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October 24, 2025 • 41 mins
A FLEX ALERT before Game 1 of the World Series. Top Story of the Day on the Dodgers. Secret Textoso Roundup
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Tell me you s Petros and Money Flex back to
two because it is Game one of the World Series
Tonight on your whole of the World Series, on your
home of the World Series Champion Dodgers AM five to
seventy LA Sports. First pitch from the Galpin Motors broadcast
booth from trey Ya Savage of the Blue Jays will
be at five eight pm. Blake Snell will follow in

(01:15):
the bottom of the inning, trying to extend his incredible
postseason performance thus far against the Reds, Phillies and Brewers,
dominant in each of his starts, exactly why he signed
with the Dodgers in the first place, for this very
moment to night. Pe If he does not get a
second start in the World Series, will Blake Snell make

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history as he has already made history in each of
his previous starts. The only place to find out is
right here on your home of the Dodgers A five
seventy LA Sports.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
And it's Blake Snell versus Yay Savage, and it's happening
tonight in a foreign country, Canada, and David Vasse will
join us in an hour from now, and we will
get the latest from what's going on with the Dodgers
Game one of the World Series. Every pitch, every inhale,

(02:08):
every exhale, every crack of the bat you will hear
right here. And our extensive coverage is brought to you
by Strauss Tim Kates with scam this morning, chopping it
up with the mayor from the MLB Network having a
great time with Steve Sachs, the Saxy Dancer. You'll have

(02:29):
Marongo casino, Dodgers on Deck starting at four, He's invited
to a barbecue that starts at four. And then, like
you said, Matt, five oh eight, first pitch from that guy,
yay Savage.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Where you're gonna watch the game? Caates? I think he's
gonna be at the kook.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
I got multiple options, Matt.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Where That's what I figured. You're a popular man around town.
Everybody wants to host of scam and Dodgers on Deck
at their World Series watch party on a Friday night.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
I'd like to think that, But the only places I
really have to watch it are the studio with Colin Ye,
which is a good option. It's a good option because
Tim Conway comes over during the breaks and watches the
game with us.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Guys. See that big dog, Oh.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Hey, look at that bad that guy you really swim
the batterly well, I could go.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
You can't hit it? Candy? Who Dominican fella strong?

Speaker 5 (03:27):
How did he get here?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (03:29):
They have the viewing party at the house that we're
gonna have with the family.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
They have friends coming over, girls got friends coming over
and wipe that people coming over? Like what kind of party?
Were talking?

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Another big night for the Sady lady.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah, well, because later tonight they're actually going over to
Glendale College for a Village Christian Football Senior Night, so
the athletic trainers are getting recognized as well, So she's
gonna got recognized.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Just a jam packed night for the host of scam.
No rest for the weary, but.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Don who goes there is always an option. Let's Seeah,
that's what we're talking about. What's the what's the largest
TV at Don Cuco's. How big would you say that, Matt?
It's probably about out of fifty inch er.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
I think you feel like you're right on the fifty
yard line, like the Beach's restaurant.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
In brew House, there's one, two, three, four. I think
there's five TVs in the bar.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
The bar, Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
I get right, I get right in the corner corner booth.
It's about five to six. Can really stretch out if
there's only the two of us. I believe that was
a Tim Conway story the other day.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
He came in and told uh, Don McLean and I
I believe really that he was at Don Cucko's and
every TV had something on. None of them had the
Clipper game on, even though it's la ding down.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
We can all get behind that though, right what hey,
we absolutely can. It's fine with me.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Uh, it's a frog man Friday. Oh wait wait wait, wait, wait,
wait what it's a flex alert. It's two o'clock. A
lot of people with a lot of superstition. I heard
a guy called scamp. I mean.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Two o'clock. It's to a heart's too hard the people
want and it's two. It's not none, it's noon. It's Ronnie.
Let's Ronnie. Let's see what he has loaded.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Up hopeful music at noon.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
I heard it this morning and he was like, I
don't really have anything to say, but I've called the
other days and the.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Dodgers have won, so calling today.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
So a lot of people try to get a lot
of things done as far as their superstitions go, trying
to keep the same routine, trying to stay above water,
ahead of the sharks and by sharks. I meet Canadians
and the Toronto Blue Jays who have it out.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
For your Dodgers. Well, yeah, they're in the World Series,
all right.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
They want to beat them. They don't want to just
be there and lose. They want to beat the Dodgers,
want to win. They believe that they will win.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
They do.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
I don't know why. I can't tell you what their
innermost thoughts aren't, but I can tell you that they're
hopeful too, So we can counteract their hopefulness with our
own hopeful music at noon.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
At two seven.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Correct for shame.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Just because we've had a few very cavalier shows that
started at noon the other day doesn't mean we sniffed
that out very often.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Well. And also Frogman stuff. You know, we do have
that flex alert sounder.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
It is a Frogman Friday, Frogman, prog Man, Frogman? Is
that flyball? Or is it a seagull? Prog Man coming
in up the lake? Frogman just to catch a game Progman.
On a frog Man Friday, we celebrate lakes, rivers and
the sea mostly to the man. The Pacific Ocean keeps

