August 28, 2025 • 38 mins
Jonas Knox and George Wrighster are in for PMS talking Stafford and Herbert + Dodgers with Tim Neverett.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
And five, seventy LA Sports, Petro Some Money Show, George Reister,
Jonas Knox in for the guys. By the way, this
is your home of the World Series Champion Dodgers. In
case you forgot a lot of skeptics out there. Even
Fred Rogan, who I've heard has tried to say, oh,
I've been consisted this entire time on the team, my ass.
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the Petro Some Money Show podcast. George and I were
just discussing what a pain in the ass the one
to one freeway is turned into in this town.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh, it's it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, it is a four lane highway in what should
prob and five and so for a little short period
in what should be like a fifteen lane highway.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Is it starting to give the four or five a
run for its money? As far as like way worse,
there are times where the four five is clear.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But for the next like twenty five weeks or something
like that, that the four five freeway. Did you try
so I would. I went down to Inglewood last Saturday.
I was driving down and I was looking back. I
was like, on the way back, I was like, oh,
there's only two lanes going back on the four five.
Oh that's not fun. So for the next twenty five
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weeks they will be doing weekend construction on the four
five fifteen or twenty four.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, so it is going to be a disaster on
the weekends going down down down the four.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Now they normally do that. When I'm driving in to
do two Pros and a Cup of Joe with LaVar
Arrington and Brady Quinn in the mornings, that's normally the
time because it's a three am star time here on
a five seventy. So you run well, but you run
into construction. So when that went oh yeah, yeah. So
when the hippies had that mountain Lion crossing pop up
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in a Gore Hills where they had because some mountain
lion wanted to play Frogger on the one to one
and got clipped like god for you know what, like
the old football term when there's an injury in practice riverside, Like, hey,
you just just off dye, listen, can we get a shovel,
get that thing out of the way. We don't need
to build an entire crossing for it. I had to
drive through all that, and it was so like they'll
always throw up random construction, and the problem is, at
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that time of the day, nobody updates it. Like normally
you can go to SigAlert or some other site and
they'll tell you, all right, there's construction here. You'll just
run into an entire closure, like they'll just close stuff down. So, yeah,
I'm with you, man. It's there's always road work, there's
always stuff to be done, there's always any there's a
lane that's shut down, there's random traffic. So it has
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popped up and look, you mentioned, hey, you get to Inglewood,
you go to Sofi Stadium, there's going to be some
traffic this upcoming football season. You've got a lot of
expectations out there. You got the Rams, you got the Bolts,
Matt Muney Smith calling Bolts games. You've got Justin Herbert
maybe he's dating Madison Beer, a rocket ship actress who's
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got an interesting past. If you listened to Petros before
to explain it all, if you've got all the expectations
going into this season with Jim Harbaugh and whatnot, and
I can't help but wonder there are major question marks,
specifically when it comes to the quarterback position. A lot
of people want to know can Justin Herbert delivered in
the postseason. There was the meltdown against the Jaguars, not
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entirely on him. He did not play well last year
at Houston. That seemed like a game that they could
have And if we're being honest, the way the playoff
seating and the way the playoff seating should work in
the NFL, the Chargers should have been hosting that game.
They were the better team, but instead, because Houston won
the awful AFC South, they had to go on the
road to play that game. So you've got those questions
about Justin Herbert, And I'm telling you, man, I know
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that it appears that Matt Stafford's on track and he's
going to play Week one, and he's been dealing with
the back issue and he's practicing more. That just feels
like something that's going to be a storyline all season
that they're going to have to monitor Matthew Stafford in
his health all season. And I don't know how you
feel about either Stetson Bennett or Jimmy Garoppolo, but that
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could change the landscape in the NFC, because if Matthew
Stafford's healthy, the Rams got a shot. Like they've got
a shot. They played Philly tougher than anybody else in
the postseason last year in those conditions on the road
with an opportunity to win the game late. Yet Matthew
Stafford's dealing with a back issue.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
If you're ready to say, his body is jello right now.
And I don't know how much longer did this last.
I think we are on the last leg of the
Matthew say if if this year even even even happens
at the at the level that is expected, and that
this is why you are seeing them gear up a
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little bit for the future. They are hoping that Stet's
invented is such because that makes it significantly easier when
you have the quarterback in the building already. But yeah,
it is not optimal right now because you hear the
reports coming out, you think about last year with the
elbow and everything else he was dealing with this year
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the same thing. There comes a point when you are
playing football, or you're playing professional sports at all, where
you get sick of being hurt. And I remember when
I tore my ACL. I when I got back to
the training room, I was sitting on the training room
and I was just crime, crime, my eyes out. I
was in there all by myself, and then and my
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girlfriend walked in and she was like, yo, are you
Are you okay? You're You're like crying. I've never seen
you cry. Really, what are you in a lot of pain?
I was like, nah, I'm not in any paint at all.
I'm just sick of being being hurt. Man, it's my
third injury back to back years. I was just so
sick of being hurt. And so when Andrew Luck retired
because he was sick of being hurt, so the rehab
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I got it. And there comes a point when this
continuously happens, and it has nothing to do with intestinal
fortitude or mental toughness. When you are constantly living in
in in chronic pain, it's it's frustrated. Does something to
the mind, and it steals a lot of the joy
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for the game that you had.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And it's like I also wonder this, Like you deal
with one injury, then you start to overcompensate, it creates
a problem elsewhere. It's like they always tell you with
a you know, with like an older car, like if look,
one thing goes under the hood, that means something else
is going to be a problem. You fin one thing,
something else is gonna pop up. You're just plugging leaks.
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And it feels like with Matthew stafford Man, those years
in Detroit must have taken a lot off of his body,
like those like the beating he took in Detroit, and listen,
he got out here, he got his Super Bowl, he
got his last big contract this offseason. I do wonder
when did this back injury occur? All right, I'm not
trying to stir the pot. I was talking to Petro
some money at the Tarantula Hill remote in Thousand Oaks
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a couple of weeks ago. The people were awesome there,
But I did ask the question, if you know the
story of Clayton Kershaw, he popped up with a back
issue after a long flight to Australia years ago. I'm
just wondering did something happen at training camp in Maui.
You know that's a long ass flight to get out
to Hawaii. When did this back injury occur? Because this
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was thought to be minor, and then just continuously he
wasn't out there, wasn't out there, wasn't out there. And
then you've got Sean McVay saying, well, you know he's
gonna ramp up here, and everyone feels good about it.
He gets an epidural. I've never had an epidural.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh it is mad so I So I've had four epiduras, Ok,
so I'm an expert.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Two back surgeries.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
In so the first time was my second year in
the league, and h I was in so much pain
with the epidi prior to the epidurals. Well, actually did
the epidurals didn't didn't even work. That's why I ended
up having back surgery. But I remember the third epidural
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because you have to go into the operating room and
they like it's literally an operating room, and they and
they put you in there. They don't they don't put
you to sleep though, and they just numb you up
real real good and all that stuff. And I remember
laying on the operating table the third time because when
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you have back pain like like that, I had a
lot of nerve pain, so it was radiating down the
front of my leg all the way down to my
foot like like my like my left pinky toe and
the one next to it are pretty much numb, like
one hundred percent of the time right currently still, And
I remember the third epidural. I was laying on the
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table and I said, God, if I have to live
in this much pain, please let me die. Like that's
how much pain I was in just to sit down,
damn hurt and burned and everything else. And then immediately
after back surgery that day, I had back surgery that
get you up walking and everything. I immediately felt felt better.
