October 4, 2024 • 38 mins
Matt and David Vassegh are LIVE from Dodger Stadium for the Dodgers-Padres NLDS workout. Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen. Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we don't have access to the machine, chick is,
we don't have access.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
To that stadium. We find on beach.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
DVDV is here on the field at Dodger Stadium. We
are your home of the Dodgers A five seventy LA
sports Frogmen Frogman Friday is right, Dave and I said
quotes same person, someone you're familiar with. Third and final
quote for you to figure out who this was, all right,
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the two that we've said previously. I believe managing is
like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold
it too tight, you kill it, but if you hold
it too loose, you lose it. And the only way
I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on
our side of the field and not theirs. So here's
your third. There are three kinds of people in this world.
Those who make it happen, people who watch what happens,
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and people who wonder what happened. Oh that's easy, Tommy,
there we go. Why do you think I saved it
for last? Well done, DV.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
May you feel good all?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Ammy Lasorda quotes today, as we are doing the show,
Petros is out. He's a calling a football game today,
Syracuse versus UNLB David Vasse despite his duties with the Dodgers.
As the postseason is upon us. It'll begin tomorrow at
five thirty eight pm with the first pitch here at
Dodger Stadium between the Padres and the Dodgers. Dodgers on
dec Ad four thirty and I failed, I buried the lead.
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We got a pair of tip because I don't have
my darn teen sheet from Kates. We got a pair
of tickets to give away to game two, and we
shirked our duties for the first two hours from three
until five o'clock. But now between five and seven, opportunity
for you to win. We'll just solicit for the call.
You know, a caller ten kind of thing. We'll solicit
for you to call and you'll have an opportunity to
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be here at Dodger Stadium on Sunday. Game two. That
will be Jack Flaherty versus you, Darvish, and that is
a I believe a five pm start, right, Dack.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Five o'clock start, five ohweight start, that's for sure. Thanks
Jack Clarity against you Darvish.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Exactly right. I had to walk away.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm doing live radio. Blake tryning do you want to
talk to him. There's some jostling, some negotiating going on here.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Somebody gave him a courtesy card to get in.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's right, I got a courtesy card right here, Blake trying.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, it's like a fake idea. You look like the
dude off of.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Mick whatever. His name is, Nick Lovin? Are you McK
lovin mcmassa.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's hard to change the digital photo in the MLB
credential system, so I just leave it the way it
was in two thousand and two.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I'll be honest, that's two thousand and two. Your face
looks really young, but your hairline looks like you're fifty five.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
A well, thanks to Bosley.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
We were just talking about that. Dave had his hair
transplant live on air. I'm not kidding. He was in
the chair at Bosley and live on the air. He
got his start trading plainer.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't know why I did that. It's all natural,
you know what. It's youth and wisdom.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's all natural, Harry Blake. So see you got your
own EI.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You're stuck.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That'd be great doubles.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I had to workout Dave, so let's let's try to
I'm gonna have you work a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Why was Joe Kelly staying in the bullpeny wa all
you guys came out for pictures fielding practice.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Because Joe's Joe and he's Joe.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Joe is Joe and he's Joe.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, he's like the Dennis Rodman of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Let Joe be Joe.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Okay, let job be Joe like Manny. Let Manny be Manny.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. I mean, can they can be their own people? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And then they can be their own people together. You
guys were able to bond a come by here.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Right Mannys is the man?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Uh, Joe Kelly is the man also, and he's He's
totally He's totally fine.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Any peace.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Can you describe just the feel around the team during
this week of preparation.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's it's baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I know you're wanting like a crazy answer, but it's
like just trying to do more of the same, you know,
not take a mental break, stay focused, trying to keep
it as routine as possible so that there's no lags
between how well we played down the stretch to how
well we want to play in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Is that a real thing? The whole rust versus rest thing.
Say it again, is there is that a real thing?
They say, Oh, yeah, they're rusty. They didn't play well,
they had that week, got so they got rested, they
were great.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, I don't even know if it's rusty.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It's just like, let's say you get the third out
of the inning and you're like, for them, they had
the triple play to clich and there was the review
at second and then let's say he was actually safe.
Could you imagine trying to come down from that high
and then lock it in and hope to get the
next out without giving up the two runs that you
need for the you know, like or giving up another
hit for the run to tie it. It's it would
be really hard. So it's the competition every single day.
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As much as we can try to fake it, you
still there's still a difference.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Like even though we're locked in right now trying to
like make it, there's still a difference. So it is.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It is something where you have to find a way
to trick yourself into saying and in compete mode. And
so I think, you know, we did as good a
job as we possibly can to force that mentality going
into the series.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So Lake Training is our guest.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Today's working his tricep out right now you're making you
aren't gonna start.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's gonna shaking a regular.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Hey, full disclosure, Blake tryining. Matt hosts the afternoon drive show. Here,
I'm filling in for his partner. His night job is
the radio voice of your l A Chargers. You being
a Kansas Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I said, that's wonderful. Congratulations on all your success.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, I grew up a Chiefs fan. We were a
regular season heroes, post season zeros.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I can enjoy it. I can enjoy the run.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So were you like, uh Steve the berg era or
was that that was you know you was born here
that okay? Yeah, so that was before you, like the
Steve Bono kind of that was when you were really
young Bono exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, l A hero Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And then after that, before who's before him?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh? Was Girbak?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Girback?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Was after bone who girt back?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And then we had a uh super Bowl champ that
went to the Montana Joe Montana, then Bono and then
it was rich Gannon rich and rich Gannon's a backup
was ship him to the Raiders and then Elvis Kerbach.
Not to knock any of them, but since it's the
sports talk radio show, I sat and watched. My dreams
got the window when the Raiders won a super Bowl, right,
so I was like, make the super Bowl, make whatever
exactly it.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah he was. He was really good.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He was a good one the building.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Sorry, of all the of all the running backs, cooy
I mean, and I don't know if you watched the Nightmare,
so coy word Priest Holmes, like, which one of those
guys was your guy?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I mean, you're forgetting like Johnson right, and Ary Johnson.
Marry Johnson was a vertical back that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Was just I mean he was crazy for those two years.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
The one that I fell in love with was Priest
Tom's first. He ain't got a prayer on Sunday without Priest.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
And then but he was he dude, I'm I grew
in Kansas, Okay. So the other thing too is he
was like the first guy I remember just doing the
leap over the line. The lineman would just chopped legs
and then I just leave from five yards out and
following the end zone.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The other guy that was electric.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
To watch is Jamal Charles, Right, people forget about Yeah,
and his follow up was supposed to be a Kareem
hunt and you know, some poor choices led to him
his barred from the Chiefs, which I respect the Chiefs
for it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And seemed fine on Sunday, came back for.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
So Yeah, you know, you hope there's always should always
be grace right, like always find a way. But I
mean people, people truly have to, like, you know, get
themselves right. I think sports in general does too good
of a job, like in a bad way of just
quick relief without actually allowing people to have healing, to
be you know, make a better version of themselves. But
I'm glad that they were, they were stirring on their way,
that they handled it. And yeah, I mean the Chiefs
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Chiefs have been pretty good. I would say, I don't
like to see him maybe get the ball to the
Travis Kelcey a little more. Yeah, it's kind of strange
that the plan worked for the last decade and all
of a sudden we're just like, ah, yeah, you know, let's.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Get off swift. Look at this.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
She'll talk about for the next hour if you just
stick on the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, for sure, Taylor swiftball, stick to music. Let's just
keep football football.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Nora Jones on football to watch it answered, you get
plenty of attendance for that.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I don't want to see another eighty seven swifty jersey, right,
I want to see an eighty seven Kelsey jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So not to get like too deep into it, but
I think you brought it up. So I'll ask you
because as a big fan and is you know, the
Chiefs are known, they they don't care. They will take
the negative publicity for two weeks. They'll draft character question
guys that other peoples won't touch that other teams won't touch.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And it's not just the Chiefs but for the most.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Part they they you know, like Tyreek Hill was off
everybody's board.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That's probably why they shipped them out.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, So like it's someone who's a fan, like, how
do you care about that stuff?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Or you I absolutely care about it.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But I mean, let's talk about other teams, like I
didn't when they're at Carolina Panther defensive the end that
has some pretty questionable stuff, and then the Cowboys signed
them next week. Right, So It's like it's all across
the league, across the league, and I.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Just meant you individually, like I mean, like for you question.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
My big guess knock about the NFL is uh is
the way that they handle some of those things. And
the people who stand up for core family values are
the ones that get chastise.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Gotcha shout out to Harrison. Yeah, Harrison Bucker, big fan.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Hey, if you were at the if you were at
the graduation speeching at an issue with it, then you
can file to complain to anybody.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's a Catholic school and he's a Catholic man speaking
Catholic values, and people will listen to soundbots and get
upset with him.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's fine. I listen.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I'm okay if you if you if you disagree with
the man, I'm it's okay if I disagree with you.
So it's not going to change how I feel about.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The beauty of radio. It's what the format of radio is.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The beauty of being a human.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Let's not like, let's not go up in arms over
someone's someone's opinion.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You know, does a sound sounds so let's always fire.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's the voice of you.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Guys are pulling it out of me. I'm just exaking.