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us in awe and in fear or it is large
head dangerous, and there are people that protect this product,
like the close Guard and the lifeguards and the Navy
and the police, the harbor Patrol and of course the

(07:14):
greatest protector of all time from the show Sea Hunt
character played by Lloyd Bridges. We're talking about Mike nels.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
N Covenor San Diego. We were giving the midget a
real workout. Bill was developing it to sell of the Navy.
He'd done a good job with its silent electric motor.
It could carry two men equipped with diving lungs about
fifteen miles at a fair speed. It still had some flaws.
The doors designed for quick escape and emergencies were sometimes
opened by changes and pressure, and the controls weren't perfect yet.

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I enjoyed helping Bill, especially as I could see the
value of the small craft for surprise attacks and secret missions.
Not that I intended to go on any I figured
those days were in the past for me. I thought
that we were testing the subsecretly. But I was mistaken.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Todd Lights thirteen p. Five. What are you nuts? We
still got to take that Florida man. You know what
that's like these days?

Speaker 7 (08:11):
You got the Navy everywhere, You got frogmen, you got
the EC twos with the satellite tracking, you got the
bell two nine assault choppers up the ass.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
We're losing one out of every nine loads.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
That's no dunk walk anymore. Let me tell you, forget
about money.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
What do you suggest that's reasonable?

Speaker 4 (08:30):
That was the great dodger, Pa Man Todd Light, So
be on the mic at the World Series on Monday
for Game three. We'll be there and the greatest organist
that was ever known to any sports arena ever playing
Sea lab on a Frogman Friday. It's diner room. Oh yeah, you.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
Know you.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Asked, uh, you asked Tim Kats Matt, where is he
gonna watch the game?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah? Like, well, you know it's him.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Man. He's like, I have a choice. You know, it's
either my young Asian friend or my family.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Colin. Ye, well, do you want a lot of people have.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
To fly all the way to Thailand have their young
Asian friend keep them coming me instead of their family?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
You know what I mean? You know, if you don't
want anybody to find out about it.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
I'm just saying it sounds like, you know, my young
newbttle friend.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
It does, however, seem like, hey, where's so he's in Thailand?

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yeah, and you're not with him?

Speaker 5 (10:12):
No, he likes to himself.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
He's in Vietnam. He goes once a year, is that right?

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah? Well what else does he like to do?

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well, you know he's out there, he looks at the mines,
he checks out the old minefield.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Okay, seems a little dangerous, that's what he says. That's
why I can't go. Yeah, that's very dangerous. Not for me.
It's too hot in the Mosquitos.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Uh now, man, I do have I guess this is
a self report because I want to apologize, uh, not
to you, of course, but to Ronnie Fossler's I want
to apologize to Ronnie Fossio. We've made fun, well, we've
made fun of Ronnie for a long time about upsetting Ronnie.
About uh, Ronnie upsetting Don mcclan who was in yesterday

(10:52):
for four hours while you called the Chargers victory over
the Indianapolis or excuse me, the Vikings. Yeah, they'd be
They beat the Vikings. The Colts beat them a few
days back, and then the Chargers got right back at
it and then decidedly beat the Vikings, which would mean,
of course the Vikings would beat the Colts.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Works that way anyway, but it does though. That's the thing.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
I just hate to say this because Don McClain our bff,
a basketball icon at home and abroad. Uh. I mean
it's not just Ronnie that he side steps and trips up,
you know, into the hole embankment covered with ice plant.
You go tumbling into it because the questioning, you know,

(11:40):
the questioning of you while you're trying to do the
show and keep it together. And and he did it
to Ronnie. And we always, you know, we've had we've
poked fun at him.

