October 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Ned Colletti joins us ahead of Game 3 of the NLCS this afternoon. Also, we hear from Dave Roberts on Ohtani's playoff struggles at the plate and discuss whether he's turning the corner. A man bilked the government for disability funds for over 50 years acting as if he were blind.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, we continue on in good morning, Red Rogan,
Rodney Peanut a and five seventy l a sports. Yep,
we're on early today because the Dodgers are a three
o eight start at the stadium, the insane three oh
eight start.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You love that start, don't you. Fred. It's a strafect
time of day. It's stupid. It's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
As a matter of fact, Ned Colaudia, the man in
the big chair is on the line just popping that
up here, ain't net How stupid is it to have
a three eight start?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
What a question? What a question? You know, what are
you gonna do? You got television which pays a lot
of the freight they want at a certain time. Hey,
you do it? You know you gotta meld around with
what pays the bills. I say it is great for
the pitching, though, because once start to creep, it's tough
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enough to hit the big legs. But you see a
ball come out of sunlight in the shade, good luck especially,
they got movement on it, They got a little drop
to it. That's your hands full as it is, You
got your hands full of lights. At the brightest you
start playing with lights, which is sunlight and then shade
good luck, score early and hang on.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
If there had to be an advantage to anyone, would
it be the home team.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
That well, with this home team, it doesn't matter if
you're the home team. With the road team, it's to
their advantage. But yeah, it's always an advantage, you know.
Although you know what, when you think about teams coming
from two time zones away, or if it was the
East Coast three times away, you know, they're more accustomed
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to playing in the early evening of their day, not
starting at ten o'clock or nine o'clock their time, So
there might be a little body clock advantage. But the
way I see this series, the last one and whoever
is part of the next one, there's very little that
I can I can convince myself that isn't in LA's favor.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, because it is. Let me ask you this, Ned
and I was trying to figure this out the other day.
You look at the Dodger pitching staff right now, and
they're all healthy. Okay, so that's always a big key.
But they are all healthy. This is gonna be one
of the best starting staffs in the last i don't know,
fifteen years in the playoffs. Every one of their guys
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could be an ACE on another team. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It does? I think about it all the time. I'll
go back further than that, and it's painful for the
older Dodger fans, but the sixty six Oreoles came in
swept the Dodgers. Dodgers got two runs I think in
the second or third inning of the very first game,
and then you get another one and it was Jimmy
Palmer and Mike Waher and d McNally and my differend,
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Pat Tops and I think we're four, and that was dominant.
I remember being a kid watching that and it was like,
you know, they had no chance. And as I watched
these games, the talent of Snow and the Almamoto in
Glasgow and Kersh and Otani, the talent is at the utmost,
You're right, there would be an ace anywhere else. But
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their game plan to pitch the pitch to weaknesses, to
expose weaknesses on other teams. It's been phenomenal. I mean
it's been a study. It's been PhD study in preparation
slash execution. That's what they do. You hold that the
few men group in Phillies are three for thirty eight
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losses forward Turner and Harper three for thirty eight and
loss and biggest games of the year. Guys riveted in
to look for a certain pitch, to be prepared for something,
to know what their own weaknesses are in and know
that is what they're going to see. And then what
happens They do nothing, nothing that is great planning, tremendous planning,
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analytical plus plus execution that they execute the way they do.
It's a long time before you find four or five
they do the same.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, and I don't think. I mean, obviously everybody still
loves to bang on Dave Roberts every movie makes, but
ned the way they have managed this team, especially the
pitching as as we're talking about, to get to the
point where they're all healthy and fresh and feel like
they are as good as they've ever been at the
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right moment, they played this perfectly net And I don't
know if people realize how you have to really strategize
throughout the season to pull guys back, to let guys go,
to get these innings in, to get them ready. So
at this point in October, they're the best in baseball,
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and it's pretty remarkable to me. To see how they
played this net.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, we say all the time on your show, and
they prove it too. They played the long Bame do
they worry about April September yet to some extent, But
they're not going to put anybody in jeopardy physically. They're
gonna wait, They're gonna use the bullets when they meet
and in October. And that's what they've got. And those
who find fault with Dave Roberts having goodness, gracious, you know,
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I mean, I'm in Manhattan, be right now, it's a
beautiful sunny day. Well, people probably say it's raining out
right now. You know. It's it's just the way it goes,
you know, But it's he's done terrific work. The whole
organization has done terrific work, starting with the ownership. And
I worked with Mark Walter for three years. That's the
TV for the entire organization. Mark Walter and everybody would
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say this if asked about their own ownership or the
own ownership would say it. But I don't know anybody
are stand magic Todd Bowley on and on Dave Roberts
in a different way Andrew. The more success they have,
the hungrier they get and I think that's unique. I
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think in pro sports it's so hard. The more success
you can have, or you have it once, chances are
you're gonna take a step. You can take a breath
and go, hey, we can live off this for another
five years, then we'll be back. No, it doesn't go
that way with this group. They win and they know
what they want to win more, and that's what the
Lakers are going to be in for two like they
were back in the day when they were three peeding
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all the time. The more they win, the hungrier they get.
And I can't it seems like it would be an
elementary approach to people in highly successful positions. I don't
find highly rightly findable. It's it's more rare to me
than it exists to the level that they do it.
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But there's no doubt that's the level that they do
it to. It's like they haven't one in fifty years.
That's how they play this series.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Hey, ed, so let's talk to pitching. Let's talk Snell.
Let's talk Yamamoto. Dave goes out and gets Snell in
the first one. Let Yamamoto finish. Now, letting a guy
go all the way is a throwback two days gone by.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
But I got to tell you something. Why not let
him go?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Why if he throws one hundred and twenty pitches, now,
is that going to blow his arm up? Why not
let him finish games if they can?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Absolutely? And once you start to do it, once you
know you can do it, you can do it more
than once. I think they just got they got they
got enough confidence in it, and in some cases enough
lack of confidence in the bullpen. You know, I s Sosaki's
been terrific. Then you had a rough, rough ninth inning
as you rebate did the two young closes in game
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one for boat teams, and so you know, do you
want to go back to back? No, You'd rather give
the kid a chance to catch his breath. Okay, And
the next time you meet him, he's coming out of
a Dodger Stadium bullpen instead of that of the Milwaukee bullpen.
So I think a psychology it worked. I think it
works for Yamamoto. I don't have any doubt Snell could
have finished that game. But once you start to do
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that and feel that that adrenaline and know you can
do it, it opens up a whole another level of play.
