October 29, 2025 • 49 mins
Steve and Tim react to the Dodgers struggles at the plate and what it will take to get the bats going in a must win Game 5. The series will shift back to Toronto either way and that means having to win on the road. Dodgers fans reaction
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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. It's winning it again.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
This year.
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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.
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The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western
Division champions.
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And you know what that means.
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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 5 (00:31):
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
Sports and the iHeartRadio app.
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Steve Sacks, Tim Kats.
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Tim Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Oh, we're off and running seven o'clock in the City
of Angels. Here on AMPI seventy LA Sports, Steve Sacks,
Tim Kats and you on this Wednesday morning, October twenty ninth,
twenty twenty five, as your Los Angeles Dodgers had themselves
now a fight a best of three with the Toronto
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Blue Jays, as this series is tied up now at
two games a piece, after the Dodgers fell to the
Blue Jays last night six to two. I am Tim Katz,
joined by two time World Series Champion, Rookie of the Year,
and arguably our number one number three out there, the
one and only Steve Sacks Saxy. It is a day
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in which the Dodgers need to get right. It is
a day in which Blake Snell needs to get right
after his Game one start, and as we've been talking
about the first hour of the show, it is time
for the Dodgers offense to get right after losing last
night and seeing the Toronto Blue Jays tie this series
up at two games a piece, Yeah, it is time.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's time to see somebody go first to third, you know,
score on a pass ball, maybe get some get some
jumps from first base, and get some dirt balls into second.
You know, I thought there was a couple opportunities missed
there where some balls were in the dirt that they
could have taken the base. Be aggressive on the base pass,
see some speed show up, watch the closing speed in
the outfield as they go and snare a ball on
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a line drive. Things like that that really, you know,
rejuvenated and excite the team. It's not only the offense
gets excited, but believe me, when those guys in the
bullpen see the offense on display, knowing that they're going
to score runs and make their job a little bit easier,
it fires everybody up.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Last night show, Hey o Tani pitched okay. He went
six innings, ended up giving up four runs on six hits,
struck out six. As we mentioned in the first hour
of the show, he kept the Dodgers in the game.
They took a one nothing leading the second. He made
a mistake on a sweeper to Vlad Guerrero in the
third and the Dodgers were down two to one. But
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then he put up zeros the rest of the way.
At one point he struck out four to the next five.
He put up zeros and waited for the offense to
do something behind them, and again there was nothing there.
They couldn't string together hids, and it felt like just
a bunch of fly ball outs and a lot of
flyballs deep to the outfield as they try to jack
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it out of the park every single time. Meanwhile, the
message on the other side from Schneider and everybody up
and down that lineup in the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Was they were wide awake.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
They felt good despite an eighteen inning loss seventeen hours
before that. They came back rested, ready to go, and
they got after Otani, they shrung together hids and in
the seventh inning they chased o'tanni Steve and then they
got after Bonda and Blake trying in and put up
one of those crooked numbers. And again it was a
six to one lead, and you felt like a might
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as well been sixteen to one at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, at that time when you have a six to
one lead against a team that can pitch better than
most teams, and you know, it's it's a tough it's
a tough team to climb over right there, but it's
not insurmountable. You got to reset tonight, Okay, you got
to reset knowing that you're going back to Toronto. It's
a little bit of a different mindset. You might see
somebody else out in center field tonight, which we better
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see somebody else out there. Yeah, and I think it's
a time to look back and say, with all the
inefficiencies that we've had on our offense, we're still tied up.
We still just got to win two out of three,
and I think that's an okay position. It could be
a lot worse for the Dodgers right now. Believe me,
it could be a lot worse.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, but we're playing the waiting game. And I appreciate
the fact that Dave Roberts has a long runway, so
to speak, and that's his terms that he likes to
use when talking about his players. And that's one of
the things that I really appreciate about Dave Roberts and
some Dodger fans and drives him crazy, is he does
allow a long runway for a player to get out
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of a slump, to work their way out of whatever
funk that they're in. But you know what, over the
course of one hundred and sixty two games, you could
have a long runway. But this is a short runway.
This is a s short leash, and that leash has
got to be tightened dramatically with the lineup change tonight.
Andy Pie has second on the team at home runs,
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can slug with the best of them, but quite frankly,
has not showed up in October and it's time for
Andy Pie has to be on the bench, and it's
time for Tommy Edmund Steve to be in center field
and Miguel Rojas to be at second base for the
Dodgers tonight and gave five.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah. And I think the you know, the powers that
be may be hearing you. I think they hear your enthusiasm,
they hear your your sour attitude. I guess you could
say you're towards towards what the team has been doing,
but it's warranted. I mean, you know, I think what
you're hearing now is when the fans call in and
they say, you're speaking for most of the sentiment of
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all the fans in Los Angeles. You have to listen
to that. It's like, you know, Ciskel and she Siebert
is the name of the two that would judge Ciskel
and Ebert whatever. They would judge the the movies, right, yeah,
And man, they come up with some real dumb, you know,
projections on what the movie is gonna gross and all that.
I mean stupid, like, oh, you know, I saw the
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movie Titanic and he it was the average was a
sh medium, you know, really that movie was okay. Then
you ask the first ten people that come out of
the movie theater, which is the best barometer? Hey, what'd
you think of the movie? And those ten people are
gonna give you the best barometer better than anybody else can.
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My point is, I think that's what we're getting from you, Tim.
You're the people coming out of the movie theater and
you're the best barometer. So on three, I want you
to go and give us an over, like a glazing over.
One more, maybe maybe three points that are really you know,
chapping your behind.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Ready, go, I'm tired of hearing this narrative that the
Dodgers were tired after Game three and how many hours
of sleep they get after Game three? How did they
get to the ballpark so glazed over and tired? How
did they actually get in the car and drive to
Dodgers Stadium?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
If they had to walk to the park, you might.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
As well thought they walked fifty miles in the snow
to get to Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It was a grinding, eighteen inning game, but you won
that game. Momentum was on your side going into Game four.
If you're the Toronto Blue Jays, you're the team that
had to put your head to pillow and think about
Oh no, we're on the verge of being down three
to one. We're on the road, We're in a hotel room,
and the Dodgers are feeling good about themselves. Meanwhile, the
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Blue Jays are the team that came out last night
and Shane Biebert dealed and the offense didn't stop for.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
They grinded and grinded put runners on base against Otani.
He struck out guys, yes, but then finally they chased
him in the seventh inning. Meanwhile, meanwhile, the Dodgers have
an offense, and when Otani's pitching, we know the offense
isn't gonna be there like it is in the game
he's not pitching.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Was that being sad? This is point number two? Where
the heck is everybody? Else?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Where is the Calvary? Where are the other future Hall
of Famers? Freddie Freeman hit a home run in Game
three in the eighteenth inning. I get it, We've turned
the page. Where was he last night? Where's Mookie Betts been?
In this postseason and in particular October baseball? Andy Pie
has has struggled. I think Andy Pie has has one
more hit than I do in this October baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
In fact, I know.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Andy Pye has and I had the same amount of
home runs in the month of October, and I can
go on in a limb pretty confidently and say Steve
that Andy pie Has and I had the same amount
of walks in October this time around. Okay, it's gotta
be better. Okay, this is the world's I don't want
to hear about. This is great pitching. This is the
best of the best. Oh, we're facing top level starters
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on the other side, just like they're facing our best.
You know what, They grinded down the unicorn last night,
and they took off the horn and they had him
mortal in show a Otani.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm feeling you.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Where is the rest of the Dodgers? Where is the
sense of urgency?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Last night? It's a fight for seven games.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You go up two games to one, you hit a
gut punch, you have him on the ropes, hit them hard,
knock them out, and now you let him back in
the fight. The bell rang, you've gone back to the
corners and now it's all square too.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So do you think they had him on the ropes
and they went for the knockout by just trying to
go to the head. Maybe they got cute.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
They got too cute. They're looking in the crowd. They
got the boxer on the rope. They're doing the old
rope and up with their hands. Oh look at us,
Oh look at me, pointing to the crowd. Let's get
everybody for Oh, I can't hear you, crowd. That's what
they were doing as a boxer. So you said they
should right after him.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do you think it should have gone to the body more?
Maybe more?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Sure punch go straight to the head and go straight
to the face. They should have knocked him out last night.
There should have been There was just a flat Dodger offense.
I don't again met you played, Steve. You said it
is a hard game. Yeah, it is a very hard game.
And to ask somebody to go out and hit four
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underd of the postseason not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
You fail more times than you succeed in baseball. You
go three for ten in any other sport, you go
three for ten in life, you're a failure. That's thirty
percent turn baseball. That could get you to Cooperstown as
a Hall of Famer if you do that consistently.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What if Tom Brady only completed three out of ten passes,
He'd wouldn't be playing.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Drew Bledsoe would have come back and started for him
for the New England Patriots, and tom Brady wouldn't be
tom Brady that we know him as today. This Dodgers
team has got to figure out a way. If you
can't slug your way to a win, which you can
do with the best of him, because you're a great
team offensively in the Dodgers, figure out another way.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, well they did. They did it against the Phillies,
they did it against the Brewers. There wasn't Slugfest City.
They found other ways, and I think that's what we're
looking at now, tim with possibly a different person in
center field, maybe more back to ball skills in contact.
That's gonna be happening with Tommy Edman at second base.
But remember Tommy is kind of like on that cuss sometimes,
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you know, because he can hit a home run. He
can hit a home run now, and I think sometimes
he's got to remember that those home runs come by
not trying to hit a home runs. I want to
see Tommy line the ball the other way, and you know,
if the if he hangs one. He can jacket, that's fine,
but he's a guy that needs to put the ball
in play.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
If I'm watching this World series, you know what scares
me a Lejandro kirk All five foot seven two and
forty five pounds of him. You know why, because he's
a deadly hitter. Because you know, he's gonna poke the
ball the right field and sometimes it goes right at
Freddie Freeman on a line drive. But most times we've
seen him spray the ball the right field.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Oh, we have two guys over there. I really would
And he can.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Also jacket a hill park that we've seen. But meanwhile,
Dodger come up, Andy Pai has his example, and all
I know is he's gonna he's gonna try to jacket
out of the park or he's swung out of his
shoes and gonna strike out. I love Mookie Betts, I do,
but if I see him pop up down the right
field line one more time, I'm gonna go crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's all he's done. Yes, Yeah,
you know what Tim is just yeah, because of because
of the perspective that I have, I can't really rag
on the players because I know how tough it is,
and I probably did it way worse than they did,
so I would just leave that there. However, the fan
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in me is with you. I understand, hey make an
adjustment quick popping out to the right side. D Yeah, okay.