Speaker 8 (11:48):
Do we have that sound righting shotgun for the next
couple of days? Wait, Ronnie, how is the state allowed
to have two official songs? I don't know, Don, That's
that's what I read. What's the other one? I don't
know and didn't care. It's immaterial for this particular segment
of the show. Sorry, Ronnie.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
I was just curious.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Now, I gotta be honest, Like, you know, it's not
funny when it happens to you. You know, Don's out
there asking everybody questions like the red baron and just
stamping it, you know, up just stamping the thing.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
On the side. You know what. The people are curious, Don,
the curious little monkey.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
You know, you do the fun fact, Matt, but I
do it if you're out Because it's sponsored by Concordia University,
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Speaker 2 (12:40):
Coaching.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Yeah, and I had a fun fact about the very
first pro hoops game, the very first professional basketball game
ever played was in the mid forties and it was
in Toronto versus the Knicks. And I'm not writing a
book about it, but I'm telling you the fun fact.
And this guy, Aussi Stutsman or whatever hit the first

(13:01):
basket in pro basketball history. And Don's like, well, what
league was that?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I know, it's not the NBA? What league is it?

Speaker 4 (13:10):
So you know you have to stop and look at it. Well,
Kate's humor's down and does like you know, it does
like a Kate's dance and kills time. You got to
stop and look it up, you know. And it happened
all four hours probing, ask questions, and Ronnie wore the
sting of that one, you know, the about the Colorado

(13:30):
state song. That's what he read, and how they're allowed
to have two Lest we forget play that one again.
I mean, that's very strong. That's a great example of what.

Speaker 9 (13:39):
Don does writing Shotgun for the next couple of days.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
Wait, Ronnie, how is the state allowed to have two
official songs? I don't know, Don, That's that's what I read.
What's the other one? I don't know and didn't care.
It's immaterial for this particular segment.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Of the show. Sorry, Ronnie, I was just curious.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, Ronnie didn't look up the other one down and
he didn't have time to look it up in that moment,
and we always looked like wankers and clowns. Here's me yesterday,
trying to do the fun. Fact was played in Toronto,
of all places, between the Toronto Huskies and of course
the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens in nineteen

(14:19):
forty six on November one.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
What was the league at that point?

Speaker 7 (14:22):
Do you know?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
It wasn't the NBA, They were different leagues. Yeah, it
was the Uh it was the Yeah, Why I asked
too many questions on the show?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
You know, it's a very good question, Don, there's the
Kates dance. Great question, Don. I like the way you
ask all these questions.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
It was the BAA.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
I like your sponsor, Petros.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Damn it?

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Why I asked too many questions on this curious Don,
the curious little monkey tired of it? Some of them
the mid range curiosity.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know, Don, that's what I read.

Speaker 9 (15:01):
I don't know, Don, That's that's what I read. What's
the other one? I don't know? And didn't care. It's
immaterial for this particular segment of the show.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I don't know and didn't care.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Plus the fact that he stole my Dodgers In five prediction,
which was my college whip around propped at back.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, that's everybody's prediction. No, no, Fred said Dodgers in six. Okay,
Well Fred's an idiot, so he does not allow to pick.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Let's not forget when I did an impression for it.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh that's this is my favorite. I've been asking this
for this for weeks.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
It was during a den of Live Guy while you
were gone in Brazil. Matt and I wrote one and
it was for an English person I believe. I don't
remember who it was for, but here's a little bit
of that.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Dade seventeen won a talent show on an Australian TV
show called singh.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Actually it was called Sing Sing Sing.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah. Wow, that's terrible, Tim, Yeah that was Tim Please.
I thought it was all right, Tim, you got the
Maide in there, just the Tim please. I need that
to be he please, Tim, Please.

Speaker 9 (16:09):
Matt, your turn's coming, right.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I think the difference with me, Ronnie is I just
answer it without having a clue, and well, yeah, and
then we just move on. I would have said that
Matt just makes something up and they just ignore us.
With somebody, I mean, if he asked me, what is
that CBA Canadian Basketball Association. Of course, so anyway in
nineteen forty one, that's not true.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
I don't care, Tim, Please, So it is time for
Dodger fan fare. It's time to get excited.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Didn't care.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
I don't know, and I didn't care.

Speaker 9 (16:47):
I don't know, Don that's uh, that's what I read.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
What's the other one?

