October 17, 2025 • 42 mins
Steve and Tim talk about Mookie Betts and his play at SS. Take Your Calls on the Dodgers NLCS MVP.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
They say, the hardest thing in sports isn't winning a title.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's hard to repeat seasons.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
It's winning it again.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
This year. Is not trying to win a championship, They're
trying to repeat.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's October baseball for your world champion in La Dodger.
Speaker 5 (00:15):
The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western
Division champions.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And you know what that means.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Saxon Kates and AM is back.
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This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates
and former World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Reacting, taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball all
postseason long.
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Now Here they are on AM five to seventy LA
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Steve Sacks, Tim Kaits.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Tim Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Saxon Kates in the Am taking over your radio here
in the month of October. Steve Sacks, two time World
Series Champion, Rookie of the Year man. He threw a
strike yesterday the ceremonial opening pitch along with Mike Sooshia
as the Dodgers then went on to celebrate what was
a great first pitch with a win with a run
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in the first. They scored two more later in the game,
and they beat the Milwaukee Brewers three to one to
take Game three. This NLCS to take a commanding three
to zero series lead in this best of seven a
National League Championship series with a chance to close things
out with Shohei Otani on the mound here in Game four,
five thirty eight, first pitch right here in your home
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You'll be live from Dodger Stadium from two until four
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at four point thirty in the afternoon. This is a
Dodger starting staff that has been absolutely fantastic so far
in the playoffs six and one combined with a one
to fifty four ERA at batting average, a one to
thirty four against and they are neutralizing m Milwaukee Brewers
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team Steve that had the most end in baseball during
the regular season, had one of the better offensive productions
as a team in twenty twenty five, and what they
have done neutralizing Pat Murphy, Christian Yelich and this Milwaukee
Brewers offense has been pretty some. It has been special
to watch.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, and at the top of the order, Jackson Churio
is a guy that can really really get it ramped
up for this team. Nada, I mean absolutely naa. And
you know he as you want to say ambushed or
you know, I say it's ready to hit. In his
first time up yesterday, right in the previous game and
not yesterday, but the serious game game too, it hits
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the home run first pitch of the game. But but
you know what, that's okay because you know they have
to do something out of the ordinary. Now it's it's
it's such an uphill climb. But look, I think the
worst thing you can do, if you're the Dodger fan
or the Dodger whatever the followers is don't get don't
just start counting the MVP. Don't start saying, oh, we
got to move it up real quick the World Series,
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because this is over.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
It's over.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's not the worst thing that could happen is you
get complacent and you let these guys back in the game. Okay,
let's say they win the next two and you go
back to Milwaukee. That's not comfortable. That's very uncomfortable. We
were playing the Yankees in eighty one. We lost the
first two games. We come back and win four straight,
and it's sayonara, okay, but you don't want to get
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these guys back in the game.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Christian Yelich led the Brewers with twenty nine home runs
during the regular season. In the postseason, he's batting two
hundred and he's batting one for eleven. In the NLCS,
he's oh ninety one in the first three games. Rice
Terrang Jackson Curio, who you alluded to, combined two for
twenty three against the Dodgers. Andrew Vaughn, who was a
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hero in the NLDS for the Milwaukee Brewers, is still
looking for his first hit in the NLC.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Look at this picture, Tim, This is this is the
story by Tom Dierberger. Diyerberger and I'm not sure if
that's part of MLB, but this picture right here, Christian yellow,
Christian Yellowchy sums it up right now.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Where these guys are a picture. Is that a look
of confusion, frustration, bewilderment, maybe all of that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Maybe all of that, And this is kind of the
body language and that you're getting from the team when
Yelick swung and miss for strike three yesterday, he just
kind of shrugged his shoulders forward, slumped over and just said,
what do we do? How can we possibly get in
in this game? And the idea that the real, the
real answer is you can't. You're down three and you're
facing four number ones. I mean, you know, that's that's
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what it looks like.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
If there was a little bubble above that picture of
Christian Yelich, what would MLB dot com I think in
that bubble it would say like a bunch of like
little typed out letters because it was profanity, like, oh, bleep, yes,
probably I bleep dot dot dot. We didn't face this
during the season.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Now we got Otani, now we got now we got
Sasaki in the bullpen. Now we got Max Munsey stabbing
the ball at third base and throwing him out at home.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But we didn't see that during the It's it's a
look of like he's looking at the scoreboard thinking, is
this ever gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Mookie jump throws from shortstop in the night. We didn't
see that during the season. By movie, what I mean,
this guy's this guy is a This guy reminds me
of like a leopard out there because he's got his
body is he's got that strong sinwy you know type
of a development. He's almost built like a dancer.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He's tall, thin, really rock strong, uh and so athletic
to make that play that that's not an easy play.
What did Derek Jeter say about that?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Derek Jeter on the post game on Fox yesterday said
they were a rod and Big Poppy said, hey, uh,
Derek looks like you out there, and he goes, yeah,
except I wouldn't have won. Hoppted whoa, Okay, he was joking, Yeah,
this is my territory, right, and I kind of made
that big.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I mean, he didn't invent it. It's been around, but
but he made it more popular and I didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I didn't want to hop it. Okay. It was a
great eight jump stop throw across your body back to
first base and Freddie Freeman again. Look at Freddy Freeman
making a pick over there at first base once you
know it. But not nominated for a finalist yet again
for a Gold Glove, but I digress. Yesterday, Mookie Betts
fantastic defensively. It has grown on us to see his
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development the last year plus since last spring training in
twenty twenty four where he said I can't watch Gavin
looks a memore over short I got to come over
and play shorts. Move over, let me play shortstop, and
he did it right before they went to Korea. It
was a learning lesson last year. This year he's now
a finalist for the Gold Glove. You talked about it.
Let's not get too far out there. They're up three
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to nothing. Here's Mookie Betts after the game yesterday talking
about his great defensive play, and Mookie Bets as well saying, hey,
pump the break Dodger fans. Yeah, the series isn't over.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
You put into words the emotion that you have right now,
knowing what you've accomplished.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
But there's still a lot of work to do, so.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You have to be ready and able to concentrate on
that as well. Honestly, I have zero emotions.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
I I mean, we're up, but you know, like Kobe said,
the job's not done, so we got to keep going
and just keep applying pressure.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It was a challenge and you've proved obviously that you're
a great short stop. Now you're arguably the best shortstop
in the game. How does that happen.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I don't know, God god given abilities, but I mean
I'm just doing my job. I'm just doing my job,
going out there and playing short that's all.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
It's a lot of work too, a lot of work,
a lot of work.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
But you work a lot too, so you know it's
no different than anybody else.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
But you're not surprised that you're in this position to or.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You like the Dodgers. No, I mean, this is what
we play for.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
I mean, it doesn't really matter necessarily what it looks like,
but we're playing to win the World Series, and so
however that comes is how it comes to you.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
The MoMA mentality clicks in.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I think now that this is my like my twelfth year. Yeah,
definitely does feel different. I mean the season, you know,
it gets long, and it's it's hard to play one
hundred and sixty games and really just kind of stay
locked in. But when you uh, when you get to
the postseason, you really get the playoff time. Not that
this matters more than the regular season, but it's just
just a different mindset, a different feel and makes it's
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a lot more fun when.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You like you did in the ninth do you take
a minute to appreciate it. You ever go back and
look at the video and so how do.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
They do that?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
I don't see how I do that, But you go
back and look at it, and I go back and
watch all my plays, even the routine ones. Just you
can learn what I can do better, learn what I
did right, and then then you move on.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Do you surprise yourself sometime?
Speaker 7 (08:35):
No?
Speaker 8 (08:35):
No, I think once I get to the ball, I
believe and trust in my athletic ability to uh to
make a play.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Okay, I know you're not focused on individual awards.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
What does it mean to be a good club final meal?
Speaker 8 (08:46):
I mean, like I said, I don't really care about it.
I'm it's just I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
You know.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
That's how I kind of view it. And but I
mean it's cool. You know, if I want to go
glove it short, that would be something that I can
definitely tell my son. You know, I was able to
do one of the infield, in one of the outfield.
But at the end of the day, the World Series
is what's the most important.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
All Right. There's Mookie Beds and he's saying all the
right things. I love the indifference and you have to
stay indifferent. And not get caught up in the moment.
He's like a doctor that's going in for surgery and
he's professionals. He's extremely talented, he's.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Prepared, and you go out and let the chips fallward
with the me. He's in the middle of the war,
so of course he's going to be indifferent and not
get emotional about it. Moki is doing it exactly the
right way mentally as well.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I love the Mamba mentality that he has embraced, and
I think it's only fitting and being here in Los
Angeles with the late great Kobe Bryant, who back in
the two thousand and nine NBA Finals was asked about
being up in this series and he said, job's not finished. Yeah,
Job's not finished. And that stoic look that you can
get you in your mind if you're a Kobe Bryant
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fan and a Laker fan. You see it in Mookie
Betts as well, that stoic look pantures Yeah, and just
he knows. I mean, so what, we're up three games
to nothing, this is this is far from over, and
yet there's still another prize in the next round.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You got to win five more games. You and you
know it's it's it's almost like, you know, hear it
a lot. It's it's a cliche if you will, but
you know, you have to think about this game and
not the others right now. And that's what he's doing.
