October 24, 2024 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
postseason tradition.
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This is Sax and Kate's in the.
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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 been banished
to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes. Here
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they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven e
LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Sax and Kate's in the AM on this Thursday morning.
Thanks for being with us, say as you get up,
get ready for work, school, take the kids to school,
make that commute wherever you're aheaded on this Thursday morning,
Thanks for taking us with you on A five seventy
LA Sports. Thanks to Charlie Steiner. David Basse caught up
with the voice of the Dodgers as he is now
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in remission, which is great news to hear battling melanim
of blood cancer. He has been doing that all season long.
That's why you haven't heard the great Charlie Steiner here
on a FI seventy LAS Sports Bud fully expects to
be ready to go in twenty twenty five. And pretty
fitting to have Charlie talk about the Yankees and Dodgers
since he called play by play for both of these franchises.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yea, he's seen a lot of it, boy, and we
talk about seeing it all, you know. I wouldn't say
he's seen it all for the amount of years he's
been here, but he's seen a lot of it, and
you know, to be with both franchises a pretty good
perspective he's got on this particular world series too. But
glad and so happy that Charlie's gonna beat this. He's
gonna be back next year.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, so great to hear. If you missed it, you
can podcast it on the iHeart Radio app. David Vassa
will join us later on in the show as well.
Steve Jaeger Boomer will join us the Boomer in eight
o'clock hour get his thoughts on Fernando and certainly get
his thoughts on this rematch of the nineteen eighty one
World Series between the Dodgers and the Yankees. Saxon case
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of the Dodgers. It's World Series time. Bring out the
chef in you. We got into it last hour. The
Dodgers already have two statues at it the center field
plaza at Dodger Stadium, Jackie Robinson the first in twenty seventeen,
and in twenty twenty two the Sandy Kofex statue was
put in. The Dodgers will need to put in a third.
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But who would be? And we brought up Fernando Valenzuela,
going right to the front of the line. Certainly Vinnie
will get one. Certainly Tommy Lasorda well deserved, and we'll
get one in due time. But brought it up the
way that Fernando passed at the young age of sixty three,
the what he did to the community, what it would
mean for the community to have it as a rallying
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point at Dodger Stadium. And I got a couple of
texts about that, for Buddy saying, you don't understand what
it would mean to have a statue for Fernando at
center field. We can only use it as a meetium spot.
We can use it as a spot to take our
kids who are younger. My buddy has a young kids
that will teach him about Fernando and what he meant
to him growing up, and he can go out to
the statue and show him. It would mean so much
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for so many Dodger fans. I think it just makes sense.
And again not to put Vinnie or Tomulas sort it
to the side because they're gonna get statues. But I
just think right now, in the moment where we're at,
I think Fernando would be just the perfect one.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And you know, you know what the statue is going
to look like, right, We already know that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's him looking to the sky right correct, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And being his wind up looking up, and that's a
such a great picture. You know. I look at Fernando
real quickly, Tim because I know you want to get up.
But I look at Fernando as a is almost like
a connector between the past. You know what it was,
you know in la before, and you know certainly what
he did in the present, but now it's especially looking
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forward to the future and what he does and bringing
people together. The absolutely brought people together from before when
he was playing, it was crazy. And now he's still
bringing people together even in his even in his passing,
he's going to be able to bring people together. So
that transcends everything. And that's why you gotta have a
big statue Fernando out there too, no question.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Every Jackie Robinson Day when the Dodgers are home and
they've been home, because it's Jackie Robinson Day on April fifteenth,
Dave Roberts takes the team out to the center field
place before the statue was up in the reserve area,
and the last few years the visiting teams have come
out as well with their managers and they'll gather around
the statue of Jackie Robinson. And it's mostly for a
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history lesson for the young players, maybe the international players
who don't know the history of Jackie Robinson, what he
meant for baseball and what he meant for the Dodgers organization.
And Dave Roberts does a great job explaining talking about Jackie,
the importance of Jackie, the importance of baseball, and the
influence of Jackie in nineteen forty seven and what he
meant and It's a history lesson for these baseball players too,
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so they don't forget yeah, right, who came before them.
This would be right in line for Fernando to go
out there and talk about what Fernando meant to this community,
what he meant to baseball. But hey, you're a Dodger now,
this is what it would mean and what it means
to be a Dodger based on Fernando, what he meant
to this community. Look around when you drive to the
stadium and you come up the one on one or
the two, or the five or the ten freeway, and
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you're going through these communities rout here, it's Fernando. They
love Fernando, and this is why you need to know
about them.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, and just just thinking as we talked before about
how you know, Fernando could be that connection between now
and what's happened before and certainly in the future. Jackie
Robinson of course, really did that and still today, look
at everybody still talks about they've retired number forty two.
Most organizations have, I think they all have. They wear
the number forty two on Jackie Robinson Day. This thing
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goes way beyond just what they did when they were here,
It travels and it will forever. That's what Fernando brings.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Armando in Ontario, Welcome to Saxon, Kate to the am
here on Amphire seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
How you doing, Armando, Hi, this is.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Veronica, Armanda's wife. He stepped away, But I have a
lot to say about Fernando, all right, and what he
is to the community. You know, there's that whole history
of the Dodgers displacing the Mexican community, Mexican American community.
Fernando brought us back. Give you a little trivia. I
was born October twenty ninth, nineteen eighty one, hours after
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they played and One, and I grew up thinking Fernando's
La Royalty and he really is what he did for
the community in his later years. I had the opportunity
to spend a whole day with him last year and
the Dodgers on their community tour, And just to your
point what you just said, he was a walking history
lesson for those new Dodgers coming in. And the Dodgers
organization has taken us through all these places in San
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Gabrio Valley in LA and telling these new Dodgers this
is Dodger Country. These are Mexican American, you know, children
of immigrants that Fernando brought back to the stadium. And
to see his statue up there, like you said, you
see a rally point. He's up there with Kobe. For me,
he's my childhood and he's just a part of LA
and he'll he'll be forever. It's his LA history.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well, Veronica, no offense to Armando, but we're proud we
got to talk to you for Armando.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Well, Veronica, thanks for chiming in this morning and bring
give us your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Thank you, thank you, Take care all right, had.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
A nice, little pleasant surprise there. Who's Who's Armando? Yeah, exactly.
Armando just came in there and nailed it.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Again
is our number, eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy. The statue would be phenomenal at Dodger Stadium.
And to think of it, what they're trying to build
in the center field plaza and to be a spot
that is not just there when you go and watch
a game for ninetings, that's great. You get to see
great baseball in a in an awesome setting in the
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most beautiful area, and now you get to go. Make
it a spot where you go visit the history at
Dodgers Stadium. And you can go to the top deck
of the reserve area and see the Legends of Baseball
plaques that are up there. You can go out to
the center field area and also so the history of
the Dodgers from the awards individually, rookies of the years,
the MVPs of the cy Youngs, to see the retired
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jersey numbers up on the Ring of Honor in the
left field, to see the World Championship years along the
right field by the stadium club up there on the
club level.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's a spot.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Not to say it'd be like Yankee Stadium, because Yankee
Stadium was the first to do it with the museum
they have in center field and the rich history they
have there. Yeah, the plaques, but it's the Dodgers Museum.
It's a spot where you can go and just learn
about the history of the Dodgers at a young age.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Tim for our fans listening that haven't been to on
a tour to Dodgers Stadium must go. You know, if
you like history. I love history. I love Civil War history.
I've gone to the battlefields and studied that and read
as much as I can about Civil War and I
still do. I love that. Well, you know what, you
get a big dose of that in baseball when you
go to Dodger Stadium. So when I go there, I'm
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I'm in. I'm underneath the underneath there near the locker
rooms and looking at all this stuff. They're all the
you know, the the the Hall of Famers, and you know,
the most viable players and you know, the Gold Glove
Award winners and all those things are in there. So
Dodger Stadium is a bastion of great of great history.
For people that love to see that, you gotta go
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and take a tour and and really check out all
the things there because they have a ton of it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's going to be on full display tomorrow night, Game
one of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Again.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Today is Media Day out of Dodgers Stadium. For those
who don't don't know what media day is, It's think
of the Super Bowl week that Monday night in which
both teams go out in the field that that whatever
stadium is hosting it, and you get all the international
national media, and every player is set up in a podium.
It's a little smaller venue being in the center field plaza,
but each player is gonna have an area where they're
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set up, and you can go talk to these players
and they're gonna be up there for forty five minutes.
The Dodgers and then the Yankees will be out there
for the forty five minutes, and you can talk to
all the players and you're gonna get all those ridiculous questions.
