October 15, 2025 • 35 mins
We talk more about the Dodgers' commanding 2-0 lead in the NLCS and David Vassegh joins us from Dodger Stadium during the team workouts
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, we continue on Ed's on the program today
and at two point thirty will go out to Dodger
Stadium with David Vasse. There's a workout and he will
set the same for us as we get ready for
Game three tomorrow night. All right, Eric, let's talk Dodgers
for a second here. Yamamoto looked great last night. Uh
they're up to old meaning the Brewers are down two?
(00:25):
Are they done?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I would think so. I don't think the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I mean, they might come here and win a game,
you know, just like Philly did, But I don't think
they can come back and beat the Dodgers. To be honest,
the Dodgers that pitching is right on Q. And another thing,
you know, like the top leadoff battles are not They're
not hitting a lot. But the guys like the fifth, sixth,
seventh guy, Yes, they are doing it. Man, you know
(00:51):
Tioscar Hernandez and was the Daily Henandez. I mean, I
mean they do it. I mean, and that's the sign
of a good baseball team, Fred, I mean a good
team period. You know, when your stars aren't playing great
but other people are playing great. I mean, the Dodgers
are just I keep going back to what that guy
told me from the Raids. He said, and they just
got the best team. He said, if they help it,
(01:12):
nobody can beat the Dodgers. I would agree with that.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I think by far, they're healthy at precisely the right time.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And when you get.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Healthy at precisely the right time, you're gonna win. They
got the best pitching staff in baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, people don't understand, you know, because people say this
all the time. You're like, they said, why the Dodgers
aren't winning, you know, but they don't realize when when
guys are out, the starters aren't playing. You know, those
backups are back up for reason. You know, relievers are
relievers for a reason. I mean they are. You know,
you have guys that are not in the starting lineup
and you have a guy that said, another guy comes
to place third base or right field or running back
(01:50):
or quarterback, and it's not the same, or a right
offensive guard or left offensive guard.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's not the same. As That's why.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, when those starters out there, when they've got
a everybody healthy, you know, that's a whole different baseball team.
It's just no different in football. And now when you
got a good team and it's just healthy.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's no different.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, and playing together. You know, I think the last
month of the season the Dodgers were able to get
healthy again, but also those guys were able to play together.
And I don't care what kind of roster a team
you got, if they're you know, guys are in and
out of the lineup like they were for most of
the season, there's there's very little continuity with the players
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playing with each other, and now they all have a
feel for each other. And even now as you you
kind of witness in the playoffs, it's pretty much Tommy
Edmond is pretty much steady at second base. Now. He
was a guy that he moved around a lot where
he played center field or he played some third base,
and but he's pretty much been their second baseman. You know,
we've seen Max Muncie now that he's back on track
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and healthy again and becoming a big time factor. Which
has got to be even more scary for the rest
of the league is that Monsie is coming back to
being that Max Muncie that we've seen in the in
the postseason over the last four or five years. And
so that's dangerous and obviously Taoscar Hernandez is coming in
his own after we beat him up all season long
(03:14):
of not being healthy, not being the same guy, not
doing this, not doing that, and here he is lighting
it up in the postseason, which is again going back
to what we talked about earlier. Fred is, you know,
you think you're off the hook by getting around O, Tani,
Betts and Freeman. You think, oh, okay, I get through
(03:35):
those three guys, I'm good. But you look up and
you know Taoskar is hitting the home run, and Will
Smith is hitting base hits and doubles, and then Tommy
Edmund is doubling, you know, in guys, and key K Hernandez,
who you know was just you know, kind of ordinary
throughout the regular season. Here he comes Key K like
(03:55):
every he does every postseason October, KEYK comes in and
you're like, ah, I gotta deal with these guys too.
And it's got to be demoralizing for a staff on
the other team thinking I'm focusing on the big three,
where the other six are the ones I really should
be worried about.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So Yamamoto last night goes the distance. We talked about
this earlier in the show. We went all the way.
So I saw this on social media. It actually came
out five months ago. Have you guys heard the Yamamoto anthem?
Either one of them?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
The Yamamoto anthem, I mean it is walk out music.
What are you talking about his ant No.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Somebody recorded a song as a tribute to Yamamoto and
called it the Yamamoto anthem. You've not heard it? No? Noine, Kevin,
go ahead, let's play it.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Whom to see yamvan yo Shino shinob yamvan, Yoshina, yam
mama yo she.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Man yam man.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I cannot confirm this, but I believe that as he
was listening to what pitched it throw because they can
hear something in their hat. I think he was listening
to that the whole time he was pitching to keep
him inspired. I think that's the thing that inspires him
before each game. Wait, wait, as he's pitching, or before,
(05:41):
he's listening to that while he's pitching. Come on, come on,
that's sound ridiculous. It's a little catchy. But what are
they saying. I mean, like, I have no idea. That
sounds kind of cool thought, doesn't it. Yeah, yes, this
guy and you listen kind of got a little catchy.
Yeah you think, Rodney, he's listened to it, and it's
hat it motivated you cool when I came across that,
(06:07):
and I actually remembered in the break and said, Kevin,
we got to get the sun wrong.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Is that real or is it a spoof or what
is it? Somebody really like a real kind of artist
or just a fan recorded that. Well, it's like a
like a fan.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
I think this is a fan who was apparently a
really big Yamamoto fan. So he's specifically Ammamoto clicked on
his Instagram page and it's all in Japanese. So I
have no idea what it says, but it is all
Dodgers all day.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So ok, wait, wait wait, I heard you'll say something
earlier about the Dodgers, you know, the fan.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What's it the fourth like with the fourth loudest stadium?
That was you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It was it most difficult atmosphere, intimidating atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And it's so so who's who's number one?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Toronto?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Toronto? Yeah? I don't, I don't, I mean, I don't know.
I mean, what do you think for it? What do
you I mean? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What Rodney Rodney made a lot of sounds. Of course,
I immediately disagreed, but then I really can't disagree because
it was one of the times he made sense.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
What did you say about exciting't hear? But I mean
I read it, so so what did you say about that?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I said, if you're just talking, I'm not support, because
Dodgers have more support than anybody else, obviously, But if
you're talking fans being loud, being all on top of
you and just standing the whole game and just you know,
really crazed kind of fans, you don't think of Dodger
(07:39):
Stadium being that rowdy bunch of fans that's going to
be crazy and intimidated and throw things and yelled things
and go just completely nuts for nine innings. Toronto fans
in Seattle, actually, players have said that those two places
are the loudest in baseball, along with the Phillies being
another tough place a play when you go there and
(08:01):
they're winning and in the playoffs, it's a very difficult place.
And you know this, Eric, when you go to certain
cities and certain teams that it just gets so crazy
and loud, and it's different than other stadiums. But when
you just talk about support. There's no support like the Dodgers.
