October 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Bill Plunkett from the LA News Group and OC Register hops on live from Dodger Stadium ahead of Game 3 of the World Series. Fred talks about the laborious task of doing live on-field hits for KNBC back in the day. As Glasnow gets set to face Scherzer tonight, Fred and Rodney give their final thoughts on the Game and how they think it may play out.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And we continue on live from Dodgers Stadium before Game
three of the World Series. Fred Rogan, Rodney, Pete, Petro's Money,
Tim Kates, Well, Money's not here yet, but Petros and
Tim are here getting ready to go on at two
leading into the pregame show, and then we'll have the
call of the game right here on the radio station.
All right, A couple of things we should point out
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now that're going on.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
A lot of activity going on, Frett.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, Mookie BET's now being interviewed by MLB Network.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yep. Here on the right field side.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
On the left field side, they're bringing out the set
for Fox.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It seems like a little late for rushing to get
out here. I hope they get all the pieces right, Fred,
I'm sure they will. Where god forbid, big poppy falls
off the back.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Of the set. We don't need that.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Where's the uh, where's the Japanese station, National Japanese station?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
They know, they have a big presence. They may but
they may not have the rights to be on the field.
They may be up in the press box or in
one of the broadcast boosts.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
They may not have the rights.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The other thing I want to point out is Ben
Casparius is out on the momb now and basically pitching
the Dodger hitters.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You think he's trying to imitate Max Shirts. I think
Zoe Shuirs is right hander, Ben to the right hander.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
No, that's not how it works. He's trying. He put
the he put the contexts in too. Yes he did, Bill,
Yes he did. Not how it works.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
He built the contacts in the blue one and the
brown one that they're looking right into his eyes as
there as he's pitching to him.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
This is not football. They don't have a scout team
that impersonates.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's just live BP. That's all it is. Mil Plunkett
has arrived on scene here from the Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
For me, Bill, it was much more exciting, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
All Right? So, uh, you know if I take my
shoes off, Fred, I know that you rule for you.
You know the rules.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You should be grounding out there. I would love to
be ground Yeah. Well, and many would like to have
that happen as well.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Bill. All right.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
First game, Blake Snell struggles early. I thought they were
in trouble because they'd have to go to the bullten
second game.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
That is a thing. If they had to go to
the bull. That was a long side that was on
the list there.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No, my point wasn't the first inning I thought they
were in trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
He's swing so many pitches, and then the second inning
he couldn't really find the strike zone either.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I thought, well, this is going to be a long time,
wasn't you know?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It wasn't so much that he couldn't find the strike zone.
He he was throwing the way he usually throws. But
Toronto was very disciplined in their approach and it ran
up the pitch count. They filed off a lot of
pitches to throw to put the pitch count up. But
you're right, they took very good at Betts got Blake
out of the game early, and.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That was that. Yeah, Now they didn't chanse right.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
They didn't change right exactly, whereas I think even with Yamamoto,
his pitches were end the zone that they.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Say, yeah, well he's his approach is different than Blake.
Blake is his stuff is so good that he gets
guys to chase right and he doesn't throw in the
zone as much as Yama does. Yamamoto relies on he
has four or five different pitches that he can throw
for strikes and he makes you swing either you know,
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misses or he gets weak contact and gets the outs
that way.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
All right, So you think that pitch got away from
Yamamoto that hits Springer just oops, yeah it happen now,
well yeah he I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Think coach has any bitterness about the twenty seventeen World
Series when he was barely starting his career in Japan.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But you put on that doze of uniform. Okay, it
comes to it a little pants. There's a sign and
the club anyone on that Houston as here's our list.
These are the bad guys.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Absolutely, there's a hit list going on in that glove
out come on.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But no, I said as a bread though they were
actually pitching him up and end two, So that was
part of the approach of playing. You got away from them.
But still we like to think it was on purpose.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, well you like to think that he's out there
impersonating Max Sure's or too.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So you do you?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You do? You a distinct difference with Yama Modo going
the difference in game two and I watching you could
feel and I think afterwards the Blue Jays and you
were there, But afterwards I think the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Went, oh, okay, now it's real. Now this is not going.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
To be you know, I don't think either team reacts
as dramatically as we do watching on the outside. I
think splitting the first two games was not a surprise
to anybody. I think this is going to be a
good series. I picked the Dodgers in six, so I
think I'm going to be on another plane to Toronto
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on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So splitting the first two didn't really not a surprise.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
How do you how do you see them attacking sures
Are today? I mean, obviously he doesn't have the stuff
he had five years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
He's not as overpowering as he used to be, but.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
He is, uh, you know, changing speeds, he's hitting his spots.
We seem to think that the Dodgers do it the
Dodger way. They get after him a little bit in
those first three to four innings.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think they'd like to.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I think they'd absolutely like to, partly because, yeah, you
want to get to the opposing starter, but I also
think they want to get the lead and make their
own starting pitcher comfortable. You know, let let him get
into a groove and maybe we get seven innings out
of Glass now, and Fred doesn't get excited about them
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calling for the bullpen any earlier than that.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
That's got to be the play in every game for
the Dodgers. Stay away from the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But that's a that's a great point because it's not
only about getting the lead for your team going forward,
it's getting.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The lead for your starting pitching.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Absolutely, as he goes back out there knowing psh, what
a lead is different and pits him from behind.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, and Glass now has a way of getting himself
in trouble if he overthinks things, his mechanics get a
little out of whack.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
He can walk a lot of guys and create his
own problems.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So if you make him feel a little more comfortable,
he feels like he has a little more margin for error.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And I think he settled in sooner. All right, if
God forbid, they have to go.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
To the bullpen now, No, my who, Yeah, that's seriously built.
That's the question we asked Dave Roberts Daily. You know
he likes to call it his trust tree. Well, the
leaves have fallen and it's pretty a pretty barren look
intrigue right now, the limbs have been sheared from it.
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I think there is I've said this a little bit
for a while. I think there's residual trust left with
Blake trying it because of his history has not been
good recently, but I think there's still some trust there.
Going into the postseason, they talked up Emmachen. They thought
he was going to be a huge piece out of
the bullpen. It hasn't worked out. No, he has not
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been good. He's given up runs every time they've gone
to him in the postseason. Alex Vesia because the personal
thing is not available, I think he would have been
at the top of the trust tree if he was sure.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So now you got to hope you.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Get seven innings out of your starter piece together, an
inning with.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Trinan or Shean or I don't know who else. You
would go to Jack Dryer maybe down there.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
The most dangerous hitters in the Blue Jays lineup are
right hand so you got to go to a right hander.
And the options are not pretty. I mean it's Trining
or Will Klein or Edgardo Enriquez. I don't think they
want to make those calls.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is there an opportunity or a chance that they let Sazaki.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Go to innings.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, we talked about that with Dave yesterday. That to me,
that's the way to go. You get if you get
seven out of a starter, you got to lead he
finish it off. He's reluctant because it means that he's
not he's not gonna be available the next day. And
we're playing three in a row here, so that changes
the arithmetic a little bit. So I don't think they
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would go to Rokie for multiple I servile he would?
That would that would be my choice.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
All right, So we're gonna play five games. We know
that for sure. Who's gonna pitch game five?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The starter? We go back, We'll go back around and
it's Blake Snell again.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, oh that's what you would. So that would mean
Otani would pitch game seven. No, it would be Glass now.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
It would be Glass now with all hands on deck,
including Otani, available to come out of the bullpen if
they need to.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Then you get into that.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Two player rule and whether they lose the d H.