And I think it's good for baseball. I'll put it
this way. Steve, as a purest, I know these players
don't want to do this. These players are so locked
into Game one tomorrow. They want to go over tape,
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they want to go over scouting reports, they want to
get ready and are dialed in for this game.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
They're tolerating it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, they're tolerating it. I'm sure some of them are
looking at it as a great opportunity to get their
brand and their name out there, certainly, but I think
the superstars per se probably don't want to do it
and are feel like, you know what, this isn't football,
where we are a helmet and we're faceless players for
the most part. And now we get to take the
helmet off and here we are in full display and
outside of Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey, you know, we
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get to be on full display now because we're the
other guys on this roster. I mean, we know who
these guys are. We understand that there's no more storylines
to be told.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
No, I think some guys, like you said, they're going
to want to improve their brand. And with this era
of social media, you know, it took me a while
to really understand just how impactful and how big it
can be for these players. And you know, some guys
are gonna really benefit from from being out there in
social media and improving that brand and whatnot. But you know,
for the guys that have been there and done that before,
this is a tolerating part of the whole process. Right now,
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they just want to get through it and they're gonna
smile and do the right thing, because most guys I've
met in baseball are good dudes, and they're gonna do
the right thing. But they want to they want to
cut loose and get this thing on. They're actually gonna
feel you know, what's you know, what's crazy about this
is when these games start and they're often running and
you're playing these games, they're gonna feel most comfortable and
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the most freedom that they felt in this whole scenario
when they're actually playing the game. That's where they're gonna
feel the most free and the and the most amount
of freedom and the most natural when they're playing the game.
All the other stuff is is hectic, it's tough, and
they kind of tolerate through it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Do you think Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts have to
gather his teams in the clubhouse before they walk out
to the center Field Plaza today for media day for
their respective teams and say, guys, just a reminder all
of you, look at all you in the eyes right now.
Don't say anything stupid. Don't put any bullets on board
material out there. Yeah, don't say something that you think's
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gonna be funny and taken sarcastically and it's gonna be
written and look differently in print, and all of a
sudden they're using.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It against us. I would think, So, I know that's
Tommy said that to you guys. Yeah, Hey, guys, shut up,
don't say anything. Yeah, there's been times when they say
things like, remember that you're gonna always have to pay
for what you say, and you're gonna be the you
know you're doing to be the slave of that. You know,
you're gonna have to be answered all that stuff, but
you're gonna be able to always be on top of
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things that you don't say. And so you know there's
a there's a message in there is don't say something stupid.
You're gonna have to own it and don't go there.
Why take that luggage on? And yeah, they they've said
that to us before. Usually it's sometime in spring training
when you have all those meetings with the Players Association
and whatnot. They cover all that ground. They like to
do it one day, but very very poignant.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting day at a Dodgers
stadium to see the masses of media, to see all
the questions that are asked, to see show Altani on
the biggest stage along with all these superstars that are
playing in this World Series Game one tomorrow night right
here on five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, doesn't show Hey, really have it made in this
whole thing? Seriously talk to the interpreter. Yeah, he doesn't
have to talk much. Just talk to him. I can't
speak Cling, I can't speak English.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I wonder what else you could ask show Hey Altani
that hasn't been asked already.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Who knows what he's telling the interpreter. He probably hasn't
mean with the interpreter, it says, say all the right stuff.
If they ask me some I'll give you like a
two word answer in Japanese and japan Japanese, and then
you can tell them what you already think.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It is interesting easy to see him give these long
answers than Will Ireton give us a smaller answer.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But I guess now where's Will from? Is he from here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
But he's a Japanese descent obviously, and has worked for
the organization for a long time. Was an interpreter for
the Dodgers about a decade ago, and then got into
a role working in baseball ops with the team in
athletic training as well. Uh And when the whole issue
with show Hey before the season started with his previous interpreter,
the Dodgers were scrambling and needed to get a new
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interpreter there, and Will Ireton, already working for the team,
did a great job before was inserting it to that place,
and uh, yeah, it has been has been a great
uh guy to have stand next to show Ayotani because
he's been a Dodger employee and on top of that,
it's somebody that show Hey can trust and there's a
there's a communication already there between the two of them,
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and again the organization trusts him. So it was a
perfect person to have slide into that responsibility. And he's
a great guy.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Too, Tim, do you have more of a family background
you can give me on on will? I mean, I'll
just asked you a simple question and you gave me
like the ten minute rendition of a very very well
thought out into find answer. And I appreciate that. Well,
I that is amazing. You ask you what time it is, nil,
tell you how to make a watch? Amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I appreciate that. Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's a compliment.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
He actually began back in nineteen eighty eight, when he
was the son of a Japanese American father Spanish mother.
His family moved to Hawaii when he was fifteen. He
was born in Japan in nineteen eighty eight. He spent
his teenage years in Honolulu, where he played for the
High school baseball team. Oh yeah, and his worked in
baseball for a long time after graduating from Menlo College.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow yeah, okay, geez.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You go.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
There's that full background. They got to start working as
a translator in the World Baseball Classic and from there
got into baseball.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
There's your will Ireton Info.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Only get it from Tim Kate. That's right. I'm here
for it if you need me.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
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for more information. As Game one tomorrow, we'll have Garrett
Cole on the mound from Orange Lutheran, UCLA. He'll be
on the mound for the Yankees against the Pride the
eight one eight Jack Flaherty who will go for the Dodgers,
and again both teams will meet the media later on
today for their respective media days in the center field plaza.
A little bit more on Will Ireton, the translator for
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Shoheo Tani. Yeah, for those who don't know, we came
to the Dodgers in twenty sixteen when Kenta Maida was
signed by the Dodgers and had previous experiences we mentioned
before in the World Baseball Classic. He was born in Japan,
grew up in Honolulu, went to college here in the
United States, and a great guy and been with the
organization since twenty sixteen. When kent I left and went
to the Minnesota Twins, he did not follow.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
He stayed.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
In fact, he went to go work in Tripa, A,
Oklahoma city and player development and analytics and has worked
for the organization since then in different levels. And in
this past spring when the Dodgers were over in Seul,
Korea and the incident with the previous translator was Shoheyo Tani,
Will Ireton was moved back into that position, and that's
where he came from this season. So cool, nice rundown
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because people wonder about him too.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
You know what's really we we kind of knew the
sad thing about the former transfer, but this but Will
seems to be you know, he's off to a great start.
People seem to really like him. He resonates good with
the press, and so yeah, I think it's a great choice. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I mean, and you see him all the time because
wherever sho hey Otani goes, Will Ironton is right there
on and off the field. So yeah, he is in
tandem with show Hey, So you see him all the time,
and now you know a little bit more about him.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, thank you. Tim. You know it's gonna be another
big question though, what's that is when they're going to
deploy the bullpen game? Lots of questions about I hear
that all the time. It's like the biggest question out there.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Well, I would do a little bit more digging into
why Dave Roberts went with Jack Flaherty, And the more
and more I looked into it, the more and more
it does make sense for this reason, which got you
got Jack Flery can go in game one, You've got
Yoshi Yomamoto in game two, right, and then both those
guys can come back potentially for a game five and six, correct,
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And then if you go with Walker Bueller in the
first game in the Bronx next Monday Game three, Game three,
he can then can potentially go in game seven. So
you set yourself up so one, two, three, five, six
seven with your three quote unquote starters, leaving game four
as the only bullpen game that you need that middle
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game in New York.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, So here's here's the kind of like a little
I agree with most of it, but you know, uh
going if you have a bullpen game in three, that's
going to guarantee that you're gonna have all those high
leverage arms are gonna be available out of the bullpen
after the off day, right right, And that would line
up Walker Buller for Game four along with other you know,
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So I don't know, I mean that, what does that
do for Game seven?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So that would make Okay seven a bullpen game.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Right, it would be a bull coming game. So I
don't know, I mean or Walker Bueler on really just
short rest short rest? Would Walk or benefit from going
into game four? Do you think? You know?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
The way you spend it makes sense. You go with
the bullpen game after the travel day because games one
to Friday Saturday, travel day Sunday, you have a fresh
bullpen ready to go for Game three Monday, and then
a starter boom game four on Tuesday, and then you
hopefully get something out a Walker where you don't have
to go back to your high leverage relievers and they'll
be ready again for Game five.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, but him and every other starter on that roster
is going to be available for the potential Game seven.
So remember game seven is not only a bullpen game.
Game seven is all the starters are available too, So
that's kind of a difference, you.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Know, who else could be available in game seven?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Pitch, don't say it? You know who else could be available? Saxy.
Let's ask Will what he thinks about that.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
I know.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Tony available to pitch game seven of the World Serio.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now you said all hands on deck, Well that's that's
not a I don't know if that one counts. Really No,
there's too many risks. I mean, god, but you got
a weigh it. Just think it's game seven. If you're
in the ninth inning, you're thinking about bringing in one
of the other starter, thinking about bringing a Yo, sure,
one of those guys. And then you got show hey
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o Tani for three outs? How hard do you think
he'll be throwing one hundred miles an hour? And it's
and it's like nine to eight, so game you know,
bullpens have already been taxed about this game. Oh what
do you think?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Don't wake me up. I'm dreaming right now, Saxy. I'm
loving this. Imagine the camera in the dugout in like
the seventh and eighth and he's like, where where's where?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Show is? Singers like nine to eight and you're facing one, two,
three and the Yankees. Oh, come on, you know what
Hollywood wouldn't buy the script two phony.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
No know's no o Tani in the dugout. Next thing
you know, the lights go out, the gate opens from
the bullpen, and here comes show Hey, O Tani, holy
man in a nine eight game in the night.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And what do you think would be bigger when when
show Hay come through the gates after not seeing him
in And how much Dodger staying would he erupt? Or
it's when Gibson limped out of the dugout to crash
the home run? Which one would be bigger?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I mean, I'm gonna defer to you you were the
guy on deck behind Gibby. I mean, what was the
crowd like as he got up to the plane and
then certainly afterwards that place was rocking.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
When when they introduced him. That's the loudest I've ever
heard Dodger Stadium. Really, the loudest I've ever heard it,
no question, kind of dwarfed everything else. It was so
loud when when they announced him. But man, I tell
you what, Otani comes walking out out of the bullpen.