I was just talking to a guy the other day
in another sport, in the minor leagues, we would take
our starting pitching and we would have him start some
games in the fourth or fifth inning. Okay, And this
was way before the opener became in the fashion, But
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the idea was, you're going to finish the game. The
toughest outs in any game, percent of the time, come
in the most starting pitchers only get to the ninth
inning once in a blue moon. It's at the days
of Sandy Kofax. Once in a blue moon they get
to But it's a different feeling. And Yamamoto now knows
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that Blake Snell's done it before, he got very close
to knowing it. Once you know that, it adds I
believe it adds so much to your entire confidence base
that you know you can do it. And I think
that you know, it's just another stage that where they're going,
where nobody else is going. Look in the paper, you know,
Look who's starting from Milwaukee the lex few games undecided, undecided, undecided,
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nobody knows because they don't know. They don't even know
who's starting, let alone who's pitching the rest of the game.
Dodgers lying guys up and now they go, hey, you
know what, we may go nine with this character. Let's go.
It's a totally different mindset, and they've got it. I
don't know. I was surprised that they got beat one
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game by Philly, and I'll be surprised in the game
they lose the rest of the way. I don't care
who they play in the American League. That's a bold statement,
but I don't know anybody's going to beat them, knowing
who they are, how they play, how they perform, especially
how they prepare. You know, I don't know that they
lose another one would surprise either of you guys if
they lost another one, No.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I wouldn't be I mean the way they've looked, the
way they've kind of steamrolled in it, and some of
these yeah it's EZACTI had a little shaky part of it.
But it doesn't even feel like it's closed. It just
feels like it's just a matter of time. As you mentioned,
they play the long game, and you get into that seventh, eighth,
ninth inning, you know the Dodgers are coming. Here they come,
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and it's got to be demoralizing to the other team.
Ned you mentioned them not naming a starter and undecided.
Is that a you think that's a real undecided or
is it trying to be have some gamesmanship with we're
not gonna name a guy until right before the game starts.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I think yeah, I mean it could be a little
bit of gamesmanship. I have so much respect from Milwaukee
and their manage and staff. It might be a touch
of gamesmanship. But come on, you think it's really gonna matter. No,
you think they're gonna announce somebody at three o'clock that's
gonna go out to the pen and start to throw
for the three to zeraye start and maybe just pitch
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an inning, and the Dodgers are gonna say, oh my goodness,
how are we going to attack this? How are we
going to get through this? No, they're probably saying, you know,
tell us when you're ready to tell us. Is not
going to matter. We're still going to be in the
batter spots that will. So what we're starting to hear
whoever you want?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Okay, Well that being said, what we're starting to hear
now we talked about it in the first segment of
the show this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Now you're starting to hear. Okay, if the Dodgers win again.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
That really means that a lot of the owners are
going to fight for a salary cap. They're going to
fight for it, They're going to demand it because they
think it's unfair. But here's the thing. Let's say the
salary cap is three hundred million dollars. The Dodgers are
going to spend three hundred million dollars. Do you think
the Pittsburgh Pirates are going to spend three hundred million
dollars if there's a salary cap. No, So the teams
that spend the money are going to continue to spend it,
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and the teams that don't spend the money are going
to continue not to spend it.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So how does that change this, Well, it doesn't really change.
This is the mindset of teams that spend what they
spend and have their revenue they spend and haven't really
cultivated more revenue than the revenue that they do spend.
That doesn't change. I think everybody's franchised, anybody's had a
franchise for the last five to ten years plus. The
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due of a franchise is massive at this point in time.
But the hunger, and I'll go back to the hunger
of Mark Walter in the group. The hunger doesn't match,
nor does the scouting in the player development and things
like that. So every time they make a big investment,
they cringe because they don't really know if the big
investment is going to give one hundred percent of dollar Ohio,
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Tony's given them, you know, five dollars for every dollar,
and it's going to change things. People will do it
to protect one another from each other type of thing.
But is there going to change anybody doing anything. No,
it's I don't I don't believe it is may give
some of the teams with less red do a little
bit more money to spend, But does that mean that
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they that they can develop, that they can sign, that
they can put guys in the big leagues, that they
are a place people want to play. Look at the
Dodgers situation. Okay, you play in a great city, you
got great weather, you have a franchise of tradition, you
have a franchise where players that you will team up
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with are championship players. You're gonna be protected. You're not
going to be the only person standing there that the
whole thing's going to fall to you. It falls to
everybody on this club and they're going to pay you
more than anybody else is going to pay you. And
the reason to say no is what it isn't. There
isn't That's what they do. That's why they do what
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they do. They made trades. You know, Mookie wasn't going
to sign there. They gave up a little bit. They
got a Hall of Famer and returns for a decade.
You know, Freddy Atlanta wouldn't give them one more year.
How about La Boom here Southern California gives off He
goes another Hall of Famer show right down the road. Okay,
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hey didn't say came up here Boom. Biggest contract in
the history of the sport and fulfilling it to the
max degree, even with a little bit of struggle offensively
right now, doesn't even it doesn't even make a difference
at this point in time. But on and on and
on it as you go through it, it's the perfect
It's the perfect place at the perfect time, with the
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perfect leadership, because nobody wants to go anywhere else. Any
player that has talent. Everybody's got talent. Don't give you
a big a qualifier. Any player that's got above average
major league talent and they're a free agent ninety nine
percent of a master agent. Have you talked to LA?
Have you talked to the Dodgers? It's the place to be?
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You can't say that, and I was. The last place
I was was the place to be too for a
period of time. Sadly is no long longer the place
to play, the place to be, you know what I'm
talking about? Up north? Where else is the place to be?
If the teams that are still playing, are those the
place to be? No, there's only one place to be,
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and typically a place to be like getting any club
or any restaurants, you're going to pay a premium to
be there. Well, this goes backwards. They're going to pay
a premium to have you there, and it just keeps going.
The next time a National League West team dominates the
LA Dodgers, you guys will be saying to me, okay,
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because I won't be here, and there's no shay, I
can live in another twenty years, I still won't be here.
You know, it doesn't happen like that. They have put
you the perfect thing in place. People want to be here,
the team wins, the players are great people, great teammates,
organization cares, they're hungry to win. They're not going to
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take a step back off they go. It's the most
phenomenal thing I've ever seen in sport. And that's no exaggeration.
Peo will exaggerate all the time and say all the
best I've ever seen, all this, all that player, organization, game, whatever.
But I can I truly say this. I mean, I
examine this stuff every day for the last forty some years.
