Sax and Cates In The AM (Hour 1) 10/28/25

Steve Sax and Tim Cates recap a wild and exciting Game 3 of the World Series

Episode Transcript

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 yearning is not trying to win a championship, They're
trying to repeat.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's October baseball for your world champion in LA Dodger.

Speaker 5 (00:14):
The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western
Division champions.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
And you know what that means.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Saxon Kates and Am is back.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates
and former World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Reacting taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball all
postseason long.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now here they are on AM five to seventy LA
Sports and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Steve Sacks, Tim Kays.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Tim Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Ah, Good morning, Southern California, and welcome in to Scam,
Sacks and Cakes and the AM on this Tuesday morning,
October twenty eighth, twenty twenty five. And what a glorious
morning it is here in the City Angels. I am

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Tim Katz, joined by two times World Series Champion, Rookie
of the Year and Hands down our favorite number three
in a Dodger uniform of all time, though one and only.
Steve Sacks sexy. Good morning, buddy, Tim Kates. How are you, Tim?
I godd Art Sacks. Did you just get up? I

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got about three and a half hours of sleep. Yeah,
I'm ready to go. I am ready to go for
three hours of Sax and Kates and the am coming
off of last night's six hour and thirty nine minute
Game three of the World Series, a game in which
the Dodgers in case, you're just waking up, you're just

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getting the kids up for school, you're just heading to work. Yeah,
Dodgers won in eight innings over the Toronto Blue Jays,
six to five. The final. And here's how it all ended.
Last night at the ravine, Little delivers Freeman. It's one
high in the air, straightaway center field, far So.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
At the walk.

Speaker 7 (02:21):
Freddie Freeman, mister World Series ends the marathon at midnight.
He's mom at home place hes The Dodgers walk it
off in the final, the eighteenth inning, six five, the final,

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to grab a two to one series lead.

Speaker 8 (02:50):
You want Drummers comes to Dodgers Stadium, Steve, I don't
know where to begin whether it's from the start from
Tyler Glass now at five oh EIGHTI or it was
the end of the game near midnight last night it
was Freddie Freeman walked off.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
There is so much to unpack from last night. But
I guess the only thing that matters is they got
the W.

Speaker 9 (03:11):
Yeah, they got the W. That's that's all that matters.
This is this was the war of attrition last night.
Who was going to just run out of gas? And
it was in La It was not the Dodgers. Torontald
just basically ran out of gas. And Tim I always
want to say it right here at the onset, I
don't think we ever, at least until something changes, We

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don't ever need to hear anything about the bullpen anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Nope, that's it. Nope, that's it.

Speaker 9 (03:38):
You talk about coming out and absolutely shoving, That's exactly
what they did. And this was Will Caine. I mean,
this guy's made a mark for himself already in one game.
It's amazing how much one game can do well. He
certainly did it last night. Four innings of shut down
nothing that was just incredible. What a pitching feat by him,

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and the Dodgers come on to win this game. This was,
This was a monstrous win. It's a it's a momentum grabber,
it's whatever you want to call it. They got it
going on right now for hopefully their third win tonight, a.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Game that took six hours and thirty eight minutes, the
second longest game in World's World Series history time wise,
only behind Game three of the twenty eighteen World Series
Dodgers in Red Sox, which was almost seven years to
the day. That happened October twenty eighth, twenty eighteen at

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Dodgers Stadium. It also ended with the walk off home
run in the eighteenth any of that time for Max
on See last night. It was from Freddie Freeman. Here
are some of the numbers. Six hours, thirty eight minutes,
nineteen total pitchers used, ten by the Dodgers, most by
one team in World Series history. Twenty five position players

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used the Blue Jays utes everybody. Six hundred and nine
pitches were thrown between the two teams last night, six
hundred and nine. He also had six outs made on
the bases. Thirty seven runners left on base last night,
the most in a single postseason game the Dodgers offense.

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Eighteen runners left on base there were two for fourteen
with runners in scoring position. The Blue Jays had nineteen
runners left on base last night. And you mentioned the bullpen.
Tyler glass Now went four and two third innings and
after that it was manned to man a phenomenal job
by the Dodgers' bullpen. Vonda Robleski tried in Dryer Sasaki, Sheenan,

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Clayton Kershaw had a huge out last night to get
out of a basis loaded. Jam Enriquez came in with
two innings. It will climb with four innings, pitched a
career high seventy two pitches thrown. You talk about emptying
the tank, he did that last night. What amos by
the Dodgers pitchers. Yeah, Freddie Freeman hit the home run

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last night, Steve Sacks. But here he is postgame with
David Vase and he's the first guy to went mid.
It was all about the bullpen, dogs and getting the win.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Freddie Freeman does it again a second consecutive World Series,
the hero.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
What can you say about this one tonight?

Speaker 10 (06:19):
Yeah, this is all this is all pitching right here.

Speaker 11 (06:21):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (06:22):
Our bullpen was absolutely incredible.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (06:26):
I mean you can go down the list. Everybody but
Will Clinb four innings, that Guardo of two innings.

Speaker 10 (06:32):
It's just it's just on and on and on.

Speaker 12 (06:34):
This was, uh, this was incredible, with a lot of
opportunities early in the game that didn't come through.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
But glad we are ever get this one, Freddie, What
can you say about Will Klein?

Speaker 2 (06:45):
He set the stage for you.

