August 18, 2025 • 48 mins
We talk about the Dodgers snatching back the NL West lead with an emphatic sweep over the Padres over the weekend. Rob Manfred is in favor of realigning MLB by geogrpahy instead of NL and AL.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, here we go, fred Rogan Rodney Pete on
a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Rodney, how you doing today? Oh, Freddy, m oh Freddy.
Yeah yeah, Freddy. I'm doing good. Freddy, I'm doing good.
And do you know what, fred and you know we
stay in touch all of us. You mean, Kevin Ronnie
on occasion. But uh, I appreciate your text over the
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weekend as things we're unfolding. I really do. All right, listen,
I gotta apologize for the flex, I really do. I apologize.
That's on me. That was really bad. I shouldn't have
done it. I know, Rodney, no, no, no, no, I
loved it. Actually, you know you called and you're right. Look,
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they were rolling and and they they shut a lot
of people up, proved a lot of people wrong, proved
us right because we talked about this is a series
for them to get right. This is a series they needed.
It came at the right time to play a team
like this to get them out of this funk. And
it happened. And you talked about that teams like everybody
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talked about Dylan Ceas and they want Dylan Ceas and
who wants Dylan Ceas. He's almost coming to the Dodgers.
I don't like Dylan Cease. I'm not a fan of
Dylan Ceas. And what did he do? Got lit up?
Same thing with you, Darvis, Ah you Kevin, And I
try to tell you that you is giving the Dodgers
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trouble over the years, and he has. But you were
right this weekend for it, because they got after him early.
Four runs in the first innings, first or first two innings,
three in the first got after him, got after him.
So it was all in all, it was just it
was the greatest weekend of the season for the Dodgers
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so far. They needed this like nobody's business, and they
came through.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You know what's funny, Well, first of all, so I
let you hear about doctor Doug Dds last week, and
he was walking around to the TV station here in
Palm Springs and telling me, here's the thing. The Padres
just don't know how to beat the Dodgers. They do
not know how to beat them. And I told you
that story on the air, And as I watched the
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two teams play, to me, it was abundantly clear early
on that suddenly the Padres were playing as the Dodgers
had and the Dodgers were playing as the Padres had
leading into that, it had looked like the roles had
been reversed. You talk about the enthusiasm and the excitement
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of San Diego. We talked about the genuine enthusiasm the
Padres bring each and every game.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, all right, watching that they were flat like a pancake.
They were. It was amazing. It was amazing. From Friday
night on, it was the complete opposite. Like we talked
about the pod with the team jumping up high five
and having fun, and it was a complete The Dodgers
were the team having fun all week and long. And
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the body language read the body language of the Padres,
it was so evident and to your point and to
the Doctor's point, maybe inside they think, we just can't
beat the Dodgers when it counts, We just can't beat
them no matter what we do, no matter what kind
of role we're on. They find a way to get
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up for us, and we find a way not to
be able to beat them. I mean, it was evident
all through that series. First of all, how great was
Clayton Kershaw On Friday We got to talk about the pitching. Yeah,
Kershaw was masterful. Think back to the beginning of the season.
We're not even sure when he's gonna pitch, but given
the way the pitching staff looks, you know, he'll be
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able to come in and give guys a break. We
don't expect too much from.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Him, not at his age, with his injury history, we
can't expect too much. I mean, let's just be realistic
with Clayton Kershaw. Alright, he wants to play. It was
like this, alrighty wants to play another year? Sure, yeah,
sure that. Yeah, we owe it to him. He's given
us so much. Why not.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Let's come on, think about that here, because that's really
what it was before the season. It doesn't matter. Oh well,
Clayton Kershaw is going to retire as a Dodger.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I gotta tell you it was all right, fine, good,
well one more let him come back for one more.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That'll be great.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
My god, it looks like he's got to pitch next
year too. Now he has been a savior for this team. Yeah,
in a very different way than he was when he
was the original Clayton Kershaw. He has become the stopper.
Think about that. With that pitching staff, given the injuries,
they needed Clayton Kershaw to come in and write the
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ship and in his outings he has and he.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Was good Friday. He was very very good Friday. Yeah,
to get through six he got through and give him
that length to save the bullpen for the weekend. It was.
It was masterful. He kept him off guard all game long. No,
because let's be honest, you sometimes worry about Kershaw in
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the last few years of his outings, especially when he's
going up against a good team, a good hitting team,
of how long he's gonna last. He's gonna give you
any length, and usually he didn't get you one time through.
Sometimes two times through. Will We'll get after him a
little bit. But I tell you what, you're right lately
he has been the best pitchers of Dodgers have and
he is going out there competing and has been the
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stopper for this team. And they needed him. I mean
Friday night when you heard he was gonna go the
pitching you know rotation, how it was gonna go with Blake,
Snell and Glass now going Saturday and Sunday here Kershaw
going Friday night. We were talking about the Dodgers are
gonna get two out of three. I bet a lot
of people felt, Okay, we may lose Friday night, but
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with the Snell and Glass now we can probably get
the Saturday and Sunday. I bet you that's exactly what
they thought. Yeah, yeah, but he came out and pitched
a jim and he's again, like you mentioned, he's been
the stopper for this team. And hats off to Clayton
Kershaw because he's doing it in a different ways. He's
topping out at ninety two miles an hour at his fastball,
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but his spots, his pitches when he pitches, when he
throws a curveball, when he throws a slider, has been unbelievable.
And he is turned into more than just the thrower.
He's turned into a complete pitcher in his later years.
And it's beautiful to see.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's been fantastic, all right, So he looked really good.
Then you bring Blake Snell in, then you have Tyler
Glass now and now you're seeing what the Dodger rotation
is supposed to look like. Now you see it. Yeah,
it was a human. They didn't even Yeah, you think
about that. Yamamoto didn't pitch, and neither did Otani.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Now, please consider this. So it was a huge weekend series.