But you talk about just a loud, intimidating stadium. Dodgers
(08:22):
Stadium is not necessarily intimidating. Now, the history of it,
and when you walk in there and you feel like
the past and you feel all this is Dodgers Stadium,
you can be overwhelmed by that. But in terms of
the crowd just being as loud as say Seattle or
Philly or even you know, Toronto when they're winning, Yeah,
(08:44):
you know, I get it. I understand why they those
would rank a little bit higher than Dodgers in terms
of the decipel level and the loudness of that stadium especially.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Now did the players say that or just or you know,
somebody did a survey the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You know, you know, you know what, you know what
you know, loud, loud.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, you know they might not have the best team,
but them fans are crazy, you know, you es basically
in football you go in places like Philly, right, is
a loud crazy stadium used to be you know, when
the Raiders were in Oakland, was a loud, crazy stadium
that people, you know, players and everybody would talk about,
(09:25):
Oh that's a that's a when if the Raiders are
in it and it's and they're winning, it's a loud,
crazy stadium, whereas you know, say the Coliseum or Anaheim
was not necessarily loud and crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Right, No, No, when I played, I could tell you
the loudest stadium that I've played in, and I won't
forget it because it was my rookie season and I
John Robinson said, look, we're going We're going to it
was it was the last game of the season, win,
goes to the playoffs. He said, I'm gonna tell you
something you won't be able to hear. Uh, So you
know we're gonna do a lot of silent counts, you know,
a lot of motion, but you know it's gonna be
(10:01):
on foot mote quarterback and do foot motion, so you
know you're won't.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Be able to hear.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And I'm like, hey, right, they ain't gonna be that loud.
That was New Orleans and he was not lying.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
That place was so loud you could not hear any
when they when they get nothing. I mean I have
to walk up to Vinnie to see what he was
now and he had to go back to get get
get back behind me. That that was crazy and that
the super Dome to me, it was no place like
that place. All right, I have an update on something.
I have an update. Okay, I wish you update.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I think this is critical. We need to share it.
We have some questions about the Yamamoto song. Who sung
at things like that? Well, I've heard from Dylan Hernandez.
He has texted me. The song is his impersonator song
lyrics basically just say he's impersonating Yamamoto. That's the Yamamoto song.
It's a Yamamoto impersonator singing about Yamamoto, saying he is
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impersonating Yamamoto.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Okay, who too? Who? Who?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Who's Who's who?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Told you that dolling Hernanda's who.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Was half Japanese and speaks fluent Japanese, so he would know.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay, so there we go, there we go. Thank you,
so because I know I don't trust Fred, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
That right if you told me, and you know what
I know doing Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, first about her Nandez, that don't sound like it's
like he be a Japanese name.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I mean her Nandez, I mean I think he had
a Latin name.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, he speaks flowing Japanese. I mean, I believe what
Kevin says.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, But if I tell you somebody says something,
do you think I just pulled out a name out
of thin air and made it up.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Let me get I'm gonna go back to you one
thing that you did a couple of week and I'm
still tripping on this. When you said the baby they
gave the baby is in the dumpster, I'm like, oh
my god, a baby and a dumpster. I'm still thinking
about that. And then when you come back later you
said something, what was it a possum or something?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Raccoon?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I'm like, this is a raccoon?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
What?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
What the who cares rest a raccoon?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I mean you made it so it was drunk, Yeah, right,
that's right, a drunk raccoon. What was a moon shine?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
He had a bottle in his hand for it, because
you know they can drip, they got thumbs.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I believe those raccoons.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Had a bottle and a cigarette, right, wild turkey and cigarette,
and he was going for it. No.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I thought it was a very touching story. That's why
I told it.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
All right, So Dylan said, it's a it's an impersonator,
and what he say it's the Yamamoto impersonator, singing that
he is impersonating Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
So Yamamoto has an impersonator. Okay, this is his official impersonator.
It's like the guy that followed O'tani everywhere always wore
a jersey no matter where he went.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
This guy went, did he wear a full uniform?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (12:45):
No, I think you're thinking of many Vish. You darfish,
didn't we bring him in studios?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Remember that many Vish? Fred brought him in studio.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
That's right. We got a lot of it was like, oh, yeah,
this is cool, let's bring in this many Darvish. What
was wrong with that? Kevin? I got so hard ed
it just set us back so many years?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What, Kevin? What was wrong when we brought the powers
that be?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Fred?
Speaker 7 (13:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
They didn't like it?
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You're doing this again?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Nobody, nobody ever told me they didn't like it. This
was years ago.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Everyone I told you they didn't like it, Fred, Everyone
told you what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Rodney?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
What was wrong with it?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It was?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It was just a bad idea, Fred, Huh, it was
a horrible idea. Horrible it was bad.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Was it bad? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well what happened?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I mean, I don't remember. That's why I'm saying, Eric.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Remember that, you know the guy that travels with us
Ed When you do our remotes and we're at BJ's
or one of them places, Huy comes in with the
little Ed.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I guess. So imagine if there was a real little
Ed and Fred him on, brought him on to do
uh uh, brought him into the station like three or
four segments with us for NFL Spotlight Mondays Wednesdays. Yeah,
(14:24):
that's what it was like. This cat was dressed as
you Darvish thought he was follow over.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
The place of the place, getting security involved, I think
because it was so bad.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We need security in the building when he comes, because
you don't know what he might do. And Fred decided
it would be a good idea to have him on
the show, and not only have him on the show,
but come in studio and be.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
On the show. Yeah, that that wasn't a good idea, Fred,
Don't that don't sound like a good idea. That don't
even sound like a good idea.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
To keep him at an arms distance, Fred, you don't
know the right hat, all right?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
This happened so many years ago. I'm glad it's coming
up now, and I must have forgotten what happened. But
apparently it wasn't very good.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh no, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Why do you keep jumping in like that and not
any details?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You said?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Apparently it wasn't very good.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
No, apparently it was not very good.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well he said that it was good, was you Fred?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Well try, I'm sorry. I don't know why everybody's a
yelling at me about it.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You tell you so many years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well you didn't bring it up.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
We'll get ten years for doing that. Ford years for
ten years, ten years for doing that. Yeah, I'm back.
You know what.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I looked that up. That's true.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I thought, okay, well, maybe she was trying to make
crack or something like that or something.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm like, I looked it up.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm like, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But anyway, I didn't want to talk about that anymore.
That's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All right, we have to we have to break down
because we have to get ready to go to Dodger Stadium.
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Speaker 1 (17:44):
It's David Vassa. Let's go to the stadium. Dave, Good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
What's up, guys, how's everything? Oh, everything's great, Fred. Both
teams landed around three am this morning. The Brewers are
out here at Dodgers Stadium into their workout. The Dodgers
will follow with their workout show. Hey Otani and Tyler
Glass now will face the music in the interview room.
