October 29, 2025 • 41 mins
We hear from Blake Snell who will pitch tonights pivotal Game 5 of the World Series. We take your calls to find out where your panic meter sits as this is now a 3 game series between the Dodgers and Bluejays
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And we continue on fred Rogan, Rodney Pete. We are
live from Dodgers Stadium, getting ready for Game five of
the World Series series, now tied at two games a piece. Kevin,
the roster the lineup has been released for tonight. Rodney,
we kicked this around in hour one, what might the
Dodgers do?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And Kevin, they've done something.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If you guys were talking to Vassa last hour about
moving will Smith up in the lineup because he's had
quality at bets and moving a Mookie down in the lineup,
and that's exactly what's happened. So Altani is still gonna
lead off in DH will Smith has moved up to
second in the lineup, and Mookie has now dropped a
third and Freddy is behind him right.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
They oscar Edmund Munsey moved down, didn't he was Munsey
always hit an eight.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I feel like I felt like Munsey was always like seventh,
so I think he may have flip flopped. And they
moved Edmund up with Keik and center and Alex call
is in their batting ninth in left field, so Paez
is out of the lineup.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So it's the two moves at David Vassay speculated on
us the first being and he was actually more concerned
about Mooki hitting second than Pa has and he said
they would have to move Mooki. I'm surprised, but they
did it. I don't think it's too much of a
slap in the face to hit third. I mean, if
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they put him seventh, that would be an issue. But
I think hitting third that is a change. But now
Alex Call gets the call, and quite frankly, I don't
think they.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Had any choice. No, no, they I don't think they did.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
You know, the only question, like we talked about, was
Miggy Rowe maybe playing second base, coming in and giving
you a quality at bet and then that ninth spot
and moving Edmund to center field. But Alex Call gets it.
You know he's gonna work the count. You know he's
gonna make a picture work. He did have a base
hit in the other game the other day, so you
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know he's gonna give you. He's gonna he's gonna give you,
Like I said, he's gonna give you a quality of bet,
where as Paez has not given you really any quality
at bats in these World Series.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, he'll work the pitcher, Yeah, that's what Carl does.
He will and of course he'll go up the first
pitch and swing tonight, but he that works the picture.
And here's the thing about migy Row. And he was
just out here again taking round balls. I mean, nobody
works harder than megy Row. Here's the thing when we
saw him play the other night in the eighteen inning game.
He can't run, and I think that's a problem, and
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I would look, I think I'd bring him in later
in the game.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But that's what they did, right.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
They brought him in a critical situation to bunt, and
he came in and lay down a perfect BUTNT to
move the runner and get the sacrifice. So maybe that
is the situation that he is in that they will
save him for that critical moment with the Dodgers. That's
late in the game and the Dodgers have a runner
at first, or a runner at first and second or
whatever they need to move him over less than two outs.
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Then they bring in Meggy Row to lay down a
bunt in those situations and they reserve the right to
put him. And he's one of those utility guys. He
can play third, he can play second, he can play short.
That you have the luxury of bringing him in late
in the game and put him anywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
One of the Blue Jays is actually out here throwing
the ball. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
First time we've seen that somebody out here this early
in uniform actually throwing.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That's Max definitely. I know his wind up that yeah
for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You know it's like after a couple of days you throw,
you come out and do your little bullpen session.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Guess you're loosening up. He's the only guy in the field.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Now we're gonna get a call from I'm gonna get
a text from Oral let me know why Max Surge
is out here throwing. Uh maybe he wants to because
you know, Earl listens on his way in.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I know he dones.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, so he's gonna let us know why Max Sezer
is out here at what one o'clock, full uniform loosening up.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So tonight it'll be Blake Snell against your Savage again
the matchup in Game one. Here's the thing about Blake Snell,
and we thought we talked about it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Dodger fans, keep this in mind.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I knew the first inning of Game one that the
Dodgers were going to be in trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, you knew that because I knew that account.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You knew that in game two they were going to
be in trouble too, because because Yamamoto threw more pitches
than Blake Snell and at first inning.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But the difference is in the second inning, Yamamoto came out.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You said game one, you said, first inning. Yeah, well,
and here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I wasn't as concerned about Yamamoto and it, and it
held true in both games. In the second game, Yamamoto
looked like he had it. To me, Snell looked shaky
at the beginning. You thought Yamamoto looked like he had
it in the first inning. Yeah, Oh, I thought, Yes,
I really did. I really thought he was gonna be fine.
He was shakiest, you know what, Fred in that first inning.
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I thought he'd be fine. But I was worried about Snell.
And I think tonight and the Blue Jays grinder, that
pitch count, that pitch count is cool.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I don't think it matters for those two guys, for
Snell or for Yamamoto. Pitch count right now, it doesn't
concern me, and I don't think it's gonna concern Mark
pryor Dave Roberts with when it comes to Snell or Yamamoto,
because those guys are workhorses, and we'll go if we're
talking Tyler Glass now, then yeah, it concerns me that
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he gets up around ninety pitches, you're gonna have to take
him out of the game. Those two guys, Snell and Yamamoto,
theyn go one hundred and twenty and they'll be all right.
So I'm not worried about pitchcount with those guys, especially
in Game five with the World Series. Blake Snell, if
he's on, I don't care if he's throwing twenty pitches
an inning. If he's getting guys out, he's gonna go.
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That's Snell's zilla, fred I told you that from the
moment they signed him.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That's the Zilla. Okay, let's go. Let the Zilla go.
My concern is if the Zilla can't go, then you
know what happens next, and that is a real problem.
We've got some sound of the Snell Zilla and he
says he is ready to go tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You damn right he is.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I'm thankful for the first start and what I was
able to learn and how much better I got from that,
and then yeah, beyond excited that I have another opportunity
to really display, you know, the kind of picture that
I am and that I'm striving to be.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
And I really can't wait for it. I'm so excited.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
And yes, you know you want to you want to contribute,
and when when we're when we're winning and we're in
the World Series, there's there's no better moment than than
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
All right, so he wants to contribute. What about this though?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Facing the same team twice in a row, Whose advantage
does that work to?
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Like, it doesn't matter good or bad.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Start the first game, It doesn't matter because the second
game is always feel is going to be better because
they always say it's advantage hitter because they've seen you.
But I think it's an advantage pitcher because you've pitched against them.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
You know what they can do. It's fresh in your head.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
You have an idea, and yeah, like you just you know,
you just I just you know, pushed against them and
didn't execute. And now I have opportunity to go execute
and see how good I am and how much you know,
those five days in between got me locked in to
be you know, the best version of me. So I
like it a lot, and I'm gonna pitch the same
to some guys, different to some guys, Like it's just
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you're gonna go through that battle. But I like it
because you know, it's there's a comfort to like, if
you've already faced them, you know what they can do.
Now you just got to execute.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
What do you think, Rodney, Yeah, I don't think it's
an advantage either way. I think every game is different.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I kind of was thinking about this on the way in.
When you're playing a series like this seven game, you're
gonna see multiple pitchers multiple times, especially, you know, not
only just the bullpen guys, but you're going to see
the starters multiple times.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And I liking it too.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You know, when I was playing in the NFL where
you're in a division, and I played most of my
career in the NFC East with Dallas and Philadelphia and
the Giants and and and those teams, and you saw
him twice a year, and they played you differently each
time you played they did Yeah, absolutely, and if it
with whatever worked, they tried to continue doing that. And
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then you thought that they were gonna do the same thing,
and so you planned for Okay, they got us on this,
they stopped this play, they stopped this set, they stopped
this They're probably gonna do the same thing, so let's
change it up. And then come to find out that
they thought the same thing that you were gonna change
it up. So they changed it up, and so it's
completely different. So every game is it's different. You can't
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go about it the same approach in the same way
because guys are gonna make the adjustment. As a hitter,
you think, oh, he busted me in. You know, all
night my three at against Blake Snell, he busted me in.
He busted me in. That's what he's gonna do again.
And Blake Snell's like, no, he thought I busted him in.
So now I'm gonna go away. Now I'm gonna go
off speed because he's thinking I'm gonna do the same
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thing because I got him out, I'm gonna change it up.
So it's a it's a cat and mouse game, and
you got to figure out during the course of the
game what is working and go with it.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, I'll tell you what needs to work. He just
needs to be on and I think he will be there.
How deep does he does he have to go for
you seven and possibly eight. They got to get to
Suzaki anyway you look at it. They just have got
to get to Suzaki. And Sazaki's going six six outs. Yeah,
they got to make sure he gets he's going six outs.