Speaker 12 (06:46):
Yeah, that was uh, I mean four innings. I don't
know if there's enough words we can really describe what
he did today, especially in your.

Speaker 10 (06:56):
First World Series game. Was that the first one day pitch? Yes,
I don't know. This game is so long. I'm starting
to I'm starting to lose it.

Speaker 12 (07:04):
But Will Clinb, I think you threw like seventy pitches
one ending guy and he goes out and does that
just got we went goes oh y'all in motor War.

Speaker 10 (07:11):
Yeah, so glad we were able to keep him.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Down before I let you go.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
How does this feel compared to last year's walk off
rand slam?

Speaker 12 (07:17):
Well, this one, I mean they're about the same.

Speaker 10 (07:20):
I guess you know.

Speaker 12 (07:21):
It's you hit a walk off home round.

Speaker 10 (07:23):
The World Series. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
So I just got up to one now, eighteen innings,
Freddy thank you for standing.

Speaker 10 (07:28):
Thank you, David.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
There he goes Freddie Freeman.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Freddie Freeman with David Vasse after the walk off home
run last night in the eighteenth inning. I mean, Steve,
there are so many moments in last night's game that
could have swung it a different direction, could have ended
it in nine innings, could have ended in ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen.
I mean there were so many moments, pitches out, errors

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that open doors, that closed doors. I mean we can
literally spend all day, going inning by inning dissecting something
that happened in the top of it and a bottom
of the ning I mean bottom of the ninth shoey
Otani intentionally walked, he gets thrown out at second trying
to steal I mean top of the tenth. Lukes doubles
down the right field line, a ta Oscar throw to

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Tommy Edmonds, Edmonds to Will Smith, get Schneider out at home,
and the traumatics last night were at the ultimate I've
ever felt in a postseason game, because is the longer
it went, Steve, the more and more you kept thinking
it's not gonna be a superstar, and it ended up
being Freddie Freeman. But you got the feeling like it
was gonna take somebody else to win this game, and

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it did. A guy like Will Klein, a guy like
Gardoway Riguez. It was.

Speaker 9 (08:38):
It was one of the most incredible games I've ever seen.
I thought the game in nineteen seventy five. I think
when Carlton Fiz hits the home run and tries to
urge the ball fairs, he goes down the line, I
thought that was one of the best games I ever saw.
This game was one of the best games I ever
I have ever seen. You know, it's another big story.
How about shohey Otani on base nine times?

Speaker 10 (08:59):
Right?

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Nine times?

Speaker 9 (09:01):
That's a that's a record just their stories that you
can pick out, parse these things out and have a
story in and of itself on several different levels here
as you mentioned a lot of them.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
And I don't know.

Speaker 9 (09:15):
I mean, I went to I tell you what, just
telling you. I went to I went to sleep about
nine o'clock what because that's what I do. And I
woke up at about midnight just to get a recap,
kind of recap. It was just getting over with. So
I actually got some gut a little bit of sleep
last night. But I'm telling you, it was just riveting

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watching this single back and forth, I mean, all the
way through. It was just an amazing game, one of
the best I've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
I mean, let's not take away the performance for show.
Hey o Tani, you mentioned it on base nine times,
he was walked five times. He was four for four
of the plate with two doubles and two home runs. Schneider,
the manager said after the game, They're probably not gonna
let him he hit another time in this game, in
this series. They're probably just gonna either intentionally walk him

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or walk him without really walking him by throwing four
pitches out of his own And yeah, I hoping he
gets a chase there. I mean, we could spend a
whole hour on the Dodger bullpen and breaking out each guy.
Justin Robleski. We talked during the game, and you're like,
Robleski's a stud. Why they've been hiding him. It's like
he went inning in two thirds last night, struck out

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two through twenty eight pitches, and gave him exactly what
they needed to kind of bridge the starter to the
back end of the rotation, back end of the bullpen.
I mean, there were so many guys last night. Yeah,
that that came in. I mean Sasaki's inning in two thirds,
Emmett Sheen pitching almost three innings, Clayton Kershaw coming in
and getting a huge, a huge out with the bases loaded,

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I mean Enriquez, yes, unreal of nothing.

Speaker 9 (10:51):
I mean that bullpen just really rose to the occasion.
Every single person in there after. Would they give up
after f for glass now, I mean it.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Was one run, one run, one run.

Speaker 9 (11:04):
In about what almost let's see, so they got the
thirteen and a third. You give up one run and
your bullpen over thirteen and a third, you gotta be
kidding me. Yeah, that's what they did. And this was
a much much maligned bullpen. Everybody talking about now they
can't get this thing done. I hold my breath every
time they came in. Not last night. They've changed that

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narrative in one night and deservingly so this this bullpen
had to have it big time or they're down two
games to one, and they prevailed. This was a This
was a you know, this is another instance of the
team doing something besides just launching the ball out of
the ballpark. This was another instance of this team having

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a gut check with your with your back against the wall.
They did it against Philadelphia, they steamrolled over over Milwaukee,
and yet here they are in an eighteen inning game
having to summons an inner resource from that bullpen of
all places, and they do it. And I mean, this
is it's incredible, the different facets of what this team

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is about. It's not just Launcherella. Okay, this team has
got a lot more to it than that.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, they won the game on a home run. But
if they lose that game last night, Steve, right now,
we're talking about something different. We're talking about the lack
of change and approach at the plate for some of
these Dodgers hitters. We're talking about the inability to hit
line drives and drive the ball.

