October 2, 2025 • 44 mins
Roggin and Rodney talk about the Dodgers sweeping the Reds, if a new pitcher has emerged, what to expect in Philly and more + the Fan that made the big catch joins!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, here we go, Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on
a five seventy LA Sports. Great news. The Dodgers wrapped
it up last night. But I'm sad, Rodney. I'm a
little sad today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I was waiting for today. Yeah, I'm sad for today.
How your reaction was going to be, Well, here's what sad. Okay,
go ahead, here's my reaction withdrawals. I miss being out
of Dodger Stadium. I'm suffering with drawls. You wanted to
go for a Thursday day, Frank, Well.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I just think we should go out there even if
there's no.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Ninety of the audience would object with you and are
very happy that we are not at the stadium today.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh no, no, don't get me wrong. They needed to
win last night. They did what they had to do.
I just think we should be able to go out
there every day now, whether it's a game or not.
We should just be at the stadium doing the show
every day. Because I got to tell you what, the
last couple of days were fun. They were a lot
of fun being out there, and even though nobody was there,
it was fun being there.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That place just puts you in a mood. Then it
I mean, I I tell people all the time, whenever
you it's weird, it really is. I don't Maybe the
only other place that kind of makes me feel that
way is the Coliseum when I walk in there. Just
really that I get when I get to the Colice. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying, because I played there and I
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you know, just the memories and all that stuff and
just walking there and seeing it and feeling it and
all that. But you know, doctor stated, it puts you
in a mood. I mean, they call it blue Heaven,
but it does put you in a rating mood when
walking too that stadium. So no, I get it, I
get it. But but the alternative, fred is is much better. Yeah,
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that we're moving on to Philly.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now, Okay, as scripted so far, well basically a scripted
so far. Beating the Reds was scripted. Uh, hitting the
ball was scripted. Starting petching certainly was scripted. But then
they went with our plan last night. They went with
our plan, and that listen That means you should not
listen to OZ because they went with our plan, and
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I thought, this is going to be great. Yamamoto does
his work. Now we'll bring in Shan that's the guy.
I kept saying, let's bring him.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
In before you get to that. Can we just because
there are people talking again. You know, I don't know
what it is people have about Dave Roberts what happened.
But but no, I'm just saying there's certain there's a
there's a little underbelly of people saying, why do you
take ya? He gave you every opportunity to keep going,
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every opportunity to finish out that any and he couldn't
do it and had to go get him. So there
was like grumbling, why he left me? He left him
in two batters extra, I believe, and uh, he started
to you could see he started to lose it a
little bit. Had to go get him in the middle
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of the inning. So I just I just had to
acknowledge that it's like, what he can't win?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh? No, they win the World Series this year. Yeah,
day after the World Series, day after the parade, we'll
take calls. Right, let's wrap up the Dodger season. They've
won the World Series again. If we take forty calls,
five we'll say fire Dave Roberts. Despite the fact they
we'll have won again. You gotta fire the guy. He
just gotta go, and I'll tell you why. If you
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remember seven years ago, I'll never forgive him for that.
It's like wow, wow, Okay, So they put she in
in the game and he struggled. Now I don't know
if that's indicative of that's what's going to happen every
single time, or last night he struggled a little bit,
but I thought, oh no, there it was. Now you
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know what he's been tainted. It's kilt by association. If
you just sit out there with those guys, that's going
to happen to you. You can't even sit there. You
have to be in a different area and warm up.
So I fell badly for him. But now this silver
lining in all of this, and we're all prisoners of
the moment, so everybody's gonna feel a certain way. My god, Suzaki,
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oh my oh, that that was like you traded for
a closer last night? What are the best in baseball?
Because he was spectacular. Here's Dave Roberts talking about.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It, is Kie your closer?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Now?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, I trust him and he's gonna be pitching and leverage.
So that was, you know, the more you pitch guys
and play guys you learn more. So, like I said
about Yamamoto, I don't think the moment's going to be
too big for rookie.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, it certainly didn't seem like it last night.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It didn't. It didn't. Now Listen, that's now two outings
that he came in and did pretty well, actually really dominant.
This series is a different animal, Fred, and then we're
gonna get into it. This is a different animal because
now this is a team that they feel can match
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you player for player. They feel they've got as much
firepower as you do, and they feel they have the
best fans in sports. I've been there, I've lived it,
so they absolutely feel that way. There is a chip
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as big as I don't know what on their shoulders
in Philadelphia, and that crowd will be rocking for those
first two games. And so for a young player, young
kid there's not really been in that environment that's gonna be.
They're gonna keep a close watch when he comes in
the game to see how he responds, because if he
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walks one person, that crowd will be all over him.
And remember with the setup in Philly, is that before
he comes into game, he's gonna hear it from the crowd, bullpen, Yeah,
where the bullpen is located. Yeah, you're gonna get it.
So it is a test of wills. Playing in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I read a great piece in The Athletic this morning
about Suzaki and why he is where he is at,
and it was really interesting because it talked about how
he came out and we both saw him in Japan,
and he was wild. He was inconsistent, he couldn't find
the plate as he progressed through his starts that he
was gone. Then his shoulder bothered him, and he was
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gone for a while, which we suspected, and I think
he was confirmed right that he had been hurt for
a while. He didn't tell anybody, right, Remember that I
didn't want to tell anybody. Yeah, I didn't want to
hurt the team. But here's what I read that was
fascinating to me. So as he is recovering, I think
he was ready to go long before he returned. But
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he was concerned and he remember he thought the ball
was too big and it was different and everything was
different here. So they sent him to Arizona and had
him worked with the Dodger pitching coach and pitching instructor
there and they worked on everything. They worked on his mechanics,
they worked on his grip. They just worked on his
body motion and his movement and his delivery because he
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was thrown like ninety Rodney, maybe mid nineties when he
was here earlier, he's thrown over one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now, what do you mean mid nineties? What he was
always one hundred guy.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I think he slowed down a little bit when the
shoulder was bothering and they said.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
It was yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But in Japan he was throwing off yeh yeah, yeah h.
His whole deal was he throws a hundred and he's
got the splitter that drops off a table at ninety
five or ninety right, So his stuff was so electric,
but he was doubted as one hundred mile an hour guy.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Okay, But here when he was struggling, things were off.
So they sent him to Arizona. And if you remember,
the reason he signed with the Dodgers is because he
wanted to go to a situation where if something was
wrong they could fix. If everything was good, but they
noticed something that could give him a little bit more,
they would do it. He wanted to go to a
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place where he felt they could make him be the
very best. And when he was in Arizona after the
shoulder and he was throwing in stuff, they really tweaked
a lot of what he did. It might not be
obvious to you, but they tweaked a lot of it.
And this is the result of what you're now seeing.
He went there in Arizona and worked, not like he
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just went down there and started throwing. They worked with
him and tweaked stuff. Now you're seeing the guy that
the Dodger signed.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I mean it's very similar to a lot of sports. Specifically,
it's similar to football, you know, playing as long as
I did. You you know, you see a lot of guys,
a lot of quarterbacks come through college through the NFL
and oh that guy's got a cannon. Oh he's got
a canon, and everything they do is trying to throw
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the ball through the wall. Right. But in football in
the NFL, you got to also have touch. You gotta
be able to throw it up over the linebacker's head
and before the safety gets there, which takes touch and feel.
It's like getting a flop shot in golf, right, That
one hundred yard shot is where the golfers make all
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their money. That and putting. It's not the three hundred
yard drive. It's that approach shot. How close can you get?
And so that happens a lot in the NFL, and
with young electric pitchers like Suzaki, when you throw in
a hundred, probably he was probably throwing one hundred at
seventeen years old. Right, That's what you lean on because
nobody can hit it at that age, and then you
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get to a point where, okay, they're better, people can
hit that. I gotta I gotta, I gotta learn how
to pitch, to learn how to pitch. And the thing
about the Dodgers, and we hear this from you know,
from everybody, but think about the Dodgers. It is not
just sending a guy to Oklahoma City. It's not just
sending the guy to Rancho Cucamonga. They got a whole
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setup in Arizona that guys go. It's like a this
guy going to the lab, right, It's like going to
the lab at Campbell Back Ranch, and I'm going to
really work on some specific things there. I don't necessarily
need to go to Oklahoma City and face and he does.
You got to get real competition. But for the most part,
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I'm going to go to the lab and get myself
worked out as I'm rehabbing, and that's what he did.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's exactly what he did, and then you see the result. Yeah,
right now, if the bullpen gate opens, and again everybody's
a prisoner of the moment. But if that gate opens,
right now, there's only one person after last night you
want to see runout.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
There's one.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Are you done? Are you done already with Emmett?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
No, I'm fine. He gets another crack at it. Okay,
he gets another shot, for God's sake because you champion
him so hard. Now you know one rough night he
did struggle a little bit though I think it was
just you know, it's I know, people don't want to
get people to pass. Let's see athletes making a lot
of money, as people say, But everybody's still human and
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it's a different it's a different muscle that you have
to use brain and body when you come out of
the pen as opposed to start and pitch it. And
it's an art form to learn how to do that.