It was like a a It was like a thousand
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pounds of frustration and pain just lifted off your off
your shoulders.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And so now he's got all that going into a
long ass season. Yep, where that's all right? Man?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Like I just I don't know, Oh, this is probably
the yeah I did.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That's why I look at this situation, and I think
it was Jordan Rodrik of The Athletic reported, you know
this is gonna be something. It's not like, hey, you know,
he's ready to go. Week one. We're good to go,
Like this is going to be a Storylinck is a.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's the thing about a back is that I am
still to this day always conscious of my of my back,
I believe, and when and when it comes to my
my wife and my family know now like that.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
They won't even let me pick things up.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
They're like, oh, there's a heavy suitcase, like when we
get to a you know, like if we get to
a hotel or something, and you know sometimes us big
strong men were.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Like, no, I got it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'll bring it every like no, no, no, no, no, no, where's
the bell hop?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Picking this up because if I picked this up, it
could I mean, I've gotten out of bed and and
I've gotten a backspasm. And once you get a backspasm,
there is no like I remember when I should see NBA.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Players, Oh he's out with a backspasm. Okay, oh god,
he's soft.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And then once I started getting backspasms, I was like, oh,
now I see why you can't play. You literally can't
play with backspasm is not possible.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's brutal.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And Matthew Stafford's got that going into the season at
the stage of his career, so yeah, it's gonna be
he can.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Backspasms and stuff that he's dealing with are things that
can Those things can throw you off, like you can
throw it out. He can be throwing a pass, be
completely untouched and the game be over.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And that's why I wonder when the injury took place,
because if they knew this, they probably aren't giving him
the deal, right, the big monster contract. They oh, for sure,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So so actually, I mean the the seventy six ers did.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It with Joe l Embiid.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
He sent him the six doctors and gave him a
three year, one hundred and eighty million dollar deal.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So I just my guess would be this popped up
up after the contract. So when unless.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
There's a way out of it, like in terms of
unless the guaranteed money is guaranteed skill, but not necessarily
guaranteed against injury, like it can be structured in a
way to where if he has to retire or something
like that, that it's not capt prohibitive to the team. Yeah,
that is definitely possible, and that may be a real thing.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Hey listen, if he's healthy, like they got a shot.
The problem is he goes in already compromised at this
point in the offseason into the regular season. So it
is a five seventy here on M five to seventy
LA Sports here on the Blowtorch. You can listen to
us everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And it's George Reister,
and it's Jonas Knox in for Petro Some money coming
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up next here though, how about some Dodger royalty in
the house. Tim Neverritt is gonna pop on. We got
a lot to discuss. Maybe he's got a couple of
bobbleheads lying around. That's all yours. Next here on AM
five seventy LA Sports, Petros Money Show, AM five to
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seventy LA Sports, George Reister, Jonas Knox in for the guys.
Coming up, there's a brand new look in town. We'll
explain what that is here. At a little over fifteen
minutes from now tomorrow, the Dodgers will host the Arizona
Diamondbacks Dodgers on Deck six PM. First pitch is seven
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to ten from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth, and right
now we welcome in the voice of the Dodgers here
on a five seventy LA Sports Tim Neverett, Tim, how
are you thanks for joining us? And how many bobbleheads
have you acquired over the past couple of years there
being at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Well, i'll answer your last question first. Many. Yeah, a
lot of them. It's it's crazy when when you look
at what they do for promotions at Dodger Stadium, it's
incredible traveling around this Major League circuit for as many
years as I have, No team does as many bobbleheads
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as the Dodgers, but they do it right and that's
why they lead the world and attendance in every event.
I mean, it's an incredible job. And then to give
you an idea the other night, last night, it's an
Otani bobblehead night and he happens to be pitching. Now,
think about this. The marketing folks, they plan this out
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months and months and months in advance. They have no
idea you know, who's going to be pitching that night,
But it just happened to be. Otani strikes out nine
and gets his first win ever as a Dodger.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
How good was his stuff?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Because I was at the stadium last night and granted
his ball to strike rate ratio early in the first
three innings wasn't good. But I looked at the amount
of swinging misses and that got me very excited about
the postseason.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yeah, you've probably noticed he threw his curve ball a lot,
and he threw it a lot early. But he has
seven pitches and he threw everything. You know, Dalton Russian
caught him, and you know, they worked together calling the
pitches because of PitchCom a little device that O Towny's
got under his left sleeve and the one that sits
on the top of the right shin guard of rushing.
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But yeah, they worked together pretty well, I thought. And
the fact that he mixed his pitches up a lot
differently than he had in recent games, especially that game
in Colorado, which just went sideways. You know, he had
a big time bounce back, and you know the way
that he pitched. You know, we're hoping he can go longer,
but the Dodgers plan is to keep him at five
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for right now, and he was the pitcher record. But yeah,
the swings and misses were there. The splitter was good,
the cutter was good. The fastball when he unleashed out
of one hundred miles an hour. I mean, here's the
guy that strikes out nine in a game and you
can throw one hundred mile an hour fastballs and he's
leading or well, actually Schwarber's leading out today, but you
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know he's leading the team at home runs with forty five.
I mean, this is just an incredible person to watch
play the game of baseball. And you know, when it's
all said and done, you're gonna want to tell folks
you saw him play, because he's going to be one
of a kind.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
He is the voice of the Dodgers. Here on a
five seventy LA Sports, Tim Neverett joining us here on
the Petros Some Money Show, George Reister, Jonas Knox in
for the guys. So you've been doing this long enough
obviously stops in Pittsburgh and Boston. Where do you rank
the Yotani experience from your point of view from where
you're sitting and what you get to watch every night?
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Where do you rank that in comparison to other players
you've seen throughout the course of your career.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I think maybe the closest thing I saw was I
was with the Red Sox in David Ortiz's last year
when he did his tour around Major League Baseball and
got gifts everywhere. And I called it Big Poppy Palooza
because it was just a party every night. And I
mean the President of the Dominican Republic showed up at
Fenway Park one day just to honor them, and Mary J.
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Blige came to home plate to sing to him. I mean,
it was crazy. And you know, his last year, he
can barely walk at that point, and he still gets
you know, thirty home runs and one hundred rbiyes. So
I thought that was pretty cool, ununtil I started hanging
around Otani. Otani is number one for sure, and I
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think by the time it is all said and done,
his career is over, he's going to amass incredible numbers.
He's just so much better than everybody else out there,
and even the players. That's kind of how you gauge this.
You watch the reaction of players and coaches and managers
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who also played, people who played the game, Like I
sit next to Rick Monday all the time and he
just shakes his head. He says, this guy's amazing. And
for guys who have that perspective of playing the game
and they look at Otani and they can't believe how
good he is. That's when you know he's he is
the Unicorn, and he is, you know, something special. And
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anytime anybody gets a chance to watch that guy play
in person, you know, you know, get there, do it
because it's special and you never know what you're gonna see.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, when as the Dodgers are getting geared up for
the postseason, but obviously they have to win the division first,
Dave Roberts has been through a lot of these, you know,
winning the division, going away, battling towards the end. What
do you think that we should be looking for over
the next few weeks, over the rest of us, over
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the rest of September, to see if this team is
ready to make a run in the postseason.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Well, I think more of what we saw in the
series with Cincinnati that just completed. I think that's one
thing that you got to look for, especially what we
saw in Game one on Monday, which was really one
of the most complete games they had played in every
facet of the game. Emma Chian was really good on
the mound, they hit the ball, they defended, they made
great plays in the outfield. The outfield defense was there.