Speaker 9 (12:36):
Hard and how many pop up? How many pop ups
to second base and first base or there? Last night,
I stopped counting. I couldn't count them all. I mean,
at some point you got to say, maybe I should
get on top of the ball and hit a line
drive instead of just trying to hit the fricking ball
in the air all the time. There's you know, a
one hop skimmer through the infield that counts. I mean, really,

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it does. Ask that's Kalajandro Kirk if it counts or not.
You know, I mean sometimes you got to get on
top of the ball. It doesn't hurt to do that.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Last night, maybe from the tenth eleventh inning on, as
the game kept getting longer and longer, and you can
start seeing, all right, the pitching is getting thinner and
thinner on both sides, the amount of launch from both sides,
Blue Jayson, Dodgers. These guys were trying to win it
with one swing in the bat. And what happened was

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the marine layer came in and it started to cool
Dodger Stadium down in Saxony. You know this, Yeah, when
that air gets cool, that ball does not fly. There
was two instances last night, the biggest being Will Smith
in extra innings thought he had walked it off of
the Dodgers with the blast of left center field, actually
started walking out of the box and then said, oh no,

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and realize that ball was going to stay in the
yard because they got caught up in the cold there.
But all these guys last night, Steve, were trying to
win it with one swing of the bat. That's why
we had so many pop ups late. But yeah, I
mean one for eight mookie bats last night. I can
count at least twice. Then he popped up to vlad
gerro in foul territory along the first base line fly

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out to write as well, just getting underneath the ball. Hey,
we're talking a completely different story if the Dodgers don't
win the game last night, completely different. Goodness stay won.

Speaker 9 (14:25):
And by the way, when I said I would know
about pop doing that pop up stuff, let me tell
you I popped up. I'm sure enough of my career,
but I never tried to hit the ball in the air,
so I really wouldn't know as far as that goes.
As far as trying to lift the ball, I used
to work on not lifting the ball. I used to
work on getting on top of the ball and hitting

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a line drive through the infield, right back through the middle.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Really basic.

Speaker 9 (14:50):
If I hit the ball in the air, it wasn't out.
So I knew I wasn't gonna do that. I wanted
to hit the ball on the ground or on a
line hard, not in the air.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Last night, the bullpen was fantastic. How about Will Smith.
I want to give Will Smith a shout out now,
not for what he did offensively, because he almost won
it with a walkoff home run. He went one for
six with four strikeouts. All right, if you look at
the boss score, it's a little deceiving outside of the show,
Hey o Tani and taoscar Hernand it's because everybody. There's
a lot of one for eights. There's a lot of

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two for sevens in an eighteen inning marathon game last night.
But defensively, Will Smith caught all eighteen innings last night
for the Dodgers, and Alejandro Kirk was out there and
caught a lot of it as well before Heimann came in.
But Will Smith navigating that pitching staff amazing. It's not

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just one guy who went eight and another guy who
went seven, all these dudes that came out of the
bullpen and having to work a bond to Robleski tried
and Dryers Sosaki, she and Kershaw Enriquez and then four
innings with Will Klein. He's got to maneuver all those
dudes and work with all those guys who were all
different in their own in their own ways and have
their own, you know, ways of pitching out there. A

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tip of the Captain Will Smith for what he did
last night.

Speaker 9 (16:08):
He was fantastic and you know what else is amazing.
He'll probably be in there again tonight after eighteen innings.
He he he really caught two games in one night. Uh,
and one game is enough, But to catch two games
in one night, I know, the heightened awareness about you know,
the World Series and the adrenaline pumping through you and
all that stuff, I get it. But man, just the

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just the task that that was at hand to to,
you know, kind of navigate all these different guys left.
He's right, these different different ways, different personalities, different different cadence.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
That each guy takes.

Speaker 9 (16:40):
I mean, there is a lot uh to do there
for Will Smith and you nailed it, Tim that that
is a job that doesn't get enough credit.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Just what he did last night. I mean, if ESPN
did thirty for thirties on a game last night, which
was an eighteen inning, almost seven hour affair, they could
probably do a whole month long and just break down
each half inning. Heck, you can probably break down, you know,
the one third of it inning, the Clayton Kershaw pitch.
He came out with the bases loaded in two out

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and a five to five tie in the top half
of the twelfth inning, to face Nathan Luke's and went
full count with him and got him chased it to
a slider to get out of the Indian with the strikeout.
I mean, we could talk about the top of the
tenth where Luke's doubles down the right field line. Ta
Oscar fields it in the corner, throws a strike to
Tommy Yeman, who then throws a laser to Will Smith,

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who tags out Schneider at home. The Blue Jays challenged it,
saying that he buster posied it and stood in front
of the plate and wanted it to be overrunning.

Speaker 9 (17:40):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Absolutely, And I thought it was a great job by Fox.
Had I think it was Brian Carlson of the former
umpire out there as an analyst, and he was great,
saying once he caught it and then re established themselves
and resets everything. At that point, the runner could actually
run him over if he wanted to. Sure, But a
credit to Will Smith for doing the job, doing it

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properly and not being called for blocking the plate. Now,
at the same time, do you think really Major League
Baseball is going to end a game or allow the
Blue Jays to take a lead in that instance, in
the top of the tenth inding saxy with no chance
with a play like that, there's that stadium would have
had fifty thousand people running onto the state on the
field last night. Now with the kid, Yeah, there's no

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chance that's gonna happen. But that's just one minute of
a game that could be dissected for thirty minutes. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (18:28):
Sure.