It was a huge weekend series. If you want it,
if you lost it, you know, well please we start
a lot of time here. So psychologically, if you want it,
that was a big series. And even if the Dodgers
had not won the series today we'd be saying, well,
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all right, there's a lot of time left.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
There are only two games out. There are only one
and a half games out, and they're going to Colorado,
So what's the big deal? What's the big deal? Right?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So, for as wonderful and excited as Dodger fans should feel,
also understand from a Padre perspective, you know what, three
games in August. We'll see you next weekend. Just that simple,
at our place, at our place. Okay, we got this.
We're just fine. The thing about the series, I don't
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know if you felt it. And I talked about how
the Padres seemed like they had a lack of energy,
a lack of emotion, a lack of fire. To me,
they seemed to beit unfocused. Merrill dropped the ball Machado.
I don't know if he thought it was Game seven
of the World Series. He tried to make a play
and the ball kicked off his wrist and the runner,
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the runner got on base. They made mistakes, They made mistakes,
and leading into the series it was the Dodgers who
were making mistakes, and if we're to be honest, many
of them defensively, But in this it was the Padres.
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A step off, a step slow, whoops, lack of focus,
lack of concentration.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, I mean, you think about it. They're guns, they're
big guys. I don't think Machado had a hit in
the series. I don't know if he had a hit
or not. He certainly didn't have one in big situations.
And you know, I know Tattis got a couple. But
you remember how Tatis used to basically own the Dodgers
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for like a three year span. He would I think
he hit like seven home runs in one series against
the Dodgers once and then five and another one. But
he used to love playing a Dodger stadium. He was
a non factor. The whole team was a non factor.
They really were. And it was weird because even and
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we talked about this Fred even on Sunday when they
were up four to nothing and then the Padres start
chipping away, chipping away, it's the first time in a
long time. They Padres tied it up, but I felt
that the Dodgers gonna find a way to win that game.
Isn't that interesting? First time in a long time? Is?
I felt the same way.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And last week we sat here and said, with the Dodgers,
no leader safe, not yeah, you'll be a nine to nothing.
Oh God, they were playing to they were playing not
to lose in I had a win, and I agree.
I got that same sense on Sunday, even when they
tied the game, the Dodgers will win. And I had
not felt that. I'll bet you I haven't felt that
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in three weeks. Yeah, but I felt it. And then Mooky,
how about that? What Mookie? Nice time to start heating
up a little bit. Not bad timing, not bad timing
at all. And when he hit the ball out that,
I'll tell you something. He's accomplished a lot and done
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a lot of great things. That's when he won't forget
he's been slumping during the season. At one point he
said it's in God's hands. Then he gets that opportunity
and he delivers, I'll bet you because that had to
be a moment of elation and a moment of relief.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Did you see him running around the bases. He got
between second and third and probably jumped like three feet
off the ground in celebration, pointing to the dodge dugout
because you felt like it was just like all of
all of the tension that had been built up for
the last two months, three months with him and it
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struggles and everybody talking about it, and everybody just you know,
because he's such a good guy. Everybody's rooting for Muki
and wants Muki to do well because everybody knows he's
one of those guys that cares right, and you know
he's working hard at it, and you know he's delivered
for you before and it's just a matter of time.
So everybody's rooting for him, and he feels that too.
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He feels the frustration of the crowd with him, He
feels it with him, and that home run, it just
felt like it all went away. It all kind of
came out in one moment and I could feel like
he was gonna make that the longest trot around the
basis as he possibly could, and that feeling had to
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be great for him. Weren't around at Dotters Stadium that
put him up in the eighth inn five to before.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, that was it. That wonted, that was it. That
was just precious. And then I love the story of
Alex Vessia. Can we all another one? Can we all
agree he's been struggling.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Mm hmm. Now he's one of everybody's favorites, but he
has been struggling right after though being one of the
only guys that has come through in that bullpen, after
being the stopper in that bullpen, to the point where
they had not only use him in the seventh, then
they started using him as closer and he was doing great.
But yes, the last three weeks struggle. Okay, he told
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Dave Roberts, I want the ball. I want the ball,
and you know what Dave Roberts said, you got it.
You got the ball. Now you just look at Dave Roberts,
how much he's grown. He's got a gut.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's been struggling earlier, lights out, no question. Now he's
been struggling. Dodgers. You don't really know what's going to happen,
given what had happened leading into the series, and here
you got a guy who has been getting knocked around,
but a guy that you you believe in but still
but knocked around, goes, give me the ball. Dave Roberts goes,
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you got the ball, not go get him, and he
got him. I thought that was very impressive. Give me
the ball.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Huge, I mean, we're doing it, you know, and think
about it. There's no Tanner Scott, there's no Kirby Yates,
there's no Michael Kopek. You just got trying in back
who's trying to get his sea legs back, although trying
to trying to throw some pitches yesterday that were whiffle
ball pitches that they swung. Tattoos swung at one. I
think it was eight feet out of the strike goo
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and he swung at it before almost before trying had left,
trying his hands. Hopefully he gets it back. But you're
right about Bessia to come through like that, and Dave
Roberts to believe in him, and also got to give
a shout to big big been in conspiraous just I
mean moments that he's been forced to come in him
and Roboleski got rubber arms right, and Jack Dryer right,
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but but casparraous and so many big spots. I think
it's come in either with two outs or he's got
to get two outs in an inny And he's come
out of that pen and he's come out and done
it more often than not. So I just want to
give a shout to Big Bend Man. He's been great
this year, I think with Jack Dryer and correct me
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if I'm wrong. He came in Friday night, right, Jack
Dryer came in Friday to get thee Yeah. Yeah, so
Jack Dryer is coming in and I can't was it
Joe was it? Or I don't know who said it,
Steven Nol, I can't remember who did the game. Well,
Jack Dryer, a rookie is being asked to get this done.