So things are happening in between Games two and Games three.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
The mood is a day for the Brewers coming in
with the best record in baseball. They got home field
advantage all the way through, and they faced two lights
out performances by Blake Snell and Yoshi Yamamoto. And now
they come back to Dodgers Stadium for three games. The
just kind of looking into your crystal ball about the
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psyche of the Brewers right now, coming back to LA
to face the Dodgers for three straight games at home.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Yeah, I don't have to look into any crystal ball
Rodney since I was in their clubhouse after the game yesterday,
so I got the temperature of just how they're feeling
and what I'm seeing right now. Basically, they understand that
they're behind the eight ball and that it's not looking
great when you match up starting pitching versus starting pitching,
and Pat Murphy has been very open the Brewers manager,
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about the fact that they don't have as much pitching
as the Dodgers do. Going five games against the Cubs
was a huge disadvantage for the Brewers coming into the NLCS,
and an even bigger one with the way Blake, Snell
and Yamamoto pitched in the first two games. So they
understand what they're up against. It it's a long shot.
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Only five teams and league championship history have come back
from an two deficit, especially after losing the first two
games at home. They got three here at Dodgers Stadium.
The Dodgers have glass now tomorrow and Otani in Game four.
It's a big hill to climb and they're very aware
of that.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So Dave, after Game one, when Dave Roberts went out
and took Blake Snell out last night, he left Yamamoto win.
Was that a result of Okay, I'm just gonna let
these guys go now and not go to the bullpen
at all.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
I think it was the product of Yamamoto having, you know,
thrown one hundred and twenty pitches and then one out
away from a complete game no hitter in Baltimore, just
more familiarity with Yamamoto, and also the fact that trying
In and Rokie Sasaki were used the night before and
he was going and he had a bigger lead, he
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had more of a cushion to work with. So I
believe all those factors, and Dave said this after the
game factored into his decision to allow Yamamoto to finish
that game and not Blake Snell.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
When you took my question for it, I was going
to ask that question.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
No again.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now I want to ask I want to ask you
about the batting, like you know, the first you know,
you think the.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Top of the oiler would be the guys that will happen.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Right now, it is the fifth, sixth and seventh guy
that's really causing problems for this team for sure, even
for the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
The Dodgers feeling about that.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
So you say that again, Edi, there's a military helicopter
flying over Dodgers Stadium right now.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Okay, I said, you know, useless the top guys, like
like the top three hitters that that usually set the
tone for for base you know, for the for the
Dodgers or for any baseball team. But right now, the Dodgers,
you know, the fifth and six batters are the ones
that's really bringing it home for him.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's getting base hits, getting home runs. You know, how
how how the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Feeling about the way that their batters are they are
hitting the ball, you know, playing up the fifth and
six batters like you know Hernandez, t Taste, Carnandez, Kiki Hernandez.
You know those guys because they're they're the ones that
to me that are hot right now.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yeah, last night that was the case. You look at
the big three of Tommy, Freeman and Betts, they were
not the ones that produced those runs. It was the
guys five through nine that did it. Max Munsey, Kioscar
Hernandez hitting solo home runs and Tom yetman. Don't sleep
on Tom Yet. Then he was last year's NLCS MVP.
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If that's what makes this Dodger lineup so tough to navigate,
there's no place to exhale, and they just continue to
press the issue. And that's that's the biggest disparity between
the Dodgers and Phillies in the first round, and the
biggest disparity among others between the Dodgers and Brewers in
this round.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Hey, Dave, you talk about familiarity with Yamamoto and seeing
him not too long ago, you know, push a no
hitter into the ninth and they let him go as
opposed to Blake Snell. What do you think happens now
with the next two guys? Uh, if they're rolling, say
in the eighth, meaning Todder Glass now and Otani. If
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they're rolling in the eighth, do you think that Dave
has the same strategy as he did with Yamamoto and
letting them just kind of go through the ninth if
they can, if they're feeling.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
It well, I would say there's a greater chance that
Glass now is getting closer to the eighth inning than
Otani because we haven't seen Otani go more than six
innings in any start this year, and the Dodgers have
been so conscious of trying to keep him healthy. This
is the postseason. This will be his only start in
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the NLCS, So depending on how the game flow is
going and where the Dodgers are at, maybe they let
him go into the seventh inning. But it feels like
Rodney in these next two games, the Dodgers will have
to back up glass Now and Otani with their bullpen,
and that's where guys like Shean and Alex Vesia come
into play. And certainly, you know, if it is a
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safe situation or you know, a four run lead, Roki
Sasaki will be in play.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Dave Otani's hitting, and he's still I'm sure everybody's thinking
about it. Is anybody worried about it?
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Yeah, there's got to be some concern, right. He hasn't
really performed well in this postseason. He's hitting a buck
ninety three, and the last two postseasons combined, you have
to wonder for a guy that is so routine oriented,
in such a rhythm player, you wonder whether or not,
you know, the herky jerky schedule of the postseason is
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affecting him in that respect. But you know, as pro
athletes always say, and especially baseball players in twenty twenty five,
you got to figure it out. And Otani has got
to figure it out because Dave Roberts kind of, you know,
put the light on him coming into the NLCS that
the Dodgers cannot win the World Series with him hitting
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as poorly as he is. But that says something back
to what Ed was talking about. You got Otani doing
basically nothing offensively, and the Dodgers have a two zero
lead one of the first two games of the NLCS
on the road against the Brewers. They beat the big
bat Villies with Otani doing virtually nothing as well. So
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that's a testament to the rest of the Dodgers that
they're able to put this guy on their back and
be succeeding as much as they are in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
The same thing happened to Mookie Bets with it last year.
A couple of years ago. His bat went cold for
a while and everybody was asking about, you know, what
about Mookie, what about MOOKI it's happening to a ton
and I mean, let me ask you this day in baseball,
you know, and I didn't play pro baseball being college baseball,
and Rodney did. How is it for a hitter when
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he's not hitting, I mean, you know what routine do
they go through to try to get back on track.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Yeah, a lot of guys I hear go back to
the simple things of just getting a tee and hitting
the ball on the tee. I know, Aaron Judge does that,
who's the tea around and tries to focus on hitting
the ball to the bigger part of the field.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
I tapped into one of my baseball czars, Mark maguire
yesterday during the game, and he just believes that Otani
needs to be more ready to hit on the first
pitch that he's seeing, because he's so concerned about the
fact that they're trying to not give him strikes in
the strike zone, that he has to be more ready
to hit on the first pitch and be more aggressive. So,
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you know, there's a lot of different opinions on how
he gets out of this, But as far as routine goes,
you know, I've heard a lot of guys go back
to just using the ta and thinking bigger part of
the field than you know, Tani's case, that would be
going to left field, and when he does that, he's
at it at his best. It's not about him just
trying to plug and pull home runs.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Hey day, Before we let you go, I just want
to get your take on Suzaki. He's been lights out
obviously since they unofficially named him the closer. He came
in was brilliant against the Phillies. His last doubting was
a little shaky. Has that changed the attitude or any
kind of mentality that the Dodgers have towards him and
bringing him in that role as this series and the
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next one comes about.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
No Rodney, they need him. They definitely need him. He
was off for the first time since coming off the il,
and some even believe from the Dodger side that the
umpire strike zone started to shrink in that ninth inning
for whatever reason and he wasn't getting those calls on
the edges. So they have not lost confidence in him.