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You know, if they get if they get Blake to
finish seven, go complete and and get us into the
eighth inning, then it's Suzaki time and nobody in between Enriquez.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Maybe maybe Enrique's looked good the other night.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I know he did. Yeah, I know, maybe it's it's
his time. But I mean, Bonda no trying to know.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, only thing. Maybe Jack Dryer comes in.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Maybe Mac Dryer gives you a little a specialty moment
where left the un lefty kind of situation.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But I don't know if they get.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
If they get Snelled to go seven complete and maybe
even into the eighth, then it's Snell Suzaki, it's nobody else.
I agree. I think it has to be that way.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean, so everybody's got to be ready to go tonight,
and I think it's imperative that Snell has a good outing.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
How about you, Savage, the young pitcher for Toronto.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, apparently this is his first, uh, his first road
start for Toronto since I guess September, and so he's
the young kid obviously. They he came on late in
the season, has been their ace and has performed, you know,
phenomenal for them. When he's on, he's on, he's really good.
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But he's also hittable as well. So it comes down
to again, the Dodgers' offense has been horrible, been horrible
in this World Series. It's just no, there's no way
of getting around it. And until they get going, and
they got to get going, Yeah, the she's going to
be on Blake's now. But again we heard David Bassey
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talking about every pitcher. I don't care who you are,
you pitch better when you're pitching with the lead. So
it's imperative for the Dodgers to get off a good
start tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I think the young pitcher, you savage, you talk
about adjustments, he's twenty one years old.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
He shat of the year in a ball. You know.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I always say in mind is a terrible thing to
use at times, because if you overthink things, you get
yourself in trouble. For him, if he starts trying to
make adjustments. If he starts trying to do things differently,
I think that affects him. I think he's just got
to come out here and pitch. He hadn't been around
enough to start figuring out all of these adjustments. He
just got to go, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm
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gonna pitch, and good luck, see if you can hit me.
I don't think he can make many adjustments, Rodney.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
No, no, And you know he has a success of
pitching Game one and winning and feeling good about himself,
so he's ready to go. And again, he's young enough
that he's like, all of this experience is not gonna
affect the mind.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Because he doesn't have any experience.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He's is gonna go out and use his God given
ability to do the best he can and can't worry
about anything else. It is from a pressure standpoint, though, Fred.
As we get close to this game, it just feels
more and more obviously that and I said this earlier
and I'm rethinking it, but the presser's on the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
To win the night for sure. Yeah. You flipped a
little bit here, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah. The more I think about it, and more of
you know, kind of watching these guys start to come
out here and get going, and you know, and and
hearing Blake Snell because I think he's ready. I think
I think he's gonna be phenomenal tonight. He's gonna be
one of those it's gonna be one of those nights
where he's unhittable like he had against the Brewers and
the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah. I think it's gonna be one of those Dodger
Knights tonight for them. But it has to be because
they do not.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
If they go back to Toronto, and if they said
this as well, they go back to Toronto needing to
win both games.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
They're in trouble. They're in trouble. Yeah, uh, okay, we've
talked about. If you're just jumping on here, there is
a change in the lineup tonight. Mookie Betts has been
moved down to third. Will Smith will hit second. That
might make them reconsider walking O Tani every time because
Will Smith has had great at bats and Alex call
will hit ninth tonight, and quite frankly, it's about time,
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to be honest, it's about time anybody else at ninth
besides paheuz So that that decision has been made. Dodger
fans will open the phone lines eight six six nine
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do you feel now heading into Game five? It is
a best of three series? Are you still confident or
are you hitting the panic meter? Let us know at
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Speaker 2 (14:07):
We're back.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Oh yeah, We're back live from Dodger Stadium on a
hump day Wednesday, Game five, Dodgers Blue Jays. Come on, Freddy.
Kind of getting much better than this. It's Game five.
The series is tied at two, Freddy. But does it
feel maybe it feels like this to Dodger fans that
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we're behind in the series two games to three.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's so odd and I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Maybe it was just last night, but it seems like
there's just a distinct lack of energy.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And it's hard.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Maybe if the Dodgers score first, it'll change to me.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's it just.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Even today out here, not as many people on the
field to get started Rodney when we got here. By
the way, the Canadian national anthem tonight will be performed
in French in case anybody else. That was very good,
but they'll be singing in French tonight.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
That's another thing we saw the first night we saw
what's Your Guy, You're You're, You're Superstar from Canada JP,
Dippy cass Grass, Sax Sacks and Brad Paisley rehearsing like
five times. We'm not we didn't see it yesterday. We
haven't seen it today, right, anybody rehearsing the national anthem?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Right, it's got more of a regular game feel to it. Yeah,
And that being said, I think it's important to come
and bring the energy tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Damn Deborah Cox, she killed it for Canada last night.
She really did. He did.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I'm I'm and I know her. I'm gonna rip her
because she did. She brought that energy for Canada and
I didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All Right, let's go to the phones, Mike and Dana
point we appreciate you holding Mike.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
How's your panic meter? How are you feeling?
Speaker 7 (16:07):
I'm on.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
All right, all right, all right, feeling good. I think
Blake snell is second time around is going to be
lights out. He had a week off going into the
last game, and the Dodger Bats will heat up. Seeing
yes Savage, Yes Savage a second time.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
And in terms of the fans, I've been to five
post games postseason games this year, and multiple times by fans,
I've been yelled at to sit down, be quiet. You
know we can't have that yelled.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Ye wait, wait stop? Who yelled at fans to be
quiet during the game?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And sit down? Who yelled at them to do that?
Speaker 10 (16:56):
So I was.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Cheering clapping along in two In two of the five
games I went to, it was sit down, be quiet,
or everyone loves the woodpecker when I was clapping. Just
not the right kind of energy we need in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You're saying other fans were telling you that, yes, sir,
well I know that. Thanks for the call'm I appreciate it.
I know on Monday, you know I'm always the guy
if you want to sit I'm always the guy that
sits behind the guy that stands the whole night. In
every row, there is that guy. From the first pitch
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to the last, that guy is standing, and I always
end up behind that.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I feel there's a time and a place for people
to stand, you know what.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I think it's either everybody up or everybody down. You
don't want to be You know, there's seven hundred seats
and you happen to be the one person standing.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Either get up or sit down.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Either be in it, get up at big moments, get up,
stand the whole game.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Okay, but I'm saying, are you a guy that says
get up at big moments only? Or you a guy
that gets annoyed by fans that just stand randomly throughout
the whole game.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I am this in a regular season game, sit down.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Not a regular season We're talking the World Series right now.
So regular season, take a seat. World Series. I think
you should be up. And if you're up, you're not
gonna complain. I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And if somebody's up, no one behind them should complain.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
No, you should get up too, because, as you point out,
it's the World Series. Yeah, you know, Pittsburgh's not here
in July. It's the World Series, all right, let's go
to East LA. James, appreciate you holding where's your panic meter?
Speaker 7 (18:44):
But no panic?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
First, let me say love your show. Congratulations to the
great show.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Thank you, no accounting ftation, thank you.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Keep the fake you know weys Now he's done it homework.
You can see him in the dugout. He's reviewing his batters,
what they hit, what they can possibly do. He has
his card in his back pocket. He knows what's gonna
come up. I look either for a shutout or one
run game at the most. Now it's for our batters.
(19:17):
Come on, Dodgers, look at the pitch. We know what
they're throwing. They're throwing you low and outside, or they're
throwing the splitter. No one, it's coming. Adjust yourself in
the fossil with.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
School at it all right, James is becoming the hitting coach. James,
thank you. It's very simple. It's very fundamental. James says, well,
what are you messing around with here?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
They don't look the same coming out of the hand.
It is very simple. You know what the splitters coming?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Do you right? Exactly? Do you really all right? Rodney?
Now you've noticed you have a sighting. I do I do.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
George Springer is out here warming up and getting loose.
You know, he got scratched. He came out of the
game after he had looked like an oblique situation and
a big blow of the Blue Jays. Now he's out
kind of warming up, working out, doing some uh some
wind sprints. I don't know if he's gonna uh, he
might be available tonight, Fred.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
We'll see. Is he in the lineup. No, I don't
think he's in.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
The lineup, but you know, we'll see if he's uh,
he's even available. But I think he uh, I think
he's getting ready for this to go back to Toronto.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
So he can be available.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, all right, let's go out to Torrens. Mike, appreciate
your holding. Are you panicked?