Speaker 9 (16:50):
I don't know and didn't care. It's immaterial for this
particular segment of the show.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
So it's time.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
It's time to get the beat can of this celebration.
We'll get the curious down the New York knickerbockers at
Maple Leaf Gardens in nineteen forty six on November one.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
What was the league at that point?

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Do we know? It wasn't the NBA? They were different leagues. Yeah,
it was the Uh see, I try to do a
mad thing. Dammit, I asked too many questions on this show.
You it's a very good question, don damn it?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Why do you so?

Speaker 4 (17:26):
I just wanted to get that in everybody's heads, Curious Dawn,
the curious little Monkey. It's not I'm sorry, Ronnie, it's
not just you that gets stumped by the schwab or whatever.
So Don McClain, so.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
Petros, are we gonna also play that one on continuous loop?

Speaker 4 (17:45):
Which one w it's not as good, you know what?

Speaker 2 (17:49):
It really Isn't it really is? You know why?

Speaker 9 (17:51):
Because it was the first one. I was really kind.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
I like, Tim, please, it's not the first one, but
it's the first one where somebody pushed back. You know,
for years we've just tried to accommodate these questions. Oh
you know, but you're not a seven year old, don
You don't get to just ask questions all day long.
But anyway, it's time.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Too many questions. Yeah, what do I say? It's time.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
It's time to jerk the wheel and get ready for
great sports talk supporting our partners, the LA Dodgers in
the World Series Championship and in their World Series Championship
endeavors on epic time in history to be a Doyer
type and that's certainly us as we are your do
your station. But standing in the way is the Great

(18:37):
White North, the Holsers of Canada, which I learned yesterday
has one million more people than we do in California.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
It is a whole country.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah, I didn't know, so being the petrosen why I'm
too stupid? Thank god somebody asked me the question. Uh.
The Petros and Money World Series coverage twenty twenty five
really starts today as we have Game one, and we'll
be right back with the top story of the day.
David Vassa will join us in the second hour and

(19:12):
we will have everything you need going forward. Yay Savage
versus Blake Snell. David vass excited that it's Snell Bump day.
Tim Kaite's been snorting bumps.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
For three weeks. Ah, yeah, you yack hid. The Chargers won,
Matt's in a good mood, great mood.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
Ronnie's exonerated by attacking our six foot ten guest host
years ago.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Don't know and didn't care.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
So we'll be back with more Petros and Money on
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taking on the Toronto Blue Jays tonight. Blake Snell is
on the mound and right now the voice of the
Bolts back from calling the game yesterday on kfive Matt
Smith with the top story of the day, Top story
of the day.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, it's not easy, you know, that's the bottom line.
This was not easy. Yes, the Dodgers are in the
World Series. They made it there by sweeping the Brewers,
by knocking off the Phillies in just four games, and
making easy work of the Reds they won nine of ten.

(21:10):
It looks like domination. It looks like they're making the
playoffs a procession, but that's really just recency bias. It
is processional playoffs. That's what it's been thus far. Right,
ten games, nine wins.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
So if you felt like the Dodgers were dominant and
you've just been watching the playoffs this year, you'd be right.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
However, it clouds the picture of what this season was.
It was quite simply the most trying regular season of
this thirteen year run that the Dodgers have dominated, winning
the division every single year save one when they booked

(21:53):
one hundred and six wins but came in second place
to the Giants, and they're one hundred and seven wins
the only time they didn't win the divisional crown. This
has been the toughest go even though prior to the season,
like so many seasons before, it was projected that this
could be a one hundred and twenty win ball club.
They get out to an eight and zero start, we

(22:15):
think maybe it's a one sixty two and zero year.
But it was Freddy dealing with an ankle. It was
Mookie Bets playing shortstop is selfish. Maybe he's chasing an
individual award, an MVP award, and he can't get it
in right field. He's got to get it at shortstop.
Then it's Mookie and enduring a sickness that took him