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But I think you know, now, as time is moving
toward the end of August until the beginning of September.
The team's going to start getting some more guys back.
We'll have a full roster here pretty soon, Max months.
He could be back by the time we get to Baltimore.
That's a possibility. I don't know that for a fact,
but that there's a chance that could happen. Michael Kopek
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could join the team's bullpen and maybe as soon as
Pittsburgh when the rosters expand on the first of September.
You know, I think Hassan Kim's going to be back
at that point in time because you can add a
couple of guys. You don't have to make any roster
moves at that point. But you know, when they get
everybody back. Tommy Edmund too, he's a real key to me,
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but he's he won't be back until some point in September.
But there's a guy who can play center field for you.
He can play shortstop, he can play second hits from
both sides of the plate. And you know, he was
a key, key cog in the machine last year that
won the World Series, and I think he could be
that same thing again. He could help this team in
a lot of ways.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The voice of the Dodgers here in a five seventy
LA Sports Tim Neveret joining us here on the Petros
Some money showed George Reister Jonas Knox in for the guys. So,
of the teams you've seen this year, who's the biggest
threat to the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
The one that comes to mind is Milwaukee. I didn't
think that going into the season or in spring training,
but seeing them this year, they can pitch, and they
can hit, and they're a scrappy bunch and they find
ways to win games. They did lose today, they lost
a close one to Arizona in Milwaukee and the Diamondbacks
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head of the LA now, but Milwaukee's gonna be tough.
Philadelphia also, and that series coming up at Dodgers Stadium
means a lot. And you'd say, well, why they're not
in the division, Well, that doesn't matter. The fact of
the matter is the Phillies and the Dodgers are battling
for that second spot. They need the second best record
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behind Milwaukee in the National League to get the buye
for the first round. And if you get the buy
then you can set up your pitching and everybody's rested
rather than have to go to a wild card series,
which is you know, it's a crap shirt to roll
the dice on those. So you know, the last wildcard
series the Dodgers are in, Chris Taylor walked it off
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against Saint Louis and it took a walk off to
win it in the final game. So you know, you
look at staying out of the wild card situation if
you can, and that's going to be a huge, huge
series here in early September back at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And who would you say are the players obviously showhay Beds, Freeman,
ta Oscar Will like those are the biggest name players
on the team. But who needs to step up and
be the either the everyday player that that steps up
in this last month or the guy that is going
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to need to be special in the in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Well, I think, you know, assuming there's a full roster,
you know, the guys that you expect to do well
need to do well. First of all, at the top
of the order, you know, the Hall of Fame, top
of the order that they have, they need to do well.
But I think as you look toward the bottom of
the order. Guys that are going to come in and out,
you know, like a Miguel Rojas or a Key k Hernandez.
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People like that, you expect them to do well. We're not.
You know, Michael Conforto all of a sudden is hitting
the ball. This is what the Dodgers expected out of
him last couple of games, and you know, he's a
guy that they definitely need to continue what he's done
over the last series against Cincinnati. You know, produced with
runners on base, and you know last night he clicked
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one for a home run kind of a pretty good
bomb too. But you know, I think those types of
guys are the ones that need to step up. You
hope that the pitching is as consistent as possible. I'll
get Alex Vessia back soon. He just had a little
oblique thing and he won't be gone too long. But
other than that, you know the bullpen guys at the
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back end, you know, Tanner, Scott Kirby ates, those guys.
The Dodgers are expecting them to show up in the
biggest moments, in the highest leverage situation. So this is
really a team that was built to be a team,
and I think that's why they didn't really go and
go nuts at the trading deadline because they thought they
did that at the beginning of the season. They had
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a team built to win, and they are built to win.
It's just a matter of, you know, really stepping on
the gas pedal here for the last twenty nine games.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
All right, Tim Neverett joining us here on AM five
to seventy LA Sports. I got to ask you a
nerdy broadcasting question because I asked Petros. We were talking
to Petros on Fox Sports Radio yesterday and I was
asking him, Look, you got two college football games you're
calling this weekend in back to back days. How do
you go about prepping for it? You, being as somebody
who's done it as long as you have, how do
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you go about preparing Because look, for Dodger fans listening
right now, it's like, hey, wins first pitch, We'll listen
to pregame on AM five to seventy and then we're
ready to rock. You grab a couple of Modellos in
your set. But you what is a day in the
life of Tim Neverett as you prepare for a game
to be called a Dodger stadium?
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Well, for a seven to ten game, I usually show
up about seven oh eight thirty and just grab a roster,
I sit down and just.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Start no nice hopefully nice good.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
It actually it actually starts, actually starts in the morning.
For like a let's say it's a night game, it
starts in the morning. Say it's game one of a series,
and you know, you start reading things, and as soon
as we get the lineups, and you know, we get
them a little earlier than most, we're fortunate there and
we can start our work. And I usually have a
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lot of my stuff done before I even leave home
to go to the ballpark. And I leave at about
two o'clock in the afternoon. I get there, so I'll
have a lot of stuff done. I get there read,
you know, you talk to people, and there's just a
lot of preparation. But a lot of preparation is your
is the previous day's game. When you're dealing with these series,
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you know, like like Petros, he's got four different teams
to prep for right, right, So I'm sure I'm sure
that I'm sure that Petros has an entire staff of
people that that just do all the work for him,
and he gets you know, he just shows up. But
as far as as far as we're concerned, we have
a we have a great researcher and statistician that's employed
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by the Dodgers. His name is Rick Krageuski, and he
does these unbelievable stat packs for us every day. So
we're we're lucky. I think that the Dodger broadcasters as
a whole are probably you know, the best informed on
their own team and on the other teams. Uh, you know,
in terms of detail work, you know, so we can
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tell you uh you know if uh, I mean, I'm
just thinking of anything Oka thirty eight percent curveball and
two trike counts right like you pull that off the
top of your head. Now you have a little help
with that. But at the same time, you know, we're lucky.
We have a big group effort and you know, you
do prep with It's a long day. It's a lot
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longer than people think.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
It's funny. When I first started doing this, you know,
many years ago, and traveling around, I have friends in
different cities. Hey, let's go to dinner. Why don't you
meet us for dinner at the game. We're before the game.
We're got to go to this restaurant at six. Your
game's not till seven. You know, you can have dinner
with us and still make the game. I'm like, you
guys have no idea what we do. So I've missed
a lot of dinner invitations. But that's okay. But yeah,
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we work on it. And I'll tell you what. Something
about Rick Monday you might not know, is that guy,
after doing this for so long, he could mail in
a game or two, but he doesn't. He comes to
the ballpark and when he opens his score book when
he arrives, he's already got tons of notes in his
score book and he's already been researching all day. And
you know, he really puts in a great, great effort.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
So what's your least favorite place to go call a
game on the road.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Uh, that's hard. I think, Well, we haven't been there yet.
We're supposed to go there next year, and that's Sacramento.
I've been. Yeah, I was there in the minor leagues
like twenty five years ago when that place first opened,
and and it was like a nice Triple A park then.
(28:29):
But uh, you know, for a big league park, it's
it's it's tough to deal with, I guess in terms
of all the things that everybody needs for me. I
don't care. I mean, if they if they just want
to say, here you go sit in the stands as
long as I can, you know, hear the game. I'll
fine with that. I don't really complain about where we are.