Speaker 11 (20:31):
I'm disgusted more than panic, Fred, because I this is
we are such a better team and the hitting has
been abominable. And I've been saying this for the last
few weeks. I've talked to Kates and Facts on the
phone about it. You know, Oh, Tony went out and
did batting practice last week. Look what came of that.
I don't think And I'm not trying to beat up
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on Dave Roberts or this coaching task. But these guys
are not coached. They've been making the same mistakes over.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Got off. Not ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait, what do you mean they're
not coach?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
What do you mean they're not talking about Mike? What
do you think they're not What do you mean they're
not coaching?
Speaker 12 (21:08):
It looks like they're not coached.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well what you say, Okay, let's try this. Let's let's
try this. Okay, So what should the coaches do? What
should Dave Roberts and his staff do?
Speaker 11 (21:20):
They got to get back to basics on hitting. They're
all scooping and swinging. I played this game for years too.
I've been an athlete all my life.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I forgot these guys are.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
Half of the ball and hitting up.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
They've had a pop up rate that's probably in the
sixty percent range. And you guys have been saying, and
this is the most honest I have heard out of
any show in the last two and a half weeks
with the Dodgers today, you guys are saying exactly what
the problem is.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Why?
Speaker 11 (21:47):
Why? It's not criticism, it's coaching. It's they're not seeing
themselves and they're people. They're players.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
How is it coaching At the same point in the
World Series, they've played one hundred and eighty games.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
How is it coaching.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
When a guy steps in the box and he knows
exactly what he's supposed to do, he has his own approach.
It is absolutely one hundred not coaching. It is on
the player.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
What are you talking about, Rodney, What.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
It is not at this point in the season. It
is all on the players.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Period.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
It's adjustments.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
No, it's not.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
It's a jerry.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's adjustment.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Last week, it's decisions bringing in certain guys.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
But at the plate, in the box, it is on
the player. Yes, see, Mike, here's the deal. Here's a deal.
And I kind of get what you're saying. Something has
to be done. But it's not like they're going to
take these guys out here in twenty minutes, put them
in the cage and tell them everybody, we're gonna hit
differently tonight.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
They're not going to.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
Do Look look at Tony got out there last week
on Wednesday, before the end of the He didn't get out.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
There when he went four for four and two home
runs and two doubles. He did not take the field.
He didn't take the field.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
He was walking the ball and pulling his head and
he was looking out into left field. What he wanted
to hit batting practice that day and hit him out
of the field.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
He did not take batting practice on the field when
he went four to four and hit two home runs
and two doubles.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So what is that that went for?
Speaker 11 (23:23):
He did batting practice.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Because he did it three days earlier week earliers, he
did it a week earlier, so that was a carryover effect.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Look, it doesn't matter if you're playing baseball or football.
Sometimes you get blind to yourself. They are blind to themselves.
This has gone on before. This went on in the
seventeams and the eight teams back then. They were swinging
at bad pitches and they were pulling their heads trying
to be and they're all coaching.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's all coaching, that's all.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I don't understand what you expect the staff to do
about that.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
What would you suggest.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
Say and go hit the ball and look at the
ball differently and swing.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I forgot the ball. I see a cage out here.
I see a cage out here.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
They're taking batty practice and they're they're doing infield work.
Oh I forgot. Oh they don't. They don't get in
the cage. There's a cage underneath. Their guys are not hitting.
They're they're in the dugout watching TV.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Oh yeah, they're hitting the playing baseball.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
They're not happy. You said get in the cage. You
said get in the cage. Work.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Coach standing there and it just your head, you're just
your swing. That's baseball base What are.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You talking about? All right? All right, okay, all right,
all right, Mike, good call, good call, Mike. We understand
I heard. Okay, well there's that as well, Mike, thank
you for listening. Thank you very much for listening.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
You could look at it ways that they don't have
a whole state of the art cage down below, that
guys are not in on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, I think what Mike was saying, like, God, no,
I understand he's no, not at all, because I know
that the coaching staff can't do much because what are
they going to do.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Dave Roberts, will you tell Blake Snell not to leave
it low and inside to Vladimir Guerrero because that is
his sweet spot.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Please tell him that and coach him up on that.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Okay, we're good, you know, I do TONI do not
throw him that sweeper and leave it up, please, because
he'll hit it out.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Dave Roberts, don't let him do that. Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
So I think what we're saying, yeah, no, I understand,
I understand. No, no, no, no, you're you're you make a
valid point. I think Mike was just suggesting, yeah that
you know, maybe the guys put in yeah, but he was.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
He was drawing from his Beer league first season, his
beer league career. He was drawing from that Fred to
kind of get in the into the major leaguers.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And how their thought process is. All right, right, let's
go back to the phone. Let's go to Pasadena, Ronnie, Matt.
Matt is on the line, Matt, how are you feeling?
Are you panicked?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You there?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Too bad, Matt.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
We just came to Chris in La Oh, our buddy, Chris, Chris,
Are you panicked?
Speaker 13 (26:24):
No, not at all. And see that last color is
the exact reason I'm not. People really don't understand baseball.
I tell my daughter, baseball is about whoever is hitting
and whoever is hot. Everybody goes through a slump, Harper
and Schober last last series. You don't think they were
in the batting cage all of a sudden they went
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on a slump. Judge went through a slump. For us,
it just happens to be Mookie and unfortunately Pius going
through a slump. It's all about timely hitting. So that's
why I'm happy to hear that Dave is changing the lineup.
You got to kind of make things happen because you
know in the playoffs you're getting better pitching, so you
have to make those bases count. Got to make those
runs count more. Everything's at a premium, so you you know,
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you can't swing for the fences all the time. You
got to make manufacture runs, as we say, so I'm
glad that he's mixing it up. They still have the
talent to win obviously, it's just a matter of getting
those timely hits. And no, I don't panic anymore because
I know baseball is baseball is. It's unlike any other sport.
You know, you just have to hope that that hit
comes when you need it, and your approach has to
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be correct, and your movement of different people in the lineup.
Sometimes you have to adjust with that, so I'm good.
I'm good. I think we'll. I think we'll we'll we'll
pull it out, and if not, I know they'll be
doing their best. And one other thing about the fans.
Fans will cheer in LA when there's something to cheer,
and two hits before the only during the seventh inning
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was not anything for them to get excited about. And
you know, the players are getting millions of dollars they
would to win themselves, so they don't really need an incentive,
opinion from the fans. But fans will cheer when they
want to cheer, and I think they should cheer when
they when there's something good happening and kind of help
them carry, you know, carry the players through. But the
players got incentive enough to go on and do what
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they need to do, and I think they will.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Thanks Chris, appreciate your call. Chris makes a great point.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
From a player standpoint, you're not thinking whether the crowd
is cheering or not cheering. You want to see that
at the beginning of the game. You want to see
them hyped up and ready to go. But during the
course of the game you're in it, you're not thinking, oh,
the crowd's not cheering, So I'm feeling lethargic too. Nor
your moment is I'm a hit a home run to
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get everybody out of the seats. And it's not about
the crowd has to get up for me to hit
a home run. True, but you feel it if the
crowd is in the game at the beginning of the game.
You don't feel it during the game. You you feel
the energy, yes, but you don't feel like, oh my god,
the crowd's not in it, so I'm not in it.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
That has no effect on your play. All right, let's
go how to downinate Jesse? Thank you for holding. Are
your panicked at all?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Jesse?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yes?
Speaker 14 (29:05):
Hey, Rogan and Ron, how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Good?
Speaker 14 (29:09):
My panic meter is getting up there, my friends, you
know what I'm seeing here. What I'm seeing here is
we've been outscored in this series by the Blue Jays.
And what I'm seeing, I'm sure everybody sees, is that
it seems like the Blue Jays their plate discipline and
strategy is obviously different from ours collectively, and what I'm
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seeing from them is more of They're swinging for more
for contact. Yeah, and that's going to keep them alive
longer at the at the dish, Whereas what I'm seeing
is that our batters are are slugging for home runs
and that's going to make a short plate appearance. And
that's what's been happening. If you look at for examples,
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that's in the last sixteen at bats, he's popped out,
flied out, or lined out eleven out of sixteen times.