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There's nothing like what they have and you cannot take
it for granted. And the thing that stands out to me,
but I said earlier, they're hunger for victory. They may
have a prade here in two weeks. What Mark Walter
be thinking when he gets back to his full time job.
I want to do it again next year. Let's go,
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how are we going to do it? Yeah, not everybody
does that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Isn't that the greatest thing? And why you know you
hear guys talk, That's why I wanted to be a Dodger.
They're going to chance to win it every year, chance
to be in the conversation every single year. And you're right,
I mean, you think about the teams that have wanted
in the Pat Where's we're the Nationals now? You know,
Boston broke everything up.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You know, it's just just the Yankees, the Yankees. Yeah,
on and on. There's nothing like it, and it's not
to be taken for granted. And you know, and the
guy that sits in the middle of it all is
Dave Roberts. He has no upside. All he has is downside.
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And what he does is he stays at the utmost side,
day in, day out, always. And you know, again, it's
it's it's a special time and place.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, people think it's easy.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
People think it's easy when you have people think it's
easy when you manage a team like this, or you're
coaching a team like this that has the amount of
talent and the payroll and all that. Though it's an
easy job, anybody, no, no, not anybody can do it.
It takes the right personality to get along with all
those personalities and how to manage those egos and how
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to manage the professionalism of the guys that are coming there.
So it's it's a full time job and it's not
an easy job. You mentioned uh, yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Did you have?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You said there's no downside there's no downs I mean,
there's no upside, there's only downside. Yeah yeah, so expected
to win it every single year. Now, you mentioned Otani
in his in his struggles, and it's still you know,
you think about that. The Dodgers are, like I said,
they they've won the first two games. It feels like domination.
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That dominated Cincinnati, they really dominated Philly, and Otani really
hasn't done much offensively. People were suggesting, maybe, uh, change
it up and move him second, let Mookie lead off
for a couple of games, see if he can get
back in rhythm. Is that the right thing to do,
especially with a team that's winning right now with the
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formula even struggling.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Only if a Tani goes to day with his hey
I feel better hitting second, and Mookie says, hey, I'll
hit first, whatever, then don't. Okay, you do it, But
you know, other than that, I'm not doing it. I don't.
I wouldn't dictate anything that we're going to do this
because of that, every time he comes to the play
there is fear in the other side. This is not
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somebody who's forty years old or nothing to get forty
year olds, but this isn't somebody who's you know, you're
wondering if they're starting to tail, if they're starting to
elute their abilities, if age is starting to catch up,
if the length of the season and his season as
a pitcher at it, you know that this is not
the same player. Don't buy it. I think this guy
can change a game in a heartbeat, and I think
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the other team knows it. Pitch them carefully. They've pitched
them well, but he's probably the only player that they
have really pitched as well as a Dodgers usually pitched
nine players. Well, that's part of the game. You know
what it's going to be a game most likely between
now and the parade. You know, if that happens, that
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this guy is going to be the dominant player in
the game. If fear alone of having him, how do
they pitch You know, they don't pitch him like he's
the eight hitter or the nine hitter and hitting two fifteen. No,
they don't even you know, they probably look at what
his average is in the postseason right now, but that
doesn't mean that they think they can get away with anything.
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He just doesn't have that type of hole to a swing,
chasing a little bit anxious, a little bit human nature,
a little bit. But I think he's you know, if
he wants to change and hit second and MOOKI says hey,
like Mookie typically does, say whatever you need to do,
I'll do Okay, fine, you do that. But then you
know you do have two lefties back to back too
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with him and Freddie. Right now you're going left right
left and left right left right. You know, we just
start to mess with that. That that changes a little
bit of the dynamic. But again, I don't know, I
don't know that it matters. I just you don't typically
find the pitching as deep as it is and as
solid as it is with a lineup that as you
get asked and set it out all season long, you
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know the key we know who the key guys are,
the guys that are you know, the name guys at
the top of the order. You know Edmunds and te
O and the key K and Miggie and all these
other guys will you know, other teams don't have those
players either. Those players are supposed to be the other
team's top players. That's where they fit. And then you've
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got three guys on top of that that are Hall
of famers. So it's a it's an unequal situation. And
thankfully for l A and the Dodger fans, it doesn't
shade it. Sits on their side.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And that appreciate you coming on. Thanks for your time
this morning. Really really do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I hope you're enjoying us, Fred, I hope this is
the best baseball season you've ever had.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Having a great time. To be honest with you, I've
never seen him so relaxed, Ned, I've never seen him
so relaxed. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
And if they get beat sometimes, don't don't. Don't worry
about it. Okay, don't worry. He's gonna be Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm feeling pretty good. Gotta be honest, I feel pretty good.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm gonna I'm gonna unblock your phone number.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
All right, Ned, take it easy. Those are pretty strong
words from that, and not about I'm blocking my phone number.
I mean that is a real Rodney when he's sitting there,
and I'm not sure they'll lose another game.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Right, I mean, think about it. Who's gonna be? Are
the Mariners or the Blue Jays really gonna they're done?
That's not even gonna. I mean, they don't need to
play that series. This is this is the game, right,
this is the game today. This is it because if
they win to day, I'm with him. I don't think
they lose. All right, let's get more into that. Let's
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talk more about Otani.
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Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah ah.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
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Speaker 1 (23:40):
On, come on, all right, So we talked about Otani,
and we've been talking about Otana in the leadoff spot,
and I made the comment in the last series he's
a liability. Everybody, hold on, he's a liability. Now if
we just look at his performance, he's a liability in
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the leadoff spot, then you could make the argument, well,
Andy Paez was a liability to the bottom of the
order because he wouldn't hit in his hat size got
to hit the other night, contributed defensively though, you know
you need him out there. Okay, let's go back to
old Tony So you got a guy that is acknowledged
as the most feared hitter in baseball and he's not hitting,
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And really you could make the argument that if he
was hitting, I mean, I was gonna say, the Dodgers
wouldn't lose it. Probably not gonna lose anyway, but they
certainly win by more. Look at it like that. But
Net said something, Rodney, and I think it's important to
keep this in mind that even if he's not hitting,
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and he's not he is the most feared man in
the game of baseball. He just instills fear in you
by standing there. So even since he hasn't been hitting,
we've seen times or they've walked him to get to Muki,
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And at this point, I'm like, yeah, walkome, get to Muki.