And until you've had a bat in your hands and
you go up there and you have to see it
and do it, it's a much different story. But I
get what you're talking about. You want to see the
approach changed a little bit. That's what you want to see.
You can't guarantee that he's gonna do it, but you
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want to see the approach change. I think that's what
you're looking at. I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
It's a hard sport and it's it's the best of
the best, and what they do nobody else can do
on the planet. I get that, but it just feels
like you're doing the same thing over and over again.
Your approach is the same thing over and over again,
hoping it's gonna change, Hoping you're gonna make a mistake
from the pitcher and you're gonna capitalize off it and
it hit a three run home run, or you're gonna
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hit a home run to get him back in the game.
You only got twenty seven outs you can't at the
end of the game, which during the whole course of
a regular season, if if you don't outslug a team
and that approach doesn't work and you lose a game
five to three, Oh shucks. You know what, Hey, we
lost this game, but we got two more in this series,
and we feel good about how the way we're playing,
having what seven on the last nine, and we look
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at this road tip as something we could be still
successful on. You know what, you don't have time. You've
got three games left. It's a best of seven series.
You got twenty seven outs to work with.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
In a game twenty seven outs, you don't have os. Shucks, Hey,
we dropped this one. That's all right. We feel pretty
confident that over the long haul we're gonna beat a
team and grind him down. You know what the long
haul is now three games? You know, I don't like
this whole We'll figure it out. We'll get somebody there. Well, well, well,
we'll go back to what we've done before. That may
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work in June, July, and August over the course of
ninety games, but no, we're talking about a three game
series now, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
What you know what I missed him? You know what
I miss I want to see the athleticism of somebody
like shoe Hey, o Tani or Mookie Betts. I want
to see them go from first to home on a
ball that's hitting the corner. I want to see the
closing speed on on on you know somebody that's in
the outfield that maybe it's call, maybe it's uh, you
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know whoever, maybe it's Tommy Edmond. That's uh, well, he's
gonna be a He'll probably be in Styeah if he goes,
he'll be at center, and then Rojas will be at second.
I want to see the closing speed of the outfielder's
snare a lying drive. I want to see those athletic
parts of the game that involve speed, because we see
it on the other sides. The Dodgers have that on
their team, they absolutely have it. I want to see
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that aggressiveness on a dirt ball, a ball that's it's
bounced in all a handel Kirk blocks the ball. I
want to seem challenge him to get up. We know
we can throw, but I want to see how quick
a foot he is to recover, get off the block
and go get the ball and throw somebody out. I
want to see him challenge that catcher in that manner.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
So what you want to see is the Dodgers try
to change things up. You want to see a different
approach put on these guys because they can do it.
The Dodgers have some guys on their team that can
really run, I mean really run like Mookie and Showy.
Put it on display man, let me see it. He
is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates. We are live here
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Is that a youth large? What are you wearing there
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Speaker 2 (16:10):
There? A youth large? No, this is a This is
a full grown at blank a grown blank man. Large. Okay,
this is a full blank grown man. Whatever you want
to say. Large. Okay, I'm barely fitting in it. I mean,
if you're here, if you're fitting, yeah, I'm I'm seeing
significant rippleedge. Okay, it's it's I'm like busting out of
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this thing. Yeah. But it ain't no medium. I'll tell
you that it is no medium.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Keep listening between now and nine, because yesterday we gave
you seven code words throughout the day on a five
seventy from Scam to Rogan to Rodney to Petro some money.
If you miss those, you could probably go back to
the podcast and get them. But sometime between now and tell.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Them right now. No, no, no, no, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Some listener is gonna have a chance to give us
all seven of those code words, and when you do,
you are gonna win a pair of tickets to Game
five on the World Series tonight. So be listening for that.
We got a lot of great callers on hold, a
lot of great comments as well coming up on our YouTube.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Pice shoulday we went over a thousand people that were
on YouTube. Yeah, very cool, very exciting. We went from
three hundred to one thousand. I'll bet we hit two
thousand today.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I think we will because it's it's a lot of
Dodger fans not happy yesterday. There was optimism those calls too. Absolutely,
there was optimism. There was a lot of excitement, and
quite frankly, I don't want to hear about parade talk.
The next person who comes up to me and says,
when is the parade, I'm gonna Steve sacks you, I'm
gonna turn around and walk away and not answer your question.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh So, what I'm feeling here, what I'm getting from you,
is you despise talking about parade this early, as much
as I despise the barista asking me what my plans
are and I'm a complete stranger.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Absolutely, I despise, especially when the Dodgers are playing the
way they are and the series is now tied at
two games apiece. If the Dodgers up three games to one,
let's talk strategy, logistics, Let's talk parade all you want,
let's talk time, date, location, But until then, let's not
talk about it right now, because now we find ourselves
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with the comeback kids from Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays
who have made this series tied two games apiece and
don't look now a must win Game five. And I
might even going to throw out the number because I
said in the first hour, I don't want to hear it.
I don't want to hear the old game five series
tied at two in a best of seven format, the
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team who won Game five has going on to win
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Hey, you see on the probability graph here that they
have like on the window. Yeah, yeah, the win probability
have it on you know, you know MLB network, They
have it everywhere. That is the stupidest thing. Then simply, well,
the Blue Jays right now have a seventy three point
four percent chance of winning after something so and so happened.
Then the Dodgers come up and hit a three run homer. Well,
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win probability for the Dodgers are now eighty one point
five percent. Yeah, because they just hit a three run homer. Jackalope, yeah, no,
I mean this win probability it's it's it's it's stupid
because it can change with one swing of the bat,
So I mean, really win probability and how long, like
seven minutes that's how long it lasts. Yeah, or until
somebody else does something good. That's it's it's it's, it's,
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it's bogus.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
It lasts until a Dodger hits a home run, until
Alejandro kirk Uh slaps the ball to right field to
drive it another run for the Toronto Biliy Days. A
lot of great comments on the YouTube. The Dodgers' offense
has not been good since June. I don't know about that.
I already knew this series would be a fight. Dodgers
in six eighteen inning hangover, well, whoa whoa, whoa whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa. I don't want to hear about teening hangover,
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and I don't want to hear about will. The media
was tired too. I was at the ballpark until two
am filing reports. Want to hear what's that?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Nothing you mean? I want to hear. This is true, though,
when nobody has talked to about this, nobody has brought
it up in the media, nobody in the press. We
haven't brought it up yet. I'm telling you it's real
and nobody's brought it up. What is it the element
of luck? Huh? Because that matters. Luck matters in the world. Absolutely,
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it matters, absolutely, And I know people will you ask
the players in the game if it matters, it matters.
Let me tell you one right now. I'll tell you
one right now that it's insignificant, but it could have
been significant. Tommy Edmonds makes a great play for ricochets
off Freddy's glove. Yep, what if Freddy is one eighth
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of an inch higher and he makes that stab and whatever,
maybe he doubles up or whatever happens. But you see
what I'm saying is luck has something to do with
this and nobody's brought it up. Maybe it's a team
that has a stroke of luck that comes out and
it helps him.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
It matters, I promise it matter. Well, how do you
get luck? Can you buy it at the store? How
do we give some luck here?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You try to get in the way of it, You
stay in, you battle and you try to get in
its way and hopefully it'll grace you. I mean, I
I mean, ask any player, any player at all, how
much does luck have to play with it? Don't say
it matters and we have no control over that. You
really don't other than to get in the way of it.
I think that's what scares people is if it does,
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it is scary.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
You can't get out of this series, and you try
as much as you can and try to.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Some of it you don't control, tim some of it
you do not control.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I mean, you can spend all the money you want,
you can get the best players every position, you can
get all the talent draft.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And it's such a micro factor that you don't even
see it. Sometimes.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Ad R on YouTube says it perfectly. Luck equals do
all the small things right. Yeah, well that's part of
the two in its way, get in its way, he is.
Steve Sachs on Tim Kates joined us on the YouTube
page here during the commercial break, we'll be back. David
Vesta will join us at the back end of this hour.
Jerry Harrison Junior in at eight o'clock hour. Don't forget
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be listening for your chance to call in and recite
all seven code words when we give you the queue
to call. If you can get them all, you're going
to game five of the World Series. Tim, I'm back
in one minute, all right, when you come back, I
got a surprise for you on YouTube. Everybody watching and
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and Kates in the am right here on MFI seventy
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I am Tim Kates on this Wednesday morning, October twenty nine.
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Thank you for being with us. We got a crumb one.
I've got some again spooky Halloween ones, and we got
the Dodger one up in the cornbooks, the jellyfield or
a creamfield.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Do on it there? That is that's impressive.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
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Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
We're gonna rejoin everybody on the radio here. But again
thanks to Wacko for bringing them in.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Amazing, amazing, I love it, Tim if during the prin.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Oh no, no no, We're back here on AM FI
seventy La Sports had a great time over on YouTube
during the break. Shut off the fancy donuts. The Wacko
brought in studio this morning for us to all enjoy
from donut prints here in Burbank. Got a Dodger donut,
got some crumb donuts, some cake donuts. Great stuff, Thank
you Wacko.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Do you have any twists?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
No twist in here, but lots of great donuts. A
couple of spooky Halloween ones with some treats on top,
including some fake teeth which I'm really scared about that one.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I got a suggestion for donut prints. Yes, okay, we
can set their sales in orbit. Okay, by the way,
keep already coming over looking for the window for donuts.
I want to chocolate bar donut cut in half and half.
Will Jesus slice the side? You fill it with a
lot of whip cream, don't just don't just you know,
paint the inside. I went it stacked with whip cream,
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lots of fluffy, deep chewy whip cream. Okay, and that
donut is called scam Oh. I love that, and they
sell that and it goes crazy. I love that. We
will go in there personally to to donut what's it
called donut prints? Donut prints, and we will buy scam
donuts the next time I'm in studio, tell Donut Prints
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to please start the production of the donut scam love it.