And that's not even county strikeouts. So he's just one
example that you know, you could you could see quite
a few Dodgers are slugging for home runs where Blue
Jays they're hitting for contact. When you when you've hit
for contact, you put the ball in play. A lot
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of times, good things happen.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Appreciate the call. Here's the funny thing. Here's the funny thing. Yeah,
this is a conversation we have every year. Yeah, the
identical conversation because that's how the Dodgers do it.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
But yeah, but no, no, for the last ten years,
well since Dave Roberts has been here, what have we
talked about this Dodger team do it does well?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
There's that right grind pictures.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
They get to the bullpen, they work pitchers, they get
the pits count up.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That has been the mo of the Dodger teams for
the last ten years.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
So you think that that all of a sudden, now
the philosophy just changes and it's like, oh, the coaching
staff and all of the hitting coaches and Dave Roberts decided, no,
let's go swing for the fences, let's go home run. No,
it doesn't change. It is individual players and their approach.
The attitude and the approach of the collective of the
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team has not changed. It's when an individual steps in
the box, how am I going to approach this at back?
Am I gonna make the picture work? Am I going
to pass the baton? And that's the way the Dodgers
have won over the years. That has not the philosophy
has not changed. What they're doing has changed, yes, but
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the philosophy has not changed. And from a from a
Dodgers standpoint and the coaching standpoint.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I would say yes.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And Toronto is doing what the Dodgers have traditionally done
and grind pittures. But I think this is different and
correct me if I'm wrong, or Toronto will grind you
and try to slap one and get on base. Because
we talked about this, the Dodgers will grind you and
then try to hit the ball out of the park.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
That's the difference.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The Dodgers do go for the home run ball, the
Blue Jays do sprayed around and you go, well, we
have this conversation every year every year. The philosophy, the
thing that's missing with the Dodgers is glinding.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Any philosophy has changed. No in the last year, two years, I.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Know, That's what I'm saying. It's the same.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
The conversation whatever you get to the playoffs is why
don't the Dodgers play more small ball? Why don't the
Dodgers move runners around? Why do the Dodgers always swing
for the home run pitch? The Dodgers tried to grind you,
which they have not been doing. That's on them. They
try to grow.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
That's the thing. Is it on them?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Is it on the Dodgers' philosophy as gags or is
it individuals that are not grinding pictures?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
They're not on the individual executing Rodney, That's what it
is executing.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
So the philosophy as as when you come into this
organization has not changed. It is the individuals that are
not taking that and applying that when they get in
the box.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
All right, let's go to like bellball, Solomon is checking in, Solomon,
where's your panic meter?
Speaker 10 (33:06):
You know in the middle. Let's put it this way,
the obvious. I'm more comfortable than I'm going back to
Toronto up three two than down three two? Can they
get a split in Toronto? Yes? Can they win too?
Speaker 14 (33:19):
Straight?
Speaker 10 (33:20):
Well, knowing the Dodgers and how Hollywood, they can guess
they probably could. But I'd rather not go there under
those circumstances. So tonight, I'm kind of saying, you know what, guys,
you better win or you're putting yourself in a very,
very hard predicament.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Thanks Solomon to appreciate it. Now, let's wrap it up
with a voice of reason.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Someone that watches or listens to every Dodger game, oh,
someone who always has an opinion yes, And someone who
makes good use of their time when they come on
the show.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Mitch, Hello, Mitch, Mitch. What is Mitch doing? What?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What is Mitch doing? Rodney, what do you think he's doing? Mitch, Mitch,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I'm sorry, Mitch, Mitch, We're fine. What are you doing?
What were you Mitch? Mitch? What were you doing? Yes?
Come on, Mit, what were you doing.
Speaker 12 (34:20):
I was home door for a lady.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
What was he doing holding the door for a lady?
He said, Oh, all, chivalry is not dead.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
She give you the eye, Mitch, you'd give you like
a little wink wink.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Come talk to me. No, no, Mitch, Mitch, you still Mitch.
I got Mitch, you still got it. With the ladies there,
it is.
Speaker 12 (34:44):
Very little I'm doing. I'm doing my I'm doing my
life stent, which is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
We all want to know if we.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Still got it from time to time, Mitch. We all
want to know if we still got it.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (34:58):
She asked me to ask me, and I think she's
telling you, Michael, I know.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
The woman at the door of your wife who liked
you enough.
Speaker 12 (35:08):
Uh you guys, and my wife less of it taking
back home every day.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Okay, good, that's good. Go ahead, that's all we need, Mitch.
Speaker 12 (35:15):
It's game five the bat. I think I feel the
bats in a couple of lives. We're home when we
go up three two, and all we gotta do is
win one more games. Snow. We'll just lead a good
Snow because he's he's up and down, and he's like
a box of troubles all right, I believe in a
great game.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Okay, you guys, you.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Went for you went Forrest Gump on us. Mitch, al right,
goodbye Mitch. No, you're done, You're out. Goodbye, Mitch.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Thank you. I think Mitch. You know what. The only
person we missed today was Isabelle.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I'm sure she's listening. Yes, an old girl from uh
OHI what's her name? Angela? Where's Angela on the islands?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yes, from the island, Angela. Where are you at? Yeah?
We miss you?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Dodger's crazy. What is that?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
We're in the World Series right, and I know we're
spoiled because the Dodgers have been in what five World
Series in the last nine years. This series is two
to two and there is a panic amongst Dodger fans
La folks.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Right now.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
The series is tied to two with the game here
at Dodgers Stadium to make it three to two for
the Dodgers, and there's a little of panic with the
Dodgers fans. That is it's crazy. It's I mean, I
get it. There's a confidence level and you almost think
that Dodgers should have swept Toronto. But again, I don't
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care what the payroll is Toronto's got some great players
on that team, and they're in the World Series for
a reason. For a reason, they're competitive. Salaries don't matter
at this point. The best teams, I believe, without question,
are in the World Series right now. The best teams
in baseball are in the World Series. And you got
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to give some love to Toronto because they have battled
and battled back to tie this series up.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
World Series Dodger Baseball Tonight, Game five against the Jays,
First pitch at five. Listen to all games on five
seventy LA Sports and the iHeartRadio app from the ballfield
to the job site, Strauss Powers World Series coverage on
AM five seventy LA Sports, and we're back to wrap
it up from the stadium.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Oh yes, it's a beautiful day, a Wednesday hump day.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Hey, listen, I want to take a moment before we
sign off that please, if you have an opportunity Tonight
during the Fox pregame show, our family is beyond honored
and humbled at Fox will air a segment on our
son RJ RJ and his incredible journey, you know, from
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an autism diagnosis at the age of three, to now
where he has been a Dodger clubhouse attendant for the
last ten years, ten years now. This is his fifth
World Series. He's got a couple of rings its tenth season,
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which is amazing when at one point there were people
that told them he would never do so many things,
including having any kind of meaningful employment. And just are
We're so beyond grateful that Fox and during this time
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of the World Series where there's so much going on,
that they recognize the accomplishments of RJ and what he
means to the Dodger organization, what he means to the players.
They all give him hugs before and after games. He
is there constantly and a presence in that clubhouse. And
you'll hear play talk about him in the pregame show,
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and you'll hear Dave Roberts talk about him. But we are,
Holly and I are so proud of RJ and what
he's been able to accomplish here with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
So please please tune in.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
I think it's gonna air, you know, an hour before
or a half hour before the game starts on the
Fox pregame show. But if you get a chance, please
check it out because they do. They do a great job,
and Tom Ronaldi came out and did a great job
with us. Hats off and thank you to Bartia, my
good friend from way back in the day, and Fox
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and best damn sports show for making that happen. But
the whole Fox team and Fox staff for really recognizing
RJ and what he's done and what he's been able
to accomplish for the last ten years with the Dodger organization.
And hats off to the Dodgers my man Lon Rosen
for bringing him on board and treating him like family
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and that who that's that's who he is to the
players and to the organization and his family and as
a parent, that's all you want for your kids. And
thank you Dodgers organization, and thank you Fox for making
this happen.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I gotta tell you, he said ten years I remember here,
that's when we started doing the show. Yeah, he was
still concerned about driving by himself to the stadium.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yes, that's how long ago that was.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
But to me, it seems like yesterday, ten years in
the blink of an eye.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah, he's been there so long, unbelievable. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
There was a whole nervous situation with him coming to
the stadium, coming here at night, and leaving the stadium.