He's staying indifferent and he has to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
This is where the Dodgers, I think, separate themselves from
the Brewers, and I think they separate themselves from the
other two teams in the American League. The experience of
being here, the knowledge of how to perform in the postseason,
what it takes mentally, emotionally and physically to perform in October.
How to keep that heartbeat rested, how to perform under anxiety,
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how to perform in front of fifty thousand screaming at
you at home and on the road. How to elevate
your game to make play like he did in the
ninth inning against the Brewers and the jump stop Derek
Jeter s throw the Max Munths he's at third yesterday,
the head's up, spin on your knee, throw and get
the runner at home to keep it a one to
one game. The clutchness of Tommy Edmund in the sixth
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inning with the basin up the middle, to drive in
Will Smith the bullpen guys, knowing that October's different than August,
it's different than July. We got to elevate our game
collectively and become the dogs again. They know better than
anybody else still left how to perform right now.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And everybody on the field knows the talent better than anybody.
All the pundits or whatever. Those guys on the field
know it. Milwaukee's probably their mindset is, hey, let's get
him out of their game. We've got enough pitching to
get them out of their game. What's their game? Their
games to slug, So we'll get them out of the game.
Last game, no home runs.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
What happens?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
They still the Brewers still lose because the Dodgers, in
turn to counter that, is like, well, we're not all
just about slug like you think. We can also pitch
in neutral your bats. We can play great defenses. You
saw the left side of the field doing that all
all day long. You got Freddy over there picking everything.
The bullpen, which, oh, we'll get into their bullpen will
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somehow get passed. Those great starters, will wear them out.
We'll get into that bullpen, and that's where we'll thrive.
We'll beat them, right, No, not so fast. You saw
Blake trying to You saw Banda, you saw Roki come
in and just shut them down. I mean they gotta
be thinking, what the heck do we have to do.
I mean it's a there's there's not a lot of daylight.
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There bro not a lot of daylight.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You just summed up what Christian Yelich is thinking. And
that picture on their front of MLB dot com where
he's just staring off into the distance wandering, Yeah, what
has happened? We're the best team in baseball during the
regular we were six and zero against these What is
gone is shell shock. That's not the team we face. No, no, no,
not at all. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
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five seventy. Damn Massa joins us. Next hour. Let's go
out to the phones. Daniel Montclayer, Daniel, welcome. How are
you doing, buddy?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Hey, thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Sure go on, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (13:03):
So, first of all, just quickly, I feel like a
lot of the callers are kind of jumping the gun
here and we haven't won four games where we were
looking ahead too soon. But also listening to Petros and
Money yesterday they mentioned the Freddy Dance and where the
Freddy Dance originated, but they said it came from his
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son's birthday party, or there's video of him dancing the
way he does, and I always thought it was from
the Dodgers gala that they have at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It is, and appreciate the phone call, Danielle. Yeah, corrections
and attractions on Matt Money, Smith and Petros. The Freddy Dance,
which we see them all do when they get to
second base or get to first base if they driving
a run, started in twenty twenty three during that season
in which the Dodgers were and still are making fun
of Freddie Freeman and him dancing at the Dodger Blue
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Diamond Gala. It went viral of him dancing and you know,
moving his hips and his shoulders and you know, having
a good time and just kind of awkwardly doing that
Freddie Freeman, white guy dad. I was wondering what that
was that was implemented by the team there in late
twenty twenty three, and they still do it to this
day amongst other celebrations, and it's all done and fun.
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And you know, it started by mocking Freddie Freeman, and
it's turned into this celebration where not only do they
do the Freddy as they say, Freddie, but they lock
it out with like this, you know, like we're like,
wwe like back to you kind of thing, right, and
they do it to the bullpen and they salute back
and then they look at the bench and they do
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the Freddy and they lock it out and the bench,
all of them unison, will lock it out at the
same time. So it's all done in fun. But you
know what, that to me shows a team that's together.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Shows culture. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it really does. It shows unity.
And you know, I don't know if I was Nolan
Ryan pitching against you and you did that, if I'd
want to see the unity locked out on me, because
Olin Ryan would really if you did that to him.
But but but nonetheless, the game's change and.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's that's what they do today.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But it shows how how close the guys are, and
especially you're going over a span of a couple of
years and you're still kind of and you know, you
mock people like that the people that you love the most,
and so that just shows the difference they have.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
For Freddy Freeman. I think it's fun because it's done
in fun. That that gesture and I look across you
know a baseball do I have a problem with what
Fernando Tatist does when he hits a home run. He
gets halfway between short and third and stops yeah and
does like this fade away back.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well, that that thing is about him. This thing that
the that the that the Dodgers do is about a
player that we respect. It's not about you. Everybody does it.
So it's all about love and Freddy, That's what it's about.
It's yeah, that that that thing where you get almost
a third base and he stops, let me kiss myself
up and down. Shoot, no, you're not a basketball player, dude, Okay.
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And then and then you go to third base. That's tired, man,
It's all about me. It's tired. I'm real tired. I'm
with you.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's a it's a singular eye celebration that some guys
in baseball do. I like the collective ones. I like
the Blue Jays put on the sports coat, you go,
that's got after they do. I think it was the
Cubs of the Red Sox had the the the dirty
clothes hamper that they used to go up and down
the dugout with a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, they push him in the cart. Yeah that that
was good.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The uh the Angels had a when Otani was there.
It was like a samurai helmet. You've seen the fire
helmet in a couple of cities that they used. Has
the Big Trient tried it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That they that's yeah, pretty cool, pretty cool. Yeah, I
like that a lot. And in football, they used to
have the dogs in in Washington, uh and wearing the
mask or no, that was in Cleveland, right, Cleveland. Yeah,
they call them the hogs and that was a compliment.
You call a hog man, that's that's a that's a
big compliment in football. It's prevalent everywhere now that all
these celebrations. Arizona State, I think it is, has got
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uh these swords uh that kind of stick out like
a uh Game of Thrones type of cele uh trophy
And every time they get an interception or a fumble recovery,
they take the football and they go and they place
it on the sword and it deflates the football and
it's like it's like we've captured and we just killed
you and put you up first, you know, Okay, to
see that's good. But those kind of things, and there
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were way back when there was a rally monkey Remember
the rally?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Okay, remember that? And that's really the first thing. I mean,
I don't know, and baseball it kind of feels like
the first thing that really was a celebration.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh started to remember the rally towels.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah they had rally towel was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That was kind of like that. But but you know,
all those things are really good. You know that that's
that's a really a fun thing, and it's it brings
the team together. It gives you something to cheer about collectively.
What would the eighty eight Dodgers have done?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Oh, was there a rallying cry that you guys maybe
had amongst the team that if you could turn it
into a celebration on base you guys could have maybe
gotten away with it. Now, if it was something that
you couldn't have got away with, yeah, you could do
a public gesture that certain you didn't want to bring
that out. But is there something that it was safe
and fun?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Maybe if we had a Bob Cassas or a David Koondall,
we could have stabbed it or beat it up every
time we got a big hit or you know, punch
somebody out into in any way.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, that would have been good. Bob's castus and this
is you know he's a short guy. Yeah, he's vertically challenged.
You know in basketball, if you dunk on somebody, you
kind of put your hands down like I just dunked
on you. Oh, I get it. You could have done that,
like yeah, put that hand like low le like look,
you gotta be this tall to ride? Yeah, literally exactly exactly.
You could have done that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You could have had like a picture, you know how
they have like the little caricature of the guy pointing,
you know, to to the uh you know, to the
tape measure right there, and it says, got.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
To be this tall to ride, or eleven or taller.
I think they would have got it right. They would
have understood that right. That would have been fun to do. Yeah,
I think I think you guys would have had You
wouldn't have got away with it, because, as you said,
somebody trump you. Somebody would thumped you different it was.
It was you couldn't get away.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And you know, just think about it. It's like at
Simon playing second base. They were trying to literally cut
you in half on a double play. Right, Today, can't
touch the guy. You got to slide straight to the base.
You can't get very You used to be able to
if you were touching the base, you could go out
and get the guy if you could touch the base.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Today, no, you got to go right to it. You
gotta go right to him. You gotta clean, have a
nice clean slide in there, and then you gotta dap
them up afterwards. Yeah, you guys say, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You got to give him a fist, bump, pat the
leg or you know, you know what what happened. You know,
I think is the most disgusting thing to see. But
but at the same time I love it because it's
so demeaning, is what's Remember remember when people would start dabbing.
Remember what is that called dabbing?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
That was was that the Cam Newton dab?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, oh my god. That used to bug the crap
out of me when I see that. And so now
when I do it to my sisters and my brother
walk in the house and I walk in the house,
I do the dabs like, oh, don't do that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, the dab I'm glad the dab's gone. Yeah, that
was That was a celebration I wasn't a fan of.
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the am on this Friday morning. The sun is out
on a cloud in the sky and the Dodgers are
one went away from going back to the World Series
after a three to one win over the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday.
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A dominating pitching performance Tyler Glass. Now the Dodgers' bullpen
coming in and locking it down. Blake Tringing, Alex Vesia,
Anthony Banda got the eighth inning. As the dogs are back,
they're barking the bullpen. Dogs are back. And you add
Roki Sasaki. We were just watching the highlights of him
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closing out the ninth inning yesterday. That split finger fastball
to Durban that he threw to struck up striking out
in the ninth inning. You talk about nasty. He's pumping
one hundred on a fastball and then he throws the
split finger where I feel bad for Will Smith. I
don't think he knows where that thing's going.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So that thing, that split finger that he threw for
the strikeout, was that in Durban. He just abused him.