This is great, this is fantastic. They're so afraid of
what he might do, what he could do, that he
instills such fear in people that even though he's not hitting,
when you really think about it, you can't move him
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anywhere because he terrifies people.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, I mean, he's still Otani, right, you still know
what he's done. At least since he's been in a
Dodger uniform in the last couple of years. You know
that this guy can erupt at any time and hit
three straight bombs on you, at three straight plate appearances,
at any time in a game, and so you have
to pitch him accordingly. And to think that, oh, he's
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struggling now means he's going to struggle the next time.
All it takes is one hit. All it takes is
one big hit and all of a sudden and he's back
in his groove and all, now, what are you doing?
You cannot you can absolutely not get over confident or
cocky or whatever you may be when it comes to
him and think that he's struggling, So he's going to
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struggle the next time up. The next time up is
the time that he will erupt on you. And so no,
that's right. He's he's a he's a dangerous man that
regardless if he goes oh for the next fifteen, it's
that sixteenth a bat that you better be aware of.
And a guy like that, And I do I threw
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it out there just to hear what he wanted to say,
But I do think the also, the fear of him
leading off a game, it just it also creates, it
creates some sort of aura about the Dodgers and him
as he steps in the box as your first hitter.
There's there's so much pressure that he puts on an
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opposing team, an imposing pitcher when he is the leadoff guy,
or you're you know, battling that eighth hitter with one
out and you don't want to get to the top
of the order because Otani's coming up. That's still a
major factor. So yeah, at some point, and that's a
scary thing I think for the Brewers or whoever else
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they play in the World Series is that this guy
hadn't even really got going yet and the Dodgers are
still dominating teams.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So our buddybell plunkin as Dave Roberts, he said, the
team's winning, Otani's not hitting. What do you have to
say about that?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Well?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I do, And I think the contribution is not just
by batting average either, certainly him being in the lineup posting.
I think getting the walks allowing for Muki to have
opportunities to drive runs in, that's contribution. So for me,
I think the first two games in Milwaukee has a
BET's have been fantastic, and so that's what I've been
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looking forward. That's what I'm counting on. So I still
stand by that, and we got a long way to
go to win the World Series.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, did follow up on that. What do you think
has been better about show Hayes at bats this series?
Is there anything different that you've seen that the Brewers
have done that the Phillies were not doing, or that
he was able to react to better than Well.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I think he's I think he's controlling the strike zone.
I think he's still staying aggressive when he gets his pitch.
You know, there was a line out to the right
field that there was three walks, there was you know,
the base hit in a run. You know, situational opportunities.
So those are positives for me. You know, you can
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only take what they give you. So for me, I
think he's in a good spot right now.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Roddie, what do you think of that? Yeah, there's more. Again,
there's more contributions than to him just hitting a home
run or hitting a double. You know, his presence at
the leadoffs, seting the table for Mooki and Freddie and
Will Smith and Taoskar and those guys. It is a
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big factor of how you pitch to him and then
how do you pitch to the next guy. So it's contribution,
as Dave said, are more than just him getting three
hits in a ball game. It is the fear factor,
It is the pitch count, it is all those things
that add up when you've got a guy like that
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leading off for you.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
All right, next hour, Jerry Harrison, Junior Sports and at LA.
He's going to join us right at the top of
the hour. Also next hour, well up in the phone
lines and take some calls from you.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
The one story I want to mention today that has
nothing to do with the Dodgers, only one.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We're on three hours.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
This has nothing to do with the Dodgers, and when
we talk about it, I'm wondering if you'll even believe it.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
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Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh yes, yes we do. Rodney beat fred Rogan want
to throwback Thursday.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Let's go, Freddy, come on, all right, the only story
that has nothing to do with the Dodgers today. It'll
be real quick and we'll come back. Jerry Harrison will
be on the show. Then we'll take some calls on
the Dodgers. Listen to this and you tell me if
you've ever heard anything like this. There's a many is
seventy years old, all right, seventy years old. So he's
lived a good life and apparently in pretty good shape
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for fifty of his seventy years. Fifty of seventy years
he has pretended to be totally blind so he could
collect disability payments. He has collected over a million dollars
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in disability because he has claimed he was completely blind
and he is not blind, and somebody realized he's not blind,
and now he is basically going to have to go
(31:44):
to court because the claim here is fraud. He has
defrauded people giving him these disability payments because he was blind,
yet he was never blind. Have you ever heard anything
like that? For fifty years he has claimed he's blind.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
God, No, I've never heard anything like that. I mean,
it's one thing to fake injuries what people do all
the time, but for fifty years pretending you're blind to
collect this ability. So obviously the people around him have
to be in on it too. For him to go someplace,
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or how does he go and collect? Does he show
up with Cain and all that kind of stuff? What
I don't understand. You know, what he has to do
to convince the folks that he's illegally blind? For fifty years,
you show up at the office and knock things over
on purpose, and you know, sit in the wrong seat
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and sit on somebody's lap. I mean, what does he do.
I'm sure he's perfected it by now, yet that's got
to be crazy. But I'm just I'm I'm more. I'm
concerned about the people around him that allowed him to
get away with him for fifty years.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Well, all we know is this that this happened in Italy,
by the way, all right, so it's the Italian government
he has to deal with. And what happened was somebody
I think got the impression, wait a minute, he's not blind,
so we're going to keep an eye on him.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Let's see if he's blind or not.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And then they followed him around and they recorded him
shopping visually, inspecting products, paying with cash without any assistance,
and they realized, wait a minute, A blind guy couldn't
do that. Blind guy couldn't pick something up and look
at it and hmm, or reach into his pocket and
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pull out the exact amount of cash and pay for it.
I don't know. Maybe when he was around people he
acted blind. So he's he's over a million dollars in
the hole and more than two hundred thousand dollars in
back taxes because of what he did. They've charged him
(34:14):
with fraud. I've never heard of that in my life, right, somebody,
can you know? I got a bad back?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
You see that all the time. Yeah, yeah, I got
in an accident. My back is killing me. I need
disability whatever it maybe. But to say they for fifty
years he's pretended to be blind to collect that's dedication, though, Fred, you.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Listen, give him credit credit where credit is due. For
you to be able to pull that off for fifty years,
that is impressive. You are a talented guy for you
to be able to act blind for fifty years.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
And unfortunately you're I'm wanna say you're rooting against him.
But he's He's gonna get what he deserves. Now.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
He can see clearly, now, can't he? Yes, he can
now you know something. After doing that, his eyes are
wide open. As we continue on early this morning. Jerry
Harriston Junior will join us when we come back. And
then this is the hour Dodger fans will open the
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phone lines and let you go.