He was barely driving at that time, and there again
we talked about the never people said he would never drive,
and for the first six months of his employment we
had to drive him back and forth to work, and
then he got his license and started driving. So big
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shout out to my man, our day, and let's go
Dodgers tonight, Rodney, Pete, Fred Rogan, thank you all, Kevin,
thank you, Ronnie back in the studio, thank thank you,
Craig here in the box, Thank you so much, my
brother Petro, send money, Tim Kates our next.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Let's go
And we continue on fred Rogan, Rodney Pete. We are
live from Dodgers Stadium, getting ready for Game five of
the World Series series, now tied at two games a piece. Kevin,
the roster the lineup has been released for tonight. Rodney,
we kicked this around in hour one, what might the
Dodgers do?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And Kevin, they've done something.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If you guys were talking to Vassa last hour about
moving will Smith up in the lineup because he's had
quality at bets and moving a Mookie down in the lineup,
and that's exactly what's happened. So Altani is still gonna
lead off in DH will Smith has moved up to
second in the lineup, and Mookie has now dropped a
third and Freddy is behind him right.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
They oscar Edmund Munsey moved down, didn't he was Munsey
always hit an eight.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I feel like I felt like Munsey was always like seventh,
so I think he may have flip flopped. And they
moved Edmund up with Keik and center and Alex call
is in their batting ninth in left field, so Paez
is out of the lineup.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So it's the two moves at David Vassay speculated on
us the first being and he was actually more concerned
about Mooki hitting second than Pa has and he said
they would have to move Mooki. I'm surprised, but they
did it. I don't think it's too much of a
slap in the face to hit third. I mean, if
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they put him seventh, that would be an issue. But
I think hitting third that is a change. But now
Alex Call gets the call, and quite frankly, I don't
think they.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Had any choice. No, no, they I don't think they did.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
You know, the only question, like we talked about, was
Miggy Rowe maybe playing second base, coming in and giving
you a quality at bet and then that ninth spot
and moving Edmund to center field. But Alex Call gets it.
You know he's gonna work the count. You know he's
gonna make a picture work. He did have a base
hit in the other game the other day, so you
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know he's gonna give you. He's gonna he's gonna give you,
Like I said, he's gonna give you a quality of bet,
where as Paez has not given you really any quality
at bats in these World Series.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, he'll work the pitcher, Yeah, that's what Carl does.
He will and of course he'll go up the first
pitch and swing tonight, but he that works the picture.
And here's the thing about migy Row. And he was
just out here again taking round balls. I mean, nobody
works harder than megy Row. Here's the thing when we
saw him play the other night in the eighteen inning game.
He can't run, and I think that's a problem, and
(02:30):
I would look, I think I'd bring him in later
in the game.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But that's what they did, right.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
They brought him in a critical situation to bunt, and
he came in and lay down a perfect BUTNT to
move the runner and get the sacrifice. So maybe that
is the situation that he is in that they will
save him for that critical moment with the Dodgers. That's
late in the game and the Dodgers have a runner
at first, or a runner at first and second or
whatever they need to move him over less than two outs.
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Then they bring in Meggy Row to lay down a
bunt in those situations and they reserve the right to
put him. And he's one of those utility guys. He
can play third, he can play second, he can play short.
That you have the luxury of bringing him in late
in the game and put him anywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
One of the Blue Jays is actually out here throwing
the ball. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
First time we've seen that somebody out here this early
in uniform actually throwing.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That's Max definitely. I know his wind up that yeah
for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You know it's like after a couple of days you throw,
you come out and do your little bullpen session.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Guess you're loosening up. He's the only guy in the field.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Now we're gonna get a call from I'm gonna get
a text from Oral let me know why Max Surge
is out here throwing. Uh maybe he wants to because
you know, Earl listens on his way in.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I know he dones.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, so he's gonna let us know why Max Sezer
is out here at what one o'clock, full uniform loosening up.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So tonight it'll be Blake Snell against your Savage again
the matchup in Game one. Here's the thing about Blake Snell,
and we thought we talked about it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Dodger fans, keep this in mind.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I knew the first inning of Game one that the
Dodgers were going to be in trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, you knew that because I knew that account.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You knew that in game two they were going to
be in trouble too, because because Yamamoto threw more pitches
than Blake Snell and at first inning.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But the difference is in the second inning, Yamamoto came out.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You said game one, you said, first inning. Yeah, well,
and here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I wasn't as concerned about Yamamoto and it, and it
held true in both games. In the second game, Yamamoto
looked like he had it. To me, Snell looked shaky
at the beginning. You thought Yamamoto looked like he had
it in the first inning. Yeah, Oh, I thought, Yes,
I really did. I really thought he was gonna be fine.
He was shakiest, you know what, Fred in that first inning.
(04:48):
I thought he'd be fine. But I was worried about Snell.
And I think tonight and the Blue Jays grinder, that
pitch count, that pitch count is cool.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I don't think it matters for those two guys, for
Snell or for Yamamoto. Pitch count right now, it doesn't
concern me, and I don't think it's gonna concern Mark
pryor Dave Roberts with when it comes to Snell or Yamamoto,
because those guys are workhorses, and we'll go if we're
talking Tyler Glass now, then yeah, it concerns me that
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he gets up around ninety pitches, you're gonna have to take
him out of the game. Those two guys, Snell and Yamamoto,
theyn go one hundred and twenty and they'll be all right.
So I'm not worried about pitchcount with those guys, especially
in Game five with the World Series. Blake Snell, if
he's on, I don't care if he's throwing twenty pitches
an inning. If he's getting guys out, he's gonna go.
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That's Snell's zilla, fred I told you that from the
moment they signed him.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That's the Zilla. Okay, let's go. Let the Zilla go.
My concern is if the Zilla can't go, then you
know what happens next, and that is a real problem.
We've got some sound of the Snell Zilla and he
says he is ready to go tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You damn right he is.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I'm thankful for the first start and what I was
able to learn and how much better I got from that,
and then yeah, beyond excited that I have another opportunity
to really display, you know, the kind of picture that
I am and that I'm striving to be.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
And I really can't wait for it. I'm so excited.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
And yes, you know you want to you want to contribute,
and when when we're when we're winning and we're in
the World Series, there's there's no better moment than than
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
All right, so he wants to contribute. What about this though?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Facing the same team twice in a row, Whose advantage
does that work to?
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Like, it doesn't matter good or bad.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Start the first game, It doesn't matter because the second
game is always feel is going to be better because
they always say it's advantage hitter because they've seen you.
But I think it's an advantage pitcher because you've pitched against them.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
You know what they can do. It's fresh in your head.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
You have an idea, and yeah, like you just you know,
you just I just you know, pushed against them and
didn't execute. And now I have opportunity to go execute
and see how good I am and how much you know,
those five days in between got me locked in to
be you know, the best version of me. So I
like it a lot, and I'm gonna pitch the same
to some guys, different to some guys, Like it's just
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you're gonna go through that battle. But I like it
because you know, it's there's a comfort to like, if
you've already faced them, you know what they can do.
Now you just got to execute.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
What do you think, Rodney, Yeah, I don't think it's
an advantage either way. I think every game is different.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I kind of was thinking about this on the way in.
When you're playing a series like this seven game, you're
gonna see multiple pitchers multiple times, especially, you know, not
only just the bullpen guys, but you're going to see
the starters multiple times.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And I liking it too.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You know, when I was playing in the NFL where
you're in a division, and I played most of my
career in the NFC East with Dallas and Philadelphia and
the Giants and and and those teams, and you saw
him twice a year, and they played you differently each
time you played they did Yeah, absolutely, and if it
with whatever worked, they tried to continue doing that. And
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then you thought that they were gonna do the same thing,
and so you planned for Okay, they got us on this,
they stopped this play, they stopped this set, they stopped
this They're probably gonna do the same thing, so let's
change it up. And then come to find out that
they thought the same thing that you were gonna change
it up. So they changed it up, and so it's
completely different. So every game is it's different. You can't
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go about it the same approach in the same way
because guys are gonna make the adjustment. As a hitter,
you think, oh, he busted me in. You know, all
night my three at against Blake Snell, he busted me in.
He busted me in. That's what he's gonna do again.
And Blake Snell's like, no, he thought I busted him in.
So now I'm gonna go away. Now I'm gonna go
off speed because he's thinking I'm gonna do the same
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thing because I got him out, I'm gonna change it up.
So it's a it's a cat and mouse game, and
you got to figure out during the course of the
game what is working and go with it.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, I'll tell you what needs to work. He just
needs to be on and I think he will be there.
How deep does he does he have to go for
you seven and possibly eight. They got to get to
Suzaki anyway you look at it. They just have got
to get to Suzaki. And Sazaki's going six six outs. Yeah,
they got to make sure he gets he's going six outs.