This's play some playoff. This exactly got Yama Yama tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Everybody talks about Otani, but can you tell us something
about Yama Moto. It feels like people, uh don't give
him his due because everybody's always skeptical about unproven pictures
and players. Do you feel like there's more questions his
first year in the league exactly?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I mean, everybody who has one year in the league,
people are gonna be like, oh, is he proven?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Fuck im?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You know, like I went through an injury and he
came back and he's thrown. Well, let's let's just let
it be that. I mean, he's over here from Japan
for a reason because he's the most decorated pitcher in
what Japanese history before they came.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Over, I believe. So yeah, so let's just let's let's
let's trust the man. You know, he's different normal stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
How different of a pitcher are you now than you
were at twenty five? Just in terms of twenty five,
I was in tria A. Okay, well double A.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I was in double A and I had really just
one pitch. So I mean the game has changed a
lot for me. I you know, it was like a
slider away from having a chance to be in the
big leagues. Learned one found out it wasn't going to play.
So they teach me a cutter slider grip, and then
just learning to rip it and trust it in certain
parts of his own.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Got me into the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And then I had to learn how to pitch inside
the lefties better because my sinker just always ran away.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, just a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So like when I got to Oakland, we added uh
four team cutter, played with the change up a little bit,
and I had my sinker slider. And then over the years,
you've just kind of like morphed into like how do
I attack certain hitters and keep them off balanced with
you know, the four pitches I have and mixing it
around the zone. And this year's been fun because I
haven't just been able to rely on velocity, even if
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in the past, I mean, what I have is one
hundred percent gift from God, Like I work really hard
for what I do. I can't explain why I my
mechanics produce what it's produced in the past. But I
used to just be able to, like the movement brought
me a lot of room of air, and the velocity
bought me even more room prayer. This year, the velocity
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is not necessarily what it's it's been in the past
or for really all my career. It's still good enough,
but I have to pitch a little bit more. That's
actually been kind of fun. It was frustrating at first.
I was wondering, like how long is this gonna work?
As hitters adjusted me and I just you know, I
thank God that I've been able to see, you know,
his hand on it all post surgery, because it's fun competing.
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It's fun to see like how much hard work goes
into it, the amount of people who have been tied
into the surgery and in me coming back, that have
believed in me, and the amount of.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Prayers that have paid off.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So I I'm grateful to be here with the Dodgers
and play for playing for the fans, you know, Like
it's fun to be back out there and have guys
like the fans like be excited when you're pitching.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So is that a big thing? Energy? Sorry, Dave, is
that a big thing? The energy to day?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Question, I'm enjoining that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's fine. We can commute day for a second.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You know, some say I got a zone out, I
gotta just kind of be here, and then there's.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Somethings that say, I like them, I'm still zoned out,
like I want to pack same because that's the energy
you feed off. I mean, you might be able to
block out the noise, but you still feel the vibrations,
you feel like the energy like yeah, it's it's something
that would I mean, that's why you play with the Dodgers,
that's why you would choose to play for the Yankees,
or you know, even the team we're playing against, like
they have a packed out crowd every night down there.
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So like there's teams in baseball where it's like a
privilege to be there, you know, And I don't take
that for granted being here. So just enjoy every opportunity
I have for as long as I have it left.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'm not going to tip my hand on what I
saw the last time Blake Trining struck out. I am,
I am, But that's my question. You've seen these guys
a lot. They know who Blake Tryning is. What's the
balance between being unpredictable but still sticking with the way
you want to attack a hitter.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You know that this is being listened to. So you're
asking me to give you a game plan. No, no, I
don't want When i'm then, I'm not going to answer
your question.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Okay, I love you, but I didn't tell you what
I saw the last time. I didn't give away that secret.
I had to stop it, right, I didn't give away
that secret I had that. I'm just saying, like you,
guys are very familiar.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
With each other.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
The team over there is extremely gifted and they're, you know,
arguably the hottest team in baseball coming into the playoffs,
besides maybe the Mets in Detroit. Sure, but they're the
best record in baseball second half, Yes, the second second.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Detroit is I'm just thinking they were the best.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, you were your second, The Diamondbacks were maybe third.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, so look at you.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I mean, eventually, I do play baseball. It's my confession.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
As much as we're supposed to let the kids play,
I'm still a man playing a sport that's.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Getting paid for it. You know, kids don't make Kids
don't make millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Adults do.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
So here's one very We're very blessed, so we should
treat it with the level of respect. What about Oakland
your thoughts, oh man, some of the best memories of
my career. Really yeah. I mean the workers there are
so unbelievable. They pour their heart and soul out into
the products. It's unfortunate that maybe you know, up top
didn't really match what the fans were hoping for. You know,
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but billionaires and billionaires for a reason, they've got to
make moves, to make physical responsibilities that blessed them. And
so it sounds like no matter what people, fans, players wanted,
the market was moving. I don't know if it's a
ownership thing, if it's a major League Baseball thing, I
don't know what it is, but it seemed like no
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matter what option they wanted to ask for or try
to go for, it was almost like smoking mirrors just
a time until they exhausted options, exhausted options to say, well, look,
we have.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
To leave now.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And it's sad because that city has wanted a major
sports team to be around for as long. I mean,
think about taking like the Boston Red Sox, and I
mean some of the greatest history in baseball's in Oakland.
One of the only three peats if not like one
of two three peats. How many three peats are there
in baseball history?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yankees in a's and and I don't know what else.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Would be maybe from maybe Yankees twice. I don't know,
was it Yankees twice or just Oakland A's.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You're right, Yeah, So we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Take that rich history from the seventies and eighties away
from away from Oakland. And it's like, what do you do?
You know, like it'd be like uprooting Boston and moving
them to Carolina.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's like that'd be weird, be really weird.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So we're gonna go to Vegas with Day's, just like
we do with the Raiders, and you know, Golden State
turned their back and said, let's just skip across the
pond where not cool?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, so it's unfortunate for the fans.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I mean, I'm not going to put on an owner's
hat and try to pretend they've got there. They're doing
what they know is best for from their perspective. There's
you know, the ownership group, and then there's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Like baseball ops.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
So it's like, you know, as much as we want
to complain, it's like and it may even be as
valid as ever I'm just grateful for the memories I
had there with my teammates and with the fans, because
they truly are some of the most written, like they're
the richest in spirit fans that like, you know, for
the size, I mean, you could have fifteen to twenty thousand,
it feels like a packed house in a forty thousand
stand stadium.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You know. It's like, yeah, it's a it's a it's
and it's a it's a fun place.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Not a lot of people can do radio, like I
think guys after their career could get into TV and
like you know, sit at a desk and give you
a sound bite trying and can do radio Like you
can just look at me.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
But I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Radio exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He wants to host when he's done. You you want
words on the radio. You know you're on the shortest day.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I can tell.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It has been tough.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
But someone tells you they're on your list. What you're
on the list, You're on my list, You're on my
short list.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Shaking in the leads exactly to thank thanks.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
For Yeah that was Blake trying and talk about giving
it to us the cheese. Yeah, that's not a good You.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Could be a tight end trying to you're the Kelsey
of the Dodgers. I take you in a flag football game, quarterback.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Everybody he knows where the money's made.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Hey, I gotta go. I gotta go talk to Max Munsey.
You guys do your thing exactly right. Well, Brank, we'll
be back. We're going. Oh and uh, how about this.
We'll give away the tickets in the next half hour.
We'll we'll put a smaller window on it. We went
along with Blake. That was a lot of fun. We
certainly appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Dave going to chat with Miguel Rojas and Max Munsey
in the commercial break, and we will keep rolling until
seven pm. We've been told that Land and Nak will
absolutely join us, so that is one more that we'll get.
We'll see if we can track down Skipper, Dave Roberts.
Who else is still out there? There's we'll see Gomes all, Yeah,
there's Gomes. He's walking around with his phone in his
back pocket. Maybe we'll track him down as well. We're
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live from Dodgers Statement s Petros and Money Show. David
Vesse sitting in for a five seventy l A Sports
Live on the field at Dodger Stadium. Petros out calling
a football game tonight, a little Syracuse versus un LV,
but here at Dodger Stadium, literally on the field as
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we speak, as Manny Machado discussed. If you missed that earlier,
by the way, in the three o'clock hours, straight out
the gates, we got. Manny as the padres were making
their way on and off the field, talked about he
judges stadiums and how he ranks stadiums based on the
batter's box, not the batter's eye, but the batter's box,
specifically the dirt in the batter's box, and ranked Dodger
(18:40):
Stadium near the top, said Yankee Stadium has the best dirt.