Not making excuses, but it is different, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Different, So that's okay. I mean, you know we still
have confidence in him. Keep this in mind, we've not
even seen class now, we've not haven't seen him yet.
He hasn't pitched, he hasn't been in a game. Yeah,
he hasn't even stepped on the mound. He's still sitting there.
And when we get to this next series, here's what
it'll be interesting. So Kersha, I'll be back right Kershall
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being a roster yep. Yeah, we've had a great year,
by the way. Yeah, oh, I would start him. That's
not gonna happen, but I would. I'd give him the ball.
The way he's pitched this year, I am with him.
So if you got four, he's one of your four. Well,
well usually it's three. I mean most of the time
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it's gonna be three, four probably, but four is ready
to go. But three are your top three guys. So
you would you would run him out there before plasnow,
before Glass now because I will last now right now,
would be the fourth guy? Yeah, I would. And you know,
I know that they're not gonna do that. I'm sure
they're not, but I would. I think he's had a
hell of a year, I really do. He's had a
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much better year than anybody even considered happening. Now they'll
probably use him a bullpen, but I would, I would
trust him. I'd rather die he.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Would just be the guy of the three. When I'm
talking to three, I'm talking Yamamoto, Snell, Otani, right, the
three of you know if he's the fourth that you
wouldn't let go that long. Right, You're you're gonna ride Yamamoto,
You're gonna ride Otani, You're gonna ride Blake Snell as
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long as they can go. You know Kershaw and his
age and where he is now, and and you know
he's he's pitching different, which is the incredible part is
that he's evolved. As his body has evolved and his
age has evolved, he's evolved into a great pitcher, even
more so than what he was because he doesn't have
the velocity that he once had. So he's pitching smarter.
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But you don't let him go into the sixth inning.
You know, he gives you five where the other guy is.
You want him to go deep, deep, deep, especially now
where the bullpen is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, so look at it like this, it'll be o
tany we know, and then it'll be snow Yamamoto. Right,
that's how they'll go. So all right, oh, Tani, how
long will he go? You think I'll let him go
seven innings? Oh yeah, all right, So let's say he
goes seven innings. Now we have the eight to nine
issue again, will it be Vessia? Vessie looked okay, Dave
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Roberts put them back in, put him back in it
got out of the jam. Yeah, mm hmm. So he
put him in, got out of the jam. That was
a boost for him. So now you got Vessia. You're
good with Sazaki and you have Glass. Now Shan and
I guess Kershaw is relievers.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, I think you gotta. It's not. It's not clear
cut like it's been in a few of the playoffs
runs that the Dodgers have had, because I think it's
going to depend on the situation. I think it's it
really depends on the situation. Dodgers are up like they
were up with the Reds. They can experiment, they can
play around with it. But remember the Phillies are a
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different animal because if you experiment too much, all of
a sudden, you look up in the bases loaded and
swarves up and he just runs into one he can
and he can accidentally run into one on anybody on anybody,
and that's including Otani, Yamamoto and Snell. He can run
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into one. He's that good of a hitter, so he
can run into one. And you don't want to get
caught in that situation where you're up eight to three
and all of a sudden you bring somebody in into seven,
they walk to and there's a three run bomb. That's
what you gotta be careful with. With the with the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, I still maintain this, and uh, well, time will
prove if I'm right or wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
The s Tanner, Scott, get me run. Let me ask
you that real quick before the break.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
But I was gonna, you know what, We're gonna save
that for the other side because I was going to
ask you a question about that. Let's not even fool
it now, let's just get the break. Oh by the way,
Dodger fans, who is your closer? Okay? Who was your
closer after what you saw last night? Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy? And who do you
trust in the bullpen you get to make a move.
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Who are the guys you trust? And who is your closer?
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy? All right,
when we come back, we're going to talk about your
Tanner Scott question and my prognostication about the Phillies. Talk
about that real quick. Then we'll get to Tanner Scott.
Then we'll get your calls on who the closer should be.
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By the way, Cleveland and Detroit are underway. Winner of
this game advances. Jack Flaherty is pitching for the Tigers
in the deciding game.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Love some Jack Flaherty. He gave us everything he had
when he played for the Dodgers. Went back to Detroit,
rooting for him, rooting for him, like Jack, He's a
good guy. All right, No scoretop of first. There here's
my feeling on the Phillies. And I think I mentioned
in the past. I know it's going to be tough,
and really that could be the World Series. Dodgers Phillies,
that could be the World Series. I look at it
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like this. The Dodgers hit the Phillies pitching the last
time they played.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
They hit it. To me, that's the key. The philly
is gonna hit. But I'll take the Dodger pitchers right
now over the Phillies the starters. The Dodgers hit the
Phillies the last time they played.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
That means they can hit Philadelphia pitching and I'm gonna
bet I'm gonna bet on the Dodger pitchers to slow
down the Phillies. That's what I'm saying. I'll take the
dog the Philly hitters.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That doesn't that doesn't mean anything. Last time they played them,
they hit the Phillies. No, it doesn't matter. They're the
same animal, but they're the same it's a new animal.
It's a new animal, and it's a new feeling. It's
a new everything. Every game is not played the same way,
so so and that and that. Then why are we
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even playing this series? Fred? Because they they played well
against the Phillies on the Phillies correct, So why are
we even playing the series? It's not even gonna be
close according to you.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well that's my that's my question. Yes, I agree with you,
Dodgers to win the series. It's not even gonna be
close though, according to you, it's not even gonna go
five games. I'll tell you that maybe Philly gets one.
Philly gets one, gentleman sweet in a five game series.
Why not, let's get done and get out of here.
That's what I said. Let's get finished and keep moving.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
My point is just because you had success gets someone
in the time before, you don't think they make adjustments.
You don't think they look at it. Oh yeah, they
hit this and they hit that. They're gonna make adjustments, right,
And it's how you make adjustments. But it's no guarantee
because you hit them last time that you're gonna hit
them this time.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Okay, that's absurd. Well you know what, then you be
a buzzkill. That's fine. Then you be that way, fine, Rodney.
I want everybody to know Rodney's a buzzkill. That's right.
That's how you know.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's not gonna be easy. I know people want to
say and then hopefully that if this season has taught
us anything, nothing is easy. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But I think I think they're gonna On paper, it
is a very different matchup. You can make the argument
they are the two best teams in the postseason. I
think the Dodgers are gonna handle them. I do, And
I think the way they played against them last time
will come into play here because that was impressive. And
that's just when they were coming out of that monster
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slump they were in. They were starting to hit, and
they hit good pitching for Philadelphia, So we'll see now,
Tanner Scott, you brought that up, and your question to
me was, you know, when are you gonna put him in?
But the question I was going to ask you was
is he even on the next roster?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, this five game series, he's gonna be on there.
How do you use him? I don't know. Didn't sniff
an outing in those two games, didn't even I don't
think they even called his name or thought about him
in the first two games against the Rids. Given the
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way those two games went with the Reds, I'm nervous
about anybody coming out there, you know right now because you,
like you mentioned earlier, I think you said it to
me off air that you go, you go to the bullpen,
something happens to you.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You're reflected with something out there.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Something happens to you when you go out there.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
They should not look. You know what, if you're going
to be a reliever in tonight's game, the club out,
then the dugout you throw underneath. Just come running out
of the dugout. There's no call of the pen for you.
You be into the building throwing because we're not putting
anybody out there because something happens to you. Maybe you
know what, Maybe they need to sage it or something.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Maybe maybe we need to bring maybe that lady we
had about eight years ago that came on and when
the Dodgers were going through their slump.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And the White Witch.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yes, yes, maybe the White Witch needs to play a
visit to the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, do something. Everybody, grab a rabbit's foot out there
and rub it or rub whatever you want out there,
just to shake it off to change it. Yeah, all right,
So who should the closer beat? Are we all prisoners
of the moment here? And who do you trust when
you go to the bullpen? Eight six six nine mark
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in Glendale. Appreciate you holding Who is it?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Guys, First of all, fight on Rodney, fight on Yeah.
I think I think yeah, I think Sasaki is your
best bet. I'm a little hesitant, like friend Fred suggested
during Glass Now he can be wild, and I think
it's putting a starter in a reliever's position like sheehan
last night. It's tough, But I think Sasak's you gotta
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go to. But you've got to have so many other
than him, because Philly's gonna wear out your bullpen. I
don't know who it's going to be. Uh, Dave Roberts
knows he's got a better as good as anybody else.
Tryning is better. They changed his mechanics and he with
a lot better last time. So those are the two
guys I'm gonna go with invest.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, so you gotta go Trining, Vessia and Sazaki appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Thanks Mark. Vote for Blake trying, and I didn't think
he'd get any votes today. I think he redeemed himself
a little bit. Okay, all right, a little bit. Let's
got out of Compton. Albert's on the line. Albert, thanks
for holding. Who will it be?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Hey, fathers, Well, you know, probably go with the obvious choice.