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And you know, it might sound corny, but the way
that I look at it is it could be the
worst press box in the world, and in April, Wrigley
Field is not necessarily the most comfortable place to be.
Sometimes you have to call games with the windows closed there.
But it's still the big leagues, right, It's still the
major leagues. So everywhere you go, whatever the situation is,
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you adjust to it. And you know, I've I've been
to all these places many times, and I love it
every time I go.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I want to talk about Clayton Kershaw for a second,
because this feels fun. This feels more fun watching Clayton
Kershall pitch the last few outings in this season than
it has the previous three seasons. I mean, are it
feels like we are at the end but it are
we gonna get a happy ending?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I it's you know, this month of August, I can't
remember a pitcher that I've ever been around, and I
was thinking of it the other day and I haven't
been able to figure it out. I've never seen a
guy go five and zero with a one eight eight
ERA in a month. I mean, that's crazy good. And
(30:05):
I was talking to a former big league pitcher the
other day and he said that he was talking about
Kershaw's performance what he was expecting on Tuesday against Cincinnati,
and he said, he said, they're not going to touch him.
He said, this guy knows how to pitch, first and foremost.
He can pitch. He goes he doesn't need a one
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hundred mile an hour fastball. I mean he didn't have one.
You know, he'll throw eighty seven, eighty eight, eighty nine.
If he touches ninety, it's a great day. But at
the same time, he knows when does zipp that passed
the hitter. His curveball was really good. The slider's the key,
and then he's out of the splitter and he's just
found ways to get guys out. He retired fourteen in
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a row the other night before you know, when he
finished up, which you know, tell me, show me other
pitchers who are doing that right now. So, yeah, he's
got he's got a lot of a lot of gas
left in that tank. And you know, for a lot
of people that didn't think so, they doubted him. But
I mean he's showing you. He's got eight wins, he's
eight and two. So he's something. He is. He is
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really something in the way that he prepares. And we
see him on the off days, like we'll see him
the day after he pitches, he runs, We see him
when he goes out to the bullpen by himself without
a baseball, and you know, he does the imagery and
he just like says, you know, he imagines where the
ball's going. He has these things that he does. He's
got a routine and it's a Hall of Fame routine.
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And this guy, the fact that he's five to zero
in August of twenty twenty five in his eighteenth year,
that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Way better exceeded expectations I think from even the most
diehard Clayton Kershaw supporters going into this year with the
injuries and everything that came along with it. But Tim listen, man,
we really do appreciate it. You do a hell of
a job calling the games here on a five seventy
LA Sports Thanks so much for the time, and we'll
be listening tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Thanks. I'm off this weekend, but I'll be back for
the road trip Tuesday. In Pittsburgh, the old Still, the
Alleghany River.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
The old stomping grounds for you.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Yeah, yeah, they in fact, yeah, it's it's a great
place to go. The people there are so wonderful and
and they treat me very well there, So I'm looking
forward to going there. And it's it's an underrated city,
I think for a lot of people who haven't been there.
It's it's really cool, especially where the games are played,
and you know, downtown area across the river. It's it's
(32:36):
really neat. It's but other than that, it's you know,
this is a big road trip for the Dodgers because
you're playing two teams that are under five hundred, both
Pittsburgh and then Baltimore, and you really should come back
with a winning record.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Tim, We appreciate it, man. We will be listening when
you return, So all the best to you over the
course of the next few days.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Anytime, happy to do it with you, guys, anytime.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
There.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
He is the great Tim Neverett, the voice of the
Dodgers here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. Joining
us here at is George Reister, Jonas Knox in for Petro.
Some Money up next though a new look in town.
We'll explain here on AM five to seventy Petro Some
(33:29):
Money Show, AM five to seventy LA Sports. George Reister,
Jonas Knox in for the guys. By the way, after
we get off the air seven o'clock Dodger Talk, David
Vasse and Brad Paisley, couple of celebrities hanging out here
on AM five to seven e LA Sports. And we
got a lot to look forward to with the new
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season upon us that we will discuss here in about
ten minutes from now. Speaking of new the Rams have
got a brand new uniform. They're gonna roll out the
Midnight Mode Rival uniform. Adam, would you say little Baltimore
Ravens to it? A little too like a little It's
got a little Ravens.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Look to it.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, I'm picturing Ray Lewis saying, ay dogs in the house.
I can see that. Yeah, it's uh so. This from
the the Rams marketing officer who said on social media
the rivalries Jersey embodies the intensity, grit and pride of
what it means to be in Angelino, okay, or you
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wanted to make a few bucks on a new uniform.
You know, like, what don't we just call what it is?
I look, man, I think sometimes you know, teams are
switching up way too often. All right, there's nothing wrong
with the classics, al right, the Rams classic logo works.
I like the fact that Chargers are going back to
the old school, uh San Diego Chargers where they've got
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you know, I'm not a big fan of the powder blue.
You know, George, you've played it. You guys are spoiled.
You played in Oregon and you played for the Jaguars,
so you've had all sorts of combinations go through.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
So with these NFL uniforms that got leaked today, there
was the Jets when they got this all like they
got this dark gray thing going on. The Patriots are
embracing like this grayish bluish and do you know what
all of this comes down to? Because you got teams
that got the eggshell, you got the seattle that's got
(35:22):
the wings on the side, And I'm like, huh, sis
eerily familiar. Everybody wants to be the ducks man. Everybody
wants to be the du so the whole entire inn.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You earned that, you guys have earned that because you
did set the trend. Because what is now in Oregon?
Is it a different one every home game?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
No, no, no, every game when when you are at Oregon,
I think that this last class was the first time
that that throughout their entire career that they ever wore
the exact same uniform combination twice. So you so when
you go to Oregon, you can expect that you will
never wear the exact same uniform combination throughout your entire career.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So like so like this upcoming week, they are wearing
yellow helmets, green jersey, yellow pants. But but they've worn
the yellow, They've worn the yellow pants with the green
jersey and it's actually the exact same jersey as last year,
but this time the helmet is yellow with with the
with the green wings on it. So so there is
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a different, like it is slightly different, and there is
like when when they.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Played at U c.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
L A a couple of years ago, they wore those eggshell uniforms. Yeah,
and those are you know, and you have a lot
of teams that are doing that that now because some
of these teams they needed a refresh, some of them
needed awful. Yeah, but I do believe that there are
some franchises, like, for instance, like Green Bay. I look
(36:53):
at them, like USC or Penn State. You can't change
their uniforms. You can, you know, tweak the material to
make it, you know, better, performing better, but you can't
just you know, switch, it'd be like putting names on.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
The back of uniforms. On the back of USC or
Penn Station.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
It's a Dodgers Yankees, like you can't. I mean, look,
you know they do these city connect jerseys and it's like,
come on, man, like you know, yeah, there's some some
you can't touch. But yeah, this that isn't an organ
tradition and everybody's trying to steal from you guys. I'll
sign on that.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But it also oh and the and the bills with
those all white joints. It's like Oregon would they they
invented the Stormtrooper. Look, so it it's all but at
the same time, it is also because I talked to
a buddy about this earlier and uh and I said
that and he said, well, George, it's easy, but it's
impossible not to bite Oregon when they have done every
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uniform combination.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
That is true. Uh he is George Reistrom, Jonas knoxs
in for Petro some money here on and five seveny
l A Sports And they could have a couple of threats,
those Oregon docs and it could be in this town.