We'll get a little cream inside that donut just for you,
not a little, a lot, and make it thick and chewy. Jeez,
don't we do a drippy runny whip cream? Thick and real,
thick and real. That's how we like it. Thick and real.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah, it's uh, it's this is what we're excited about
is donuts this morning. I wish we were more excited
about a Dodger wind last night, Steve Sacks, but as
it is, the Dodgers offense did not show up. The
Dodgers could not string together. It hits one of those
nights yet again that we've seen from the Dodgers, lack
of offense. And again it wasn't showy, o'tany going out
there and getting touched up by the Toronto Blue Jays.
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He gave up that home run to Vlad Guerrero, but
then put up zeros until he came out of the
game in the seventh inning. And as much as we
celebrated Steve the Dodgers bullpen the night before in that
eighteen inning marathon two games in one spot. Last night,
Anthony Bondi got put in a tough situation with runners
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on and nobody out, could not get the job done.
Played Trent and came in, got some contact, run scored,
and all of a sudden, what was a two to
one Blue Jays lead, and you felt like, maybe if
they can keep it there, the Dodgers still had what
nine to twelve outs to work with, they can get
back into it. But a four spot in the top
of the seventh inning did in the Dodgers to put
him up six to one. They got to run in
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the bottom of the ninth inning, but too little, too late.
The offense gotta be better. I mean, we can't keep
harping on it, but we are. The offense needs to
be better and it has to be better tonight.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, and they were outplayed. Okay, this is one of
the two best teams in the world. They got outplayed
one game. Okay, that's fine. You come back, you reset,
you maybe have a little bit of a different perspective
with center field and second base. The team is knowing
that this is the last opportunity to really get the
fan base on your side and go sometimes. Now you
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can go into the other house, and the negative fan
base towards your team can actually inspire the guys a lot.
I know when I played on the road and I
had everybody booing the hell out of me, especially in
San Francisco, man, I used to get jacked up. Okay,
that's good. So you can change the perspective. You can
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use it to your advantage either way. We'll see how
they come out tonight.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
And when they come out tonight, we expect a different
looking line dramatically different. No no, but Andy Pie has
I can't imagine he'll be in center field tonight for
the Dodgers based on what Dave Roberts said last night
postgame that he's gonna think about it, but do expect
some changes in that lineup for Game five tonight. And
quite frankly, they need better production ahead of show Aotani,
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and they need better production behind show Heyotani. What do
we mean the ninth spot? Andy Pie has has not
been productive behind show Ayotani. When you walk him and
put him on base, the guy behind you needs to
make him pay. And Mookie Betts has done a really
good job of that for the most part, but here
in this series he hasn't and the guy's been before
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and behind show hey have not produced and really punished
the Blue Jays for walking show Eyotani. By walking O'tani.
It's actually benefited the Toronto Blue Jays because the Dodgers
haven't done anything to make them pay for that, and
that's been a benefit for Schneider and Toronto.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
And that's the key. But hey, listen, Tim, I've seen
it too many times. You know how baseball is. It
goes in cycles, it goes in waves. Things don't always
stay the same as they say. The worm will turn,
you know, in a three game series, we'll find out,
really now who's the better team, and it will put
it on. It will be evident because it's been a
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flip of the coin, a jump ball, if you will,
for these first four games. So we're gonna see how
the team responds, how they come back. Take the information
that they've had from the first four games, put that impute,
all that knowledge in there, and let's see what happens
now and how that comes out the other end. But
I think the Dodgers will have a couple of surprises for.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Him, a lot of great comments on YouTube. Of course,
you can watch us on Facebook and YouTube an FI
seventy la Sports as we are alive all morning long
on there. You can listen to it as well. If
you're in your car and can't watch. But you can't
get us on ANFI seventy la Sports over the terrestrial radio.
You can always just take the audio with us on
YouTube and Facebook. But a lot of Dodger fans want
to wait on the phones as well. Well, let's get
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out to the phones. Grammy Tammy in South Pasadena is
next up here on scam on it Hamphi seventy.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
How are you doing, Grammy Tammy?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Oh my god, you.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Guys are terrific.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I love you, I love you, I.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Love the Dodgers, our family does. Okay, I'll be real quick.
I was a cheerleader in height in college, so I'm
gonna lead you in the cheer to boost you and
the Dodgers up.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
All right, let's go, let's he remember remember.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
This, Like Shakespeare said, where there's a will, there's a play. Well,
with the Dodgers, where there's a will, there's a way,
they will find their way to win the World Series. Okay,
here we go ready, Ye're okay? Gee gee g g
oo d d d o d gee gee up? Oh Dodger.
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We love you.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
All right, Thank you, Grammy Tammy, appreciate that love. The
cheer your turn, Sacksy, let's hear a cheer from me.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
You got me off guard. Yeah, give me once to
figure this out. Come.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Jason and Maryland check it in on a five seventy
l A Sports Jason, Good morning, what are your thoughts
on this Dodgers team? No offense? Game five tonight? They
need snell Zilla at the baddest way right now.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Good morning, guys, Thanks for taking my call again. I
called you guys on Friday and you guys asked me
what I thought the key was, and at the time,
you know, I said pitching. But we've been getting what
we need from our pictures. That offense is not clicking.
Exactly what you guys say, just you know, echoing that
Otani can't do it himself. You know, it sucks that
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every time he has an opportunity to have somebody on base, Hi,
is it just either swinging at whatever he can or
not trying to take the walk. And you know that's
that's why they pitch the way they pitched to Latani.
You know, Bieber didn't give him anything to hit yesterday.
And I love MOOKI, I love him. I got a
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lot of love for him. But he needs to, you know,
get it going. You know it's it's gonna be game five,
last game in La This is this is a must win.
We you know, can't go back to Toronto down.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
No, this is a this is absolutely a must win, Jason.
You cannot go back to Toronto down three games to
two and needing to win both games. You got to
put yourself in the best situation in which that means
win tonight, and they'll have to win one of two
in Toronto with Yamamoto going and possibly Glass now combination
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with Otani in game seven. That is the best case scenario,
and it has to be has to be the situation
the Dodgers put themselves in going into the possibility of
a six and seven in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Monster game tonight, Tim, this is this is actually it's
it's obviously the biggest game of the year right tonight.
Every time you know you have a game that's the
biggest one. Do the Dodgers know that, do the players know,
of course, of course, of course they do. It's listen,
if they don't win, it's not the end of the world.
They can still go back and yeah, they can still
go back and win two. But obviously their work is
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really cut out for him in that light. It's it's
it's momentum building. It's all that. Going back to Toronto.
If they win this game tonight, and it might be
good for these guys to really blow them out. I
mean one of these ten ten to one games, you know,
one of these like this where you know, the offense
is start starting to click and you know, Tommy Edmund
hits two in the gap and Otani's racing from from
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home to first, I mean from first to home and
you put all that speed on display, and you know,
Blake Snow goes out there and just shove. I mean
a game like that where they just dominate them. That's great.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Going back to Toronto, let's squeeze in another call before
we take a break. David Vass will join us after
the break. Kevin in Culver City. Thanks for being patient,
my patient, Kevin. How you doing.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (33:02):
How you doing?
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You know better than anybody. Steve this team's core principles
has been passed the baton. We gotta stop trying to
be what we're not hitting home runs and pass the baton.
Work the count, get on base, grind out hits like
your golf, and don't try to hit the ball far.
Just just make contact and you'll get home runs. You
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got a year Savage on the second time seeing him around, we're.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Gonna get We're gonna be way better against him. We're
gonna have a great game today. Snail's gonna pitch great,
and I think the hitting is gonna be there. And
in a game six you got Yamamola for eight nine.
And you know in game seven Roberts is going with Otani.
So I like where we're at. We're gonna short in
this bullfen.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
Everybody's all hands on deck glass now we'll be ready,
and even Blake Snell might be ready in a game seven.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
So we got three games. We gotta take care of business.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
If you would have told me to begin season you
got three games to win a World Series, I think
we'd be up for with this team, and with this
team has done.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
We be confident in this team. The bast will come
up today and I'm telling you right now, Dave Roberts
will make the change. And getting a guy like Alex
Colin in the lineup will help, a guy who will
come in and work the picture. This is a young pitcher,
we've seen him before. We're gonna take care of business today.
I have the uttermost confidence in this team and we
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will take care of one of those games in Toronto.
We're the champions. Remember that we are the champions. They
got to take it from us. We're not gonna just
give it up to them. You know, good and well,
these players will take care of business and handle business
and do what they gotta do. Job is not finished.
We will get this back to back. Let's go ten.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah, Kevin Man, I wish I wish Kevin was speaking
of the team before the game today.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That's what I want to hear. I don't want to
hear none of the negative parts. Kevin put it in perspective. Yeah,
and that's a very viable perspective that Kevin just laid out.
Great job, Kevin.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Somehow we gotta get him into the clubhouse before the
game and just get on top of the table and
just start giving a pregame speech or something.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, when you hear the bad parts, it's like you
just hired an ask clown to come in there and
do stuff. You know what I mean. We don't need
ask clowns. We don't need ask clowns.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
No.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
No.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Eight six six nine seven two five seventy. David bet
Say will join us. Coming up Jerry Harrison Junior at
the bottom of the next hour. Still gonna have a
chance for a one lucky Dodger fan. If you know
the seven code words, be listening for the Q to
call and if you can give me all seven, you're
going to Game five tonight. We're gonna take a quick
break here on the YouTube side on Facebook. We're gonna
dive into these donuts and chat it up with Steve Sachs.
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Don't go anywhere, Sax and Kates and am you got
a five seventy ice sports all right, Saxy, We're gonna
dive into these donuts, uh, because one I'm starving in
two kill it, Timmy, I need I need.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
A little sugar rush here. What you got, what you got,
I'm gonna go and go for It's okay to go
with the whack. I go with this good nice It's
really good I'll bet the doctor and granted Bay knows
where Baker Bens is, I'll bet he does. If you're
if you're watching comedy, I see you on the comment
Doctor's users. He can go down, Douglas, go over over
the over the ramp and it's on the right side,
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just before fulsome street. Baker Benz, are you buy fulsome prison? Uh?
Not far really not far. Yeah, I probably should have
been in there like four times already. I'm just kidding. Yeah,
not far, not far from fulsome prison. You know Johnny
Cash did the song about it. Or I should have
been there for killing the A's in eighty eight. That's right.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Hey, it's not a long runway. It's a freaking aircraft carrier.