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You know, if they get if they get Blake to
finish seven, go complete and and get us into the
eighth inning, then it's Suzaki time and nobody in between Enriquez.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Maybe maybe Enrique's looked good the other night.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I know he did. Yeah, I know, maybe it's it's
his time. But I mean, Bonda no trying to know.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, only thing. Maybe Jack Dryer comes in.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Maybe Mac Dryer gives you a little a specialty moment
where left the un lefty kind of situation.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But I don't know if they get.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
If they get Snelled to go seven complete and maybe
even into the eighth, then it's Snell Suzaki, it's nobody else.
I agree. I think it has to be that way.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean, so everybody's got to be ready to go tonight,
and I think it's imperative that Snell has a good outing.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
How about you, Savage, the young pitcher for Toronto.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, apparently this is his first, uh, his first road
start for Toronto since I guess September, and so he's
the young kid obviously. They he came on late in
the season, has been their ace and has performed, you know,
phenomenal for them. When he's on, he's on, he's really good.
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But he's also hittable as well. So it comes down
to again, the Dodgers' offense has been horrible, been horrible
in this World Series. It's just no, there's no way
of getting around it. And until they get going, and
they got to get going, Yeah, the she's going to
be on Blake's now. But again we heard David Bassey
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talking about every pitcher. I don't care who you are,
you pitch better when you're pitching with the lead. So
it's imperative for the Dodgers to get off a good
start tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I think the young pitcher, you savage, you talk
about adjustments, he's twenty one years old.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
He shat of the year in a ball. You know.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I always say in mind is a terrible thing to
use at times, because if you overthink things, you get
yourself in trouble. For him, if he starts trying to
make adjustments. If he starts trying to do things differently,
I think that affects him. I think he's just got
to come out here and pitch. He hadn't been around
enough to start figuring out all of these adjustments. He
just got to go, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm
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gonna pitch, and good luck, see if you can hit me.
I don't think he can make many adjustments, Rodney.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
No, no, And you know he has a success of
pitching Game one and winning and feeling good about himself,
so he's ready to go. And again, he's young enough
that he's like, all of this experience is not gonna
affect the mind.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Because he doesn't have any experience.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He's is gonna go out and use his God given
ability to do the best he can and can't worry
about anything else. It is from a pressure standpoint, though, Fred.
As we get close to this game, it just feels
more and more obviously that and I said this earlier
and I'm rethinking it, but the presser's on the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
To win the night for sure. Yeah. You flipped a
little bit here, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah. The more I think about it, and more of
you know, kind of watching these guys start to come
out here and get going, and you know, and and
hearing Blake Snell because I think he's ready. I think
I think he's gonna be phenomenal tonight. He's gonna be
one of those it's gonna be one of those nights
where he's unhittable like he had against the Brewers and
the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah. I think it's gonna be one of those Dodger
Knights tonight for them. But it has to be because
they do not.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
If they go back to Toronto, and if they said
this as well, they go back to Toronto needing to
win both games.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
They're in trouble. They're in trouble. Yeah, uh, okay, we've
talked about. If you're just jumping on here, there is
a change in the lineup tonight. Mookie Betts has been
moved down to third. Will Smith will hit second. That
might make them reconsider walking O Tani every time because
Will Smith has had great at bats and Alex call
will hit ninth tonight, and quite frankly, it's about time,
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to be honest, it's about time anybody else at ninth
besides paheuz So that that decision has been made. Dodger
fans will open the phone lines eight six six nine
eighty seven two five seventy and here's a question. How
do you feel now heading into Game five? It is
a best of three series? Are you still confident or
are you hitting the panic meter? Let us know at
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the stadium.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
We're back.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Oh yeah, We're back live from Dodger Stadium on a
hump day Wednesday, Game five, Dodgers Blue Jays. Come on, Freddy.
Kind of getting much better than this. It's Game five.
The series is tied at two, Freddy. But does it
feel maybe it feels like this to Dodger fans that
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we're behind in the series two games to three.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's so odd and I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Maybe it was just last night, but it seems like
there's just a distinct lack of energy.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And it's hard.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Maybe if the Dodgers score first, it'll change to me.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's it just.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Even today out here, not as many people on the
field to get started Rodney when we got here. By
the way, the Canadian national anthem tonight will be performed
in French in case anybody else. That was very good,
but they'll be singing in French tonight.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
That's another thing we saw the first night we saw
what's Your Guy, You're You're, You're Superstar from Canada JP,
Dippy cass Grass, Sax Sacks and Brad Paisley rehearsing like
five times. We'm not we didn't see it yesterday. We
haven't seen it today, right, anybody rehearsing the national anthem?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Right, it's got more of a regular game feel to it. Yeah,
And that being said, I think it's important to come
and bring the energy tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Damn Deborah Cox, she killed it for Canada last night.
She really did. He did.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I'm I'm and I know her. I'm gonna rip her
because she did. She brought that energy for Canada and
I didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All Right, let's go to the phones, Mike and Dana
point we appreciate you holding Mike.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
How's your panic meter? How are you feeling?
Speaker 7 (16:07):
I'm on.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
All right, all right, all right, feeling good. I think
Blake snell is second time around is going to be
lights out. He had a week off going into the
last game, and the Dodger Bats will heat up. Seeing
yes Savage, Yes Savage a second time.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
And in terms of the fans, I've been to five
post games postseason games this year, and multiple times by fans,
I've been yelled at to sit down, be quiet. You
know we can't have that yelled.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Ye wait, wait stop? Who yelled at fans to be
quiet during the game?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And sit down? Who yelled at them to do that?
Speaker 10 (16:56):
So I was.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Cheering clapping along in two In two of the five
games I went to, it was sit down, be quiet,
or everyone loves the woodpecker when I was clapping. Just
not the right kind of energy we need in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You're saying other fans were telling you that, yes, sir,
well I know that. Thanks for the call'm I appreciate it.
I know on Monday, you know I'm always the guy
if you want to sit I'm always the guy that
sits behind the guy that stands the whole night. In
every row, there is that guy. From the first pitch
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to the last, that guy is standing, and I always
end up behind that.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I feel there's a time and a place for people
to stand, you know what.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I think it's either everybody up or everybody down. You
don't want to be You know, there's seven hundred seats
and you happen to be the one person standing.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Either get up or sit down.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Either be in it, get up at big moments, get up,
stand the whole game.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Okay, but I'm saying, are you a guy that says
get up at big moments only? Or you a guy
that gets annoyed by fans that just stand randomly throughout
the whole game.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I am this in a regular season game, sit down.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Not a regular season We're talking the World Series right now.
So regular season, take a seat. World Series. I think
you should be up. And if you're up, you're not
gonna complain. I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And if somebody's up, no one behind them should complain.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
No, you should get up too, because, as you point out,
it's the World Series. Yeah, you know, Pittsburgh's not here
in July. It's the World Series, all right, let's go
to East LA. James, appreciate you holding where's your panic meter?
Speaker 7 (18:44):
But no panic?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
First, let me say love your show. Congratulations to the
great show.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Thank you, no accounting ftation, thank you.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Keep the fake you know weys Now he's done it homework.
You can see him in the dugout. He's reviewing his batters,
what they hit, what they can possibly do. He has
his card in his back pocket. He knows what's gonna
come up. I look either for a shutout or one
run game at the most. Now it's for our batters.
(19:17):
Come on, Dodgers, look at the pitch. We know what
they're throwing. They're throwing you low and outside, or they're
throwing the splitter. No one, it's coming. Adjust yourself in
the fossil with.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
School at it all right, James is becoming the hitting coach. James,
thank you. It's very simple. It's very fundamental. James says, well,
what are you messing around with here?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
They don't look the same coming out of the hand.
It is very simple. You know what the splitters coming?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Do you right? Exactly? Do you really all right? Rodney?
Now you've noticed you have a sighting. I do I do.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
George Springer is out here warming up and getting loose.
You know, he got scratched. He came out of the
game after he had looked like an oblique situation and
a big blow of the Blue Jays. Now he's out
kind of warming up, working out, doing some uh some
wind sprints. I don't know if he's gonna uh, he
might be available tonight, Fred.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
We'll see. Is he in the lineup. No, I don't
think he's in.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
The lineup, but you know, we'll see if he's uh,
he's even available. But I think he uh, I think
he's getting ready for this to go back to Toronto.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
So he can be available.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, all right, let's go out to Torrens. Mike, appreciate
your holding. Are you panicked?
Speaker 11 (20:31):
I'm disgusted more than panic, Fred, because I this is
we are such a better team and the hitting has
been abominable. And I've been saying this for the last
few weeks. I've talked to Kates and Facts on the
phone about it. You know, Oh, Tony went out and
did batting practice last week. Look what came of that.