Why am I saying it? Because I'm walking through the
dirt right now and I can feel the moisture. Then
he pointed out that Arizona's dirt is very dry and
hard to dig into, but Dodger Stadium has some moist
dirt and I am enjoying that right now, right behind
home plate, the Dodgers taking batting practice, finishing up their
warm ups, And I've already made a fool of myself
(19:02):
multiple times, but perhaps no more than in the last
moment when Sho hal Tani came out of the dugout
and gave me a little bit of a nod in
a hello, and I was just frozen, like I routinely
get and yeah, it was embarrassing. And then Andy McCullough
walked over, who talked to us in the three o'clock
hour as well, and goes, he's got a bit of
a gravity around him, doesn't he. I was like, thanks,
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you noticed it too, I've once again been made a fool.
And Kate's took a video of it as well, So
I think you're gonna send that to social Matt I am, yeah,
and make sure he posts that Otani coming out of
the dugout giving me a nod and a hello and
me not doing anything, just ignore him, completely ignored us.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
The kids say it goes to them.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, so that's how things are going. Dave is busy
doing his Dodger duties, talking with a bunch of players
in the dugout. I mentioned we do have a pair
of tickets, so Kate scam is rolling. He gave away
a pair of tickets this morning with Steve Sachs to
By the way, what was your lineup your guest lineup today.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Uh, we had David Essay on. I had Tony gwyn
Junior on.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
All right, yeah, well there we Yeah, we have had
Manny Machado, Andy McCullough, Ken Rosenthal, Blake trining landon nak
is going to join us in about thirty thirty five minutes,
maybe a little bit longer than that toward the end
of the show. Anybody I'm missing case, I think that's it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Right, That is it?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Ken Rosenthal, you said.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, yeah, I believe we happened. Oh we had Freddy
Freeman tell Dave, thanks Dave.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, thanks Dave.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
So there was that, we had Clayton Kershawk Knowwledge our existence,
So there's that. I don't think Dave knows that we're back,
and so he's just grabbing ass with Max Monsey now
in the dugout.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Yeah, they're having a very intense conversation exactly right.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
But Dave has duties that he has got through it
here too with the playoff game all but we do
have a pair of ticket to give away to game
two on Sunday, So that is a Jack Flaherty versus
you Darvish start and earlier today, if you missed it.
Kind of the big news at Dodger Stadium was Freddie Freeman,
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and Freddie was working out the Hammies, doing some high
knees and then kind of put on a show for
the assembled media as he ran the bases, took some
throws at first base, and a couple of times went
first to third I think in one kind of sort
of simulated bit of action, ran down to first base
a few times, and according to David Vassa, i'msuled. This
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is what Dave said. So he believes that Freddy is
going to be active at first base, not just a
pinch hitter on the NLDS roster. What have we got here? Kid?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He looked good out there. Money.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I'm just waiting for Andrew Freeman to get done talking
to Ken Rose was how we're doing. Yeah, I'm just
waiting for him to get done talking, gotcha. Dave Roberts
is in the middle of conversation with general manager Brandon
Gomes as they hang out on the batting cage watching
the final.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Group of hitters here exactly right.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
That includes Gavin Lux, Austin Barnes, Tommy Edmund, Chris Taylor,
Chris Taylor.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, saw I think perhaps of all the and I
don't know if Otani's going to hit or not. Probably not.
There's no you know, it's not open to the public,
so a lot of times he does a downstairs in
the cage when the public's in here. But I he's
just kind of, Oh, look at this. He's pitching out there.
That's what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Just throw it off flat ground.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He's throwing off flat ground. Yeah, that's what's happening.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Was dozens of media from Japan getting their eyes on him.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
We we did have Kenny Rosenthal in a little bit earlier.
He penned an article for The Athletic, talked to a
bunch of scouts and had one scout say that watched
a bullpen from Otani about two weeks ago and that
he was bringing it. That it was not your standard
on rehab and trying to get back into the swing
of things sort of bullpen session, but someone who looked
like he was ready to throw. So we got that going.
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What else we got Kates h that's it right now.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I'm waiting for I'm waiting for Andrew Freeman.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
We're in a holding pattern, and that's why the Petros
and Money Show does not like holding patterns. Because we're
staring at Andrew Freeman wrapping up a conversation with the
Great Kenny Rosenthal, the Skipper, Dave Roberts talking to Brandon
Gomes and waiting for each of them as we've been
told that perhaps they will will join us. I don't
know if we break early and then roll the dice
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in the next segment here, Dave, Yeah, let's do tim.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But now see how I see Andrew Freeman's hands are folded.
It looks like he might be done with Ken. You
might walk over here, and then we're gonna be in
commercial break. We can talk seeds break with them.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
We can talk seeds. If he comes over to.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Well, I didn't bring the seeds. That's the problem. He
talks seeds and them, He's like, oh, great, you got some.
No I don't, no, but I'm willing to talk about
them with you. I want to see if they picked
up that gum yet. Oh yeah, it's like Singapore. Oh
no they haven't. Gum's still here covered up with some dirt.
All right. When we return, hopefully we'll have either Andrew
Friedman or Dave Roberts. Uh, and then land in neck
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and then we'll give away some tickets as well to
game two. Yes, vamping and try to make this thing
all fit together like a puzzle, which is not easy
when you anticipate somebody coming over to talk to you
and they don't. And now I've got myself a ball
here that has found its way to my feet.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Throw it back?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Where do I throw it? Though? I don't want someone
to step on it rolling ankle? So like, what's the
right movie here? You know what I mean? Like, what's
the right move? Where do you throw it? Do not
throw it towards Mookie whatever? Exactly right, That's what I'm saying.
I'm really stuck here. It's they're probably looking at the
ball like, hey, dude, pick it up. But maybe I
just pick it up and start juggling it or is
that not good?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I'll figure it out when we return, give away some tickets,
and hopefully have either Andrew Friedman or Dave Roberts join
us here in your home with the Dodgers A five
seventy ela sports Everything's dead. According to him, we are
live at Dodger Stadium on the dirt on the third
base side in front of the Dodger dugout will be
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here until seven pm. It is workout day. Padres on
the field a little bit earlier. Dodgers on the field
right now taking batting practice.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Thanks to the best player for joining us Manny Machado.
Appreciate that thanks joining us from the Dodgers side.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Of thanks right, appreciate that high leverage reliever could have
a large role in determining whether or not this series
is successful or not.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So Freddie Freeman came out of his hitters meeting and
had a press conference that said he's going to play,
And let us all know, this injury would take four
to six weeks for any other human to be able
to physically play first base. But he's going to do
it within a week.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
A player told me he would take his right ankle
being sawed off for him not to play tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Freddy said, I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I'm playing.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'm playing first base. I'm not pinch hitting. I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Which did this show? No good?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You called it? Dave, You said I'm sold, I'm sold.
You saw him go for I'm just a third and
you said I'm sold. Hey.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I saw Adrian Gonzalez run at one hundred percent and
freddie looked better than Gonzo running the bases today.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Fair point.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
By the way, don't you feel like there's a lot
of pressure on the Dodgers to win? But how about
pressure on Dodger fans? Matt, what do you mean to
make this play sound as electric as pet.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Go pot will?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Really the last two NLDS is Dodger fans have been
just as lackadaisical as the teams that have been playing
in this NLDS the last two years. Towards don't say
it spoiled. No, spoiled is the word.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Show Time's changed everything, I hope changed everything because is different.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I hope. So they have to give this team the
same type of emotional boost those fans in San Diego
give the Padres, and you can't be apathetic or feel
like you're owed something. Oh, I'm going to wait until
the NLCS. No, this is that type of series where,
by the way, Games one and two not even sold
out yet.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well that's a rageous Now wait a minute, that's that's
that's outrageous. No, that's a little misleading because I saw
that commentary online and I was like, really, Dodger Stadium
is fifty five thousand. Let me see how close to
being sold out are they? There's less than one hundred
tickets left, and it's all the very top corners. Okay,
so it's hey, do I really want to spend one
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hundred and forty six fifty for one of those years?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Way to move around the entire stadium standing room only
up there behind the top.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Pavilion, simply pointing out, all right, that I just believe that.
If you tell me the Dodgers are one hundred tickets
short of a sellout after averaging forty nine thousand per game, I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Fine, okay, but I will say that they're.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Shuing a challenge to the fans that that'd be too
cool for school. I think it's fair.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That happened in Atlanta, it did. It happened the last
two years here at Dodgers Stadium, and I know the
players have to give them something to be electric about.
But come on, Dodgers padres. You saw what it was
like with a two game wildcard series against the Braves,
what it was like in San Diego. Dodger fans, LA,
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you gotta come correct tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
So so I do I remember you? I remember you
pointed it out when the Dodgers and the Cubs were tangling. Yeah,
And I wonder if if it's more of that that
applies that Cub fans were always way you said.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
They're always waiting for the other shoot to.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Draw, there's something bad was gonna happen. And I do
think there is a little bit of that from twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
That's a loser Cub mentality.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
But I think this. I think these fans because that's
all the media does, is they better win. They've choked
in the playoffs. Who cares about one hundred wins? Who
cares about one hundred and eleven wins? Who cares about
the best record in baseball? They got to do it
in October, and there's a sense of dread that hangs
over them instead of a sense of I want to
enjoy this. But it's it reminds me of It reminds
me of one.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's a little extreme. I don't feel like there's a
sense of dread.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It reminds me of when the Bulls were at their peak,
and there you can't win because you're supposed to win
because you've got Michael Jordan on your team, and if
you lose to the freaking Wizards, or you lose to
the Knicks, or you lose to the Heat. It's unbelief.