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the Petro Some Money Show podcast. George and I were
just discussing what a pain in the ass the one
to one freeway is turned into in this town.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh, it's it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, it is a four lane highway in what should
prob and five and so for a little short period
in what should be like a fifteen lane highway.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Is it starting to give the four or five a
run for its money? As far as like way worse,
there are times where the four five is clear.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But for the next like twenty five weeks or something
like that, that the four five freeway. Did you try
so I would. I went down to Inglewood last Saturday.
I was driving down and I was looking back. I
was like, on the way back, I was like, oh,
there's only two lanes going back on the four five.
Oh that's not fun. So for the next twenty five
(01:45):
weeks they will be doing weekend construction on the four
five fifteen or twenty four.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, so it is going to be a disaster on
the weekends going down down down the four.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Now they normally do that. When I'm driving in to
do two Pros and a Cup of Joe with LaVar
Arrington and Brady Quinn in the mornings, that's normally the
time because it's a three am star time here on
a five seventy. So you run well, but you run
into construction. So when that went oh yeah, yeah. So
when the hippies had that mountain Lion crossing pop up
(02:20):
in a Gore Hills where they had because some mountain
lion wanted to play Frogger on the one to one
and got clipped like god for you know what, like
the old football term when there's an injury in practice riverside, Like, hey,
you just just off dye, listen, can we get a shovel,
get that thing out of the way. We don't need
to build an entire crossing for it. I had to
drive through all that, and it was so like they'll
always throw up random construction, and the problem is, at
(02:43):
that time of the day, nobody updates it. Like normally
you can go to SigAlert or some other site and
they'll tell you, all right, there's construction here. You'll just
run into an entire closure, like they'll just close stuff down. So, yeah,
I'm with you, man. It's there's always road work, there's
always stuff to be done, there's always any there's a
lane that's shut down, there's random traffic. So it has
(03:04):
popped up and look, you mentioned, hey, you get to Inglewood,
you go to Sofi Stadium, there's going to be some
traffic this upcoming football season. You've got a lot of
expectations out there. You got the Rams, you got the Bolts,
Matt Muney Smith calling Bolts games. You've got Justin Herbert
maybe he's dating Madison Beer, a rocket ship actress who's
(03:25):
got an interesting past. If you listened to Petros before
to explain it all, if you've got all the expectations
going into this season with Jim Harbaugh and whatnot, and
I can't help but wonder there are major question marks,
specifically when it comes to the quarterback position. A lot
of people want to know can Justin Herbert delivered in
the postseason. There was the meltdown against the Jaguars, not
(03:49):
entirely on him. He did not play well last year
at Houston. That seemed like a game that they could
have And if we're being honest, the way the playoff
seating and the way the playoff seating should work in
the NFL, the Chargers should have been hosting that game.
They were the better team, but instead, because Houston won
the awful AFC South, they had to go on the
road to play that game. So you've got those questions
about Justin Herbert, And I'm telling you, man, I know
(04:12):
that it appears that Matt Stafford's on track and he's
going to play Week one, and he's been dealing with
the back issue and he's practicing more. That just feels
like something that's going to be a storyline all season
that they're going to have to monitor Matthew Stafford in
his health all season. And I don't know how you
feel about either Stetson Bennett or Jimmy Garoppolo, but that
(04:33):
could change the landscape in the NFC, because if Matthew
Stafford's healthy, the Rams got a shot. Like they've got
a shot. They played Philly tougher than anybody else in
the postseason last year in those conditions on the road
with an opportunity to win the game late. Yet Matthew
Stafford's dealing with a back issue.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
If you're ready to say, his body is jello right now.
And I don't know how much longer did this last.
I think we are on the last leg of the
Matthew say if if this year even even even happens
at the at the level that is expected, and that
this is why you are seeing them gear up a
(05:12):
little bit for the future. They are hoping that Stet's
invented is such because that makes it significantly easier when
you have the quarterback in the building already. But yeah,
it is not optimal right now because you hear the
reports coming out, you think about last year with the
elbow and everything else he was dealing with this year
(05:33):
the same thing. There comes a point when you are
playing football, or you're playing professional sports at all, where
you get sick of being hurt. And I remember when
I tore my ACL. I when I got back to
the training room, I was sitting on the training room
and I was just crime, crime, my eyes out. I
was in there all by myself, and then and my
(05:57):
girlfriend walked in and she was like, yo, are you
Are you okay? You're You're like crying. I've never seen
you cry. Really, what are you in a lot of pain?
I was like, nah, I'm not in any paint at all.
I'm just sick of being being hurt. Man, it's my
third injury back to back years. I was just so
sick of being hurt. And so when Andrew Luck retired
because he was sick of being hurt, so the rehab
(06:18):
I got it. And there comes a point when this
continuously happens, and it has nothing to do with intestinal
fortitude or mental toughness. When you are constantly living in
in in chronic pain, it's it's frustrated. Does something to
the mind, and it steals a lot of the joy
(06:40):
for the game that you had.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And it's like I also wonder this, Like you deal
with one injury, then you start to overcompensate, it creates
a problem elsewhere. It's like they always tell you with
a you know, with like an older car, like if look,
one thing goes under the hood, that means something else
is going to be a problem. You fin one thing,
something else is gonna pop up. You're just plugging leaks.
(07:03):
And it feels like with Matthew stafford Man, those years
in Detroit must have taken a lot off of his body,
like those like the beating he took in Detroit, and listen,
he got out here, he got his Super Bowl, he
got his last big contract this offseason. I do wonder
when did this back injury occur? All right, I'm not
trying to stir the pot. I was talking to Petro
some money at the Tarantula Hill remote in Thousand Oaks
(07:25):
a couple of weeks ago. The people were awesome there,
But I did ask the question, if you know the
story of Clayton Kershaw, he popped up with a back
issue after a long flight to Australia years ago. I'm
just wondering did something happen at training camp in Maui.
You know that's a long ass flight to get out
to Hawaii. When did this back injury occur? Because this
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was thought to be minor, and then just continuously he
wasn't out there, wasn't out there, wasn't out there. And
then you've got Sean McVay saying, well, you know he's
gonna ramp up here, and everyone feels good about it.
He gets an epidural. I've never had an epidural.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh it is mad so I So I've had four epiduras, Ok,
so I'm an expert.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Two back surgeries.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
In so the first time was my second year in
the league, and h I was in so much pain
with the epidi prior to the epidurals. Well, actually did
the epidurals didn't didn't even work. That's why I ended
up having back surgery. But I remember the third epidural
(08:30):
because you have to go into the operating room and
they like it's literally an operating room, and they and
they put you in there. They don't they don't put
you to sleep though, and they just numb you up
real real good and all that stuff. And I remember
laying on the operating table the third time because when
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you have back pain like like that, I had a
lot of nerve pain, so it was radiating down the
front of my leg all the way down to my
foot like like my like my left pinky toe and
the one next to it are pretty much numb, like
one hundred percent of the time right currently still, And
I remember the third epidural. I was laying on the
(09:12):
table and I said, God, if I have to live
in this much pain, please let me die. Like that's
how much pain I was in just to sit down,
damn hurt and burned and everything else. And then immediately
after back surgery that day, I had back surgery that
get you up walking and everything. I immediately felt felt better.