Let's go. I love that comment.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
That's true. I love that. That's a good one.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
Yeah, Americanos from Jetty in South LA are amazing. All right,
we're gonna rejoin everybody on the radio. I'm gonna enjoy
this rest of the don I'm gonna petro kill this donut.
Petros is a verb for eating something really big, really fast.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Timmy to bring some of those donuts to PMS. Petro
some money show.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
So much fun on the YouTube during the breaks. If
you're not with us, you got to get there. During
the commercial raks, we flip over talk to everything.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Talking about about half of that donut in the final
ten seconds. I shoot it.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Yeah I didn't chew. I just completely swallowed it, which
is not good. But uh, you know, talking donuts, we're talking, Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
How would Petros handle that? Well, he would have just
you know, one bite the whole donut down the bullet. Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
I've seeing him eat a bean and cheese burrito and
two bites, one bite half the other bite the other.
He's pretty big man, Yeah, but he's slender now. He
does the whole yoga seven days a week. And no,
I don't eat fat. No, he's he's he's a he's
a big dude.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah, big dude, big dude. He can fat at all.
He eats a bean and cheese breedle like a five
year old, which and he's got a big voice.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Oh, very boo. Love that guy, very love that voice.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Uh you got a booming voice as well, Steve, And
hopefully the Dodgers are going to hear your voice and
our voice. Uh, tonight with Game five of this world series,
don't forget coming up between now at nine o'clock, your
chance to win Game five World Series tickets if you
wrote down all seven code words from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
When you hear the qu to call, you can.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Recite those code words to Saxon and I here on
the air, and if you're right, you're gonna win tickets
to Game five. But joining us now, he is the
best insider out there. He's gonna have to head back
to Toronto. But that's okay. The Dodgers will have a
chance to win the World Series in Toronto, as they
are now tied up in two games a piece. Game
five tonight with Blake Snell on the mount, first pitch
at five and eight game Good morning, how you doing, buddy.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Getting ready to pack
here so I'm ready to go tomorrow morning to head
back to Canada.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Dave, we heard Canada.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
We heard your reports this morning. We heard you talking
last night as well, and Dave Roberts said, yeah, I'll
think about it, and uh yeah, i'll uh most likely
make some changes to that lineup for Game five. What
do you expect the change or changes to be tonight
in this Dodgers lineup?
Speaker 8 (38:59):
Well, the biggest one would be to decide whether they
continue with Andy Poz in center field. I mean, that's
really the only lineup change you could consider that would
be of any significance, because you're not gonna you know,
I think it would be a sign of panic if
the Dodgers dropped Mookie Betts down in the lineup. I
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know he's struggling, but I kind of just feel like
the Dodgers have to make a decision on what they
value the most in Game five tonight, whether or not
it's you know, the defense of Andy Pohes or deciding
whether or not they should move Tommy Edmund to center
field or possibly even bench Tommy Edmond, who's had some
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poor at bats in the first four games of this
World Series, and you know they're gonna be facing a
right handed pitcher tonight. You Savage, who at times can
be kind of one of those those right handed pitchers
like Bieber last night, that stuffer on lefties. He is
against righties. We saw Tommy Edmund face him in Game
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one from the right side instead of the left side.
But really, to me, it's a simple it's a simple switch.
Tommy Edmund goes to center field, Miguel Rojas plays second
base and hits ninth. And you got a guy that
understands what the role is, what is necessary at the
bottom of that order, because that's what Gavin Lux did
so well last year getting on bass. He wasn't flashy.
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He would get on bass, he would hit a ball
through the right side of the infield. He just understood
who he was. And right now the Dodgers are not
turning that lineup over show. Heyo Tani is coming up
with the basses empty time and time again, which makes
it a lot easier for the Blue Jays to pitch
to him or even intentionally walk him.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Dave, good to be with you today. Just so you know, Dave,
we got a really good picture of you up on
the screen right now of getting I guess you're doing
some kind of a report. You're looking good there. Dave,
tell you this is a really good picture. You got
to see it. I wish you could see this right now,
but I no, no, no, it's a good picture of you.
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I guarantee you. It's a very professional picture of you
in front of the camera day. I gotta ask you,
this is more of a comment. This is more of
a comment I just want to see your reaction to
what you have to say about this. I think it's
gonna be really rare that that you see a Blake
Snell come out and repeat what he did before where
he just didn't pitch bad, but he had some fits
and starts with his control. I think that is past
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him now. Everybody can have a day like that. That's
number one. I think the Blue Jays are in for
a little bit into a different bent on on the
pitching side of it with Blake Snell. And secondly, the
Dodger offense really has had a really good look at you, Savage,
now can he can get in trouble with his control
as well? He doesn't have the experience that a Blake
Snell has. I think you're looking at a divergence of
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two different pictures right here, and I think the advantage
goes to the Dodgers.
Speaker 8 (41:59):
I'm with you, Steve. I believe the Dodgers win this game.
It would have been ideal for them to win last
night's game. I know a lot of people around baseball
were texting me they couldn't believe the Blue Jays actually
stole that game from the Dodgers. But Blake told me
a couple of days ago that, you know, he just
wasn't feeling one hundred percent right with his mechanics in
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Game one, and he feels a lot more confident that
he's going to have better fastball command tonight in Game
five and just be more of himself. So I have
no doubt Blake Snell is going to deliver. And look,
it's not just about the pitching, Steve, It's really about
the Dodger offense. I have no doubts Blake's going to
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handle himself. But the Dodger offense has only scored three
runs in their last twenty innings. Wow, they got to
score some runs. And it sounded like Dave Roberts was
a little envious of the Blue Jays approach last night
because he said they were grinders. They used the entire field,
they made contact. That's not the identity of his team,
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and we haven't seen that all postseason long. The Dodgers
are winning for a three run home run seemingly every game.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Dave, you mentioned it. You know, Potz not producing, but
behind Otani Mookie Betts in this World Series, zero RBIs
what three for nineteen.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
I believe he is in this World Series. He's got
to be more productive. We saw it during the regular
season when they didn't want any part of Otani. Mooki
made him pay a lot of the times in that
next to bat He's gotta be better or else. That
walk of Otani doesn't really do anything.
Speaker 8 (43:39):
Yeah, and also it makes them pitch Otani more aggressively
knowing they got Muki Muki behind him. And look, Mooki
is a great player, but the fact is he he
needs to be more than just another guy on this team.
And going back to the Championship Series, he is just
five for his last thirty four. He only has one
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Xtra Basic. He hasn't driven in a run since the NLDS,
So they need him. They need Mookie Bets to be
a real factor the rest of this World Series. And
you know, I think he just has to enjoy the
moment and not put so much pressure on himself considering
how many guys he has around him. I'm not seeing
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the joy of Mookie Bets right now. And when he's
not enjoying the moment and playing the game with that
type of freeness freed up, he puts too much pressure
on himself and hopefully somebody can get into his ear.
I know when things kind of click for him. The
last fifty games of the regular season, JD. Martinez helped
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him with the hitting, and his wife Brianna kind of
got his psyche in the right spot, just told him
to enjoy the game. And really that's when the season
turned around. So hopefully that can happen again. Can we
get JD. Martinez on a bird to Canada. I think
somebody should do that. Get Jad Martinez off the fishing
boat and get him to Canada as a.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
P Yeah, gotcha, gotcha, Dave. Hey, you know what else
I'm I'm looking at too, is the element of speed, Dave.
This team has so many great ways to beat you.
The Dodgers. Look at they got past the They got
best the Phillies without hitting home runs. They got past
the Blue Jays, or assume be the Brewers that had
the most wins of anybody in baseball. I want to
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see some speed on display. I want to see some
some testing the ability of Alejandro kirk to get off
of the off, off of the you know his haunches
and go get a ball that he just blocked. I
know he can throw, but how good is he getting
off of that belly and going to getting the ball
and throwing to second base. I want to see him
challenge this guy and make that happen. Get in the
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way of some luck that's coming your way, and do
it with speed.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
I would love that, Steve, if somebody could get on
base right.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Oh Dave, do you see what I'm saying. I I
mean I want.
Speaker 8 (46:01):
To see Benners in motion to create what's gonna matter.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
It's gonna matter. Luck is gonna come into it. And
the way you get into it to have that happen
is you haven't hit you in the face. You just
got to get in its way. And speed has a
way of doing that.
Speaker 8 (46:16):
I'm with you. The Dodgers don't really have a lot
of individual speed, but they have team speed. They're really
good at going first to third. I thought maybe an
opportunity to put runners in motion was first and second,
one out last night in the sixth inning, where the
Dodgers had Munsey and Edmund coming up, and they had
runners at first and second and one out. When your
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offense is struggling, you've got to do things, as you know, Steve,
to try to open up some holes and create something
but Monthsly flied out and Tommy Edmond struck out, so
I'm not sure how well that would have worked. I
thought that was the key inning and a great opportunity
once they got deeper on the ropes and out of
the game. I just couldn't believe that Max months he
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swung the first stitch against Mason flu Hardy when he
just came into the game. That was just not like him.
Speaker 5 (47:06):
Dave, we appreciate you jumping on this morning. Enjoy your
cup of coffee from wherever it may be this morning,
and we'll go on to La La.
Speaker 8 (47:12):
Land for coffee my cold brew today.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Okay, okay, Dave. This picture of you I just alluded to,
is you sitting in front of the camera and you
have a cast on your arm. You have a Milwaukee
d line. It's a sentimental look, and I think we
had to sell it. Send it to snell Zilla and
let you get some sentimental love from your bromate.
Speaker 8 (47:38):
I love that I gave snell Villa a pep talk
the other day. He'll be ready. Don't worry about snell Villa.
Get those bats woken up and get these freaking fans
on their feet. If you're showing up tonight. I don't
want to see Esta at Dodger Stadium. I want it to
be loud and proud.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Good advice right there, good advice. Thanks David Grace today. Okay,
thank you, David. I love it. He's right one and only. Hey,
you know what I noticed. I think what he was
couching in his description. I've talked to snell Zella. I
think there was maybe a shoulder rub in there to
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relax and have a nice conversation.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
Well hopefully not on the left shoulder, because that's the
throwing shoulder. The last of you want is like, you know,
pinching something and yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
I think there was some you know, I think it
was good. I think it all worked out.