And I think there are some of that with the Dodgers, like, hey,
you better win. You can't. But that's why I think
this year is different, because it's the first year that
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that's not how people are approaching it. It's like, oh,
the Dodgers aren't the better team in the series. So
it's almost like it's a little bit different than it
has been in the past of you better win one
hundred and eleven wins, you better win, and they don't.
And so I wonder if there's a little bit of
a different chemistry to this this year.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I would hope so, because you know, you decide, yeah, well,
I just don't buy all that. I do agree that
the Dodgers are expected to win and it's a catch
twenty two. If you win, okay, you did it, great,
we don't you completely blew exactly. But as far as
the fan base, that's a different type of attitude that
should be here at Dodgers Stadium, where all right, you
(29:33):
want to have bragging rights over San Diego, they're blocking
you out of their own stadium. Fine, well, then make
this stadium feel as electric as it possibly can be,
like it was in seventeen and eighteen. Sure, that's the
way it should be tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I would agree one hundred percent, and I stick to
my story.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I think makes I think. I think shoel Tony makes
the difference. I do thinkcause he's the he's the leadoff hitter.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Well, that's my confern in the box.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And you get all this energy in the stadium when
he steps into the box immediately in a bottle just
for him.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Though.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
No, I think it carries. I think that carries as
you get because you know you kinda It reminds me
like you go to is an old man. You go
to these indie rock shows and everyone's like super cool
and they don't want to sing along, and they're being
really quiet and the band is playing. And then you
go to like Ario Speedwagon and it's a bunch of
old white people that are drunk and they're freaking out
and singing everything and having a party, and it sets
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the tone from the first song and then everyone's like,
all right, well, they're all having a good time, so
I guess I'm gonna have a good time. No, one's
judging me, and I think that happens with Otani as
everybody starts screaming and getting into it, and you just
kind of free everybody to be a fan.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So you're saying Otani is the Rio Speedwagon of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Exactly what I'm saying. Exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'm live hot mic right now. He scared me right there,
first time ever.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm not taking it. Locked in like that coming over here,
I'm locked in a parabolic Can you pick a what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I'm locked in too. I don't know if they understand that.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
By the way, Gavin Lucks no ha.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Hat, no hat, no hat, no hat.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
What I tell you, that's my guy, No hat, no hat.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I asked for a freeman.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
But I think him and Austin Barnes are doing like
a fancy football deal or something over there.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh we're gonna do this all right?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Well we got hey, Al take it easy, big out
that security.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
You set that you set the screen, Dave, and I
got him the one running free.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I got it. He's talking. He's gonna finish here.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Wan, we're over at seven o'clock, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
But we got a little this segment.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Listen, He's gonna sabotage us. Barnes says radio is dead.
He never liked us. He's gonna you watch, he's gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Dragging me down. I am you were dragging me down.
This never happened.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
When I believe I'm standing on the grass, everybody's looking
at me like I'm You're not christ.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Don't be standing on the grass.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Wow told me to come up.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I never uh, you know, he kind of flipped the
script on me defending the common man like that, Matt
being a big favorite of the top one percent.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
So here's what it is. Here's what it is. This
is a this is my thing, Dave. I don't like
I don't like other fan bases setting the rules for
let me see, I don't like other fan bases setting
the rules for how a fan base is supposed to behave.
So I'm just sick of the social media commentary from
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San Diego about oh, our average ticket price is three
fifty there's just one to fifty. Oh we sold out
in five minutes. They still have tickets. Shut up. Just
go to the game. Don't worry about what's going on here.
Enjoy yourself at Petco Park. Stay in your little world,
We'll stay.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
The fans should be able to rise to the occasion
that they're demanding from this team. Well, give look at
that smile. He is so excited on.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Your your position. Dave has challenged the fans to rise
to the occasion in the postseason, like we see at
Petco Park and all the energy those fans are bringing.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I like it. I'm all in for it, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I feel like you've spoiled this fan base quite a bit,
and this matchup is you know NLCS caliber Andrew, Do
you feel that way too as you guys prepare for
this series?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
I like what you're saying. The home field advantage we have,
there's no question about it. Look at our home record
over the years. That being said, San Diego will be
a hostile environment in Game three and four, let's make
it hostile here.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Let's let them hear us.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
And bring that energy and be that tenth man. There's
no question it will bring a lot to our guys.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It really is the one true you would think home
field advantage parks are not uniform, they're different. You build
a team for your park, So how big of a
deal it was it for you? Coming down the stretch
that it didn't. You know, the Phillies had a couple
of games on you there in the final two weeks.
You end up rallying and you get how big of
a deal is that to have home field through the
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entirety of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I mean, I think it's great.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
You start a series and you get to set the tone,
and it's easier to do that at home, and with
our fans, the rabid fan base that we have, if
we can get them to dial it up that much
more in October, guys are nervous. October brings a whole
nother level of anxiousness. And a pitcher who's out there
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and he's in a hot spot and he's trying to
figure out what pitch to throw, and the louder and
crazier it is here, he has a hard time hearing
the pitch calm, they have to call time. All of
those things I think matter, And so obviously the way
we've played here down the stretch, being able to start
each series that we're gonna play at home is big,
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and I love the challenge to the fans, as great
as they are, to elevate it even more.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I'm with you. I feel like the you know, there's
a lot expected from this team, and the fans have
been celebrating you guys all season long. We saw what
happened in San Diego, so you're hearing it from the
man himself, Andrew Freeman, to dial it up. Make this place.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Which it will be. It will be like at I saw.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
It in seventeen and eighteen is what I'm imagining.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I think the challenge is to not just do it reactionary.
So like obviously big thing happens, this place is crazy,
it's swaying. I think it's even before something happens, and
that pictures looking in for a sign and he's nervous,
and us bringing it even in that moment, even before
something has happened, I think makes it even harder for
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that guy to execute that pitch.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
That's what I met, I said, and that's the benefit
of having show Hail Tani is a leadoff. Like you said,
he's in the on deck circle and this place is
freaking out, and like to me, that's the differ. I mean,
it's just it's it's.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's like going to an Ario speedwagon showing off for
you's rocking.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Out right when we signed him.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
It's actually did say keep on rolling, let's go Freddy Freeman.
We watched them today and we heard what he had
to say, so just kind of I'm sure you've been
paying close attention to that. How you're about where he
is and how important he is to where you want
to go this fall.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Yeah, he's wildly important. When it happened, obviously, it was
really nervous. Each day that has gotten a little bit less,
and each day has gotten better and better and better.
And to watch him out here moving around today and
to see it firsthand definitely added a huge level of
comfort of what we were fearing, you know, last Thursday
(36:27):
to where we are today is everything we could have
hoped for.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
And is it going to be perfect, No, but it.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Will definitely be good enough for him to be a
huge part of what we do after.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Was the decision still up in the air until you
saw him run the bases and do what he did
earlier this afternoon or were you pretty confident before he
did that?
Speaker 6 (36:46):
I mean we were ignorance is bliss, and we were
living in this world where there was no way he
wasn't going to be good. Yeah, we weren't even going
down that path.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
We were only operating in the.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Here We're going to be great manifestation.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Old Matt. I saw Adrian Gonzalez play at one hundred percent.
Freddy at seventy or whatever percent was moving better than
Adrian Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Why Adrian has to catch strays from day you know,
in that moment, why not? We'll get you out here
on this What game is show hay pitch? Yeah, he
is good. Game eight of the World the World Series.
Love it, love.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Nobody's buying it. This guy still thinks that Otani is
still going to pitch, and he wants him to play
first base. He wants him first base.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Freddy can d h And then I said he can
also be the closer and you can pitch him on
three days rest.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
All of those things exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Right, all right, I said, get him up because we
do have to break. But last thing, chat Shaw Seed,
you turned us on to him. They have a number
of different flavors, spice, caramel, pecan. What is what is
the Andrew Friedman favorite. I'm more of a traditionalist regular.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
I mean, I like a little bit like a little
spice too, But all the crazy variations, I'm sure broking
to some people.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I'm not there, okay, all right, not there, all right,
we're clarified. We talked about it on day one, the
opening day, and here we're talking about the start of
the playoffs, and then we'll be talking about it at
the World Series. Pa.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Hey, they got real baseball going on here. We got
to get off the field.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Thank you, Andrew, growing us out, all right, Thank you, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Thanksating for Drew Freeman, the President of Baseball Operations, joining
us here to close out the five o'clock hour on
a five seventy LAS.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Here's how we're closing it. Pair of tickets eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy. We'll take caller ten
right now. You are going to Game two of the
nl DS Sunday, Caller ten eight six six nine eighty
seven two five seventy from your home of the Dodgers,
AM five to seventy LA. Sports
Well, we don't have access to the machine, chick is,
we don't have access.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
To that stadium. We find on beach.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
DVDV is here on the field at Dodger Stadium. We
are your home of the Dodgers A five seventy LA
sports Frogmen Frogman Friday is right, Dave and I said
quotes same person, someone you're familiar with. Third and final
quote for you to figure out who this was, all right,
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the two that we've said previously. I believe managing is
like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold
it too tight, you kill it, but if you hold
it too loose, you lose it. And the only way
I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on
our side of the field and not theirs. So here's
your third. There are three kinds of people in this world.