It was like a a It was like a thousand
(09:34):
pounds of frustration and pain just lifted off your off
your shoulders.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And so now he's got all that going into a
long ass season. Yep, where that's all right? Man?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Like I just I don't know, Oh, this is probably
the yeah I did.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That's why I look at this situation, and I think
it was Jordan Rodrik of The Athletic reported, you know
this is gonna be something. It's not like, hey, you know,
he's ready to go. Week one. We're good to go,
Like this is going to be a Storylinck is a.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's the thing about a back is that I am
still to this day always conscious of my of my back,
I believe, and when and when it comes to my
my wife and my family know now like that.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
They won't even let me pick things up.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
They're like, oh, there's a heavy suitcase, like when we
get to a you know, like if we get to
a hotel or something, and you know sometimes us big
strong men were.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Like, no, I got it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'll bring it every like no, no, no, no, no, no, where's
the bell hop?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Picking this up because if I picked this up, it
could I mean, I've gotten out of bed and and
I've gotten a backspasm. And once you get a backspasm,
there is no like I remember when I should see NBA.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Players, Oh he's out with a backspasm. Okay, oh god,
he's soft.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And then once I started getting backspasms, I was like, oh,
now I see why you can't play. You literally can't
play with backspasm is not possible.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's brutal.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And Matthew Stafford's got that going into the season at
the stage of his career, so yeah, it's gonna be
he can.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Backspasms and stuff that he's dealing with are things that
can Those things can throw you off, like you can
throw it out. He can be throwing a pass, be
completely untouched and the game be over.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And that's why I wonder when the injury took place,
because if they knew this, they probably aren't giving him
the deal, right, the big monster contract. They oh, for sure,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So so actually, I mean the the seventy six ers did.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It with Joe l Embiid.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
He sent him the six doctors and gave him a
three year, one hundred and eighty million dollar deal.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So I just my guess would be this popped up
up after the contract. So when unless.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
There's a way out of it, like in terms of
unless the guaranteed money is guaranteed skill, but not necessarily
guaranteed against injury, like it can be structured in a
way to where if he has to retire or something
like that, that it's not capt prohibitive to the team. Yeah,
that is definitely possible, and that may be a real thing.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Hey listen, if he's healthy, like they got a shot.
The problem is he goes in already compromised at this
point in the offseason into the regular season. So it
is a five seventy here on M five to seventy
LA Sports here on the Blowtorch. You can listen to
us everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And it's George Reister,
and it's Jonas Knox in for Petro Some money coming
(12:49):
up next here though, how about some Dodger royalty in
the house. Tim Neverritt is gonna pop on. We got
a lot to discuss. Maybe he's got a couple of
bobbleheads lying around. That's all yours. Next here on AM
five seventy LA Sports, Petros Money Show, AM five to
(13:54):
seventy LA Sports, George Reister, Jonas Knox in for the guys.
Coming up, there's a brand new look in town. We'll
explain what that is here. At a little over fifteen
minutes from now tomorrow, the Dodgers will host the Arizona
Diamondbacks Dodgers on Deck six PM. First pitch is seven
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to ten from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth, and right
now we welcome in the voice of the Dodgers here
on a five seventy LA Sports Tim Neverett, Tim, how
are you thanks for joining us? And how many bobbleheads
have you acquired over the past couple of years there
being at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Well, i'll answer your last question first. Many. Yeah, a
lot of them. It's it's crazy when when you look
at what they do for promotions at Dodger Stadium, it's
incredible traveling around this Major League circuit for as many
years as I have, No team does as many bobbleheads
(14:56):
as the Dodgers, but they do it right and that's
why they lead the world and attendance in every event.
I mean, it's an incredible job. And then to give
you an idea the other night, last night, it's an
Otani bobblehead night and he happens to be pitching. Now,
think about this. The marketing folks, they plan this out
(15:17):
months and months and months in advance. They have no
idea you know, who's going to be pitching that night,
But it just happened to be. Otani strikes out nine
and gets his first win ever as a Dodger.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
How good was his stuff?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Because I was at the stadium last night and granted
his ball to strike rate ratio early in the first
three innings wasn't good. But I looked at the amount
of swinging misses and that got me very excited about
the postseason.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yeah, you've probably noticed he threw his curve ball a lot,
and he threw it a lot early. But he has
seven pitches and he threw everything. You know, Dalton Russian
caught him, and you know, they worked together calling the
pitches because of PitchCom a little device that O Towny's
got under his left sleeve and the one that sits
on the top of the right shin guard of rushing.
(16:07):
But yeah, they worked together pretty well, I thought. And
the fact that he mixed his pitches up a lot
differently than he had in recent games, especially that game
in Colorado, which just went sideways. You know, he had
a big time bounce back, and you know the way
that he pitched. You know, we're hoping he can go longer,
but the Dodgers plan is to keep him at five
(16:28):
for right now, and he was the pitcher record. But yeah,
the swings and misses were there. The splitter was good,
the cutter was good. The fastball when he unleashed out
of one hundred miles an hour. I mean, here's the
guy that strikes out nine in a game and you
can throw one hundred mile an hour fastballs and he's
leading or well, actually Schwarber's leading out today, but you
(16:51):
know he's leading the team at home runs with forty five.
I mean, this is just an incredible person to watch
play the game of baseball. And you know, when it's
all said and done, you're gonna want to tell folks
you saw him play, because he's going to be one
of a kind.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
He is the voice of the Dodgers. Here on a
five seventy LA Sports, Tim Neverett joining us here on
the Petros Some Money Show, George Reister, Jonas Knox in
for the guys. So you've been doing this long enough
obviously stops in Pittsburgh and Boston. Where do you rank
the Yotani experience from your point of view from where
you're sitting and what you get to watch every night?
(17:28):
Where do you rank that in comparison to other players
you've seen throughout the course of your career.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I think maybe the closest thing I saw was I
was with the Red Sox in David Ortiz's last year
when he did his tour around Major League Baseball and
got gifts everywhere. And I called it Big Poppy Palooza
because it was just a party every night. And I
mean the President of the Dominican Republic showed up at
Fenway Park one day just to honor them, and Mary J.
(17:56):
Blige came to home plate to sing to him. I mean,
it was crazy. And you know, his last year, he
can barely walk at that point, and he still gets
you know, thirty home runs and one hundred rbiyes. So
I thought that was pretty cool, ununtil I started hanging
around Otani. Otani is number one for sure, and I
(18:16):
think by the time it is all said and done,
his career is over, he's going to amass incredible numbers.
He's just so much better than everybody else out there,
and even the players. That's kind of how you gauge this.
You watch the reaction of players and coaches and managers
(18:39):
who also played, people who played the game, Like I
sit next to Rick Monday all the time and he
just shakes his head. He says, this guy's amazing. And
for guys who have that perspective of playing the game
and they look at Otani and they can't believe how
good he is. That's when you know he's he is
the Unicorn, and he is, you know, something special. And
(19:00):
anytime anybody gets a chance to watch that guy play
in person, you know, you know, get there, do it
because it's special and you never know what you're gonna see.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, when as the Dodgers are getting geared up for
the postseason, but obviously they have to win the division first,
Dave Roberts has been through a lot of these, you know,
winning the division, going away, battling towards the end. What
do you think that we should be looking for over
the next few weeks, over the rest of us, over
(19:33):
the rest of September, to see if this team is
ready to make a run in the postseason.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Well, I think more of what we saw in the
series with Cincinnati that just completed. I think that's one
thing that you got to look for, especially what we
saw in Game one on Monday, which was really one
of the most complete games they had played in every
facet of the game. Emma Chian was really good on
the mound, they hit the ball, they defended, they made
great plays in the outfield. The outfield defense was there.
(20:02):
But I think you know, now, as time is moving
toward the end of August until the beginning of September.
The team's going to start getting some more guys back.