Speaker 9 (18:29):
And again the rule is when the player is on
his trek to home plate and you don't have the ball.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
As a catcher, you have to have an open lane
for him to get.

Speaker 9 (18:38):
To got it. That's exactly what he did. His foot
was in front of the plate and he had a
wide open lane to the home plate. Once will Smith
catches the ball, he can become a hockey goalie.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
He can just lay down in front of the plate
and just block that sucker off. And that's kind of
what he did. Yeah, you know the guy did you know.

Speaker 9 (18:55):
What I don't understand is he slide headfirst into home plate.
That's a good way to rip your labra them off
your shoulder. That's a good way to, uh, you know,
to dissect the top half of your body. These catchers
are loaded up with equipment and you're going in there
head first. Don't get it why people slide head first
as much as they do.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
I just don't understand it.

Speaker 9 (19:15):
I mean, there's so many chances for injury, getting your eyes,
you know, gouged into getting dirt in your eyes, you
can't see, you can't pop up as fast like you
do on a pop up slide. I just don't get
why they slide head first. Listen, if you're not Ricky Henderson,
I mean, you're not gonna You're not gonna be as.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Good as him. So maybe try the slide, the regular slide.
Last night, they had six players in the game that
were thrown out on the base past, including Schneider who
was thrown out at home. We saw a couple of
outs at third base that were made on both sides.
On the third out, yes, really, yeah, come on and

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it it leads me to believe. And just watching the
game as it kept going and going, third base coach
Dino Ebel for the Dodgers, the philosophy for both sides
started to open up. Be aggressive, be aggressive, make them
make a perfect play. And in that extra innings play
in the twelfth and the tenth inning when they had

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to get a perfect throw from ta Oscar to Tommy Eman,
who then has to turn around get proper footwork as
the second basement. You know this catches the relay got
to catch a glove side momentum body and then square
up and throw a strike to home while this is
all happen, and then a guy round and third barreling
down on a catcher, and then Will Smith's got to
make the tag in the out. All these things have

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to line up to make you know this out, and
it worked. I get it. Though the Blue Jays tried
to be aggressive. I get it. Early in the game,
Freddie Freeman thrown out at home Dino Ebel wanting to
be aggressive. You have to press them. No problem. When
you have to press them right, make try'.

Speaker 9 (20:48):
That's not dino Ebel's issue fault, he's I would have
sent them to I mean, you got to make.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
The perfect throw to get the guy.

Speaker 9 (20:55):
The issue I have is not with the third base coaches.
The issue I have is the instant decision making that
the player has to do.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Kiner Filefa. You know he rounds second, he's going to third,
and he gets nailed in.

Speaker 9 (21:07):
The third out at third base. You can't do that.
I mean, you just can't do a great play by
Tommy Edmund, but you can't make the third out or
first out at third base. That's not that's not a
coaching issue. That's an instant decision that a runner makes.
He doesn't look at the coach in that the play
is right in front of you. You know you can
make that thing. You can see over your left shoulder
if tom Y Edmund's going to get the ball, if

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the ball was, you know, ricocheted off like Freddie had
stopped it a little bit on the line drive, but
you got to make that so you gotta be able
to see that.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
I saw videos before and this.

Speaker 9 (21:39):
There's only one guy that can do this, and I'm
speaking about Willie Mays. I've seen him hit a ball
in the right field corner, be making making his way
to second base and turn around and look over his
left shoulder at the ball in right field and say,
I don't need no third base coach, and then make
the decision on when he's going to third base. I'm
not saying players can do that today because there's only

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one guy that could do that, and that was Willie Mays.
But it just goes to show you you should pick
up the third base coach when you can, but instant
decision making things.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
It's not the third base coach's fault. It's the runner's fault. Yeah, yeah,
no doubt. I mean last night, the ups and downs,
the twists and turns, the emotional drainage of last night's
game took a toll on the fans. I can't imagine
what it's like to be on the losing end of

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last night's game. Sax agone and I looked at my
daughter and my wife last night. I said, it was
like the thirteenth or fourteenth inning, and I said, the
Dodgers have to win this game, because if they don't,
they're on the other end of this. Blue Jays feel
good about themselves. They can exhale and say, who, we
got through it and we got the win. If you're
on the losing side of that, you're taking a deep

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breath and saying, oh, all that, and we got a
we got a loss. And the other thing. The other thing.
Tim Glass now was not as good as.

Speaker 9 (23:01):
His last at bat, but he last time pitched, but
he wasn't quite too I think how Blake Snell was.
Blake Snell just didn't have his stuff, and that happens.
But Glasnell was just a little bit better than that,
but not great, and and he didn't quite have his stuff,
but still they were able to cobble together some runs

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and keep this thing at at five to five for
the longest time and then win this thing with a
much maligned bullpen just outstanding. Now, this game right here, Tim,
We'll see what happens when the Blue We're gonna find
out a lot about the Blue Jays tonight when they
get to the ballpark.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
What's their attitude? Are they buried right now? They might
be buried.