Speaker 5 (48:27):
I think sky Felix brings up a great point. The
fans will get on their feet if the team performs.
Got to give him something to get on their feet.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Four. He's right.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
You can't ask fifty thousand people to get you motivated
to win a game. You better come and motivate yourself
and use the crowd to take it to the next level.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Well, what I'm glad about is he did guarantee you
a snell Zella performance. Tonight. So that's good. He is
Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kats.
Speaker 5 (48:51):
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Tim Kats and you on this Wednesday morning, October twenty ninth,
twenty twenty five, as your Los Angeles Dodgers had themselves
now a fight a best of three with the Toronto
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Blue Jays, as this series is tied up now at
two games a piece, after the Dodgers fell to the
Blue Jays last night six to two. I am Tim Katz,
joined by two time World Series Champion, Rookie of the Year,
and arguably our number one number three out there, the
one and only Steve Sacks Saxy. It is a day
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in which the Dodgers need to get right. It is
a day in which Blake Snell needs to get right
after his Game one start, and as we've been talking
about the first hour of the show, it is time
for the Dodgers offense to get right after losing last
night and seeing the Toronto Blue Jays tie this series
up at two games a piece, Yeah, it is time.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's time to see somebody go first to third, you know,
score on a pass ball, maybe get some get some
jumps from first base, and get some dirt balls into second.
You know, I thought there was a couple opportunities missed
there where some balls were in the dirt that they
could have taken the base. Be aggressive on the base pass,
see some speed show up, watch the closing speed in
the outfield as they go and snare a ball on
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a line drive. Things like that that really, you know,
rejuvenated and excite the team. It's not only the offense
gets excited, but believe me, when those guys in the
bullpen see the offense on display, knowing that they're going
to score runs and make their job a little bit easier,
it fires everybody up.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Last night show, Hey o Tani pitched okay. He went
six innings, ended up giving up four runs on six hits,
struck out six. As we mentioned in the first hour
of the show, he kept the Dodgers in the game.
They took a one nothing leading the second. He made
a mistake on a sweeper to Vlad Guerrero in the
third and the Dodgers were down two to one. But
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then he put up zeros the rest of the way.
At one point he struck out four to the next five.
He put up zeros and waited for the offense to
do something behind them, and again there was nothing there.
They couldn't string together hids, and it felt like just
a bunch of fly ball outs and a lot of
flyballs deep to the outfield as they try to jack
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it out of the park every single time. Meanwhile, the
message on the other side from Schneider and everybody up
and down that lineup in the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Was they were wide awake.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
They felt good despite an eighteen inning loss seventeen hours
before that. They came back rested, ready to go, and
they got after Otani, they shrung together hids and in
the seventh inning they chased o'tanni Steve and then they
got after Bonda and Blake trying in and put up
one of those crooked numbers. And again it was a
six to one lead, and you felt like a might
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as well been sixteen to one at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, at that time when you have a six to
one lead against a team that can pitch better than
most teams, and you know, it's it's a tough it's
a tough team to climb over right there, but it's
not insurmountable. You got to reset tonight, Okay, you got
to reset knowing that you're going back to Toronto. It's
a little bit of a different mindset. You might see
somebody else out in center field tonight, which we better
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see somebody else out there. Yeah, and I think it's
a time to look back and say, with all the
inefficiencies that we've had on our offense, we're still tied up.
We still just got to win two out of three,
and I think that's an okay position. It could be
a lot worse for the Dodgers right now. Believe me,
it could be a lot worse.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, but we're playing the waiting game. And I appreciate
the fact that Dave Roberts has a long runway, so
to speak, and that's his terms that he likes to
use when talking about his players. And that's one of
the things that I really appreciate about Dave Roberts and
some Dodger fans and drives him crazy, is he does
allow a long runway for a player to get out
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of a slump, to work their way out of whatever
funk that they're in. But you know what, over the
course of one hundred and sixty two games, you could
have a long runway. But this is a short runway.
This is a s short leash, and that leash has
got to be tightened dramatically with the lineup change tonight.
Andy Pie has second on the team at home runs,
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can slug with the best of them, but quite frankly,
has not showed up in October and it's time for
Andy Pie has to be on the bench, and it's
time for Tommy Edmund Steve to be in center field
and Miguel Rojas to be at second base for the
Dodgers tonight and gave five.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah. And I think the you know, the powers that
be may be hearing you. I think they hear your enthusiasm,
they hear your your sour attitude. I guess you could
say you're towards towards what the team has been doing,
but it's warranted. I mean, you know, I think what
you're hearing now is when the fans call in and
they say, you're speaking for most of the sentiment of
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all the fans in Los Angeles. You have to listen
to that. It's like, you know, Ciskel and she Siebert
is the name of the two that would judge Ciskel
and Ebert whatever. They would judge the the movies, right, yeah,
And man, they come up with some real dumb, you know,
projections on what the movie is gonna gross and all that.
I mean stupid, like, oh, you know, I saw the
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movie Titanic and he it was the average was a
sh medium, you know, really that movie was okay. Then
you ask the first ten people that come out of
the movie theater, which is the best barometer? Hey, what'd
you think of the movie? And those ten people are
gonna give you the best barometer better than anybody else can.
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My point is, I think that's what we're getting from you, Tim.
You're the people coming out of the movie theater and
you're the best barometer. So on three, I want you
to go and give us an over, like a glazing over.
One more, maybe maybe three points that are really you know,
chapping your behind.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Ready, go, I'm tired of hearing this narrative that the
Dodgers were tired after Game three and how many hours
of sleep they get after Game three? How did they
get to the ballpark so glazed over and tired? How
did they actually get in the car and drive to
Dodgers Stadium?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
If they had to walk to the park, you might.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
As well thought they walked fifty miles in the snow
to get to Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It was a grinding, eighteen inning game, but you won
that game. Momentum was on your side going into Game four.
If you're the Toronto Blue Jays, you're the team that
had to put your head to pillow and think about
Oh no, we're on the verge of being down three
to one. We're on the road, We're in a hotel room,
and the Dodgers are feeling good about themselves. Meanwhile, the
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Blue Jays are the team that came out last night
and Shane Biebert dealed and the offense didn't stop for.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
They grinded and grinded put runners on base against Otani.
He struck out guys, yes, but then finally they chased
him in the seventh inning. Meanwhile, meanwhile, the Dodgers have
an offense, and when Otani's pitching, we know the offense
isn't gonna be there like it is in the game
he's not pitching.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Was that being sad? This is point number two? Where
the heck is everybody? Else?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Where is the Calvary? Where are the other future Hall
of Famers? Freddie Freeman hit a home run in Game
three in the eighteenth inning. I get it, We've turned
the page. Where was he last night? Where's Mookie Betts been?
In this postseason and in particular October baseball? Andy Pie
has has struggled. I think Andy Pie has has one
more hit than I do in this October baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
In fact, I know.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Andy Pye has and I had the same amount of
home runs in the month of October, and I can
go on in a limb pretty confidently and say Steve
that Andy pie Has and I had the same amount
of walks in October this time around. Okay, it's gotta
be better. Okay, this is the world's I don't want
to hear about. This is great pitching. This is the
best of the best. Oh, we're facing top level starters
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on the other side, just like they're facing our best.
You know what, They grinded down the unicorn last night,
and they took off the horn and they had him
mortal in show a Otani.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm feeling you.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Where is the rest of the Dodgers? Where is the
sense of urgency?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Last night? It's a fight for seven games.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You go up two games to one, you hit a
gut punch, you have him on the ropes, hit them hard,
knock them out, and now you let him back in
the fight. The bell rang, you've gone back to the
corners and now it's all square too.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So do you think they had him on the ropes
and they went for the knockout by just trying to
go to the head. Maybe they got cute.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
They got too cute. They're looking in the crowd. They
got the boxer on the rope. They're doing the old
rope and up with their hands. Oh look at us,
Oh look at me, pointing to the crowd. Let's get
everybody for Oh, I can't hear you, crowd. That's what
they were doing as a boxer. So you said they
should right after him.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do you think it should have gone to the body more?
Maybe more?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Sure punch go straight to the head and go straight
to the face. They should have knocked him out last night.
There should have been There was just a flat Dodger offense.
I don't again met you played, Steve. You said it
is a hard game. Yeah, it is a very hard game.
And to ask somebody to go out and hit four
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underd of the postseason not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
You fail more times than you succeed in baseball. You
go three for ten in any other sport, you go
three for ten in life, you're a failure. That's thirty
percent turn baseball. That could get you to Cooperstown as
a Hall of Famer if you do that consistently.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What if Tom Brady only completed three out of ten passes,
He'd wouldn't be playing.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Drew Bledsoe would have come back and started for him
for the New England Patriots, and tom Brady wouldn't be
tom Brady that we know him as today. This Dodgers
team has got to figure out a way. If you
can't slug your way to a win, which you can
do with the best of him, because you're a great
team offensively in the Dodgers, figure out another way.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, well they did. They did it against the Phillies,
they did it against the Brewers. There wasn't Slugfest City.
They found other ways, and I think that's what we're
looking at now, tim with possibly a different person in
center field, maybe more back to ball skills in contact.
That's gonna be happening with Tommy Edman at second base.
But remember Tommy is kind of like on that cuss sometimes,
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you know, because he can hit a home run. He
can hit a home run now, and I think sometimes
he's got to remember that those home runs come by
not trying to hit a home runs. I want to
see Tommy line the ball the other way, and you know,
if the if he hangs one. He can jacket, that's fine,
but he's a guy that needs to put the ball
in play.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
If I'm watching this World series, you know what scares
me a Lejandro kirk All five foot seven two and
forty five pounds of him. You know why, because he's
a deadly hitter. Because you know, he's gonna poke the
ball the right field and sometimes it goes right at
Freddie Freeman on a line drive. But most times we've
seen him spray the ball the right field.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Oh, we have two guys over there. I really would
And he can.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Also jacket a hill park that we've seen. But meanwhile,
Dodger come up, Andy Pai has his example, and all
I know is he's gonna he's gonna try to jacket
out of the park or he's swung out of his
shoes and gonna strike out. I love Mookie Betts, I do,
but if I see him pop up down the right
field line one more time, I'm gonna go crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's all he's done. Yes, Yeah,
you know what Tim is just yeah, because of because
of the perspective that I have, I can't really rag
on the players because I know how tough it is,
and I probably did it way worse than they did,
so I would just leave that there. However, the fan
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in me is with you. I understand, hey make an
adjustment quick popping out to the right side. D Yeah, okay.
