with Zulia and I was with Racas Leon
de Caracas.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So how long is the Winter League down? There's like
three months?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Four months? Really, I was down there, right. I think
I missed the parade. I had to go down there.
I was down to the whole time, and I miss Christmas,
I missed Thanksgiving, I missed all that, missed my birthday
and got back, I had like three or four days
off and I was going to Big Lee camp. That
was it. Three or four days off the whole winner
and I was in Big Lee camp. Its just like fast.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
How much did that help you going into that nineteen
eighty two season which you wanted to helped a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
And what really helped a lot is the fact that
I got to come up in eighty one and you know,
have like a little over one hundred at bats. It
wasn't a full season, it wasn't counted the season, so
the next year was my rookie year. But it helped
a lot. But going down in Venezuela, it was really
good brand of baseball too. It was a solid triple
A maybe low big leagues, you know that, that kind
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of right in there, and it was It was great.
It helped a lot, very much a cultural experience on anything.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
That's a great experience to go down that's where you
learn your Spanish down there and journey those Spanish Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No, I took it in high school and then I
tried to practice as much as I can when I
was down there and with your teammates you liked. I
like to practice it because I love the Spanish language.
I think it's beautiful and it's not a real difficult
language to learn. Now you try to throw some Japanese
or German at me, nah, I don't think I could
do it, but Spanish is pretty.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is Marshall High School closed now in Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
James Marshall High School closed when I graduated in seventy eight.
They closed it afterwards and they combined our school, James Marshall,
with our crosstown rival, which is Washington High School, and
they made this big, beautiful school now called River City
High School. So now Marshall High School is a is
a River City High School is a derivative of Marshall
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and Washington High School.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So all your records though, carry over though, right.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You know, I don't know. I think they did because
I was so I was so grateful and so humbled
that when they they started River City High School, they
retired my number and gave me my jersey, and I
think they said that the records are going to stay
there through through River City. So I haven't checked. I
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don't know if they're there now, and maybe they're broken,
but I don't know. It was just such an honor
though it was. It was great, great ceremony.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
What number did you wear in high school that's now
retired there?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I were number threeumber three, yep, And that's why I
wanted it in the big leagues. I love number three.
That's just my favorite number.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
How come you weren't a Grant High School pacer?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
That they got some good athletes over there. Grant High
School is always in the top in baseball, football, and basketball.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes, Was that not an option for you up there
in the Sacramento area?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It was, it was.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
No, I wasn't. I didn't live in that area, Okay,
so you have to go, you know kind of where
you lived. I lived way out in the country. I
lived out on a farm and so James Marshall was
the only one I could go to.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Interesting. Yeah, see, I picture Sacramento is like, you know,
fort city square blocks and then it's there's just farmland
after that.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Oh no, it's it's pretty big. Now there's probably you know,
with the A's coming here and they wonder if people
can support up here in northern California. There's no question.
I'd say there's probably with all the surrounding areas well
over a million and a half people that will support it.
And you know, right now, the tickets for the Sacramento A's,
I don't know if they're going to be called the
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Sacramento A's, but they're basically sold out now. They're they're
already gone. So how many is it going to hold?
Like seventy five hundred tenth thos No, it holds just
under fifteen thousand.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Yeah, so they're gonna triple. They're gonna triple the attendance
that they've had at Oakland, which is about five thousand
a game.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I think right now that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
And so they're gonna get all the way to fifteen thousand,
you know, just right out of the gate. So that's
good for them.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That is awesome. That's gonna be a fun atmosphere up
in Sacramento when they start playing up there this next season.
I don't know they're gonna call them the Sacramento As
or I.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Think they're just gonna call me athletics, okay, because they're
not sure. You know, I know the owner up here,
the vague he wants to buy the team. He already
bought the River Cats. Of course, he owns the Sacramento Kings.
Now he wants to buy the A's and if he does,
he's ready to build the stadium and it's gonna beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's awesome. Le Let's get a final call in here
before we take a break, and we hear from Steve
Jeger coming up at the bottom of the hour, Carlos
and downy. Thanks for being patient, Carlos, how you doing?
Oh we lost Carlos. I think I might have hung
up on him there, so I apologize the River City Raiders.
That's the high school there, Yes, okay, yep, that's school.
Now I'm getting flooded with text message just right now.
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That is awesome. All right, we'll take a break we'll
come back. We'll get to Steve Jeger, We'll get to
more of your phone calls. It's media day for the
World Series. Yes, both teams will meet the media, talk
to the media for forty five minutes, go through workouts,
do all the photos, the video shoots. Get that all
out of the way, and get ready for Game one
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of the World Series tomorrow night. Don't forget you want
tickets to Game two, just like Aaron and East La
won tickets to Game one. Here on AI seventy. All
you gotta do is be out at BJ's restaurant in
brew House. Sign up for free, and then listen to
saxon Kates in the morning at eight am tomorrow when
we announce one lucky winner. Out of all those who registered,
there was hundreds yesterday. Expect hundreds more to sign up
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today for Game two. Steve Sacks, Tim Kates, and you
Steve Yeger. Next, you're on NFI seventy I Sports. It's
Sax and Kate's in the am here on a M
five seventy LA Sports. You're a home for the Dodgers.
Game one of the World Series is tomorrow. Night's first
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bitch at five eight. Congratulations to Aaron in East La.
Well tickets to Game one just by going out and
signing up and registering with Rogan and Rodney yesterday at
Hollywood Park Casino. Today between noon and three, head out
to Ranchokouckamonga, the BJ's restaurant in brew House between noon
and three, Rogan and Rodney show another chance for you
to win World Series tickets to Game two on Saturday.
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Well announced the winner tomorrow at eight o'clock right here
on NFI seventy LA Sports. Don't forget MLB tonight on
MLB Network as you're a home this World series with
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Speaker 4 (18:45):
But Saxony, yeah, tell learn to wear a red shirt
and stand up and wave so we can see him
on TV.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I will tell him that red shirt so we can
make sure we see you. So yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
We can pick him out of fifty six thousand, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Easy easily with red shirt. That'll be easy to do.
That basket to be all blue. He see of blue
at a Dodger stadium tomorrow nights Join us now Saxy,
one of your former teammates, thirteen years with the Dodgers,
a World Series champion, a World Series MVP in nineteen
eighty one. It's forty three years since the Dodgers and
Yankees last squared off in the World Series. He is
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the great Steve Jaeger, and he joins us now here
on a him y seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Steve.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
How you doing so, Steve?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh, I'm doing Vine, And good morning to everybody. How
you doing okay.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Zach me Yes, sir, yes, sir, you bet appreciate you
coming on Steve. Here. We are now forty three years later,
we get into the World Series. In a second, but
certainly the last twenty four hours the tragic passing of
Fernando Vealezuela at the age of sixty three. I saw
you on Sports in at La yesterday. Just your thoughts
on on Fernando and losing him so young.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, you know, first of all, I mean, Michael Dolans
just go out to Linda and you know, his wife,
his kids, his grandkids for their loss. But you know,
we lost a good from a really good man, and
he came a long way in his young life starting
from you know, a small town in Mexico to do
what he did as a player, getting the opportunity coach
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is show you that anybody can do that if they
if they got to desire and then believe in themselves.
And Freddie had a marveled, a marvelous career uh as
a player. And when he came to La and Stevie
was there, he took off like a rocket. It was
just unbelievable what this kid could do.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, hey, Timmy, I gotta I gotta say this to Steve.