Nobody's seen him comes out in the ninth facing one,
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two three with the Yankees nine to eight lead.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Bullpen's taxed. Come on, I'm gonna be epic. I don't
think he'd be walking out. I think the gate would open,
it'd be dark, and it'd just be Otani sprinting, just
a full on sprint from the bullpen, the warning track
to the pictures Man with his music going. People at
Dodger Stadium would.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Froll come on to freak out. People in the country
would freak out at home watching it. But could you
see him. We were sprinting out of that bullpen with
about five strides and he's at the He's at the
mountain right.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'm telling you, it is setting up for this to happen.
Somebody should ask that question on media day. Is it
possible in any scenario that we're gonna see show? Hey Otani,
somebody's got to ask him. I'm hoping somebody's listening right now,
and does in fact ask that somebody?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
David Vass say, if you're listening, you have to ask
Dave Roberts that question. I mean, you know somebody's gonna
ask it, Well, they have to. Roberts is gonna give
you the old Well, you never know. It's uh, we'll
see how things play out, but it's probably.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
My my guess is it probably won't happen, but you
know you never say no, maybe should ask show hey?
One hundred percent they have to ask. Somebody has got
to ask, and then they got to follow up. If
he doesn't give you the right answer, well, like, well,
is there a scenario? Is there any scenario at all
where you could come in to throw one pitch get
one out?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Or it's just oh my god, imagine that because.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
If he well, here's the thing. If they ask him
today and he he he leaves the door open, I
mean think about I mean, that's all people are gonna
be talk about. I'm thinking about what the World Series
is win win, win win. When are we gonna see
showing Otani on the mountain?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah? What if he puts out a blurb on like
his social media that's like he shows like his hand
his fingers like on the on the seams of the ball,
and he's just nodding it up and down like uh oh,
you know he's like he might pitch. Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
What's crazy is he's pitched for six years in Anaheim
and I'm acting like he's never pitched in the big
leagues before getting ready for a World Series outing possibly.
I mean again, this is just pure speculation. Those you're
driving around right now wondering what is Otani gonna pitch?
Purely speculation and hope scam thoughts, scam thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Exactly, that's all. They are.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Little st there, little scam thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But you never know. I mean it is it is
like gonna grow. This question is going to grow as
the series goes along, and depending how the Dodgers are doing,
of course it'll become more curious.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
So I mean, he's they've got us either squash it.
The opportunity impossible an issue, right, They have to, They
have to, you know what.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
They don't They want to kind of screw with the
minds of the Yankees too, of course, because you know,
if you squash it, then the Yankees are gonna think, Okay,
we don't have to worry about that anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Mind games are the best kind of games. Yes, they
are messing with people's minds, messing with the Yankees, messing
with the New York media.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I mean, this would be fantastic. And you know, in
these these pregame meetings they do with Fox and all
the announcers, you know, or you know, they ask the managers,
you know, what, what do you what's you're playing here
on the seventh Where do you think you're gonna lean
in this situation, They're all going to be asking.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Somebody's gonna raise it, there's no questions about it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
But if you're the Dodgers, you got to keep it
close to your vest. And I I now you mentioned
mind games. I think it's even better if they leave
that door open. Even if there's no shot of Otawni
pitching we find out later down the road. Maybe just
keep that door open. Maybe use this as a mind
game like you did with the whole throwing the ball
from Manny Machado towards Dave Roberts in the NLDS. Yeah,
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make it something.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
The thing is you have to get show Hey on
board because if somebody asks him, you know, he's gonna
tell the truth. He's he's he's that's what kind of
guy is. He's not gonna he's not gonna, you know,
try to be deceiving or anything, because he's such a
straight up dude. Yeah me, I try to. I try
to tell him, well, you know, we'll find out, won't
we oh much show. He might just say no, of
course I'm not available.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
That would be so great. Let's go out to the phones.
A lot of Dodger fans want a weigh in. Also,
the statue next up Fernando Valezuela center Field Plaza. It
makes sense, Hector in La you are next up on
Saxon Kates and am how you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Hector?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
How you guys doing doing great things? Hector?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, So I have a Fernando story man uh me
growing up as a kid. Uh you know, my dad
wasn't the father that took us to amusement POGs, to
the beach, none of that. But I remember at the
age of four he always took us to Dodger Stadium
to watch Fernando Venezuela. And I remember my father, you know,
putting on a Dodger hat and he has to hear
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it is like Fernando. So I became a Fernando fanatic
from the age of four and made some diary. Very
unfortunate that he left us too soon. And it's very
ironic that the day before he passed away, I was
watching highlight videos where my younger son which says ten
now and you know he started watching the video, but
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you know I had talked to him about Fernando when
he was growing up, and we were watching the highlight video,
especially when Vin Scullia called out the no hitter about
throwing those some rato up in the air, and very
very unfortunate. Man, My father's heart broken, my mother's heart
broken up because we came from Mexico in nineteen seventy seven,
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so we got here in the naked time when everything
was kind of rough, and Fernando was that light of
inspiration for that. You know, no matter where you come
from Mexico, whatever part of the country, we had that
vision of hope in Fernando, and he kept it on
for many years until the last day. Man, and Uh,
(28:01):
I have an altar Fernando body swell in my office
right now. I took his babbo in, I took his jersey.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Hector, what would what would it mean to you and
your family to have Fernando having a statue in Centerfield Plaza.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Oh, that's gonna be like the icing on the keg.
You know, that's our Kobe Bryant, you know, for the
Mexican community, the Hispanic community. Uh, that's our Kobe Bryant,
you know, and then uh looking forward to Game one
and uh, you guys gave me a point of reference
right now when you guys were tired about that show. Hell,
tiny thing, that's gonna be the conversation I worked this morning.
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You know, Oh my god, that's gonna be the talk.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Of the day.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Hector, make sure you tell him when you heard it.
You're listening to Scam on AM five seven, right.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Right, I sure will. You guys are doing great, man,
I love you guys, and you guys.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
All right, yeah, man, great to hear from you. Yeah.
I know his dad didn't take him to the beach,
but he took him to Dodgers. He took him to
Dodger Stadium. And that's pretty darn good.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Even better, even better. Yeah, of course both places you
get a sunburn, but you at least you have fun
doing it, right.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah. Yeah, But isn't that a great story that Hector
just told us about about how you know, moving it
was to Fernando. He gave him hope he's coming here
in nineteen seventy seven from Mexico, and now you know, uh,
just all the all the movement that Fernando gave them
in Hope. And that's just what it's all about, man,
right there. That's what that's why you need a statue
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of Fernando. That's what what the difference is.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
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he next in line at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Believe so?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy and show
hey Otani? Will the door stay open or they shut
it closed? On the opportunity of pitching in the World Series.
Mine games, Mine games with the Yankees. Nothing better than that.
He is Steve Saxon, Tim Kates, Thanks for being with us,
say if I seventy LA Sports Saxon Kates in the
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AM on a five to seventy LA Sports Live and
local on your home of the Dodgers, leading you up
to Game one of this World Series tomorrow night. Added
Dodgers Stadium, Saxy. I know you're gonna find this hard
to believe, but tomorrow, at first pitch, you know what
the weather's supposed to be a Dodger stadium for Game
(31:36):
one of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
First pitch is five oh eight. I would say it's
probably going to be uh.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Seventy eight, seventy two degrees and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well would you expect?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, And they're saying by the time the game ends
a couple hours later, it'll be down to sixty three
degrees and Dodger fans will be celebrating a Dodger Game
one win hopefully.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know, there's it's so beautiful down there. You never
get tired of those beautiful sunset in southern California. But
I must say I got to stick up for the
nine to one six up here in the mother Load Country.
We have some beautiful historic sunrises and sunsets here up
in No Cow. I mean it's it's beautiful up here too,
but nothing more beautiful than so Caw, that's for sure.
(32:22):
That is for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Game one at five oh eight tomorrow, Saxon Kates in
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sixth ninety seven, two five seventy coming up in just
a couple of minutes, you're gonna hear from Dave Roberts
him and Aaron Boone the two managers in this world
series have a rivalry going back all the way to college.