I think he should go with Sosaki the way that
he's been pitching, you know, but I also think with
the way that the bullpen has been very shaky, there's
only one obvious answer if it's not a Saki, and
that's k k Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Get him out there with that, Albert, Let's go to
work with that. Love that. See, that's what we need.
We need creative thinking like that at a wrinkle, that's
a rip and it's Key k Hardanden's coming out of
the bolt, coming out. Oh man, he might stun him
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for two innings. Well, let's put it like this. He's
actually thrown a lot of innings this year along with
Mickey Rojas. They are the the two extra pitchers on
the staff.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, the facto closers.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, all right, let's go. Let's go to downy. Michael,
appreciate you holding all right. You got to make a decision.
Who is your closer and who do you trust?
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Hey, Jens Hider today, thanks for taking a call. I
believe that we have to go with Saki, Rookie Sazaki heavy.
But Rodney was mentioning something before the break about this
is different animal that we need to think a little
bit differently compared to like regular season. I think we
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should trust rookie at least for one game, seven, eight,
nine innings and forget about the whole you know, long
guys and mid guy or whatever like that, bring in
and shut him down. Just hopefully let our start to
go six innings strong and then keep the gas pressed
and let it go.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Thanks Michael. Here's the thing about that idea here, all right,
but you like that idea though, let him go.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I liked him out there and let him go.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I liked it. I loved it. I don't love it anymore. Uhh,
I do not love it anymore. Because if he's going
to be your closer, then he's got to close. You
can't run him out there for three innings and tomorrow
night he comes back and pitches anything, it won't happen.
If he's the closer and he's going to go one
inning of the game, that's fine. If you start running
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him out there now for three innings, he's done the
next night, and who's going to close? And the thing
he said when he came on the air, he said,
you know, I would go with Saki. Then he corrected
it and said Tozaki, no, you were right. I would
go with Sak too. As much as possible. I would
drink it if some of those other guys went in
to the game, I would start drinking sake just to
try to get through it. We're kind of there. I
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was wondering when that was gonna come up. All right,
wait here, come on, Vince, who are you going with.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Fred?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
It's a pleasure to have be on the phone with you.
I call you guys, every year, and it's just such
a blessing to be here again in the postseason for
the closer. We got to go Rokie. I mean everyone
said it. The guy's he's got the stuff right now.
We gotta trust him. I don't care if he hasn't
done it before, he's doing it now. And as far
as who I trust, you know, what I saw yesterday
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is I trust Dave Roberts. And it's taken me a
long time to get to this place. I was an
armchair quarterback or arm tracks for a long time. But
Dave Roberts went out there, he knew what he saw
out of she In and he's making all the right decisions.
I think you gotta trust Dave Roberts and one other
guy that's going to be a huge factor in that
Bullpen is going to be the goat himself eighteen years
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and then the preparation everything coming to a close here
playing cut shop.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
All right, Thanks Vince, appreciate it. I like the way
he set that up. I got a really good feeling
now about this Dodger team because Vince made his yearly
call he calls once a year, yeah, during the playoffs.
So now he's checked in now it's good to go.
Now we're revy. Hey, come on now, all right, wait,
this is not this is not our Angela from Hawaii.
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She's in Sandy? Is she gone?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
What happened to Angela? I just popped Angela up and it
said she was in San Diego? Is that Angela from Hawaii?
Who's in San Diego?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Adam?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I don't know, but either way, you hung up on
her friend. I didn't hang up on. Oh, she's back here,
answering the phone again. I didn't hang up on all right,
punched her up. She's up now, all right, Angela there?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Hey guys, Hey.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Wait a minute, are you Angela from Hawaii?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Or Angela's right?
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Hey, that's my girl right there.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And what's happening?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Why are you in San Diego?
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Because I had to go down there and raise up
the rent on them padre tenants.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh okay, that's why you're in San Diego. Did you
move from Hawaii?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Man, all right, what do you what did you get
san Diego from? Fred?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It says she's in San Diego? Are you man? Where
are you?
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Well?
Speaker 9 (27:31):
Last week I was in hala Eva and this this
week I'm in Kuna Kakai.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
All right, Well, if she's in kana ka Kai, why
does it say san Diego?
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Maybe she wants to talk about the Padres some more.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I think you're reading it wrong, Fred.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Like I screened the call, I'll take full responsibility.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Angela, I thought you said san Diego.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
No, No, was that a test.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Like I'm supposed to know? Of course you're for Hawaii.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Man, all right, Angela, have you been drinking?
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Not yet, But as soon as the Padres start losing,
I'm about to crack one.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
If this continues much longer, I'm gonna start, all right,
So Angela, what do you want to say? What's on
your mind today?
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I say Roki and Kersh.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That's another vote, okay, Well I like it.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I think rog gets a big vote obviously, and I
would use Kersh out of the pen as well. So
you're giving up on Imachian.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
No, I like Imagechan. I didn't give it up on him, right, No,
I didn't say he's done. I like Image, and I'd
use him too. We still haven't seen glassnew pitch. I
throw him in there too.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
So all the guys that got you know, a lot
of work obviously, a lot of work towards the end
of the season. We're not gonna see him anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
No, we're gonna let him get ready for next year.
Let him get ready for next Yeah, Bessie, we'll use Bessie.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Bessie is the only one. Yeah, you think Banda would
be back on the roster.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Let me ask you this. You think Banda becomes Tanner Scott?
You might Who do you trust more Banda? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
All right, Angela, do you have anything else to add?
Anybody talk about Kurby y?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
I want to know Fred, I'm sorry, Fred, What if
you happen to notice how nervous Rokie Sasaki was last night?
Did you notice his breathing and his you can see
it in his neck and his chest. He was like
super breathing hard and just super exercising nervous.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's the exercise. That's exercises, okay, from running out Eastern medicine. Mmm,
it's exercising. Breathing is so important in all walks of life.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Angela, I don't know Rodney that he looks really nervous,
like super super nervous.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I'm sure your inside he was, but the breathing helped
your nervousness.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
Well, everybody has to breathe Come on, now, go back
and look at it. Go back and look at it
before his first piss. Okay, well he was doing the
lamas then.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You know, whatever he was doing was working.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Put the my tie down and take a breath.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Angela, My god.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Angela's fine. Angela's fine. All right, Angela, what else are
you doing today?
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Let me see watered my plants and watch that. Uh
you know, I might if the wind dies. I'm gonna
go catch some fish.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Okay, Oh what kind of fish?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
You're you gonna catch some?
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Uh No, that's out further, probably some popillos like that.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
What do you do? Just throw your hand in the
water and snatch him out, Angela? Or do you you know,
use a rod in a reel?
Speaker 9 (30:46):
No? I have this fourteen foot surfboard that has a
little uh six horse motor on it, and I go
out there and uh yeah, I can go in super
shallow areas where other boats can't get to.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So that's how you get them. Yeah, Angela, if you
had the chances, you fight a shark.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
I see them all the time. You just turn your
body sideways so you look as big as them. There's
a little little punk ass sharks. You know you.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Wait, wait, wait wait, Angela, that is the technique. Turn
your body sideways so they think you're as big.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
As that you look.
Speaker 9 (31:27):
Yeah, I mean face to face. They can't tell that
you go kind of turn sideways. And you want some
of this? Oh you have your spear between you and them.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
You know what I'm saying, Angela.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Nobody wants some of you?
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Oh, plenty people do, Fred. You know what I'm saying.
I mean, back in my day, if I could clone myself,
I'd have been rich.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Okay, all right, good well, Angela. That that was fascinating, Rodney.
Anything you'd like to wrap up with, Angela?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Angela, you say you get to the shallow waters with
your boat, and what are you catching any shallow waters? Angela?
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Uh, some of the Hawaiian reef fish are delicious, but
you guys don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Well, how do you know? We don't know?
Speaker 7 (32:09):
I just how do you know.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
We don't know?
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Well? Okay, Fred, have you ever eaten a menini?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Damn right?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Fred?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Has you? Damn righte? Fred has ate that Manini?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
At That's what about the Fred served Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
What are you talking about Fred.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
You ate some o eel, I don't think so. And uh,
some days I'll just go with my with my set
of crab traps and sell some traps and with some
fish heads and some stanky stuff and catch some some
own crab.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah. What do you using for bait? Angela?
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Fish heads?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Bitch heads? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Where do you get the fish heads.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
From? The fish?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I catch?
Speaker 9 (32:51):
Fred? Hello, Rodney, Rodney. Fred didn't go to USC like us.
He's a little bit more, you know, a little bit
more a little he's a little bit more wittier. He's
a little bit more wittier college or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Hey, don't knock the poets, Angela, I'll tell you that.