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He will be ready to go for Game three if needed,
with not pitching last night and obviously the day off today.
But one thing that did set off a few red
flags was the fact that when Sasaki was pitching in
Game one, his first pitch was one hundred miles an hour,
and then it slowly started to tick down. So you
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have to wonder if he has to get back to
whatever tanical adjustments he made to be as good as
he has been since coming back.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
All right, Dave, thanks for jumping on. We know you're
crazy out there. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
All right, guys, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Davidssay is back at the stadium. Tell you what, David
Vassay has left his mark in Milwaukee. More ways than one,
he has left his mark.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
He know him well.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I'm sure when he's walking around Milwaukee, they know him
very well in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I'm surprised if he had to pay for a meal
at Milwaukee. I mean, that's how well known he is there.
People know what happened to him. If you see him,
don't you buy him a drink?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Of course, of course.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
But that's the first thing side as well, that's the
first thing free to think about it as a meal
something free.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Okay, that's not true. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I'm just saying that's the first thing you think about
some free, somebody who's something free. Because you know, you
like Steph free, don't you.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Do?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I like stef free.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
If it's free, it's for me. If that's your pro modo.
If it's free, I'll take three.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
That's free.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
As motto. If it's free, I'll take three.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Eric.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
If somebody has something offers you take it to dinner?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Do you go?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Depends on who asked me.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, if it's somebody that you like, you go, of
course I go, right, Nasa, I want to think up dinner.
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
No, you're not sometimes I know that's rare. I mean
I wouldn't say no, but I'm I got it most
of the time. Let me ask you this question if
this is the question, But I don't asked you this
question too. Not your wife, not your wife to think
about before you got married. When is the last time
a woman has bought you a meal before you got married.
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You think of a girl that brought you a meal.
You next say, hey, I got this. I don't crickets.
Then you can't think of one because it really doesn't
happen off. But I've been married a long time. But
but you, but you would, You wouldn't ask your whole life.
You know you're getting meals before you got married. So
I'm just thinking in the date you went on, like,
you know, she said, let's go out to dinner. Okay,
did she buy dinner? You into buying dinner?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I think I normally bought dinner, thank you?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Riding riding Yes the time, Yeah, I bought it.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, I mean, and yeah, it's it's it's funny because
I was at a restaurant in Palm Springs a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
When I was out there for it, I think I
talked to you and you.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Didn't talk to me. Why didn't you call me?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Didn't kind of call you? My bad friend. I was
not there this one night, and nice something to do anyway. Anyway,
So I'm sitting in there, I'm sitting in the restaurant.
I'm sitting in the restaurant and I'm just looking around.
I'm looking at, you know, all the ladies in here,
and I'm like, I just wonder how many times a
woman will open her purse and say, you.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Know what, dear, I got this.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I think women pay in today's it's.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
D I have.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I mean, I've only had to happen I think three
times in my whole life. Mm hmm, what restaurant, I mean,
they're not talking much. Your wife I'm not talking much
your wife, you know, did I did it? And they
paid all the time when I was younger, you know,
coming out, but they did hey, hey, hey, hey, let
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me take care of this.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I got you, I got see that.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But I've always wanted them and why why why the
men always but they got to pay all the time.
I mean, And the thing would get me is they'll
bring two or three friends and didn't want you to
pay for them too.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
I've had That's a different store.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Do you remember you remember the restaurant you went out here?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
God, what was the name of the restaurant?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah, Nick? And say god, man, I can't think of Afreid.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Was it Palms Friends or Palm Desert or were.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Man in the Palm? Different between Palm Springs that palm.
It's one of b somethings. Is it Eddie's eddie B's, Yeah, Eddie's.
I like Eddie's, Yep. I like that restaurant. That's when
first I went to in Dallas. I like Eddie's.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That's where you were, right across from Port of Villa.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
That's that's probably why didn't call you, because I knowed
you want a free meal. What time you're gonna be there, Eric,
right over there. I'll be right over there. I'm I'm
on my way.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I haven't eaten all days.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'm only seven minutes away. I haven't eaten it all day.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah. I get four appetizers and you know, three salads,
and you gonna have some dessert as well. Yeah, let's see.
You get two glasses of wine too. And he wanted
to give me want to go, no bucks, just asked
them buy your lunch for tomorrow too.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah. See see here you go. There you go.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, next time you're here, call me.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I will call you next time with my Fred.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
All right, you're done, you're leaving, right, Yeah, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I got a doctor's appointment. I've got to I've got
my wrist has been killing me.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I got a nod on my wrist. I'll tell you,
man Fred. Getting old as hell, Man, I mean, this
is no fun getting old. This is I mean, this
is like getting old is for old people. I mean, seriously,
when they say it's the golden years, these are the
olden years. The golden years when you ass is young,
then the golden years the farm apart.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
All right, go to the doctor, Okay, alright, bye bye,
all right, you gotta give away these Charger tickets. They're
playing the Colts and you got the Chacuterie board as well.
Eight sixt six, nine eighty seven two five seventy Rodney
would call her.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Number one, number five.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Let's go come on, all right, we'll give away the
prize and wrap it up when we come back.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
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Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah we back Rodney, Pete fred Rogan on a hump
Day Wednesday. Let's go Freddy? Who won these tickets? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well yeah we're we're just about so let's give them away.
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You shouldn't get anything else. Really, if you won that,
but you get two tickets Chargers Colts Sunday at so far,
so you are set to go, my friend, you know,
have a little pregame at the house with the secutary board,
head on out to the game. Congratulations, thanks for listening. Okay,
So here's the deal for tomorrow. Because it's very fluid,
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you don't know what's going to happen next. We learn
today that tomorrow morning will be on from nine to noon,
which is kind of where we've been in the past
in situations like this. But now we're back nine to
noon Tomorrow morning and then Petros and Money. You'll go
New Yung what noon to two pre game show with
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three and then the game at three o'clock. So that's
how it's going to go tomorrow. So we'll be up
early and with you be with us. We'll talk Dodgers
for a good portion of that and get you ready
for Game three. Rodney, I like the Dodgers' chances tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I like Tyler Glastna. I like where he's at right now.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Then he's pitching with a lot of confidence, and I
think the Dodger bats have woken up, which is even
more scary because the strength, obviously is they're starting pitching
right now. But when the bats are are going and
the Dodgers are scoring three to five six runs, they're unbeatable.
Unbeatable because you're not scoring that off the Dodgers with
their starting pitching.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
New A.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
It's happening right now, all.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Right, Katie, thanks for filling in for Ronnie today. Terrific job. Kevin,
appreciate your hard work as well. We'll get to bed
early and talk to you tomorrow morning at nine Rodney.
Talk to you then,
All right, we continue on Ed's on the program today
and at two point thirty will go out to Dodger
Stadium with David Vasse. There's a workout and he will
set the same for us as we get ready for
Game three tomorrow night. All right, Eric, let's talk Dodgers
for a second here. Yamamoto looked great last night. Uh
they're up to old meaning the Brewers are down two?