And until you've had a bat in your hands and
you go up there and you have to see it
and do it, it's a much different story. But I
get what you're talking about. You want to see the
approach changed a little bit. That's what you want to see.
You can't guarantee that he's gonna do it, but you
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want to see the approach change. I think that's what
you're looking at. I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
It's a hard sport and it's it's the best of
the best, and what they do nobody else can do
on the planet. I get that, but it just feels
like you're doing the same thing over and over again.
Your approach is the same thing over and over again,
hoping it's gonna change, Hoping you're gonna make a mistake
from the pitcher and you're gonna capitalize off it and
it hit a three run home run, or you're gonna
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hit a home run to get him back in the game.
You only got twenty seven outs you can't at the
end of the game, which during the whole course of
a regular season, if if you don't outslug a team
and that approach doesn't work and you lose a game
five to three, Oh shucks. You know what, Hey, we
lost this game, but we got two more in this series,
and we feel good about how the way we're playing,
having what seven on the last nine, and we look
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at this road tip as something we could be still
successful on. You know what, you don't have time. You've
got three games left. It's a best of seven series.
You got twenty seven outs to work with.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
In a game twenty seven outs, you don't have os. Shucks, Hey,
we dropped this one. That's all right. We feel pretty
confident that over the long haul we're gonna beat a
team and grind him down. You know what the long
haul is now three games? You know, I don't like
this whole We'll figure it out. We'll get somebody there. Well, well, well,
we'll go back to what we've done before. That may
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work in June, July, and August over the course of
ninety games, but no, we're talking about a three game
series now, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
What you know what I missed him? You know what
I miss I want to see the athleticism of somebody
like shoe Hey, o Tani or Mookie Betts. I want
to see them go from first to home on a
ball that's hitting the corner. I want to see the
closing speed on on on you know somebody that's in
the outfield that maybe it's call, maybe it's uh, you
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know whoever, maybe it's Tommy Edmond. That's uh, well, he's
gonna be a He'll probably be in Styeah if he goes,
he'll be at center, and then Rojas will be at second.
I want to see the closing speed of the outfielder's
snare a lying drive. I want to see those athletic
parts of the game that involve speed, because we see
it on the other sides. The Dodgers have that on
their team, they absolutely have it. I want to see
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that aggressiveness on a dirt ball, a ball that's it's
bounced in all a handel Kirk blocks the ball. I
want to seem challenge him to get up. We know
we can throw, but I want to see how quick
a foot he is to recover, get off the block
and go get the ball and throw somebody out. I
want to see him challenge that catcher in that manner.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
So what you want to see is the Dodgers try
to change things up. You want to see a different
approach put on these guys because they can do it.
The Dodgers have some guys on their team that can
really run, I mean really run like Mookie and Showy.
Put it on display man, let me see it. He
is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates. We are live here
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Speaker 2 (16:10):
There? A youth large? No, this is a This is
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this is a full blank grown man. Whatever you want
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you that it is no medium.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Keep listening between now and nine, because yesterday we gave
you seven code words throughout the day on a five
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If you miss those, you could probably go back to
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Speaker 2 (16:51):
Them right now. No, no, no, no, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Some listener is gonna have a chance to give us
all seven of those code words, and when you do,
you are gonna win a pair of tickets to Game
five on the World Series tonight. So be listening for that.
We got a lot of great callers on hold, a
lot of great comments as well coming up on our YouTube.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Pice shoulday we went over a thousand people that were
on YouTube. Yeah, very cool, very exciting. We went from
three hundred to one thousand. I'll bet we hit two
thousand today.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I think we will because it's it's a lot of
Dodger fans not happy yesterday. There was optimism those calls too. Absolutely,
there was optimism. There was a lot of excitement, and
quite frankly, I don't want to hear about parade talk.
The next person who comes up to me and says,
when is the parade, I'm gonna Steve sacks you, I'm
gonna turn around and walk away and not answer your question.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh So, what I'm feeling here, what I'm getting from you,
is you despise talking about parade this early, as much
as I despise the barista asking me what my plans
are and I'm a complete stranger.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Absolutely, I despise, especially when the Dodgers are playing the
way they are and the series is now tied at
two games apiece. If the Dodgers up three games to one,
let's talk strategy, logistics, Let's talk parade all you want,
let's talk time, date, location, But until then, let's not
talk about it right now, because now we find ourselves
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with the comeback kids from Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays
who have made this series tied two games apiece and
don't look now a must win Game five. And I
might even going to throw out the number because I
said in the first hour, I don't want to hear it.
I don't want to hear the old game five series
tied at two in a best of seven format, the
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team who won Game five has going on to win
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Hey, you see on the probability graph here that they
have like on the window. Yeah, yeah, the win probability
have it on you know, you know MLB network, They
have it everywhere. That is the stupidest thing. Then simply, well,
the Blue Jays right now have a seventy three point
four percent chance of winning after something so and so happened.
Then the Dodgers come up and hit a three run homer. Well,
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win probability for the Dodgers are now eighty one point
five percent. Yeah, because they just hit a three run homer. Jackalope, yeah, no,
I mean this win probability it's it's it's it's stupid
because it can change with one swing of the bat,
So I mean, really win probability and how long, like
seven minutes that's how long it lasts. Yeah, or until
somebody else does something good. That's it's it's it's, it's,
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it's bogus.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
It lasts until a Dodger hits a home run, until
Alejandro kirk Uh slaps the ball to right field to
drive it another run for the Toronto Biliy Days. A
lot of great comments on the YouTube. The Dodgers' offense
has not been good since June. I don't know about that.
I already knew this series would be a fight. Dodgers
in six eighteen inning hangover, well, whoa whoa, whoa whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa. I don't want to hear about teening hangover,
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and I don't want to hear about will. The media
was tired too. I was at the ballpark until two
am filing reports. Want to hear what's that?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Nothing you mean? I want to hear. This is true, though,
when nobody has talked to about this, nobody has brought
it up in the media, nobody in the press. We
haven't brought it up yet. I'm telling you it's real
and nobody's brought it up. What is it the element
of luck? Huh? Because that matters. Luck matters in the world. Absolutely,
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it matters, absolutely, And I know people will you ask
the players in the game if it matters, it matters.
Let me tell you one right now. I'll tell you
one right now that it's insignificant, but it could have
been significant. Tommy Edmonds makes a great play for ricochets
off Freddy's glove. Yep, what if Freddy is one eighth
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of an inch higher and he makes that stab and whatever,
maybe he doubles up or whatever happens. But you see
what I'm saying is luck has something to do with
this and nobody's brought it up. Maybe it's a team
that has a stroke of luck that comes out and
it helps him.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
It matters, I promise it matter. Well, how do you
get luck? Can you buy it at the store? How
do we give some luck here?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You try to get in the way of it, You
stay in, you battle and you try to get in
its way and hopefully it'll grace you. I mean, I
I mean, ask any player, any player at all, how
much does luck have to play with it? Don't say
it matters and we have no control over that. You
really don't other than to get in the way of it.
I think that's what scares people is if it does,
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it is scary.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
You can't get out of this series, and you try
as much as you can and try to.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Some of it you don't control, tim some of it
you do not control.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I mean, you can spend all the money you want,
you can get the best players every position, you can
get all the talent draft.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And it's such a micro factor that you don't even
see it. Sometimes.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Ad R on YouTube says it perfectly. Luck equals do
all the small things right. Yeah, well that's part of
the two in its way, get in its way, he is.
Steve Sachs on Tim Kates joined us on the YouTube
page here during the commercial break, we'll be back. David
Vesta will join us at the back end of this hour.
Jerry Harrison Junior in at eight o'clock hour. Don't forget
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be listening for your chance to call in and recite
all seven code words when we give you the queue
to call. If you can get them all, you're going
to game five of the World Series. Tim, I'm back
in one minute, all right, when you come back, I
got a surprise for you on YouTube. Everybody watching and
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and Kates in the am right here on MFI seventy
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I am Tim Kates on this Wednesday morning, October twenty nine.
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Thank you for being with us. We got a crumb one.
I've got some again spooky Halloween ones, and we got
the Dodger one up in the cornbooks, the jellyfield or
a creamfield.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Do on it there? That is that's impressive.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
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their slogan is you're gonna love this. Yeah, don't get
a divorce, get a donut. Donut Prints.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
We're gonna rejoin everybody on the radio here. But again
thanks to Wacko for bringing them in.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Amazing, amazing, I love it, Tim if during the prin.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Oh no, no no, We're back here on AM FI
seventy La Sports had a great time over on YouTube
during the break. Shut off the fancy donuts. The Wacko
brought in studio this morning for us to all enjoy
from donut prints here in Burbank. Got a Dodger donut,
got some crumb donuts, some cake donuts. Great stuff, Thank
you Wacko.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Do you have any twists?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
No twist in here, but lots of great donuts. A
couple of spooky Halloween ones with some treats on top,
including some fake teeth which I'm really scared about that one.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I got a suggestion for donut prints. Yes, okay, we
can set their sales in orbit. Okay, by the way,
keep already coming over looking for the window for donuts.
I want to chocolate bar donut cut in half and half.
Will Jesus slice the side? You fill it with a
lot of whip cream, don't just don't just you know,
paint the inside. I went it stacked with whip cream,
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lots of fluffy, deep chewy whip cream. Okay, and that
donut is called scam Oh. I love that, and they
sell that and it goes crazy. I love that. We
will go in there personally to to donut what's it
called donut prints? Donut prints, and we will buy scam
donuts the next time I'm in studio, tell Donut Prints
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to please start the production of the donut scam love it.
We'll get a little cream inside that donut just for you,
not a little, a lot, and make it thick and chewy. Jeez,
don't we do a drippy runny whip cream? Thick and real,
thick and real. That's how we like it. Thick and real.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah, it's uh, it's this is what we're excited about
is donuts this morning. I wish we were more excited
about a Dodger wind last night, Steve Sacks, but as
it is, the Dodgers offense did not show up. The
Dodgers could not string together. It hits one of those
nights yet again that we've seen from the Dodgers, lack
of offense. And again it wasn't showy, o'tany going out
there and getting touched up by the Toronto Blue Jays.