And also, you went to USC, Yes she did.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Yes, I did, Fred for the million times.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Okay, well listen, I didn't hear you the first nine
hundred and ninety nine thousand. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Oh okay.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
How about our new quarterback Rodney that's from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I like him. I like you. Yes, he's gonna be
a star.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Are you USC people so womping it together?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Fred? We're not fair weather.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Hater's gonna hate.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's all they're going to do.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Rodney.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's all they're gonna do. Fight on, Angela. Thanks for calling,
all right, gome bye Angela go We love you. Love
what Angela? I do?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I love it. I love when she calls.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Adam took a little fits of the San Diego thing
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Well that's what it said, Hannah. That's what she said, Fred,
And she said she was from San Diego.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Is that a shocker based upon the conversation you just
had with this woman, she could have said anything.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That was one of the best conversations we've ever had
with her.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Fred, You do realize you just interviewed a caller for
like almost ten minutes, so they got.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
A fan coming up there.
Speaker 11 (34:23):
Hey, you know what, are you gonna give Mitch from
New Jersey the same kind of treatment?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Are you gonna allow him at least at least three
minutes of time?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
It is jelous listening right now.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Mitch is so jealous you think he is, because here
he is.
Speaker 12 (34:40):
Hello Mitch, Hello friend, Ronnie fight on best who receiver
and college football. He's a Jack Lemon of Collegemar receivers. Buddy,
I am in ChEls. Do you know what to hang
it on? It's okay? I love you is he call, say,
(35:02):
Sicky stars only three, I want to coach the pitch game.
Four Jacky starts pitching until at least eight nine. Okay,
So Sasaki and she Uh, I'm okay yet, I know
what do you know?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Sazaki? He said, you're good with Shee and still you're
not giving up on him like Fred.
Speaker 12 (35:25):
No, but I haven't get up in the Irish guy.
And I don't say that of consciousness. I heard that.
I know what it means. It's good and bad. Okay,
I love you Fred, It's fine, all right? Do I
get ten minutes?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, that's enough.
Speaker 12 (35:43):
Okay, nice one doing the game?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
All right, thank you, goodbye?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Two more quick ones? Did you at the end of it?
I don't I don't even know, he.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Said, I have no idea what the okay?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
So it wasn't just me.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Only thing I heard him say is that he loves
image here and he loves the Irish guy.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Oh, he loves the Irish guy. Is that what he said?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, that's what he said, Irish guy. Yeah, all right,
and they'll never give up on the Irish guys. What
he said? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Davin Longbeach, who's the closer?
Speaker 13 (36:08):
What's up? Guys, Hey, sake shots for everyone. I'm going
with Sustak all day after what I saw him do
in Seattle last night. I don't remember last time I
saw people chatting a closer's name like that. It was
electric and I don't know who it was. After in
the celebration, a Dodger said he wanted to go in
that game. And that's the kind of guy I want
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to be my closer. So thank you very much, guys.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I appreciate it. I love that wrapping up with Noah,
Noah down and Downey All right, go ahead, Noah, what
do you got yo?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
What are we doing? A first, I want to say
thank you. I was the caller that got the game
one tickets.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Oh that a baby? Well, how'd you feel? What a minute?
How'd you feel when all of a sudden I started
to come back? It was a fireworks story. But talk
about the fireworks first. All the home runs.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, start with the negative exactly. I was there game
too also, so I was there for Rokie shutting it down.
And I'm gonna say Rokie because I was there yesterday
in the atmosphere was electric. I don't think anybody can
top that. Recently he's been the most dominant. And I'm
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gonna go back to my guy. I've been on here
before and I've said his name before, Jack Dryer. Especially
if he's a lefty against those against those high big
bats and Philly against Harper, who is a swore bur
all those size you want to get a good left
he in there.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
So I like, you got a body of work. I'll
tell you what that has done well for this team
this season, Jack Dryer, He got a body of work.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
No, thanks for the call, really appreciate it, don't.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
What happened.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I was no. I was just gonna say before we go,
here's the thing with Sazaki, before we get out of here. Uh,
don't let him have success in Philly. He's that kind
of guy that when he gets one more, he goes
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Speaker 1 (38:42):
Tiger's up one nothing. Cleveland had a bit of an
adventure defensively and the Tigers grab the lead and there
are two downs. So Detroit is leading one to nothing.
Now they're in the top of the third. All right,
game one of the wildcar the home run barrage. Tayo
(39:02):
Hernandez hit a pair. One of them was caught by
a fan who was going to join us on the
program now and he's got a very interesting story. So
we welcome Jonas Gomez in. Jonas, thanks for jumping on.
Speaker 10 (39:14):
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
All right, man, you are living life. You caught that
home run ball off the bat of tail Hernandez. What
did you think when he hit the ball?
Speaker 10 (39:25):
Oh man, when he hit the ball, I just saw
something straight at me and then everything slowed down and
as soon as it hit my glove, everything sped back
up to you. One hundred miles an hour and its
just puer elation, you know, those awesome to real feelings.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
All right, So there it is. You're sitting there, you
see it off the bat. Are you thinking the minute
he hits the ball, that ball's coming to me?
Speaker 9 (39:55):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (39:55):
Yeah, I mean I played baseball in my whole license.
I always thought I had a good a good eye
for the flight of the ball. And you know, I
knew it was going to be close. I knew it
was coming coming somewhere close to us. And uh as
it was getting close to it was like, oh here,
here it is, and uh and yeah, it just uh
it was meant to be for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
What about the people around you, Jonas, I got to
tell you because I I was in that situation in Japan,
in Tokyo. Uh I wasn't a home run, it was ball.
It was a foul ball. But the people around you
did they give you all kind of love?
Speaker 10 (40:31):
Oh man, it was awesome. Uh yeah. I think the
situation a little different, you know, playoff home run versus
the foul ball.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Got gotta bust my bubble man.
Speaker 10 (40:43):
Man and gave it to a kid. But I think
when I caught the ball, I turned into kid, you know,
and everyone around me, uh nothing belove. For the next
few innings, people kept coming up, Can I see the ball?
Can I take a picture with you?
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (40:58):
Yeah. It was awesome, It was great. You know, everyone
around us was super happy for me and obviously happy
for the Dodgers, you know, at that point, you know,
it was his taken home run, so we had a
good lead at the moment, and so everybody was. Everybody
was on a high note at that moment.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
All right, So making the play was one thing, but
now let's hear the rest of the story, because making
that play wasn't accept wasn't really easy for you because
because you're going through something, talk about it.
Speaker 10 (41:26):
Yeah. So, so when I was born, so it's a
lifelong thing that I just deal with, right, And when
I was born, I got stuck at the shoulders, and
when the doctor had to get me out, he broke
my left clavical and in doing so severed the nerves
of my left shoulder. And so one of my childs,
the idols, was Jim Abbot, right, And one of the
(41:49):
reasons I played baseball was Jim Abbot And because he
showed me it was possible with one good arm. And
uh so you know I was fortunate to have it
was called falsy. It's a partial paralyzation of one of
your other extremities, in this case my left arm. And yeah,
so I have about fifty three percent use last time
(42:11):
I had it tested of my left arm. I do
have full filling in my left arm. And and so
that's why I've on the post. I wrote, like I
learned to catch like really mays. So that's why I
caught pop lives. I would catch him at my waistline.
But going to the game, knowing I'd be in the outfield,
you know, knowing if there was a home run close,
(42:33):
it would be chaos. It wouldn't be able to just
drop casually into my waistline. I called a buddy up
and asked him if I could use a lefty glove,
so if I could use my right hand, which I
have a full function of, I could try and high
point a ball. You know, I'm six to two, so
I'm not short and maybe catching and catch the ball
that way. So yeah, my my whole life, you know,
(42:56):
the there's falsy. It's a challenge. But unfortunately I grew
up in a small town in Fillmore, California, and the
community rallied behind me, my my childhood teammates.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (43:08):
You know, I played basketball and baseball in high school.
I lettered in both sports. Uh you know it was
a challenge, but it never stopped me. And you know
that's what I kind of hope, Uh if I could
shed light on anything to anybody about this, Like, sure,
the catch was great, and you know, using my right hand,
which is my dominant hand, it was different obviously catching
it with that hand. But you know, my whole life
(43:30):
I did catch with my left hand, and I played
second base and uh you know, yeah, you know, people
used to think I was showing off from out of town,
you know when we made all start and stuff and
I catched it on my waistline or you know, running
over the shallow right field. Uh, catching over my shoulder
came natural to me. But as a hard catch for
a kid to make, you know, but it was the
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only way I knew. So and uh, you know, shout
out to uh to Fillmore Little League and uh and
my little community that you know rallied behind me and
made all this happen.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
And all these years later, Jonas great story, great man,
great story and congratulations on making a great play. Appreciate
you joining the show today.
Speaker 10 (44:10):
Yeah, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
That's unlucky you got to make that play. Yeah, and
I know to feel it well. Yeah, as he pointed out,
yours was a foul ball.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
I don't know. I had to take a shot at you.
He did take a shot, Oh he did, ye, no fooler.