(00:25):
Are they done?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I would think so. I don't think the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I mean, they might come here and win a game,
you know, just like Philly did, But I don't think
they can come back and beat the Dodgers. To be honest,
the Dodgers that pitching is right on Q. And another thing,
you know, like the top leadoff battles are not They're
not hitting a lot. But the guys like the fifth, sixth,
seventh guy, Yes, they are doing it. Man, you know
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Tioscar Hernandez and was the Daily Henandez. I mean, I
mean they do it. I mean, and that's the sign
of a good baseball team, Fred, I mean a good
team period. You know, when your stars aren't playing great
but other people are playing great. I mean, the Dodgers
are just I keep going back to what that guy
told me from the Raids. He said, and they just
got the best team. He said, if they help it,
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nobody can beat the Dodgers. I would agree with that.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I think by far, they're healthy at precisely the right time.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And when you get.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Healthy at precisely the right time, you're gonna win. They
got the best pitching staff in baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, people don't understand, you know, because people say this
all the time. You're like, they said, why the Dodgers
aren't winning, you know, but they don't realize when when
guys are out, the starters aren't playing. You know, those
backups are back up for reason. You know, relievers are
relievers for a reason. I mean they are. You know,
you have guys that are not in the starting lineup
and you have a guy that said, another guy comes
to place third base or right field or running back
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or quarterback, and it's not the same, or a right
offensive guard or left offensive guard.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's not the same. As That's why.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, when those starters out there, when they've got
a everybody healthy, you know, that's a whole different baseball team.
It's just no different in football. And now when you
got a good team and it's just healthy.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's no different.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, and playing together. You know, I think the last
month of the season the Dodgers were able to get
healthy again, but also those guys were able to play together.
And I don't care what kind of roster a team
you got, if they're you know, guys are in and
out of the lineup like they were for most of
the season, there's there's very little continuity with the players
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playing with each other, and now they all have a
feel for each other. And even now as you you
kind of witness in the playoffs, it's pretty much Tommy
Edmond is pretty much steady at second base. Now. He
was a guy that he moved around a lot where
he played center field or he played some third base,
and but he's pretty much been their second baseman. You know,
we've seen Max Muncie now that he's back on track
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and healthy again and becoming a big time factor. Which
has got to be even more scary for the rest
of the league is that Monsie is coming back to
being that Max Muncie that we've seen in the in
the postseason over the last four or five years. And
so that's dangerous and obviously Taoscar Hernandez is coming in
his own after we beat him up all season long
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of not being healthy, not being the same guy, not
doing this, not doing that, and here he is lighting
it up in the postseason, which is again going back
to what we talked about earlier. Fred is, you know,
you think you're off the hook by getting around O, Tani,
Betts and Freeman. You think, oh, okay, I get through
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those three guys, I'm good. But you look up and
you know Taoskar is hitting the home run, and Will
Smith is hitting base hits and doubles, and then Tommy
Edmund is doubling, you know, in guys, and key K Hernandez,
who you know was just you know, kind of ordinary
throughout the regular season. Here he comes Key K like
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every he does every postseason October, KEYK comes in and
you're like, ah, I gotta deal with these guys too.
And it's got to be demoralizing for a staff on
the other team thinking I'm focusing on the big three,
where the other six are the ones I really should
be worried about.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So Yamamoto last night goes the distance. We talked about
this earlier in the show. We went all the way.
So I saw this on social media. It actually came
out five months ago. Have you guys heard the Yamamoto anthem?
Either one of them?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
The Yamamoto anthem, I mean it is walk out music.
What are you talking about his ant No.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Somebody recorded a song as a tribute to Yamamoto and
called it the Yamamoto anthem. You've not heard it? No? Noine, Kevin,
go ahead, let's play it.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Whom to see yamvan yo Shino shinob yamvan, Yoshina, yam
mama yo she.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Man yam man.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I cannot confirm this, but I believe that as he
was listening to what pitched it throw because they can
hear something in their hat. I think he was listening
to that the whole time he was pitching to keep
him inspired. I think that's the thing that inspires him
before each game. Wait, wait, as he's pitching, or before,
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he's listening to that while he's pitching. Come on, come on,
that's sound ridiculous. It's a little catchy. But what are
they saying. I mean, like, I have no idea. That
sounds kind of cool thought, doesn't it. Yeah, yes, this
guy and you listen kind of got a little catchy.
Yeah you think, Rodney, he's listened to it, and it's
hat it motivated you cool when I came across that,
(06:07):
and I actually remembered in the break and said, Kevin,
we got to get the sun wrong.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Is that real or is it a spoof or what
is it? Somebody really like a real kind of artist
or just a fan recorded that. Well, it's like a
like a fan.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
I think this is a fan who was apparently a
really big Yamamoto fan. So he's specifically Ammamoto clicked on
his Instagram page and it's all in Japanese. So I
have no idea what it says, but it is all
Dodgers all day.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So ok, wait, wait wait, I heard you'll say something
earlier about the Dodgers, you know, the fan.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What's it the fourth like with the fourth loudest stadium?
That was you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It was it most difficult atmosphere, intimidating atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And it's so so who's who's number one?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Toronto?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Toronto? Yeah? I don't, I don't, I mean, I don't know.
I mean, what do you think for it? What do
you I mean? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What Rodney Rodney made a lot of sounds. Of course,
I immediately disagreed, but then I really can't disagree because
it was one of the times he made sense.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
What did you say about exciting't hear? But I mean
I read it, so so what did you say about that?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I said, if you're just talking, I'm not support, because
Dodgers have more support than anybody else, obviously, But if
you're talking fans being loud, being all on top of
you and just standing the whole game and just you know,
really crazed kind of fans, you don't think of Dodger
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Stadium being that rowdy bunch of fans that's going to
be crazy and intimidated and throw things and yelled things
and go just completely nuts for nine innings. Toronto fans
in Seattle, actually, players have said that those two places
are the loudest in baseball, along with the Phillies being
another tough place a play when you go there and
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they're winning and in the playoffs, it's a very difficult place.
And you know this, Eric, when you go to certain
cities and certain teams that it just gets so crazy
and loud, and it's different than other stadiums. But when
you just talk about support. There's no support like the Dodgers.
But you talk about just a loud, intimidating stadium. Dodgers
(08:22):
Stadium is not necessarily intimidating. Now, the history of it,
and when you walk in there and you feel like
the past and you feel all this is Dodgers Stadium,
you can be overwhelmed by that. But in terms of
the crowd just being as loud as say Seattle or
Philly or even you know, Toronto when they're winning, Yeah,
(08:44):
you know, I get it. I understand why they those
would rank a little bit higher than Dodgers in terms
of the decipel level and the loudness of that stadium especially.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Now did the players say that or just or you know,
somebody did a survey the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You know, you know, you know what, you know what
you know, loud, loud.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, you know they might not have the best team,
but them fans are crazy, you know, you es basically
in football you go in places like Philly, right, is
a loud crazy stadium used to be you know, when
the Raiders were in Oakland, was a loud, crazy stadium
that people, you know, players and everybody would talk about,
(09:25):
Oh that's a that's a when if the Raiders are
in it and it's and they're winning, it's a loud,
crazy stadium, whereas you know, say the Coliseum or Anaheim
was not necessarily loud and crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Right, No, No, when I played, I could tell you
the loudest stadium that I've played in, and I won't
forget it because it was my rookie season and I
John Robinson said, look, we're going We're going to it
was it was the last game of the season, win,
goes to the playoffs. He said, I'm gonna tell you
something you won't be able to hear. Uh, So you
know we're gonna do a lot of silent counts, you know,
a lot of motion, but you know it's gonna be
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on foot mote quarterback and do foot motion, so you
know you're won't.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Be able to hear.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And I'm like, hey, right, they ain't gonna be that loud.