I'm so glad you're with us today. And Steve Yeager
is one of the guys I watched growing up. And
when I finally got in the big leagues, I was
he was one of the guys I was, you know,
enamored of just being around because he was such a
big leaguer. But Steve, Steve Yeager is the only guy
I can tell you that actually really hurt my hand
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when he was throwing the ball down to second Basely
he had Tim tim People talk about, uh, you know
Johnny Bench, how great of a catcher Johnny Bench was.
And you have many, many people, not just a smattering
of people. Many people say, well, you know, Steve Yeger
was as good and some people will say it's Jaeger
then bench as far as being a great catcher, that's
how great Steve Yeger was behind the.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Dish, that's very nice.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Absolutely cure Steve.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
And we all know it is an absolute truth. And
so Steve catching Fernando, tell tell the world what it
is like about that screwball that he had, How he
could vary the pitch, the height on it, the you know,
the speed, and he was able to use that thing
almost like a right handed curveball.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Wasn't he Well he was, And I think with Fernando
and I gotta go back and see that at twenty
years old, he pitched like he was twenty seven, twenty
eight years old. He pitched like a true veteran. Wasn't
He wasn't flushed in any way, shape or form. But
I ever saw him. I never saw him upset. Even
if he was in a jam, he managed to get
himself out. And it was just remarkable that the maturity,
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that's just shuk Man hand. And as far as that
curveball and shrewball, it was like reminds me of Tommy John.
All I had to do was tell Fernando where the
hit or was he was up on the plate, which
just went along further outside. If it was back, we
can bring it on the plate more. And if he's
up in the box, all those things just mattering. It's
just a little things that Freddy had the ability to make.
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You just look for it and look for it and
look for it, and all of a sudden, here comes
a little eighty five on hour fastball and your froze.
You have no idea what's going on because you're looking
for that screwtball. And he could throw it anytime. That
was That was the amazing thing. He had the accomfidence
in himself to uh to throw it at anytime three
and two, three and oh he didn't care. He threw
it and whenever it felt like he threw it and
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was able to throw strikes. And that's the key is
being able to throw strikes.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Steve.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
When you watch baseball now and catchers nowadays dropping to
one knee, nobody blots the setting up too early. The
PitchCom device. Uh it's I imagine it's maddening sitting watching
a baseball game and as a catcher, you're watching these
guys not block balls go to one knee, set up
too early, and I guess, what, what do you want
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when you're watching games? What are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I try to watch it, you know, as much I can,
because it's they move their gloves so much that if
I was on part of that, if I saw you
move it to the ball, I don't care. I mean,
they take a perfectly good pitch, is on the plate
and they move their glove. Why just receive the ball properly.
I don't care. If you're on your knees, run your head,
receive the ball properly, you know, keep the ball in
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the striking zone, and don't be moving it two feet
when you don't have to move it at all.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
This pitch frame is ridiculous. It's become an art now
for current catchers about how to properly catch a ball
and get it and steal an extra strike.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Well, yeah, that's it, you said a word frame of strike.
I mean when they said about framing with me, I
thought you were building a dish on your house. But
I always thought that if I received the ball properly
and receive the ball in the strike zone and make
sure that the guy behind me got a good view
of the pitch I could, I could, I could get
pitches that might be a all off the plate. And
if I you know, I didn't make if I made
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you up, I look good. I was looking good. And
that was the I kept the pinchers off of him
and I was getting some pitches. So it's changed over
the ear. I think they feel that you're down on
one knee. You can, you can get the low pitch better.
But I saw some balls in the last playoff section
that I'm surprised the guy never broken thumb.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, Steve, along those lines. Next year, there's some talk
that they may be going to the automatic balls and strikes,
the A B S. I don't I mean, I I
don't know where this is going. Steve. I'm with you
on this stuff. I'm okay with going with the flow.
But man, how about all these rule changes and talk
about the abs, the automatic balls and strikes. I'm not
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for it myself.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
No, no, you know, the human error has been around
for a long time. And then we're gonna have robot players.
We're not going you know, so you program a robot
to go out and play so you don't have any mistakes.
Mistakes are part of the game. You know, middle mistake,
So a player you want to eliminate as much as
you can. Physical physical mistakes and physical heirs are part
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of the games that around one hundred and fifty sixty years,
So it's there. But as far as calling balls and strikes,
I don't know. I you know, I mean, they're going
to go too far.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The Great Steve Vieger with us here on AM five
seventy LA Sports as we get ready for Game one
of the World Series tomorrow night. Is the Dodgers and
the Yankees. Last time these two teams met up was
nineteen eighty one. You were a co MVP of that
World Series, a World Series champion eighty one, Steve, and
it was finally an opportunity for this Dodgers team to
get over the hump and beat that Yankees team that
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you guys had lost to two previous years in the
late seventies. That World Series win?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
How much?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
How much were you guys going into that series just
looking to beat this Yankees team finally and then finally
doing it. What was that feeling like?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Well, I think it was the greatest feeling you could
have because we we thought that we had a pretty
good team of seventy seven and seventy eight and didn't
quite do the job. So eighty one we felt like
collectively that if we were ever going to do it together,
that was going to be here, because we had, uh,
we had rumors of down down in the minor leagues
that there was a few young guys down there, and
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and Stevie and and uh, Mike Marshall and Greg Brock
were were pounding at the door. So we might not
have the opportunity after this. And I think the Game
three that Fernando pitched, uh and It's a complete game
kind of kind of set the thing that, Okay, we
can do this. And then we went on to win
the game. And then of course you know that big
controversy between Tommy John and the manager and left Tommy
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chuck him out and we opened up the game at
that point in time. But I think this World series
right here is going to be a terrific one.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I mean, the.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yankees have got four guys with Stanton and Judge and so,
and we got some power with Bates and and o'tawney
and uh and Friedman and h Hernandez. We we got
some teams. And I looked for this to be, uh,
you know, a very interesting world series. I think that
we have a lot of we have a lot of players,
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We've got some good arms in the bull fit, as
you saw with a couple of games that they use
a bullpen on every inning, so we got some chances.
I look forced to meet him again, I really do.
I think we got the horses to pull the wagon.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, Steve, I got a million questions I want to
ask you, but I guess I want to ask you specifically.
One of them about Smith behind the plate. I'm sure
you've worked some with him, and this guy is a
pretty good catcher in my estimation, he's one of the
better guys in there. When he's hitting, of course, he
kind of separates himself from the field. How do you
assess Will Smith behind the plate? And how's his progression
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coming in the big leagues?
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Think?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I think Silly does a terrific job. He's got a
great arm, He's able to handle the pitching staff. He
may not block as many balls as they did in
the past, but he does a good job of picking
it back there. Not too many balls get behind. But
I think in all I think this young man has
done a torrific job, and I think the Dodgers still
he's done, is going to be around for a long time.
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I look forward to be around every day. I mean,
he he's that type of guy. He just gets better.
I think he's more consistent and he's there and you
know he's gonna he's gonna swing the back pretty good
and he takes sri of the pitching step. That's how
you can answer this young man to do, and he
does a terrific job.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I just keep thinking about all the pictures he's got
a you know, game plan for and get ready for
every night. I mean bullpening games aside three four five
guys coming out of that bullpen after a starter almost
every single game. Now, that's a lot of game play.
As a catcher, you got to go into a game
with a certain plan with your starter, certainly, but then
you gotta start worrying about all these other pictures. And
you know it's to me, I think he's doing a
heck of a job having to balance all that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Well, he is, you know, That's that's That's the thing
about all of the pipeline of information that teach young
men have today, you can you can break it down
and get a good idea of the strength and weakness
of your pictures is mainly what you want to want
to want. I want to figure out for me, and
then's strength weakness that they hit her, and how I
can take take strength against weakness. And sometimes I might
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have to go strengths against strength in a certain situations.