And also it gets a little complicated if you do that,
but yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's playing that bill if that happens a two player.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
The way the rule is written, if a player starts
on the mound like does and comes out of the
game as a pitcher, he can stay in as a DH.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Doesn't work the other way.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
If you pull him in out of the bullpen, he
comes in out of the bullpen, you have lost your
DH and the picture has to hit. If it's Otani
as the pitcher, that's fine. But if you pull Otani
in the eighth inning, for example, or you know, the
game goes extra innings and you have you know, when
you pull him as a pitcher, he can't stay in
and DH either. Whoever comes in as the next picture
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has to hit. So it's interesting. It complicates things. Yeah,
but you know they made up the rule just for
Otani anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Of course, it's not like this came up before.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So in that regard, if you're going to use him,
are using him to close.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It out, then I think you would you. I don't
think they would use him in. Yeah, I don't think
they will use him out of the bullpen. I know
we've been talking about it for weeks. I just don't
I don't see that happening. It's not just the two
way rule, it's also how does he warm up if
he you know, his DH spot might come up is
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he going to go down underneath and be be you know,
heating up and then all of a sudden have to
run out and hit and then go back. So it's
just real complicated. I don't think we'll see him out
of the bullpen, but that trust tree is really bare.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So maybe he could be. He could be a piece.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Lineup is out, it's the same lineup. Did you think
you'd see Collins? Paez thought it was possible.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I think it's more about the defense, is why they
hesitate to pull Andy. If to me, key K should
move to center field and Alex callplay left field. But
I don't think they feel real good about key K's
defense anymore. If they did, they would have played him
in center field more than three times, and that's all
they used him there during the season. So I think
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it's more about Andy's defense than it is about the hitting.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And let's be honest, he's the number nine hitter. What
do you want from the number nine? Yeah, it's the
other guys that got it, you know, the other guy.
You don't more than ninety three, okay, ninety four? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Well all right now you're talking about and like I
said earlier, he's the guy that hit twenty seven home runs,
right he can run into Yeah, absolutely can't. And you know,
him hitting in front of Otani, he should see yeah,
good pitches, but he's just not been swinging.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
They don't have to throw him good pitches because he'll
chase yeah, way too much. And yeah, you know that's
the moment's gotten a little big for him. You tell
you talk about a young player, the moment's got a
little too big. He's trying too hard at the play,
swinging it way way too much. And he did not
go into the postseason r role. He was in a
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slump for most of September as well. So the then
you face the best pitching you're gonna face all year,
that's no way to break out of it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know, Otani, aside from winning the NLCS MVP with
one great game, like he's been tearing to cover off
the ball here Bill.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No, he is not.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He's hitting two twenty five. I think it is for
the world. For the postseason. He had a two home
run game against the Reds. He had a three home
run game against the Brewers. So I, you know, I
remember my algebra from from back in high school, So
I predict a four home run game carrying this, Kay,
it's the you know.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
The progression there, two, three, four.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
But no, his bats haven't been have been better in
the World Series than they were against the Phillies and
the Brewers. He's not seen the same quality of left
handed pitchers that he saw from the Phillies, right so,
you know, you go down the lineup, there's not a
whole lot of bright spots offensively right now. This is
the time of year when teams you're facing the better pitchers,
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and teams can really game plan against individuals. They can
look at a lineup and say, this is this is
what we're going to do against Freddie Freeman, and we're
going to do it every darn time.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
For the whole series.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
And as the series goes on, it should shift a
little bit towards the hitter the more they've seen these
matchups the lefties or wherever they want to get against
certain hitters. So maybe we see some little more breakout
from the Dodgers offense here.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Do you.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
When you look at this game today, do you think
Torontald's looking at this as a game that they they
gotta have only because they come Dodgors come back with Otani,
then they got Snell going again, and then they got
Yamamoto going again. So if they're gonna get one, this
is the one for them to get.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I don't think they're playing those mental games. John Schneider
had a really good answer to a question before game
one when they were talking about some of the game
planning stuff. He said, he and his coaching staff look
at it as seven to one game series, So I
don't think they worry about what's next. You just focus
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on today in game four, focus on tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You know, it's pretty remarkable the Blue Jays are here.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Last year they were awful and there was talk that
the GM and Schnyder could be gone if they had
not performed well this year.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Do you think these guys are excited or relieved? Oh,
they're excited. Come on, I mean, they're competitive guys.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Schneider made a joke about driving to the ballpark last year.
This year he's walking because he's okay. He's okay with
being seen in public now because he's doing well. Yeah,
they live and die with with the ups and downs,
the wins and losses.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's you know, Rodney, you lived.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
In a competitive bubble when you were a professional athlete,
and it goes.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Like that from year to year, even from season. Within
a shure, they could go from bad to work. We've
seen it with teams this year. You saw the Dodgers
in July and August.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They weren't.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
They weren't walking to the park in July in August,
they were, you know, keeping the windows rolled up.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Absolutely. Hey man, thanks for hanging anytime. Guys. You know,
I'm just right down the road there. Yeah, we see
it with Yeah, we can wave to you. Yeah, give
you one. Don't don't do that though, Okay, we'll look.
Thank you Bill anytime. Really appreciate it. Thanks Bill.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
World Series Dodger Baseball. Tonight, Dodgers and Blue Jays, Game
three of the World Series, First pitch at five.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You are all the games at five seventy.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
L A Sports and the iHeartRadio app from the ball
field at the job site, Strauss Powers World Series coverage
on AM five seventy l A Sports back with more
from the stadium.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yes, we are back live at Dodgers stadiums. Finishing up
a little uh pregame workout. Mookie Bets was out here
taking ground balls.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know what. Freddie we don't talk about a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I know we've heard it over the different broadcast, but
Mookie has played it unbelievable shortstop this year.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Whar is one of the best in baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, he's definitely gold glove material, and as you see,
he works hard than anybody else at it. He's out
here early, he's at taking ground balls more so than
anybody else. He has really worked at playing short stuff
and it's proved him to be one of the best
in the league right now. The plays that he's made
in these playoffs are as good as anybody's ever made.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So that brings two things to mind.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
First, if there's one guy that probably doesn't need to
be out here taking.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Ground balls, it's Mookie, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The other thing that brings to mind is that when
he went through his slump and said earlier in the year,
it's in God's hands now, the decision by many was, well,
let's just put him back in right field. Right, Let's
get it back out the right field, because that don't
change everything. Why would you take one of the premier
shortstops in Major League Baseball and move him to right field.
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It's not like he's just holding down the position. It's
not like he's playing at journeyman levels. He's one of
the premiere shortstops in the game. Why did you move it?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And I would think, you know, last year, going back
and forth and he got you know, obviously had the injury,
and then there was talk, oh, you know, Miggey Row
can play a good shortstop, and Miggi rowis is a
very good defensive shortstop. But some of the plays that
Mooki made this year, Miggie Road doesn't make a green
and the plays in the hole, the plays up the middle,
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the plays where he's got to go right to left.
Miggi Row, as good as he is, doesn't make those
plays because he's as quick as Mooky.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Exactly, yeah, exactly. Don't move him. You can't move No,
you can't move him.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We have Dodgers out in left field now doing some
stretching there. We're throwing the ball around the ground. Screws
out here now, and I'm sure we're going to go
through the seventeen incarnations of watering down the field.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So water ain't dragging it. Water ain't dragging it. It's
unbelievable what they do to get this field ready to
play in kay, there's not. I can't remember growing up
in the fields we played on and you get bad
hops every time every other hit right, it would be
a bad hop.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
There are no bad hops on this field. Well, at
least you got to play on this type of field.