(22:35):
months to get over, lost fifteen pounds, and then three
months of whatever. His slump was.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Saved by David Vasse he was.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
I mean, the conversation around Mooky in twenty twenty five was,
oh wow, it wasn't oh the Dodgers can afford all
this stuff. It's Dodgers really stepped in it.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, you got fifteen more years of this on a contract.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
You're dealing with this. Oh man, not even the Dodger's
going to be able to handle this kind of hit.
That's what it was until Mookie said he had to
ignore the Mookie Bets season and just being Mookie Bets
every single day moving forward and in doing so, Yeah,
on Mookie bet.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Season, he was all kinds of different things. Yeah, he
was Marlon Wayne's one day, he was Tommy Mottola one day,
he was all kinds of different people.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Now, speaking of now, it wasn't glass now. It was
glass not now all season long.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
That's right, Matt. You went in with a pair of
tweezers and you took THENT out of glass glass.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
It was the mound is too wet in Philadelphia, not
being able to finish starts or even get into the
fourth or fifth inning.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
I had the worst cramps all week.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
We played the Chazz cramp sound bite repeatedly for what
was plaguing Glass. Now this year it was Blake Snell
showing up. Listen in to David Vass say, strutting like
a rooster. Let me walk in like a rooster about

(24:22):
Blake Snell and how snell Zilla is exactly what the
Dodgers needed, and almost exactly in the moment when he
said it, the dude was gone, just see you later.
No snell Zilla for like three months, and then after
winning the that woman with the eyes that are spaced

(24:42):
so far apart on her head in Chicago, with the
nose piercing brook I believe is her name.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
You use a different name every time, but I think
it's pretty though, Gina. Last time, but that lady, the
Cubs fan lady, she cried, she's marry saltry very well,
that's why the people like they like.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
They like her sports takes, not because they're great sports takes,
but because they're sultry sports takes. She was almost in
tears when the Dodgers signed Roki Sasaki, screaming it's not fair.
Why do they get to half everything. Why can't the
Cubs have Roki Sasaki? Why can't the Padres or the
Yankees or the Mets have Roki Sasaki? Why must it

(25:25):
be the Dodgers only to have Roki Sasaki barely pitch.
I think it's a guy. It's bre bri Bridle, sultry Bri,
that kind of So that's what it was when he signed,
and then it became, oh no, he's having an emotional

(25:46):
moment on the bench, and we think, probably this guy
just needs a year. Let's shut him down for the year.
It's too much for him. This is a lot. And
we heard all about coming over from Japan and how
even though Yamamota was only twenty five, he's still because
of the multiple years in professional baseball and the two Japanese.

(26:08):
Cai Young is a little bit of a different situation
than Roki, and let's just, you know, support the young man,
and let's chalk up twenty twenty five to uh a
developmental year and he'll be ready to go in twenty
twenty six max months. He's leg got Joe Thaisman on
an errant throw to third base, to the point that

(26:30):
we didn't think he was gonna play again this season.
It did. Prior to that, prior to that p he
couldn't see. He was blind as a bad up thing.
I'm blind. It's like, wow, he is like John Claude
van Dam when the win h Seung Lee you put
the powder in his eyes. I mean that was like
two months. You had like a month of max months

(26:53):
he can't hit, and then he shows up with some glasses,
like six weeks into the season, starts raking, and then
his leg gets broken in half and he's getting Byron
left witched off the field, and then all of a
sudden he's back to asker. Hernandez hit one nine in June,
two thirty in July, and two eleven in August, averaged

(27:18):
just three home runs per month that whole time. And
on top of all of that, well, let's do this
one first. We got all these bullet points. This team
had the worst bullpen era in baseball. Tanner, Scott Bust,
Kirby Yates, Bust, Blake Trining washed up. They needed to

(27:42):
be rescued by dudes like EMMITTS. Sheehan who was coming
off in elbow surgery, Tony Gonsolin, the catman coming off
some other surgery landing knack lost a bunch of weight,
put it back on. It was losing well before this
as a team. As a team, the Dodgers from July

(28:05):
third until September sixth, this is not like a two
week slump. July third until September sixth posted a twenty
two and thirty two record ten games under five hundred
over two plus months, certainly the worst of any playoff

(28:27):
bound team. They were talked about as essentially being done
a favor by the Mets complete collapse, otherwise they might
miss the playoffs altogether. They end up losing first place
in the division, the latest we've seen save that one
year with the Giants when they were still on pace
to have the best record in baseball in over a decade,

(28:49):
when the Padres decided to bring the heat late in
the season, only for what to happen for the team
to finish in third and then be questioned as to
they don't get to buy now. You got to bring
in extra games, and you got to use your arms
for the wild card, And even if you beat.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
The Reds, no one thought they could beat Philly.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Right, Oh I'd rather I would. I think I think
the Padres might have tanked it. All those on the show, Yes,
all of these things. Tim Kates me, I don't know
what's going on, Tim Kates, and I look at it.
Sure they going you know what, I think that's a
good plan. I think I'd much rather go to Chicago
face Cubs, and then go to Milwaukee. I don't want
to deal with the Phillies. All of those things happened