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I thought, a rookie.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It's like Jack Dryer's been your twelve years. Every time
he turned around, you see Jack Dryer riots.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Seriously, Yeah he's yeah, he's he comes out of the bullpen.
Probably got more innings than anybody any picture on the staff. Right,
maybe in baseball a rookie. I said, this guy can't
be a rookie. He's been here forever. He's been here
from the beginning. Jack Dryer, he came.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
In and got annot So it was a magnificent get right,
weekend for the Dodgers, and of course now they're in Colorado,
which could be and somebody suggested last week trap games,
those are trap games. So if the Dodgers have been
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playing really well and still had a bit of a league,
not just two games, let's say six, a six game lead,
and they go to Colorado, right now, those are trap games.
They could be looking ahead again to the Padres. I
don't think they're trap games now because of the struggle
they went through to get to the point where they're
at now, they want to put their foot on the
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gas a little bit open things up, but you have
to be mindful of that. Remember before Friday night, since
July third, the Dodgers and Rockies had basically had identical records.
Does that not speak to how bad the Dodgers were playing,
but it also speaks to the fact that it's one
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hundred and sixty two games. Losing streaks hurt. When the
Dodgers went through Theirs and losing a nine game lead,
that was painful. But now they're up to and they're
in Colorado, so I think that is good news. Indeed,
Kim and Keik are going to begin rehab assignments and
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triple A next week.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's good news as well. Oh yeah, I think both
those guys come October are going to be valuable. They
got to get them back, both because we know what
Kei k can do in the playoffs and in October
also the speed of Kim getting him back, so you
can have that option on the basis, I think he's
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gonna be valuable as well. So we'll see. But I
tell you, what, are you impressed with Freeland? The way
he's been playing as he's getting the ball like that
hit man, but he's playing with confidence. Defensively, He's made
some great stops and I don't mind that right now.
I think, you know, hit the ball early and struggling
right now, they're figuring them out a little bit. But
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I'm okay with that because I do. I love his
attitude and it's poise and he's not he's not shining
away from the moment like some guys come up and
you just worry about them or is it gonna be
too big for him? And eyes are wide open. It's
like he's been here for a minute. I like his
game a lot, you know. I like to say sometimes
a mind is a terrible thing to use. Yes, you
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think too much. You're worry too much. Who was playing
third base yesterday? Who is that?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Where did he come from? Honestly, have we seen him before?
I've never heard of that guy. In one of the
biggest games of the year, he's there. They come from
he looks he looks kind of like Max Muntzy.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Is that Max? No, it's not Max Muntzy. Right, Where
did he come from? You know?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It's like the outfielder Dean He's here, Perez gone gone.
And they're putting these guys in critical games. It's not
like you're playing the Royals in early May. They're in,
They're in, They're in.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And this is the team. This is how you say,
you know, really the Dogs a great organ This is
a team that going into the season, everybody talked about
the depth. The depth of the Dodgers is second to none.
That's why they win because they've got so much depth.
It's not only depth, but their system to be able
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to bring guys up like they bring guys up and
have them contribute right away. They don't hesitate to put
guys in. Get them flying today this morning, it could
be starting tonight. They it is amazing how many guys
they punched in. I was thinking the same thing, Fred,
I forgot all about that. Who played third base yesterday? Bro?
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I mean, who is it?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I don't even know the guy. It's like, oh my god.
And what about Enriquez? One hundred and three miles an
hour and three?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Man Young just doesn't even know what he's doing just yet,
but just throwing gas, I mean topping out at one
hundred and three out of the pen. Are you kidding me?
They get him some more work, Fred, he could be
very interesting, very interesting down the stretch. It's kind of
like these guys are there and they go, oh is
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it my turn? Okay, yeah, hey, don't worry about the situation.
We're putting you in Casparius. All right, Ben, get in there.
There's one out in the bases, loaded go what oh yeah?
And then he starts off three and oh, oh my god,
and he comes back and gets the out. It's been amazing.
It's been amazing. There's a lot of there's a lot
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of potential Wally Pips situation going on with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Fred Well, I think everyone can exhale a little bit.
So now, Dodger fans, we like to do this in
the first hour of the two hour shows, we'll get
a chance to weigh in. You know what happened before
the series, you know what happened during the series. Now,
how are you feeling? Eight sixty six nine eighty seven
two five seventy All right, we're gonna take a check
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of your feelings. This is cathartic. How will we feel
feeling now with the Dodgers headed up to Colorado? Eight
six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh yeah, come on, who have a worried about them Dodgers?
Not freddie not me. It's Monday, August eighteenth, Rodney p.
Fred Rogan, what a great weekend. Hope you had a
great weekend too. But let's go okay, feeling now in Colorado?
First of four? And to be honest, did they continue
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to play this way? Let's see how San Diego reacts
to this.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Maybe they're due, Maybe they hit the skids for a while.
Now the Dodgers can open up some ground and get
a little breathing room. So how we feel in Matthew
and Redondo Beach? Thanks for calling, go ahead, Thank.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
You for having me on your show. I am so
excited about this. Six man rotation.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We are so strong and deep.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I think we're just starting to see how strong these
guys on our starting invitation really aren't separate from the rest.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Appreciate it. Thanks for the call. Here's what's funny. Here's
what's funny. Everybody knew the pitching staff would be strong.
It's not a question. It's just when would they be healthy?
That's that's the only issue. It's not are they gonna
are they gonna be good? Yeah, they are gonna be good.
And one of the reasons is they get paid an
awful lot of money. Yeah, they're gonna be good, But
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when will they be healthy? And wouldn't it be ironic
if this was the turning point in the season and
still with this many games to go, we have no idea.