(32:47):
What yeah, Not only do they have a rivalry now
is the managers in this world series, but they're playing
days for the Red Sox and Yankees squaring off in
the ALCS back in the day, but it goes all
the way back to UCLSC yes, thirty years ago. Well,
here from Dave Roberts on that. In just a couple
of minutes, let's go out to Joe and Sam Piedro. Joe,
(33:09):
thanks for being with us here on an FHI seventy.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
How you doing, Hey guys, good morning, good morning. You
know there's so many ties to San Pedro and the
La Dodgers. Of course with Tim Lasord of the Italian community,
and there was a moment in recognizing and paying tribute
to Fernando these last few days that as a kid,
I remember her first son. There was a rumor he
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was the first one was born in San Pedro in
nineteen eighty two, but there was a rumor in town.
There was a buzz at Fernando's first child gonna be
born in Pedro. He lived in TV at the time,
and everyone converged to San Pedro Hospital and when he
came out with the child, with this Fernando Junior, everyone
went wild. And this moment where we all recognized how
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important he was to the city, in this town in Saxony.
I know you dated a girl in sam Pedro, if
you recall.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
That was a big buzz too.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Okay, thank you, I'm glad of it's been a long time, Joe,
it's been a long time. It's been a quiet wow.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
A while back.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
But listen, as you know, what Fernando did to this
city really brought people together. And how truly he's going
to be missed in what he did for l A
and the game of baseball. So yeah, I appreciate you
guys recognizing them and paying tribute. And uh, clearly we're
h time of mourning for this, for this town, for
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the city. It gave so much too.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah, no doubt, Joe, great to hear your voice. Appreciate
you checking in this morning.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Thanks Joe.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Thanks all right, Joe and Sam Pedro appreciate that. Eight
sixty six nine, eight seven seventy. Ken and Tarzana next
up here on sax of Icates in the AMS.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Ken, How you doing.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
I'm doing really well. How are you guys today?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
So good? Ken?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Well, First of all, Steven, I've never heard that until
a couple of days ago. Actually, and Timmy were you
were a little bit surprised you heard from Steven that
Fernando was called Freddie. Yeah, and I remember that all
the time. And Fernando was just he hit everyone.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
And he also, uh, you know, I had I was
in college at the time, and uh, there's a fraternity
brother of mine and he loved to vertake Fernando at
our parties pitching. That was great stuff. But I also
wanted to talk about a couple of instances where Fernando
was in the field but he wasn't pitching. Uh, Steve,
(35:40):
you might remember a game that went the extra innings
against the Cubs. I think it was twenty one innings.
You went three for nine and had a walk, and uh,
Freddie went out there and played left field in right field.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah, and and we weren't worried about his defense either, right.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
And I think the year after you you left the
Dodgers and joined the dreaded Yankees, he went and played
first base in the game that lasted over seven hours,
twenty two innings. I also wanted to talk to you
about the eighty six All Star Game where he signed
the record for five k's in a row. And you
actually you got to knock in that game, remember.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
That, Yeah, knuckleball for Charlie Charlie Huff, I remember it, yep.
And Fernando was stellar.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yeah, so you know that he was in five All
Star Games. He didn't give up any run, seven to
two thirds innings. It was nails.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
He was ken.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Great to hear from you, as always, Thanks for checking
in on this Thursday morning. Zaxtually, the rival reatweing the
Dodgers and Yankees goes back so long, and this is
the twelve time these two franchises are going to square off.
The Yankees own an eight three advantage. The Dodgers, most
recently nineteen eighty one, won that World Series matchup. As
we have been talking about all week, we'll hear from
(37:00):
Steve Yeager coming up next hour. The two managers in
this world series Dave Roberts Aaron Boone, two Southern California
guys managing in this world series. Aaron Boone went to
USC Dave Roberts went to UCLA. Their one year part
in age. Dave Roberts is fifty two, Aaron Boone is
fifty one. They got the rivalry between the two when
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Aaron was playing for the Yankees and Dave Roberts was
playing outfield for the Red Sox. In those matchups a
couple of years ago, well almost twenty years ago, when
they squared off, and then the great home run from
Aaron Boone, he had the stolen base from Dave Roberts
against the Yankees and the Alcs. And now here they
are squaring off his managers. And yesterday Dave Roberts was
talking to the media and was asked about his relationship
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with Aaron Boone, the Yankee manager.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
And here's the what do you have to say?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
So Aaron and I have a good history. We played
against each other at college. He went to s COLGCLA.
We've got a lot of mutual friends, so we we
sort of have similar circles. I know that we talked
before he got the Yankees job, and so we have
(38:10):
a very good relationship. During the season, we talked a
little bit. I think we talked. We talked a little
bit when we played him this summer. Haven't reached down
in the postseason either way. So we'll catch up on Friday, though.
It's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
And you guys ever talked about, you know, your big
stolen base for the Red Sox and his big home
run for the Yankees.
Speaker 8 (38:36):
You know what we don't because yeah, so I would
probably give him a lot of grief if he brought
up that homer to beat the Socks, and he would
return the favor to me if I brought up the
stolen base. So we don't talk about that very often,
but I do think it's it's very cool that, you know,
we played against each other in college and now you
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know college rights and then now you know, you could
just see that this rivalry with you know, the Dodgers
and the Yankees, it's pretty specially goes way back, and
so now we're doing it again, you know, opposing one another.
So it's a pretty good story.
Speaker 9 (39:15):
That was thirty plus years ago that you and Aaron
competed against each other in college. You were both I
think nineteen years old when with the first time you
got UCLA and USC played. What do you remember about
those games? And were you friends off the field or
didn't Bruins and Trojans mingle back then?
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Now, we weren't friends. I think at that point in time,
I didn't care too much for him. I don't think
he cared too much for me, and I do recall
they probably got the best of us back in the day,
so I probably enhanced my distaste for him and the Trojans.
But he was always the heck of a ballplayer. You knew,
I mean we played against each other and in the
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big leagues, and so he was always a smart baseball player,
obviously a great pedigree, so you knew he was going
to be in the game for a long time and
just could be more excited for him.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
If we didn't need any more storylines for this World
Series Dodgers Yankees, yet another one Aaron Boone Dave Roberts,
going back to nineteen ninety two when they played against
each other UCLA and USC and now both managers for
the Dodgers and Yankees. This is unreal how these things
lining up.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Kind of a neat too, is you can kind of
see these things way back and they fester into both
being managers. You could see that with Mike Soosha, you
could see that with a bunch of different guys. Corey Lavallo,
you know, he's another guy that you could tell that
just had that aptitude to become something bigger once the
game was over and become something like a manager. And
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that's what happened with these two guys.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, it is unbelievable to see the two of them
at the stage that they're at now. And not only
are they talking about the history between the two and
now the bigger conversation is which one of these managers
needs to win this World Series more to save their job?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I mean, do you really think their jobs on the
line if they don't win it.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
I mean, that's the narrative is I mean, one of
these is going to lose their job if they don't win,
because this means so much.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I just don't think that's fair. I gotta tell you,
I know it's, you know, win the World Series or
go home gets bust. I get it. I understand the
mentality but to fire somebody to lose their job with
all the great things. Dave Roberts with ninety eight wins,
the best team in baseball. Now he gets past the Padres,
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probably the best team in postseason besides the Dodgers. I
think now he's in the World Series. If they don't win,
his job's gone. I don't think that's right at all.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
No, I saw a whole question.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
I know you don't, Tim, I can't believe that from.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Some riders saying which manager needs to win this World
Series more to keep their job? And they were debating
whether it was Aaron Boone or Dave Roberts. And in
New York, certainly they think Aaron Boone needs to do
something because he hasn't won a World Series and hasn't
gotten to a World Series since taking over as manager
in twenty eighteen. So I would say he needs this
more than anybody Dave Roberts for what he's done. I mean,
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they shouldn't even be a question in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Well, look, yeah, when they say you know who needs
to win this more and who's gonna lose your job?
Well I guarantee one thing. Dave Roberts and Aaron Boone.
They're not gonna be swinging the bat, pitching, running, fielding,
doing anything. So this this whole thing, you're gonna can
the guy. If they don't win, they're not they're not playing.
All they can do is manage a team. All the
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officionados in baseball knows that anything can happen. You could
have the Pittsburgh Pirates, put them supplant the Pittsburgh Pirates
now for for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and you know what,
they probably wouldn't, but it wouldn't be unheard of for
the Pittsburgh Pirates to beat the Yankees in seven games
could very well happen. So baseball is so unpredictable to
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can a guy and lose the job over everything that
Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts have done great to manage
these two teams, which is not easy. I just think
that would be crazy wrong to do.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
If either one of these managers was managing the Pittsburgh
Pirates and got them to a World they would.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Be in last place.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
They'd have a statue built right off the clementing Hey
in Pittsburgh David World Series.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
They would both finish. No, the Pirates would finish right
where they finished this year. If both of those, either
of those guys manage his team, Yeah, the Pirates would
finish right where they did.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Yeah, no doubt about it. They're not going anywhere if
not the seller. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy.