That thing started out like in like Minnesota, and it
wound up in Florida. That's what I look at, Boom
and that thing dropped viciously, okay, And that's what you get.
And how about the bullpen yesterday in Scope? You look
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at what the bullpen done had done because they talked about,
you know, it's gonna be a liability. It's not a
sanctuary like it was last year. Let me give you
a number here, Okay. The bullpen came in for three
and a third and they give up one hit, no runs,
and four strikeouts across the board. This was a shove
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from the bullpen, three and a third of complete shove. Okay,
So we have to relax a little bit. The bullpen's back.
The bullpen is a strong point now.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Alex Vessi came in and got the last out of
the sixth inning, came back out in the seventh trying
and helped him out. Come in as a right hander
in the seventh inning, Anthony Bonda needed ten pitches to
get out of the eighth inning. He was fantastic. And
Anthony Bonda is pitching the way he's pitching right now,
look out because it's just another left handed arm, yes,
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down there in the bullpen to go along with Vessi
and crew. And then Roki Sasaki came in in a
three to one game, and you knew right away his
stuff was nasty from the first batter that he faced
one hundred and one, missed on the fringe of the zone,
comes back with a strike, has the split finger working,
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and just was absolutely filthy. Thirteen pitches. I gotta believe
he should be good to go if he needs to pitch. Yeah,
in Game four today it was thirteen pitches to close
out the ninth inning. And again we mentioned in the
first hour, Jacob Miserowski pitched well, the shadows were a
little bit of an issue. And then you talked to
David Vassa and we'll talk to him in about half
an hour. Not only were the shadows in that middle
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part of the game with the hitter and the pitcher
kind of an issue. I mean, he's pumping one hundred
and two at you and it's going from light to
dark as it's coming across the place. Deta Oscar. He
didn't see that pitch. I don't think he did. As
the shadows moved out and weren't necessarily a problem between
home plate and the pitcher's mound. As it got into
the third, fourth and fifth inning, it was an issue
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on the outfield. And you look at that batter's eye
and you're looking at you know where the balls coming
out of the pitcher's hands, Steve Yes, it's it is
going from light to dark still even though inside between
the mount and the and the picture and the home plate,
it's uh, it's completely covered in shade.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, whatever it was. He struck out nine and he
was he was amazing. That kid has got a huge future.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
But going back to the Dodger real quick, Well, Tanner
Scott out right can't can't come back.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, we got this banded dude. You got this guy
named Banda that can come up and and he did
some shoving of his own and very impressed with his stuff,
by the way.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I mean, Justin Robleski is a guy that the Dodgers
still can go to. And there's a future Hall of
Famer still sitting down there in the in the dugout,
in the bullpen, that the Dodgers can go to him
and you know, we'll see if he gets into the
game today. I think a golden opportunity for him to
get back on the mound and a positive outcome would
be a Dodger lead at Dodger Stadium either tonight or
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if it happens to go to a game five tomorrow
and get him out there on the mound in a
positive situation, get them out, and you know, let him
at least start to end his career here as we
wind out getting closer to the World Series on a
positive note.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
As suppose what happened against the Phillies last week. I'm
caught between hearing kind of what you're saying there is
like let's get some of the vestiges of something that
was really great at one time, to bring it back,
resurrect it, and let's end it on a high, high
note here. Yeah, okay, but listen, I think we must
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subjugate that idea down a little bit and say we
got to wash these guys out. Okay, I'm all for
this celebratory Clayton coming in and giving the one last good,
great thing that we saw for twenty some years, but
only only when these guys are locked down and it's
you know, not in a high leverage situation. With all
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the respect to respect to Clayton, you gotta you gotta
snuff these dudes out. There's still work to be done.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
So if this was a fight and the Brewers are
down on the ground, in essence, the only time Kershaw's
getting a punch and is list everybody's holding the Brewers down,
and it's the same situation, and you feel good about
the way he's gonna throw a punch to end this series.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I wouldn't go quite that far because you know, Clayton's
can still He finished the season five and oh right,
he his last five starts he was really really good.
So no, I think he can still get people out
and whatnot. But you gotta go with what your top
thing is right now. And Okay, if you the game
was on the line, are are you going with Roki
or Vessia or or are you gonna go with Clayton? Yeah,
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you know what I mean. I just got to get
the game done first. I gotta I gotta win first.
I'm with you. I love Clayton Kershaw, I mean, you
want him to be your next door neighbor, right, you
want your daughter to date this dude, right, That's that's
the kind of guy he is. But you know, uh,
and believe me, I know he's married. I'm not saying
that guy. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I'm talking about overall view, he's a super human being,
first ballot Hall of Famer. But I gotta win. And
Clayton knows where he is right now. He's a very
bright guy. Of course he has and and there's nothing
but respect for him. He's amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Thomas and Corona, thanks for being patient. Welcome to Saxon
Kate today. I'm on this Friday morning. How you doing.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Great? Thank you for taking my call. Appreciate it, guys quickly,
I just wanted to talk about something that you guys
had mentioned in the first hour about Sure not wanting
to come out of the game. So I think Dave
Roberts is doing a terrific job managing. Steve just mentioned
about the bullpen starting pitching. So if you go back
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to the Phillies game two, Blake Snow had just walked
somebody and Dave Roberts comes out of the dugout giving
my lefty Vessia. Sylvessia starts running in to the field,
and then I looked it up on YouTube and as
Dave Roberts was walking out, Blake Snow said, I got it,
I got it, and Dave left them in what happens next,
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he strikes out the next guy out of the inning
in a high leverage situation. And then last year when
Blake Tryinging was pitching in the World Series, Dave came
out and Dave actually put his hand on Blake Trynon's
chest and he said, basically, you got this next thing,
you know, strike out. We're out of a high leverage situation.
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So I just wanted to say, Dave Roberts is showing
confidence in the bullpen and starting pitching, and he's doing
a terrific job. Just what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Glad you brought that up, Thomas, because I had already
forgotten about what happened in that Philadelphia Series in the NLDS,
And he's absolutely right. Blake Snell was out there, Alex
Vesio was coming in out of the bullpen, had to
turn around and go right back to the bullpen because
Blake Snell wanted to finish out that game, and you're right.
You go back to last year's World Series in New York,
Blake tryning on the mound. Dave Roberts goes out there,
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I think that was Game five, goes out there, looks
at trying it and Dave afterwards that I looked into
his eyes and I wanted to hear it from him.
I wanted him to tell me I got this, and
I was thought, that's what I was looking for. And
when I went out there, I put my finger in
his chest, not to not to be mad at him,
but to ask him, and he accepted the challenge.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's that's another part of the culture that we talked about,
which is which is critical. That's that's your manager having
his finger to the pulse and knows exactly where the
player's coming from.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Now listen.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
He could have said the same words, but it was
the body language and looking into his eyes that made
the difference. For Dave, he knows what he was going
to say, I got this, but I want to see
how he says it. That's the difference of if it's
like I got I got this, or or I got
this get back, you know, that type of thing. He
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wanted to see how he said it.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
It's funny because last night Alex Rodriguez said this on
UH on Fox after the game, and it's it's piggybacking
what you just said there and as a middle infielders,
you guys come on to the mound and you guys
are all gathered out there in the mirror and he's talking.
He said a lot of the times the manager said something,
but it's not directed towards the picture. He's really asking
the catcher. Yes, but he's looking at the picture right, Oh,
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how much he got left? What do you think? He's
really asking the guy with the gear on what he thinks,
because he's gonna give you more of an honest answer.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I used to do this to my kids all the time.
Be talking to my one of my friends or another
family member, and my kids are sitting there at the
at the island on the in the kitchen, you know,
we're all sitting around talking and I'm talking about drugs
and alcohol whatever, and I'm telling them how terrible it is.
And I'm talking to my brother or my sister about
it and tell him how terrible that blah blah blah.
What I'm really doing is I'm talking to my kids,
and because they don't want to be talked to. You know,
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if somebody else tells them or they hear it just
by osmosis and they get it that way, Ah, it
lands a little bit better, you know what I mean.
So I know exactly what he's doing. Tim, Do I
have a second to tell you one time when when
you know I'm gonna give you the other side of
when a manager comes out and talks to his picture
and and the picture's lobbying to stay in the game.
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An instance with Jesse Roscoe and Tommy Lasorda in the
playoffs against the Mets. You know Tommy, Tommy waddles out
there and and uh, he's he's he's furious, he's got
spit flying, he's cussing and everything. And Jesse looks at
Tommy and Jesse can't throw a strike Tommy. He looks
at Tommy. He said, Tommy, I got this, or Tommy
just rugged you got this? You He just let him
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have it, talking about every expert if you can talk
about and and and then finally Tommy has his way
of doing it. Finally he says, Okay, you do it.
I can't tell you the words he said, but he says,
you better do it, and if you don't, we're gonna lose. Basically,
he slammed the ball in his glove and walked out,
and Jesse got you out. I mean, Tommy knew how
to get it out of Jesse. It wasn't too soft
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shoe it, or to kind of be a little indifferent
about it. It was to you know, make it, make
it very well known with everybody there in the infield listening,
because he was he was letting everybody to embarrass him.