All right, we continue on in good morning, Red Rogan,
Rodney Peanut a and five seventy l a sports. Yep,
we're on early today because the Dodgers are a three
o eight start at the stadium, the insane three oh
eight start.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You love that start, don't you. Fred. It's a strafect
time of day. It's stupid. It's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
As a matter of fact, Ned Colaudia, the man in
the big chair is on the line just popping that
up here, ain't net How stupid is it to have
a three eight start?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
What a question? What a question? You know, what are
you gonna do? You got television which pays a lot
of the freight they want at a certain time. Hey,
you do it? You know you gotta meld around with
what pays the bills. I say it is great for
the pitching, though, because once start to creep, it's tough
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enough to hit the big legs. But you see a
ball come out of sunlight in the shade, good luck especially,
they got movement on it, They got a little drop
to it. That's your hands full as it is, You
got your hands full of lights. At the brightest you
start playing with lights, which is sunlight and then shade
good luck, score early and hang on.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
If there had to be an advantage to anyone, would
it be the home team.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
That well, with this home team, it doesn't matter if
you're the home team. With the road team, it's to
their advantage. But yeah, it's always an advantage, you know.
Although you know what, when you think about teams coming
from two time zones away, or if it was the
East Coast three times away, you know, they're more accustomed
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to playing in the early evening of their day, not
starting at ten o'clock or nine o'clock their time, So
there might be a little body clock advantage. But the
way I see this series, the last one and whoever
is part of the next one, there's very little that
I can I can convince myself that isn't in LA's favor.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, because it is. Let me ask you this, Ned
and I was trying to figure this out the other day.
You look at the Dodger pitching staff right now, and
they're all healthy. Okay, so that's always a big key.
But they are all healthy. This is gonna be one
of the best starting staffs in the last i don't know,
fifteen years in the playoffs. Every one of their guys
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could be an ACE on another team. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It does? I think about it all the time. I'll
go back further than that, and it's painful for the
older Dodger fans, but the sixty six Oreoles came in
swept the Dodgers. Dodgers got two runs I think in
the second or third inning of the very first game,
and then you get another one and it was Jimmy
Palmer and Mike Waher and d McNally and my differend,
(02:53):
Pat Tops and I think we're four, and that was dominant.
I remember being a kid watching that and it was like,
you know, they had no chance. And as I watched
these games, the talent of Snow and the Almamoto in
Glasgow and Kersh and Otani, the talent is at the utmost,
You're right, there would be an ace anywhere else. But
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their game plan to pitch the pitch to weaknesses, to
expose weaknesses on other teams. It's been phenomenal. I mean
it's been a study. It's been PhD study in preparation
slash execution. That's what they do. You hold that the
few men group in Phillies are three for thirty eight
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losses forward Turner and Harper three for thirty eight and
loss and biggest games of the year. Guys riveted in
to look for a certain pitch, to be prepared for something,
to know what their own weaknesses are in and know
that is what they're going to see. And then what
happens They do nothing, nothing that is great planning, tremendous planning,
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analytical plus plus execution that they execute the way they do.
It's a long time before you find four or five
they do the same.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, and I don't think. I mean, obviously everybody still
loves to bang on Dave Roberts every movie makes, but
ned the way they have managed this team, especially the
pitching as as we're talking about, to get to the
point where they're all healthy and fresh and feel like
they are as good as they've ever been at the
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right moment, they played this perfectly net And I don't
know if people realize how you have to really strategize
throughout the season to pull guys back, to let guys go,
to get these innings in, to get them ready. So
at this point in October, they're the best in baseball,
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and it's pretty remarkable to me. To see how they
played this net.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, we say all the time on your show, and
they prove it too. They played the long Bame do
they worry about April September yet to some extent, But
they're not going to put anybody in jeopardy physically. They're
gonna wait, They're gonna use the bullets when they meet
and in October. And that's what they've got. And those
who find fault with Dave Roberts having goodness, gracious, you know,
(05:20):
I mean, I'm in Manhattan, be right now, it's a
beautiful sunny day. Well, people probably say it's raining out
right now. You know. It's it's just the way it goes,
you know, But it's he's done terrific work. The whole
organization has done terrific work, starting with the ownership. And
I worked with Mark Walter for three years. That's the
TV for the entire organization. Mark Walter and everybody would
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say this if asked about their own ownership or the
own ownership would say it. But I don't know anybody
are stand magic Todd Bowley on and on Dave Roberts
in a different way Andrew. The more success they have,
the hungrier they get and I think that's unique. I
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think in pro sports it's so hard. The more success
you can have, or you have it once, chances are
you're gonna take a step. You can take a breath
and go, hey, we can live off this for another
five years, then we'll be back. No, it doesn't go
that way with this group. They win and they know
what they want to win more, and that's what the
Lakers are going to be in for two like they
were back in the day when they were three peeding
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all the time. The more they win, the hungrier they get.
And I can't it seems like it would be an
elementary approach to people in highly successful positions. I don't
find highly rightly findable. It's it's more rare to me
than it exists to the level that they do it.
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But there's no doubt that's the level that they do
it to. It's like they haven't one in fifty years.
That's how they play this series.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Hey, ed, so let's talk to pitching. Let's talk Snell.
Let's talk Yamamoto. Dave goes out and gets Snell in
the first one. Let Yamamoto finish. Now, letting a guy
go all the way is a throwback two days gone by.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
But I got to tell you something. Why not let
him go?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Why if he throws one hundred and twenty pitches, now,
is that going to blow his arm up? Why not
let him finish games if they can?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Absolutely? And once you start to do it, once you
know you can do it, you can do it more
than once. I think they just got they got they
got enough confidence in it, and in some cases enough
lack of confidence in the bullpen. You know, I s Sosaki's
been terrific. Then you had a rough, rough ninth inning
as you rebate did the two young closes in game
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one for boat teams, and so you know, do you
want to go back to back? No, You'd rather give
the kid a chance to catch his breath. Okay, And
the next time you meet him, he's coming out of
a Dodger Stadium bullpen instead of that of the Milwaukee bullpen.
So I think a psychology it worked. I think it
works for Yamamoto. I don't have any doubt Snell could
have finished that game. But once you start to do
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that and feel that that adrenaline and know you can
do it, it opens up a whole another level of play.