I played like on rocks. When I was growing up.
It was like, oh, there's a dirt infield. This is
great because where I played there was no dirt theory
and it was rocks.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It was just rocks. Yeah, I played well.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
A couple of places older I got it would be
all dirt enfield, which I hated because Arizona had.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That good grass. Oh yeah, I had that real good grass, you.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Know you played on it. And I had a high
school coach that was like this. He was meticulous about
the grass. He'd be out there at six o'clock in
the morning mowing it, doing it himself because he thought
he was a big leaguer, so he wanted to make
it look.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Like a big leaguer. Then I moved to Kansas and
it was all dirt in the infield and say, ooh,
it's not the same. No, not the same at all.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
In casion, weren't with us earlier. Brad Paisley will sing
the national anthem. He was out here rehearsing this morning,
as was JP. You don't even remember his name. No Sacks,
I think, or JP call Sacks, JP Sacks.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, sas Sack. It's one of those well not.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Call all right, JP Sacks. He'll do the Canadian national anthem.
If you're fortunate enough to be here tonight, I will
tell you there will be a distinct difference.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
If you're lucky enough to be here tonight. Do you
think JP JP said?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Do you think he goes back and think maybe I
should bring my guitar out, Maybe I should bring a
piano and organ olle, a.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Crop or something something. I think he goes back and
things to himself. Maybe I better sell it when I
get out there tonight. Maybe I better sell it. Because
that as lovely as it was, as lovely as.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
It was, it don't compare to Brad Pailey hitting that
electric guitar.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No, No, that was big time.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I can also tell you he's done an interview with
MLB Network and Rob Parker hung out long enough.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
To get on air. He's gonna stand in front. He
brought the blazer with him just in case. Two you
see that he did.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
He came in holding up I think it was balled
up in his hand just in case, but he hung
out instead in the vision of by Kelly, It's right
as long as he could so he could get on air.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Now he is on air, okay, and the Fox guys
are setting up over there.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I think they talked to Mooki as well.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Can I just tell you something, you know, being up
here and doing the radio show with you, and we've
done it for like ten years now, but for so
many years I would have been down on the field,
down on the field getting.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Ready to do the local sports cast, right, okay. You
would have been amongst those he seeks down there.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And you know there are a number. Would you been
there at five o'clock in the morning like Mario?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I would not. I would not, And I gotta be
honest with you.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
When I first started doing this back in the day
where there was really no videotape, There was only film cameras, okay,
so we didn't have the live capabilities that you have today.
But once we started going live, it was not the
proliferation yet of cable and all of the other options
available to you. So when you stood down there on
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that field. For many people, it would be the first
time they would hear something broadcast from the stadium because
it didn't work the way it does today. Back then,
technology didn't allow it. But that is Technology changed over
the years, and all of a sudden, you could get MLB.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Network twenty four hours a day. You could get ESPN
twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You could get all of these outlets talking about information
from the game. And by the way, they all had
much better information than we did the local schlips.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
These guys are partners of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
They get all the access, right, they get all the access,
so we got very little access. So then what you
do is you find yourself standing down on the field
looking for something to say. You stand there looking for
something to say, and what happens is they'll come to you,
like four or five times in two hours, because this
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is the big event, this is it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
So after you do the first one, what happens you
try to find something different to say the second time?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Or do you repeat wegurgitate what you said.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
At our earlier you say it differently, Yeah, but it's
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
And then they would always want you to do you
know what. I know, you're down on the field, but
you have to understand that the people watching local news.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Don't watch for sports.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So do something that would appeal to the people, the
local folks. Yeah, that would appeal despite the factor on
the field with the World Series, right, just because you're
standing there, that doesn't necessarily mean you should do anything
about that.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So what would you say?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well, what I would do is I would grab an
usher and talk to them. I would I would do that.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Look at the scenery here at Dodger Stadium, right, you know,
at the backdrop, all right, I would pick that out.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I would talk about the signs. I would talk to
the national anthem singer. I have to tell you. And
I was so blessed to do it for so many years,
and I am so fortunate. It became the most laborious
task any human being can imagine, because you are standing there,
but you have truly zero access. You cannot get the information.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Before anyone else does.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And then you're told that people watching don't really care
about the information because they're not watching for sports, So
figure something out. I have probably done every story known
to mankind surrounding a major event that can be imagined
because I've done it for so long, and I gotta
be honest, and I love Channel four. I don't miss
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that one bit. I do not miss that one bit.
It is mind nothing at this point.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So you wouldn't get you wouldn't get say Yamamoto or
Mookie or Freddie Freeman to do your local when you
got MLB Network and.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You got Fox. You know that's carrying the game. You
don't have to get those guys to do the local staff.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
No, And the Dodgers wouldn't even make them available. And
I don't even blame the Dodgers, to be quite.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Honest with you. Yeah, it's the World Series, right.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, I mean you can get those guys back in
the day during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You can't. You can't.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Things have changed so dramatically. And I just look down
there at all of these people, and I know they're
all saying the same thing.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I need something to say. Yeah, it's gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Separate me, right, what's gonna separate me from the next guy?
What is it all standing right next to each other?
They all got these cameras and then the guy stands.
This guy, one guy I've seen him like five times,
get in front of the Mic and start doing a report.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He might be doing it for multiple stations. Could be.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know another thing I did when I did this.
You see all the people lined up here. I refuse
to be in the scrum. I didn't want to be
standing directly next to somebody.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Where'd you go?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I would move way down to the right field line,
the corner or something where the angle would look different.
And I never wanted anybody to hear what I was
going to say. Years ago, one quick story, Lakers are
playing the Pistons in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
They lose the NBA Finals, Pistons win. If you remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, after that's when Shaq made his pronouncement, basically that
he was leaving after the game, right he was unhappy.
Everything imploded, guys were heard Carl Malone. So I go
on at eleven o'clock at night, back to LA and
I have Rob Fukazaki and Jim Hill on either side
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of me.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
And it's really a question of who's going on first.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It's just when your local news producer decides when your
story is important.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I happened to go on. I had both of
them on this night. Huh, all right? So I go
on and Nate so they can hear me, and they.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Come long before, like a minute. Yeah, let's say a
minute and a half. Okay, okay, but they can hear me.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So I go on and they pitched to me and
it's the generic, Well, you know, it's over for the Lakers.
What a difficult whatever it was, because it's all the
same that's regurgitated.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And he came to me and I said this.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I said, you know what, I'm not going to show
any highlights tonight, not one, because there are no highlights.
The season is over and the only thing that matters
is what the players think. Okay, then we ran the
sound bites. Those guys looked at me, like, what, you're
not showing highlights?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Really? You would do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I would do that. That's the kind of stuff I
would do. All right, So the Lakers got beat by
the Pistons tonight. Let's take a look at how who cares?
Who cares? How it's over?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Does it matter?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
How?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
It really doesn't because people don't want to see the
highlights unless you win.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Right, what are we gonna show? You've seen the game,
you know the result. Let's just get to what matters.