But it's figger a couple of things down and trying
to keep it simple and remember what you're going to do.
And I think in a lot of cases the hitter
will tell you what he can hit and what he
will hit.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, Steve, with the with the way baseball is going today,
being down there in the dugout, when I was coached
that year with the DBACS, it looked like a damn
meeting at Google in the dugout with there was binders
and iPads and sheets and spreadsheets, and how do you
assimilate this much information? I guess my question to you,
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Steve is how much is too much?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Well?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I think you can only absorb so much and when
you figure out enough you've got enough, you know that
that's it. And that's so I think that, And I'm
sure they guys do it. They they they take what
they need, not necessarily everything, and that that to me
is what I would do. It Take what I can do,
what applies to me, What can help me do my
job better, what can help me be a better hitter,
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what can help me be a better defensive player, the
tendencies of the picture that send to see of the hitter.
Take those things and kind of keep it and modify
it some so it helps me so I'm not overload
my brain. Yeah, it wasn't much overload anyway, but it
was there.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Now, Steve, you were a part of one of the
greatest baseball movies of all time in Major League Major
League two. You were there when when Barringer put the
butt down at the end of the game and helped
win the game for the Indians at that time in
Major League. I know it's a movie, but my point is,
the bunts, we don't see the butt anymore, the small
ball like in the great movie Major League. You guys
were doing it back in Major League. You guys did
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obviously when you played as well. But to see the
Dodgers as a team that slugs and the Yankees are
a team that slugs, and now we the last three
days we keep hearing about how many home runs might
be hit in this World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees.
I think it'd be interesting to see one of these teams,
if it's the Dodgers, play a little smart ball, you know,
instead of small ball, a little smart ball and bring
the hit and run and the stealing and the base
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running and the button back.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well, you know that that might be a lot of start.
But you never know what's going to happen. You don't
know what manager's got up those sleeves. And certainly we
being a Dodgers because I'm kind of partial, as you
well know, uh with with with the Dodgers, but you
never know what's up the daby sleeve. He might have
you butt a little bit, hit and run here there
in some situations. So you know, just keep your hat on,
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sit out, and have a good time to watch it.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah. Hey, hey, Steve, my last one for you. I
wanted to kind of put out, you know, my most
egregious new rule in baseball, and then I wanted to
ask you about this fact that you can only throw
over twice to first base. I think this is absurd.
It just doesn't give the catcher a chance to throw
the guy out. But I think the first crazy role
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is putting the guy on second base in the extra
innings so he can run.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, but but what's this rule about two times over
the first and then then then you can't throw over there?
This just no chance for the picture of the catcher.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Well, well, now as you can't throw over the third time,
I think if you troll over, you got to pick
him off.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
You do, it's crazy, you know, in otherwise.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
It's a market he goes to second base anyway, So yeah,
you know, I think they're trying to sleet up the game,
which is fine in that, but one and second base
entire game. I still can't give used to that because
to me, that's a disadvantage and then Danny's to one
club and disadvantage from another club. If your ninth man
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made the last out and leads off to's ther second basement,
you got your your first three hitters on lineup, and
you should haven't been able to get a run at
that point in time. Whether you know, you just start,
we keep on playing. I don't like that. When you
know what, they talk bigger than I am, and they
fill us best for the game, and everybody agrees and
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That's all you can do is just go to the
ball game and cure for your favorite team and hopefully
come up victorious.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Stee, We appreciate the time. Great catching up with you.
It's a rematch of the nineteen eighty one World Series
here in twenty twenty four with two great franchises going
at it, Dodgers and Yankees. Love catching up with you.
Thanks for coming on this morning.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Thank you guys. You guys, be good and happy holidays.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Steve Yeger boomer joining us here on Saxon Kate's and an.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Amazing catcher, Oh man, I'm telling you, and crazy good.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
The the defense that he played at that time. As
you mentioned, I wish he gets recognize more than you know.
As you mentioned, the Johnny Benches of the world get
get put up there. But you know, Steve Yeger was
a hell of a catcher.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
You could not get a ball by him. He was
built like a you know what, brick house, so you
couldn't run him over. Uh And man could he throw.
Oh man, I'm telling you, I've never seen a catcher
throw like that. He was. He was at least as
good as Johnny Bench. I've seen him both, and he's
right there with him.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Great to catch up with Boomer. Coming up. We'll get
to your phone calls or wrap things up. Get ready
for media day today out of Dodgers Stadium, Dodgers and
Yankees both. We'll be out there talking to all the
members of the international and national media. He is gonna
be a zoo out at Dodger Stadium today and then
Game one of the World Series tomorrow right here on
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Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kate. Thanks for being with us.
Live a local and you're a home of the Dodgers.
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five seventy LA Sports, your home of the Dodgers. Back
out of tomorrow, bright and early at six am. We'll
dive deeper into Game one of this World Series, the matchups,
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the storylines, the Big three of the the Yankees against
the Big Three of the Dodgers, Dave Roberts versus Aaron
Boone Dodgers Yankees. What this rivalry means. It's gonna be awesome.
It is gonna be awesome. Cannot wait.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
East West? Do you like that?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah? East West? I mean it's the states in between.
I heard somebody talking about this yesterday and that, well,
nobody outside of the East Coast and the West Coast
is gonna care about this game. One hundred percent disagree
because they are Dodger fans everywhere, and they are Yankee
fans everywhere. It's not just an East Coast West Coast.
This is gonna be everybody watching this World Series, whether
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it's a Dodger Stadium beginning tomorrow night or going back
to Yankee Stadium beginning on Monday. In the Bronx. I mean,
people are fired up throughout.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
This global event. Yes, this is this is Japan, this
is everybody in Europe is gonna be what this is
gonna be a huge global event. The best players in
the world. It's East, it's West, it's American National This
is this is it. It doesn't get bigger better than this.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Somebody tweeted at me and said, stop him. Dave Roberts
already said Shoi Otani's not pitching this postseason. He may
have said that already, But now that the World Series
is here, and now that we're here at the end
of October, and with the magnitude of this series, I'm
I'd like to think they'd ask him again. Somebody's gonna
ask show Hey and Dave Roberts again if there's an
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opportunity in this World Series for show Hey to pitch
that he might pitch. I mean, he may have said
it before in the previous series, but I want to
know now that we're here, if there's a chance, Dave, you.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Say no, but your eyes say maybe yes. I mean,
really right, it is not a is it? I would say?
Is that a hard no? Or is that just no?