I was just talking to a guy the other day
in another sport, in the minor leagues, we would take
our starting pitching and we would have him start some
games in the fourth or fifth inning. Okay, And this
was way before the opener became in the fashion, But
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the idea was, you're going to finish the game. The
toughest outs in any game, percent of the time, come
in the most starting pitchers only get to the ninth
inning once in a blue moon. It's at the days
of Sandy Kofax. Once in a blue moon they get
to But it's a different feeling. And Yamamoto now knows
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that Blake Snell's done it before, he got very close
to knowing it. Once you know that, it adds I
believe it adds so much to your entire confidence base
that you know you can do it. And I think
that you know, it's just another stage that where they're going,
where nobody else is going. Look in the paper, you know,
Look who's starting from Milwaukee the lex few games undecided, undecided, undecided,
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nobody knows because they don't know. They don't even know
who's starting, let alone who's pitching the rest of the game.
Dodgers lying guys up and now they go, hey, you
know what, we may go nine with this character. Let's go.
It's a totally different mindset, and they've got it. I
don't know. I was surprised that they got beat one
(09:38):
game by Philly, and I'll be surprised in the game
they lose the rest of the way. I don't care
who they play in the American League. That's a bold statement,
but I don't know anybody's going to beat them, knowing
who they are, how they play, how they perform, especially
how they prepare. You know, I don't know that they
lose another one would surprise either of you guys if
they lost another one, No.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I wouldn't be I mean the way they've looked, the
way they've kind of steamrolled in it, and some of
these yeah it's EZACTI had a little shaky part of it.
But it doesn't even feel like it's closed. It just
feels like it's just a matter of time. As you mentioned,
they play the long game, and you get into that seventh, eighth,
ninth inning, you know the Dodgers are coming. Here they come,
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and it's got to be demoralizing to the other team.
Ned you mentioned them not naming a starter and undecided.
Is that a you think that's a real undecided or
is it trying to be have some gamesmanship with we're
not gonna name a guy until right before the game starts.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I think yeah, I mean it could be a little
bit of gamesmanship. I have so much respect from Milwaukee
and their manage and staff. It might be a touch
of gamesmanship. But come on, you think it's really gonna matter. No,
you think they're gonna announce somebody at three o'clock that's
gonna go out to the pen and start to throw
for the three to zeraye start and maybe just pitch
(11:00):
an inning, and the Dodgers are gonna say, oh my goodness,
how are we going to attack this? How are we
going to get through this? No, they're probably saying, you know,
tell us when you're ready to tell us. Is not
going to matter. We're still going to be in the
batter spots that will. So what we're starting to hear
whoever you want?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Okay, Well that being said, what we're starting to hear
now we talked about it in the first segment of
the show this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Now you're starting to hear. Okay, if the Dodgers win again.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
That really means that a lot of the owners are
going to fight for a salary cap. They're going to
fight for it, They're going to demand it because they
think it's unfair. But here's the thing. Let's say the
salary cap is three hundred million dollars. The Dodgers are
going to spend three hundred million dollars. Do you think
the Pittsburgh Pirates are going to spend three hundred million
dollars if there's a salary cap. No, So the teams
that spend the money are going to continue to spend it,
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and the teams that don't spend the money are going
to continue not to spend it.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So how does that change this, Well, it doesn't really change.
This is the mindset of teams that spend what they
spend and have their revenue they spend and haven't really
cultivated more revenue than the revenue that they do spend.
That doesn't change. I think everybody's franchised, anybody's had a
franchise for the last five to ten years plus. The
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due of a franchise is massive at this point in time.
But the hunger, and I'll go back to the hunger
of Mark Walter in the group. The hunger doesn't match,
nor does the scouting in the player development and things
like that. So every time they make a big investment,
they cringe because they don't really know if the big
investment is going to give one hundred percent of dollar Ohio,
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Tony's given them, you know, five dollars for every dollar,
and it's going to change things. People will do it
to protect one another from each other type of thing.
But is there going to change anybody doing anything. No,
it's I don't I don't believe it is may give
some of the teams with less red do a little
bit more money to spend, But does that mean that
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they that they can develop, that they can sign, that
they can put guys in the big leagues, that they
are a place people want to play. Look at the
Dodgers situation. Okay, you play in a great city, you
got great weather, you have a franchise of tradition, you
have a franchise where players that you will team up
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with are championship players. You're gonna be protected. You're not
going to be the only person standing there that the
whole thing's going to fall to you. It falls to
everybody on this club and they're going to pay you
more than anybody else is going to pay you. And
the reason to say no is what it isn't. There
isn't That's what they do. That's why they do what
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they do. They made trades. You know, Mookie wasn't going
to sign there. They gave up a little bit. They
got a Hall of Famer and returns for a decade.
You know, Freddy Atlanta wouldn't give them one more year.
How about La Boom here Southern California gives off He
goes another Hall of Famer show right down the road. Okay,
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hey didn't say came up here Boom. Biggest contract in
the history of the sport and fulfilling it to the
max degree, even with a little bit of struggle offensively
right now, doesn't even it doesn't even make a difference
at this point in time. But on and on and
on it as you go through it, it's the perfect
It's the perfect place at the perfect time, with the
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perfect leadership, because nobody wants to go anywhere else. Any
player that has talent. Everybody's got talent. Don't give you
a big a qualifier. Any player that's got above average
major league talent and they're a free agent ninety nine
percent of a master agent. Have you talked to LA?
Have you talked to the Dodgers? It's the place to be?
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You can't say that, and I was. The last place
I was was the place to be too for a
period of time. Sadly is no long longer the place
to play, the place to be, you know what I'm
talking about? Up north? Where else is the place to be?
If the teams that are still playing, are those the
place to be? No, there's only one place to be,
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and typically a place to be like getting any club
or any restaurants, you're going to pay a premium to
be there. Well, this goes backwards. They're going to pay
a premium to have you there, and it just keeps going.
The next time a National League West team dominates the
LA Dodgers, you guys will be saying to me, okay,
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because I won't be here, and there's no shay, I
can live in another twenty years, I still won't be here.
You know, it doesn't happen like that. They have put
you the perfect thing in place. People want to be here,
the team wins, the players are great people, great teammates,
organization cares, they're hungry to win. They're not going to
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take a step back off they go. It's the most
phenomenal thing I've ever seen in sport. And that's no exaggeration.
Peo will exaggerate all the time and say all the
best I've ever seen, all this, all that player, organization, game, whatever.
But I can I truly say this. I mean, I
examine this stuff every day for the last forty some years.
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There's nothing like what they have and you cannot take
it for granted. And the thing that stands out to me,
but I said earlier, they're hunger for victory. They may
have a prade here in two weeks. What Mark Walter
be thinking when he gets back to his full time job.