All right, here we go, Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on
a five seventy LA Sports. Great news. The Dodgers wrapped
it up last night. But I'm sad, Rodney. I'm a
little sad today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I was waiting for today. Yeah, I'm sad for today.
How your reaction was going to be, Well, here's what sad. Okay,
go ahead, here's my reaction withdrawals. I miss being out
of Dodger Stadium. I'm suffering with drawls. You wanted to
go for a Thursday day, Frank, Well.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I just think we should go out there even if
there's no.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Ninety of the audience would object with you and are
very happy that we are not at the stadium today.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh no, no, don't get me wrong. They needed to
win last night. They did what they had to do.
I just think we should be able to go out
there every day now, whether it's a game or not.
We should just be at the stadium doing the show
every day. Because I got to tell you what, the
last couple of days were fun. They were a lot
of fun being out there, and even though nobody was there,
it was fun being there.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That place just puts you in a mood. Then it
I mean, I I tell people all the time, whenever
you it's weird, it really is. I don't Maybe the
only other place that kind of makes me feel that
way is the Coliseum when I walk in there. Just
really that I get when I get to the Colice. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying, because I played there and I
(01:19):
you know, just the memories and all that stuff and
just walking there and seeing it and feeling it and
all that. But you know, doctor stated, it puts you
in a mood. I mean, they call it blue Heaven,
but it does put you in a rating mood when
walking too that stadium. So no, I get it, I
get it. But but the alternative, fred is is much better. Yeah,
(01:40):
that we're moving on to Philly.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now, Okay, as scripted so far, well basically a scripted
so far. Beating the Reds was scripted. Uh, hitting the
ball was scripted. Starting petching certainly was scripted. But then
they went with our plan last night. They went with
our plan, and that listen That means you should not
listen to OZ because they went with our plan, and
(02:03):
I thought, this is going to be great. Yamamoto does
his work. Now we'll bring in Shan that's the guy.
I kept saying, let's bring him.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
In before you get to that. Can we just because
there are people talking again. You know, I don't know
what it is people have about Dave Roberts what happened.
But but no, I'm just saying there's certain there's a
there's a little underbelly of people saying, why do you
take ya? He gave you every opportunity to keep going,
(02:31):
every opportunity to finish out that any and he couldn't
do it and had to go get him. So there
was like grumbling, why he left me? He left him
in two batters extra, I believe, and uh, he started
to you could see he started to lose it a
little bit. Had to go get him in the middle
(02:52):
of the inning. So I just I just had to
acknowledge that it's like, what he can't win?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh? No, they win the World Series this year. Yeah,
day after the World Series, day after the parade, we'll
take calls. Right, let's wrap up the Dodger season. They've
won the World Series again. If we take forty calls,
five we'll say fire Dave Roberts. Despite the fact they
we'll have won again. You gotta fire the guy. He
just gotta go, and I'll tell you why. If you
(03:20):
remember seven years ago, I'll never forgive him for that.
It's like wow, wow, Okay, So they put she in
in the game and he struggled. Now I don't know
if that's indicative of that's what's going to happen every
single time, or last night he struggled a little bit,
but I thought, oh no, there it was. Now you
(03:43):
know what he's been tainted. It's kilt by association. If
you just sit out there with those guys, that's going
to happen to you. You can't even sit there. You
have to be in a different area and warm up.
So I fell badly for him. But now this silver
lining in all of this, and we're all prisoners of
the moment, so everybody's gonna feel a certain way. My god, Suzaki,
(04:08):
oh my oh, that that was like you traded for
a closer last night? What are the best in baseball?
Because he was spectacular. Here's Dave Roberts talking about.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It, is Kie your closer?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Now?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, I trust him and he's gonna be pitching and leverage.
So that was, you know, the more you pitch guys
and play guys you learn more. So, like I said
about Yamamoto, I don't think the moment's going to be
too big for rookie.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, it certainly didn't seem like it last night.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It didn't. It didn't. Now Listen, that's now two outings
that he came in and did pretty well, actually really dominant.
This series is a different animal, Fred, and then we're
gonna get into it. This is a different animal because
now this is a team that they feel can match
(05:05):
you player for player. They feel they've got as much
firepower as you do, and they feel they have the
best fans in sports. I've been there, I've lived it,
so they absolutely feel that way. There is a chip
(05:25):
as big as I don't know what on their shoulders
in Philadelphia, and that crowd will be rocking for those
first two games. And so for a young player, young
kid there's not really been in that environment that's gonna be.
They're gonna keep a close watch when he comes in
the game to see how he responds, because if he
(05:46):
walks one person, that crowd will be all over him.
And remember with the setup in Philly, is that before
he comes into game, he's gonna hear it from the crowd, bullpen, Yeah,
where the bullpen is located. Yeah, you're gonna get it.
So it is a test of wills. Playing in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I read a great piece in The Athletic this morning
about Suzaki and why he is where he is at,
and it was really interesting because it talked about how
he came out and we both saw him in Japan,
and he was wild. He was inconsistent, he couldn't find
the plate as he progressed through his starts that he
was gone. Then his shoulder bothered him, and he was
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gone for a while, which we suspected, and I think
he was confirmed right that he had been hurt for
a while. He didn't tell anybody, right, Remember that I
didn't want to tell anybody. Yeah, I didn't want to
hurt the team. But here's what I read that was
fascinating to me. So as he is recovering, I think
he was ready to go long before he returned. But
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he was concerned and he remember he thought the ball
was too big and it was different and everything was
different here. So they sent him to Arizona and had
him worked with the Dodger pitching coach and pitching instructor
there and they worked on everything. They worked on his mechanics,
they worked on his grip. They just worked on his
body motion and his movement and his delivery because he
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was thrown like ninety Rodney, maybe mid nineties when he
was here earlier, he's thrown over one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now, what do you mean mid nineties? What he was
always one hundred guy.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I think he slowed down a little bit when the
shoulder was bothering and they said.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
It was yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But in Japan he was throwing off yeh yeah, yeah h.
His whole deal was he throws a hundred and he's
got the splitter that drops off a table at ninety
five or ninety right, So his stuff was so electric,
but he was doubted as one hundred mile an hour guy.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Okay, But here when he was struggling, things were off.
So they sent him to Arizona. And if you remember,
the reason he signed with the Dodgers is because he
wanted to go to a situation where if something was
wrong they could fix. If everything was good, but they
noticed something that could give him a little bit more,
they would do it. He wanted to go to a
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place where he felt they could make him be the
very best. And when he was in Arizona after the
shoulder and he was throwing in stuff, they really tweaked
a lot of what he did. It might not be
obvious to you, but they tweaked a lot of it.
And this is the result of what you're now seeing.
He went there in Arizona and worked, not like he
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just went down there and started throwing. They worked with
him and tweaked stuff. Now you're seeing the guy that
the Dodger signed.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I mean it's very similar to a lot of sports. Specifically,
it's similar to football, you know, playing as long as
I did. You you know, you see a lot of guys,
a lot of quarterbacks come through college through the NFL
and oh that guy's got a cannon. Oh he's got
a canon, and everything they do is trying to throw
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the ball through the wall. Right. But in football in
the NFL, you got to also have touch. You gotta
be able to throw it up over the linebacker's head
and before the safety gets there, which takes touch and feel.
It's like getting a flop shot in golf, right, That
one hundred yard shot is where the golfers make all
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their money. That and putting. It's not the three hundred
yard drive. It's that approach shot. How close can you get?
And so that happens a lot in the NFL, and
with young electric pitchers like Suzaki, when you throw in
a hundred, probably he was probably throwing one hundred at
seventeen years old. Right, That's what you lean on because
nobody can hit it at that age, and then you
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get to a point where, okay, they're better, people can
hit that. I gotta I gotta, I gotta learn how
to pitch, to learn how to pitch. And the thing
about the Dodgers, and we hear this from you know,
from everybody, but think about the Dodgers. It is not
just sending a guy to Oklahoma City. It's not just
sending the guy to Rancho Cucamonga. They got a whole
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setup in Arizona that guys go. It's like a this
guy going to the lab, right, It's like going to
the lab at Campbell Back Ranch, and I'm going to
really work on some specific things there. I don't necessarily
need to go to Oklahoma City and face and he does.
You got to get real competition. But for the most part,
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I'm going to go to the lab and get myself
worked out as I'm rehabbing, and that's what he did.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's exactly what he did, and then you see the result. Yeah,
right now, if the bullpen gate opens, and again everybody's
a prisoner of the moment. But if that gate opens,
right now, there's only one person after last night you
want to see runout.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
There's one.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Are you done? Are you done already with Emmett?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
No, I'm fine. He gets another crack at it. Okay,
he gets another shot, for God's sake because you champion
him so hard. Now you know one rough night he
did struggle a little bit though I think it was
just you know, it's I know, people don't want to
get people to pass. Let's see athletes making a lot
of money, as people say, But everybody's still human and
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it's a different it's a different muscle that you have
to use brain and body when you come out of
the pen as opposed to start and pitch it. And
it's an art form to learn how to do that.