He almost had to him, but he knew that's how
he had to do it, to get Jesse to do it,
and he did it and it worked.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
At any points, you ever put the glove over your
mouth and just start laughing, Oh God, something man, Tommy, Yes, yes,
or something that happened on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, well, I remember in the spring training Tommy would
get towards the dog days of the spring training, he
would call me in into his office and say, Hey,
I want you to tell a joke, or I want
you to get you know, Marshall to say this, or
I want.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
You to tell that story about it.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I need to get these guys going, so I want
you to start kind of a funny thing or a
fight going between some guys, because I got to get
these guys going. And Tommy was in there and he
was giving his speech, and Jerry Royce had a clicker
in his hand, and every time Tommy dropped the F bomb,
you hear click, and he Sarah, I'm telling you, bubb
click click, And pretty soon everybody got on what he
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was doing. Every time he dropped an F bomb, there
was a click. You could hear it, and it was
like something like seventy eight F bombs. Oh my good
during the meeting. Yeah, it was his favorite word, right.
And here's another thing about Tommy. You know his wife,
Joe and him were married for sixty seventy years. Tommy
never said a swear word in front of his wife,
never and Joe. Joe attested to this because I asked
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her once. She said, I've never heard him swear. I said, boy,
you got to come in the locker room for five minutes.
You near a different story, but true story.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
That's awesome. That is awesome. He is Steve Sacks, I
and Tim Kats coming up. We got to give away
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a three to zero series leading the best of seven
(33:49):
NLCS A three to one win yesterday, Tyler Glass now
really good. Showy Otani a lead off triple in the
first He'd come around and scored the first run of
the game. The Dodge beat the Brewers three to one.
As a Dodgers bullpen again three plus innings. They were
fantastic putting up zeros and the Dodgers now one win
away from going back to a World Series as they
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now look to do it tonight with show hey Otani
on the mound, first pitch at five thirty eight live
from Dodgers Stadium. WHI I'm Wrongo because you know Dodgers
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Petro some money. He'll be out there from two until
four thirty this afternoon. David Bastabell join us after the
top of the hour. But we got Game four tickets
to give away here on scam. Saxon Kates at the AM,
(34:34):
so let's run through some calls. Saxy, let's go to
Lee in Corona. You're next up on Saxon Kate to
the AM. How you doing Lee?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Hey, good guys, how are you on calling again to
take my medicine? Especially from U Steve. I said yesterday
they should wait to start glassdown on Game four. I
was completely wrong. I want you to give it to
me again, and I want to go for the hat trick.
I think they should wait, So let me finish that.
They should wait and start Otawani tomorrow if there is
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a tomorrow, because if the Dodgers lose today, then you've
got show. Hey who date Roberts has said, doesn't really
matter how much rets he gets as long as he
gets a nuts, so he gets an extra day. And
then if it goes to six and seven, you got
Snell and Yamamoto on six days rest because of the
travel day. So I want you to tell me I'm
wrong again because I want to go Voo for three.
(35:23):
I want the Dodgers to clench tonight. And then my
second My second thing is that a reporter asked a
really good question for Roberts yesterday in a postgame conference.
He goes, I know this is a tough question to
ask because you're up three to not then, but are
you concerned with not getting runners in with less than
two outs when they're in scoring position? And he said, no,
I'm not concerned, but we do need to do a
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better job of doing that. There's no question about that.
So it's just funny. I basically quoted what Roberts said.
I posted that on a couple of Dodger sites and
they said I was complaining. So I just want to
get your guys' takes, and Steve really hammered me because
I want to ten tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Thank you guys, all right, Lee, appreciate the phone call.
Thanks for checking in. I I think that's ridiculous to
wait for show Heotani to start Game five. You keep
talking about it. We heard from Mookie BET's job not
finished quoting the Great Kobe Bryant and that mama mentality
if you got a dominant starter in show, heo Tani
ready to go in a close out situation. I'm not
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playing the what if game. I'm not playing the well
let's save him for game five. No, use him tonight,
that's not even a question.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
If he doesn't pitch, who pitches tonight?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Uh? Okay, so ridiculous. I've got to let who are
our callers? Lee?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
It was Lee, right Lee? Lee called Yesterdady to so
Lee on, let me give it to you this way?
Lee is Uh. Absolutely, that's a hard no. On Tani
starting waiting to start. I understand how you you know?
And then you line up Yamamoto and uh and who
do you say? Yamamoto and uh Snell Snell to pitch
the last suit. No, you could do that anyway. I
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mean that doesn't matter. It's only one day. You could
do that anyway. You're not gonna lose that that fact
right there. As far as Otani pitching this weight, No,
that's a hard no. Because Otani's more in rhythm. He
is scheduled to start this game. You don't want to
upset that. I think you just kind of leave that
where it is. You continue your momentum as you dictated.
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The Dodgers are dictating here. They're not going in second
fiddle and trying to suave this thing to think, oh,
what would be best just in case. No, you go
full on. You're not looking for any cavalry here to
come and save you. You dictate the terms and you
slaughter these guys tonight and wipe this thing out.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
You do it tonight. Nate in Long Beach, are next
up with Saxon, Kates and the am leading you up
to Game four of the NLCS high Nate.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Hey man, I got my bona fides. I was at
the Gibson game on top deck, second row from the
top right at first base, and I remember Saxony on deck.
I knew I'd never seen anything greater than that in
my sporting career. But I have been going to games.
I watched one hundred and twenty Dodter games a year,
from first base to final out. And just look at
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this season. Six and zero in March fifteen and ten,
in April fifteen and twelve, in May seventeen and ten
in June. We are through June doing everything. Now, we
got people injured but just as a fan, just to
take a like a more a broader look at things.
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In August we were fifteen and thirteen, and then turn
it up again fifteen and ten. But in July we
were ten and fourteen. That July was like going to
the dentist every day. And what continued from July through
September was our bullpen was like it was like watching
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the ghost of Donnie Moore come out of that bullpen
every single time something was going to go wrong. And
to think going into the playoffs, okay, honestly, out of
all the playoff runs in the last thirteen years, this
is the one I was thinking, well, it doesn't look good.
You know, you got your heart, but then you got
your head. And that the Dodgers collectively, from top to bottom,
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meaning all the guys who are telling Dave Roberts what
to do, all the way down to the bat boy,
they all turned it on. And if you're telling me,
we'd be up three toho, eight and one. Trying to
win a pennant. Now, winning a pennant is something that
you put up, okay, that is a pennant is a
big big deal. Playing for the World Series in nineteen
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hundred or twenty twenty five. That's a big deal. The
Dodgers were so terrible in July and just barely over
five hundred, so I mean they were twenty five and
twenty seven in July and August fifteen and ten, they
turn it on. I just have never seen a team
in any sport, baseball, basketball, hockey, nothing be so pitifully
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tortuously bad and and then turn it on where they
look like they are. It's a fail complete that they're
going to win the World championship. Jaxon, do you bring
your ring down? Do you wear your ring?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
No, I've never won it.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
That would thrill you never want it. That would thrill
fans to see the ring being worn by Steve Shackson.
I know you get a kick out of out of
making fans happy.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, I know, if to do that, tell about you,
you know, Nate.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Let me let me let me just say real quickly
that that's the way baseball is, Nate. It's uh it
ebbs and flows. You know, A lot depends on, you know,
cycles that people get in. Some people can stay in
that mode for a longer, and some years are better
than others. Injuries have a have a say in it
as well, So all those factors come into playing baseball.
That's why you play one sixty two. You have three
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seasons during the year, spring training, regular season, postseason, so
it's it's just never. It's so hard to repeat that
baseball is the most skilled game of all the three
major sports, or you know, if you want to add
on more than that's still the most skilled sport there is.
And it's tough. Baseball is a very very hard game
to play. These guys on TV make it look easy
and it's not.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
What every time something gets referenced to being bad or torturous,
it's always like going to the dentist. I like my dentist,
doctor Laala and Laurel Channel of dental group doctor la La. Yeah,
I'm actually oh he's a big listener. I'm actually due
for a cleaning here in October and I had to
postpone my appointment because a scam. Well yeah, it's rightfully,
(41:27):
so I had an eight thirty appointment like a week
ago and scam made me postpone that. So I'm actually
due for a cleaning. But I don't like the fact
the dentist get you know, destrays all the time, like.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Oh, this is so bad. It's like going to the dentist. Well,
doctor Lalla, I want to go get a tooth pulled.
I mean, I just I really do. Hey, you know
what my dentist name is. I'm not making this up.
I can't make it up.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
You can look him up if you say Dave Roberts.
I'm leaving right now.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
No, that was my cardiologist. My cardiologist was doctor Dave Roberts.
I swear to you, I'm not making that up either.
My dentist's name, and look him up in Roseville, California.