That's the kind of stuff I would do because I
was just going insane. I was just losing my mind
at that point because I knew that no one is
sitting up waiting for me to come out at eleven
o'clock and tell them what happened, because they already know
what happened, and they've already seen.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
All the highlights.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So did Jim Hill and Rob decide, Oh, you know what,
maybe we shouldn't run highlights.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Either a copycat. They can't do that.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Oh no, that goes against the handbook, that goes against
the TV local news hand But couldn't do it. It was
like the hear the Dodgers were not in the World
Series but the Giants were, and the Giants won the
World Series. Colleen Williams says, we should lead our newscast
with this because a California team won? What because a
California team? Once she goes, well, it's California. We should
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lead the whole newscast with it. If I hadn't jumped
in and said absolutely not, the Channel four news would
have been congratulations San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Giants, ooh you're you just lost the ratings war?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, that that is local news. All right, let's do
because we're out here for Dodgers, obviously. But there's one
other thing we need to mention that happened last night, Rodney. Yes,
the Lakers played Austin Reings for fifty one points, and
the Lakers went God, Austin Reeves fifty one points and
they beat the Sacramento Kings. Of course, Luca is out, Yep,
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he'll be out for at least a week. Lebron's not
coming back for a while. So that's your team last night,
and you go, my god, fifty one points. That was
a career high. That was spectacular. Yeah, you know, that's
when he'll never forget. It'll be a game you've spoken
of the age?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Are you diminishing it? Fred? No, I'm being dead serious.
This is huge, right, No, it was.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I mean Lulca scored forty nine in the game before
and then Reeves come back scores fifty one.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
By the way, that's the only way they're gonna win,
all right, that's not sustainable.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
No god, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
And they've got like six games in seven days something
like that coming up, so they are going to be
really overloaded. But when you look at the box score,
you saw something interesting. Austin Reeves I think was twenty
one of twenty two from the foul line, which is
spectacular shooting. Absolutely, But as my wife would say, you
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need to make them jack. There's a reason they're called
free Okay. So anyway, he's twenty one to twenty two.
But when you look at the box score, he tempted
more free throws than the entire Sacramento team. Yeah, I
think Sacramento attempted eighteen maybe and the Lakers attempted forty six.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I'd like to know how that happened. How does that
happen in an NBA game? Well, I mean, we know
what's going on with the NBA, but still at all
that shouldn't happen. How can that be? And good for
the Lakers and good for Austin Reeves.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Look, you can actually see it happening with you know,
Lebron's in the game and they got to call fouls
against Lebron, or when Kolbe's played, or even you know,
Shaq didn't get the benefit of call.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But you know in Superstars and you can see them
going through a lot of lot but last night, no,
they can have that many double.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
The free throw attempts as a Sacramento that should never happen.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I couldn't believe it. Are you looking up the box
for Kevin?
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Yeah, so you're all right. Reeves was twenty one of
twenty two. Sacramento was twelve of eighteen as a team,
eighteen only eighteen eighteen as a team. The Lakers shot
forty six. They were forty one out of forty six
free throws.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And that's the difference of the game.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
That's absolutely you won by seven, right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
How does that happen? How couldn't that beam?
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Well, the word part is there are a lot of
whistles early on in the first half, and it seemed,
I think early in the third quarter a lot of
those whistles the Lakers were getting they weren't at that point.
And I don't know if it was just fatigue on
the officials part, saying like, look, we may call it
too many fouls. We got to slow this down a
little bit. The Lakers just kept attacking and they kept
getting the whistles.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Oh maybe that's the formula, fright.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I don't know if Austin Reeves is going to get
twenty two aems every single night, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I would suggest that he would never get twenty rights.
That's the rest of the season there.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Luca, I get it, Austin Reeves, no disrespect, but come on, well.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
The thing is this.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
That was a really nice one for the Lakers in
Austin Reeves. It was a nice one for Austin Reeves.
They way fifty one points. That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I just mister triple double.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
He was one assist shot.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Right, yeah, right, so that was a huge But I
mean that's not sustainable.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You're right, Rodney, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I mean, Luca, did you see that they were already
chanting fire Nico?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
In Dallas? Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yes, after after Luke scored forty nine points for the Lakers,
all of a sudden fire, fire Nico.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'll tell you two games in three games.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
In right, I gotta be honest with you, though, guy
scores forty nine and then what do you have the
first one over thirty?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yeah, I'd single handedly kept them in that game.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yeah, right's golden state. Oh that does not look good
if you're Nico.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I mean, this guy's scoring like leand league and score,
and he's in shape, and he's in shape. Yeah, and
he's in shape. I mean that does not make you
look good. I don't care how good Cooper Flag is.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You just can't do that. Trade away a generational player
like that, No do it, No, No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
All right, World Series Dodger Baseball Tonight, Dodgers, Jay's Game
three of the World Series.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
First pitch at five.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
You'll have all the games, LA Sports and the iHeartRadio
app from the ballfield to the job site, Strouts Powers
World service coverage on a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
We're back to the stadium after this. Yeah, good, big call.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Oh all right, We're back live at Dodgers Stadium. The
Dodgers are now getting ready to take a little more
infield and maybe a little batting practice as well.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But down here warming up.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It's getting crowded out here, Fred, I mean, there's more
media people, just twice as many media people as there
are players. I think your Dodgers in the I think
you're being kind maybe three times, yeah, tripled.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It is crazy crowded down.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I was gonna go down there before the game after
we finish here, but I don't know if I can
even get on the field right now.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
The crowded as it is. Don't go down there. Save yourself.
Don't go down there.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Earlier, we were talking about the fact that Yamamoto actually
cleaned up the dugout in Toronto after his complete game,
even in which the Dodgers squared the series.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yes, Kevin has information.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Yeah, so, our friend Victor Brigg Jacob's listening to the show,
says healo to you guys and all of our listeners
out there. He says, Yamamodal cleaning the dugout is a
Japanese custom of respect for the environment, rooted in Shinto religion.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
That is why he was cleaning the dugout after his
complete game. Yeah, yeah, he did sign off?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Did he sign off with absolutely as cred You've been
to Tokyo, I've I've been there all the times and
uh in Taban my son has been there for three
years going to school there, and absolutely one undred present
Bick is right. There is a respect for the environment,
There is a respect for cleanliness. You won't find a
piece of trash on the ground in a big city
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like Tokyo like you do in the States. It's incredible
when you go there. If you get a chance to
go there, how clean it is. But yeah, and your
son's not coming back is no, we never never coming back.
Isn't it funny when you really think about it, if
you go over there and experience that, and if you
can sort of integrate yourself into the culture, it is
so different than our culture here that once you get there,
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you go, I don't want to come back, You really don't.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
So many things are so simple, and so how do
I say it? Fred? Just no brainers? That shit happened.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
And when you get there and you experience that, like
why would I ever leave? Now we're begging him to
come back, and he will, but for the most part,
he's enjoying himself over.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
There here he is Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Rodney said this off there earlier, so I'm going to
say it with Max Schur's Around the Hill tonight. I
agree with this assessment. Rodney believes the Dodgers will make
his brown eye blue, and I do think they will. Sorry, Kevin,
Kevin talks an hour and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Don't say that, don't you do that? Don't you do that?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I had to, yes, apologies. I think they get to
him within four in each tonight. I think Liizno has
a pretty good outing. He's got to be efficient. That
is a concern because he does walk people. Hopefully, if
he gets out of the first inning quickly, I think
he's going to be okay.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, it's all about pitch count with him, you know,
and how efficient he is, and he can get sometimes
a little erratic from time to time.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
The question for me is how deep does he go?
Does he gets you through seven?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
If he gets you through seven, I think you can
work through the eighth and the ninth inning. But if
he's struggling in the fifth, he's got to come out
and maybe the sixth. Then you've got decisions to make
who you bring it in, So he've got to go
deep again.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
We've talked about it. I'll tell you who you bring in.
It's pretty simple. Either Mickey Rojas or keyk It's one
or the other because we're kind of to that point.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Ronnie, thank you back in the studio.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Really appreciate it, Internet, Matt, thank you, Dave Police, thank you, Craig,
thank you, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Great day here at the ballpark, a lot of fun. Fred.