Wouldn't it be ironic if this was the turning point
of the season. The pitching's back, Mookie's hitting, and all
of a sudden, that adversity they went through propels them
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very much like last season. And they went through adversity
last year, but they got that momentum at the right time.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Rodney, every year they've gone through it. Remember that year,
I forget it was they went on that fifteen game
winning streak, and they were just winning games like crazy,
they were winning them in weird ways. And it was
I think mid June, late early August, and then they
hit a lull in August, and then they went into
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the playoffs kind of just kind of hole home like
blah blah blah, and they didn't finish the job. And
you can't pick and choose when you get hot and
when you get cold. But if you did have an
opportunity to choose how you go and when you get
on fire, this would be the time. This would be
the time, mid late August into September into the playoffs.
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If you're if you're Milwaukee right now, I know they're
flying high and they're winning, they're finding all kinds of
way to win, and they're rolling right now. But don't
you feel there's gonna come a time where they're going
to hit some sort of adversity before the season's out.
They have to. If they don't, it will be going
too long. It's been going too long for them.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
If they don't hit some sort of adversity, and that'll
be interesting. You know, at what point did they lay
it all out there and they're out of gas? Because
if they don't hit any adversity, they will turn into
one of the great teams in the history of Major
League base of all time. Yeaheah, no question about it.
They cannot continue like this. But to be honest, I
from afire, I'm rooting for them. Yeah, I think it's fun.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It's cool to see it. Really, I'm just glad they're
not in our division exactly, you know. But what it
does make you we talked about last week. It makes
you you better win the division. If you're the Dodgers,
and even if you're the Padres, you're sick right now
because you had an opportunity. But you gotta win the division,
and not only win the division, got to finish in
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the top two. Because you do not want to be
in the National League. You don't want to be in
a series with anybody where it's a three game series. Right.
Then again, the National League is so strong that anybody
can beat anybody.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Right, you do not want to be in that series
unless you have to. Then it's okay, Well, you don't
want to be in that series. But since we are,
we're good.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You see.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's just how you think about it. Yeah, perfect, perfect world.
No if you end up there. Well, let's go get them.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
It'll work.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, perfect world. You don't want to be uh, Let's
go to Carson Many appreciate your holding.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
No, Manny, Okay, Manny, Manny's not saying anything. Let's go
to Pomona. Ray is on hold. Ray, thanks for holding.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Apparently Ray's not saying anything either. Okay, let's go to uh,
Hacienda Heights. I'll go to Ray again. Okay, Rain, Pomona, Ray.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Good? Good?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I was I was chilling pretty pretty low last We
still a little better, but I think we need to
get uh. I think we need to definitely sweep the Rockies,
and I think two or three out of the Padres,
it'll give it back in the game.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Okay, well, listen, I can't argue with that, right, can't
argue with it. Rod, you make a point back in
the game, I'll get us back in the game. You
you think they have to sweep the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
No, I mean it would be nice, It would be
really nice to sweep the Rockies. Going because now it
you mentioned this, this is as much of a psychological
game as anything with the Padres and their body language.
Leaving Dodgers Stadium being swept in the way they played
and just the way they're feeling. They got the Giants
for four games. Now, you know, the Giants have fallen off,
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and we kind of all called it that they started
off hot and they were not gonna be able to sustain,
and they have it. But the Giants are still there's
still a formidable opponent and the Padres playing for four games,
where the Dodgers have the Rockies for four games. I'm
much rather be in a Dodger situation playing the Rockies
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for four game on the roads and playing the Giants
at home for four games. And so we'll see coming
going into the series next weekend with the Padres where
everybody stands. I don't know if necessarily think they have
to sweep, but I think taking three out of four
is something that they should do. They definitely should do
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because they can't take their foot off the gas right now. Fred, Okay,
let's go back to Manny and Curson.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Manny, go ahead, Rodney, Fred, this was the best situation
that could have happened to these boys in Blue, because
once their backs were pushed against the edge of the wall,
the Dogs finally re emerged. They finally showed up, and
they finally had some bite to back them up. And
all these wins against San Diego was without one of
their best and most greatest hitter, Max Munty, in the lineup.
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So I expect three out of four. Also from Colorado,
you got the pick coming back in the Bulls in side,
healing up nice and taking their time. We're looking good
right now. I'm feeling I'm in a good spot. This
is the best thing that could have happened for this team.
Three game sweeper, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Appreciate it. Thanks Manny Uh. Let's go Christopher and Hacienda Heights. Christopher,
appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Holding. How are you feeling today?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Thanks Rodney. Well, we have to thank the California Los
Angeles Angels for spanking our butts last weekend to wake
us up to win that three game series. And I'm
gonna tell you the playoff atmosphere was tremendous this past weekend.
I think the I think Kershaw came in and handled
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handled baseball business for the Dodgers on Friday night. I
think that Saturday night, I think the Padres they gave
us a They gave us a Christmas gift in August,
you know, Merrill dropped that ball, that routine flyball in
center field, five runs, their pitcher couldn't get the ball
across the play. Holy smoked. And then yesterday, you know,
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Mookie comes up clutch with with a home run in
the eighth and that's classic Dodger baseball. So I expect
this four games series to be high scoring run or
runs up in Colorado. I think the Dodger bats are
gonna explode. They're probably gonna score six to eight runs
each game. I hope they're bullpen or they're pitching and
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their bullpen keep keep the runs down. And I'm going
for I'm gonna say three out of four should be good.
Go back down to San Diego and let's see what happened.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
All figured it out. Yeah, I love it, love it,
appreciate that. Thank you so much. Uh Moreno, Valley James,
thank you for holding go ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Hey, guys, thanks for all the entertainment. You guys are great.
I've got to touch base with you guys last week,
and the boys in Blue did rise to the occasion.