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He gave up that home run to Vlad Guerrero, but
then put up zeros until he came out of the
game in the seventh inning. And as much as we
celebrated Steve the Dodgers bullpen the night before in that
eighteen inning marathon two games in one spot. Last night,
Anthony Bondi got put in a tough situation with runners
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on and nobody out, could not get the job done.
Played Trent and came in, got some contact, run scored,
and all of a sudden, what was a two to
one Blue Jays lead, and you felt like, maybe if
they can keep it there, the Dodgers still had what
nine to twelve outs to work with, they can get
back into it. But a four spot in the top
of the seventh inning did in the Dodgers to put
him up six to one. They got to run in
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the bottom of the ninth inning, but too little, too late.
The offense gotta be better. I mean, we can't keep
harping on it, but we are. The offense needs to
be better and it has to be better tonight.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, and they were outplayed. Okay, this is one of
the two best teams in the world. They got outplayed
one game. Okay, that's fine. You come back, you reset,
you maybe have a little bit of a different perspective
with center field and second base. The team is knowing
that this is the last opportunity to really get the
fan base on your side and go sometimes. Now you
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can go into the other house, and the negative fan
base towards your team can actually inspire the guys a lot.
I know when I played on the road and I
had everybody booing the hell out of me, especially in
San Francisco, man, I used to get jacked up. Okay,
that's good. So you can change the perspective. You can
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use it to your advantage either way. We'll see how
they come out tonight.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
And when they come out tonight, we expect a different
looking line dramatically different. No no, but Andy Pie has
I can't imagine he'll be in center field tonight for
the Dodgers based on what Dave Roberts said last night
postgame that he's gonna think about it, but do expect
some changes in that lineup for Game five tonight. And
quite frankly, they need better production ahead of show Aotani,
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and they need better production behind show Heyotani. What do
we mean the ninth spot? Andy Pie has has not
been productive behind show Ayotani. When you walk him and
put him on base, the guy behind you needs to
make him pay. And Mookie Betts has done a really
good job of that for the most part, but here
in this series he hasn't and the guy's been before
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and behind show hey have not produced and really punished
the Blue Jays for walking show Eyotani. By walking O'tani.
It's actually benefited the Toronto Blue Jays because the Dodgers
haven't done anything to make them pay for that, and
that's been a benefit for Schneider and Toronto.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
And that's the key. But hey, listen, Tim, I've seen
it too many times. You know how baseball is. It
goes in cycles, it goes in waves. Things don't always
stay the same as they say. The worm will turn,
you know, in a three game series, we'll find out,
really now who's the better team, and it will put
it on. It will be evident because it's been a
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flip of the coin, a jump ball, if you will,
for these first four games. So we're gonna see how
the team responds, how they come back. Take the information
that they've had from the first four games, put that impute,
all that knowledge in there, and let's see what happens
now and how that comes out the other end. But
I think the Dodgers will have a couple of surprises for.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Him, a lot of great comments on YouTube. Of course,
you can watch us on Facebook and YouTube an FI
seventy la Sports as we are alive all morning long
on there. You can listen to it as well. If
you're in your car and can't watch. But you can't
get us on ANFI seventy la Sports over the terrestrial radio.
You can always just take the audio with us on
YouTube and Facebook. But a lot of Dodger fans want
to wait on the phones as well. Well, let's get
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out to the phones. Grammy Tammy in South Pasadena is
next up here on scam on it Hamphi seventy.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
How are you doing, Grammy Tammy?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Oh my god, you.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Guys are terrific.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I love you, I love you, I.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Love the Dodgers, our family does. Okay, I'll be real quick.
I was a cheerleader in height in college, so I'm
gonna lead you in the cheer to boost you and
the Dodgers up.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
All right, let's go, let's he remember remember.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
This, Like Shakespeare said, where there's a will, there's a play. Well,
with the Dodgers, where there's a will, there's a way,
they will find their way to win the World Series. Okay,
here we go ready, Ye're okay? Gee gee g g
oo d d d o d gee gee up? Oh Dodger.
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We love you.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
All right, Thank you, Grammy Tammy, appreciate that love. The
cheer your turn, Sacksy, let's hear a cheer from me.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
You got me off guard. Yeah, give me once to
figure this out. Come.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Jason and Maryland check it in on a five seventy
l A Sports Jason, Good morning, what are your thoughts
on this Dodgers team? No offense? Game five tonight? They
need snell Zilla at the baddest way right now.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Good morning, guys, Thanks for taking my call again. I
called you guys on Friday and you guys asked me
what I thought the key was, and at the time,
you know, I said pitching. But we've been getting what
we need from our pictures. That offense is not clicking.
Exactly what you guys say, just you know, echoing that
Otani can't do it himself. You know, it sucks that
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every time he has an opportunity to have somebody on base, Hi,
is it just either swinging at whatever he can or
not trying to take the walk. And you know that's
that's why they pitch the way they pitched to Latani.
You know, Bieber didn't give him anything to hit yesterday.
And I love MOOKI, I love him. I got a
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lot of love for him. But he needs to, you know,
get it going. You know it's it's gonna be game five,
last game in La This is this is a must win.
We you know, can't go back to Toronto down.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
No, this is a this is absolutely a must win, Jason.
You cannot go back to Toronto down three games to
two and needing to win both games. You got to
put yourself in the best situation in which that means
win tonight, and they'll have to win one of two
in Toronto with Yamamoto going and possibly Glass now combination
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with Otani in game seven. That is the best case scenario,
and it has to be has to be the situation
the Dodgers put themselves in going into the possibility of
a six and seven in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Monster game tonight, Tim, this is this is actually it's
it's obviously the biggest game of the year right tonight.
Every time you know you have a game that's the
biggest one. Do the Dodgers know that, do the players know,
of course, of course, of course they do. It's listen,
if they don't win, it's not the end of the world.
They can still go back and yeah, they can still
go back and win two. But obviously their work is
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really cut out for him in that light. It's it's
it's momentum building. It's all that. Going back to Toronto.
If they win this game tonight, and it might be
good for these guys to really blow them out. I
mean one of these ten ten to one games, you know,
one of these like this where you know, the offense
is start starting to click and you know, Tommy Edmund
hits two in the gap and Otani's racing from from
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home to first, I mean from first to home and
you put all that speed on display, and you know,
Blake Snow goes out there and just shove. I mean
a game like that where they just dominate them. That's great.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Going back to Toronto, let's squeeze in another call before
we take a break. David Vass will join us after
the break. Kevin in Culver City. Thanks for being patient,
my patient, Kevin. How you doing.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (33:02):
How you doing?
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You know better than anybody. Steve this team's core principles
has been passed the baton. We gotta stop trying to
be what we're not hitting home runs and pass the baton.
Work the count, get on base, grind out hits like
your golf, and don't try to hit the ball far.
Just just make contact and you'll get home runs. You
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got a year Savage on the second time seeing him around, we're.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Gonna get We're gonna be way better against him. We're
gonna have a great game today. Snail's gonna pitch great,
and I think the hitting is gonna be there. And
in a game six you got Yamamola for eight nine.
And you know in game seven Roberts is going with Otani.
So I like where we're at. We're gonna short in
this bullfen.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
Everybody's all hands on deck glass now we'll be ready,
and even Blake Snell might be ready in a game seven.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
So we got three games. We gotta take care of business.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
If you would have told me to begin season you
got three games to win a World Series, I think
we'd be up for with this team, and with this
team has done.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
We be confident in this team. The bast will come
up today and I'm telling you right now, Dave Roberts
will make the change. And getting a guy like Alex
Colin in the lineup will help, a guy who will
come in and work the picture. This is a young pitcher,
we've seen him before. We're gonna take care of business today.
I have the uttermost confidence in this team and we
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will take care of one of those games in Toronto.
We're the champions. Remember that we are the champions. They
got to take it from us. We're not gonna just
give it up to them. You know, good and well,
these players will take care of business and handle business
and do what they gotta do. Job is not finished.
We will get this back to back. Let's go ten.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah, Kevin Man, I wish I wish Kevin was speaking
of the team before the game today.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That's what I want to hear. I don't want to
hear none of the negative parts. Kevin put it in perspective. Yeah,
and that's a very viable perspective that Kevin just laid out.
Great job, Kevin.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Somehow we gotta get him into the clubhouse before the
game and just get on top of the table and
just start giving a pregame speech or something.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, when you hear the bad parts, it's like you
just hired an ask clown to come in there and
do stuff. You know what I mean. We don't need
ask clowns. We don't need ask clowns.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
No.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
No.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Eight six six nine seven two five seventy. David bet
Say will join us. Coming up Jerry Harrison Junior at
the bottom of the next hour. Still gonna have a
chance for a one lucky Dodger fan. If you know
the seven code words, be listening for the Q to
call and if you can give me all seven, you're
going to Game five tonight. We're gonna take a quick
break here on the YouTube side on Facebook. We're gonna
dive into these donuts and chat it up with Steve Sachs.
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Don't go anywhere, Sax and Kates and am you got
a five seventy ice sports all right, Saxy, We're gonna
dive into these donuts, uh, because one I'm starving in
two kill it, Timmy, I need I need.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
A little sugar rush here. What you got, what you got,
I'm gonna go and go for It's okay to go
with the whack. I go with this good nice It's
really good I'll bet the doctor and granted Bay knows
where Baker Bens is, I'll bet he does. If you're
if you're watching comedy, I see you on the comment
Doctor's users. He can go down, Douglas, go over over
the over the ramp and it's on the right side,
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just before fulsome street. Baker Benz, are you buy fulsome prison? Uh?
Not far really not far. Yeah, I probably should have
been in there like four times already. I'm just kidding. Yeah,
not far, not far from fulsome prison. You know Johnny
Cash did the song about it. Or I should have
been there for killing the A's in eighty eight. That's right.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Hey, it's not a long runway. It's a freaking aircraft carrier.
Let's go. I love that comment.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
That's true. I love that. That's a good one.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
Yeah, Americanos from Jetty in South LA are amazing. All right,
we're gonna rejoin everybody on the radio. I'm gonna enjoy
this rest of the don I'm gonna petro kill this donut.