Speaker 9 (23:48):
Teams with with not as much character maybe as them
are buried right now, absolutely buried. We'll see what their
intestinal fortitude looks like tonight when they get to the park.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, immediately after the game, the Fox guys A Rod
and Derek Jeter both said, this can't be good for
that Blue Jays clubhouse. I mean physically, this is deflating. Yeah,
you're draining absolutely emotionally, you're drained, and you got to
come back out sixteen hours later and face show. Hey Otani,
with the possibility of going down three games to one

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in this World series with another game left exactly exactly
the momentum is all in favor of the Dodgers. Now
they got to ride that momentum and seize that opportunity
with Game four tonight at quick turnaround after a marathon
game of a last night eight sixty six nine eight
seven two five seventy. WHOA, what a game. We're just

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starting to unpack that marathon eighteen inning Dodger win last night.
We're gonna get to the bullpen coming up and Will
climb and what he did and what Dave Roberts was
gonna have to do if this game went to a
nineteenth inning and a twentieth inning and more. Sure, we're
gonna get into that. You're gonna hear from Will Klin,

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and we want to hear from you. Eight six six
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us to Game five of the World Series we're often
running on this Tuesday morning. He is Steve Sacks. I'm
Tim Kates. It's Sax and Kates and am on an
FI seventy ice sports Sax and Kates in the am
on this Tuesday morning. As the Dodgers win it last

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night on a walk off home run in the eighteenth
inning from Freddie Freeman, a wild almost seven hour game,
tying the Major League wrecord for longest World Series game
in eighteen innings. The last one that did that was
back in twenty eighteen Game three Dodgers in Red Sox,

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also at Dodgers Stadium, and also featured a walk off
home run, that one for maximun See how about shoey
O Tani reached base nine times, tied for most in
any MLB game, most extra base hits in a single
World Sillies game, Tyan Frank Isabelle in nineteen o six
World Game World Series Game number four, tie for the
third most total bases in a single World Series game.

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He's got eight home runs now this postseason Tyan Corey
Seeger for the most by Dodger hitter in single postseason
play and as the Dodgers win it last night in
eighteen innings over the Toronto Blue Chase. The bullpen, the bullpen,
the bullpen individually, guys doing their job last night, whether
it was a third of an inning from Anthony Bonda,

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Jack Dryer pitched the third of an inning only five pitches.
It's easy to say it now, Steve, because the game
wins so long, But you could have got more out
of Jack Dryer five pitches last night. He could have
gone way. Anthony Bonda pitched one batter. I mean, I
know you're pitching thinking it's gonna be a twenty seven
out game, nine innians, typical baseball game. But you know,
you start looking as this game was going on in

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Sasaki winning inning, the two thirds, all right, Immatechian's your
next guy that can go some length. Immachian went two
and two thirds. Clayton Kershaw third of an indy. Then
you had two guys left down the bullpen, Steve, two
guys that were down there, and both were guys that
were up and down and with this team, but not
for the entire season at Gardo Enriquez Flame throw over

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An Arm didn't join the team until a couple months
into the season because of injuries. Up and down all
year long. Turns it over to Will Klin. Will Klein's
story is a great one, Steve. It's one of those
October stories that you're always gonna remember. The guy with
the amish looking beard out there for the Dodgers in

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the final four Indians, I mean Dade twice in his
career within the last year Dodgers signed him. He pitched
a whopping fifteen innings all year for the Dodgers. He
was up and down from the minor leagues, wasn't even
on the roster in the first three rounds of this
postseason until he was added this World Series roster. Probably
didn't think you'd ever get into a game, and he

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becomes the hero last night. This is the beauty of baseball, right,
it really is.

Speaker 9 (28:24):
And you know, it's just it's just incredible how much
they had to ask of the bullpen and they were
there to give it to him. Klein and Enriquez. Okay,
think about this, they're the last two guys there. They
give you six innings, they strike out seven, and they
just give nothing. I mean, you know, as far as runs,

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these guys were just phenomenal, and they were the last
two guys standing. You see what happens is sometimes you know,
it's so necessary that you have to ask these guys
to come to the forefront and be on the biggest
stage in the world. And they were exposed, and they
exposed something great. Maybe they exposed a lot of hope
in this bullpen going the rest of the way, because

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these two guys were phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
I mean, Will Klein had not thrown seventy two pitches
in a professional game before at any level. Last time
he did it, he said, was in college at Eastern
Illinois when he was a converted catcher to pitcher and
was a starter in college. I mean, he was a
fifth round pick in twenty twenty by the Kansas City Royals.

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Has bounced around to four organizations in the last five years.
This is his third organization in the last calendar year.
And he goes out there in Game two or Game
three of the World Series and delivers four innings of work,
and I love him. After the game, we're gonna hear
from him in a second. But he said, Dave Roberts

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and Mark Pryor every time he came in, like how
much more do you got? And he goes, I'll go
back out there whatever you need, whatever you need, whatever
you need, and they just kept sending them back out there.
And he didn't look over at the dugout like, hey,
come get me. I'm scared. Hey come get me. I'm done.
I didn't see that in his face. Oh no, didn't
see it. All I saw was pribal screams. Yeah, after

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each inning that he got out of, including that fourth
inning of work in the eighteenth inning where you can
see it. I mean, he was starting to get winded
out there, and he walked a couple of batters, Steve,
and he had a full count, and he gets a
strikeout to end the eighteenth inning and lets out that
yell on that curveball and gets off the field, and
you knew that was it because he had nothing left

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in the tank. I mean, we talked about empty the tank.
He did that for four innings in last night's game.
And did you see who was warming up last night
to pitch the nineteenth Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the bullpen. Warming
out happened, can't happen? He volunteered to do it. He
went through his interpreter to Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor

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in like the fifteenth or sixteenth inning and said, if
you need me, I will go wow, And it looks
like you may need me. And so this was this
his sides pen, you know, pitching the pen day I believe.
I mean he throw Saturday night one hundred and what
eight pitches complete game?