You know what I mean, there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, I want to follow up questions if he just says, well,
you know, we'll see or that I don't think.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
So, you know what if this this scenario we talked about,
what about that, Dave, would you yeah, if it was
on the line, right, and you could smell the World
Series victory and you need one out and AJ was
coming up, what would you.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I ultimately think it comes down to whether show he
wants to pitch or not, because they're gonna go to
him and say, how do you feel? This is what
we feel. We don't want you to But he says,
I'm in. I want to pitch one inny one at bat,
give it to me for one whatever.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I say, one at bad. But is he he's throwing
in the pen, right yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And when we say pitching the world So I'm not
talking about getting starting Game four, Yeah, I'm talking about
coming out in the seventh, eighth, ninth inning, one at bat,
one inning, close the game, whatever the situation.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Is, it's got to be the end of the game. Right,
he shuts somebody down, it's over. He's on the mound
with the glove high and that's it. Fire works everywhere,
you know, come on, it just wouldn't be real.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
It would be unbelievable. And I think the question needs
to be re asked today to Dave Roberts and to
Showyo Todi also today with the media day, You're not
gonna just get the baseball questions. Now, you're gonna get
these questions about well, well, you know, if you know,
if you're back in California, is it in and out
Burger better than a habit Burger? Auger five guys? Or
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what are we a fat burger? What do you like
out there? I would ask a question like this.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Okay, so the Dodgers win, Okay, they're a five or
six billion dollar, you know, enterprise right now? What do
they become if they win the World Series? That's a
good question?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Uh add a couple of billion onto that?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Right? I mean, yeah, I saw something today.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
And do's pulling for this big time?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Or what he's got he's got an investment in this
in this I saw somebody today put out that the
the value of show how Tania? What he has meant
to this Dodgers team in one year? How do you?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
How do you measure that?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
I don't know how they do it, but I want
to say it was like seventy five million dollars more
than any of their previous years. What he's meant to
this team financially again, marketing, I mean, merchandise, whatever, I
don't I don't know how you put umber.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Merch all over the world. I mean, I'm sure they
all get a cut of that, right, So that's got
to be just it's got to be the biggest selling
jersey on the planet right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
So there you go, and it's crazy going to Dodger
games because everybody's there for the first time coming over
from Japan. You heard about Anaheim when Anaheim, when he
was pitching, and he pitched on the weekends only a
lot of times, you know, every once a week on Saturdays.
They would have special weekend trips from Tokyo to fly
over like the day before, see an Angel game, watch
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him pitch, and then you fly out that Monday. So
it was a whole flight just to come out of
centered around the Angels and Otani when they were home
for a weekend series. And most likely he was pitching
all those games because he pitched once a week. Yeah,
that's that's just down to Anaheim, and I'm sure that's
happening now about that.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
There entre coming into Dodger Stadium for the first time.
What a jewel, What a freaking great stadium. A few
three hours today, Zaxy will do it again tomorrow. We're
gonna dive deep into this game one matchup, so appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
You're talking tomorrow. Thanks to Zach, Thanks to Michelle, Thanks
to you for being a part of the show. Great
day to day, Thanks to Steve Jeger for joining us.
Great to hear from Charlie Steiner as well, who is
now in remission. Check it out and on the La
Times a great article from Bill Plashki about Charlie Steiner,
who has missed all of twenty twenty four here battling
cancer and has battled and is now in remission. And
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our thoughts continue to be with Charlie and his recovery
and watching this World Series matchup in which he called
both the Dodger games for the last twenty years and
previously that calling Yankee games. So our best thoughts with
Charlie in his recovery. Back at it again tomorrow at
six am. Don't forget Joint Rogan or Rodney Rancho Cucamaga.
Today starting at noon, you can win World Series tickets.
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Here they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven
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and talk a little Fernando talk about the nineteen eighty
one World Series and that championship win over the New
York Yankees. But yesterday, Saxe, Rogan and Rodney, We're live
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When you're home with the Dodgers AM Phi seven e
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them at all. Hopefully they pick up the phone when
they call. We've been telling you have your phone on
you if you were right out and registered yesterday at
Hollywood Park. So let's go ahead. Is this one or
two tickets? It's two tickets. Wow, it's two tickets. So
here we go. Let's call this person. Well let's try
that again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
We go.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Uh all right, just called the person on the air.
Here we go, should be ringing. There we go. Hopefully
they pick up Saxy be very anti, they don't.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Not too early to call.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
No, Aaron, please, Hey, how's it going? Hey, Aaron, you're
live on the radio on n FI seventy l as words,
Tim Kate, Steve Sacks. How you doing?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Oh? Good, good in yourself?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know, we're just chilling here talking a little Dodgers
Baseball about Otani, whether or not you'll pitch in the
World Series, and just kind of kicking around all the
scenarios and storylines leading up to Game one tomorrow. What
are you doing tomorrow night?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Nothing, not much?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, all right, Yes you are doing something. Yeah, you're
doing something now. Congratulations there, and you're going to Game
one of the World Series.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Awesome man. Have you ever been to a World Series
game before?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
No? I've never been there.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
No, No, No, how big of a Dodger fan. Are
you I'm a.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Huge Dodger fan.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, who's that in.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The background, my sister, sister? Now, oh, are you all right?
Have you decided? I thought about maybe in the last
twenty four hours since going out to Rogan and Rodney
and maybe maybe dreaming of going to the World Series
and winning these tickets. Have you thought about who maybe
you're gonna take to the game tomorrow night?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Do you want to? Do you want to announce officially
who you're taking to the World Series tomorrow night. It's
going to disappoint a lot of people who are.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
He's not going to put himself in a bind right now?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Erin?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Where are you from? Where are you from? Erin East
l A man? All right, So I imagine a big
Dodger fan growing up. How about Fernando Valenzuela. Was he
somebody you guys?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I took a photo with him?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, I met him.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Nice. You were at it and you were at a
Hollywood park yesterday with Rogan and Rodney. Easy signing, no
problem signing up. It was an easy process.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yes, yes, Hey, Aeron, I got ask you a questions.
Have you ever met Tim Kates?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Well, you haven't You haven't meached the promm, reached the
promised land yet. When you meet Tim Kates like you
met Fernando, you'll say, Man, now I'm complete, right, yeah,
exactly right.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Congratulations to you. Thanks, thanks for listening to am FI
seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being out at the Hollywood
Park Casino yesterday with Rogan and Rodney. It's give me
a great Game one of the World Series tomorrow, Dodgers
and Yankees and Aaron, You're going on, man, you are going.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Thank you, Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Thank you all right, Aaron, congratulations. We'll put you on hold.
We got your information, so we will reach out to
you today aerin in East LA and get you your
tickets for Game one of the World Series. How cool
was that a guy wins tickets to Game one of
the World Series and all he had to do Saxy
would show up yesterday and fill out his information and
register to win. Guess what we got another opportunity for
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you listening right now thinking dang it, I didn't win,
or man, I missed out yesterday. I couldn't get out
the Hollywood part. Another chance coming up, Another chance, today
Wow the Inland Empire, Rancho Kuca Manga Bjay's Restaurant in
brew House between noon and three today. The Rogan and
Rodney Show will be out there from noon to three.