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Thanks for being with us, say as you get up,
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Thanks for taking us with you on A five seventy
LA Sports. Thanks to Charlie Steiner. David Basse caught up
with the voice of the Dodgers as he is now
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in remission, which is great news to hear battling melanim
of blood cancer. He has been doing that all season long.
That's why you haven't heard the great Charlie Steiner here
on a FI seventy LAS Sports Bud fully expects to
be ready to go in twenty twenty five. And pretty
fitting to have Charlie talk about the Yankees and Dodgers
since he called play by play for both of these franchises.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yea, he's seen a lot of it, boy, and we
talk about seeing it all, you know. I wouldn't say
he's seen it all for the amount of years he's
been here, but he's seen a lot of it, and
you know, to be with both franchises a pretty good
perspective he's got on this particular world series too. But
glad and so happy that Charlie's gonna beat this. He's
gonna be back next year.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, so great to hear. If you missed it, you
can podcast it on the iHeart Radio app. David Vassa
will join us later on in the show as well.
Steve Jaeger Boomer will join us the Boomer in eight
o'clock hour get his thoughts on Fernando and certainly get
his thoughts on this rematch of the nineteen eighty one
World Series between the Dodgers and the Yankees. Saxon case
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of the Dodgers. It's World Series time. Bring out the
chef in you. We got into it last hour. The
Dodgers already have two statues at it the center field
plaza at Dodger Stadium, Jackie Robinson the first in twenty seventeen,
and in twenty twenty two the Sandy Kofex statue was
put in. The Dodgers will need to put in a third.
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But who would be? And we brought up Fernando Valenzuela,
going right to the front of the line. Certainly Vinnie
will get one. Certainly Tommy Lasorda well deserved, and we'll
get one in due time. But brought it up the
way that Fernando passed at the young age of sixty three,
the what he did to the community, what it would
mean for the community to have it as a rallying
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point at Dodger Stadium. And I got a couple of
texts about that, for Buddy saying, you don't understand what
it would mean to have a statue for Fernando at
center field. We can only use it as a meetium spot.
We can use it as a spot to take our
kids who are younger. My buddy has a young kids
that will teach him about Fernando and what he meant
to him growing up, and he can go out to
the statue and show him. It would mean so much
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for so many Dodger fans. I think it just makes sense.
And again not to put Vinnie or Tomulas sort it
to the side because they're gonna get statues. But I
just think right now, in the moment where we're at,
I think Fernando would be just the perfect one.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And you know, you know what the statue is going
to look like, right, We already know that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's him looking to the sky right correct, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And being his wind up looking up, and that's a
such a great picture. You know. I look at Fernando
real quickly, Tim because I know you want to get up.
But I look at Fernando as a is almost like
a connector between the past. You know what it was,
you know in la before, and you know certainly what
he did in the present, but now it's especially looking
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forward to the future and what he does and bringing
people together. The absolutely brought people together from before when
he was playing, it was crazy. And now he's still
bringing people together even in his even in his passing,
he's going to be able to bring people together. So
that transcends everything. And that's why you gotta have a
big statue Fernando out there too, no question.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Every Jackie Robinson Day when the Dodgers are home and
they've been home, because it's Jackie Robinson Day on April fifteenth,
Dave Roberts takes the team out to the center field
place before the statue was up in the reserve area,
and the last few years the visiting teams have come
out as well with their managers and they'll gather around
the statue of Jackie Robinson. And it's mostly for a
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history lesson for the young players, maybe the international players
who don't know the history of Jackie Robinson, what he
meant for baseball and what he meant for the Dodgers organization.
And Dave Roberts does a great job explaining talking about Jackie,
the importance of Jackie, the importance of baseball, and the
influence of Jackie in nineteen forty seven and what he
meant and It's a history lesson for these baseball players too,
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so they don't forget yeah, right, who came before them.
This would be right in line for Fernando to go
out there and talk about what Fernando meant to this community,
what he meant to baseball. But hey, you're a Dodger now,
this is what it would mean and what it means
to be a Dodger based on Fernando, what he meant
to this community. Look around when you drive to the
stadium and you come up the one on one or
the two, or the five or the ten freeway, and
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you're going through these communities rout here, it's Fernando. They
love Fernando, and this is why you need to know
about them.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, and just just thinking as we talked before about
how you know, Fernando could be that connection between now
and what's happened before and certainly in the future. Jackie
Robinson of course, really did that and still today, look
at everybody still talks about they've retired number forty two.
Most organizations have, I think they all have. They wear
the number forty two on Jackie Robinson Day. This thing
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goes way beyond just what they did when they were here,
It travels and it will forever. That's what Fernando brings.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Armando in Ontario, Welcome to Saxon, Kate to the am
here on Amphire seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
How you doing, Armando, Hi, this is.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Veronica, Armanda's wife. He stepped away, But I have a
lot to say about Fernando, all right, and what he
is to the community. You know, there's that whole history
of the Dodgers displacing the Mexican community, Mexican American community.
Fernando brought us back. Give you a little trivia. I
was born October twenty ninth, nineteen eighty one, hours after
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they played and One, and I grew up thinking Fernando's
La Royalty and he really is what he did for
the community in his later years. I had the opportunity
to spend a whole day with him last year and
the Dodgers on their community tour, And just to your
point what you just said, he was a walking history
lesson for those new Dodgers coming in. And the Dodgers
organization has taken us through all these places in San
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Gabrio Valley in LA and telling these new Dodgers this
is Dodger Country. These are Mexican American, you know, children
of immigrants that Fernando brought back to the stadium. And
to see his statue up there, like you said, you
see a rally point. He's up there with Kobe. For me,
he's my childhood and he's just a part of LA
and he'll he'll be forever. It's his LA history.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well, Veronica, no offense to Armando, but we're proud we
got to talk to you for Armando.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Well, Veronica, thanks for chiming in this morning and bring
give us your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Thank you, thank you, Take care all right, had.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
A nice, little pleasant surprise there. Who's Who's Armando? Yeah, exactly.
Armando just came in there and nailed it.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Again
is our number, eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy. The statue would be phenomenal at Dodger Stadium.
And to think of it, what they're trying to build
in the center field plaza and to be a spot
that is not just there when you go and watch
a game for ninetings, that's great. You get to see
great baseball in a in an awesome setting in the
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most beautiful area, and now you get to go. Make
it a spot where you go visit the history at
Dodgers Stadium. And you can go to the top deck
of the reserve area and see the Legends of Baseball
plaques that are up there. You can go out to
the center field area and also so the history of
the Dodgers from the awards individually, rookies of the years,
the MVPs of the cy Youngs, to see the retired
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jersey numbers up on the Ring of Honor in the
left field, to see the World Championship years along the
right field by the stadium club up there on the
club level.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's a spot.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Not to say it'd be like Yankee Stadium, because Yankee
Stadium was the first to do it with the museum
they have in center field and the rich history they
have there. Yeah, the plaques, but it's the Dodgers Museum.
It's a spot where you can go and just learn
about the history of the Dodgers at a young age.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Tim for our fans listening that haven't been to on
a tour to Dodgers Stadium must go. You know, if
you like history. I love history. I love Civil War history.
I've gone to the battlefields and studied that and read
as much as I can about Civil War and I
still do. I love that. Well, you know what, you
get a big dose of that in baseball when you
go to Dodger Stadium. So when I go there, I'm
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I'm in. I'm underneath the underneath there near the locker
rooms and looking at all this stuff. They're all the
you know, the the the Hall of Famers, and you know,
the most viable players and you know, the Gold Glove
Award winners and all those things are in there. So
Dodger Stadium is a bastion of great of great history.
For people that love to see that, you gotta go
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and take a tour and and really check out all
the things there because they have a ton of it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's going to be on full display tomorrow night, Game
one of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Again.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Today is Media Day out of Dodgers Stadium. For those
who don't don't know what media day is, It's think
of the Super Bowl week that Monday night in which
both teams go out in the field that that whatever
stadium is hosting it, and you get all the international
national media, and every player is set up in a podium.
It's a little smaller venue being in the center field plaza,
but each player is gonna have an area where they're
(09:54):
set up, and you can go talk to these players
and they're gonna be up there for forty five minutes.
The Dodgers and then the Yankees will be out there
for the forty five minutes, and you can talk to
all the players and you're gonna get all those ridiculous questions.
And I think it's good for baseball. I'll put it
this way. Steve, as a purest, I know these players
don't want to do this. These players are so locked
into Game one tomorrow. They want to go over tape,
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they want to go over scouting reports, they want to
get ready and are dialed in for this game.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
They're tolerating it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, they're tolerating it. I'm sure some of them are
looking at it as a great opportunity to get their
brand and their name out there, certainly, but I think
the superstars per se probably don't want to do it
and are feel like, you know what, this isn't football,
where we are a helmet and we're faceless players for
the most part. And now we get to take the
helmet off and here we are in full display and
outside of Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey, you know, we
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get to be on full display now because we're the
other guys on this roster. I mean, we know who
these guys are. We understand that there's no more storylines
to be told.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
No, I think some guys, like you said, they're going
to want to improve their brand. And with this era
of social media, you know, it took me a while
to really understand just how impactful and how big it
can be for these players. And you know, some guys
are gonna really benefit from from being out there in
social media and improving that brand and whatnot. But you know,
for the guys that have been there and done that before,
this is a tolerating part of the whole process. Right now,
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they just want to get through it and they're gonna
smile and do the right thing, because most guys I've
met in baseball are good dudes, and they're gonna do
the right thing. But they want to they want to
cut loose and get this thing on. They're actually gonna
feel you know, what's you know, what's crazy about this
is when these games start and they're often running and
you're playing these games, they're gonna feel most comfortable and
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the most freedom that they felt in this whole scenario
when they're actually playing the game. That's where they're gonna
feel the most free and the and the most amount
of freedom and the most natural when they're playing the game.