Speaker 9 (31:18):
Yeah, I think sides His sides might have been today
on Tuesday, so it was a day early. But how
about that volunteering. I say, yeah, it's not my normal day,
but you know what, I'm a team guy and I'll
put it out there.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
That's what you need. You listen, you gotta ask a
lot more of guys. There's nothing more.

Speaker 9 (31:36):
This is it. So I get it. I get what
Yamamoto's doing. Yeah, he's a complete team guy. How about
Blake Snell. Blake Snell also, according to Dave Roberts, came
up to him during extra innings and said, I got you.
Let me know how much you need out of me.
Let me know if I can go out and warm up,
And they said no, because he had already thrown his

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side session. Because remember he pitched Friday in Game one,
so yesterday was his side session bullpen work. He had
already thrown it early in the afternoon, but the game
had gone so long and he realized yama Moto can't go.
He pushed after me and pushed a complete game.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
I'm the guy. I didn't go that deep into a
game like before. I'll be the guy. They told him, no,
you've already thrown, but instead, Yamamoto convinced him. Yamamoto convinced
it to go out there so much so he was
starting to heat up out there.

Speaker 9 (32:29):
Maybe that took a little bit out of the Toronto Club.
They're looking down there and they're seeing yamamotos out.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Jeez. Yeah, I mean, I I don't know what the
plan was after yama Moto because realistically, I mean, unless
he had a really quick inning, he's probably giving you
one inning, maybe two if you can stretch him out.
So what's the plan after that? I mean, keikey Hernandoz
was already out of the game. He's their go to

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position player. But you can't go to a position player
in the World Series, right.

Speaker 9 (32:59):
No, you can't. No, you cannot do that. You're gonna
have to risk somebody maybe getting hurt. But that's what
that's what it takes to to win a World Series. Sometimes,
really seriously, you can't. You can't put a position player
out there.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
No way. Last night will climb four Indians. Here he
is after the game with our own David Vassay.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
What can you say about this atmosphere and just how
you delivered to set that up.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
I mean, we couldn't couldn't have done without Freddy or
these fans for the city of Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I don't have a voice right now. I've been yelling
all game, but I can't feel my legs. I can't
feel anything. But that was freaking that was a great win.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Well where did you find that inner strength to be
able to deliver in your first world series?

Speaker 6 (33:39):
I just knew when I went out there that we
weren't losing that game, and I'm, oh my god, I
can't talk. Yeah, I just like I was putting on
my back and I went out there and I was like,
I'm come out of this with a zero.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
If we don't score, I'll go back out put out
another zero. Could you feel the support you had from
your dugout. They were loud, they were proud, they were
trying to give you everything they had to get you
through every one of those four innings.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, I could hear him yelling.

Speaker 10 (34:03):
You know, those guys put their put their work in
to start the.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
Game, and I just don't would have been right for
me to let it go twice there so I could
feel them, especially on the last pitch.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Mysto.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
That was great.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
The guest tank was getting a little low, right, No, God,
have gone a couple more innings.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
Will Kline, congratulations, the winning pitcher of Game three of
the World Series.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
How does that sound. I never thought that would happen,
but I mean, that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Hey, your teammates believed in you, your coaching staff believed
in you.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
You deserved it. Congratulations, Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
All right, there he is Will Klein And when he
struck out Tyler Hindman there with runners on first and
second on a curveball to get out of the eighteenth inning.
He got back to the dugout and it was so cool.
Dave Roberts hugged him. Mark Pryor Is high five and
in giving him a half hug. Then you saw Clayton Kershaw,
one of the first dudes there as he got to

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the bottom step, giving him a hug. Every Dodger player
was there to greet him and pat him. On the
back or give him a hug or a high five.
And while he was pitching during those four innings, strike
out and out, they were all on the top step
and they're all banging the sidewall and support making noise
and hooping and holling for him. They were like every out,

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they were just behind him. It was so cool to
see here's a guy that maybe they don't even He
wasn't even around most of the year. He pitched fifteen
innings all season long.

Speaker 9 (35:29):
Yeah, it's incredible. And that's you see a lot about
makeup and about character for guys when it's really on
the line and you just gotta go out there and
just be completely transparent and let it out. And that's
what he did. And I love his comeback. How much
did you have back?

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (35:46):
I could have gone a couple more. I love that
because whatever they needed from him, he was gonna give it.
Now my question is does does does snell Zilla have
I heard the interview with David Vasse there nell Zella
have a reason to be a little bit jealous maybe
of Klein. Now this is going to be maybe the
bromance shifts over to the more burly looking, redheaded Amish fellas.

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As opposed to the you know, chic front French kind
of u that you get from the the you know,
from from Snell Zella do you get you get something
kind of more lumberjack like from from Klein.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
And maybe that's turning David's head. Who knows that is
a great call. He does look like a lumberjack. If
you were to put a flannel pants and some work
boots on him from Strauss Paul Bunyan looking dude, you
know what I mean. I mean, he he would fit
love it. He would. That's amazing. I mean, you talk
about a guy going from the field to the work site.
That is Will Klein and Strauss powers our World Series

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coverage right here on Ami seventy l a sports.