Let's do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
You know what, We will be back here tomorrow. Go
Dodgers and Rodney we're back here tomorrow, right on
And we continue on live from Dodgers Stadium before Game
three of the World Series. Fred Rogan, Rodney, Pete, Petro's Money,
Tim Kates, Well, Money's not here yet, but Petros and
Tim are here getting ready to go on at two
leading into the pregame show, and then we'll have the
call of the game right here on the radio station.
All right, A couple of things we should point out
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now that're going on.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
A lot of activity going on, Frett.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, Mookie BET's now being interviewed by MLB Network.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yep. Here on the right field side.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
On the left field side, they're bringing out the set
for Fox.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It seems like a little late for rushing to get
out here. I hope they get all the pieces right, Fred,
I'm sure they will. Where god forbid, big poppy falls
off the back.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Of the set. We don't need that.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Where's the uh, where's the Japanese station, National Japanese station?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
They know, they have a big presence. They may but
they may not have the rights to be on the field.
They may be up in the press box or in
one of the broadcast boosts.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
They may not have the rights.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The other thing I want to point out is Ben
Casparius is out on the momb now and basically pitching
the Dodger hitters.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You think he's trying to imitate Max Shirts. I think
Zoe Shuirs is right hander, Ben to the right hander.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
No, that's not how it works. He's trying. He put
the he put the contexts in too. Yes he did, Bill,
Yes he did. Not how it works.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
He built the contacts in the blue one and the
brown one that they're looking right into his eyes as
there as he's pitching to him.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
This is not football. They don't have a scout team
that impersonates.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's just live BP. That's all it is. Mil Plunkett
has arrived on scene here from the Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
For me, Bill, it was much more exciting, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
All Right? So, uh, you know if I take my
shoes off, Fred, I know that you rule for you.
You know the rules.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You should be grounding out there. I would love to
be ground Yeah. Well, and many would like to have
that happen as well.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Bill. All right.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
First game, Blake Snell struggles early. I thought they were
in trouble because they'd have to go to the bullten
second game.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
That is a thing. If they had to go to
the bull. That was a long side that was on
the list there.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No, my point wasn't the first inning I thought they
were in trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
He's swing so many pitches, and then the second inning
he couldn't really find the strike zone either.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I thought, well, this is going to be a long time,
wasn't you know?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It wasn't so much that he couldn't find the strike zone.
He he was throwing the way he usually throws. But
Toronto was very disciplined in their approach and it ran
up the pitch count. They filed off a lot of
pitches to throw to put the pitch count up. But
you're right, they took very good at Betts got Blake
out of the game early, and.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That was that. Yeah, Now they didn't chanse right.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
They didn't change right exactly, whereas I think even with Yamamoto,
his pitches were end the zone that they.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Say, yeah, well he's his approach is different than Blake.
Blake is his stuff is so good that he gets
guys to chase right and he doesn't throw in the
zone as much as Yama does. Yamamoto relies on he
has four or five different pitches that he can throw
for strikes and he makes you swing either you know,
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misses or he gets weak contact and gets the outs
that way.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
All right, So you think that pitch got away from
Yamamoto that hits Springer just oops, yeah it happen now,
well yeah he I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Think coach has any bitterness about the twenty seventeen World
Series when he was barely starting his career in Japan.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But you put on that doze of uniform. Okay, it
comes to it a little pants. There's a sign and
the club anyone on that Houston as here's our list.
These are the bad guys.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Absolutely, there's a hit list going on in that glove
out come on.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But no, I said as a bread though they were
actually pitching him up and end two, So that was
part of the approach of playing. You got away from them.
But still we like to think it was on purpose.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, well you like to think that he's out there
impersonating Max Sure's or too.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So you do you?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You do? You a distinct difference with Yama Modo going
the difference in game two and I watching you could
feel and I think afterwards the Blue Jays and you
were there, But afterwards I think the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Went, oh, okay, now it's real. Now this is not going.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
To be you know, I don't think either team reacts
as dramatically as we do watching on the outside. I
think splitting the first two games was not a surprise
to anybody. I think this is going to be a
good series. I picked the Dodgers in six, so I
think I'm going to be on another plane to Toronto
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on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So splitting the first two didn't really not a surprise.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
How do you how do you see them attacking sures
Are today? I mean, obviously he doesn't have the stuff
he had five years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
He's not as overpowering as he used to be, but.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
He is, uh, you know, changing speeds, he's hitting his spots.
We seem to think that the Dodgers do it the
Dodger way. They get after him a little bit in
those first three to four innings.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think they'd like to.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I think they'd absolutely like to, partly because, yeah, you
want to get to the opposing starter, but I also
think they want to get the lead and make their
own starting pitcher comfortable. You know, let let him get
into a groove and maybe we get seven innings out
of Glass now, and Fred doesn't get excited about them
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calling for the bullpen any earlier than that.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
That's got to be the play in every game for
the Dodgers. Stay away from the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But that's a that's a great point because it's not
only about getting the lead for your team going forward,
it's getting.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The lead for your starting pitching.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Absolutely, as he goes back out there knowing psh, what
a lead is different and pits him from behind.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, and Glass now has a way of getting himself
in trouble if he overthinks things, his mechanics get a
little out of whack.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
He can walk a lot of guys and create his
own problems.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So if you make him feel a little more comfortable,
he feels like he has a little more margin for error.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And I think he settled in sooner. All right, if
God forbid, they have to go.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
To the bullpen now, No, my who, Yeah, that's seriously built.
That's the question we asked Dave Roberts Daily. You know
he likes to call it his trust tree. Well, the
leaves have fallen and it's pretty a pretty barren look
intrigue right now, the limbs have been sheared from it.
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I think there is I've said this a little bit
for a while. I think there's residual trust left with
Blake trying it because of his history has not been
good recently, but I think there's still some trust there.
Going into the postseason, they talked up Emmachen. They thought
he was going to be a huge piece out of
the bullpen. It hasn't worked out. No, he has not
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been good. He's given up runs every time they've gone
to him in the postseason. Alex Vesia because the personal
thing is not available, I think he would have been
at the top of the trust tree if he was sure.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So now you got to hope you.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Get seven innings out of your starter piece together, an
inning with.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Trinan or Shean or I don't know who else. You
would go to Jack Dryer maybe down there.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
The most dangerous hitters in the Blue Jays lineup are
right hand so you got to go to a right hander.
And the options are not pretty. I mean it's Trining
or Will Klein or Edgardo Enriquez. I don't think they
want to make those calls.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is there an opportunity or a chance that they let Sazaki.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Go to innings.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, we talked about that with Dave yesterday. That to me,
that's the way to go. You get if you get
seven out of a starter, you got to lead he
finish it off. He's reluctant because it means that he's
not he's not gonna be available the next day. And
we're playing three in a row here, so that changes
the arithmetic a little bit. So I don't think they
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would go to Rokie for multiple I servile he would?
That would that would be my choice.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
All right, So we're gonna play five games. We know
that for sure. Who's gonna pitch game five?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The starter? We go back, We'll go back around and
it's Blake Snell again.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, oh that's what you would. So that would mean
Otani would pitch game seven. No, it would be Glass now.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
It would be Glass now with all hands on deck,
including Otani, available to come out of the bullpen if
they need to.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Then you get into that.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Two player rule and whether they lose the d H.