Those who make it happen, people who watch what happens,
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and people who wonder what happened. Oh that's easy, Tommy,
there we go. Why do you think I saved it
for last? Well done, DV.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
May you feel good all?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Ammy Lasorda quotes today, as we are doing the show,
Petros is out. He's a calling a football game today,
Syracuse versus UNLB David Vasse despite his duties with the Dodgers.
As the postseason is upon us. It'll begin tomorrow at
five thirty eight pm with the first pitch here at
Dodger Stadium between the Padres and the Dodgers. Dodgers on
dec Ad four thirty and I failed, I buried the lead.
(01:22):
We got a pair of tip because I don't have
my darn teen sheet from Kates. We got a pair
of tickets to give away to game two, and we
shirked our duties for the first two hours from three
until five o'clock. But now between five and seven, opportunity
for you to win. We'll just solicit for the call.
You know, a caller ten kind of thing. We'll solicit
for you to call and you'll have an opportunity to
(01:43):
be here at Dodger Stadium on Sunday. Game two. That
will be Jack Flaherty versus you, Darvish, and that is
a I believe a five pm start, right, Dack.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Five o'clock start, five ohweight start, that's for sure. Thanks
Jack Clarity against you Darvish.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Exactly right. I had to walk away.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm doing live radio. Blake tryning do you want to
talk to him. There's some jostling, some negotiating going on here.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Somebody gave him a courtesy card to get in.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's right, I got a courtesy card right here, Blake trying.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, it's like a fake idea. You look like the
dude off of.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Mick whatever. His name is, Nick Lovin? Are you McK
lovin mcmassa.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's hard to change the digital photo in the MLB
credential system, so I just leave it the way it
was in two thousand and two.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I'll be honest, that's two thousand and two. Your face
looks really young, but your hairline looks like you're fifty five.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
A well, thanks to Bosley.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
We were just talking about that. Dave had his hair
transplant live on air. I'm not kidding. He was in
the chair at Bosley and live on the air. He
got his start trading plainer.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't know why I did that. It's all natural,
you know what. It's youth and wisdom.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's all natural, Harry Blake. So see you got your
own EI.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You're stuck.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That'd be great doubles.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I had to workout Dave, so let's let's try to
I'm gonna have you work a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Why was Joe Kelly staying in the bullpeny wa all
you guys came out for pictures fielding practice.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Because Joe's Joe and he's Joe.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Joe is Joe and he's Joe.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, he's like the Dennis Rodman of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Let Joe be Joe.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Okay, let job be Joe like Manny. Let Manny be Manny.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. I mean, can they can be their own people? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And then they can be their own people together. You
guys were able to bond a come by here.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Right Mannys is the man?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Uh, Joe Kelly is the man also, and he's He's
totally He's totally fine.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Any peace.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Can you describe just the feel around the team during
this week of preparation.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's it's baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I know you're wanting like a crazy answer, but it's
like just trying to do more of the same, you know,
not take a mental break, stay focused, trying to keep
it as routine as possible so that there's no lags
between how well we played down the stretch to how
well we want to play in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Is that a real thing? The whole rust versus rest thing.
Say it again, is there is that a real thing?
They say, Oh, yeah, they're rusty. They didn't play well,
they had that week, got so they got rested, they
were great.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, I don't even know if it's rusty.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It's just like, let's say you get the third out
of the inning and you're like, for them, they had
the triple play to clich and there was the review
at second and then let's say he was actually safe.
Could you imagine trying to come down from that high
and then lock it in and hope to get the
next out without giving up the two runs that you
need for the you know, like or giving up another
hit for the run to tie it. It's it would
be really hard. So it's the competition every single day.
(04:37):
As much as we can try to fake it, you
still there's still a difference.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Like even though we're locked in right now trying to
like make it, there's still a difference. So it is.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It is something where you have to find a way
to trick yourself into saying and in compete mode. And
so I think, you know, we did as good a
job as we possibly can to force that mentality going
into the series.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So Lake Training is our guest.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Today's working his tricep out right now you're making you
aren't gonna start.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's gonna shaking a regular.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Hey, full disclosure, Blake tryining. Matt hosts the afternoon drive show. Here,
I'm filling in for his partner. His night job is
the radio voice of your l A Chargers. You being
a Kansas Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I said, that's wonderful. Congratulations on all your success.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, I grew up a Chiefs fan. We were a
regular season heroes, post season zeros.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I can enjoy it. I can enjoy the run.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So were you like, uh Steve the berg era or
was that that was you know you was born here
that okay? Yeah, so that was before you, like the
Steve Bono kind of that was when you were really
young Bono exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, l A hero Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And then after that, before who's before him?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh? Was Girbak?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Girback?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Was after bone who girt back?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And then we had a uh super Bowl champ that
went to the Montana Joe Montana, then Bono and then
it was rich Gannon rich and rich Gannon's a backup
was ship him to the Raiders and then Elvis Kerbach.
Not to knock any of them, but since it's the
sports talk radio show, I sat and watched. My dreams
got the window when the Raiders won a super Bowl, right,
so I was like, make the super Bowl, make whatever
exactly it.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah he was. He was really good.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He was a good one the building.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Sorry, of all the of all the running backs, cooy
I mean, and I don't know if you watched the Nightmare,
so coy word Priest Holmes, like, which one of those
guys was your guy?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I mean, you're forgetting like Johnson right, and Ary Johnson.
Marry Johnson was a vertical back that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Was just I mean he was crazy for those two years.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
The one that I fell in love with was Priest
Tom's first. He ain't got a prayer on Sunday without Priest.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
And then but he was he dude, I'm I grew
in Kansas, Okay. So the other thing too is he
was like the first guy I remember just doing the
leap over the line. The lineman would just chopped legs
and then I just leave from five yards out and
following the end zone.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The other guy that was electric.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
To watch is Jamal Charles, Right, people forget about Yeah,
and his follow up was supposed to be a Kareem
hunt and you know, some poor choices led to him
his barred from the Chiefs, which I respect the Chiefs
for it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And seemed fine on Sunday, came back for.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
So Yeah, you know, you hope there's always should always
be grace right, like always find a way. But I
mean people, people truly have to, like, you know, get
themselves right. I think sports in general does too good
of a job, like in a bad way of just
quick relief without actually allowing people to have healing, to
be you know, make a better version of themselves. But
I'm glad that they were, they were stirring on their way,
that they handled it. And yeah, I mean the Chiefs
(07:39):
Chiefs have been pretty good. I would say, I don't
like to see him maybe get the ball to the
Travis Kelcey a little more. Yeah, it's kind of strange
that the plan worked for the last decade and all
of a sudden we're just like, ah, yeah, you know, let's.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Get off swift. Look at this.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
She'll talk about for the next hour if you just
stick on the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, for sure, Taylor swiftball, stick to music. Let's just
keep football football.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Nora Jones on football to watch it answered, you get
plenty of attendance for that.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I don't want to see another eighty seven swifty jersey, right,
I want to see an eighty seven Kelsey jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So not to get like too deep into it, but
I think you brought it up. So I'll ask you
because as a big fan and is you know, the
Chiefs are known, they they don't care. They will take
the negative publicity for two weeks. They'll draft character question
guys that other peoples won't touch that other teams won't touch.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And it's not just the Chiefs but for the most.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Part they they you know, like Tyreek Hill was off
everybody's board.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That's probably why they shipped them out.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, So like it's someone who's a fan, like, how
do you care about that stuff?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Or you I absolutely care about it.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But I mean, let's talk about other teams, like I
didn't when they're at Carolina Panther defensive the end that
has some pretty questionable stuff, and then the Cowboys signed
them next week. Right, So It's like it's all across
the league, across the league, and I.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Just meant you individually, like I mean, like for you question.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
My big guess knock about the NFL is uh is
the way that they handle some of those things. And
the people who stand up for core family values are
the ones that get chastise.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Gotcha shout out to Harrison. Yeah, Harrison Bucker, big fan.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Hey, if you were at the if you were at
the graduation speeching at an issue with it, then you
can file to complain to anybody.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's a Catholic school and he's a Catholic man speaking
Catholic values, and people will listen to soundbots and get
upset with him.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's fine. I listen.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I'm okay if you if you if you disagree with
the man, I'm it's okay if I disagree with you.
So it's not going to change how I feel about.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The beauty of radio. It's what the format of radio is.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The beauty of being a human.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Let's not like, let's not go up in arms over
someone's someone's opinion.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You know, does a sound sounds so let's always fire.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's the voice of you.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Guys are pulling it out of me. I'm just exaking.