And I got to listen to the Dodger talk a
little bit, and I think tred you said they just
might sweep him. Good call, buddy, good call.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Thank you, thank you very much. Good call. Ready, good call. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I don't like the flex much, but I think I
nailed this one over the weekend. Again, I apologize. I
should not have done what I did, and I did it,
and you guys will admit I never do that. But
when Dylan Ceas got rocked on Saturday, I just wrote
to Kevin and Rodney dylancs dot dot.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
That's all I said, right, that's all you.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, okay, And then you responded about Enriquez and how
fast he threw to relieve you.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Uh huh. Sunday after the first inning, I wrote you darbish.
I must have. I mustn't laughed for like three minutes
straight just when just reading that, because we did have
a whole conversation about you, and Kevin pulled up the
stats and all that, and you're like, I don't care.
I don't care. I don't care. Your dollies. They gotta
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own him, they gotta owe him. That's sure enough.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
All right, Let's wrap it up with Antonio and Fullerton. Antonio,
thanks for holding.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Woo. Let's go Dodgers. I'm feeling good.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I thought it was Friday today because I don't care.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'm all about it.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Think Blue a new chapter.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
We have answered.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Keep a strong Dodger fans. Let's go Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I like that, Antonio solid call.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
All right, we want to thank you everybody for calling
the program. Next hour, we'll have an update on Matthew
Stafford with the Rams. Louka suffered an injury scare. And
when we come back, could major League Baseball change and
perhaps change forever? Okay, we'll get to my Rob Manfred's
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comments next.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Come on, let's keep it moving on a Monday. Yes,
quick sprint for us today. Two hours on a Monday,
Dodgers in Colorado, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan, come on, all.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Right, So the commissioner was on Sunday Night Baseball last night,
Rob Manfred, and you know he will be stepping down,
but he did during this conversation bring up the possibility
of expanding to thirty two teams. Thirty two teams, okay,
so the first question becomes and he wants to get
it done. By the way, by twenty twenty nine, he'll
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be done. That's when he's officially scheduled to retire. Right, Yeah,
so what he wants, he wants it in place. He's
not saying the new teams will be there, but he
does want it in place.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
He wants people, we wants the teams named. Yeah, where
do you think they're going?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Okay, let's start number one. I'm going to Nashville. Anybody,
anybody want to debate me on Nashville.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Wow, it's a perfect market, perfect market in a perfect state.
That very I don't even think they I think they're
like Florida and Texas. I don't have I don't think
they have state tax. Intend no state tax, no state tax,
which is good. It's a growing, crazy market. Anybody has
gone to Nashville or or anywhere in in in Tennessee,
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Tennessee is uh, it's they love it what they've done there.
Memphis as well. Yeah, I could see Nashville. I could
see Nashville. And given given the popularity of baseball there
to college baseball is huge obviously with Vanderbilt and in
Tennessee and some of the other schools there. So it's
a big baseball market, and so it would make sense
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that that Nashville be the next city where.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, where would the other one be. Let's think about it.
Where could it be? Here's don't we know the Florida
markets ultimately are not good for baseball. It's odd but true.
They're not good for baseball. But the so the Florida
teams will stay there. And if you look around the country,
where are the next growth centers? Where do you think
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the population will expand? Because that's how they're going to
basis just what's going to get bigger? Where will people go? Yeah,
I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Salt Lake City. Mm. Interesting interesting. See, I don't know.
I don't know if they can support it. I don't
know if Salt Lake City can really support anything other
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than the Jazz have hockey. Now, oh yeah, they do
have hockey. They do have hockey. I just don't feel
like Salt Lake City is a baseball market. I just
I really don't. It also feels like it's it, you know,
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the start of the season is going to be an issue.
Even though the weather's you know, the sky's blue, it's
still chilly in March. I don't know. I don't know
about I'm not feeling Salt Lake City like I felt
when you said in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You know, it's funny, so I just as you were
talking typed into chat GPT. Where would MLB expand.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Here's what it said. MLB is likely to expand in Nashville,
in Salt Lake City. That's why you said it.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
No, I hadn't even seen that yet other cities. Other
cities potential candidates could include Portland, Austin, Montreal, and Mexico City.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah. I don't see three teams in Texas. Much like
the football situation, I don't see three going to Texas.
I would. I think Montreal kind of screwed it up
for Canada go back there because the only other city
you could go back to is Vancouver, And I don't
know if they support it with the Mariners being right there. Man, A,
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that's a tough one. That's a tough one. You almost think,
you know, the love that the Dodgers get in Oklahoma City,
that might be a place that they go because of
the success of the Thunder moving there, that they may
be able to support baseball in Oklahoma City. Fred, I
don't know if Oka see where the NBA went obviously.
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I don't know if that market is big enough though
to support it at all times yet yet. So here's
the other thing they're thinking of. Expansion.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
But then Rob Manford said, and we're thinking about realignment,
and it's not necessarily the current al NL model. It
would be geographic realignment.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, wait, could Indianapolis support it? That's fifty to fifty.
I say more no than yes, more no than yes.
It's almost got to be a new city that explored.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
It, growing a growing city. Right, So it would be
geographic realignment because in the terms of professional sports leagues
when it comes to their media rights deals, the beast
is the East.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
So what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
They don't like these seven o'clock West Coast starts for
East Coast teams. That means a game starts at ten
o'clock at n in the East coast. Yeah, and imagine
if every Dodger game started at ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Here, if you're a Yankee fan, a Dodger or a
Yankee fan, Boston fan, right, those games, Philly fan, those
games start at ten o'clock, and you know you're losing
the audience after the third inning, right if they make
it that long. Quite honestly, yeah, yeah, even if they watch.