And also it gets a little complicated if you do that,
but yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's playing that bill if that happens a two player.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
The way the rule is written, if a player starts
on the mound like does and comes out of the
game as a pitcher, he can stay in as a DH.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Doesn't work the other way.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
If you pull him in out of the bullpen, he
comes in out of the bullpen, you have lost your
DH and the picture has to hit. If it's Otani
as the pitcher, that's fine. But if you pull Otani
in the eighth inning, for example, or you know, the
game goes extra innings and you have you know, when
you pull him as a pitcher, he can't stay in
and DH either. Whoever comes in as the next picture
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has to hit. So it's interesting. It complicates things. Yeah,
but you know they made up the rule just for
Otani anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Of course, it's not like this came up before.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So in that regard, if you're going to use him,
are using him to close.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It out, then I think you would you. I don't
think they would use him in. Yeah, I don't think
they will use him out of the bullpen. I know
we've been talking about it for weeks. I just don't
I don't see that happening. It's not just the two
way rule, it's also how does he warm up if
he you know, his DH spot might come up is
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he going to go down underneath and be be you know,
heating up and then all of a sudden have to
run out and hit and then go back. So it's
just real complicated. I don't think we'll see him out
of the bullpen, but that trust tree is really bare.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So maybe he could be. He could be a piece.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Lineup is out, it's the same lineup. Did you think
you'd see Collins? Paez thought it was possible.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I think it's more about the defense, is why they
hesitate to pull Andy. If to me, key K should
move to center field and Alex callplay left field. But
I don't think they feel real good about key K's
defense anymore. If they did, they would have played him
in center field more than three times, and that's all
they used him there during the season. So I think
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it's more about Andy's defense than it is about the hitting.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And let's be honest, he's the number nine hitter. What
do you want from the number nine? Yeah, it's the
other guys that got it, you know, the other guy.
You don't more than ninety three, okay, ninety four? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Well all right now you're talking about and like I
said earlier, he's the guy that hit twenty seven home runs,
right he can run into Yeah, absolutely can't. And you know,
him hitting in front of Otani, he should see yeah,
good pitches, but he's just not been swinging.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
They don't have to throw him good pitches because he'll
chase yeah, way too much. And yeah, you know that's
the moment's gotten a little big for him. You tell
you talk about a young player, the moment's got a
little too big. He's trying too hard at the play,
swinging it way way too much. And he did not
go into the postseason r role. He was in a
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slump for most of September as well. So the then
you face the best pitching you're gonna face all year,
that's no way to break out of it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know, Otani, aside from winning the NLCS MVP with
one great game, like he's been tearing to cover off
the ball here Bill.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No, he is not.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He's hitting two twenty five. I think it is for
the world. For the postseason. He had a two home
run game against the Reds. He had a three home
run game against the Brewers. So I, you know, I
remember my algebra from from back in high school, So
I predict a four home run game carrying this, Kay,
it's the you know.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
The progression there, two, three, four.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
But no, his bats haven't been have been better in
the World Series than they were against the Phillies and
the Brewers. He's not seen the same quality of left
handed pitchers that he saw from the Phillies, right so,
you know, you go down the lineup, there's not a
whole lot of bright spots offensively right now. This is
the time of year when teams you're facing the better pitchers,
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and teams can really game plan against individuals. They can
look at a lineup and say, this is this is
what we're going to do against Freddie Freeman, and we're
going to do it every darn time.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
For the whole series.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
And as the series goes on, it should shift a
little bit towards the hitter the more they've seen these
matchups the lefties or wherever they want to get against
certain hitters. So maybe we see some little more breakout
from the Dodgers offense here.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Do you.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
When you look at this game today, do you think
Torontald's looking at this as a game that they they
gotta have only because they come Dodgors come back with Otani,
then they got Snell going again, and then they got
Yamamoto going again. So if they're gonna get one, this
is the one for them to get.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I don't think they're playing those mental games. John Schneider
had a really good answer to a question before game
one when they were talking about some of the game
planning stuff. He said, he and his coaching staff look
at it as seven to one game series, So I
don't think they worry about what's next. You just focus
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on today in game four, focus on tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You know, it's pretty remarkable the Blue Jays are here.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Last year they were awful and there was talk that
the GM and Schnyder could be gone if they had
not performed well this year.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Do you think these guys are excited or relieved? Oh,
they're excited. Come on, I mean, they're competitive guys.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Schneider made a joke about driving to the ballpark last year.
This year he's walking because he's okay. He's okay with
being seen in public now because he's doing well. Yeah,
they live and die with with the ups and downs,
the wins and losses.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's you know, Rodney, you lived.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
In a competitive bubble when you were a professional athlete,
and it goes.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Like that from year to year, even from season. Within
a shure, they could go from bad to work. We've
seen it with teams this year. You saw the Dodgers
in July and August.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They weren't.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
They weren't walking to the park in July in August,
they were, you know, keeping the windows rolled up.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Absolutely. Hey man, thanks for hanging anytime. Guys. You know,
I'm just right down the road there. Yeah, we see
it with Yeah, we can wave to you. Yeah, give
you one. Don't don't do that though, Okay, we'll look.
Thank you Bill anytime. Really appreciate it. Thanks Bill.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
World Series Dodger Baseball. Tonight, Dodgers and Blue Jays, Game
three of the World Series, First pitch at five.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You are all the games at five seventy.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
L A Sports and the iHeartRadio app from the ball
field at the job site, Strauss Powers World Series coverage
on AM five seventy l A Sports back with more
from the stadium.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yes, we are back live at Dodgers stadiums. Finishing up
a little uh pregame workout. Mookie Bets was out here
taking ground balls.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know what. Freddie we don't talk about a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I know we've heard it over the different broadcast, but
Mookie has played it unbelievable shortstop this year.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Whar is one of the best in baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, he's definitely gold glove material, and as you see,
he works hard than anybody else at it. He's out
here early, he's at taking ground balls more so than
anybody else. He has really worked at playing short stuff
and it's proved him to be one of the best
in the league right now. The plays that he's made
in these playoffs are as good as anybody's ever made.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So that brings two things to mind.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
First, if there's one guy that probably doesn't need to
be out here taking.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Ground balls, it's Mookie, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The other thing that brings to mind is that when
he went through his slump and said earlier in the year,
it's in God's hands now, the decision by many was, well,
let's just put him back in right field. Right, Let's
get it back out the right field, because that don't
change everything. Why would you take one of the premier
shortstops in Major League Baseball and move him to right field.
(16:48):
It's not like he's just holding down the position. It's
not like he's playing at journeyman levels. He's one of
the premiere shortstops in the game. Why did you move it?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And I would think, you know, last year, going back
and forth and he got you know, obviously had the injury,
and then there was talk, oh, you know, Miggey Row
can play a good shortstop, and Miggi rowis is a
very good defensive shortstop. But some of the plays that
Mooki made this year, Miggie Road doesn't make a green
and the plays in the hole, the plays up the middle,
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the plays where he's got to go right to left.
Miggi Row, as good as he is, doesn't make those
plays because he's as quick as Mooky.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Exactly, yeah, exactly. Don't move him. You can't move No,
you can't move him.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We have Dodgers out in left field now doing some
stretching there. We're throwing the ball around the ground. Screws
out here now, and I'm sure we're going to go
through the seventeen incarnations of watering down the field.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So water ain't dragging it. Water ain't dragging it. It's
unbelievable what they do to get this field ready to
play in kay, there's not. I can't remember growing up
in the fields we played on and you get bad
hops every time every other hit right, it would be
a bad hop.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
There are no bad hops on this field. Well, at
least you got to play on this type of field.
I played like on rocks. When I was growing up.