Speaker 9 (36:48):
He I could see him in like eastern Pennsylvania or
like western Pennsylvania, fel like on a farm, big Amish country.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
You know, making making big, big loads of furniture.

Speaker 9 (36:58):
Yeah, you know, for for the you know from people
out there wearing wearing some some you know Strauss you
know clothes still toed boots, you know, some work pants.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
I could see that happening with Will Klin. I mean
in a month from now, that's what he'll be doing
last night. He's winning Game three of the World Series
for the Dodgers. He said it in another interview with
the MLB Network three weeks ago. He and his wife
are in Arizona at Camelback Ranch because he was at
the old Stay Hot camp, you know where guys are
just getting ready just in case there's injuries. They need

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to be ready to like the taxi squad. Absolutely, they
don't shut it down that he he was in Arizona
for a couple of weeks just waiting. Didn't think he'd
be a part of this postseason at all because he
wasn't on the wild card, the DS roster, the CS roster,
and then he got the call to come from Arizona
and Cali Back Ranch over and joined this Dodgers team
on the World Series roster. And he said, I was
sitting on my couch watching this team in Arizona, and

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here I am pitching in Game three the freaking.

Speaker 9 (37:55):
World Series and shoving shoving. I mean, you gotta think
about this too.

Speaker 10 (38:01):
This is a lot of man.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I mean, this is six five, two.

Speaker 9 (38:04):
Thirty and you know he's he's chucking four innings at you.
Given everything he's got. This is a big, imposing, kind
of a physical person out there, which which helps a lot,
especially when you have to have that big, burly mentality
coming down the end of the game. This is the
kind of guy you want. This is a makeup of

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a closer right here.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
That's why we love the game of baseball because of
stories like this. You could have the superstars and yeah,
Ohtani put on a show last night so much so
they don't want to pitch him anymore. Freddie Freeman a
second walk off home run in the Grand in the
World Series. No other player's ever done that. But then
you get stories like Will Klein and it's just guys
you'll never forget. Ten years from now, he'll be throwing

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out the first pitch of the Dodger game in the
year twenty thirty five, and Dodger fans will be like, yep, hey, son, daughter, wife,
I remember this dude. On that October night, he going
in the eighteenth inning and he was out there pitching
four inniingans. It's it's just one of those nights you'll
never forget, and a player you never forget.

Speaker 9 (39:04):
Never, And if it went twenty innings, he'd be out
there giving a couple more. He was ready to do it,
and and good that he had that background. You know what,
I'm seeing a great trend here of guys that were
former starters being able to come into leverage situation. This
really highlights that what Will Klein did a leverage situation,
uh and being given the fact that they were starters before,

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they're not in there for one in or two innings
that you know, he could have gone six, that the
starter in him really comes out, even though it's not
a starter situation. It's it's at the end of the
game time. But the starter mentality and the starter makeup really.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Plays well, no doubt, no doubt. And last night it
was all hands on deck from every pitcher out there,
no matter what their role has been during the regular season,
what they were before in the minor leagues. Last night
it was all about piecing together outs and they did
it over eighteen innings. Two full baseball games played last

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night for the price of one out of Dodgers Stadium,
and it was worth the wait. Dodgers went in six
to five. We'll come back, Saxon, We're gonna get the
code word for the hour, and we got calls lined up.
I got one line open. Let's go Dodger fans. They
get a win last night at eighteen innings and now
show hey Otani comes back out to pitch. Came four

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tonight out of Dodger Stadium. Your phone calls next right
here on NFI seventy I Sports A marathon of a
game last night saw the Dodgers prevail thanks to Freddie
Freeman and his walk off home run in the bottom
half of the eighteenth inning in the game that took

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six hours and thirty eight minutes. Also going eighteen innings
was the twenty and eighteen World Series game between the
Dodgers and Red Sox at Dodger Stadium. Also a Game three,
and it happened almost seven years to the dates. Yes,
today is October twenty eighth. It happened seven years ago today.

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Last night, the Dodgers win a marathon game against the
Toronto Blue Jays, a six' five win Over toronto to
take a two to one series. Lee we of course
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if you want to do it that way as, well
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Series so is this like mini clues each? Day? Absolutely
you have one this, hour one next, hour one the
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In rogan And, rodney and two that you.

Speaker 9 (42:13):
Wrap it all up and you get the guests and
if you're, right you go into the.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Game.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Yep but you got to write them all down and
you got to know them all when we ask for
your call. Tomorrow right here On Saxon kates And. Am
the first hour code, word the first hour code word
here ON n five seventy is. Manager. Manager, okay, manager
write it down on your. Phone put it on your. Phone.

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Manager that is the first code word that you need
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tomorrow one person winning an opportunity to go to game? Five.

Speaker 9 (42:47):
Tim is there any trickery in here like? Manager, yeah
but doesn't really mean it's a baseball.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Man is there any tricks like? That, no just straight,
manager straightforward, stuf just Like Dave roberts is The dodger. Manager,
Yes schneider is The Blue jays. Manager. Manager losing, Manager,
AH i love. That, yes bonus points to be but
losing Before All, right let's go out to the phones.
Again coming up the top of the hour on YouTube And.