That was New Orleans and he was not lying.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
That place was so loud you could not hear any
when they when they get nothing. I mean I have
to walk up to Vinnie to see what he was
now and he had to go back to get get
get back behind me. That that was crazy and that
the super Dome to me, it was no place like
that place. All right, I have an update on something.
I have an update. Okay, I wish you update.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I think this is critical. We need to share it.
We have some questions about the Yamamoto song. Who sung
at things like that? Well, I've heard from Dylan Hernandez.
He has texted me. The song is his impersonator song
lyrics basically just say he's impersonating Yamamoto. That's the Yamamoto song.
It's a Yamamoto impersonator singing about Yamamoto, saying he is
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impersonating Yamamoto.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Okay, who too? Who? Who?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Who's Who's who?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Told you that dolling Hernanda's who.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Was half Japanese and speaks fluent Japanese, so he would know.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay, so there we go, there we go. Thank you,
so because I know I don't trust Fred, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
That right if you told me, and you know what
I know doing Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, first about her Nandez, that don't sound like it's
like he be a Japanese name.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I mean her Nandez, I mean I think he had
a Latin name.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, he speaks flowing Japanese. I mean, I believe what
Kevin says.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, But if I tell you somebody says something,
do you think I just pulled out a name out
of thin air and made it up.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Let me get I'm gonna go back to you one
thing that you did a couple of week and I'm
still tripping on this. When you said the baby they
gave the baby is in the dumpster, I'm like, oh
my god, a baby and a dumpster. I'm still thinking
about that. And then when you come back later you
said something, what was it a possum or something?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Raccoon?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I'm like, this is a raccoon?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
What?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
What the who cares rest a raccoon?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I mean you made it so it was drunk, Yeah, right,
that's right, a drunk raccoon. What was a moon shine?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
He had a bottle in his hand for it, because
you know they can drip, they got thumbs.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I believe those raccoons.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Had a bottle and a cigarette, right, wild turkey and cigarette,
and he was going for it. No.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I thought it was a very touching story. That's why
I told it.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
All right, So Dylan said, it's a it's an impersonator,
and what he say it's the Yamamoto impersonator, singing that
he is impersonating Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
So Yamamoto has an impersonator. Okay, this is his official impersonator.
It's like the guy that followed O'tani everywhere always wore
a jersey no matter where he went.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
This guy went, did he wear a full uniform?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (12:45):
No, I think you're thinking of many Vish. You darfish,
didn't we bring him in studios?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Remember that many Vish? Fred brought him in studio.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
That's right. We got a lot of it was like, oh, yeah,
this is cool, let's bring in this many Darvish. What
was wrong with that? Kevin? I got so hard ed
it just set us back so many years?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What, Kevin? What was wrong when we brought the powers
that be?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Fred?
Speaker 7 (13:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
They didn't like it?
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You're doing this again?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Nobody, nobody ever told me they didn't like it. This
was years ago.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Everyone I told you they didn't like it, Fred, Everyone
told you what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Rodney?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
What was wrong with it?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It was?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It was just a bad idea, Fred, Huh, it was
a horrible idea. Horrible it was bad.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Was it bad? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well what happened?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I mean, I don't remember. That's why I'm saying, Eric.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Remember that, you know the guy that travels with us
Ed When you do our remotes and we're at BJ's
or one of them places, Huy comes in with the
little Ed.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I guess. So imagine if there was a real little
Ed and Fred him on, brought him on to do
uh uh, brought him into the station like three or
four segments with us for NFL Spotlight Mondays Wednesdays. Yeah,
(14:24):
that's what it was like. This cat was dressed as
you Darvish thought he was follow over.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
The place of the place, getting security involved, I think
because it was so bad.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We need security in the building when he comes, because
you don't know what he might do. And Fred decided
it would be a good idea to have him on
the show, and not only have him on the show,
but come in studio and be.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
On the show. Yeah, that that wasn't a good idea, Fred,
Don't that don't sound like a good idea. That don't
even sound like a good idea.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
To keep him at an arms distance, Fred, you don't
know the right hat, all right?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
This happened so many years ago. I'm glad it's coming
up now, and I must have forgotten what happened. But
apparently it wasn't very good.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh no, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Why do you keep jumping in like that and not
any details?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You said?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Apparently it wasn't very good.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
No, apparently it was not very good.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well he said that it was good, was you Fred?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Well try, I'm sorry. I don't know why everybody's a
yelling at me about it.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You tell you so many years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well you didn't bring it up.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
We'll get ten years for doing that. Ford years for
ten years, ten years for doing that. Yeah, I'm back.
You know what.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I looked that up. That's true.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I thought, okay, well, maybe she was trying to make
crack or something like that or something.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm like, I looked it up.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm like, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But anyway, I didn't want to talk about that anymore.
That's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All right, we have to we have to break down
because we have to get ready to go to Dodger Stadium.
Ford NFL Spotlight is presented by Ford. Okay, when we
come back kind of in the vicinity there then of
we'll go out to Dodger Stadium and join David vas A.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, yeah, feel that muscle.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
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on a Wednesday, Let's go Ford, NFL Spotlight.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Come on, Freddy, we going out to the stadium.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
We're going out in the second. We're gonna get him
on the phone right now. But don't forget. We are
giving away tickets for the Chargers Colts game on Sunday Plus.
If that's not enough, why should it be? Because we
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and we'll give that up, give it up in a
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(17:23):
the last time you had a good chacutaie board?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Eric went to a party they had one, Uh, really good.
You know, it's one of the nice parties. You know,
first got a lot of money, but it was nice.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Tell you, I'll tell you who knows how to make
a good board.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
He knows it all.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
It's David Vassa. Let's go to the stadium. Dave, Good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
What's up, guys, how's everything? Oh, everything's great, Fred. Both
teams landed around three am this morning. The Brewers are
out here at Dodgers Stadium into their workout. The Dodgers
will follow with their workout show. Hey Otani and Tyler
Glass now will face the music in the interview room.