It was like, oh, there's a dirt infield. This is
great because where I played there was no dirt theory
and it was rocks.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It was just rocks. Yeah, I played well.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
A couple of places older I got it would be
all dirt enfield, which I hated because Arizona had.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That good grass. Oh yeah, I had that real good grass, you.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Know you played on it. And I had a high
school coach that was like this. He was meticulous about
the grass. He'd be out there at six o'clock in
the morning mowing it, doing it himself because he thought
he was a big leaguer, so he wanted to make
it look.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Like a big leaguer. Then I moved to Kansas and
it was all dirt in the infield and say, ooh,
it's not the same. No, not the same at all.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
In casion, weren't with us earlier. Brad Paisley will sing
the national anthem. He was out here rehearsing this morning,
as was JP. You don't even remember his name. No Sacks,
I think, or JP call Sacks, JP Sacks.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, sas Sack. It's one of those well not.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Call all right, JP Sacks. He'll do the Canadian national anthem.
If you're fortunate enough to be here tonight, I will
tell you there will be a distinct difference.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
If you're lucky enough to be here tonight. Do you
think JP JP said?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Do you think he goes back and think maybe I
should bring my guitar out, Maybe I should bring a
piano and organ olle, a.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Crop or something something. I think he goes back and
things to himself. Maybe I better sell it when I
get out there tonight. Maybe I better sell it. Because
that as lovely as it was, as lovely as.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
It was, it don't compare to Brad Pailey hitting that
electric guitar.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No, No, that was big time.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I can also tell you he's done an interview with
MLB Network and Rob Parker hung out long enough.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
To get on air. He's gonna stand in front. He
brought the blazer with him just in case. Two you
see that he did.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
He came in holding up I think it was balled
up in his hand just in case, but he hung
out instead in the vision of by Kelly, It's right
as long as he could so he could get on air.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Now he is on air, okay, and the Fox guys
are setting up over there.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I think they talked to Mooki as well.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Can I just tell you something, you know, being up
here and doing the radio show with you, and we've
done it for like ten years now, but for so
many years I would have been down on the field,
down on the field getting.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Ready to do the local sports cast, right, okay. You
would have been amongst those he seeks down there.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And you know there are a number. Would you been
there at five o'clock in the morning like Mario?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I would not. I would not, And I gotta be
honest with you.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
When I first started doing this back in the day
where there was really no videotape, There was only film cameras, okay,
so we didn't have the live capabilities that you have today.
But once we started going live, it was not the
proliferation yet of cable and all of the other options
available to you. So when you stood down there on
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that field. For many people, it would be the first
time they would hear something broadcast from the stadium because
it didn't work the way it does today. Back then,
technology didn't allow it. But that is Technology changed over
the years, and all of a sudden, you could get MLB.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Network twenty four hours a day. You could get ESPN
twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You could get all of these outlets talking about information
from the game. And by the way, they all had
much better information than we did the local schlips.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
These guys are partners of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
They get all the access, right, they get all the access,
so we got very little access. So then what you
do is you find yourself standing down on the field
looking for something to say. You stand there looking for
something to say, and what happens is they'll come to you,
like four or five times in two hours, because this
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is the big event, this is it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
So after you do the first one, what happens you
try to find something different to say the second time?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Or do you repeat wegurgitate what you said.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
At our earlier you say it differently, Yeah, but it's
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
And then they would always want you to do you
know what. I know, you're down on the field, but
you have to understand that the people watching local news.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Don't watch for sports.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So do something that would appeal to the people, the
local folks. Yeah, that would appeal despite the factor on
the field with the World Series, right, just because you're
standing there, that doesn't necessarily mean you should do anything
about that.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So what would you say?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well, what I would do is I would grab an
usher and talk to them. I would I would do that.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Look at the scenery here at Dodger Stadium, right, you know,
at the backdrop, all right, I would pick that out.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I would talk about the signs. I would talk to
the national anthem singer. I have to tell you. And
I was so blessed to do it for so many years,
and I am so fortunate. It became the most laborious
task any human being can imagine, because you are standing there,
but you have truly zero access. You cannot get the information.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Before anyone else does.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And then you're told that people watching don't really care
about the information because they're not watching for sports, So
figure something out. I have probably done every story known
to mankind surrounding a major event that can be imagined
because I've done it for so long, and I gotta
be honest, and I love Channel four. I don't miss
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that one bit. I do not miss that one bit.
It is mind nothing at this point.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So you wouldn't get you wouldn't get say Yamamoto or
Mookie or Freddie Freeman to do your local when you
got MLB Network and.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You got Fox. You know that's carrying the game. You
don't have to get those guys to do the local staff.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
No, And the Dodgers wouldn't even make them available. And
I don't even blame the Dodgers, to be quite.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Honest with you. Yeah, it's the World Series, right.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, I mean you can get those guys back in
the day during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You can't. You can't.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Things have changed so dramatically. And I just look down
there at all of these people, and I know they're
all saying the same thing.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I need something to say. Yeah, it's gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Separate me, right, what's gonna separate me from the next guy?
What is it all standing right next to each other?
They all got these cameras and then the guy stands.
This guy, one guy I've seen him like five times,
get in front of the Mic and start doing a report.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He might be doing it for multiple stations. Could be.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know another thing I did when I did this.
You see all the people lined up here. I refuse
to be in the scrum. I didn't want to be
standing directly next to somebody.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Where'd you go?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I would move way down to the right field line,
the corner or something where the angle would look different.
And I never wanted anybody to hear what I was
going to say. Years ago, one quick story, Lakers are
playing the Pistons in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
They lose the NBA Finals, Pistons win. If you remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, after that's when Shaq made his pronouncement, basically that
he was leaving after the game, right he was unhappy.
Everything imploded, guys were heard Carl Malone. So I go
on at eleven o'clock at night, back to LA and
I have Rob Fukazaki and Jim Hill on either side
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of me.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
And it's really a question of who's going on first.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It's just when your local news producer decides when your
story is important.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I happened to go on. I had both of
them on this night. Huh, all right? So I go
on and Nate so they can hear me, and they.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Come long before, like a minute. Yeah, let's say a
minute and a half. Okay, okay, but they can hear me.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So I go on and they pitched to me and
it's the generic, Well, you know, it's over for the Lakers.
What a difficult whatever it was, because it's all the
same that's regurgitated.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And he came to me and I said this.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I said, you know what, I'm not going to show
any highlights tonight, not one, because there are no highlights.
The season is over and the only thing that matters
is what the players think. Okay, then we ran the
sound bites. Those guys looked at me, like, what, you're
not showing highlights?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Really? You would do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I would do that. That's the kind of stuff I
would do. All right, So the Lakers got beat by
the Pistons tonight. Let's take a look at how who cares?
Who cares? How it's over?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Does it matter?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
How?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
It really doesn't because people don't want to see the
highlights unless you win.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Right, what are we gonna show? You've seen the game,
you know the result. Let's just get to what matters.
That's the kind of stuff I would do because I
was just going insane. I was just losing my mind
at that point because I knew that no one is
sitting up waiting for me to come out at eleven
o'clock and tell them what happened, because they already know
what happened, and they've already seen.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
All the highlights.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So did Jim Hill and Rob decide, Oh, you know what,
maybe we shouldn't run highlights.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Either a copycat. They can't do that.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Oh no, that goes against the handbook, that goes against
the TV local news hand But couldn't do it. It was
like the hear the Dodgers were not in the World
Series but the Giants were, and the Giants won the
World Series. Colleen Williams says, we should lead our newscast
with this because a California team won? What because a
California team? Once she goes, well, it's California. We should
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lead the whole newscast with it. If I hadn't jumped
in and said absolutely not, the Channel four news would
have been congratulations San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Giants, ooh you're you just lost the ratings war?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, that that is local news. All right, let's do
because we're out here for Dodgers, obviously. But there's one
other thing we need to mention that happened last night, Rodney. Yes,
the Lakers played Austin Reings for fifty one points, and
the Lakers went God, Austin Reeves fifty one points and
they beat the Sacramento Kings. Of course, Luca is out, Yep,
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he'll be out for at least a week. Lebron's not
coming back for a while. So that's your team last night,
and you go, my god, fifty one points. That was
a career high. That was spectacular. Yeah, you know, that's
when he'll never forget. It'll be a game you've spoken
of the age?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Are you diminishing it? Fred? No, I'm being dead serious.