Noon to three Rogan and Rodney Show, Bjay's Restaurant in
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brew In, Rancho Cucamonga. Get out there.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's free.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All you do is sign up, Crazy, fill out your
information and you're registered. And then tomorrow same time, eight
am tomorrow morning, right here on Saxon Kate's in the am,
We're gonna pull a winner and announce him and call
him on the air for Game two of the World.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Hey, Crazy, not to go. You gotta show up.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I mean, what are you waiting for. You don't have
to sign up and pay to do anything. You don't
to register and give blood or anything. All you can
do is sign up.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And that's a great place to get a meal too. Absolutely,
get one of those pazookies. You love those those cookies
at the ice cream on top with all the caramel
and whipped cream and all that. They're great. We haven't
right by here where I live. Yeah, they're amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You're a glutton and you love eating all all all
the sugar and stuff sexy. Look at you, you see
what I mean right now? Of course, congratulations to Aaron
and easta like it's that simple. He registered yesterday and
he's a winner today. You wouldn't announce who he's taken
to the world, you know what, Saxy. That sounded to
me like a guy who didn't want to tell either
his wife or somebody close to him that they weren't going, or.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Some close friend.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, take it.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, he's kind of like gonna, you know, not put
that out on the airways right now.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I mean, he said his sister was in the background
yelling at how she's been. She probably thinks she's going. Yeah,
and he.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Probably wanted to go, and he said, no, no, no,
I promise Bob at work, I'm gonna take him or
or somebody else.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, somebody else is going. I'm sure he's got some
buddies now all ringing him up and texting him saying, hey, man,
I heard you on five seventy. I want to go
with you.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Congratulations to Aaron again. Your opportunity for game two tickets
is this afternoon at BJ's Restaurant and brew House in
Rancho Cucamugga with the Rogan and Rodney Show. All right,
let's go back out to the phones. Daniel in Pasadena, Daniel,
thanks for wait. How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Hey, I'm doing great.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
About to drop my boys off.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
The school is listening to you guys, and been listening
to you since the Dodgers in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Crawesome. Appreciate that, Daniel. You guys fired up for Game
one the World Series. Are the boys ready?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yeah, we're talking about what we want to make your dinner.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You gotta make sure you put your stuff on. Tomorrow
could represent tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
We're scided, we're pumped.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, it's it's gonna be a fun.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Kids are well indoctrinated.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Way to go. Kids are ready to go, Daniel. Appreciate
appreciate you checking in this morning.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Meg.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Get those kids to school, be safe and get ready
for an exciting world series coming up here on About.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That is is? Uh? Daniel has the kids listening to
a five seventy Uh. You know, they sound like they're
like in the second or third grade and they're already
tuning in. They're they're they're indoctrinated for life.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh, they're gonna be listeners forever, Michael and Torrens. Thanks
for waiting patiently. You're on a five seventy l A
Sports with Sax and Kates in the morning. Michael, go ahead,
you're on the air.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
All right, Hey guys, good morning morning, Steve. I played
against you in high school.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You did last year?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
You played for Marshall High. Where'd you go to baseball game? Been?
I went to Folesome, Okay, I was. I was a
sophomore and I got called up to the show and
an injury. Anyway, the most amazing baseball player I've ever
seen until show. Heytni's game the other day and that
was the best I've ever seen. I think it was
your third at BET. I went out to the picture
and I said, hey, you know, let's not waste our time.
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It's almost fastball across the outside corner. I hope he
doesn't hit a triple. It was, it was, It was amazing.
Now I want to talk about Fernando a little bit.
You know, anybody who's ever known anything about baseball, even
if they never saw him play, knows what pos he's
going to be in in that statue, don't we all.
I don't even have to describe it. We all know
what it's going to be. And when I think of
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that picture, I hear Vin Scully talking about, you know,
having spend a lifetime listening to Vinnie. And the thing
about Fernando that keeps occurring to me is people talk
about how nice he was and what a wonderful guy
he was to meet. There was a way that he
that he held himself and the way that he walked
that that had a confidence that you know, didn't come
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out of his mouth. You know, we all walked, some
of us strut you know, he strode, he broke well
who was walking out to that mound? He said, this
is what I'm gonna do. And when he was walking
off and he was going, see, I told.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
You, yeah, awesome, You're right, Mike.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I appreciate right, buddy. All right, somebody who competed against
you in high school saxy and put you on that
high I know right where that is. You guys spank
full some imagine you guys probably both raised them right, just.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Beat him dirty. You know. Our our team, Uh, my
brother and I when we were I was a fresh
I was a sophomore on the varsity. My brother was
a senior. My brother four to one hitters in high school.
Just mowed people down just through the fastball. That's all
he did. He didn'tven put fingers down. And anyway, our
school was like not even seven hundred people in the
whole school, and we were spanking schools that had like
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three four thousand people, just whooping them because my brother
was just mowing them down.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So the Saxon brothers were just carrying the martials.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Brothers were just putting some whooping on some people. I
mean this little tiny school out in the sticks, little
tiny school, Marshall High School, James Marshall High School, and
we were beating school's way over three thousand kids. And yeah,
my brother was like the best player in northern California.
He was just dominating people.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, that's awesome, it's great, that's awesome. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is our number here.
Congratulations to Aaron from East LA. He was our winner
of the Game one World Series tickets. He did it
by registering at Hollywood Park Casino yesterday with Rogan and
Ronnie and again. Your chance to win Game two World
Series tickets is at BJ's Restaurant in brew House in
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Rancho Cucamunga between noon and three today, it'll be Fred
Rogan and Ned Pillti will be out there joining Fred today. Yeah,
and Ned one of the architects of the Dodgers in
the early in the mid two thousands, and then handed
it off to Andrew Freeman, who continued this run of
Dodgers winning divisions and going to the playoffs now twelve
straight years. He'll be out there with Fred today between
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noon and three this afternoon, I sent you a pitcher
of sexually. Somebody tweeted at me some photos of you
playing in Venezuela in nineteen eighty one, because you mentioned
yesterday that you didn't go to the parade in nineteen
eighty one, that when the World Series was over, Steve
Sacks got on a plane went down to Venezuela to
play a little winter ball, and somebody has some photos
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of you down there.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I saw that. I saw it, and that thing about
me running around third right there, there was a picture
of me doing the trot. You know, there was a
home run trot, and I never hit very many, so
I knew when I was doing it that was off
at Dave Stewart.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Was it really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Hit dead center field. I remember it very well. Yes, yep, wasn't.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Dave Stewart a Dodger. Yeah, you guys played on different
teams in Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
He was with Zulia and I was with Racas Leon
de Caracas.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So how long is the Winter League down? There's like
three months?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Four months? Really, I was down there, right. I think
I missed the parade. I had to go down there.
I was down to the whole time, and I miss Christmas,
I missed Thanksgiving, I missed all that, missed my birthday
and got back, I had like three or four days
off and I was going to Big Lee camp. That
was it. Three or four days off the whole winner
and I was in Big Lee camp. Its just like fast.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
How much did that help you going into that nineteen
eighty two season which you wanted to helped a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
And what really helped a lot is the fact that
I got to come up in eighty one and you know,
have like a little over one hundred at bats. It
wasn't a full season, it wasn't counted the season, so
the next year was my rookie year. But it helped
a lot. But going down in Venezuela, it was really
good brand of baseball too. It was a solid triple
A maybe low big leagues, you know that, that kind
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of right in there, and it was It was great.
It helped a lot, very much a cultural experience on anything.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
That's a great experience to go down that's where you
learn your Spanish down there and journey those Spanish Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No, I took it in high school and then I
tried to practice as much as I can when I
was down there and with your teammates you liked. I
like to practice it because I love the Spanish language.
I think it's beautiful and it's not a real difficult
language to learn. Now you try to throw some Japanese
or German at me, nah, I don't think I could
do it, but Spanish is pretty.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is Marshall High School closed now in Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
James Marshall High School closed when I graduated in seventy eight.
They closed it afterwards and they combined our school, James Marshall,
with our crosstown rival, which is Washington High School, and
they made this big, beautiful school now called River City
High School. So now Marshall High School is a is
a River City High School is a derivative of Marshall
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and Washington High School.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So all your records though, carry over though, right.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You know, I don't know. I think they did because
I was so I was so grateful and so humbled
that when they they started River City High School, they
retired my number and gave me my jersey, and I
think they said that the records are going to stay
there through through River City. So I haven't checked. I
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don't know if they're there now, and maybe they're broken,
but I don't know. It was just such an honor
though it was. It was great, great ceremony.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
What number did you wear in high school that's now
retired there?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I were number threeumber three, yep, And that's why I
wanted it in the big leagues. I love number three.