Not making excuses, but it is different, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Different, So that's okay. I mean, you know we still
have confidence in him. Keep this in mind, we've not
even seen class now, we've not haven't seen him yet.
He hasn't pitched, he hasn't been in a game. Yeah,
he hasn't even stepped on the mound. He's still sitting there.
And when we get to this next series, here's what
it'll be interesting. So Kersha, I'll be back right Kershall
(11:55):
being a roster yep. Yeah, we've had a great year,
by the way. Yeah, oh, I would start him. That's
not gonna happen, but I would. I'd give him the ball.
The way he's pitched this year, I am with him.
So if you got four, he's one of your four. Well,
well usually it's three. I mean most of the time
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it's gonna be three, four probably, but four is ready
to go. But three are your top three guys. So
you would you would run him out there before plasnow,
before Glass now because I will last now right now,
would be the fourth guy? Yeah, I would. And you know,
I know that they're not gonna do that. I'm sure
they're not, but I would. I think he's had a
hell of a year, I really do. He's had a
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much better year than anybody even considered happening. Now they'll
probably use him a bullpen, but I would, I would
trust him. I'd rather die he.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Would just be the guy of the three. When I'm
talking to three, I'm talking Yamamoto, Snell, Otani, right, the
three of you know if he's the fourth that you
wouldn't let go that long. Right, You're you're gonna ride Yamamoto,
You're gonna ride Otani, You're gonna ride Blake Snell as
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long as they can go. You know Kershaw and his
age and where he is now, and and you know
he's he's pitching different, which is the incredible part is
that he's evolved. As his body has evolved and his
age has evolved, he's evolved into a great pitcher, even
more so than what he was because he doesn't have
the velocity that he once had. So he's pitching smarter.
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But you don't let him go into the sixth inning.
You know, he gives you five where the other guy is.
You want him to go deep, deep, deep, especially now
where the bullpen is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, so look at it like this, it'll be o
tany we know, and then it'll be snow Yamamoto. Right,
that's how they'll go. So all right, oh, Tani, how
long will he go? You think I'll let him go
seven innings? Oh yeah, all right, So let's say he
goes seven innings. Now we have the eight to nine
issue again, will it be Vessia? Vessie looked okay, Dave
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Roberts put them back in, put him back in it
got out of the jam. Yeah, mm hmm. So he
put him in, got out of the jam. That was
a boost for him. So now you got Vessia. You're
good with Sazaki and you have Glass. Now Shan and
I guess Kershaw is relievers.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, I think you gotta. It's not. It's not clear
cut like it's been in a few of the playoffs
runs that the Dodgers have had, because I think it's
going to depend on the situation. I think it's it
really depends on the situation. Dodgers are up like they
were up with the Reds. They can experiment, they can
play around with it. But remember the Phillies are a
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different animal because if you experiment too much, all of
a sudden, you look up in the bases loaded and
swarves up and he just runs into one he can
and he can accidentally run into one on anybody on anybody,
and that's including Otani, Yamamoto and Snell. He can run
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into one. He's that good of a hitter, so he
can run into one. And you don't want to get
caught in that situation where you're up eight to three
and all of a sudden you bring somebody in into seven,
they walk to and there's a three run bomb. That's
what you gotta be careful with. With the with the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, I still maintain this, and uh, well, time will
prove if I'm right or wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
The s Tanner, Scott, get me run. Let me ask
you that real quick before the break.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
But I was gonna, you know what, We're gonna save
that for the other side because I was going to
ask you a question about that. Let's not even fool
it now, let's just get the break. Oh by the way,
Dodger fans, who is your closer? Okay? Who was your
closer after what you saw last night? Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy? And who do you
trust in the bullpen you get to make a move.
(16:04):
Who are the guys you trust? And who is your closer?
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy? All right,
when we come back, we're going to talk about your
Tanner Scott question and my prognostication about the Phillies. Talk
about that real quick. Then we'll get to Tanner Scott.
Then we'll get your calls on who the closer should be.
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By the way, Cleveland and Detroit are underway. Winner of
this game advances. Jack Flaherty is pitching for the Tigers
in the deciding game.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Love some Jack Flaherty. He gave us everything he had
when he played for the Dodgers. Went back to Detroit,
rooting for him, rooting for him, like Jack, He's a
good guy. All right, No scoretop of first. There here's
my feeling on the Phillies. And I think I mentioned
in the past. I know it's going to be tough,
and really that could be the World Series. Dodgers Phillies,
that could be the World Series. I look at it
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like this. The Dodgers hit the Phillies pitching the last
time they played.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
They hit it. To me, that's the key. The philly
is gonna hit. But I'll take the Dodger pitchers right
now over the Phillies the starters. The Dodgers hit the
Phillies the last time they played.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
That means they can hit Philadelphia pitching and I'm gonna
bet I'm gonna bet on the Dodger pitchers to slow
down the Phillies. That's what I'm saying. I'll take the
dog the Philly hitters.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That doesn't that doesn't mean anything. Last time they played them,
they hit the Phillies. No, it doesn't matter. They're the
same animal, but they're the same it's a new animal.
It's a new animal, and it's a new feeling. It's
a new everything. Every game is not played the same way,
so so and that and that. Then why are we
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even playing this series? Fred? Because they they played well
against the Phillies on the Phillies correct, So why are
we even playing the series? It's not even gonna be
close according to you.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well that's my that's my question. Yes, I agree with you,
Dodgers to win the series. It's not even gonna be
close though, according to you, it's not even gonna go
five games. I'll tell you that maybe Philly gets one.
Philly gets one, gentleman sweet in a five game series.
Why not, let's get done and get out of here.
That's what I said. Let's get finished and keep moving.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
My point is just because you had success gets someone
in the time before, you don't think they make adjustments.
You don't think they look at it. Oh yeah, they
hit this and they hit that. They're gonna make adjustments, right,
And it's how you make adjustments. But it's no guarantee
because you hit them last time that you're gonna hit
them this time.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Okay, that's absurd. Well you know what, then you be
a buzzkill. That's fine. Then you be that way, fine, Rodney.
I want everybody to know Rodney's a buzzkill. That's right.
That's how you know.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's not gonna be easy. I know people want to
say and then hopefully that if this season has taught
us anything, nothing is easy. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But I think I think they're gonna On paper, it
is a very different matchup. You can make the argument
they are the two best teams in the postseason. I
think the Dodgers are gonna handle them. I do, And
I think the way they played against them last time
will come into play here because that was impressive. And
that's just when they were coming out of that monster
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slump they were in. They were starting to hit, and
they hit good pitching for Philadelphia, So we'll see now,
Tanner Scott, you brought that up, and your question to
me was, you know, when are you gonna put him in?
But the question I was going to ask you was
is he even on the next roster?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, this five game series, he's gonna be on there.
How do you use him? I don't know. Didn't sniff
an outing in those two games, didn't even I don't
think they even called his name or thought about him
in the first two games against the Rids. Given the
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way those two games went with the Reds, I'm nervous
about anybody coming out there, you know right now because you,
like you mentioned earlier, I think you said it to
me off air that you go, you go to the bullpen,
something happens to you.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You're reflected with something out there.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Something happens to you when you go out there.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
They should not look. You know what, if you're going
to be a reliever in tonight's game, the club out,
then the dugout you throw underneath. Just come running out
of the dugout. There's no call of the pen for you.
You be into the building throwing because we're not putting
anybody out there because something happens to you. Maybe you
know what, Maybe they need to sage it or something.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Maybe maybe we need to bring maybe that lady we
had about eight years ago that came on and when
the Dodgers were going through their slump.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And the White Witch.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yes, yes, maybe the White Witch needs to play a
visit to the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, do something. Everybody, grab a rabbit's foot out there
and rub it or rub whatever you want out there,
just to shake it off to change it. Yeah, all right,
So who should the closer beat? Are we all prisoners
of the moment here? And who do you trust when
you go to the bullpen? Eight six six nine mark
(21:24):
in Glendale. Appreciate you holding Who is it?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Guys, First of all, fight on Rodney, fight on Yeah.
I think I think yeah, I think Sasaki is your
best bet. I'm a little hesitant, like friend Fred suggested
during Glass Now he can be wild, and I think
it's putting a starter in a reliever's position like sheehan
last night. It's tough, But I think Sasak's you gotta
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go to. But you've got to have so many other
than him, because Philly's gonna wear out your bullpen. I
don't know who it's going to be. Uh, Dave Roberts
knows he's got a better as good as anybody else.
Tryning is better. They changed his mechanics and he with
a lot better last time. So those are the two
guys I'm gonna go with invest.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, so you gotta go Trining, Vessia and Sazaki appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Thanks Mark. Vote for Blake trying, and I didn't think
he'd get any votes today. I think he redeemed himself
a little bit. Okay, all right, a little bit. Let's
got out of Compton. Albert's on the line. Albert, thanks
for holding. Who will it be?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Hey, fathers, Well, you know, probably go with the obvious choice.