This's play some playoff. This exactly got Yama Yama tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Everybody talks about Otani, but can you tell us something
about Yama Moto. It feels like people, uh don't give
him his due because everybody's always skeptical about unproven pictures
and players. Do you feel like there's more questions his
first year in the league exactly?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I mean, everybody who has one year in the league,
people are gonna be like, oh, is he proven?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Fuck im?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You know, like I went through an injury and he
came back and he's thrown. Well, let's let's just let
it be that. I mean, he's over here from Japan
for a reason because he's the most decorated pitcher in
what Japanese history before they came.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Over, I believe. So yeah, so let's just let's let's
let's trust the man. You know, he's different normal stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
How different of a pitcher are you now than you
were at twenty five? Just in terms of twenty five,
I was in tria A. Okay, well double A.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I was in double A and I had really just
one pitch. So I mean the game has changed a
lot for me. I you know, it was like a
slider away from having a chance to be in the
big leagues. Learned one found out it wasn't going to play.
So they teach me a cutter slider grip, and then
just learning to rip it and trust it in certain
parts of his own.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Got me into the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And then I had to learn how to pitch inside
the lefties better because my sinker just always ran away.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, just a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So like when I got to Oakland, we added uh
four team cutter, played with the change up a little bit,
and I had my sinker slider. And then over the years,
you've just kind of like morphed into like how do
I attack certain hitters and keep them off balanced with
you know, the four pitches I have and mixing it
around the zone. And this year's been fun because I
haven't just been able to rely on velocity, even if
(11:12):
in the past, I mean, what I have is one
hundred percent gift from God, Like I work really hard
for what I do. I can't explain why I my
mechanics produce what it's produced in the past. But I
used to just be able to, like the movement brought
me a lot of room of air, and the velocity
bought me even more room prayer. This year, the velocity
(11:35):
is not necessarily what it's it's been in the past
or for really all my career. It's still good enough,
but I have to pitch a little bit more. That's
actually been kind of fun. It was frustrating at first.
I was wondering, like how long is this gonna work?
As hitters adjusted me and I just you know, I
thank God that I've been able to see, you know,
his hand on it all post surgery, because it's fun competing.
(11:58):
It's fun to see like how much hard work goes
into it, the amount of people who have been tied
into the surgery and in me coming back, that have
believed in me, and the amount of.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Prayers that have paid off.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So I I'm grateful to be here with the Dodgers
and play for playing for the fans, you know, Like
it's fun to be back out there and have guys
like the fans like be excited when you're pitching.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So is that a big thing? Energy? Sorry, Dave, is
that a big thing? The energy to day?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Question, I'm enjoining that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's fine. We can commute day for a second.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You know, some say I got a zone out, I
gotta just kind of be here, and then there's.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Somethings that say, I like them, I'm still zoned out,
like I want to pack same because that's the energy
you feed off. I mean, you might be able to
block out the noise, but you still feel the vibrations,
you feel like the energy like yeah, it's it's something
that would I mean, that's why you play with the Dodgers,
that's why you would choose to play for the Yankees,
or you know, even the team we're playing against, like
they have a packed out crowd every night down there.
(12:52):
So like there's teams in baseball where it's like a
privilege to be there, you know, And I don't take
that for granted being here. So just enjoy every opportunity
I have for as long as I have it left.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'm not going to tip my hand on what I
saw the last time Blake Trining struck out. I am,
I am, But that's my question. You've seen these guys
a lot. They know who Blake Tryning is. What's the
balance between being unpredictable but still sticking with the way
you want to attack a hitter.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You know that this is being listened to. So you're
asking me to give you a game plan. No, no, I
don't want When i'm then, I'm not going to answer
your question.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Okay, I love you, but I didn't tell you what
I saw the last time. I didn't give away that secret.
I had to stop it, right, I didn't give away
that secret I had that. I'm just saying, like you,
guys are very familiar.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
With each other.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
The team over there is extremely gifted and they're, you know,
arguably the hottest team in baseball coming into the playoffs,
besides maybe the Mets in Detroit. Sure, but they're the
best record in baseball second half, Yes, the second second.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Detroit is I'm just thinking they were the best.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, you were your second, The Diamondbacks were maybe third.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, so look at you.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I mean, eventually, I do play baseball. It's my confession.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
As much as we're supposed to let the kids play,
I'm still a man playing a sport that's.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Getting paid for it. You know, kids don't make Kids
don't make millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Adults do.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
So here's one very We're very blessed, so we should
treat it with the level of respect. What about Oakland
your thoughts, oh man, some of the best memories of
my career. Really yeah. I mean the workers there are
so unbelievable. They pour their heart and soul out into
the products. It's unfortunate that maybe you know, up top
didn't really match what the fans were hoping for. You know,
(14:33):
but billionaires and billionaires for a reason, they've got to
make moves, to make physical responsibilities that blessed them. And
so it sounds like no matter what people, fans, players wanted,
the market was moving. I don't know if it's a
ownership thing, if it's a major League Baseball thing, I
don't know what it is, but it seemed like no
(14:55):
matter what option they wanted to ask for or try
to go for, it was almost like smoking mirrors just
a time until they exhausted options, exhausted options to say, well, look,
we have.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
To leave now.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And it's sad because that city has wanted a major
sports team to be around for as long. I mean,
think about taking like the Boston Red Sox, and I
mean some of the greatest history in baseball's in Oakland.
One of the only three peats if not like one
of two three peats. How many three peats are there
in baseball history?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yankees in a's and and I don't know what else.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Would be maybe from maybe Yankees twice. I don't know,
was it Yankees twice or just Oakland A's.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You're right, Yeah, So we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Take that rich history from the seventies and eighties away
from away from Oakland. And it's like, what do you do?
You know, like it'd be like uprooting Boston and moving
them to Carolina.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's like that'd be weird, be really weird.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So we're gonna go to Vegas with Day's, just like
we do with the Raiders, and you know, Golden State
turned their back and said, let's just skip across the
pond where not cool?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, so it's unfortunate for the fans.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I mean, I'm not going to put on an owner's
hat and try to pretend they've got there. They're doing
what they know is best for from their perspective. There's
you know, the ownership group, and then there's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Like baseball ops.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
So it's like, you know, as much as we want
to complain, it's like and it may even be as
valid as ever I'm just grateful for the memories I
had there with my teammates and with the fans, because
they truly are some of the most written, like they're
the richest in spirit fans that like, you know, for
the size, I mean, you could have fifteen to twenty thousand,
it feels like a packed house in a forty thousand
stand stadium.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You know. It's like, yeah, it's a it's a it's
and it's a it's a fun place.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Not a lot of people can do radio, like I
think guys after their career could get into TV and
like you know, sit at a desk and give you
a sound bite trying and can do radio Like you
can just look at me.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
But I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Radio exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He wants to host when he's done. You you want
words on the radio. You know you're on the shortest day.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I can tell.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It has been tough.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
But someone tells you they're on your list. What you're
on the list, You're on my list, You're on my
short list.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Shaking in the leads exactly to thank thanks.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
For Yeah that was Blake trying and talk about giving
it to us the cheese. Yeah, that's not a good You.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Could be a tight end trying to you're the Kelsey
of the Dodgers. I take you in a flag football game, quarterback.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Everybody he knows where the money's made.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Hey, I gotta go. I gotta go talk to Max Munsey.
You guys do your thing exactly right. Well, Brank, we'll
be back. We're going. Oh and uh, how about this.
We'll give away the tickets in the next half hour.
We'll we'll put a smaller window on it. We went
along with Blake. That was a lot of fun. We
certainly appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Dave going to chat with Miguel Rojas and Max Munsey
in the commercial break, and we will keep rolling until
seven pm. We've been told that Land and Nak will
absolutely join us, so that is one more that we'll get.
We'll see if we can track down Skipper, Dave Roberts.
Who else is still out there? There's we'll see Gomes all, Yeah,
there's Gomes. He's walking around with his phone in his
back pocket. Maybe we'll track him down as well. We're
(17:54):
live from Dodgers Statement s Petros and Money Show. David
Vesse sitting in for a five seventy l A Sports
Live on the field at Dodger Stadium. Petros out calling
a football game tonight, a little Syracuse versus un LV,
but here at Dodger Stadium, literally on the field as
(18:17):
we speak, as Manny Machado discussed. If you missed that earlier,
by the way, in the three o'clock hours, straight out
the gates, we got. Manny as the padres were making
their way on and off the field, talked about he
judges stadiums and how he ranks stadiums based on the
batter's box, not the batter's eye, but the batter's box,
specifically the dirt in the batter's box, and ranked Dodger
(18:40):
Stadium near the top, said Yankee Stadium has the best dirt.
Why am I saying it? Because I'm walking through the
dirt right now and I can feel the moisture. Then
he pointed out that Arizona's dirt is very dry and
hard to dig into, but Dodger Stadium has some moist
dirt and I am enjoying that right now, right behind
home plate, the Dodgers taking batting practice, finishing up their
warm ups, And I've already made a fool of myself
(19:02):
multiple times, but perhaps no more than in the last
moment when Sho hal Tani came out of the dugout
and gave me a little bit of a nod in
a hello, and I was just frozen, like I routinely
get and yeah, it was embarrassing. And then Andy McCullough
walked over, who talked to us in the three o'clock
hour as well, and goes, he's got a bit of
a gravity around him, doesn't he. I was like, thanks,
(19:22):
you noticed it too, I've once again been made a fool.