I want to do it again next year. Let's go,
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how are we going to do it? Yeah, not everybody
does that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Isn't that the greatest thing? And why you know you
hear guys talk, That's why I wanted to be a Dodger.
They're going to chance to win it every year, chance
to be in the conversation every single year. And you're right,
I mean, you think about the teams that have wanted
in the Pat Where's we're the Nationals now? You know,
Boston broke everything up.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You know, it's just just the Yankees, the Yankees. Yeah,
on and on. There's nothing like it, and it's not
to be taken for granted. And you know, and the
guy that sits in the middle of it all is
Dave Roberts. He has no upside. All he has is downside.
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And what he does is he stays at the utmost side,
day in, day out, always. And you know, again, it's
it's it's a special time and place.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, people think it's easy.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
People think it's easy when you have people think it's
easy when you manage a team like this, or you're
coaching a team like this that has the amount of
talent and the payroll and all that. Though it's an
easy job, anybody, no, no, not anybody can do it.
It takes the right personality to get along with all
those personalities and how to manage those egos and how
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to manage the professionalism of the guys that are coming there.
So it's it's a full time job and it's not
an easy job. You mentioned uh, yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Did you have?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You said there's no downside there's no downs I mean,
there's no upside, there's only downside. Yeah yeah, so expected
to win it every single year. Now, you mentioned Otani
in his in his struggles, and it's still you know,
you think about that. The Dodgers are, like I said,
they they've won the first two games. It feels like domination.
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That dominated Cincinnati, they really dominated Philly, and Otani really
hasn't done much offensively. People were suggesting, maybe, uh, change
it up and move him second, let Mookie lead off
for a couple of games, see if he can get
back in rhythm. Is that the right thing to do,
especially with a team that's winning right now with the
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formula even struggling.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Only if a Tani goes to day with his hey
I feel better hitting second, and Mookie says, hey, I'll
hit first, whatever, then don't. Okay, you do it, But
you know, other than that, I'm not doing it. I don't.
I wouldn't dictate anything that we're going to do this
because of that, every time he comes to the play
there is fear in the other side. This is not
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somebody who's forty years old or nothing to get forty
year olds, but this isn't somebody who's you know, you're
wondering if they're starting to tail, if they're starting to
elute their abilities, if age is starting to catch up,
if the length of the season and his season as
a pitcher at it, you know that this is not
the same player. Don't buy it. I think this guy
can change a game in a heartbeat, and I think
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the other team knows it. Pitch them carefully. They've pitched
them well, but he's probably the only player that they
have really pitched as well as a Dodgers usually pitched
nine players. Well, that's part of the game. You know
what it's going to be a game most likely between
now and the parade. You know, if that happens, that
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this guy is going to be the dominant player in
the game. If fear alone of having him, how do
they pitch You know, they don't pitch him like he's
the eight hitter or the nine hitter and hitting two fifteen. No,
they don't even you know, they probably look at what
his average is in the postseason right now, but that
doesn't mean that they think they can get away with anything.
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He just doesn't have that type of hole to a swing,
chasing a little bit anxious, a little bit human nature,
a little bit. But I think he's you know, if
he wants to change and hit second and MOOKI says hey,
like Mookie typically does, say whatever you need to do,
I'll do Okay, fine, you do that. But then you
know you do have two lefties back to back too
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with him and Freddie. Right now you're going left right
left and left right left right. You know, we just
start to mess with that. That that changes a little
bit of the dynamic. But again, I don't know, I
don't know that it matters. I just you don't typically
find the pitching as deep as it is and as
solid as it is with a lineup that as you
get asked and set it out all season long, you
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know the key we know who the key guys are,
the guys that are you know, the name guys at
the top of the order. You know Edmunds and te
O and the key K and Miggie and all these
other guys will you know, other teams don't have those
players either. Those players are supposed to be the other
team's top players. That's where they fit. And then you've
(21:32):
got three guys on top of that that are Hall
of famers. So it's a it's an unequal situation. And
thankfully for l A and the Dodger fans, it doesn't
shade it. Sits on their side.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And that appreciate you coming on. Thanks for your time
this morning. Really really do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I hope you're enjoying us, Fred, I hope this is
the best baseball season you've ever had.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Having a great time. To be honest with you, I've
never seen him so relaxed, Ned, I've never seen him
so relaxed. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
And if they get beat sometimes, don't don't. Don't worry
about it. Okay, don't worry. He's gonna be Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm feeling pretty good. Gotta be honest, I feel pretty good.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm gonna I'm gonna unblock your phone number.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
All right, Ned, take it easy. Those are pretty strong
words from that, and not about I'm blocking my phone number.
I mean that is a real Rodney when he's sitting there,
and I'm not sure they'll lose another game.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Right, I mean, think about it. Who's gonna be? Are
the Mariners or the Blue Jays really gonna they're done?
That's not even gonna. I mean, they don't need to
play that series. This is this is the game, right,
this is the game today. This is it because if
they win to day, I'm with him. I don't think
they lose. All right, let's get more into that. Let's
(23:02):
talk more about Otani.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
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Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah ah.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It is a throwback Thursday. It is also Game Day.
Rodney p. Fred Rogan on Early Today nine to twelve, Come.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
On, come on, all right, So we talked about Otani,
and we've been talking about Otana in the leadoff spot,
and I made the comment in the last series he's
a liability. Everybody, hold on, he's a liability. Now if
we just look at his performance, he's a liability in
(24:00):
the leadoff spot, then you could make the argument, well,
Andy Paez was a liability to the bottom of the
order because he wouldn't hit in his hat size got
to hit the other night, contributed defensively though, you know
you need him out there. Okay, let's go back to
old Tony So you got a guy that is acknowledged
as the most feared hitter in baseball and he's not hitting,
(24:23):
And really you could make the argument that if he
was hitting, I mean, I was gonna say, the Dodgers
wouldn't lose it. Probably not gonna lose anyway, but they
certainly win by more. Look at it like that. But
Net said something, Rodney, and I think it's important to
keep this in mind that even if he's not hitting,
(24:44):
and he's not he is the most feared man in
the game of baseball. He just instills fear in you
by standing there. So even since he hasn't been hitting,
we've seen times or they've walked him to get to Muki,
(25:04):
And at this point, I'm like, yeah, walkome, get to Muki.
This is great, this is fantastic. They're so afraid of
what he might do, what he could do, that he
instills such fear in people that even though he's not hitting,
when you really think about it, you can't move him
(25:26):
anywhere because he terrifies people.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, I mean, he's still Otani, right, you still know
what he's done. At least since he's been in a
Dodger uniform in the last couple of years. You know
that this guy can erupt at any time and hit
three straight bombs on you, at three straight plate appearances,
at any time in a game, and so you have
to pitch him accordingly. And to think that, oh, he's
(25:53):
struggling now means he's going to struggle the next time.