All the other stuff is is hectic, it's tough, and
they kind of tolerate through it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Do you think Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts have to
gather his teams in the clubhouse before they walk out
to the center Field Plaza today for media day for
their respective teams and say, guys, just a reminder all
of you, look at all you in the eyes right now.
Don't say anything stupid. Don't put any bullets on board
material out there. Yeah, don't say something that you think's
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gonna be funny and taken sarcastically and it's gonna be
written and look differently in print, and all of a
sudden they're using.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It against us. I would think, So, I know that's
Tommy said that to you guys. Yeah, Hey, guys, shut up,
don't say anything. Yeah, there's been times when they say
things like, remember that you're gonna always have to pay
for what you say, and you're gonna be the you
know you're doing to be the slave of that. You know,
you're gonna have to be answered all that stuff, but
you're gonna be able to always be on top of
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things that you don't say. And so you know there's
a there's a message in there is don't say something stupid.
You're gonna have to own it and don't go there.
Why take that luggage on? And yeah, they they've said
that to us before. Usually it's sometime in spring training
when you have all those meetings with the Players Association
and whatnot. They cover all that ground. They like to
do it one day, but very very poignant.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting day at a Dodgers
stadium to see the masses of media, to see all
the questions that are asked, to see show Altani on
the biggest stage along with all these superstars that are
playing in this World Series Game one tomorrow night right
here on five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, doesn't show Hey, really have it made in this
whole thing? Seriously talk to the interpreter. Yeah, he doesn't
have to talk much. Just talk to him. I can't
speak Cling, I can't speak English.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I wonder what else you could ask show Hey Altani
that hasn't been asked already.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Who knows what he's telling the interpreter. He probably hasn't
mean with the interpreter, it says, say all the right stuff.
If they ask me some I'll give you like a
two word answer in Japanese and japan Japanese, and then
you can tell them what you already think.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It is interesting easy to see him give these long
answers than Will Ireton give us a smaller answer.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But I guess now where's Will from? Is he from here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
But he's a Japanese descent obviously, and has worked for
the organization for a long time. Was an interpreter for
the Dodgers about a decade ago, and then got into
a role working in baseball ops with the team in
athletic training as well. Uh And when the whole issue
with show Hey before the season started with his previous interpreter,
the Dodgers were scrambling and needed to get a new
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interpreter there, and Will Ireton, already working for the team,
did a great job before was inserting it to that place,
and uh, yeah, it has been has been a great
uh guy to have stand next to show Ayotani because
he's been a Dodger employee and on top of that,
it's somebody that show Hey can trust and there's a
there's a communication already there between the two of them,
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and again the organization trusts him. So it was a
perfect person to have slide into that responsibility. And he's
a great guy.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Too, Tim, do you have more of a family background
you can give me on on will? I mean, I'll
just asked you a simple question and you gave me
like the ten minute rendition of a very very well
thought out into find answer. And I appreciate that. Well,
I that is amazing. You ask you what time it is, nil,
tell you how to make a watch? Amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I appreciate that. Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's a compliment.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
He actually began back in nineteen eighty eight, when he
was the son of a Japanese American father Spanish mother.
His family moved to Hawaii when he was fifteen. He
was born in Japan in nineteen eighty eight. He spent
his teenage years in Honolulu, where he played for the
High school baseball team. Oh yeah, and his worked in
baseball for a long time after graduating from Menlo College.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow yeah, okay, geez.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You go.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
There's that full background. They got to start working as
a translator in the World Baseball Classic and from there
got into baseball.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
There's your will Ireton Info.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Only get it from Tim Kate. That's right. I'm here
for it if you need me.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
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for more information. As Game one tomorrow, we'll have Garrett
Cole on the mound from Orange Lutheran, UCLA. He'll be
on the mound for the Yankees against the Pride the
eight one eight Jack Flaherty who will go for the Dodgers,
and again both teams will meet the media later on
today for their respective media days in the center field plaza.
A little bit more on Will Ireton, the translator for
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Shoheo Tani. Yeah, for those who don't know, we came
to the Dodgers in twenty sixteen when Kenta Maida was
signed by the Dodgers and had previous experiences we mentioned
before in the World Baseball Classic. He was born in Japan,
grew up in Honolulu, went to college here in the
United States, and a great guy and been with the
organization since twenty sixteen. When kent I left and went
to the Minnesota Twins, he did not follow.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
He stayed.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
In fact, he went to go work in Tripa, A,
Oklahoma city and player development and analytics and has worked
for the organization since then in different levels. And in
this past spring when the Dodgers were over in Seul,
Korea and the incident with the previous translator was Shoheyo Tani,
Will Ireton was moved back into that position, and that's
where he came from this season. So cool, nice rundown
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because people wonder about him too.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
You know what's really we we kind of knew the
sad thing about the former transfer, but this but Will
seems to be you know, he's off to a great start.
People seem to really like him. He resonates good with
the press, and so yeah, I think it's a great choice. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I mean, and you see him all the time because
wherever sho hey Otani goes, Will Ironton is right there
on and off the field. So yeah, he is in
tandem with show Hey, So you see him all the time,
and now you know a little bit more about him.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, thank you. Tim. You know it's gonna be another
big question though, what's that is when they're going to
deploy the bullpen game? Lots of questions about I hear
that all the time. It's like the biggest question out there.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Well, I would do a little bit more digging into
why Dave Roberts went with Jack Flaherty, And the more
and more I looked into it, the more and more
it does make sense for this reason, which got you
got Jack Flery can go in game one, You've got
Yoshi Yomamoto in game two, right, and then both those
guys can come back potentially for a game five and six, correct,
(18:57):
And then if you go with Walker Bueller in the
first game in the Bronx next Monday Game three, Game three,
he can then can potentially go in game seven. So
you set yourself up so one, two, three, five, six
seven with your three quote unquote starters, leaving game four
as the only bullpen game that you need that middle
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game in New York.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, So here's here's the kind of like a little
I agree with most of it, but you know, uh
going if you have a bullpen game in three, that's
going to guarantee that you're gonna have all those high
leverage arms are gonna be available out of the bullpen
after the off day, right right, And that would line
up Walker Buller for Game four along with other you know,
(19:39):
So I don't know, I mean that, what does that
do for Game seven?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So that would make Okay seven a bullpen game.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Right, it would be a bull coming game. So I
don't know, I mean or Walker Bueler on really just
short rest short rest? Would Walk or benefit from going
into game four? Do you think? You know?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
The way you spend it makes sense. You go with
the bullpen game after the travel day because games one
to Friday Saturday, travel day Sunday, you have a fresh
bullpen ready to go for Game three Monday, and then
a starter boom game four on Tuesday, and then you
hopefully get something out a Walker where you don't have
to go back to your high leverage relievers and they'll
be ready again for Game five.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, but him and every other starter on that roster
is going to be available for the potential Game seven.
So remember game seven is not only a bullpen game.
Game seven is all the starters are available too, So
that's kind of a difference, you.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Know, who else could be available in game seven?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Pitch, don't say it? You know who else could be available? Saxy.
Let's ask Will what he thinks about that.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
I know.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Tony available to pitch game seven of the World Serio.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now you said all hands on deck, Well that's that's
not a I don't know if that one counts. Really No,
there's too many risks. I mean, god, but you got
a weigh it. Just think it's game seven. If you're
in the ninth inning, you're thinking about bringing in one
of the other starter, thinking about bringing a Yo, sure,
one of those guys. And then you got show hey
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o Tani for three outs? How hard do you think
he'll be throwing one hundred miles an hour? And it's
and it's like nine to eight, so game you know,
bullpens have already been taxed about this game. Oh what
do you think?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Don't wake me up. I'm dreaming right now, Saxy. I'm
loving this. Imagine the camera in the dugout in like
the seventh and eighth and he's like, where where's where?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Show is? Singers like nine to eight and you're facing one, two,
three and the Yankees. Oh, come on, you know what
Hollywood wouldn't buy the script two phony.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
No know's no o Tani in the dugout. Next thing
you know, the lights go out, the gate opens from
the bullpen, and here comes show Hey, O Tani, holy
man in a nine eight game in the night.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And what do you think would be bigger when when
show Hay come through the gates after not seeing him
in And how much Dodger staying would he erupt? Or
it's when Gibson limped out of the dugout to crash
the home run? Which one would be bigger?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I mean, I'm gonna defer to you you were the
guy on deck behind Gibby. I mean, what was the
crowd like as he got up to the plane and
then certainly afterwards that place was rocking.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
When when they introduced him. That's the loudest I've ever
heard Dodger Stadium. Really, the loudest I've ever heard it,
no question, kind of dwarfed everything else. It was so
loud when when they announced him. But man, I tell
you what, Otani comes walking out out of the bullpen.