And Kate's took a video of it as well, So
I think you're gonna send that to social Matt I am, yeah,
and make sure he posts that Otani coming out of
the dugout giving me a nod and a hello and
me not doing anything, just ignore him, completely ignored us.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
The kids say it goes to them.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, so that's how things are going. Dave is busy
doing his Dodger duties, talking with a bunch of players
in the dugout. I mentioned we do have a pair
of tickets, so Kate scam is rolling. He gave away
a pair of tickets this morning with Steve Sachs to
By the way, what was your lineup your guest lineup today.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Uh, we had David Essay on. I had Tony gwyn
Junior on.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
All right, yeah, well there we Yeah, we have had
Manny Machado, Andy McCullough, Ken Rosenthal, Blake trining landon nak
is going to join us in about thirty thirty five minutes,
maybe a little bit longer than that toward the end
of the show. Anybody I'm missing case, I think that's it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Right, That is it?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Ken Rosenthal, you said.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, yeah, I believe we happened. Oh we had Freddy
Freeman tell Dave, thanks Dave.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, thanks Dave.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
So there was that, we had Clayton Kershawk Knowwledge our existence,
So there's that. I don't think Dave knows that we're back,
and so he's just grabbing ass with Max Monsey now
in the dugout.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Yeah, they're having a very intense conversation exactly right.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
But Dave has duties that he has got through it
here too with the playoff game all but we do
have a pair of ticket to give away to game
two on Sunday, So that is a Jack Flaherty versus
you Darvish start and earlier today, if you missed it.
Kind of the big news at Dodger Stadium was Freddie Freeman,
(20:53):
and Freddie was working out the Hammies, doing some high
knees and then kind of put on a show for
the assembled media as he ran the bases, took some
throws at first base, and a couple of times went
first to third I think in one kind of sort
of simulated bit of action, ran down to first base
a few times, and according to David Vassa, i'msuled. This
(21:17):
is what Dave said. So he believes that Freddy is
going to be active at first base, not just a
pinch hitter on the NLDS roster. What have we got here? Kid?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He looked good out there. Money.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I'm just waiting for Andrew Freeman to get done talking
to Ken Rose was how we're doing. Yeah, I'm just
waiting for him to get done talking, gotcha. Dave Roberts
is in the middle of conversation with general manager Brandon
Gomes as they hang out on the batting cage watching
the final.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Group of hitters here exactly right.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
That includes Gavin Lux, Austin Barnes, Tommy Edmund, Chris Taylor,
Chris Taylor.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, saw I think perhaps of all the and I
don't know if Otani's going to hit or not. Probably not.
There's no you know, it's not open to the public,
so a lot of times he does a downstairs in
the cage when the public's in here. But I he's
just kind of, Oh, look at this. He's pitching out there.
That's what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Just throw it off flat ground.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He's throwing off flat ground. Yeah, that's what's happening.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Was dozens of media from Japan getting their eyes on him.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
We we did have Kenny Rosenthal in a little bit earlier.
He penned an article for The Athletic, talked to a
bunch of scouts and had one scout say that watched
a bullpen from Otani about two weeks ago and that
he was bringing it. That it was not your standard
on rehab and trying to get back into the swing
of things sort of bullpen session, but someone who looked
like he was ready to throw. So we got that going.
(22:38):
What else we got Kates h that's it right now.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I'm waiting for I'm waiting for Andrew Freeman.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
We're in a holding pattern, and that's why the Petros
and Money Show does not like holding patterns. Because we're
staring at Andrew Freeman wrapping up a conversation with the
Great Kenny Rosenthal, the Skipper, Dave Roberts talking to Brandon
Gomes and waiting for each of them as we've been
told that perhaps they will will join us. I don't
know if we break early and then roll the dice
(23:04):
in the next segment here, Dave, Yeah, let's do tim.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But now see how I see Andrew Freeman's hands are folded.
It looks like he might be done with Ken. You
might walk over here, and then we're gonna be in
commercial break. We can talk seeds break with them.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
We can talk seeds. If he comes over to.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Well, I didn't bring the seeds. That's the problem. He
talks seeds and them, He's like, oh, great, you got some.
No I don't, no, but I'm willing to talk about
them with you. I want to see if they picked
up that gum yet. Oh yeah, it's like Singapore. Oh
no they haven't. Gum's still here covered up with some dirt.
All right. When we return, hopefully we'll have either Andrew
Friedman or Dave Roberts. Uh, and then land in neck
(23:41):
and then we'll give away some tickets as well to
game two. Yes, vamping and try to make this thing
all fit together like a puzzle, which is not easy
when you anticipate somebody coming over to talk to you
and they don't. And now I've got myself a ball
here that has found its way to my feet.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Throw it back?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Where do I throw it? Though? I don't want someone
to step on it rolling ankle? So like, what's the
right movie here? You know what I mean? Like, what's
the right move? Where do you throw it? Do not
throw it towards Mookie whatever? Exactly right, That's what I'm saying.
I'm really stuck here. It's they're probably looking at the
ball like, hey, dude, pick it up. But maybe I
just pick it up and start juggling it or is
that not good?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I'll figure it out when we return, give away some tickets,
and hopefully have either Andrew Friedman or Dave Roberts join
us here in your home with the Dodgers A five
seventy ela sports Everything's dead. According to him, we are
live at Dodger Stadium on the dirt on the third
base side in front of the Dodger dugout will be
(24:38):
here until seven pm. It is workout day. Padres on
the field a little bit earlier. Dodgers on the field
right now taking batting practice.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Thanks to the best player for joining us Manny Machado.
Appreciate that thanks joining us from the Dodgers side.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Of thanks right, appreciate that high leverage reliever could have
a large role in determining whether or not this series
is successful or not.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So Freddie Freeman came out of his hitters meeting and
had a press conference that said he's going to play,
And let us all know, this injury would take four
to six weeks for any other human to be able
to physically play first base. But he's going to do
it within a week.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
A player told me he would take his right ankle
being sawed off for him not to play tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Freddy said, I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I'm playing.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'm playing first base. I'm not pinch hitting. I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Which did this show? No good?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You called it? Dave, You said I'm sold, I'm sold.
You saw him go for I'm just a third and
you said I'm sold. Hey.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I saw Adrian Gonzalez run at one hundred percent and
freddie looked better than Gonzo running the bases today.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Fair point.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
By the way, don't you feel like there's a lot
of pressure on the Dodgers to win? But how about
pressure on Dodger fans? Matt, what do you mean to
make this play sound as electric as pet.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Go pot will?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Really the last two NLDS is Dodger fans have been
just as lackadaisical as the teams that have been playing
in this NLDS the last two years. Towards don't say
it spoiled. No, spoiled is the word.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Show Time's changed everything, I hope changed everything because is different.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I hope. So they have to give this team the
same type of emotional boost those fans in San Diego
give the Padres, and you can't be apathetic or feel
like you're owed something. Oh, I'm going to wait until
the NLCS. No, this is that type of series where,
by the way, Games one and two not even sold
out yet.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well that's a rageous Now wait a minute, that's that's
that's outrageous. No, that's a little misleading because I saw
that commentary online and I was like, really, Dodger Stadium
is fifty five thousand. Let me see how close to
being sold out are they? There's less than one hundred
tickets left, and it's all the very top corners. Okay,
so it's hey, do I really want to spend one
(27:01):
hundred and forty six fifty for one of those years?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Way to move around the entire stadium standing room only
up there behind the top.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Pavilion, simply pointing out, all right, that I just believe that.
If you tell me the Dodgers are one hundred tickets
short of a sellout after averaging forty nine thousand per game, I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Fine, okay, but I will say that they're.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Shuing a challenge to the fans that that'd be too
cool for school. I think it's fair.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That happened in Atlanta, it did. It happened the last
two years here at Dodgers Stadium, and I know the
players have to give them something to be electric about.
But come on, Dodgers padres. You saw what it was
like with a two game wildcard series against the Braves,
what it was like in San Diego. Dodger fans, LA,
(27:45):
you gotta come correct tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
So so I do I remember you? I remember you
pointed it out when the Dodgers and the Cubs were tangling. Yeah,
And I wonder if if it's more of that that
applies that Cub fans were always way you said.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
They're always waiting for the other shoot to.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Draw, there's something bad was gonna happen. And I do
think there is a little bit of that from twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
That's a loser Cub mentality.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
But I think this. I think these fans because that's
all the media does, is they better win. They've choked
in the playoffs. Who cares about one hundred wins? Who
cares about one hundred and eleven wins? Who cares about
the best record in baseball? They got to do it
in October, and there's a sense of dread that hangs
over them instead of a sense of I want to
enjoy this. But it's it reminds me of It reminds
me of one.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's a little extreme. I don't feel like there's a
sense of dread.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It reminds me of when the Bulls were at their peak,
and there you can't win because you're supposed to win
because you've got Michael Jordan on your team, and if
you lose to the freaking Wizards, or you lose to
the Knicks, or you lose to the Heat. It's unbelief.