We'll have a full roster here pretty soon, Max months.
He could be back by the time we get to Baltimore.
That's a possibility. I don't know that for a fact,
but that there's a chance that could happen. Michael Kopek
(20:25):
could join the team's bullpen and maybe as soon as
Pittsburgh when the rosters expand on the first of September.
You know, I think Hassan Kim's going to be back
at that point in time because you can add a
couple of guys. You don't have to make any roster
moves at that point. But you know, when they get
everybody back. Tommy Edmund too, he's a real key to me,
(20:46):
but he's he won't be back until some point in September.
But there's a guy who can play center field for you.
He can play shortstop, he can play second hits from
both sides of the plate. And you know, he was
a key, key cog in the machine last year that
won the World Series, and I think he could be
that same thing again. He could help this team in
a lot of ways.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The voice of the Dodgers here in a five seventy
LA Sports Tim Neveret joining us here on the Petros
Some money showed George Reister Jonas Knox in for the guys. So,
of the teams you've seen this year, who's the biggest
threat to the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
The one that comes to mind is Milwaukee. I didn't
think that going into the season or in spring training,
but seeing them this year, they can pitch, and they
can hit, and they're a scrappy bunch and they find
ways to win games. They did lose today, they lost
a close one to Arizona in Milwaukee and the Diamondbacks
(21:41):
head of the LA now, but Milwaukee's gonna be tough.
Philadelphia also, and that series coming up at Dodgers Stadium
means a lot. And you'd say, well, why they're not
in the division, Well, that doesn't matter. The fact of
the matter is the Phillies and the Dodgers are battling
for that second spot. They need the second best record
(22:02):
behind Milwaukee in the National League to get the buye
for the first round. And if you get the buy
then you can set up your pitching and everybody's rested
rather than have to go to a wild card series,
which is you know, it's a crap shirt to roll
the dice on those. So you know, the last wildcard
series the Dodgers are in, Chris Taylor walked it off
(22:22):
against Saint Louis and it took a walk off to
win it in the final game. So you know, you
look at staying out of the wild card situation if
you can, and that's going to be a huge, huge
series here in early September back at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And who would you say are the players obviously showhay Beds, Freeman,
ta Oscar Will like those are the biggest name players
on the team. But who needs to step up and
be the either the everyday player that that steps up
in this last month or the guy that is going
(22:59):
to need to be special in the in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Well, I think, you know, assuming there's a full roster,
you know, the guys that you expect to do well
need to do well. First of all, at the top
of the order, you know, the Hall of Fame, top
of the order that they have, they need to do well.
But I think as you look toward the bottom of
the order. Guys that are going to come in and out,
you know, like a Miguel Rojas or a Key k Hernandez.
(23:25):
People like that, you expect them to do well. We're not.
You know, Michael Conforto all of a sudden is hitting
the ball. This is what the Dodgers expected out of
him last couple of games, and you know, he's a
guy that they definitely need to continue what he's done
over the last series against Cincinnati. You know, produced with
runners on base, and you know last night he clicked
(23:46):
one for a home run kind of a pretty good
bomb too. But you know, I think those types of
guys are the ones that need to step up. You
hope that the pitching is as consistent as possible. I'll
get Alex Vessia back soon. He just had a little
oblique thing and he won't be gone too long. But
other than that, you know the bullpen guys at the
(24:09):
back end, you know, Tanner, Scott Kirby ates, those guys.
The Dodgers are expecting them to show up in the
biggest moments, in the highest leverage situation. So this is
really a team that was built to be a team,
and I think that's why they didn't really go and
go nuts at the trading deadline because they thought they
did that at the beginning of the season. They had
(24:29):
a team built to win, and they are built to win.
It's just a matter of, you know, really stepping on
the gas pedal here for the last twenty nine games.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
All right, Tim Neverett joining us here on AM five
to seventy LA Sports. I got to ask you a
nerdy broadcasting question because I asked Petros. We were talking
to Petros on Fox Sports Radio yesterday and I was
asking him, Look, you got two college football games you're
calling this weekend in back to back days. How do
you go about prepping for it? You, being as somebody
who's done it as long as you have, how do
(25:00):
you go about preparing Because look, for Dodger fans listening
right now, it's like, hey, wins first pitch, We'll listen
to pregame on AM five to seventy and then we're
ready to rock. You grab a couple of Modellos in
your set. But you what is a day in the
life of Tim Neverett as you prepare for a game
to be called a Dodger stadium?
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Well, for a seven to ten game, I usually show
up about seven oh eight thirty and just grab a roster,
I sit down and just.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Start no nice hopefully nice good.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
It actually it actually starts, actually starts in the morning.
For like a let's say it's a night game, it
starts in the morning. Say it's game one of a series,
and you know, you start reading things, and as soon
as we get the lineups, and you know, we get
them a little earlier than most, we're fortunate there and
we can start our work. And I usually have a
(25:50):
lot of my stuff done before I even leave home
to go to the ballpark. And I leave at about
two o'clock in the afternoon. I get there, so I'll
have a lot of stuff done. I get there read,
you know, you talk to people, and there's just a
lot of preparation. But a lot of preparation is your
is the previous day's game. When you're dealing with these series,
(26:10):
you know, like like Petros, he's got four different teams
to prep for right, right, So I'm sure I'm sure
that I'm sure that Petros has an entire staff of
people that that just do all the work for him,
and he gets you know, he just shows up. But
as far as as far as we're concerned, we have
a we have a great researcher and statistician that's employed
(26:30):
by the Dodgers. His name is Rick Krageuski, and he
does these unbelievable stat packs for us every day. So
we're we're lucky. I think that the Dodger broadcasters as
a whole are probably you know, the best informed on
their own team and on the other teams. Uh, you know,
in terms of detail work, you know, so we can
(26:52):
tell you uh you know if uh, I mean, I'm
just thinking of anything Oka thirty eight percent curveball and
two trike counts right like you pull that off the
top of your head. Now you have a little help
with that. But at the same time, you know, we're lucky.
We have a big group effort and you know, you
do prep with It's a long day. It's a lot
(27:13):
longer than people think.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
It's funny. When I first started doing this, you know,
many years ago, and traveling around, I have friends in
different cities. Hey, let's go to dinner. Why don't you
meet us for dinner at the game. We're before the game.
We're got to go to this restaurant at six. Your
game's not till seven. You know, you can have dinner
with us and still make the game. I'm like, you
guys have no idea what we do. So I've missed
a lot of dinner invitations. But that's okay. But yeah,
(27:37):
we work on it. And I'll tell you what. Something
about Rick Monday you might not know, is that guy,
after doing this for so long, he could mail in
a game or two, but he doesn't. He comes to
the ballpark and when he opens his score book when
he arrives, he's already got tons of notes in his
score book and he's already been researching all day. And
you know, he really puts in a great, great effort.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
So what's your least favorite place to go call a
game on the road.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Uh, that's hard. I think, Well, we haven't been there yet.
We're supposed to go there next year, and that's Sacramento.
I've been. Yeah, I was there in the minor leagues
like twenty five years ago when that place first opened,
and and it was like a nice Triple A park then.
(28:29):
But uh, you know, for a big league park, it's
it's it's tough to deal with, I guess in terms
of all the things that everybody needs for me. I
don't care. I mean, if they if they just want
to say, here you go sit in the stands as
long as I can, you know, hear the game. I'll
fine with that. I don't really complain about where we are.