But I get it. I get the realign because it
worked for football, right Football, NFL realigned to geographic locations,
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and it's really worked. It's really worked because no longer
I played in the league where in the NFC East
you were in Philadelphia and the Giants and the old
Redskins are now the Commanders and Cowboys would play out
in Arizona. Arizona was part of the NFC East because
they used to be in Saint Louis and they never
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changed it. The Rams used to be in the NFC
West but also play New Orleans on a regular basis
in the NFC West. That's no longer the case. So
the realignment in the NFL has worked because it's structured
geographically and so I get where they're going, and it
might it does actually make sense that you you and
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he's saying, making National League and American League East and West. Yes, right,
So no longer would the Mets be in the National League.
They would be in the American League. And same thing
with the Angels or the Mariners or anybody like that
would be in the National League. So that's a little
bit different than the realignment like they did in football,
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because the football's got the different divisions. But hm, I
don't know if that works, Fred, I don't I don't know,
because baseball is such a traditional kind of sport. I mean,
they're they're so they're the last of the sports that
are that are really progressive. They're they're to get off
my lawn kind of sport of all the four major ones,
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I don't know if that works, allowing you know, Oakland
not to be in the American League Oakland now Las
Vegas or or the who who were talking at the Cubs,
So the cub would go to the American League, right
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if that was the East? Yeah? Or where we would
to cut off be the Mississippi Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
River time zones. I'm sure, yeah, time zones to accommodate
the media packages. That's what it would be.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
See.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I look, I'm the only guy that looks at it
like this in all sports, and I know I'm crazy.
I don't even know why we need divisions or conferences.
I guess you can have conferences, but I don't know
why we need divisions. You go, why is that all?
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Right? There's thirty teams go so league, National League, American League, No,
no West, East, Central or anything like that is National
League American League? Right?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And then just break them down by time zones, which
will look better for the media packages, and then let's
play top. So many teams make the playoffs, good luck everybody.
Not they're gonna win the National League West. There is
no National League West. There's an NBA West and East,
East and West NBA. Do it like that, Just do
it like that. You don't need this conference in that division.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
You don't need it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
How many teams in each conference? Okay, there's a division,
all right? You got fifteen in this one, fifteen in
that one.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
That's it. Go the top. So many make the playoffs? Done? Yeah,
let's go. Who cares? Eight and eight, seven and seven?
Whatever you want to do, right, that's it. You're in.
Everybody else you're out. You lose.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Do it like that. That's why the NFL is so stupid.
But of course the owners will never change that. You know,
I'm a seven and ten. Yeah, but we finished first
in our division, so we get a buy really, or
we get home field?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah right right? Or we get home field? Really? Why?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Well, you know, somebody has to win from this division. Actually,
somebody doesn't have to win from that division. No one
has to win from that division.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I don't know why. Why?
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Because that division sucked this year so you don't need
to win. Top teams pole pair them up, let them go.
You know, if it's eight and eight, eight plays one,
seven plays two, let's go. Yeah, let's do it like
that and figure it out how long. I actually don't
mind that. I don't mind that at all. In the NFL,
I think they it's almost time to change that, because
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you do hate to see a team go. There's several
years that it's happened. I remember a year the New.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
England Patriots won eleven games and didn't make the playoffs,
you know, and that should and and a team that
was six and six and ten at that point when
they were playing six and game made the playoffs, and
then and New England didn't make it, which should never be.
You win eleven games, you deserve to be in the playoffs, right, well,
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the teams that win the most game.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
And then there's the argument, well, the strength of schedule,
luck of the draw, way it happens and everything.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
The computer, you know, sets it up, and so it's
no bias or anything, not like the Giants fan sitting
in the room saying, oh, I'm gonna put this, I'm
gonna make this the way favorable for the Giants, so
they can win in games easy. Now it's a computer
generated system where they picked the game, so there's no
bias going on. I actually would like that in the
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NFL because that had bothered me over the years of
teams that are have losing records that make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
It should not be Yeah, well, they can do the
same thing in baseball, same thing in basketball, same thing
in hockey.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Shouldn't it be that way? But do you like the
East West thing in baseball that he's talking about. Yeah,
taking the NL the West and AL the East or
whatever however you make it. Yeah, I do like that.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
You have to call it something, right, it has to
be something. It can't just be teams. You gotta call
them something. So yeah, I like that some of the Eights,
some of the West go, or if you really want
to do it, make three Midwest go.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Figure it out. Good luck to all do it. But
then you lose those multiple games against the Giants and
the Padres that you.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Have, right, And that was an argument everybody always made Rodney,
that was the argument, what about the series? Well, things change.
You don't need to play the Giants thirty nine times.
It's okay, it's fine, you don't need to You don't
need to play everybody. You don't need to play a
team fourteen times. Well they're in my division. Well there's
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no division, so you don't have to do it anymore.
Who would you rather see play twelve times? Dodgers, Padres
or Dodgers, three games with the Yankees, three games with
Red Sox, three games with whoever?
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Who would you rather see? Spread it out?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Let everybody play ever, You don't need to play all
these teams that many times.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah, you would never see a Yankees Mets World Series
ever again, No, that would never happen. No, would you
see a Dodger's Angels, No, Dodgers Angels ever, Dodgers as No,
no nineteen eighty eight anymore.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Nope, you wouldn't see that anymore. And maybe that's just
the way it has to be. But you could see
in the Al or Eastern Final Yankees Mets, you could
see that. And for the Dodgers, he'd still be in
the division with the Padres or the conference or the league. Yeah,
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how about this? Yeah, how about how about we do this?
Final thought? Split them up East West?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Good?
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Good, Now, look at everybody's records, got it, got it okay,
and then we have tide breaks and things like that.
Keep that in mind. Here's everybody's records. Now we're gonna
see you one through. However, many from both Dodger's best
record in the whole thing, you're first, Boston and San
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Diego are tied for second, but according to the tie break,
it's the Podres, then Boston. How about that? How about
you just do it like that. Then everybody's in a
big tournament. Best best overall and then best in your conference.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Is what you're saying. And then you just look at it.