So things are happening in between Games two and Games three.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
The mood is a day for the Brewers coming in
with the best record in baseball. They got home field
advantage all the way through, and they faced two lights
out performances by Blake Snell and Yoshi Yamamoto. And now
they come back to Dodgers Stadium for three games. The
just kind of looking into your crystal ball about the
(18:39):
psyche of the Brewers right now, coming back to LA
to face the Dodgers for three straight games at home.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Yeah, I don't have to look into any crystal ball
Rodney since I was in their clubhouse after the game yesterday,
so I got the temperature of just how they're feeling
and what I'm seeing right now. Basically, they understand that
they're behind the eight ball and that it's not looking
great when you match up starting pitching versus starting pitching,
and Pat Murphy has been very open the Brewers manager,
(19:09):
about the fact that they don't have as much pitching
as the Dodgers do. Going five games against the Cubs
was a huge disadvantage for the Brewers coming into the NLCS,
and an even bigger one with the way Blake, Snell
and Yamamoto pitched in the first two games. So they
understand what they're up against. It it's a long shot.
(19:30):
Only five teams and league championship history have come back
from an two deficit, especially after losing the first two
games at home. They got three here at Dodgers Stadium.
The Dodgers have glass now tomorrow and Otani in Game four.
It's a big hill to climb and they're very aware
of that.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So Dave, after Game one, when Dave Roberts went out
and took Blake Snell out last night, he left Yamamoto win.
Was that a result of Okay, I'm just gonna let
these guys go now and not go to the bullpen
at all.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
I think it was the product of Yamamoto having, you know,
thrown one hundred and twenty pitches and then one out
away from a complete game no hitter in Baltimore, just
more familiarity with Yamamoto, and also the fact that trying
In and Rokie Sasaki were used the night before and
he was going and he had a bigger lead, he
(20:25):
had more of a cushion to work with. So I
believe all those factors, and Dave said this after the
game factored into his decision to allow Yamamoto to finish
that game and not Blake Snell.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
When you took my question for it, I was going
to ask that question.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
No again.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now I want to ask I want to ask you
about the batting, like you know, the first you know,
you think the.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Top of the oiler would be the guys that will happen.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Right now, it is the fifth, sixth and seventh guy
that's really causing problems for this team for sure, even
for the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
The Dodgers feeling about that.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
So you say that again, Edi, there's a military helicopter
flying over Dodgers Stadium right now.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Okay, I said, you know, useless the top guys, like
like the top three hitters that that usually set the
tone for for base you know, for the for the
Dodgers or for any baseball team. But right now, the Dodgers,
you know, the fifth and six batters are the ones
that's really bringing it home for him.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's getting base hits, getting home runs. You know, how
how how the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Feeling about the way that their batters are they are
hitting the ball, you know, playing up the fifth and
six batters like you know Hernandez, t Taste, Carnandez, Kiki Hernandez.
You know those guys because they're they're the ones that
to me that are hot right now.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yeah, last night that was the case. You look at
the big three of Tommy, Freeman and Betts, they were
not the ones that produced those runs. It was the
guys five through nine that did it. Max Munsey, Kioscar
Hernandez hitting solo home runs and Tom yetman. Don't sleep
on Tom Yet. Then he was last year's NLCS MVP.
(22:10):
If that's what makes this Dodger lineup so tough to navigate,
there's no place to exhale, and they just continue to
press the issue. And that's that's the biggest disparity between
the Dodgers and Phillies in the first round, and the
biggest disparity among others between the Dodgers and Brewers in
this round.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Hey, Dave, you talk about familiarity with Yamamoto and seeing
him not too long ago, you know, push a no
hitter into the ninth and they let him go as
opposed to Blake Snell. What do you think happens now
with the next two guys? Uh, if they're rolling, say
in the eighth, meaning Todder Glass now and Otani. If
(22:57):
they're rolling in the eighth, do you think that Dave
has the same strategy as he did with Yamamoto and
letting them just kind of go through the ninth if
they can, if they're feeling.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
It well, I would say there's a greater chance that
Glass now is getting closer to the eighth inning than
Otani because we haven't seen Otani go more than six
innings in any start this year, and the Dodgers have
been so conscious of trying to keep him healthy. This
is the postseason. This will be his only start in
(23:28):
the NLCS, So depending on how the game flow is
going and where the Dodgers are at, maybe they let
him go into the seventh inning. But it feels like
Rodney in these next two games, the Dodgers will have
to back up glass Now and Otani with their bullpen,
and that's where guys like Shean and Alex Vesia come
into play. And certainly, you know, if it is a
(23:50):
safe situation or you know, a four run lead, Roki
Sasaki will be in play.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Dave Otani's hitting, and he's still I'm sure everybody's thinking
about it. Is anybody worried about it?
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Yeah, there's got to be some concern, right. He hasn't
really performed well in this postseason. He's hitting a buck
ninety three, and the last two postseasons combined, you have
to wonder for a guy that is so routine oriented,
in such a rhythm player, you wonder whether or not,
you know, the herky jerky schedule of the postseason is
(24:28):
affecting him in that respect. But you know, as pro
athletes always say, and especially baseball players in twenty twenty five,
you got to figure it out. And Otani has got
to figure it out because Dave Roberts kind of, you know,
put the light on him coming into the NLCS that
the Dodgers cannot win the World Series with him hitting
(24:49):
as poorly as he is. But that says something back
to what Ed was talking about. You got Otani doing
basically nothing offensively, and the Dodgers have a two zero
lead one of the first two games of the NLCS
on the road against the Brewers. They beat the big
bat Villies with Otani doing virtually nothing as well. So
(25:09):
that's a testament to the rest of the Dodgers that
they're able to put this guy on their back and
be succeeding as much as they are in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
The same thing happened to Mookie Bets with it last year.
A couple of years ago. His bat went cold for
a while and everybody was asking about, you know, what
about Mookie, what about MOOKI it's happening to a ton
and I mean, let me ask you this day in baseball,
you know, and I didn't play pro baseball being college baseball,
and Rodney did. How is it for a hitter when
(25:42):
he's not hitting, I mean, you know what routine do
they go through to try to get back on track.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Yeah, a lot of guys I hear go back to
the simple things of just getting a tee and hitting
the ball on the tee. I know, Aaron Judge does that,
who's the tea around and tries to focus on hitting
the ball to the bigger part of the field.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
I tapped into one of my baseball czars, Mark maguire
yesterday during the game, and he just believes that Otani
needs to be more ready to hit on the first
pitch that he's seeing, because he's so concerned about the
fact that they're trying to not give him strikes in
the strike zone, that he has to be more ready
to hit on the first pitch and be more aggressive. So,
(26:25):
you know, there's a lot of different opinions on how
he gets out of this, But as far as routine goes,
you know, I've heard a lot of guys go back
to just using the ta and thinking bigger part of
the field than you know, Tani's case, that would be
going to left field, and when he does that, he's
at it at his best. It's not about him just
trying to plug and pull home runs.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Hey day, Before we let you go, I just want
to get your take on Suzaki. He's been lights out
obviously since they unofficially named him the closer. He came
in was brilliant against the Phillies. His last doubting was
a little shaky. Has that changed the attitude or any
kind of mentality that the Dodgers have towards him and
bringing him in that role as this series and the
(27:12):
next one comes about.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
No Rodney, they need him. They definitely need him. He
was off for the first time since coming off the il,
and some even believe from the Dodger side that the
umpire strike zone started to shrink in that ninth inning
for whatever reason and he wasn't getting those calls on
the edges. So they have not lost confidence in him.