I think he should go with Sosaki the way that
he's been pitching, you know, but I also think with
the way that the bullpen has been very shaky, there's
only one obvious answer if it's not a Saki, and
that's k k Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Get him out there with that, Albert, Let's go to
work with that. Love that. See, that's what we need.
We need creative thinking like that at a wrinkle, that's
a rip and it's Key k Hardanden's coming out of
the bolt, coming out. Oh man, he might stun him
(23:09):
for two innings. Well, let's put it like this. He's
actually thrown a lot of innings this year along with
Mickey Rojas. They are the the two extra pitchers on
the staff.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, the facto closers.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, all right, let's go. Let's go to downy. Michael,
appreciate you holding all right. You got to make a decision.
Who is your closer and who do you trust?
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Hey, Jens Hider today, thanks for taking a call. I
believe that we have to go with Saki, Rookie Sazaki heavy.
But Rodney was mentioning something before the break about this
is different animal that we need to think a little
bit differently compared to like regular season. I think we
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should trust rookie at least for one game, seven, eight,
nine innings and forget about the whole you know, long
guys and mid guy or whatever like that, bring in
and shut him down. Just hopefully let our start to
go six innings strong and then keep the gas pressed
and let it go.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Thanks Michael. Here's the thing about that idea here, all right,
but you like that idea though, let him go.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I liked him out there and let him go.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I liked it. I loved it. I don't love it anymore. Uhh,
I do not love it anymore. Because if he's going
to be your closer, then he's got to close. You
can't run him out there for three innings and tomorrow
night he comes back and pitches anything, it won't happen.
If he's the closer and he's going to go one
inning of the game, that's fine. If you start running
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him out there now for three innings, he's done the
next night, and who's going to close? And the thing
he said when he came on the air, he said,
you know, I would go with Saki. Then he corrected
it and said Tozaki, no, you were right. I would
go with Sak too. As much as possible. I would
drink it if some of those other guys went in
to the game, I would start drinking sake just to
try to get through it. We're kind of there. I
(25:03):
was wondering when that was gonna come up. All right,
wait here, come on, Vince, who are you going with.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Fred?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
It's a pleasure to have be on the phone with you.
I call you guys, every year, and it's just such
a blessing to be here again in the postseason for
the closer. We got to go Rokie. I mean everyone
said it. The guy's he's got the stuff right now.
We gotta trust him. I don't care if he hasn't
done it before, he's doing it now. And as far
as who I trust, you know, what I saw yesterday
(25:37):
is I trust Dave Roberts. And it's taken me a
long time to get to this place. I was an
armchair quarterback or arm tracks for a long time. But
Dave Roberts went out there, he knew what he saw
out of she In and he's making all the right decisions.
I think you gotta trust Dave Roberts and one other
guy that's going to be a huge factor in that
Bullpen is going to be the goat himself eighteen years
(26:00):
and then the preparation everything coming to a close here
playing cut shop.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
All right, Thanks Vince, appreciate it. I like the way
he set that up. I got a really good feeling
now about this Dodger team because Vince made his yearly
call he calls once a year, yeah, during the playoffs.
So now he's checked in now it's good to go.
Now we're revy. Hey, come on now, all right, wait,
this is not this is not our Angela from Hawaii.
(26:25):
She's in Sandy? Is she gone?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
What happened to Angela? I just popped Angela up and it
said she was in San Diego? Is that Angela from Hawaii?
Who's in San Diego?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Adam?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I don't know, but either way, you hung up on
her friend. I didn't hang up on. Oh, she's back here,
answering the phone again. I didn't hang up on all right,
punched her up. She's up now, all right, Angela there?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Hey guys, Hey.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Wait a minute, are you Angela from Hawaii?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Or Angela's right?
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Hey, that's my girl right there.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And what's happening?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Why are you in San Diego?
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Because I had to go down there and raise up
the rent on them padre tenants.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh okay, that's why you're in San Diego. Did you
move from Hawaii?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Man, all right, what do you what did you get
san Diego from? Fred?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It says she's in San Diego? Are you man? Where
are you?
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Well?
Speaker 9 (27:31):
Last week I was in hala Eva and this this
week I'm in Kuna Kakai.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
All right, Well, if she's in kana ka Kai, why
does it say san Diego?
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Maybe she wants to talk about the Padres some more.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I think you're reading it wrong, Fred.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Like I screened the call, I'll take full responsibility.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Angela, I thought you said san Diego.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
No, No, was that a test.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Like I'm supposed to know? Of course you're for Hawaii.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Man, all right, Angela, have you been drinking?
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Not yet, But as soon as the Padres start losing,
I'm about to crack one.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
If this continues much longer, I'm gonna start, all right,
So Angela, what do you want to say? What's on
your mind today?
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I say Roki and Kersh.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That's another vote, okay, Well I like it.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I think rog gets a big vote obviously, and I
would use Kersh out of the pen as well. So
you're giving up on Imachian.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
No, I like Imagechan. I didn't give it up on him, right, No,
I didn't say he's done. I like Image, and I'd
use him too. We still haven't seen glassnew pitch. I
throw him in there too.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
So all the guys that got you know, a lot
of work obviously, a lot of work towards the end
of the season. We're not gonna see him anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
No, we're gonna let him get ready for next year.
Let him get ready for next Yeah, Bessie, we'll use Bessie.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Bessie is the only one. Yeah, you think Banda would
be back on the roster.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Let me ask you this. You think Banda becomes Tanner Scott?
You might Who do you trust more Banda? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
All right, Angela, do you have anything else to add?
Anybody talk about Kurby y?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
I want to know Fred, I'm sorry, Fred, What if
you happen to notice how nervous Rokie Sasaki was last night?
Did you notice his breathing and his you can see
it in his neck and his chest. He was like
super breathing hard and just super exercising nervous.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's the exercise. That's exercises, okay, from running out Eastern medicine. Mmm,
it's exercising. Breathing is so important in all walks of life.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Angela, I don't know Rodney that he looks really nervous,
like super super nervous.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I'm sure your inside he was, but the breathing helped
your nervousness.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
Well, everybody has to breathe Come on, now, go back
and look at it. Go back and look at it
before his first piss. Okay, well he was doing the
lamas then.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You know, whatever he was doing was working.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Put the my tie down and take a breath.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Angela, My god.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Angela's fine. Angela's fine. All right, Angela, what else are
you doing today?
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Let me see watered my plants and watch that. Uh
you know, I might if the wind dies. I'm gonna
go catch some fish.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Okay, Oh what kind of fish?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
You're you gonna catch some?
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Uh No, that's out further, probably some popillos like that.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
What do you do? Just throw your hand in the
water and snatch him out, Angela? Or do you you know,
use a rod in a reel?
Speaker 9 (30:46):
No? I have this fourteen foot surfboard that has a
little uh six horse motor on it, and I go
out there and uh yeah, I can go in super
shallow areas where other boats can't get to.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So that's how you get them. Yeah, Angela, if you
had the chances, you fight a shark.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
I see them all the time. You just turn your
body sideways so you look as big as them. There's
a little little punk ass sharks. You know you.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Wait, wait, wait wait, Angela, that is the technique. Turn
your body sideways so they think you're as big.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
As that you look.
Speaker 9 (31:27):
Yeah, I mean face to face. They can't tell that
you go kind of turn sideways. And you want some
of this? Oh you have your spear between you and them.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
You know what I'm saying, Angela.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Nobody wants some of you?
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Oh, plenty people do, Fred. You know what I'm saying.
I mean, back in my day, if I could clone myself,
I'd have been rich.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Okay, all right, good well, Angela. That that was fascinating, Rodney.
Anything you'd like to wrap up with, Angela?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Angela, you say you get to the shallow waters with
your boat, and what are you catching any shallow waters? Angela?
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Uh, some of the Hawaiian reef fish are delicious, but
you guys don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Well, how do you know? We don't know?
Speaker 7 (32:09):
I just how do you know.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
We don't know?
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Well? Okay, Fred, have you ever eaten a menini?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Damn right?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Fred?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Has you? Damn righte? Fred has ate that Manini?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
At That's what about the Fred served Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
What are you talking about Fred.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
You ate some o eel, I don't think so. And uh,
some days I'll just go with my with my set
of crab traps and sell some traps and with some
fish heads and some stanky stuff and catch some some
own crab.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah. What do you using for bait? Angela?
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Fish heads?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Bitch heads? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Where do you get the fish heads.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
From? The fish?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I catch?
Speaker 9 (32:51):
Fred? Hello, Rodney, Rodney. Fred didn't go to USC like us.
He's a little bit more, you know, a little bit
more a little he's a little bit more wittier. He's
a little bit more wittier college or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Hey, don't knock the poets, Angela, I'll tell you that.