If Boston is the best in the East, they have
the tide break in the East, they have the home
field in the East, right and the Dodgers have the
home field in the West. And if it flips and Padres,
then Dodgers not getting knocked off, then it reverts to
the Padres, and then Boston becomes the number one seed
right height, and then going forward, highest seat always has
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his home field.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
How about that? Then you really do have the best teams.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah, just I don't mind that in baseball. I don't.
I don't. I don't mind that in baseball. If they
if they went east west like they do, in basketball
in the NBA down it would cut down the travel
aspect of it, and and and then the media so
would but you would you would still play those teams
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on the East Coast. They wouldn't alleviate all of the
media issues that you're dealing with. If Boston in a
regular season game was playing the Dodgers, you still have
that issue.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Yes, but it'd be more let's say an unbalanced schedule
where you would have more games against the teams in
the East. If you're in the East, you'd have fewer
games on the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Which you know would be called today interleague play, right, Right,
you'd have fewer, right, You'd have fewer of those games.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Right, That's where you would make up the difference. You'd
have fewer games in the West. You'd have to play,
but not as many, not like you come out and
play Dodger San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
If you're the Mets, or you're right, you know, Pittsburgh
or somebody like that. You got to, right, you gotta
play all the teams right in the West.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yeah, Well, it's something to think about. He wants to
get it done by twenty twenty nine, all right, Has
Mookie Bets made the difference? First, guys wanted to run
him out of town. Now has he made the difference?
That's next.
All right, here we go, fred Rogan Rodney Pete on
a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Rodney, how you doing today? Oh, Freddy, m oh Freddy.
Yeah yeah, Freddy. I'm doing good. Freddy, I'm doing good.
And do you know what, fred and you know we
stay in touch all of us. You mean, Kevin Ronnie
on occasion. But uh, I appreciate your text over the
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weekend as things we're unfolding. I really do. All right, listen,
I gotta apologize for the flex, I really do. I apologize.
That's on me. That was really bad. I shouldn't have
done it. I know, Rodney, no, no, no, no, I
loved it. Actually, you know you called and you're right. Look,
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they were rolling and and they they shut a lot
of people up, proved a lot of people wrong, proved
us right because we talked about this is a series
for them to get right. This is a series they needed.
It came at the right time to play a team
like this to get them out of this funk. And
it happened. And you talked about that teams like everybody
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talked about Dylan Ceas and they want Dylan Ceas and
who wants Dylan Ceas. He's almost coming to the Dodgers.
I don't like Dylan Cease. I'm not a fan of
Dylan Ceas. And what did he do? Got lit up?
Same thing with you, Darvis, Ah you Kevin, And I
try to tell you that you is giving the Dodgers
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trouble over the years, and he has. But you were
right this weekend for it, because they got after him early.
Four runs in the first innings, first or first two innings,
three in the first got after him, got after him.
So it was all in all, it was just it
was the greatest weekend of the season for the Dodgers
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so far. They needed this like nobody's business, and they
came through.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You know what's funny, Well, first of all, so I
let you hear about doctor Doug Dds last week, and
he was walking around to the TV station here in
Palm Springs and telling me, here's the thing. The Padres
just don't know how to beat the Dodgers. They do
not know how to beat them. And I told you
that story on the air, And as I watched the
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two teams play, to me, it was abundantly clear early
on that suddenly the Padres were playing as the Dodgers
had and the Dodgers were playing as the Padres had
leading into that, it had looked like the roles had
been reversed. You talk about the enthusiasm and the excitement
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of San Diego. We talked about the genuine enthusiasm the
Padres bring each and every game.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, all right, watching that they were flat like a pancake.
They were. It was amazing. It was amazing. From Friday
night on, it was the complete opposite. Like we talked
about the pod with the team jumping up high five
and having fun, and it was a complete The Dodgers
were the team having fun all week and long. And
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the body language read the body language of the Padres,
it was so evident and to your point and to
the Doctor's point, maybe inside they think, we just can't
beat the Dodgers when it counts, We just can't beat
them no matter what we do, no matter what kind
of role we're on. They find a way to get
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up for us, and we find a way not to
be able to beat them. I mean, it was evident
all through that series. First of all, how great was
Clayton Kershaw On Friday We got to talk about the pitching. Yeah,
Kershaw was masterful. Think back to the beginning of the season.
We're not even sure when he's gonna pitch, but given
the way the pitching staff looks, you know, he'll be
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able to come in and give guys a break. We
don't expect too much from.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Him, not at his age, with his injury history, we
can't expect too much. I mean, let's just be realistic
with Clayton Kershaw. Alright, he wants to play. It was
like this, alrighty wants to play another year? Sure, yeah,
sure that. Yeah, we owe it to him. He's given
us so much. Why not.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Let's come on, think about that here, because that's really
what it was before the season. It doesn't matter. Oh well,
Clayton Kershaw is going to retire as a Dodger.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I gotta tell you it was all right, fine, good,
well one more let him come back for one more.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That'll be great.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
My god, it looks like he's got to pitch next
year too. Now he has been a savior for this team. Yeah,
in a very different way than he was when he
was the original Clayton Kershaw. He has become the stopper.
Think about that. With that pitching staff, given the injuries,
they needed Clayton Kershaw to come in and write the
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ship and in his outings he has and he.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Was good Friday. He was very very good Friday. Yeah,
to get through six he got through and give him
that length to save the bullpen for the weekend. It was.
It was masterful. He kept him off guard all game long. No,
because let's be honest, you sometimes worry about Kershaw in
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the last few years of his outings, especially when he's
going up against a good team, a good hitting team,
of how long he's gonna last. He's gonna give you
any length, and usually he didn't get you one time through.