(28:49):
And you know, it might sound corny, but the way
that I look at it is it could be the
worst press box in the world, and in April, Wrigley
Field is not necessarily the most comfortable place to be.
Sometimes you have to call games with the windows closed there.
But it's still the big leagues, right, It's still the
major leagues. So everywhere you go, whatever the situation is,
(29:09):
you adjust to it. And you know, I've I've been
to all these places many times, and I love it
every time I go.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I want to talk about Clayton Kershaw for a second,
because this feels fun. This feels more fun watching Clayton
Kershall pitch the last few outings in this season than
it has the previous three seasons. I mean, are it
feels like we are at the end but it are
we gonna get a happy ending?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I it's you know, this month of August, I can't
remember a pitcher that I've ever been around, and I
was thinking of it the other day and I haven't
been able to figure it out. I've never seen a
guy go five and zero with a one eight eight
ERA in a month. I mean, that's crazy good. And
(30:05):
I was talking to a former big league pitcher the
other day and he said that he was talking about
Kershaw's performance what he was expecting on Tuesday against Cincinnati,
and he said, he said, they're not going to touch him.
He said, this guy knows how to pitch, first and foremost.
He can pitch. He goes he doesn't need a one
(30:26):
hundred mile an hour fastball. I mean he didn't have one.
You know, he'll throw eighty seven, eighty eight, eighty nine.
If he touches ninety, it's a great day. But at
the same time, he knows when does zipp that passed
the hitter. His curveball was really good. The slider's the key,
and then he's out of the splitter and he's just
found ways to get guys out. He retired fourteen in
(30:47):
a row the other night before you know, when he
finished up, which you know, tell me, show me other
pitchers who are doing that right now. So, yeah, he's
got he's got a lot of a lot of gas
left in that tank. And you know, for a lot
of people that didn't think so, they doubted him. But
I mean he's showing you. He's got eight wins, he's
eight and two. So he's something. He is. He is
(31:11):
really something in the way that he prepares. And we
see him on the off days, like we'll see him
the day after he pitches, he runs, We see him
when he goes out to the bullpen by himself without
a baseball, and you know, he does the imagery and
he just like says, you know, he imagines where the
ball's going. He has these things that he does. He's
got a routine and it's a Hall of Fame routine.
(31:32):
And this guy, the fact that he's five to zero
in August of twenty twenty five in his eighteenth year,
that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Way better exceeded expectations I think from even the most
diehard Clayton Kershaw supporters going into this year with the
injuries and everything that came along with it. But Tim listen, man,
we really do appreciate it. You do a hell of
a job calling the games here on a five seventy
LA Sports Thanks so much for the time, and we'll
be listening tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Thanks. I'm off this weekend, but I'll be back for
the road trip Tuesday. In Pittsburgh, the old Still, the
Alleghany River.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
The old stomping grounds for you.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Yeah, yeah, they in fact, yeah, it's it's a great
place to go. The people there are so wonderful and
and they treat me very well there, So I'm looking
forward to going there. And it's it's an underrated city,
I think for a lot of people who haven't been there.
It's it's really cool, especially where the games are played,
and you know, downtown area across the river. It's it's
(32:36):
really neat. It's but other than that, it's you know,
this is a big road trip for the Dodgers because
you're playing two teams that are under five hundred, both
Pittsburgh and then Baltimore, and you really should come back
with a winning record.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Tim, We appreciate it, man. We will be listening when
you return, So all the best to you over the
course of the next few days.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Anytime, happy to do it with you, guys, anytime.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
There.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
He is the great Tim Neverett, the voice of the
Dodgers here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. Joining
us here at is George Reister, Jonas Knox in for Petro.
Some Money up next though a new look in town.
We'll explain here on AM five to seventy Petro Some
(33:29):
Money Show, AM five to seventy LA Sports. George Reister,
Jonas Knox in for the guys. By the way, after
we get off the air seven o'clock Dodger Talk, David
Vasse and Brad Paisley, couple of celebrities hanging out here
on AM five to seven e LA Sports. And we
got a lot to look forward to with the new
(33:49):
season upon us that we will discuss here in about
ten minutes from now. Speaking of new the Rams have
got a brand new uniform. They're gonna roll out the
Midnight Mode Rival uniform. Adam, would you say little Baltimore
Ravens to it? A little too like a little It's
got a little Ravens.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Look to it.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, I'm picturing Ray Lewis saying, ay dogs in the house.
I can see that. Yeah, it's uh so. This from
the the Rams marketing officer who said on social media
the rivalries Jersey embodies the intensity, grit and pride of
what it means to be in Angelino, okay, or you
(34:29):
wanted to make a few bucks on a new uniform.
You know, like, what don't we just call what it is?
I look, man, I think sometimes you know, teams are
switching up way too often. All right, there's nothing wrong
with the classics, al right, the Rams classic logo works.
I like the fact that Chargers are going back to
the old school, uh San Diego Chargers where they've got
(34:49):
you know, I'm not a big fan of the powder blue.
You know, George, you've played it. You guys are spoiled.
You played in Oregon and you played for the Jaguars,
so you've had all sorts of combinations go through.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
So with these NFL uniforms that got leaked today, there
was the Jets when they got this all like they
got this dark gray thing going on. The Patriots are
embracing like this grayish bluish and do you know what
all of this comes down to? Because you got teams
that got the eggshell, you got the seattle that's got
(35:22):
the wings on the side, And I'm like, huh, sis
eerily familiar. Everybody wants to be the ducks man. Everybody
wants to be the du so the whole entire inn.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You earned that, you guys have earned that because you
did set the trend. Because what is now in Oregon?
Is it a different one every home game?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
No, no, no, every game when when you are at Oregon,
I think that this last class was the first time
that that throughout their entire career that they ever wore
the exact same uniform combination twice. So you so when
you go to Oregon, you can expect that you will
never wear the exact same uniform combination throughout your entire career.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So like so like this upcoming week, they are wearing
yellow helmets, green jersey, yellow pants. But but they've worn
the yellow, They've worn the yellow pants with the green
jersey and it's actually the exact same jersey as last year,
but this time the helmet is yellow with with the
with the green wings on it. So so there is
(36:27):
a different, like it is slightly different, and there is
like when when they.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Played at U c.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
L A a couple of years ago, they wore those eggshell uniforms. Yeah,
and those are you know, and you have a lot
of teams that are doing that that now because some
of these teams they needed a refresh, some of them
needed awful. Yeah, but I do believe that there are
some franchises, like, for instance, like Green Bay. I look
(36:53):
at them, like USC or Penn State. You can't change
their uniforms. You can, you know, tweak the material to
make it, you know, better, performing better, but you can't
just you know, switch, it'd be like putting names on.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
The back of uniforms. On the back of USC or
Penn Station.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
It's a Dodgers Yankees, like you can't. I mean, look,
you know they do these city connect jerseys and it's like,
come on, man, like you know, yeah, there's some some
you can't touch. But yeah, this that isn't an organ
tradition and everybody's trying to steal from you guys. I'll
sign on that.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But it also oh and the and the bills with
those all white joints. It's like Oregon would they they
invented the Stormtrooper. Look, so it it's all but at
the same time, it is also because I talked to
a buddy about this earlier and uh and I said
that and he said, well, George, it's easy, but it's
impossible not to bite Oregon when they have done every
(37:48):
uniform combination.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
That is true. Uh he is George Reistrom, Jonas knoxs
in for Petro some money here on and five seveny
l A Sports And they could have a couple of threats,
those Oregon docs and it could be in this town.
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