I don't think And I'm not trying to beat up
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on Dave Roberts or this coaching task. But these guys
are not coached. They've been making the same mistakes over.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Got off. Not ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait, what do you mean they're
not coach?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
What do you mean they're not talking about Mike? What
do you think they're not What do you mean they're
not coaching?
Speaker 12 (21:08):
It looks like they're not coached.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well what you say, Okay, let's try this. Let's let's
try this. Okay, So what should the coaches do? What
should Dave Roberts and his staff do?
Speaker 11 (21:20):
They got to get back to basics on hitting. They're
all scooping and swinging. I played this game for years too.
I've been an athlete all my life.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I forgot these guys are.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
Half of the ball and hitting up.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
They've had a pop up rate that's probably in the
sixty percent range. And you guys have been saying, and
this is the most honest I have heard out of
any show in the last two and a half weeks
with the Dodgers today, you guys are saying exactly what
the problem is.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Why?
Speaker 11 (21:47):
Why? It's not criticism, it's coaching. It's they're not seeing
themselves and they're people. They're players.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
How is it coaching At the same point in the
World Series, they've played one hundred and eighty games.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
How is it coaching.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
When a guy steps in the box and he knows
exactly what he's supposed to do, he has his own approach.
It is absolutely one hundred not coaching. It is on
the player.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
What are you talking about, Rodney, What.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
It is not at this point in the season. It
is all on the players.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Period.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
It's adjustments.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
No, it's not.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
It's a jerry.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's adjustment.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Last week, it's decisions bringing in certain guys.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
But at the plate, in the box, it is on
the player. Yes, see, Mike, here's the deal. Here's a deal.
And I kind of get what you're saying. Something has
to be done. But it's not like they're going to
take these guys out here in twenty minutes, put them
in the cage and tell them everybody, we're gonna hit
differently tonight.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
They're not going to.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
Do Look look at Tony got out there last week
on Wednesday, before the end of the He didn't get out.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
There when he went four for four and two home
runs and two doubles. He did not take the field.
He didn't take the field.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
He was walking the ball and pulling his head and
he was looking out into left field. What he wanted
to hit batting practice that day and hit him out
of the field.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
He did not take batting practice on the field when
he went four to four and hit two home runs
and two doubles.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So what is that that went for?
Speaker 11 (23:23):
He did batting practice.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Because he did it three days earlier week earliers, he
did it a week earlier, so that was a carryover effect.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Look, it doesn't matter if you're playing baseball or football.
Sometimes you get blind to yourself. They are blind to themselves.
This has gone on before. This went on in the
seventeams and the eight teams back then. They were swinging
at bad pitches and they were pulling their heads trying
to be and they're all coaching.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's all coaching, that's all.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I don't understand what you expect the staff to do
about that.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
What would you suggest.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
Say and go hit the ball and look at the
ball differently and swing.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I forgot the ball. I see a cage out here.
I see a cage out here.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
They're taking batty practice and they're they're doing infield work.
Oh I forgot. Oh they don't. They don't get in
the cage. There's a cage underneath. Their guys are not hitting.
They're they're in the dugout watching TV.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Oh yeah, they're hitting the playing baseball.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
They're not happy. You said get in the cage. You
said get in the cage. Work.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Coach standing there and it just your head, you're just
your swing. That's baseball base What are.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You talking about? All right? All right, okay, all right,
all right, Mike, good call, good call, Mike. We understand
I heard. Okay, well there's that as well, Mike, thank
you for listening. Thank you very much for listening.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
You could look at it ways that they don't have
a whole state of the art cage down below, that
guys are not in on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, I think what Mike was saying, like, God, no,
I understand he's no, not at all, because I know
that the coaching staff can't do much because what are
they going to do.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Dave Roberts, will you tell Blake Snell not to leave
it low and inside to Vladimir Guerrero because that is
his sweet spot.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Please tell him that and coach him up on that.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Okay, we're good, you know, I do TONI do not
throw him that sweeper and leave it up, please, because
he'll hit it out.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Dave Roberts, don't let him do that. Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
So I think what we're saying, yeah, no, I understand,
I understand. No, no, no, no, you're you're you make a
valid point. I think Mike was just suggesting, yeah that
you know, maybe the guys put in yeah, but he was.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
He was drawing from his Beer league first season, his
beer league career. He was drawing from that Fred to
kind of get in the into the major leaguers.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And how their thought process is. All right, right, let's
go back to the phone. Let's go to Pasadena, Ronnie, Matt.
Matt is on the line, Matt, how are you feeling?
Are you panicked?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You there?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Too bad, Matt.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
We just came to Chris in La Oh, our buddy, Chris, Chris,
Are you panicked?
Speaker 13 (26:24):
No, not at all. And see that last color is
the exact reason I'm not. People really don't understand baseball.
I tell my daughter, baseball is about whoever is hitting
and whoever is hot. Everybody goes through a slump, Harper
and Schober last last series. You don't think they were
in the batting cage all of a sudden they went
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on a slump. Judge went through a slump. For us,
it just happens to be Mookie and unfortunately Pius going
through a slump. It's all about timely hitting. So that's
why I'm happy to hear that Dave is changing the lineup.
You got to kind of make things happen because you
know in the playoffs you're getting better pitching, so you
have to make those bases count. Got to make those
runs count more. Everything's at a premium, so you you know,
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you can't swing for the fences all the time. You
got to make manufacture runs, as we say, so I'm
glad that he's mixing it up. They still have the
talent to win obviously, it's just a matter of getting
those timely hits. And no, I don't panic anymore because
I know baseball is baseball is. It's unlike any other sport.
You know, you just have to hope that that hit
comes when you need it, and your approach has to
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be correct, and your movement of different people in the lineup.
Sometimes you have to adjust with that, so I'm good.
I'm good. I think we'll. I think we'll we'll we'll
pull it out, and if not, I know they'll be
doing their best. And one other thing about the fans.
Fans will cheer in LA when there's something to cheer,
and two hits before the only during the seventh inning
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was not anything for them to get excited about. And
you know, the players are getting millions of dollars they
would to win themselves, so they don't really need an incentive,
opinion from the fans. But fans will cheer when they
want to cheer, and I think they should cheer when
they when there's something good happening and kind of help
them carry, you know, carry the players through. But the
players got incentive enough to go on and do what
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they need to do, and I think they will.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Thanks Chris, appreciate your call. Chris makes a great point.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
From a player standpoint, you're not thinking whether the crowd
is cheering or not cheering. You want to see that
at the beginning of the game. You want to see
them hyped up and ready to go. But during the
course of the game you're in it, you're not thinking, oh,
the crowd's not cheering, So I'm feeling lethargic too. Nor
your moment is I'm a hit a home run to
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get everybody out of the seats. And it's not about
the crowd has to get up for me to hit
a home run. True, but you feel it if the
crowd is in the game at the beginning of the game.
You don't feel it during the game. You you feel
the energy, yes, but you don't feel like, oh my god,
the crowd's not in it, so I'm not in it.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
That has no effect on your play. All right, let's
go how to downinate Jesse? Thank you for holding. Are
your panicked at all?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Jesse?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yes?
Speaker 14 (29:05):
Hey, Rogan and Ron, how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Good?
Speaker 14 (29:09):
My panic meter is getting up there, my friends, you
know what I'm seeing here. What I'm seeing here is
we've been outscored in this series by the Blue Jays.
And what I'm seeing, I'm sure everybody sees, is that
it seems like the Blue Jays their plate discipline and
strategy is obviously different from ours collectively, and what I'm
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seeing from them is more of They're swinging for more
for contact. Yeah, and that's going to keep them alive
longer at the at the dish, Whereas what I'm seeing
is that our batters are are slugging for home runs
and that's going to make a short plate appearance. And
that's what's been happening. If you look at for examples,
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that's in the last sixteen at bats, he's popped out,
flied out, or lined out eleven out of sixteen times.
And that's not even county strikeouts. So he's just one
example that you know, you could you could see quite
a few Dodgers are slugging for home runs where Blue
Jays they're hitting for contact. When you when you've hit
for contact, you put the ball in play. A lot
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of times, good things happen.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Appreciate the call. Here's the funny thing. Here's the funny thing. Yeah,
this is a conversation we have every year. Yeah, the
identical conversation because that's how the Dodgers do it.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
But yeah, but no, no, for the last ten years,
well since Dave Roberts has been here, what have we
talked about this Dodger team do it does well?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
There's that right grind pictures.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
They get to the bullpen, they work pitchers, they get
the pits count up.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That has been the mo of the Dodger teams for
the last ten years.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
So you think that that all of a sudden, now
the philosophy just changes and it's like, oh, the coaching
staff and all of the hitting coaches and Dave Roberts decided, no,
let's go swing for the fences, let's go home run. No,
it doesn't change. It is individual players and their approach.