(29:32):
this year. It was the exact opposite of what it
has been. This entire stretch of domination, if it's a
word of dynastical domination by the Dodgers in the regular season,
has been exactly that. The playoffs is where our hearts

(29:55):
were in our throats. The playoffs is where our buttholes
were puckered so tight we didn't think we'd use the
restroom for a week. But it was the exact opposite.
For whatever reason, this year, a twenty two to thirty
one stretch over two plus months one of the worst
records in baseball is what this team dealt with this
regular season. Not to mention that litany of issues that

(30:18):
they faced from spring training and Freddy's ankle not being
ready all the way through the end of September, when
Kirby Yates and his thirteen million dollars was a bust
in Tanner Scott did not look like he was going
to be able to contribute one bit in the postseason.
To do what to make easy work of the Reds,

(30:38):
to make relatively even though they were stressful victories. Easy
work of the Phillies went in both in Philadelphia and
in four games overall. I guess I shouldn't say easy work.
Those Philly games were tight. They were pretty gnarly. They
get your heart pounding a little bit, might need a
drink or three. And then to make easy work of
the Brewers. And here we are on the World Series

(31:02):
because of their nine to one record, and everybody forgets
about all the challenges that this team faced and how
unlikely this run looked for a good portion of the season,
and it was supplanted with four hundred and thirty million
dollars this and you're so lucky you have Otani. It's
the only reason you're here. That and it's not fair

(31:22):
to have this starting pitching rotation in the playoffs because
nobody can possibly compete with it, and no other team
could possibly afford Tyler Glass now Blake, Snow, Shoho Tani
and Morshinobu Yamamoto.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
We've had it all. And it's funny because the year started,
I mean the year didn't start, I mean the offseason
started with the Dodgers are going to win one hundred
plus games. No one can compete with them.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
This sucks.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
And then they won like the first eight games, and
it looked exactly like that, and then, like you said,
somewhere around July, things fell apart and they weren't they
weren't good. They were just treading water, and all those
narratives started. And then they got hot again and have
been high stepping like Dion through the playoffs, and all

(32:07):
of those prophecies of doom seemed to be wrong, and
all of the prophecies before the games started seemed to
be much more on point. But we've had to live
through it every day here in Great Sports Talk, Matt.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
It's a great thing about being the home of the Dodgers.
It's a great thing about having from the field to
the worksite Strauss powering our World Series coverage on a
five seventy LA Sports. It's a team that overcame all
of that. They didn't overcome it because they got a
four hundred and thirty million dollar payroll. They overcame it
because of testicular fortitude. They overcame it because of supreme

(32:44):
focus and proper preparation preventing poor performance, having the right superstars,
as Andrew Friedman told us, having the right guys to
right the ship. These guys, what are your superstars doing?
We are on our he's working to washing balls. Tim right,
we are understand this. And I would assume because of

(33:10):
his date of his daytime job, as he's moonlighting with
Fox in the World series, Joe Davis will not allow
a lot of what the not that Brian Anderson was,
you know, necessarily guilty of all of it, but certainly
he furthered the predominant narrative of the big spending billions

(33:31):
of dollars in local television contracts when other local sports
outlets are collapsing in any one.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Of these big price Dodgers talent banks BA right.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Instead, it's a team and look another team with that
just as big of a payroll couldn't handle it. The
Mets could not handle the overwhelming amount of adversity and
injuries and slumps that hit them. In August after having
a twenty one game lead.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Well, no champion Jim pedigree there, Matt.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
None, not a g damn ounce. So even if the
Dodgers do make quick work of the Blue Jays, or
if this becomes one of the all time great fall
classics that we've ever witnessed, understand while some will paint
it to be a walk along a rose peedled laid

(34:25):
velvet carpet to get here, now that road was rocky.
There was broken glass and road gravel that'll find its
way between your toes and cause you great pain?