This is huge, right, No, it was.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I mean Lulca scored forty nine in the game before
and then Reeves come back scores fifty one.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
By the way, that's the only way they're gonna win,
all right, that's not sustainable.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
No god, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
And they've got like six games in seven days something
like that coming up, so they are going to be
really overloaded. But when you look at the box score,
you saw something interesting. Austin Reeves I think was twenty
one of twenty two from the foul line, which is
spectacular shooting. Absolutely, But as my wife would say, you
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need to make them jack. There's a reason they're called
free Okay. So anyway, he's twenty one to twenty two.
But when you look at the box score, he tempted
more free throws than the entire Sacramento team. Yeah, I
think Sacramento attempted eighteen maybe and the Lakers attempted forty six.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I'd like to know how that happened. How does that
happen in an NBA game? Well, I mean, we know
what's going on with the NBA, but still at all
that shouldn't happen. How can that be? And good for
the Lakers and good for Austin Reeves.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Look, you can actually see it happening with you know,
Lebron's in the game and they got to call fouls
against Lebron, or when Kolbe's played, or even you know,
Shaq didn't get the benefit of call.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But you know in Superstars and you can see them
going through a lot of lot but last night, no,
they can have that many double.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
The free throw attempts as a Sacramento that should never happen.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I couldn't believe it. Are you looking up the box
for Kevin?
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Yeah, so you're all right. Reeves was twenty one of
twenty two. Sacramento was twelve of eighteen as a team,
eighteen only eighteen eighteen as a team. The Lakers shot
forty six. They were forty one out of forty six
free throws.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And that's the difference of the game.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
That's absolutely you won by seven, right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
How does that happen? How couldn't that beam?
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Well, the word part is there are a lot of
whistles early on in the first half, and it seemed,
I think early in the third quarter a lot of
those whistles the Lakers were getting they weren't at that point.
And I don't know if it was just fatigue on
the officials part, saying like, look, we may call it
too many fouls. We got to slow this down a
little bit. The Lakers just kept attacking and they kept
getting the whistles.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Oh maybe that's the formula, fright.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I don't know if Austin Reeves is going to get
twenty two aems every single night, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I would suggest that he would never get twenty rights.
That's the rest of the season there.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Luca, I get it, Austin Reeves, no disrespect, but come on, well.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
The thing is this.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
That was a really nice one for the Lakers in
Austin Reeves. It was a nice one for Austin Reeves.
They way fifty one points. That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I just mister triple double.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
He was one assist shot.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Right, yeah, right, so that was a huge But I
mean that's not sustainable.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You're right, Rodney, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I mean, Luca, did you see that they were already
chanting fire Nico?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
In Dallas? Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yes, after after Luke scored forty nine points for the Lakers,
all of a sudden fire, fire Nico.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'll tell you two games in three games.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
In right, I gotta be honest with you, though, guy
scores forty nine and then what do you have the
first one over thirty?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yeah, I'd single handedly kept them in that game.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yeah, right's golden state. Oh that does not look good
if you're Nico.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I mean, this guy's scoring like leand league and score,
and he's in shape, and he's in shape. Yeah, and
he's in shape. I mean that does not make you
look good. I don't care how good Cooper Flag is.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You just can't do that. Trade away a generational player
like that, No do it, No, No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
All right, World Series Dodger Baseball Tonight, Dodgers, Jay's Game
three of the World Series.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
First pitch at five.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
You'll have all the games, LA Sports and the iHeartRadio
app from the ballfield to the job site, Strouts Powers
World service coverage on a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
We're back to the stadium after this. Yeah, good, big call.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Oh all right, We're back live at Dodgers Stadium. The
Dodgers are now getting ready to take a little more
infield and maybe a little batting practice as well.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But down here warming up.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It's getting crowded out here, Fred, I mean, there's more
media people, just twice as many media people as there
are players. I think your Dodgers in the I think
you're being kind maybe three times, yeah, tripled.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It is crazy crowded down.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I was gonna go down there before the game after
we finish here, but I don't know if I can
even get on the field right now.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
The crowded as it is. Don't go down there. Save yourself.
Don't go down there.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Earlier, we were talking about the fact that Yamamoto actually
cleaned up the dugout in Toronto after his complete game,
even in which the Dodgers squared the series.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yes, Kevin has information.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Yeah, so, our friend Victor Brigg Jacob's listening to the show,
says healo to you guys and all of our listeners
out there. He says, Yamamodal cleaning the dugout is a
Japanese custom of respect for the environment, rooted in Shinto religion.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
That is why he was cleaning the dugout after his
complete game. Yeah, yeah, he did sign off?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Did he sign off with absolutely as cred You've been
to Tokyo, I've I've been there all the times and
uh in Taban my son has been there for three
years going to school there, and absolutely one undred present
Bick is right. There is a respect for the environment,
There is a respect for cleanliness. You won't find a
piece of trash on the ground in a big city
(33:48):
like Tokyo like you do in the States. It's incredible
when you go there. If you get a chance to
go there, how clean it is. But yeah, and your
son's not coming back is no, we never never coming back.
Isn't it funny when you really think about it, if
you go over there and experience that, and if you
can sort of integrate yourself into the culture, it is
so different than our culture here that once you get there,
(34:10):
you go, I don't want to come back, You really don't.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
So many things are so simple, and so how do
I say it? Fred? Just no brainers? That shit happened.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
And when you get there and you experience that, like
why would I ever leave? Now we're begging him to
come back, and he will, but for the most part,
he's enjoying himself over.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
There here he is Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Rodney said this off there earlier, so I'm going to
say it with Max Schur's Around the Hill tonight. I
agree with this assessment. Rodney believes the Dodgers will make
his brown eye blue, and I do think they will. Sorry, Kevin,
Kevin talks an hour and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Don't say that, don't you do that? Don't you do that?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I had to, yes, apologies. I think they get to
him within four in each tonight. I think Liizno has
a pretty good outing. He's got to be efficient. That
is a concern because he does walk people. Hopefully, if
he gets out of the first inning quickly, I think
he's going to be okay.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, it's all about pitch count with him, you know,
and how efficient he is, and he can get sometimes
a little erratic from time to time.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
The question for me is how deep does he go?
Does he gets you through seven?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
If he gets you through seven, I think you can
work through the eighth and the ninth inning. But if
he's struggling in the fifth, he's got to come out
and maybe the sixth. Then you've got decisions to make
who you bring it in, So he've got to go
deep again.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
We've talked about it. I'll tell you who you bring in.
It's pretty simple. Either Mickey Rojas or keyk It's one
or the other because we're kind of to that point.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Ronnie, thank you back in the studio.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Really appreciate it, Internet, Matt, thank you, Dave Police, thank you, Craig,
thank you, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Great day here at the ballpark, a lot of fun. Fred.
Let's do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
You know what, We will be back here tomorrow. Go
Dodgers and Rodney we're back here tomorrow, right on
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