Nobody's seen him comes out in the ninth facing one,
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two three with the Yankees nine to eight lead.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Bullpen's taxed. Come on, I'm gonna be epic. I don't
think he'd be walking out. I think the gate would open,
it'd be dark, and it'd just be Otani sprinting, just
a full on sprint from the bullpen, the warning track
to the pictures Man with his music going. People at
Dodger Stadium would.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Froll come on to freak out. People in the country
would freak out at home watching it. But could you
see him. We were sprinting out of that bullpen with
about five strides and he's at the He's at the
mountain right.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'm telling you, it is setting up for this to happen.
Somebody should ask that question on media day. Is it
possible in any scenario that we're gonna see show? Hey Otani,
somebody's got to ask him. I'm hoping somebody's listening right now,
and does in fact ask that somebody?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
David Vass say, if you're listening, you have to ask
Dave Roberts that question. I mean, you know somebody's gonna
ask it, Well, they have to. Roberts is gonna give
you the old Well, you never know. It's uh, we'll
see how things play out, but it's probably.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
My my guess is it probably won't happen, but you
know you never say no, maybe should ask show hey?
One hundred percent they have to ask. Somebody has got
to ask, and then they got to follow up. If
he doesn't give you the right answer, well, like, well,
is there a scenario? Is there any scenario at all
where you could come in to throw one pitch get
one out?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Or it's just oh my god, imagine that because.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
If he well, here's the thing. If they ask him
today and he he he leaves the door open, I
mean think about I mean, that's all people are gonna
be talk about. I'm thinking about what the World Series
is win win, win win. When are we gonna see
showing Otani on the mountain?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah? What if he puts out a blurb on like
his social media that's like he shows like his hand
his fingers like on the on the seams of the ball,
and he's just nodding it up and down like uh oh,
you know he's like he might pitch. Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
What's crazy is he's pitched for six years in Anaheim
and I'm acting like he's never pitched in the big
leagues before getting ready for a World Series outing possibly.
I mean again, this is just pure speculation. Those you're
driving around right now wondering what is Otani gonna pitch?
Purely speculation and hope scam thoughts, scam thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Exactly, that's all. They are.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Little st there, little scam thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But you never know. I mean it is it is
like gonna grow. This question is going to grow as
the series goes along, and depending how the Dodgers are doing,
of course it'll become more curious.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
So I mean, he's they've got us either squash it.
The opportunity impossible an issue, right, They have to, They
have to, you know what.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
They don't They want to kind of screw with the
minds of the Yankees too, of course, because you know,
if you squash it, then the Yankees are gonna think, Okay,
we don't have to worry about that anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Mind games are the best kind of games. Yes, they
are messing with people's minds, messing with the Yankees, messing
with the New York media.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I mean, this would be fantastic. And you know, in
these these pregame meetings they do with Fox and all
the announcers, you know, or you know, they ask the managers,
you know, what, what do you what's you're playing here
on the seventh Where do you think you're gonna lean
in this situation, They're all going to be asking.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Somebody's gonna raise it, there's no questions about it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
But if you're the Dodgers, you got to keep it
close to your vest. And I I now you mentioned
mind games. I think it's even better if they leave
that door open. Even if there's no shot of Otawni
pitching we find out later down the road. Maybe just
keep that door open. Maybe use this as a mind
game like you did with the whole throwing the ball
from Manny Machado towards Dave Roberts in the NLDS. Yeah,
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make it something.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
The thing is you have to get show Hey on
board because if somebody asks him, you know, he's gonna
tell the truth. He's he's he's that's what kind of
guy is. He's not gonna he's not gonna, you know,
try to be deceiving or anything, because he's such a
straight up dude. Yeah me, I try to. I try
to tell him, well, you know, we'll find out, won't
we oh much show. He might just say no, of
course I'm not available.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
That would be so great. Let's go out to the phones.
A lot of Dodger fans want a weigh in. Also,
the statue next up Fernando Valezuela center Field Plaza. It
makes sense, Hector in La you are next up on
Saxon Kates and am how you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Hector?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
How you guys doing doing great things? Hector?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, So I have a Fernando story man uh me
growing up as a kid. Uh you know, my dad
wasn't the father that took us to amusement POGs, to
the beach, none of that. But I remember at the
age of four he always took us to Dodger Stadium
to watch Fernando Venezuela. And I remember my father, you know,
putting on a Dodger hat and he has to hear
(26:56):
it is like Fernando. So I became a Fernando fanatic
from the age of four and made some diary. Very
unfortunate that he left us too soon. And it's very
ironic that the day before he passed away, I was
watching highlight videos where my younger son which says ten
now and you know he started watching the video, but
(27:19):
you know I had talked to him about Fernando when
he was growing up, and we were watching the highlight video,
especially when Vin Scullia called out the no hitter about
throwing those some rato up in the air, and very
very unfortunate. Man, My father's heart broken, my mother's heart
broken up because we came from Mexico in nineteen seventy seven,
(27:41):
so we got here in the naked time when everything
was kind of rough, and Fernando was that light of
inspiration for that. You know, no matter where you come
from Mexico, whatever part of the country, we had that
vision of hope in Fernando, and he kept it on
for many years until the last day. Man, and Uh,
(28:01):
I have an altar Fernando body swell in my office
right now. I took his babbo in, I took his jersey.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Hector, what would what would it mean to you and
your family to have Fernando having a statue in Centerfield Plaza.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Oh, that's gonna be like the icing on the keg.
You know, that's our Kobe Bryant, you know, for the
Mexican community, the Hispanic community. Uh, that's our Kobe Bryant,
you know, and then uh looking forward to Game one
and uh, you guys gave me a point of reference
right now when you guys were tired about that show. Hell,
tiny thing, that's gonna be the conversation I worked this morning.
(28:36):
You know, Oh my god, that's gonna be the talk.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Of the day.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Hector, make sure you tell him when you heard it.
You're listening to Scam on AM five seven, right.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Right, I sure will. You guys are doing great, man,
I love you guys, and you guys.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
All right, yeah, man, great to hear from you. Yeah.
I know his dad didn't take him to the beach,
but he took him to Dodgers. He took him to
Dodger Stadium. And that's pretty darn good.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Even better, even better. Yeah, of course both places you
get a sunburn, but you at least you have fun
doing it, right.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah. Yeah, But isn't that a great story that Hector
just told us about about how you know, moving it
was to Fernando. He gave him hope he's coming here
in nineteen seventy seven from Mexico, and now you know, uh,
just all the all the movement that Fernando gave them
in Hope. And that's just what it's all about, man,
right there. That's what that's why you need a statue
(29:29):
of Fernando. That's what what the difference is.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
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he next in line at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Believe so?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy and show
hey Otani? Will the door stay open or they shut
it closed? On the opportunity of pitching in the World Series.
Mine games, Mine games with the Yankees. Nothing better than that.
He is Steve Saxon, Tim Kates, Thanks for being with us,
say if I seventy LA Sports Saxon Kates in the
(31:15):
AM on a five to seventy LA Sports Live and
local on your home of the Dodgers, leading you up
to Game one of this World Series tomorrow night. Added
Dodgers Stadium, Saxy. I know you're gonna find this hard
to believe, but tomorrow, at first pitch, you know what
the weather's supposed to be a Dodger stadium for Game
(31:36):
one of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
First pitch is five oh eight. I would say it's
probably going to be uh.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Seventy eight, seventy two degrees and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well would you expect?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, And they're saying by the time the game ends
a couple hours later, it'll be down to sixty three
degrees and Dodger fans will be celebrating a Dodger Game
one win hopefully.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know, there's it's so beautiful down there. You never
get tired of those beautiful sunset in southern California. But
I must say I got to stick up for the
nine to one six up here in the mother Load Country.
We have some beautiful historic sunrises and sunsets here up
in No Cow. I mean it's it's beautiful up here too,
but nothing more beautiful than so Caw, that's for sure.
(32:22):
That is for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Game one at five oh eight tomorrow, Saxon Kates in
the Morning, brought to you by Chef mud Eat those
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world series. Time bring out the chef in you eight six,
sixth ninety seven, two five seventy coming up in just
a couple of minutes, you're gonna hear from Dave Roberts
him and Aaron Boone the two managers in this world
series have a rivalry going back all the way to college.