Doctor Comfort. Wow, Matthew Comfort. His name was Comfort, though
coming over from Italy he dropped the oh doctor Comfort.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
I mean he was destined to be some sort of
doctor or his parents.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Were both down as too, his mom and dad. He
come over, doctor Comfort. That's his name. Now, if you
were a proctologists, it'd be a little different. Yeah, you'd
want him to be doctor Comfort.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
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Saxon Kates in the Am taking over your radio here
in the month of October. Steve Sacks, two time World
Series Champion, Rookie of the Year man. He threw a
strike yesterday the ceremonial opening pitch along with Mike Sooshia
as the Dodgers then went on to celebrate what was
a great first pitch with a win with a run
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in the first. They scored two more later in the game,
and they beat the Milwaukee Brewers three to one to
take Game three. This NLCS to take a commanding three
to zero series lead in this best of seven a
National League Championship series with a chance to close things
out with Shohei Otani on the mound here in Game four,
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Dodger starting staff that has been absolutely fantastic so far
in the playoffs six and one combined with a one
to fifty four ERA at batting average, a one to
thirty four against and they are neutralizing m Milwaukee Brewers
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team Steve that had the most end in baseball during
the regular season, had one of the better offensive productions
as a team in twenty twenty five, and what they
have done neutralizing Pat Murphy, Christian Yelich and this Milwaukee
Brewers offense has been pretty some. It has been special
to watch.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, and at the top of the order, Jackson Churio
is a guy that can really really get it ramped
up for this team. Nada, I mean absolutely naa. And
you know he as you want to say ambushed or
you know, I say it's ready to hit. In his
first time up yesterday, right in the previous game and
not yesterday, but the serious game game too, it hits
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the home run first pitch of the game. But but
you know what, that's okay because you know they have
to do something out of the ordinary. Now it's it's
it's such an uphill climb. But look, I think the
worst thing you can do, if you're the Dodger fan
or the Dodger whatever the followers is don't get don't
just start counting the MVP. Don't start saying, oh, we
got to move it up real quick the World Series,
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because this is over.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
It's over.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's not the worst thing that could happen is you
get complacent and you let these guys back in the game. Okay,
let's say they win the next two and you go
back to Milwaukee. That's not comfortable. That's very uncomfortable. We
were playing the Yankees in eighty one. We lost the
first two games. We come back and win four straight,
and it's sayonara, okay, but you don't want to get
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these guys back in the game.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Christian Yelich led the Brewers with twenty nine home runs
during the regular season. In the postseason, he's batting two
hundred and he's batting one for eleven. In the NLCS,
he's oh ninety one in the first three games. Rice
Terrang Jackson Curio, who you alluded to, combined two for
twenty three against the Dodgers. Andrew Vaughn, who was a
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hero in the NLDS for the Milwaukee Brewers, is still
looking for his first hit in the NLC.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Look at this picture, Tim, This is this is the
story by Tom Dierberger. Diyerberger and I'm not sure if
that's part of MLB, but this picture right here, Christian yellow,
Christian Yellowchy sums it up right now.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Where these guys are a picture. Is that a look
of confusion, frustration, bewilderment, maybe all of that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Maybe all of that, And this is kind of the
body language and that you're getting from the team when
Yelick swung and miss for strike three yesterday, he just
kind of shrugged his shoulders forward, slumped over and just said,
what do we do? How can we possibly get in
in this game? And the idea that the real, the
real answer is you can't. You're down three and you're
facing four number ones. I mean, you know, that's that's
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what it looks like.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
If there was a little bubble above that picture of
Christian Yelich, what would MLB dot com I think in
that bubble it would say like a bunch of like
little typed out letters because it was profanity, like, oh, bleep, yes,
probably I bleep dot dot dot. We didn't face this
during the season.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Now we got Otani, now we got now we got
Sasaki in the bullpen. Now we got Max Munsey stabbing
the ball at third base and throwing him out at home.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But we didn't see that during the It's it's a
look of like he's looking at the scoreboard thinking, is
this ever gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Mookie jump throws from shortstop in the night. We didn't
see that during the season. By movie, what I mean,
this guy's this guy is a This guy reminds me
of like a leopard out there because he's got his
body is he's got that strong sinwy you know type
of a development. He's almost built like a dancer.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He's tall, thin, really rock strong, uh and so athletic
to make that play that that's not an easy play.
What did Derek Jeter say about that?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Derek Jeter on the post game on Fox yesterday said
they were a rod and Big Poppy said, hey, uh,
Derek looks like you out there, and he goes, yeah,
except I wouldn't have won. Hoppted whoa, Okay, he was joking, Yeah,
this is my territory, right, and I kind of made
that big.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I mean, he didn't invent it. It's been around, but
but he made it more popular and I didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I didn't want to hop it. Okay. It was a
great eight jump stop throw across your body back to
first base and Freddie Freeman again. Look at Freddy Freeman
making a pick over there at first base once you
know it. But not nominated for a finalist yet again
for a Gold Glove, but I digress. Yesterday, Mookie Betts
fantastic defensively. It has grown on us to see his
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development the last year plus since last spring training in
twenty twenty four where he said I can't watch Gavin
looks a memore over short I got to come over
and play shorts. Move over, let me play shortstop, and
he did it right before they went to Korea. It
was a learning lesson last year. This year he's now
a finalist for the Gold Glove. You talked about it.
Let's not get too far out there. They're up three
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to nothing. Here's Mookie Betts after the game yesterday talking
about his great defensive play, and Mookie Bets as well saying, hey,
pump the break Dodger fans. Yeah, the series isn't over.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
You put into words the emotion that you have right now,
knowing what you've accomplished.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
But there's still a lot of work to do, so.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You have to be ready and able to concentrate on
that as well. Honestly, I have zero emotions.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
I I mean, we're up, but you know, like Kobe said,
the job's not done, so we got to keep going
and just keep applying pressure.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It was a challenge and you've proved obviously that you're
a great short stop. Now you're arguably the best shortstop
in the game. How does that happen.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I don't know, God god given abilities, but I mean
I'm just doing my job. I'm just doing my job,
going out there and playing short that's all.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
It's a lot of work too, a lot of work,
a lot of work.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
But you work a lot too, so you know it's
no different than anybody else.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
But you're not surprised that you're in this position to or.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You like the Dodgers. No, I mean, this is what
we play for.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
I mean, it doesn't really matter necessarily what it looks like,
but we're playing to win the World Series, and so
however that comes is how it comes to you.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
The MoMA mentality clicks in.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I think now that this is my like my twelfth year. Yeah,
definitely does feel different. I mean the season, you know,
it gets long, and it's it's hard to play one
hundred and sixty games and really just kind of stay
locked in. But when you uh, when you get to
the postseason, you really get the playoff time. Not that
this matters more than the regular season, but it's just
just a different mindset, a different feel and makes it's
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a lot more fun when.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You like you did in the ninth do you take
a minute to appreciate it. You ever go back and
look at the video and so how do.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
They do that?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
I don't see how I do that, But you go
back and look at it, and I go back and
watch all my plays, even the routine ones. Just you
can learn what I can do better, learn what I
did right, and then then you move on.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Do you surprise yourself sometime?
Speaker 7 (08:35):
No?
Speaker 8 (08:35):
No, I think once I get to the ball, I
believe and trust in my athletic ability to uh to
make a play.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Okay, I know you're not focused on individual awards.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
What does it mean to be a good club final meal?
Speaker 8 (08:46):
I mean, like I said, I don't really care about it.
I'm it's just I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
You know.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
That's how I kind of view it. And but I
mean it's cool. You know, if I want to go
glove it short, that would be something that I can
definitely tell my son. You know, I was able to
do one of the infield, in one of the outfield.
But at the end of the day, the World Series
is what's the most important.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
All Right. There's Mookie Beds and he's saying all the
right things. I love the indifference and you have to
stay indifferent. And not get caught up in the moment.
He's like a doctor that's going in for surgery and
he's professionals. He's extremely talented, he's.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Prepared, and you go out and let the chips fallward
with the me. He's in the middle of the war,
so of course he's going to be indifferent and not
get emotional about it. Moki is doing it exactly the
right way mentally as well.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I love the Mamba mentality that he has embraced, and
I think it's only fitting and being here in Los
Angeles with the late great Kobe Bryant, who back in
the two thousand and nine NBA Finals was asked about
being up in this series and he said, job's not finished. Yeah,
Job's not finished. And that stoic look that you can
get you in your mind if you're a Kobe Bryant
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fan and a Laker fan. You see it in Mookie
Betts as well, that stoic look pantures Yeah, and just
he knows. I mean, so what, we're up three games
to nothing, this is this is far from over, and
yet there's still another prize in the next round.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You got to win five more games. You and you
know it's it's it's almost like, you know, hear it
a lot. It's it's a cliche if you will, but
you know, you have to think about this game and
not the others right now. And that's what he's doing.
He's staying indifferent and he has to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
This is where the Dodgers, I think, separate themselves from
the Brewers, and I think they separate themselves from the
other two teams in the American League. The experience of
being here, the knowledge of how to perform in the postseason,
what it takes mentally, emotionally and physically to perform in October.
How to keep that heartbeat rested, how to perform under anxiety,
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how to perform in front of fifty thousand screaming at
you at home and on the road. How to elevate
your game to make play like he did in the
ninth inning against the Brewers and the jump stop Derek
Jeter s throw the Max Munths he's at third yesterday,
the head's up, spin on your knee, throw and get
the runner at home to keep it a one to
one game. The clutchness of Tommy Edmund in the sixth
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inning with the basin up the middle, to drive in
Will Smith the bullpen guys, knowing that October's different than August,
it's different than July. We got to elevate our game
collectively and become the dogs again. They know better than
anybody else still left how to perform right now.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And everybody on the field knows the talent better than anybody.