The attitude and the approach of the collective of the
(31:07):
team has not changed. It's when an individual steps in
the box, how am I going to approach this at back?
Am I gonna make the picture work? Am I going
to pass the baton? And that's the way the Dodgers
have won over the years. That has not the philosophy
has not changed. What they're doing has changed, yes, but
(31:29):
the philosophy has not changed. And from a from a
Dodgers standpoint and the coaching standpoint.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I would say yes.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And Toronto is doing what the Dodgers have traditionally done
and grind pittures. But I think this is different and
correct me if I'm wrong, or Toronto will grind you
and try to slap one and get on base. Because
we talked about this, the Dodgers will grind you and
then try to hit the ball out of the park.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
That's the difference.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The Dodgers do go for the home run ball, the
Blue Jays do sprayed around and you go, well, we
have this conversation every year every year. The philosophy, the
thing that's missing with the Dodgers is glinding.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Any philosophy has changed. No in the last year, two years, I.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Know, That's what I'm saying. It's the same.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
The conversation whatever you get to the playoffs is why
don't the Dodgers play more small ball? Why don't the
Dodgers move runners around? Why do the Dodgers always swing
for the home run pitch? The Dodgers tried to grind you,
which they have not been doing. That's on them. They
try to grow.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
That's the thing. Is it on them?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Is it on the Dodgers' philosophy as gags or is
it individuals that are not grinding pictures?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
They're not on the individual executing Rodney, That's what it
is executing.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
So the philosophy as as when you come into this
organization has not changed. It is the individuals that are
not taking that and applying that when they get in
the box.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
All right, let's go to like bellball, Solomon is checking in, Solomon,
where's your panic meter?
Speaker 10 (33:06):
You know in the middle. Let's put it this way,
the obvious. I'm more comfortable than I'm going back to
Toronto up three two than down three two? Can they
get a split in Toronto? Yes? Can they win too?
Speaker 14 (33:19):
Straight?
Speaker 10 (33:20):
Well, knowing the Dodgers and how Hollywood, they can guess
they probably could. But I'd rather not go there under
those circumstances. So tonight, I'm kind of saying, you know what, guys,
you better win or you're putting yourself in a very,
very hard predicament.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Thanks Solomon to appreciate it. Now, let's wrap it up
with a voice of reason.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Someone that watches or listens to every Dodger game, oh,
someone who always has an opinion yes, And someone who
makes good use of their time when they come on
the show.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Mitch, Hello, Mitch, Mitch. What is Mitch doing? What?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What is Mitch doing? Rodney, what do you think he's doing? Mitch, Mitch,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I'm sorry, Mitch, Mitch, We're fine. What are you doing?
What were you Mitch? Mitch? What were you doing? Yes?
Come on, Mit, what were you doing.
Speaker 12 (34:20):
I was home door for a lady.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
What was he doing holding the door for a lady?
He said, Oh, all, chivalry is not dead.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
She give you the eye, Mitch, you'd give you like
a little wink wink.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Come talk to me. No, no, Mitch, Mitch, you still Mitch.
I got Mitch, you still got it. With the ladies there,
it is.
Speaker 12 (34:44):
Very little I'm doing. I'm doing my I'm doing my
life stent, which is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
We all want to know if we.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Still got it from time to time, Mitch. We all
want to know if we still got it.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (34:58):
She asked me to ask me, and I think she's
telling you, Michael, I know.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
The woman at the door of your wife who liked
you enough.
Speaker 12 (35:08):
Uh you guys, and my wife less of it taking
back home every day.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Okay, good, that's good. Go ahead, that's all we need, Mitch.
Speaker 12 (35:15):
It's game five the bat. I think I feel the
bats in a couple of lives. We're home when we
go up three two, and all we gotta do is
win one more games. Snow. We'll just lead a good
Snow because he's he's up and down, and he's like
a box of troubles all right, I believe in a
great game.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Okay, you guys, you.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Went for you went Forrest Gump on us. Mitch, al right,
goodbye Mitch. No, you're done, You're out. Goodbye, Mitch.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Thank you. I think Mitch. You know what. The only
person we missed today was Isabelle.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I'm sure she's listening. Yes, an old girl from uh
OHI what's her name? Angela? Where's Angela on the islands?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yes, from the island, Angela. Where are you at? Yeah?
We miss you?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Dodger's crazy. What is that?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
We're in the World Series right, and I know we're
spoiled because the Dodgers have been in what five World
Series in the last nine years. This series is two
to two and there is a panic amongst Dodger fans
La folks.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Right now.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
The series is tied to two with the game here
at Dodgers Stadium to make it three to two for
the Dodgers, and there's a little of panic with the
Dodgers fans. That is it's crazy. It's I mean, I
get it. There's a confidence level and you almost think
that Dodgers should have swept Toronto. But again, I don't
(36:47):
care what the payroll is Toronto's got some great players
on that team, and they're in the World Series for
a reason. For a reason, they're competitive. Salaries don't matter
at this point. The best teams, I believe, without question,
are in the World Series right now. The best teams
in baseball are in the World Series. And you got
(37:09):
to give some love to Toronto because they have battled
and battled back to tie this series up.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
World Series Dodger Baseball Tonight, Game five against the Jays,
First pitch at five. Listen to all games on five
seventy LA Sports and the iHeartRadio app from the ballfield
to the job site, Strauss Powers World Series coverage on
AM five seventy LA Sports, and we're back to wrap
it up from the stadium.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Oh yes, it's a beautiful day, a Wednesday hump day.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Hey, listen, I want to take a moment before we
sign off that please, if you have an opportunity Tonight
during the Fox pregame show, our family is beyond honored
and humbled at Fox will air a segment on our
son RJ RJ and his incredible journey, you know, from
(38:00):
an autism diagnosis at the age of three, to now
where he has been a Dodger clubhouse attendant for the
last ten years, ten years now. This is his fifth
World Series. He's got a couple of rings its tenth season,
(38:21):
which is amazing when at one point there were people
that told them he would never do so many things,
including having any kind of meaningful employment. And just are
We're so beyond grateful that Fox and during this time
(38:41):
of the World Series where there's so much going on,
that they recognize the accomplishments of RJ and what he
means to the Dodger organization, what he means to the players.
They all give him hugs before and after games. He
is there constantly and a presence in that clubhouse. And
you'll hear play talk about him in the pregame show,
(39:02):
and you'll hear Dave Roberts talk about him. But we are,
Holly and I are so proud of RJ and what
he's been able to accomplish here with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
So please please tune in.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
I think it's gonna air, you know, an hour before
or a half hour before the game starts on the
Fox pregame show. But if you get a chance, please
check it out because they do. They do a great job,
and Tom Ronaldi came out and did a great job
with us. Hats off and thank you to Bartia, my
good friend from way back in the day, and Fox
(39:35):
and best damn sports show for making that happen. But
the whole Fox team and Fox staff for really recognizing
RJ and what he's done and what he's been able
to accomplish for the last ten years with the Dodger organization.
And hats off to the Dodgers my man Lon Rosen
for bringing him on board and treating him like family
(39:56):
and that who that's that's who he is to the
players and to the organization and his family and as
a parent, that's all you want for your kids. And
thank you Dodgers organization, and thank you Fox for making
this happen.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I gotta tell you, he said ten years I remember here,
that's when we started doing the show. Yeah, he was
still concerned about driving by himself to the stadium.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yes, that's how long ago that was.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
But to me, it seems like yesterday, ten years in
the blink of an eye.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah, he's been there so long, unbelievable. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
There was a whole nervous situation with him coming to
the stadium, coming here at night, and leaving the stadium.
He was barely driving at that time, and there again
we talked about the never people said he would never drive,
and for the first six months of his employment we
had to drive him back and forth to work, and
then he got his license and started driving. So big
(40:51):
shout out to my man, our day, and let's go
Dodgers tonight, Rodney, Pete, Fred Rogan, thank you all, Kevin,
thank you, Ronnie back in the studio, thank thank you,
Craig here in the box, Thank you so much, my
brother Petro, send money, Tim Kates our next.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Let's go
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