(27:36):
He will be ready to go for Game three if needed,
with not pitching last night and obviously the day off today.
But one thing that did set off a few red
flags was the fact that when Sasaki was pitching in
Game one, his first pitch was one hundred miles an hour,
and then it slowly started to tick down. So you
(27:56):
have to wonder if he has to get back to
whatever tanical adjustments he made to be as good as
he has been since coming back.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
All right, Dave, thanks for jumping on. We know you're
crazy out there. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
All right, guys, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Davidssay is back at the stadium. Tell you what, David
Vassay has left his mark in Milwaukee. More ways than one,
he has left his mark.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
He know him well.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I'm sure when he's walking around Milwaukee, they know him
very well in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I'm surprised if he had to pay for a meal
at Milwaukee. I mean, that's how well known he is there.
People know what happened to him. If you see him,
don't you buy him a drink?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Of course, of course.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
But that's the first thing side as well, that's the
first thing free to think about it as a meal
something free.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Okay, that's not true. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I'm just saying that's the first thing you think about
some free, somebody who's something free. Because you know, you
like Steph free, don't you.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Do?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I like stef free.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
If it's free, it's for me. If that's your pro modo.
If it's free, I'll take three.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
That's free.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
As motto. If it's free, I'll take three.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Eric.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
If somebody has something offers you take it to dinner?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Do you go?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Depends on who asked me.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, if it's somebody that you like, you go, of
course I go, right, Nasa, I want to think up dinner.
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
No, you're not sometimes I know that's rare. I mean
I wouldn't say no, but I'm I got it most
of the time. Let me ask you this question if
this is the question, But I don't asked you this
question too. Not your wife, not your wife to think
about before you got married. When is the last time
a woman has bought you a meal before you got married.
(29:44):
You think of a girl that brought you a meal.
You next say, hey, I got this. I don't crickets.
Then you can't think of one because it really doesn't
happen off. But I've been married a long time. But
but you, but you would, You wouldn't ask your whole life.
You know you're getting meals before you got married. So
I'm just thinking in the date you went on, like,
you know, she said, let's go out to dinner. Okay,
did she buy dinner? You into buying dinner?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I think I normally bought dinner, thank you?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Riding riding Yes the time, Yeah, I bought it.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, I mean, and yeah, it's it's it's funny because
I was at a restaurant in Palm Springs a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
When I was out there for it, I think I
talked to you and you.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Didn't talk to me. Why didn't you call me?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Didn't kind of call you? My bad friend. I was
not there this one night, and nice something to do anyway. Anyway,
So I'm sitting in there, I'm sitting in the restaurant.
I'm sitting in the restaurant and I'm just looking around.
I'm looking at, you know, all the ladies in here,
and I'm like, I just wonder how many times a
woman will open her purse and say, you.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Know what, dear, I got this.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I think women pay in today's it's.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
D I have.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I mean, I've only had to happen I think three
times in my whole life. Mm hmm, what restaurant, I mean,
they're not talking much. Your wife I'm not talking much
your wife, you know, did I did it? And they
paid all the time when I was younger, you know,
coming out, but they did hey, hey, hey, hey, let
(31:13):
me take care of this.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I got you, I got see that.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But I've always wanted them and why why why the
men always but they got to pay all the time.
I mean, And the thing would get me is they'll
bring two or three friends and didn't want you to
pay for them too.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
I've had That's a different store.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Do you remember you remember the restaurant you went out here?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
God, what was the name of the restaurant?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah, Nick? And say god, man, I can't think of Afreid.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Was it Palms Friends or Palm Desert or were.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Man in the Palm? Different between Palm Springs that palm.
It's one of b somethings. Is it Eddie's eddie B's, Yeah, Eddie's.
I like Eddie's, Yep. I like that restaurant. That's when
first I went to in Dallas. I like Eddie's.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That's where you were, right across from Port of Villa.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
That's that's probably why didn't call you, because I knowed
you want a free meal. What time you're gonna be there, Eric,
right over there. I'll be right over there. I'm I'm
on my way.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I haven't eaten all days.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'm only seven minutes away. I haven't eaten it all day.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah. I get four appetizers and you know, three salads,
and you gonna have some dessert as well. Yeah, let's see.
You get two glasses of wine too. And he wanted
to give me want to go, no bucks, just asked
them buy your lunch for tomorrow too.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah. See see here you go. There you go.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, next time you're here, call me.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I will call you next time with my Fred.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
All right, you're done, you're leaving, right, Yeah, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I got a doctor's appointment. I've got to I've got
my wrist has been killing me.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I got a nod on my wrist. I'll tell you,
man Fred. Getting old as hell, Man, I mean, this
is no fun getting old. This is I mean, this
is like getting old is for old people. I mean, seriously,
when they say it's the golden years, these are the
olden years. The golden years when you ass is young,
then the golden years the farm apart.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
All right, go to the doctor, Okay, alright, bye bye,
all right, you gotta give away these Charger tickets. They're
playing the Colts and you got the Chacuterie board as well.
Eight sixt six, nine eighty seven two five seventy Rodney
would call her.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Number one, number five.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Let's go come on, all right, we'll give away the
prize and wrap it up when we come back.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
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Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah we back Rodney, Pete fred Rogan on a hump
Day Wednesday. Let's go Freddy? Who won these tickets? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well yeah we're we're just about so let's give them away.
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(34:22):
You shouldn't get anything else. Really, if you won that,
but you get two tickets Chargers Colts Sunday at so far,
so you are set to go, my friend, you know,
have a little pregame at the house with the secutary board,
head on out to the game. Congratulations, thanks for listening. Okay,
So here's the deal for tomorrow. Because it's very fluid,
(34:43):
you don't know what's going to happen next. We learn
today that tomorrow morning will be on from nine to noon,
which is kind of where we've been in the past
in situations like this. But now we're back nine to
noon Tomorrow morning and then Petros and Money. You'll go
New Yung what noon to two pre game show with
(35:03):
three and then the game at three o'clock. So that's
how it's going to go tomorrow. So we'll be up
early and with you be with us. We'll talk Dodgers
for a good portion of that and get you ready
for Game three. Rodney, I like the Dodgers' chances tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I like Tyler Glastna. I like where he's at right now.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Then he's pitching with a lot of confidence, and I
think the Dodger bats have woken up, which is even
more scary because the strength, obviously is they're starting pitching
right now. But when the bats are are going and
the Dodgers are scoring three to five six runs, they're unbeatable.
Unbeatable because you're not scoring that off the Dodgers with
their starting pitching.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
New A.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
It's happening right now, all.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Right, Katie, thanks for filling in for Ronnie today. Terrific job. Kevin,
appreciate your hard work as well. We'll get to bed
early and talk to you tomorrow morning at nine Rodney.
Talk to you then,
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