That's just my favorite number.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
How come you weren't a Grant High School pacer?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
That they got some good athletes over there. Grant High
School is always in the top in baseball, football, and basketball.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes, Was that not an option for you up there
in the Sacramento area?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It was, it was.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
No, I wasn't. I didn't live in that area, Okay,
so you have to go, you know kind of where
you lived. I lived way out in the country. I
lived out on a farm and so James Marshall was
the only one I could go to.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Interesting. Yeah, see, I picture Sacramento is like, you know,
fort city square blocks and then it's there's just farmland
after that.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Oh no, it's it's pretty big. Now there's probably you know,
with the A's coming here and they wonder if people
can support up here in northern California. There's no question.
I'd say there's probably with all the surrounding areas well
over a million and a half people that will support it.
And you know, right now, the tickets for the Sacramento A's,
I don't know if they're going to be called the
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Sacramento A's, but they're basically sold out now. They're they're
already gone. So how many is it going to hold?
Like seventy five hundred tenth thos No, it holds just
under fifteen thousand.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Yeah, so they're gonna triple. They're gonna triple the attendance
that they've had at Oakland, which is about five thousand
a game.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I think right now that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
And so they're gonna get all the way to fifteen thousand,
you know, just right out of the gate. So that's
good for them.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That is awesome. That's gonna be a fun atmosphere up
in Sacramento when they start playing up there this next season.
I don't know they're gonna call them the Sacramento As
or I.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Think they're just gonna call me athletics, okay, because they're
not sure. You know, I know the owner up here,
the vague he wants to buy the team. He already
bought the River Cats. Of course, he owns the Sacramento Kings.
Now he wants to buy the A's and if he does,
he's ready to build the stadium and it's gonna beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's awesome. Le Let's get a final call in here
before we take a break, and we hear from Steve
Jeger coming up at the bottom of the hour, Carlos
and downy. Thanks for being patient, Carlos, how you doing?
Oh we lost Carlos. I think I might have hung
up on him there, so I apologize the River City Raiders.
That's the high school there, Yes, okay, yep, that's school.
Now I'm getting flooded with text message just right now.
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That is awesome. All right, we'll take a break we'll
come back. We'll get to Steve Jeger, We'll get to
more of your phone calls. It's media day for the
World Series. Yes, both teams will meet the media, talk
to the media for forty five minutes, go through workouts,
do all the photos, the video shoots. Get that all
out of the way, and get ready for Game one
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of the World Series tomorrow night. Don't forget you want
tickets to Game two, just like Aaron and East La
won tickets to Game one. Here on AI seventy. All
you gotta do is be out at BJ's restaurant in
brew House. Sign up for free, and then listen to
saxon Kates in the morning at eight am tomorrow when
we announce one lucky winner. Out of all those who registered,
there was hundreds yesterday. Expect hundreds more to sign up
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today for Game two. Steve Sacks, Tim Kates, and you
Steve Yeger. Next, you're on NFI seventy I Sports. It's
Sax and Kate's in the am here on a M
five seventy LA Sports. You're a home for the Dodgers.
Game one of the World Series is tomorrow. Night's first
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bitch at five eight. Congratulations to Aaron in East La.
Well tickets to Game one just by going out and
signing up and registering with Rogan and Rodney yesterday at
Hollywood Park Casino. Today between noon and three, head out
to Ranchokouckamonga, the BJ's restaurant in brew House between noon
and three, Rogan and Rodney show another chance for you
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Speaker 4 (18:45):
But Saxony, yeah, tell learn to wear a red shirt
and stand up and wave so we can see him
on TV.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I will tell him that red shirt so we can
make sure we see you. So yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
We can pick him out of fifty six thousand, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Easy easily with red shirt. That'll be easy to do.
That basket to be all blue. He see of blue
at a Dodger stadium tomorrow nights Join us now Saxy,
one of your former teammates, thirteen years with the Dodgers,
a World Series champion, a World Series MVP in nineteen
eighty one. It's forty three years since the Dodgers and
Yankees last squared off in the World Series. He is
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the great Steve Jaeger, and he joins us now here
on a him y seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Steve.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
How you doing so, Steve?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh, I'm doing Vine, And good morning to everybody. How
you doing okay.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Zach me Yes, sir, yes, sir, you bet appreciate you
coming on Steve. Here. We are now forty three years later,
we get into the World Series. In a second, but
certainly the last twenty four hours the tragic passing of
Fernando Vealezuela at the age of sixty three. I saw
you on Sports in at La yesterday. Just your thoughts
on on Fernando and losing him so young.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, you know, first of all, I mean, Michael Dolans
just go out to Linda and you know, his wife,
his kids, his grandkids for their loss. But you know,
we lost a good from a really good man, and
he came a long way in his young life starting
from you know, a small town in Mexico to do
what he did as a player, getting the opportunity coach
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is show you that anybody can do that if they
if they got to desire and then believe in themselves.
And Freddie had a marveled, a marvelous career uh as
a player. And when he came to La and Stevie
was there, he took off like a rocket. It was
just unbelievable what this kid could do.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, hey, Timmy, I gotta I gotta say this to Steve.
I'm so glad you're with us today. And Steve Yeager
is one of the guys I watched growing up. And
when I finally got in the big leagues, I was
he was one of the guys I was, you know,
enamored of just being around because he was such a
big leaguer. But Steve, Steve Yeager is the only guy
I can tell you that actually really hurt my hand
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when he was throwing the ball down to second Basely
he had Tim tim People talk about, uh, you know
Johnny Bench, how great of a catcher Johnny Bench was.
And you have many, many people, not just a smattering
of people. Many people say, well, you know, Steve Yeger
was as good and some people will say it's Jaeger
then bench as far as being a great catcher, that's
how great Steve Yeger was behind the.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Dish, that's very nice.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Absolutely cure Steve.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
And we all know it is an absolute truth. And
so Steve catching Fernando, tell tell the world what it
is like about that screwball that he had, How he
could vary the pitch, the height on it, the you know,
the speed, and he was able to use that thing
almost like a right handed curveball.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Wasn't he Well he was, And I think with Fernando
and I gotta go back and see that at twenty
years old, he pitched like he was twenty seven, twenty
eight years old. He pitched like a true veteran. Wasn't
He wasn't flushed in any way, shape or form. But
I ever saw him. I never saw him upset. Even
if he was in a jam, he managed to get
himself out. And it was just remarkable that the maturity,
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that's just shuk Man hand. And as far as that
curveball and shrewball, it was like reminds me of Tommy John.
All I had to do was tell Fernando where the
hit or was he was up on the plate, which
just went along further outside. If it was back, we
can bring it on the plate more. And if he's
up in the box, all those things just mattering. It's
just a little things that Freddy had the ability to make.
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You just look for it and look for it and
look for it, and all of a sudden, here comes
a little eighty five on hour fastball and your froze.
You have no idea what's going on because you're looking
for that screwtball. And he could throw it anytime. That
was That was the amazing thing. He had the accomfidence
in himself to uh to throw it at anytime three
and two, three and oh he didn't care. He threw
it and whenever it felt like he threw it and
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was able to throw strikes. And that's the key is
being able to throw strikes.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Steve.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
When you watch baseball now and catchers nowadays dropping to
one knee, nobody blots the setting up too early. The
PitchCom device. Uh it's I imagine it's maddening sitting watching
a baseball game and as a catcher, you're watching these
guys not block balls go to one knee, set up
too early, and I guess, what, what do you want
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when you're watching games? What are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I try to watch it, you know, as much I can,
because it's they move their gloves so much that if
I was on part of that, if I saw you
move it to the ball, I don't care. I mean,
they take a perfectly good pitch, is on the plate
and they move their glove. Why just receive the ball properly.