All the pundits or whatever. Those guys on the field
know it. Milwaukee's probably their mindset is, hey, let's get
him out of their game. We've got enough pitching to
get them out of their game. What's their game? Their
games to slug, So we'll get them out of the game.
Last game, no home runs.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
What happens?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
They still the Brewers still lose because the Dodgers, in
turn to counter that, is like, well, we're not all
just about slug like you think. We can also pitch
in neutral your bats. We can play great defenses. You
saw the left side of the field doing that all
all day long. You got Freddy over there picking everything.
The bullpen, which, oh, we'll get into their bullpen will
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somehow get passed. Those great starters, will wear them out.
We'll get into that bullpen, and that's where we'll thrive.
We'll beat them, right, No, not so fast. You saw
Blake trying to You saw Banda, you saw Roki come
in and just shut them down. I mean they gotta
be thinking, what the heck do we have to do.
I mean it's a there's there's not a lot of daylight.
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There bro not a lot of daylight.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You just summed up what Christian Yelich is thinking. And
that picture on their front of MLB dot com where
he's just staring off into the distance wandering, Yeah, what
has happened? We're the best team in baseball during the
regular we were six and zero against these What is
gone is shell shock. That's not the team we face. No, no, no,
not at all. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
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five seventy. Damn Massa joins us. Next hour. Let's go
out to the phones. Daniel Montclayer, Daniel, welcome. How are
you doing, buddy?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Hey, thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Sure go on, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (13:03):
So, first of all, just quickly, I feel like a
lot of the callers are kind of jumping the gun
here and we haven't won four games where we were
looking ahead too soon. But also listening to Petros and
Money yesterday they mentioned the Freddy Dance and where the
Freddy Dance originated, but they said it came from his
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son's birthday party, or there's video of him dancing the
way he does, and I always thought it was from
the Dodgers gala that they have at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It is, and appreciate the phone call, Danielle. Yeah, corrections
and attractions on Matt Money, Smith and Petros. The Freddy Dance,
which we see them all do when they get to
second base or get to first base if they driving
a run, started in twenty twenty three during that season
in which the Dodgers were and still are making fun
of Freddie Freeman and him dancing at the Dodger Blue
(13:56):
Diamond Gala. It went viral of him dancing and you know,
moving his hips and his shoulders and you know, having
a good time and just kind of awkwardly doing that
Freddie Freeman, white guy dad. I was wondering what that
was that was implemented by the team there in late
twenty twenty three, and they still do it to this
day amongst other celebrations, and it's all done and fun.
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And you know, it started by mocking Freddie Freeman, and
it's turned into this celebration where not only do they
do the Freddy as they say, Freddie, but they lock
it out with like this, you know, like we're like,
wwe like back to you kind of thing, right, and
they do it to the bullpen and they salute back
and then they look at the bench and they do
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the Freddy and they lock it out and the bench,
all of them unison, will lock it out at the
same time. So it's all done in fun. But you
know what, that to me shows a team that's together.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Shows culture. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it really does. It shows unity.
And you know, I don't know if I was Nolan
Ryan pitching against you and you did that, if I'd
want to see the unity locked out on me, because
Olin Ryan would really if you did that to him.
But but but nonetheless, the game's change and.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's that's what they do today.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But it shows how how close the guys are, and
especially you're going over a span of a couple of
years and you're still kind of and you know, you
mock people like that the people that you love the most,
and so that just shows the difference they have.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
For Freddy Freeman. I think it's fun because it's done
in fun. That that gesture and I look across you
know a baseball do I have a problem with what
Fernando Tatist does when he hits a home run. He
gets halfway between short and third and stops yeah and
does like this fade away back.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well, that that thing is about him. This thing that
the that the that the Dodgers do is about a
player that we respect. It's not about you. Everybody does it.
So it's all about love and Freddy, That's what it's about.
It's yeah, that that that thing where you get almost
a third base and he stops, let me kiss myself
up and down. Shoot, no, you're not a basketball player, dude, Okay.
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And then and then you go to third base. That's tired, man,
It's all about me. It's tired. I'm real tired. I'm
with you.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's a it's a singular eye celebration that some guys
in baseball do. I like the collective ones. I like
the Blue Jays put on the sports coat, you go,
that's got after they do. I think it was the
Cubs of the Red Sox had the the the dirty
clothes hamper that they used to go up and down
the dugout with a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, they push him in the cart. Yeah that that
was good.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The uh the Angels had a when Otani was there.
It was like a samurai helmet. You've seen the fire
helmet in a couple of cities that they used. Has
the Big Trient tried it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That they that's yeah, pretty cool, pretty cool. Yeah, I
like that a lot. And in football, they used to
have the dogs in in Washington, uh and wearing the
mask or no, that was in Cleveland, right, Cleveland. Yeah,
they call them the hogs and that was a compliment.
You call a hog man, that's that's a that's a
big compliment in football. It's prevalent everywhere now that all
these celebrations. Arizona State, I think it is, has got
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uh these swords uh that kind of stick out like
a uh Game of Thrones type of cele uh trophy
And every time they get an interception or a fumble recovery,
they take the football and they go and they place
it on the sword and it deflates the football and
it's like it's like we've captured and we just killed
you and put you up first, you know, Okay, to
see that's good. But those kind of things, and there
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were way back when there was a rally monkey Remember
the rally?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Okay, remember that? And that's really the first thing. I mean,
I don't know, and baseball it kind of feels like
the first thing that really was a celebration.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh started to remember the rally towels.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah they had rally towel was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That was kind of like that. But but you know,
all those things are really good. You know that that's
that's a really a fun thing, and it's it brings
the team together. It gives you something to cheer about collectively.
What would the eighty eight Dodgers have done?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Oh, was there a rallying cry that you guys maybe
had amongst the team that if you could turn it
into a celebration on base you guys could have maybe
gotten away with it. Now, if it was something that
you couldn't have got away with, yeah, you could do
a public gesture that certain you didn't want to bring
that out. But is there something that it was safe
and fun?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Maybe if we had a Bob Cassas or a David Koondall,
we could have stabbed it or beat it up every
time we got a big hit or you know, punch
somebody out into in any way.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, that would have been good. Bob's castus and this
is you know he's a short guy. Yeah, he's vertically challenged.
You know in basketball, if you dunk on somebody, you
kind of put your hands down like I just dunked
on you. Oh, I get it. You could have done that,
like yeah, put that hand like low le like look,
you gotta be this tall to ride? Yeah, literally exactly exactly.
You could have done that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You could have had like a picture, you know how
they have like the little caricature of the guy pointing,
you know, to to the uh you know, to the
tape measure right there, and it says, got.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
To be this tall to ride, or eleven or taller.
I think they would have got it right. They would
have understood that right. That would have been fun to do. Yeah,
I think I think you guys would have had You
wouldn't have got away with it, because, as you said,
somebody trump you. Somebody would thumped you different it was.
It was you couldn't get away.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And you know, just think about it. It's like at
Simon playing second base. They were trying to literally cut
you in half on a double play. Right, Today, can't
touch the guy. You got to slide straight to the base.
You can't get very You used to be able to
if you were touching the base, you could go out
and get the guy if you could touch the base.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Today, no, you got to go right to it. You
gotta go right to him. You gotta clean, have a
nice clean slide in there, and then you gotta dap
them up afterwards. Yeah, you guys say, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You got to give him a fist, bump, pat the
leg or you know, you know what what happened. You know,
I think is the most disgusting thing to see. But
but at the same time I love it because it's
so demeaning, is what's Remember remember when people would start dabbing.
Remember what is that called dabbing?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
That was was that the Cam Newton dab?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, oh my god. That used to bug the crap
out of me when I see that. And so now
when I do it to my sisters and my brother
walk in the house and I walk in the house,
I do the dabs like, oh, don't do that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, the dab I'm glad the dab's gone. Yeah, that
was That was a celebration I wasn't a fan of.
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on am FI seventy Light Sports. Sax and Kate's in
the am on this Friday morning. The sun is out
on a cloud in the sky and the Dodgers are
one went away from going back to the World Series
after a three to one win over the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday.
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A dominating pitching performance Tyler Glass. Now the Dodgers' bullpen
coming in and locking it down. Blake Tringing, Alex Vesia,
Anthony Banda got the eighth inning. As the dogs are back,
they're barking the bullpen. Dogs are back. And you add
Roki Sasaki. We were just watching the highlights of him
(21:35):
closing out the ninth inning yesterday. That split finger fastball
to Durban that he threw to struck up striking out
in the ninth inning. You talk about nasty. He's pumping
one hundred on a fastball and then he throws the
split finger where I feel bad for Will Smith. I
don't think he knows where that thing's going.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So that thing, that split finger that he threw for
the strikeout, was that in Durban. He just abused him.
That thing started out like in like Minnesota, and it
wound up in Florida. That's what I look at, Boom
and that thing dropped viciously, okay, And that's what you get.
And how about the bullpen yesterday in Scope? You look
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at what the bullpen done had done because they talked about,
you know, it's gonna be a liability. It's not a
sanctuary like it was last year. Let me give you
a number here, Okay. The bullpen came in for three
and a third and they give up one hit, no runs,
and four strikeouts across the board. This was a shove
(22:37):
from the bullpen, three and a third of complete shove. Okay,
So we have to relax a little bit. The bullpen's back.