(32:47):
What yeah, Not only do they have a rivalry now
is the managers in this world series, but they're playing
days for the Red Sox and Yankees squaring off in
the ALCS back in the day, but it goes all
the way back to UCLSC yes, thirty years ago. Well,
here from Dave Roberts on that. In just a couple
of minutes, let's go out to Joe and Sam Piedro. Joe,
(33:09):
thanks for being with us here on an FHI seventy.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
How you doing, Hey guys, good morning, good morning. You
know there's so many ties to San Pedro and the
La Dodgers. Of course with Tim Lasord of the Italian community,
and there was a moment in recognizing and paying tribute
to Fernando these last few days that as a kid,
I remember her first son. There was a rumor he
(33:32):
was the first one was born in San Pedro in
nineteen eighty two, but there was a rumor in town.
There was a buzz at Fernando's first child gonna be
born in Pedro. He lived in TV at the time,
and everyone converged to San Pedro Hospital and when he
came out with the child, with this Fernando Junior, everyone
went wild. And this moment where we all recognized how
(33:54):
important he was to the city, in this town in Saxony.
I know you dated a girl in sam Pedro, if
you recall.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
That was a big buzz too.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Okay, thank you, I'm glad of it's been a long time, Joe,
it's been a long time. It's been a quiet wow.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
A while back.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
But listen, as you know, what Fernando did to this
city really brought people together. And how truly he's going
to be missed in what he did for l A
and the game of baseball. So yeah, I appreciate you
guys recognizing them and paying tribute. And uh, clearly we're
h time of mourning for this, for this town, for
(34:37):
the city. It gave so much too.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah, no doubt, Joe, great to hear your voice. Appreciate
you checking in this morning.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Thanks Joe.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Thanks all right, Joe and Sam Pedro appreciate that. Eight
sixty six nine, eight seven seventy. Ken and Tarzana next
up here on sax of Icates in the AMS.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Ken, How you doing.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
I'm doing really well. How are you guys today?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
So good? Ken?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Well, First of all, Steven, I've never heard that until
a couple of days ago. Actually, and Timmy were you
were a little bit surprised you heard from Steven that
Fernando was called Freddie. Yeah, and I remember that all
the time. And Fernando was just he hit everyone.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
And he also, uh, you know, I had I was
in college at the time, and uh, there's a fraternity
brother of mine and he loved to vertake Fernando at
our parties pitching. That was great stuff. But I also
wanted to talk about a couple of instances where Fernando
was in the field but he wasn't pitching. Uh, Steve,
(35:40):
you might remember a game that went the extra innings
against the Cubs. I think it was twenty one innings.
You went three for nine and had a walk, and uh,
Freddie went out there and played left field in right field.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah, and and we weren't worried about his defense either, right.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
And I think the year after you you left the
Dodgers and joined the dreaded Yankees, he went and played
first base in the game that lasted over seven hours,
twenty two innings. I also wanted to talk to you
about the eighty six All Star Game where he signed
the record for five k's in a row. And you
actually you got to knock in that game, remember.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
That, Yeah, knuckleball for Charlie Charlie Huff, I remember it, yep.
And Fernando was stellar.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yeah, so you know that he was in five All
Star Games. He didn't give up any run, seven to
two thirds innings. It was nails.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
He was ken.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Great to hear from you, as always, Thanks for checking
in on this Thursday morning. Zaxtually, the rival reatweing the
Dodgers and Yankees goes back so long, and this is
the twelve time these two franchises are going to square off.
The Yankees own an eight three advantage. The Dodgers, most
recently nineteen eighty one, won that World Series matchup. As
we have been talking about all week, we'll hear from
(37:00):
Steve Yeager coming up next hour. The two managers in
this world series Dave Roberts Aaron Boone, two Southern California
guys managing in this world series. Aaron Boone went to
USC Dave Roberts went to UCLA. Their one year part
in age. Dave Roberts is fifty two, Aaron Boone is
fifty one. They got the rivalry between the two when
(37:20):
Aaron was playing for the Yankees and Dave Roberts was
playing outfield for the Red Sox. In those matchups a
couple of years ago, well almost twenty years ago, when
they squared off, and then the great home run from
Aaron Boone, he had the stolen base from Dave Roberts
against the Yankees and the Alcs. And now here they
are squaring off his managers. And yesterday Dave Roberts was
talking to the media and was asked about his relationship
(37:43):
with Aaron Boone, the Yankee manager.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
And here's the what do you have to say?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
So Aaron and I have a good history. We played
against each other at college. He went to s COLGCLA.
We've got a lot of mutual friends, so we we
sort of have similar circles. I know that we talked
before he got the Yankees job, and so we have
(38:10):
a very good relationship. During the season, we talked a
little bit. I think we talked. We talked a little
bit when we played him this summer. Haven't reached down
in the postseason either way. So we'll catch up on Friday, though.
It's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
And you guys ever talked about, you know, your big
stolen base for the Red Sox and his big home
run for the Yankees.
Speaker 8 (38:36):
You know what we don't because yeah, so I would
probably give him a lot of grief if he brought
up that homer to beat the Socks, and he would
return the favor to me if I brought up the
stolen base. So we don't talk about that very often,
but I do think it's it's very cool that, you know,
we played against each other in college and now you
(38:58):
know college rights and then now you know, you could
just see that this rivalry with you know, the Dodgers
and the Yankees, it's pretty specially goes way back, and
so now we're doing it again, you know, opposing one another.
So it's a pretty good story.
Speaker 9 (39:15):
That was thirty plus years ago that you and Aaron
competed against each other in college. You were both I
think nineteen years old when with the first time you
got UCLA and USC played. What do you remember about
those games? And were you friends off the field or
didn't Bruins and Trojans mingle back then?
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Now, we weren't friends. I think at that point in time,
I didn't care too much for him. I don't think
he cared too much for me, and I do recall
they probably got the best of us back in the day,
so I probably enhanced my distaste for him and the Trojans.
But he was always the heck of a ballplayer. You knew,
I mean we played against each other and in the
(39:54):
big leagues, and so he was always a smart baseball player,
obviously a great pedigree, so you knew he was going
to be in the game for a long time and
just could be more excited for him.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
If we didn't need any more storylines for this World
Series Dodgers Yankees, yet another one Aaron Boone Dave Roberts,
going back to nineteen ninety two when they played against
each other UCLA and USC and now both managers for
the Dodgers and Yankees. This is unreal how these things
lining up.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Kind of a neat too, is you can kind of
see these things way back and they fester into both
being managers. You could see that with Mike Soosha, you
could see that with a bunch of different guys. Corey Lavallo,
you know, he's another guy that you could tell that
just had that aptitude to become something bigger once the
game was over and become something like a manager. And
(40:45):
that's what happened with these two guys.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, it is unbelievable to see the two of them
at the stage that they're at now. And not only
are they talking about the history between the two and
now the bigger conversation is which one of these managers
needs to win this World Series more to save their job?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I mean, do you really think their jobs on the
line if they don't win it.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
I mean, that's the narrative is I mean, one of
these is going to lose their job if they don't win,
because this means so much.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I just don't think that's fair. I gotta tell you,
I know it's, you know, win the World Series or
go home gets bust. I get it. I understand the
mentality but to fire somebody to lose their job with
all the great things. Dave Roberts with ninety eight wins,
the best team in baseball. Now he gets past the Padres,
(41:29):
probably the best team in postseason besides the Dodgers. I
think now he's in the World Series. If they don't win,
his job's gone. I don't think that's right at all.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
No, I saw a whole question.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
I know you don't, Tim, I can't believe that from.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Some riders saying which manager needs to win this World
Series more to keep their job? And they were debating
whether it was Aaron Boone or Dave Roberts. And in
New York, certainly they think Aaron Boone needs to do
something because he hasn't won a World Series and hasn't
gotten to a World Series since taking over as manager
in twenty eighteen. So I would say he needs this
more than anybody Dave Roberts for what he's done. I mean,
(42:04):
they shouldn't even be a question in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Well, look, yeah, when they say you know who needs
to win this more and who's gonna lose your job?
Well I guarantee one thing. Dave Roberts and Aaron Boone.
They're not gonna be swinging the bat, pitching, running, fielding,
doing anything. So this this whole thing, you're gonna can
the guy. If they don't win, they're not they're not playing.
All they can do is manage a team. All the
(42:29):
officionados in baseball knows that anything can happen. You could
have the Pittsburgh Pirates, put them supplant the Pittsburgh Pirates
now for for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and you know what,
they probably wouldn't, but it wouldn't be unheard of for
the Pittsburgh Pirates to beat the Yankees in seven games
could very well happen. So baseball is so unpredictable to
(42:51):
can a guy and lose the job over everything that
Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts have done great to manage
these two teams, which is not easy. I just think
that would be crazy wrong to do.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
If either one of these managers was managing the Pittsburgh
Pirates and got them to a World they would.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Be in last place.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
They'd have a statue built right off the clementing Hey
in Pittsburgh David World Series.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
They would both finish. No, the Pirates would finish right
where they finished this year. If both of those, either
of those guys manage his team, Yeah, the Pirates would
finish right where they did.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Yeah, no doubt about it. They're not going anywhere if
not the seller. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy.
Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
the number we'll get to your phone calls coming up.
We'll also hear from Steve Jaeger. But on the other
side of the break, have your phone on you. If
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If you were out there and one of the hundreds
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