All it takes is one hit. All it takes is
one big hit and all of a sudden and he's back
in his groove and all, now, what are you doing?
You cannot you can absolutely not get over confident or
cocky or whatever you may be when it comes to
him and think that he's struggling, So he's going to
(26:15):
struggle the next time up. The next time up is
the time that he will erupt on you. And so no,
that's right. He's he's a he's a dangerous man that
regardless if he goes oh for the next fifteen, it's
that sixteenth a bat that you better be aware of.
And a guy like that, And I do I threw
(26:38):
it out there just to hear what he wanted to say,
But I do think the also, the fear of him
leading off a game, it just it also creates, it
creates some sort of aura about the Dodgers and him
as he steps in the box as your first hitter.
There's there's so much pressure that he puts on an
(27:00):
opposing team, an imposing pitcher when he is the leadoff guy,
or you're you know, battling that eighth hitter with one
out and you don't want to get to the top
of the order because Otani's coming up. That's still a
major factor. So yeah, at some point, and that's a
scary thing I think for the Brewers or whoever else
(27:21):
they play in the World Series is that this guy
hadn't even really got going yet and the Dodgers are
still dominating teams.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So our buddybell plunkin as Dave Roberts, he said, the
team's winning, Otani's not hitting. What do you have to
say about that?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Well?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I do, And I think the contribution is not just
by batting average either, certainly him being in the lineup posting.
I think getting the walks allowing for Muki to have
opportunities to drive runs in, that's contribution. So for me,
I think the first two games in Milwaukee has a
BET's have been fantastic, and so that's what I've been
(28:00):
looking forward. That's what I'm counting on. So I still
stand by that, and we got a long way to
go to win the World Series.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, did follow up on that. What do you think
has been better about show Hayes at bats this series?
Is there anything different that you've seen that the Brewers
have done that the Phillies were not doing, or that
he was able to react to better than Well.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I think he's I think he's controlling the strike zone.
I think he's still staying aggressive when he gets his pitch.
You know, there was a line out to the right
field that there was three walks, there was you know,
the base hit in a run. You know, situational opportunities.
So those are positives for me. You know, you can
(28:41):
only take what they give you. So for me, I
think he's in a good spot right now.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Roddie, what do you think of that? Yeah, there's more. Again,
there's more contributions than to him just hitting a home
run or hitting a double. You know, his presence at
the leadoffs, seting the table for Mooki and Freddie and
Will Smith and Taoskar and those guys. It is a
(29:07):
big factor of how you pitch to him and then
how do you pitch to the next guy. So it's contribution,
as Dave said, are more than just him getting three
hits in a ball game. It is the fear factor,
It is the pitch count, it is all those things
that add up when you've got a guy like that
(29:27):
leading off for you.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
All right, next hour, Jerry Harrison, Junior Sports and at LA.
He's going to join us right at the top of
the hour. Also next hour, well up in the phone
lines and take some calls from you.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
The one story I want to mention today that has
nothing to do with the Dodgers, only one.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We're on three hours.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
This has nothing to do with the Dodgers, and when
we talk about it, I'm wondering if you'll even believe it.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
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Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh yes, yes we do. Rodney beat fred Rogan want
to throwback Thursday.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Let's go, Freddy, come on, all right, the only story
that has nothing to do with the Dodgers today. It'll
be real quick and we'll come back. Jerry Harrison will
be on the show. Then we'll take some calls on
the Dodgers. Listen to this and you tell me if
you've ever heard anything like this. There's a many is
seventy years old, all right, seventy years old. So he's
lived a good life and apparently in pretty good shape
(31:03):
for fifty of his seventy years. Fifty of seventy years
he has pretended to be totally blind so he could
collect disability payments. He has collected over a million dollars
(31:24):
in disability because he has claimed he was completely blind
and he is not blind, and somebody realized he's not blind,
and now he is basically going to have to go
(31:44):
to court because the claim here is fraud. He has
defrauded people giving him these disability payments because he was blind,
yet he was never blind. Have you ever heard anything
like that? For fifty years he has claimed he's blind.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
God, No, I've never heard anything like that. I mean,
it's one thing to fake injuries what people do all
the time, but for fifty years pretending you're blind to
collect this ability. So obviously the people around him have
to be in on it too. For him to go someplace,
(32:30):
or how does he go and collect? Does he show
up with Cain and all that kind of stuff? What
I don't understand. You know, what he has to do
to convince the folks that he's illegally blind? For fifty years,
you show up at the office and knock things over
on purpose, and you know, sit in the wrong seat
(32:54):
and sit on somebody's lap. I mean, what does he do.
I'm sure he's perfected it by now, yet that's got
to be crazy. But I'm just I'm I'm more. I'm
concerned about the people around him that allowed him to
get away with him for fifty years.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Well, all we know is this that this happened in Italy,
by the way, all right, so it's the Italian government
he has to deal with. And what happened was somebody
I think got the impression, wait a minute, he's not blind,
so we're going to keep an eye on him.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Let's see if he's blind or not.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And then they followed him around and they recorded him
shopping visually, inspecting products, paying with cash without any assistance,
and they realized, wait a minute, A blind guy couldn't
do that. Blind guy couldn't pick something up and look
at it and hmm, or reach into his pocket and
(33:49):
pull out the exact amount of cash and pay for it.
I don't know. Maybe when he was around people he
acted blind. So he's he's over a million dollars in
the hole and more than two hundred thousand dollars in
back taxes because of what he did. They've charged him
(34:14):
with fraud. I've never heard of that in my life, right, somebody,
can you know? I got a bad back?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
You see that all the time. Yeah, yeah, I got
in an accident. My back is killing me. I need
disability whatever it maybe. But to say they for fifty
years he's pretended to be blind to collect that's dedication, though, Fred, you.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Listen, give him credit credit where credit is due. For
you to be able to pull that off for fifty years,
that is impressive. You are a talented guy for you
to be able to act blind for fifty years.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
And unfortunately you're I'm wanna say you're rooting against him.
But he's He's gonna get what he deserves. Now.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
He can see clearly, now, can't he? Yes, he can
now you know something. After doing that, his eyes are
wide open. As we continue on early this morning. Jerry
Harriston Junior will join us when we come back. And
then this is the hour Dodger fans will open the
(35:27):
phone lines and let you go.
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