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Are you saying much like Boujiu Bontan, the great Jamaican artist, says,
it's not an easy road. Many see the glamour and
the glitter, so they think it's a bed of roses.
But he who feels it knows.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
You've done it again. I was just about to do that.
Damn it perfectly put p Tim from the convicted felon himself.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
He was entrapped.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
That was entrapman if I've ever seen it.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Blusha went down on a federal case, just like Chauncey.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
So if you're surrounded by naysayers, by ne'er dowells who
want to bark about the check that was cut. You
re mind them Rocky Road.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Yeah, they picked up Max Munsey off a scrap heap.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
It's right, this was not an easy path. They earned it.
They earned this berth.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
Remember with a torpedo bat was the big top.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yes, that was a big thing for what. I don't know,
but I'm glad we didn't put our friend John Minter
from Glomar on for that one. Instead we saved them
for the idiots. Then we're talking about what Mookie had.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Probably could have done both.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, we'll be right back with some reaction. It looks
like the road to heaven, but it feels like the
road to hell.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
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Speaker 3 (36:16):
There's Rogan and Rodney.

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Speaker 2 (36:31):
Well, we got the World Series coming up at five
o eight pm. From the Field to the worksite Strauss
Powers our World Series coverage on AM five to seventy
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Proud to be partnered with them. First pitch five o
eight pm, so about a little over an hour from now,
Tim kates with Dodgers on deck, and then the fall

(36:52):
class that gets underway to night Game two tomorrow and
then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday games three to four and if
necessary five from Dodger Stadium. That's right.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
A lot of people are very excited about the game.
Some feel that nonchalance is the order.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Of the day.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Nonchalant, I have a few texts to discuss the whole
thing on a secret text Alco line brought to you
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Speaker 3 (37:20):
A fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
We make it easy.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
I fear your radio husband is slightly venturing into nonchalance,
already making excuses for a World Series win. I'm with you,
I'm always expecting the worst. I'm not expecting the worst.
I do expect Joe Davis to come on air and
say something like welcome to the six you know, or

(37:46):
some like weird thing that Toronto's called that nobody knows,
you know, the sixth district. I learned that from Degrassi,
But I've never been to Tarro other than the airport.
Biggest revelation in sports last night. The Vikings are complete
boneheads for not signing Sam Darnold after he led him

(38:09):
to a fourteen win. You know, I mean I thought
Wentz looked great though, Like, why why why worry about it?

Speaker 2 (38:14):
When you got Carson Wentz he had some problems out there? Yeah? Sure,
what do you mean? Although JJ McCarthy looked awfully sprite
jumping over him when he was tackled out of bounds,
do you do to the field?

Speaker 4 (38:27):
You know, JJ McCarthy is ducking playing time.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I'm just saying he looked really sprouted. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
I saw it on Twitter too. I seened it. When
you guys get questioned like that by Dawn, it's also
known as getting mcclaimed. Yeah, I got claimed like we
all got mcclaimed hard.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
What was the league at that point? Do we know
it was in the NBA? They were different leagues? Yeah,
it was the damn it. Why do you I asked
too many questions on the show. You know, it's a
very good question Don.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
The funniest part is that Don couldn't tell Ronnie was
already annoyed, and then he asked a follow up question.

Speaker 9 (39:08):
I don't know, Don, that's that's what I read. What's
the other one? I don't know and didn't care. It's
immaterial for this particular segment of the show.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Oh, Tim please is almost as amazing as the caller
said to Rodney about the little glove and the ball.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
But I don't know, Tim please.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
So I am looking forward to being mccleaned again on
Matt's next road trip. You know who wanted to do
a launch pad today and I never got back to her, Isabelle,
but she offered herself up as tribute. But you know,
I mean she called Rogan and Rodney like and went
on that show a bunch.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
I don't know. I think she's back hitting you the
second we sign off. Yeah, I want it for a while.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
I went to a game in Toronto. It is by
far the cleaneat stadium in North America. No garbage on
the floor. Everybody picks up after themselves, and you're not
allowed to walk down the aisle during at bat and
you've got to wait till the at bat is over,
so it's like, go to your seat. It's a place

(40:25):
full of polite people.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
There's a hand like the Kings do that. If you
go watch a King's game, they will not let you
go down the aisle to your seat. Until I heard
of stoppage.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
And the Sussio side of the pavilion, they have a butler,
like every floor at Oxford has a butler.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
They have like a butler and a drum. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
And on the Gordono's side, you know what, they have appetizers,
muscle meet.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
On tim please please.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
All right, we'll be right back. We'll have another hour
and then we're gonna get the anticipation is thick. Then
we're gonna have the World Series, the World Series. After
everybody predicted the Dodgers would be in the World Series.
Here they are the World Series. In Canada, pregame show
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