And I think there are some of that with the Dodgers, like, hey,
you better win. You can't. But that's why I think
this year is different, because it's the first year that
(28:54):
that's not how people are approaching it. It's like, oh,
the Dodgers aren't the better team in the series. So
it's almost like it's a little bit different than it
has been in the past of you better win one
hundred and eleven wins, you better win, and they don't.
And so I wonder if there's a little bit of
a different chemistry to this this year.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I would hope so, because you know, you decide, yeah, well,
I just don't buy all that. I do agree that
the Dodgers are expected to win and it's a catch
twenty two. If you win, okay, you did it, great,
we don't you completely blew exactly. But as far as
the fan base, that's a different type of attitude that
should be here at Dodgers Stadium, where all right, you
(29:33):
want to have bragging rights over San Diego, they're blocking
you out of their own stadium. Fine, well, then make
this stadium feel as electric as it possibly can be,
like it was in seventeen and eighteen. Sure, that's the
way it should be tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I would agree one hundred percent, and I stick to
my story.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I think makes I think. I think shoel Tony makes
the difference. I do thinkcause he's the he's the leadoff hitter.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Well, that's my confern in the box.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And you get all this energy in the stadium when
he steps into the box immediately in a bottle just
for him.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Though.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
No, I think it carries. I think that carries as
you get because you know you kinda It reminds me
like you go to is an old man. You go
to these indie rock shows and everyone's like super cool
and they don't want to sing along, and they're being
really quiet and the band is playing. And then you
go to like Ario Speedwagon and it's a bunch of
old white people that are drunk and they're freaking out
and singing everything and having a party, and it sets
(30:27):
the tone from the first song and then everyone's like,
all right, well, they're all having a good time, so
I guess I'm gonna have a good time. No, one's
judging me, and I think that happens with Otani as
everybody starts screaming and getting into it, and you just
kind of free everybody to be a fan.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So you're saying Otani is the Rio Speedwagon of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Exactly what I'm saying. Exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'm live hot mic right now. He scared me right there,
first time ever.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm not taking it. Locked in like that coming over here,
I'm locked in a parabolic Can you pick a what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I'm locked in too. I don't know if they understand that.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
By the way, Gavin Lucks no ha.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Hat, no hat, no hat, no hat.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
What I tell you, that's my guy, No hat, no hat.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I asked for a freeman.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
But I think him and Austin Barnes are doing like
a fancy football deal or something over there.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh we're gonna do this all right?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Well we got hey, Al take it easy, big out
that security.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
You set that you set the screen, Dave, and I
got him the one running free.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I got it. He's talking. He's gonna finish here.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Wan, we're over at seven o'clock, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
But we got a little this segment.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Listen, He's gonna sabotage us. Barnes says radio is dead.
He never liked us. He's gonna you watch, he's gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Dragging me down. I am you were dragging me down.
This never happened.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
When I believe I'm standing on the grass, everybody's looking
at me like I'm You're not christ.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Don't be standing on the grass.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Wow told me to come up.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I never uh, you know, he kind of flipped the
script on me defending the common man like that, Matt
being a big favorite of the top one percent.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
So here's what it is. Here's what it is. This
is a this is my thing, Dave. I don't like
I don't like other fan bases setting the rules for
let me see, I don't like other fan bases setting
the rules for how a fan base is supposed to behave.
So I'm just sick of the social media commentary from
(32:20):
San Diego about oh, our average ticket price is three
fifty there's just one to fifty. Oh we sold out
in five minutes. They still have tickets. Shut up. Just
go to the game. Don't worry about what's going on here.
Enjoy yourself at Petco Park. Stay in your little world,
We'll stay.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
The fans should be able to rise to the occasion
that they're demanding from this team. Well, give look at
that smile. He is so excited on.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Your your position. Dave has challenged the fans to rise
to the occasion in the postseason, like we see at
Petco Park and all the energy those fans are bringing.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I like it. I'm all in for it, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I feel like you've spoiled this fan base quite a bit,
and this matchup is you know NLCS caliber Andrew, Do
you feel that way too as you guys prepare for
this series?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
I like what you're saying. The home field advantage we have,
there's no question about it. Look at our home record
over the years. That being said, San Diego will be
a hostile environment in Game three and four, let's make
it hostile here.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Let's let them hear us.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
And bring that energy and be that tenth man. There's
no question it will bring a lot to our guys.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It really is the one true you would think home
field advantage parks are not uniform, they're different. You build
a team for your park, So how big of a
deal it was it for you? Coming down the stretch
that it didn't. You know, the Phillies had a couple
of games on you there in the final two weeks.
You end up rallying and you get how big of
a deal is that to have home field through the
(33:49):
entirety of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I mean, I think it's great.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
You start a series and you get to set the tone,
and it's easier to do that at home, and with
our fans, the rabid fan base that we have, if
we can get them to dial it up that much
more in October, guys are nervous. October brings a whole
nother level of anxiousness. And a pitcher who's out there
(34:15):
and he's in a hot spot and he's trying to
figure out what pitch to throw, and the louder and
crazier it is here, he has a hard time hearing
the pitch calm, they have to call time. All of
those things I think matter, And so obviously the way
we've played here down the stretch, being able to start
each series that we're gonna play at home is big,
(34:38):
and I love the challenge to the fans, as great
as they are, to elevate it even more.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I'm with you. I feel like the you know, there's
a lot expected from this team, and the fans have
been celebrating you guys all season long. We saw what
happened in San Diego, so you're hearing it from the
man himself, Andrew Freeman, to dial it up. Make this place.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Which it will be. It will be like at I saw.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
It in seventeen and eighteen is what I'm imagining.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I think the challenge is to not just do it reactionary.
So like obviously big thing happens, this place is crazy,
it's swaying. I think it's even before something happens, and
that pictures looking in for a sign and he's nervous,
and us bringing it even in that moment, even before
something has happened, I think makes it even harder for
(35:26):
that guy to execute that pitch.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
That's what I met, I said, and that's the benefit
of having show Hail Tani is a leadoff. Like you said,
he's in the on deck circle and this place is
freaking out, and like to me, that's the differ. I mean,
it's just it's it's.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's like going to an Ario speedwagon showing off for
you's rocking.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Out right when we signed him.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
It's actually did say keep on rolling, let's go Freddy Freeman.
We watched them today and we heard what he had
to say, so just kind of I'm sure you've been
paying close attention to that. How you're about where he
is and how important he is to where you want
to go this fall.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Yeah, he's wildly important. When it happened, obviously, it was
really nervous. Each day that has gotten a little bit less,
and each day has gotten better and better and better.
And to watch him out here moving around today and
to see it firsthand definitely added a huge level of
comfort of what we were fearing, you know, last Thursday
(36:27):
to where we are today is everything we could have
hoped for.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
And is it going to be perfect, No, but it.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Will definitely be good enough for him to be a
huge part of what we do after.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Was the decision still up in the air until you
saw him run the bases and do what he did
earlier this afternoon or were you pretty confident before he
did that?
Speaker 6 (36:46):
I mean we were ignorance is bliss, and we were
living in this world where there was no way he
wasn't going to be good. Yeah, we weren't even going
down that path.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
We were only operating in the.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Here We're going to be great manifestation.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Old Matt. I saw Adrian Gonzalez play at one hundred percent.
Freddy at seventy or whatever percent was moving better than
Adrian Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Why Adrian has to catch strays from day you know,
in that moment, why not? We'll get you out here
on this What game is show hay pitch? Yeah, he
is good. Game eight of the World the World Series.
Love it, love.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Nobody's buying it. This guy still thinks that Otani is
still going to pitch, and he wants him to play
first base. He wants him first base.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Freddy can d h And then I said he can
also be the closer and you can pitch him on
three days rest.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
All of those things exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Right, all right, I said, get him up because we
do have to break. But last thing, chat Shaw Seed,
you turned us on to him. They have a number
of different flavors, spice, caramel, pecan. What is what is
the Andrew Friedman favorite. I'm more of a traditionalist regular.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
I mean, I like a little bit like a little
spice too, But all the crazy variations, I'm sure broking
to some people.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I'm not there, okay, all right, not there, all right,
we're clarified. We talked about it on day one, the
opening day, and here we're talking about the start of
the playoffs, and then we'll be talking about it at
the World Series. Pa.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Hey, they got real baseball going on here. We got
to get off the field.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Thank you, Andrew, growing us out, all right, Thank you, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Thanksating for Drew Freeman, the President of Baseball Operations, joining
us here to close out the five o'clock hour on
a five seventy LAS.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Here's how we're closing it. Pair of tickets eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy. We'll take caller ten
right now. You are going to Game two of the
nl DS Sunday, Caller ten eight six six nine eighty
seven two five seventy from your home of the Dodgers,
AM five to seventy LA. Sports
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