The bullpen is a strong point now.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Alex Vessi came in and got the last out of
the sixth inning, came back out in the seventh trying
and helped him out. Come in as a right hander
in the seventh inning, Anthony Bonda needed ten pitches to
get out of the eighth inning. He was fantastic. And
Anthony Bonda is pitching the way he's pitching right now,
look out because it's just another left handed arm, yes,
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down there in the bullpen to go along with Vessi
and crew. And then Roki Sasaki came in in a
three to one game, and you knew right away his
stuff was nasty from the first batter that he faced
one hundred and one, missed on the fringe of the zone,
comes back with a strike, has the split finger working,
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and just was absolutely filthy. Thirteen pitches. I gotta believe
he should be good to go if he needs to pitch. Yeah,
in Game four today it was thirteen pitches to close
out the ninth inning. And again we mentioned in the
first hour, Jacob Miserowski pitched well, the shadows were a
little bit of an issue. And then you talked to
David Vassa and we'll talk to him in about half
an hour. Not only were the shadows in that middle
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part of the game with the hitter and the pitcher
kind of an issue. I mean, he's pumping one hundred
and two at you and it's going from light to
dark as it's coming across the place. Deta Oscar. He
didn't see that pitch. I don't think he did. As
the shadows moved out and weren't necessarily a problem between
home plate and the pitcher's mound. As it got into
the third, fourth and fifth inning, it was an issue
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on the outfield. And you look at that batter's eye
and you're looking at you know where the balls coming
out of the pitcher's hands, Steve Yes, it's it is
going from light to dark still even though inside between
the mount and the and the picture and the home plate,
it's uh, it's completely covered in shade.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, whatever it was. He struck out nine and he
was he was amazing. That kid has got a huge future.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
But going back to the Dodger real quick, Well, Tanner
Scott out right can't can't come back.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, we got this banded dude. You got this guy
named Banda that can come up and and he did
some shoving of his own and very impressed with his stuff,
by the way.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I mean, Justin Robleski is a guy that the Dodgers
still can go to. And there's a future Hall of
Famer still sitting down there in the in the dugout,
in the bullpen, that the Dodgers can go to him
and you know, we'll see if he gets into the
game today. I think a golden opportunity for him to
get back on the mound and a positive outcome would
be a Dodger lead at Dodger Stadium either tonight or
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if it happens to go to a game five tomorrow
and get him out there on the mound in a
positive situation, get them out, and you know, let him
at least start to end his career here as we
wind out getting closer to the World Series on a
positive note.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
As suppose what happened against the Phillies last week. I'm
caught between hearing kind of what you're saying there is
like let's get some of the vestiges of something that
was really great at one time, to bring it back,
resurrect it, and let's end it on a high, high
note here. Yeah, okay, but listen, I think we must
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subjugate that idea down a little bit and say we
got to wash these guys out. Okay, I'm all for
this celebratory Clayton coming in and giving the one last good,
great thing that we saw for twenty some years, but
only only when these guys are locked down and it's
you know, not in a high leverage situation. With all
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the respect to respect to Clayton, you gotta you gotta
snuff these dudes out. There's still work to be done.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
So if this was a fight and the Brewers are
down on the ground, in essence, the only time Kershaw's
getting a punch and is list everybody's holding the Brewers down,
and it's the same situation, and you feel good about
the way he's gonna throw a punch to end this series.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I wouldn't go quite that far because you know, Clayton's
can still He finished the season five and oh right,
he his last five starts he was really really good.
So no, I think he can still get people out
and whatnot. But you gotta go with what your top
thing is right now. And Okay, if you the game
was on the line, are are you going with Roki
or Vessia or or are you gonna go with Clayton? Yeah,
(26:41):
you know what I mean. I just got to get
the game done first. I gotta I gotta win first.
I'm with you. I love Clayton Kershaw, I mean, you
want him to be your next door neighbor, right, you
want your daughter to date this dude, right, That's that's
the kind of guy he is. But you know, uh,
and believe me, I know he's married. I'm not saying
that guy. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I'm talking about overall view, he's a super human being,
first ballot Hall of Famer. But I gotta win. And
Clayton knows where he is right now. He's a very
bright guy. Of course he has and and there's nothing
but respect for him. He's amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Thomas and Corona, thanks for being patient. Welcome to Saxon
Kate today. I'm on this Friday morning. How you doing.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Great? Thank you for taking my call. Appreciate it, guys quickly,
I just wanted to talk about something that you guys
had mentioned in the first hour about Sure not wanting
to come out of the game. So I think Dave
Roberts is doing a terrific job managing. Steve just mentioned
about the bullpen starting pitching. So if you go back
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to the Phillies game two, Blake Snow had just walked
somebody and Dave Roberts comes out of the dugout giving
my lefty Vessia. Sylvessia starts running in to the field,
and then I looked it up on YouTube and as
Dave Roberts was walking out, Blake Snow said, I got it,
I got it, and Dave left them in what happens next,
(28:02):
he strikes out the next guy out of the inning
in a high leverage situation. And then last year when
Blake Tryinging was pitching in the World Series, Dave came
out and Dave actually put his hand on Blake Trynon's
chest and he said, basically, you got this next thing,
you know, strike out. We're out of a high leverage situation.
(28:23):
So I just wanted to say, Dave Roberts is showing
confidence in the bullpen and starting pitching, and he's doing
a terrific job. Just what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Glad you brought that up, Thomas, because I had already
forgotten about what happened in that Philadelphia Series in the NLDS,
And he's absolutely right. Blake Snell was out there, Alex
Vesio was coming in out of the bullpen, had to
turn around and go right back to the bullpen because
Blake Snell wanted to finish out that game, and you're right.
You go back to last year's World Series in New York,
Blake tryning on the mound. Dave Roberts goes out there,
(28:54):
I think that was Game five, goes out there, looks
at trying it and Dave afterwards that I looked into
his eyes and I wanted to hear it from him.
I wanted him to tell me I got this, and
I was thought, that's what I was looking for. And
when I went out there, I put my finger in
his chest, not to not to be mad at him,
but to ask him, and he accepted the challenge.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's that's another part of the culture that we talked about,
which is which is critical. That's that's your manager having
his finger to the pulse and knows exactly where the
player's coming from.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Now listen.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
He could have said the same words, but it was
the body language and looking into his eyes that made
the difference. For Dave, he knows what he was going
to say, I got this, but I want to see
how he says it. That's the difference of if it's
like I got I got this, or or I got
this get back, you know, that type of thing. He
(29:43):
wanted to see how he said it.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
It's funny because last night Alex Rodriguez said this on
UH on Fox after the game, and it's it's piggybacking
what you just said there and as a middle infielders,
you guys come on to the mound and you guys
are all gathered out there in the mirror and he's talking.
He said a lot of the times the manager said something,
but it's not directed towards the picture. He's really asking
the catcher. Yes, but he's looking at the picture right, Oh,
(30:06):
how much he got left? What do you think? He's
really asking the guy with the gear on what he thinks,
because he's gonna give you more of an honest answer.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I used to do this to my kids all the time.
Be talking to my one of my friends or another
family member, and my kids are sitting there at the
at the island on the in the kitchen, you know,
we're all sitting around talking and I'm talking about drugs
and alcohol whatever, and I'm telling them how terrible it is.
And I'm talking to my brother or my sister about
it and tell him how terrible that blah blah blah.
What I'm really doing is I'm talking to my kids,
and because they don't want to be talked to. You know,
(30:34):
if somebody else tells them or they hear it just
by osmosis and they get it that way, Ah, it
lands a little bit better, you know what I mean.
So I know exactly what he's doing. Tim, Do I
have a second to tell you one time when when
you know I'm gonna give you the other side of
when a manager comes out and talks to his picture
and and the picture's lobbying to stay in the game.
(30:55):
An instance with Jesse Roscoe and Tommy Lasorda in the
playoffs against the Mets. You know Tommy, Tommy waddles out
there and and uh, he's he's he's furious, he's got
spit flying, he's cussing and everything. And Jesse looks at
Tommy and Jesse can't throw a strike Tommy. He looks
at Tommy. He said, Tommy, I got this, or Tommy
just rugged you got this? You He just let him
(31:16):
have it, talking about every expert if you can talk
about and and and then finally Tommy has his way
of doing it. Finally he says, Okay, you do it.
I can't tell you the words he said, but he says,
you better do it, and if you don't, we're gonna lose. Basically,
he slammed the ball in his glove and walked out,
and Jesse got you out. I mean, Tommy knew how
to get it out of Jesse. It wasn't too soft
(31:37):
shoe it, or to kind of be a little indifferent
about it. It was to you know, make it, make
it very well known with everybody there in the infield listening,
because he was he was letting everybody to embarrass him.
He almost had to him, but he knew that's how
he had to do it, to get Jesse to do it,
and he did it and it worked.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
At any points, you ever put the glove over your
mouth and just start laughing, Oh God, something man, Tommy, Yes, yes,
or something that happened on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, well, I remember in the spring training Tommy would
get towards the dog days of the spring training, he
would call me in into his office and say, Hey,
I want you to tell a joke, or I want
you to get you know, Marshall to say this, or
I want.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
You to tell that story about it.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I need to get these guys going, so I want
you to start kind of a funny thing or a
fight going between some guys, because I got to get
these guys going. And Tommy was in there and he
was giving his speech, and Jerry Royce had a clicker
in his hand, and every time Tommy dropped the F bomb,
you hear click, and he Sarah, I'm telling you, bubb
click click, And pretty soon everybody got on what he
(32:39):
was doing. Every time he dropped an F bomb, there
was a click. You could hear it, and it was
like something like seventy eight F bombs. Oh my good
during the meeting. Yeah, it was his favorite word, right.