I don't care. If you're on your knees, run your head,
receive the ball properly, you know, keep the ball in
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the striking zone, and don't be moving it two feet
when you don't have to move it at all.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
This pitch frame is ridiculous. It's become an art now
for current catchers about how to properly catch a ball
and get it and steal an extra strike.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Well, yeah, that's it, you said a word frame of strike.
I mean when they said about framing with me, I
thought you were building a dish on your house. But
I always thought that if I received the ball properly
and receive the ball in the strike zone and make
sure that the guy behind me got a good view
of the pitch I could, I could, I could get
pitches that might be a all off the plate. And
if I you know, I didn't make if I made
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you up, I look good. I was looking good. And
that was the I kept the pinchers off of him
and I was getting some pitches. So it's changed over
the ear. I think they feel that you're down on
one knee. You can, you can get the low pitch better.
But I saw some balls in the last playoff section
that I'm surprised the guy never broken thumb.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, Steve, along those lines. Next year, there's some talk
that they may be going to the automatic balls and strikes,
the A B S. I don't I mean, I I
don't know where this is going. Steve. I'm with you
on this stuff. I'm okay with going with the flow.
But man, how about all these rule changes and talk
about the abs, the automatic balls and strikes. I'm not
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for it myself.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
No, no, you know, the human error has been around
for a long time. And then we're gonna have robot players.
We're not going you know, so you program a robot
to go out and play so you don't have any mistakes.
Mistakes are part of the game. You know, middle mistake,
So a player you want to eliminate as much as
you can. Physical physical mistakes and physical heirs are part
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of the games that around one hundred and fifty sixty years,
So it's there. But as far as calling balls and strikes,
I don't know. I you know, I mean, they're going
to go too far.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The Great Steve Vieger with us here on AM five
seventy LA Sports as we get ready for Game one
of the World Series tomorrow night. Is the Dodgers and
the Yankees. Last time these two teams met up was
nineteen eighty one. You were a co MVP of that
World Series, a World Series champion eighty one, Steve, and
it was finally an opportunity for this Dodgers team to
get over the hump and beat that Yankees team that
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you guys had lost to two previous years in the
late seventies. That World Series win?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
How much?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
How much were you guys going into that series just
looking to beat this Yankees team finally and then finally
doing it. What was that feeling like?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Well, I think it was the greatest feeling you could
have because we we thought that we had a pretty
good team of seventy seven and seventy eight and didn't
quite do the job. So eighty one we felt like
collectively that if we were ever going to do it together,
that was going to be here, because we had, uh,
we had rumors of down down in the minor leagues
that there was a few young guys down there, and
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and Stevie and and uh, Mike Marshall and Greg Brock
were were pounding at the door. So we might not
have the opportunity after this. And I think the Game
three that Fernando pitched, uh and It's a complete game
kind of kind of set the thing that, Okay, we
can do this. And then we went on to win
the game. And then of course you know that big
controversy between Tommy John and the manager and left Tommy
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chuck him out and we opened up the game at
that point in time. But I think this World series
right here is going to be a terrific one.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I mean, the.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yankees have got four guys with Stanton and Judge and so,
and we got some power with Bates and and o'tawney
and uh and Friedman and h Hernandez. We we got
some teams. And I looked for this to be, uh,
you know, a very interesting world series. I think that
we have a lot of we have a lot of players,
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We've got some good arms in the bull fit, as
you saw with a couple of games that they use
a bullpen on every inning, so we got some chances.
I look forced to meet him again, I really do.
I think we got the horses to pull the wagon.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, Steve, I got a million questions I want to
ask you, but I guess I want to ask you specifically.
One of them about Smith behind the plate. I'm sure
you've worked some with him, and this guy is a
pretty good catcher in my estimation, he's one of the
better guys in there. When he's hitting, of course, he
kind of separates himself from the field. How do you
assess Will Smith behind the plate? And how's his progression
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coming in the big leagues?
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Think?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I think Silly does a terrific job. He's got a
great arm, He's able to handle the pitching staff. He
may not block as many balls as they did in
the past, but he does a good job of picking
it back there. Not too many balls get behind. But
I think in all I think this young man has
done a torrific job, and I think the Dodgers still
he's done, is going to be around for a long time.
(27:58):
I look forward to be around every day. I mean,
he he's that type of guy. He just gets better.
I think he's more consistent and he's there and you
know he's gonna he's gonna swing the back pretty good
and he takes sri of the pitching step. That's how
you can answer this young man to do, and he
does a terrific job.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I just keep thinking about all the pictures he's got
a you know, game plan for and get ready for
every night. I mean bullpening games aside three four five
guys coming out of that bullpen after a starter almost
every single game. Now, that's a lot of game play.
As a catcher, you got to go into a game
with a certain plan with your starter, certainly, but then
you gotta start worrying about all these other pictures. And
you know it's to me, I think he's doing a
heck of a job having to balance all that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Well, he is, you know, That's that's That's the thing
about all of the pipeline of information that teach young
men have today, you can you can break it down
and get a good idea of the strength and weakness
of your pictures is mainly what you want to want
to want. I want to figure out for me, and
then's strength weakness that they hit her, and how I
can take take strength against weakness. And sometimes I might
(28:56):
have to go strengths against strength in a certain situations.
But it's figger a couple of things down and trying
to keep it simple and remember what you're going to do.
And I think in a lot of cases the hitter
will tell you what he can hit and what he
will hit.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, Steve, with the with the way baseball is going today,
being down there in the dugout, when I was coached
that year with the DBACS, it looked like a damn
meeting at Google in the dugout with there was binders
and iPads and sheets and spreadsheets, and how do you
assimilate this much information? I guess my question to you,
(29:30):
Steve is how much is too much?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Well?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I think you can only absorb so much and when
you figure out enough you've got enough, you know that
that's it. And that's so I think that, And I'm
sure they guys do it. They they they take what
they need, not necessarily everything, and that that to me
is what I would do. It Take what I can do,
what applies to me, What can help me do my
job better, what can help me be a better hitter,
(29:55):
what can help me be a better defensive player, the
tendencies of the picture that send to see of the hitter.
Take those things and kind of keep it and modify
it some so it helps me so I'm not overload
my brain. Yeah, it wasn't much overload anyway, but it
was there.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Now, Steve, you were a part of one of the
greatest baseball movies of all time in Major League Major
League two. You were there when when Barringer put the
butt down at the end of the game and helped
win the game for the Indians at that time in
Major League. I know it's a movie, but my point is,
the bunts, we don't see the butt anymore, the small
ball like in the great movie Major League. You guys
were doing it back in Major League. You guys did
(30:35):
obviously when you played as well. But to see the
Dodgers as a team that slugs and the Yankees are
a team that slugs, and now we the last three
days we keep hearing about how many home runs might
be hit in this World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees.
I think it'd be interesting to see one of these teams,
if it's the Dodgers, play a little smart ball, you know,
instead of small ball, a little smart ball and bring
the hit and run and the stealing and the base
(30:55):
running and the button back.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well, you know that that might be a lot of start.
But you never know what's going to happen. You don't
know what manager's got up those sleeves. And certainly we
being a Dodgers because I'm kind of partial, as you
well know, uh with with with the Dodgers, but you
never know what's up the daby sleeve. He might have
you butt a little bit, hit and run here there
in some situations. So you know, just keep your hat on,
(31:20):
sit out, and have a good time to watch it.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah. Hey, hey, Steve, my last one for you. I
wanted to kind of put out, you know, my most
egregious new rule in baseball, and then I wanted to
ask you about this fact that you can only throw
over twice to first base. I think this is absurd.
It just doesn't give the catcher a chance to throw
the guy out. But I think the first crazy role
(31:43):
is putting the guy on second base in the extra
innings so he can run.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, but but what's this rule about two times over
the first and then then then you can't throw over there?