And also, you went to USC, Yes she did.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Yes, I did, Fred for the million times.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Okay, well listen, I didn't hear you the first nine
hundred and ninety nine thousand. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Oh okay.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
How about our new quarterback Rodney that's from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I like him. I like you. Yes, he's gonna be
a star.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Are you USC people so womping it together?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Fred? We're not fair weather.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Hater's gonna hate.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's all they're going to do.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Rodney.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's all they're gonna do. Fight on, Angela. Thanks for calling,
all right, gome bye Angela go We love you. Love
what Angela? I do?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I love it. I love when she calls.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Adam took a little fits of the San Diego thing
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Well that's what it said, Hannah. That's what she said, Fred,
And she said she was from San Diego.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Is that a shocker based upon the conversation you just
had with this woman, she could have said anything.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That was one of the best conversations we've ever had
with her.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Fred, You do realize you just interviewed a caller for
like almost ten minutes, so they got.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
A fan coming up there.
Speaker 11 (34:23):
Hey, you know what, are you gonna give Mitch from
New Jersey the same kind of treatment?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Are you gonna allow him at least at least three
minutes of time?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
It is jelous listening right now.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Mitch is so jealous you think he is, because here
he is.
Speaker 12 (34:40):
Hello Mitch, Hello friend, Ronnie fight on best who receiver
and college football. He's a Jack Lemon of Collegemar receivers. Buddy,
I am in ChEls. Do you know what to hang
it on? It's okay? I love you is he call, say,
(35:02):
Sicky stars only three, I want to coach the pitch game.
Four Jacky starts pitching until at least eight nine. Okay,
So Sasaki and she Uh, I'm okay yet, I know
what do you know?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Sazaki? He said, you're good with Shee and still you're
not giving up on him like Fred.
Speaker 12 (35:25):
No, but I haven't get up in the Irish guy.
And I don't say that of consciousness. I heard that.
I know what it means. It's good and bad. Okay,
I love you Fred, It's fine, all right? Do I
get ten minutes?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, that's enough.
Speaker 12 (35:43):
Okay, nice one doing the game?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
All right, thank you, goodbye?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Two more quick ones? Did you at the end of it?
I don't I don't even know, he.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Said, I have no idea what the okay?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
So it wasn't just me.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Only thing I heard him say is that he loves
image here and he loves the Irish guy.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Oh, he loves the Irish guy. Is that what he said?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, that's what he said, Irish guy. Yeah, all right,
and they'll never give up on the Irish guys. What
he said? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Davin Longbeach, who's the closer?
Speaker 13 (36:08):
What's up? Guys, Hey, sake shots for everyone. I'm going
with Sustak all day after what I saw him do
in Seattle last night. I don't remember last time I
saw people chatting a closer's name like that. It was
electric and I don't know who it was. After in
the celebration, a Dodger said he wanted to go in
that game. And that's the kind of guy I want
(36:29):
to be my closer. So thank you very much, guys.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I appreciate it. I love that wrapping up with Noah,
Noah down and Downey All right, go ahead, Noah, what
do you got yo?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
What are we doing? A first, I want to say
thank you. I was the caller that got the game
one tickets.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Oh that a baby? Well, how'd you feel? What a minute?
How'd you feel when all of a sudden I started
to come back? It was a fireworks story. But talk
about the fireworks first. All the home runs.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, start with the negative exactly. I was there game
too also, so I was there for Rokie shutting it down.
And I'm gonna say Rokie because I was there yesterday
in the atmosphere was electric. I don't think anybody can
top that. Recently he's been the most dominant. And I'm
(37:16):
gonna go back to my guy. I've been on here
before and I've said his name before, Jack Dryer. Especially
if he's a lefty against those against those high big
bats and Philly against Harper, who is a swore bur
all those size you want to get a good left
he in there.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
So I like, you got a body of work. I'll
tell you what that has done well for this team
this season, Jack Dryer, He got a body of work.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
No, thanks for the call, really appreciate it, don't.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
What happened.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I was no. I was just gonna say before we go,
here's the thing with Sazaki, before we get out of here. Uh,
don't let him have success in Philly. He's that kind
of guy that when he gets one more, he goes
and he's lights out all of a sudden. Today's throwback
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Speaker 1 (38:42):
Tiger's up one nothing. Cleveland had a bit of an
adventure defensively and the Tigers grab the lead and there
are two downs. So Detroit is leading one to nothing.
Now they're in the top of the third. All right,
game one of the wildcar the home run barrage. Tayo
(39:02):
Hernandez hit a pair. One of them was caught by
a fan who was going to join us on the
program now and he's got a very interesting story. So
we welcome Jonas Gomez in. Jonas, thanks for jumping on.
Speaker 10 (39:14):
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
All right, man, you are living life. You caught that
home run ball off the bat of tail Hernandez. What
did you think when he hit the ball?
Speaker 10 (39:25):
Oh man, when he hit the ball, I just saw
something straight at me and then everything slowed down and
as soon as it hit my glove, everything sped back
up to you. One hundred miles an hour and its
just puer elation, you know, those awesome to real feelings.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
All right, So there it is. You're sitting there, you
see it off the bat. Are you thinking the minute
he hits the ball, that ball's coming to me?
Speaker 9 (39:55):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (39:55):
Yeah, I mean I played baseball in my whole license.
I always thought I had a good a good eye
for the flight of the ball. And you know, I
knew it was going to be close. I knew it
was coming coming somewhere close to us. And uh as
it was getting close to it was like, oh here,
here it is, and uh and yeah, it just uh
it was meant to be for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
What about the people around you, Jonas, I got to
tell you because I I was in that situation in Japan,
in Tokyo. Uh I wasn't a home run, it was ball.
It was a foul ball. But the people around you
did they give you all kind of love?
Speaker 10 (40:31):
Oh man, it was awesome. Uh yeah. I think the
situation a little different, you know, playoff home run versus
the foul ball.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Got gotta bust my bubble man.
Speaker 10 (40:43):
Man and gave it to a kid. But I think
when I caught the ball, I turned into kid, you know,
and everyone around me, uh nothing belove. For the next
few innings, people kept coming up, Can I see the ball?
Can I take a picture with you?
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (40:58):
Yeah. It was awesome, It was great. You know, everyone
around us was super happy for me and obviously happy
for the Dodgers, you know, at that point, you know,
it was his taken home run, so we had a
good lead at the moment, and so everybody was. Everybody
was on a high note at that moment.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
All right, So making the play was one thing, but
now let's hear the rest of the story, because making
that play wasn't accept wasn't really easy for you because
because you're going through something, talk about it.
Speaker 10 (41:26):
Yeah. So, so when I was born, so it's a
lifelong thing that I just deal with, right, And when
I was born, I got stuck at the shoulders, and
when the doctor had to get me out, he broke
my left clavical and in doing so severed the nerves
of my left shoulder. And so one of my childs,
the idols, was Jim Abbot, right, And one of the
(41:49):
reasons I played baseball was Jim Abbot And because he
showed me it was possible with one good arm. And
uh so you know I was fortunate to have it
was called falsy. It's a partial paralyzation of one of
your other extremities, in this case my left arm. And yeah,
so I have about fifty three percent use last time
(42:11):
I had it tested of my left arm. I do
have full filling in my left arm. And and so
that's why I've on the post. I wrote, like I
learned to catch like really mays. So that's why I
caught pop lives. I would catch him at my waistline.
But going to the game, knowing I'd be in the outfield,
you know, knowing if there was a home run close,
(42:33):
it would be chaos. It wouldn't be able to just
drop casually into my waistline. I called a buddy up
and asked him if I could use a lefty glove,
so if I could use my right hand, which I
have a full function of, I could try and high
point a ball. You know, I'm six to two, so
I'm not short and maybe catching and catch the ball
that way. So yeah, my my whole life, you know,
(42:56):
the there's falsy. It's a challenge. But unfortunately I grew
up in a small town in Fillmore, California, and the
community rallied behind me, my my childhood teammates.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (43:08):
You know, I played basketball and baseball in high school.
I lettered in both sports. Uh you know it was
a challenge, but it never stopped me. And you know
that's what I kind of hope, Uh if I could
shed light on anything to anybody about this, Like, sure,
the catch was great, and you know, using my right hand,
which is my dominant hand, it was different obviously catching
it with that hand. But you know, my whole life
(43:30):
I did catch with my left hand, and I played
second base and uh you know, yeah, you know, people
used to think I was showing off from out of town,
you know when we made all start and stuff and
I catched it on my waistline or you know, running
over the shallow right field. Uh, catching over my shoulder
came natural to me. But as a hard catch for
a kid to make, you know, but it was the
(43:50):
only way I knew. So and uh, you know, shout
out to uh to Fillmore Little League and uh and
my little community that you know rallied behind me and
made all this happen.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
And all these years later, Jonas great story, great man,
great story and congratulations on making a great play. Appreciate
you joining the show today.
Speaker 10 (44:10):
Yeah, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
That's unlucky you got to make that play. Yeah, and
I know to feel it well. Yeah, as he pointed out,
yours was a foul ball.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
I don't know. I had to take a shot at you.
He did take a shot, Oh he did, ye, no fooler.
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