And here's another thing about Tommy. You know his wife,
Joe and him were married for sixty seventy years. Tommy
never said a swear word in front of his wife,
never and Joe. Joe attested to this because I asked
(33:00):
her once. She said, I've never heard him swear. I said, boy,
you got to come in the locker room for five minutes.
You near a different story, but true story.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
That's awesome. That is awesome. He is Steve Sacks, I
and Tim Kats coming up. We got to give away
these tickets to Game four. The NLCS part of the
surf side package as well that includes a large cooler
to enjoy and a quarter zip zip long sleeve that
you can wear around with pride with the Dodger logo
on there and again two tickets to Game four the NLCS.
David Bassa joints at the top of the hour, thanks
(33:29):
for being with us. Job not finished. Dodgers up three
games to nothing, Game four today right here on FI
seventy eight Sports, Sax and Kates in the Am. Dodgers
a three to zero series leading the best of seven
(33:49):
NLCS A three to one win yesterday, Tyler Glass now
really good. Showy Otani a lead off triple in the
first He'd come around and scored the first run of
the game. The Dodge beat the Brewers three to one.
As a Dodgers bullpen again three plus innings. They were
fantastic putting up zeros and the Dodgers now one win
away from going back to a World Series as they
(34:12):
now look to do it tonight with show hey Otani
on the mound, first pitch at five thirty eight live
from Dodgers Stadium. WHI I'm Wrongo because you know Dodgers
on deck from the Galpamotors broadcast booth beginning at four thirty.
Petro some money. He'll be out there from two until
four thirty this afternoon. David Bastabell join us after the
top of the hour. But we got Game four tickets
to give away here on scam. Saxon Kates at the AM,
(34:34):
so let's run through some calls. Saxy, let's go to
Lee in Corona. You're next up on Saxon Kate to
the AM. How you doing Lee?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Hey, good guys, how are you on calling again to
take my medicine? Especially from U Steve. I said yesterday
they should wait to start glassdown on Game four. I
was completely wrong. I want you to give it to
me again, and I want to go for the hat trick.
I think they should wait, So let me finish that.
They should wait and start Otawani tomorrow if there is
(35:03):
a tomorrow, because if the Dodgers lose today, then you've
got show. Hey who date Roberts has said, doesn't really
matter how much rets he gets as long as he
gets a nuts, so he gets an extra day. And
then if it goes to six and seven, you got
Snell and Yamamoto on six days rest because of the
travel day. So I want you to tell me I'm
wrong again because I want to go Voo for three.
(35:23):
I want the Dodgers to clench tonight. And then my
second My second thing is that a reporter asked a
really good question for Roberts yesterday in a postgame conference.
He goes, I know this is a tough question to
ask because you're up three to not then, but are
you concerned with not getting runners in with less than
two outs when they're in scoring position? And he said, no,
I'm not concerned, but we do need to do a
(35:45):
better job of doing that. There's no question about that.
So it's just funny. I basically quoted what Roberts said.
I posted that on a couple of Dodger sites and
they said I was complaining. So I just want to
get your guys' takes, and Steve really hammered me because
I want to ten tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Thank you guys, all right, Lee, appreciate the phone call.
Thanks for checking in. I I think that's ridiculous to
wait for show Heotani to start Game five. You keep
talking about it. We heard from Mookie BET's job not
finished quoting the Great Kobe Bryant and that mama mentality
if you got a dominant starter in show, heo Tani
ready to go in a close out situation. I'm not
(36:22):
playing the what if game. I'm not playing the well
let's save him for game five. No, use him tonight,
that's not even a question.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
If he doesn't pitch, who pitches tonight?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Uh? Okay, so ridiculous. I've got to let who are
our callers? Lee?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
It was Lee, right Lee? Lee called Yesterdady to so
Lee on, let me give it to you this way?
Lee is Uh. Absolutely, that's a hard no. On Tani
starting waiting to start. I understand how you you know?
And then you line up Yamamoto and uh and who
do you say? Yamamoto and uh Snell Snell to pitch
the last suit. No, you could do that anyway. I
(36:58):
mean that doesn't matter. It's only one day. You could
do that anyway. You're not gonna lose that that fact
right there. As far as Otani pitching this weight, No,
that's a hard no. Because Otani's more in rhythm. He
is scheduled to start this game. You don't want to
upset that. I think you just kind of leave that
where it is. You continue your momentum as you dictated.
(37:20):
The Dodgers are dictating here. They're not going in second
fiddle and trying to suave this thing to think, oh,
what would be best just in case. No, you go
full on. You're not looking for any cavalry here to
come and save you. You dictate the terms and you
slaughter these guys tonight and wipe this thing out.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
You do it tonight. Nate in Long Beach, are next
up with Saxon, Kates and the am leading you up
to Game four of the NLCS high Nate.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Hey man, I got my bona fides. I was at
the Gibson game on top deck, second row from the
top right at first base, and I remember Saxony on deck.
I knew I'd never seen anything greater than that in
my sporting career. But I have been going to games.
I watched one hundred and twenty Dodter games a year,
from first base to final out. And just look at
(38:10):
this season. Six and zero in March fifteen and ten,
in April fifteen and twelve, in May seventeen and ten
in June. We are through June doing everything. Now, we
got people injured but just as a fan, just to
take a like a more a broader look at things.
(38:31):
In August we were fifteen and thirteen, and then turn
it up again fifteen and ten. But in July we
were ten and fourteen. That July was like going to
the dentist every day. And what continued from July through
September was our bullpen was like it was like watching
(38:51):
the ghost of Donnie Moore come out of that bullpen
every single time something was going to go wrong. And
to think going into the playoffs, okay, honestly, out of
all the playoff runs in the last thirteen years, this
is the one I was thinking, well, it doesn't look good.
You know, you got your heart, but then you got
your head. And that the Dodgers collectively, from top to bottom,
(39:16):
meaning all the guys who are telling Dave Roberts what
to do, all the way down to the bat boy,
they all turned it on. And if you're telling me,
we'd be up three toho, eight and one. Trying to
win a pennant. Now, winning a pennant is something that
you put up, okay, that is a pennant is a
big big deal. Playing for the World Series in nineteen
(39:37):
hundred or twenty twenty five. That's a big deal. The
Dodgers were so terrible in July and just barely over
five hundred, so I mean they were twenty five and
twenty seven in July and August fifteen and ten, they
turn it on. I just have never seen a team
in any sport, baseball, basketball, hockey, nothing be so pitifully
(39:57):
tortuously bad and and then turn it on where they
look like they are. It's a fail complete that they're
going to win the World championship. Jaxon, do you bring
your ring down? Do you wear your ring?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
No, I've never won it.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
That would thrill you never want it. That would thrill
fans to see the ring being worn by Steve Shackson.
I know you get a kick out of out of
making fans happy.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, I know, if to do that, tell about you,
you know, Nate.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Let me let me let me just say real quickly
that that's the way baseball is, Nate. It's uh it
ebbs and flows. You know, A lot depends on, you know,
cycles that people get in. Some people can stay in
that mode for a longer, and some years are better
than others. Injuries have a have a say in it
as well, So all those factors come into playing baseball.
That's why you play one sixty two. You have three
(40:46):
seasons during the year, spring training, regular season, postseason, so
it's it's just never. It's so hard to repeat that
baseball is the most skilled game of all the three
major sports, or you know, if you want to add
on more than that's still the most skilled sport there is.
And it's tough. Baseball is a very very hard game
to play. These guys on TV make it look easy
and it's not.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
What every time something gets referenced to being bad or torturous,
it's always like going to the dentist. I like my dentist,
doctor Laala and Laurel Channel of dental group doctor la La. Yeah,
I'm actually oh he's a big listener. I'm actually due
for a cleaning here in October and I had to
postpone my appointment because a scam. Well yeah, it's rightfully,
(41:27):
so I had an eight thirty appointment like a week
ago and scam made me postpone that. So I'm actually
due for a cleaning. But I don't like the fact
the dentist get you know, destrays all the time, like.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Oh, this is so bad. It's like going to the dentist. Well,
doctor Lalla, I want to go get a tooth pulled.
I mean, I just I really do. Hey, you know
what my dentist name is. I'm not making this up.
I can't make it up.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
You can look him up if you say Dave Roberts.
I'm leaving right now.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
No, that was my cardiologist. My cardiologist was doctor Dave Roberts.
I swear to you, I'm not making that up either.
My dentist's name, and look him up in Roseville, California.
Doctor Comfort. Wow, Matthew Comfort. His name was Comfort, though
coming over from Italy he dropped the oh doctor Comfort.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
I mean he was destined to be some sort of
doctor or his parents.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Were both down as too, his mom and dad. He
come over, doctor Comfort. That's his name. Now, if you
were a proctologists, it'd be a little different. Yeah, you'd
want him to be doctor Comfort.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
You know he is. Steve sacks On, Tim Gates Moore.
Your phone calls were giving away Game four NLCS tickets
and the serf side cooler and the quarter zip as
well part of our AM five seventy Game four package
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