This just no chance for the picture of the catcher.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Well, well, now as you can't throw over the third time,
I think if you troll over, you got to pick
him off.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
You do, it's crazy, you know, in otherwise.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
It's a market he goes to second base anyway, So yeah,
you know, I think they're trying to sleet up the game,
which is fine in that, but one and second base
entire game. I still can't give used to that because
to me, that's a disadvantage and then Danny's to one
club and disadvantage from another club. If your ninth man
(32:24):
made the last out and leads off to's ther second basement,
you got your your first three hitters on lineup, and
you should haven't been able to get a run at
that point in time. Whether you know, you just start,
we keep on playing. I don't like that. When you
know what, they talk bigger than I am, and they
fill us best for the game, and everybody agrees and
(32:46):
That's all you can do is just go to the
ball game and cure for your favorite team and hopefully
come up victorious.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Stee, We appreciate the time. Great catching up with you.
It's a rematch of the nineteen eighty one World Series
here in twenty twenty four with two great franchises going
at it, Dodgers and Yankees. Love catching up with you.
Thanks for coming on this morning.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Thank you guys. You guys, be good and happy holidays.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Steve Yeger boomer joining us here on Saxon Kate's and an.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Amazing catcher, Oh man, I'm telling you, and crazy good.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
The the defense that he played at that time. As
you mentioned, I wish he gets recognize more than you know.
As you mentioned, the Johnny Benches of the world get
get put up there. But you know, Steve Yeger was
a hell of a catcher.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
You could not get a ball by him. He was
built like a you know what, brick house, so you
couldn't run him over. Uh And man could he throw.
Oh man, I'm telling you, I've never seen a catcher
throw like that. He was. He was at least as
good as Johnny Bench. I've seen him both, and he's
right there with him.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Great to catch up with Boomer. Coming up. We'll get
to your phone calls or wrap things up. Get ready
for media day today out of Dodgers Stadium, Dodgers and
Yankees both. We'll be out there talking to all the
members of the international and national media. He is gonna
be a zoo out at Dodger Stadium today and then
Game one of the World Series tomorrow right here on
(34:13):
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dive deeper into Game one of this World Series, the matchups,
(34:57):
the storylines, the Big three of the the Yankees against
the Big Three of the Dodgers, Dave Roberts versus Aaron
Boone Dodgers Yankees. What this rivalry means. It's gonna be awesome.
It is gonna be awesome. Cannot wait.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
East West? Do you like that?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah? East West? I mean it's the states in between.
I heard somebody talking about this yesterday and that, well,
nobody outside of the East Coast and the West Coast
is gonna care about this game. One hundred percent disagree
because they are Dodger fans everywhere, and they are Yankee
fans everywhere. It's not just an East Coast West Coast.
This is gonna be everybody watching this World Series, whether
(35:36):
it's a Dodger Stadium beginning tomorrow night or going back
to Yankee Stadium beginning on Monday. In the Bronx. I mean,
people are fired up throughout.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
This global event. Yes, this is this is Japan, this
is everybody in Europe is gonna be what this is
gonna be a huge global event. The best players in
the world. It's East, it's West, it's American National This
is this is it. It doesn't get bigger better than this.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Somebody tweeted at me and said, stop him. Dave Roberts
already said Shoi Otani's not pitching this postseason. He may
have said that already, But now that the World Series
is here, and now that we're here at the end
of October, and with the magnitude of this series, I'm
I'd like to think they'd ask him again. Somebody's gonna
ask show Hey and Dave Roberts again if there's an
(36:19):
opportunity in this World Series for show Hey to pitch
that he might pitch. I mean, he may have said
it before in the previous series, but I want to
know now that we're here, if there's a chance, Dave, you.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Say no, but your eyes say maybe yes. I mean,
really right, it is not a is it? I would say?
Is that a hard no? Or is that just no?
You know what I mean, there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, I want to follow up questions if he just says, well,
you know, we'll see or that I don't think.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
So, you know what if this this scenario we talked about,
what about that, Dave, would you yeah, if it was
on the line, right, and you could smell the World
Series victory and you need one out and AJ was
coming up, what would you.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I ultimately think it comes down to whether show he
wants to pitch or not, because they're gonna go to
him and say, how do you feel? This is what
we feel. We don't want you to But he says,
I'm in. I want to pitch one inny one at bat,
give it to me for one whatever.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I say, one at bad. But is he he's throwing
in the pen, right yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And when we say pitching the world So I'm not
talking about getting starting Game four, Yeah, I'm talking about
coming out in the seventh, eighth, ninth inning, one at bat,
one inning, close the game, whatever the situation.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Is, it's got to be the end of the game. Right,
he shuts somebody down, it's over. He's on the mound
with the glove high and that's it. Fire works everywhere,
you know, come on, it just wouldn't be real.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
It would be unbelievable. And I think the question needs
to be re asked today to Dave Roberts and to
Showyo Todi also today with the media day, You're not
gonna just get the baseball questions. Now, you're gonna get
these questions about well, well, you know, if you know,
if you're back in California, is it in and out
Burger better than a habit Burger? Auger five guys? Or
(38:01):
what are we a fat burger? What do you like
out there? I would ask a question like this.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Okay, so the Dodgers win, Okay, they're a five or
six billion dollar, you know, enterprise right now? What do
they become if they win the World Series? That's a
good question?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Uh add a couple of billion onto that?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Right? I mean, yeah, I saw something today.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
And do's pulling for this big time?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Or what he's got he's got an investment in this
in this I saw somebody today put out that the
the value of show how Tania? What he has meant
to this Dodgers team in one year? How do you?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
How do you measure that?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
I don't know how they do it, but I want
to say it was like seventy five million dollars more
than any of their previous years. What he's meant to
this team financially again, marketing, I mean, merchandise, whatever, I
don't I don't know how you put umber.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Merch all over the world. I mean, I'm sure they
all get a cut of that, right, So that's got
to be just it's got to be the biggest selling
jersey on the planet right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
So there you go, and it's crazy going to Dodger
games because everybody's there for the first time coming over
from Japan. You heard about Anaheim when Anaheim, when he
was pitching, and he pitched on the weekends only a
lot of times, you know, every once a week on Saturdays.
They would have special weekend trips from Tokyo to fly
over like the day before, see an Angel game, watch
(39:20):
him pitch, and then you fly out that Monday. So
it was a whole flight just to come out of
centered around the Angels and Otani when they were home
for a weekend series. And most likely he was pitching
all those games because he pitched once a week. Yeah,
that's that's just down to Anaheim, and I'm sure that's
happening now about that.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
There entre coming into Dodger Stadium for the first time.
What a jewel, What a freaking great stadium. A few
three hours today, Zaxy will do it again tomorrow. We're
gonna dive deep into this game one matchup, so appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
You're talking tomorrow. Thanks to Zach, Thanks to Michelle, Thanks
to you for being a part of the show. Great
day to day, Thanks to Steve Jeger for joining us.
Great to hear from Charlie Steiner as well, who is
now in remission. Check it out and on the La
Times a great article from Bill Plashki about Charlie Steiner,
who has missed all of twenty twenty four here battling
cancer and has battled and is now in remission. And
(40:11):
our thoughts continue to be with Charlie and his recovery
and watching this World Series matchup in which he called
both the Dodger games for the last twenty years and
previously that calling Yankee games. So our best thoughts with
Charlie in his recovery. Back at it again tomorrow at
six am. Don't forget Joint Rogan or Rodney Rancho Cucamaga.
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