Petros is a verb for eating something really big, really fast.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Timmy to bring some of those donuts to PMS. Petro
some money show.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
So much fun on the YouTube during the breaks. If
you're not with us, you got to get there. During
the commercial raks, we flip over talk to everything.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Talking about about half of that donut in the final
ten seconds. I shoot it.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Yeah I didn't chew. I just completely swallowed it, which
is not good. But uh, you know, talking donuts, we're talking, Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
How would Petros handle that? Well, he would have just
you know, one bite the whole donut down the bullet. Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
I've seeing him eat a bean and cheese burrito and
two bites, one bite half the other bite the other.
He's pretty big man, Yeah, but he's slender now. He
does the whole yoga seven days a week. And no,
I don't eat fat. No, he's he's he's a he's
a big dude.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah, big dude, big dude. He can fat at all.
He eats a bean and cheese breedle like a five
year old, which and he's got a big voice.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Oh, very boo. Love that guy, very love that voice.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Uh you got a booming voice as well, Steve, And
hopefully the Dodgers are going to hear your voice and
our voice. Uh, tonight with Game five of this world series,
don't forget coming up between now at nine o'clock, your
chance to win Game five World Series tickets if you
wrote down all seven code words from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
When you hear the qu to call, you can.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Recite those code words to Saxon and I here on
the air, and if you're right, you're gonna win tickets
to Game five. But joining us now, he is the
best insider out there. He's gonna have to head back
to Toronto. But that's okay. The Dodgers will have a
chance to win the World Series in Toronto, as they
are now tied up in two games a piece. Game
five tonight with Blake Snell on the mount, first pitch
at five and eight game Good morning, how you doing, buddy.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Getting ready to pack
here so I'm ready to go tomorrow morning to head
back to Canada.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Dave, we heard Canada.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
We heard your reports this morning. We heard you talking
last night as well, and Dave Roberts said, yeah, I'll
think about it, and uh yeah, i'll uh most likely
make some changes to that lineup for Game five. What
do you expect the change or changes to be tonight
in this Dodgers lineup?
Speaker 8 (38:59):
Well, the biggest one would be to decide whether they
continue with Andy Poz in center field. I mean, that's
really the only lineup change you could consider that would
be of any significance, because you're not gonna you know,
I think it would be a sign of panic if
the Dodgers dropped Mookie Betts down in the lineup. I
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know he's struggling, but I kind of just feel like
the Dodgers have to make a decision on what they
value the most in Game five tonight, whether or not
it's you know, the defense of Andy Pohes or deciding
whether or not they should move Tommy Edmund to center
field or possibly even bench Tommy Edmond, who's had some
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poor at bats in the first four games of this
World Series, and you know they're gonna be facing a
right handed pitcher tonight. You Savage, who at times can
be kind of one of those those right handed pitchers
like Bieber last night, that stuffer on lefties. He is
against righties. We saw Tommy Edmund face him in Game
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one from the right side instead of the left side.
But really, to me, it's a simple it's a simple switch.
Tommy Edmund goes to center field, Miguel Rojas plays second
base and hits ninth. And you got a guy that
understands what the role is, what is necessary at the
bottom of that order, because that's what Gavin Lux did
so well last year getting on bass. He wasn't flashy.
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He would get on bass, he would hit a ball
through the right side of the infield. He just understood
who he was. And right now the Dodgers are not
turning that lineup over show. Heyo Tani is coming up
with the basses empty time and time again, which makes
it a lot easier for the Blue Jays to pitch
to him or even intentionally walk him.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Dave, good to be with you today. Just so you know, Dave,
we got a really good picture of you up on
the screen right now of getting I guess you're doing
some kind of a report. You're looking good there. Dave,
tell you this is a really good picture. You got
to see it. I wish you could see this right now,
but I no, no, no, it's a good picture of you.
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I guarantee you. It's a very professional picture of you
in front of the camera day. I gotta ask you,
this is more of a comment. This is more of
a comment I just want to see your reaction to
what you have to say about this. I think it's
gonna be really rare that that you see a Blake
Snell come out and repeat what he did before where
he just didn't pitch bad, but he had some fits
and starts with his control. I think that is past
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him now. Everybody can have a day like that. That's
number one. I think the Blue Jays are in for
a little bit into a different bent on on the
pitching side of it with Blake Snell. And secondly, the
Dodger offense really has had a really good look at you, Savage,
now can he can get in trouble with his control
as well? He doesn't have the experience that a Blake
Snell has. I think you're looking at a divergence of
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two different pictures right here, and I think the advantage
goes to the Dodgers.
Speaker 8 (41:59):
I'm with you, Steve. I believe the Dodgers win this game.
It would have been ideal for them to win last
night's game. I know a lot of people around baseball
were texting me they couldn't believe the Blue Jays actually
stole that game from the Dodgers. But Blake told me
a couple of days ago that, you know, he just
wasn't feeling one hundred percent right with his mechanics in
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Game one, and he feels a lot more confident that
he's going to have better fastball command tonight in Game
five and just be more of himself. So I have
no doubt Blake Snell is going to deliver. And look,
it's not just about the pitching, Steve, It's really about
the Dodger offense. I have no doubts Blake's going to
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handle himself. But the Dodger offense has only scored three
runs in their last twenty innings. Wow, they got to
score some runs. And it sounded like Dave Roberts was
a little envious of the Blue Jays approach last night
because he said they were grinders. They used the entire field,
they made contact. That's not the identity of his team,
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and we haven't seen that all postseason long. The Dodgers
are winning for a three run home run seemingly every game.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Dave, you mentioned it. You know, Potz not producing, but
behind Otani Mookie Betts in this World Series, zero RBIs
what three for nineteen.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
I believe he is in this World Series. He's got
to be more productive. We saw it during the regular
season when they didn't want any part of Otani. Mooki
made him pay a lot of the times in that
next to bat He's gotta be better or else. That
walk of Otani doesn't really do anything.
Speaker 8 (43:39):
Yeah, and also it makes them pitch Otani more aggressively
knowing they got Muki Muki behind him. And look, Mooki
is a great player, but the fact is he he
needs to be more than just another guy on this team.
And going back to the Championship Series, he is just
five for his last thirty four. He only has one
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Xtra Basic. He hasn't driven in a run since the NLDS,
So they need him. They need Mookie Bets to be
a real factor the rest of this World Series. And
you know, I think he just has to enjoy the
moment and not put so much pressure on himself considering
how many guys he has around him. I'm not seeing
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the joy of Mookie Bets right now. And when he's
not enjoying the moment and playing the game with that
type of freeness freed up, he puts too much pressure
on himself and hopefully somebody can get into his ear.
I know when things kind of click for him. The
last fifty games of the regular season, JD. Martinez helped
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him with the hitting, and his wife Brianna kind of
got his psyche in the right spot, just told him
to enjoy the game. And really that's when the season
turned around. So hopefully that can happen again. Can we
get JD. Martinez on a bird to Canada. I think
somebody should do that. Get Jad Martinez off the fishing
boat and get him to Canada as a.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
P Yeah, gotcha, gotcha, Dave. Hey, you know what else
I'm I'm looking at too, is the element of speed, Dave.
This team has so many great ways to beat you.
The Dodgers. Look at they got past the They got
best the Phillies without hitting home runs. They got past
the Blue Jays, or assume be the Brewers that had
the most wins of anybody in baseball. I want to
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see some speed on display. I want to see some
some testing the ability of Alejandro kirk to get off
of the off, off of the you know his haunches
and go get a ball that he just blocked. I
know he can throw, but how good is he getting
off of that belly and going to getting the ball
and throwing to second base. I want to see him
challenge this guy and make that happen. Get in the
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way of some luck that's coming your way, and do
it with speed.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
I would love that, Steve, if somebody could get on
base right.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Oh Dave, do you see what I'm saying. I I
mean I want.
Speaker 8 (46:01):
To see Benners in motion to create what's gonna matter.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
It's gonna matter. Luck is gonna come into it. And
the way you get into it to have that happen
is you haven't hit you in the face. You just
got to get in its way. And speed has a
way of doing that.
Speaker 8 (46:16):
I'm with you. The Dodgers don't really have a lot
of individual speed, but they have team speed. They're really
good at going first to third. I thought maybe an
opportunity to put runners in motion was first and second,
one out last night in the sixth inning, where the
Dodgers had Munsey and Edmund coming up, and they had
runners at first and second and one out. When your
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offense is struggling, you've got to do things, as you know, Steve,
to try to open up some holes and create something
but Monthsly flied out and Tommy Edmond struck out, so
I'm not sure how well that would have worked. I
thought that was the key inning and a great opportunity
once they got deeper on the ropes and out of
the game. I just couldn't believe that Max months he
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swung the first stitch against Mason flu Hardy when he
just came into the game. That was just not like him.
Speaker 5 (47:06):
Dave, we appreciate you jumping on this morning. Enjoy your
cup of coffee from wherever it may be this morning,
and we'll go on to La La.
Speaker 8 (47:12):
Land for coffee my cold brew today.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Okay, okay, Dave. This picture of you I just alluded to,
is you sitting in front of the camera and you
have a cast on your arm. You have a Milwaukee
d line. It's a sentimental look, and I think we
had to sell it. Send it to snell Zilla and
let you get some sentimental love from your bromate.
Speaker 8 (47:38):
I love that I gave snell Villa a pep talk
the other day. He'll be ready. Don't worry about snell Villa.
Get those bats woken up and get these freaking fans
on their feet. If you're showing up tonight. I don't
want to see Esta at Dodger Stadium. I want it to
be loud and proud.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Good advice right there, good advice. Thanks David Grace today. Okay,
thank you, David. I love it. He's right one and only. Hey,
you know what I noticed. I think what he was
couching in his description. I've talked to snell Zella. I
think there was maybe a shoulder rub in there to
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relax and have a nice conversation.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
Well hopefully not on the left shoulder, because that's the
throwing shoulder. The last of you want is like, you know,
pinching something and yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
I think there was some you know, I think it
was good. I think it all worked out.
Speaker 5 (48:27):
I think sky Felix brings up a great point. The
fans will get on their feet if the team performs.
Got to give him something to get on their feet.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Four. He's right.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
You can't ask fifty thousand people to get you motivated
to win a game. You better come and motivate yourself
and use the crowd to take it to the next level.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Well, what I'm glad about is he did guarantee you
a snell Zella performance. Tonight. So that's good. He is
Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kats.
Speaker 5 (48:51):
Two hours down, one to go, still to come, your
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