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Facebook we've got the stream on A fi seventy L
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let's go To edgar And. Lamarada, Edgar welcome To Saxon
kates in the am after a marathon game last, Night,
edgar how you doing?

Speaker 11 (43:27):
Well it's, up, guys man super super super elation this.
Morning can't believe WHAT i just saw last. Night just
a couple of side notes real, quick. Guys i'm glad
to kick it off, again you, know for that game
to go from what looked like a barn burner to
just end up an instant. Classic just crazy, Crazy glad

(43:48):
to See keen kersh out, there get that bad taste
out of his mouth with that one out shut down
opportunity and the bullpen man and, Dogs Uh will kleinb
super dog At guardo rookie dog and, uh just a great.
Win let's keep it, GOING O tany on the mountainnight

(44:10):
is gonna shove and, uh let's get that third one all?
Right thanks, guys.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Thanks a, Lot edgar appreciate your phone. Call let's keep it,
Going danny And, Pacoima, danny thanks for being. Patient welcome
To Saxon kate today and what's on your? Mind, Danny, hey.

Speaker 13 (44:23):
Good, morning, uh good, morning damn.

Speaker 9 (44:26):
Yeamn.

Speaker 13 (44:28):
HEY i just want to say that it was a,
great great game last. Night I'm i'm freaking, Work i'm
late to work from staying up so, late but, anyways
it's just great job by the.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Bullpen great job by.

Speaker 13 (44:42):
Show, hey he's not gonna get pissed to. Anymore so
you gotta Get mooki. Going we gotta Get mooki going
because he needs to have that that.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
Uh that key.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Hit he needs to have that key.

Speaker 13 (44:52):
Hit so we can Get mooki going because they're not
gonna they're not gonna fish the. Show, hey but, ANYWAY i,
mean great job last, night great. Job so he's gonna
show like the previous cutters in and let's, go let's take,
keep let's kay cap.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
Forward let's.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Go all, Right, Danny, hey if you need an excuse
from your, boss if he's mad that you're, late tell
him to Call. Scam tell him to call me Or,
steve and we will validate why you're coming in. Late
we got your excuse for, you all. Right we are
basically the note from your.

Speaker 9 (45:20):
Teacher, yes just tell him to Call tell him to
call the studio and ask For Tim kates On.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Scam, Yeah, danny if your boss is, Listening danny's, boss
if you're listening right, now he's. Excused all, Right thank
You danny for the phone. Call eight six six nine
eighty seven two five seventy coming, up at the top
of the, hour we got the YouTube And facebook. Feed that's,
uh go To scott In. Ontario he's been waiting. Patiently
you're all With, Saxon kate's and THE. Am what's on

(45:45):
your mind this? Morning?

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Scott, hey good morning. GUYS i got a few things
and doing my obligatory call for the superstition THING i
got going. On but THEN i also had a couple
other THINGS i wanted to talked. About first one, being,
uh who the heck is this J. T. SACKS i

(46:08):
hope this is Not saxie's, cousin because he deserved The
saxy fastball when he was singing That canadian national, anthem
SO i wanted to point that. OUT i don't know
If saxy is related to.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Him what? What? Huh the guy who's saying The canadian the.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Guy that's saying The canadian national anthem last last, night
his name WAS. J. T, sacks except he spells it
with a knee at the. End i'm hoping there's no. Relation,
no why was? He was he good or not?

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Good not?

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Good he was not? Good he needed A saxy?

Speaker 9 (46:45):
Fastball, yeah, okay well you know that's that's immediately no
relation if he wasn't any good.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
And then the last THING i wanted to say, Is,
Hey i'm excited about the game. Tonight we got. Show hey.
Going the only THING i hope did or is going
to do today is have a banana and some pickle,
juice because we saw some cramping going on last night
AND i want to.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Make sure he's a that's good. Point good to go for,
today that's good. Point appreciate the phone. Call thanks for
checking in tonight. Today scott UH Jp sachs spells it
with AN. E toronto Born La, Bassed grammy nominated singer
songwriter a LITTLE r AND b, influence known for his
detailed moments in raw honesty. This i'm looking at His wikipedia.
Page apparently he sang it wrong last. NIGHT i, WAS i.

(47:35):
WAS i was the guy singing along to The canadian
and THE us national anthems last. Night, well we know
you got it. Right he got it. WRONG i didn't
notice it in the moment that he got it, wrong
but maybe he did because online they're saying the dude
messed it, up had the wrong. Lyrics Uh so we'll
get into. That we'll talk about that on the YouTube
feed coming. Up, Also Brad paisley performed the national anthem

(47:58):
with his, guitar and and that's who it. Was we were.
Right it Was Brad, Paisley David vasse's other. Bff, YES
i had a chance to meet, him by the way
on The Feel yes. Day Brad paisley was out there
and came on with petrol some. Money super great, guy
but uh, yeah he was. Fantastic you wouldn't have thrown
a ball at, HIM i, THINK i, Think, saxony you

(48:19):
would have gone over and shook his. HAND i probably would.

Speaker 9 (48:22):
HAVE i Like Brad paisley a, lot AND i KNOW
i wouldn't have thrown a baseball and hit him in
the ankle LIKE i did With KENNY.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
G wear, It KENNY, G wear. It. Bro you're in that,
saxophone all, Right well come back our two. Saxon kate's
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