Sometimes two times through. Will We'll get after him a
little bit. But I tell you what, you're right lately
he has been the best pitchers of Dodgers have and
he is going out there competing and has been the
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stopper for this team. And they needed him. I mean
Friday night when you heard he was gonna go the
pitching you know rotation, how it was gonna go with Blake,
Snell and Glass now going Saturday and Sunday here Kershaw
going Friday night. We were talking about the Dodgers are
gonna get two out of three. I bet a lot
of people felt, Okay, we may lose Friday night, but
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with the Snell and Glass now we can probably get
the Saturday and Sunday. I bet you that's exactly what
they thought. Yeah, yeah, but he came out and pitched
a jim and he's again, like you mentioned, he's been
the stopper for this team. And hats off to Clayton
Kershaw because he's doing it in a different ways. He's
topping out at ninety two miles an hour at his fastball,
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but his spots, his pitches when he pitches, when he
throws a curveball, when he throws a slider, has been unbelievable.
And he is turned into more than just the thrower.
He's turned into a complete pitcher in his later years.
And it's beautiful to see.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's been fantastic, all right, So he looked really good.
Then you bring Blake Snell in, then you have Tyler
Glass now and now you're seeing what the Dodger rotation
is supposed to look like. Now you see it. Yeah,
it was a human. They didn't even Yeah, you think
about that. Yamamoto didn't pitch, and neither did Otani.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Now, please consider this. So it was a huge weekend series.
It was a huge weekend series. If you want it,
if you lost it, you know, well please we start
a lot of time here. So psychologically, if you want it,
that was a big series. And even if the Dodgers
had not won the series today we'd be saying, well,
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all right, there's a lot of time left.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
There are only two games out. There are only one
and a half games out, and they're going to Colorado,
So what's the big deal? What's the big deal? Right?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So, for as wonderful and excited as Dodger fans should feel,
also understand from a Padre perspective, you know what, three
games in August. We'll see you next weekend. Just that simple,
at our place, at our place. Okay, we got this.
We're just fine. The thing about the series, I don't
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know if you felt it. And I talked about how
the Padres seemed like they had a lack of energy,
a lack of emotion, a lack of fire. To me,
they seemed to beit unfocused. Merrill dropped the ball Machado.
I don't know if he thought it was Game seven
of the World Series. He tried to make a play
and the ball kicked off his wrist and the runner,
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the runner got on base. They made mistakes, They made mistakes,
and leading into the series it was the Dodgers who
were making mistakes, and if we're to be honest, many
of them defensively, But in this it was the Padres.
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A step off, a step slow, whoops, lack of focus,
lack of concentration.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, I mean, you think about it. They're guns, they're
big guys. I don't think Machado had a hit in
the series. I don't know if he had a hit
or not. He certainly didn't have one in big situations.
And you know, I know Tattis got a couple. But
you remember how Tatis used to basically own the Dodgers
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for like a three year span. He would I think
he hit like seven home runs in one series against
the Dodgers once and then five and another one. But
he used to love playing a Dodger stadium. He was
a non factor. The whole team was a non factor.
They really were. And it was weird because even and
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we talked about this Fred even on Sunday when they
were up four to nothing and then the Padres start
chipping away, chipping away, it's the first time in a
long time. They Padres tied it up, but I felt
that the Dodgers gonna find a way to win that game.
Isn't that interesting? First time in a long time? Is?
I felt the same way.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And last week we sat here and said, with the Dodgers,
no leader safe, not yeah, you'll be a nine to nothing.
Oh God, they were playing to they were playing not
to lose in I had a win, and I agree.
I got that same sense on Sunday, even when they
tied the game, the Dodgers will win. And I had
not felt that. I'll bet you I haven't felt that
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in three weeks. Yeah, but I felt it. And then Mooky,
how about that? What Mookie? Nice time to start heating
up a little bit. Not bad timing, not bad timing
at all. And when he hit the ball out that,
I'll tell you something. He's accomplished a lot and done
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a lot of great things. That's when he won't forget
he's been slumping during the season. At one point he
said it's in God's hands. Then he gets that opportunity
and he delivers, I'll bet you because that had to
be a moment of elation and a moment of relief.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Did you see him running around the bases. He got
between second and third and probably jumped like three feet
off the ground in celebration, pointing to the dodge dugout
because you felt like it was just like all of
all of the tension that had been built up for
the last two months, three months with him and it
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struggles and everybody talking about it, and everybody just you know,
because he's such a good guy. Everybody's rooting for Muki
and wants Muki to do well because everybody knows he's
one of those guys that cares right, and you know
he's working hard at it, and you know he's delivered
for you before and it's just a matter of time.
So everybody's rooting for him, and he feels that too.
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He feels the frustration of the crowd with him, He
feels it with him, and that home run, it just
felt like it all went away. It all kind of
came out in one moment and I could feel like
he was gonna make that the longest trot around the
basis as he possibly could, and that feeling had to
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be great for him. Weren't around at Dotters Stadium that
put him up in the eighth inn five to before.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, that was it. That wonted, that was it. That
was just precious. And then I love the story of
Alex Vessia. Can we all another one? Can we all
agree he's been struggling.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Mm hmm. Now he's one of everybody's favorites, but he
has been struggling right after though being one of the
only guys that has come through in that bullpen, after
being the stopper in that bullpen, to the point where
they had not only use him in the seventh, then
they started using him as closer and he was doing great.
But yes, the last three weeks struggle. Okay, he told
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Dave Roberts, I want the ball. I want the ball,
and you know what Dave Roberts said, you got it.
You got the ball. Now you just look at Dave Roberts,
how much he's grown. He's got a gut.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's been struggling earlier, lights out, no question. Now he's
been struggling. Dodgers. You don't really know what's going to happen,
given what had happened leading into the series, and here
you got a guy who has been getting knocked around,
but a guy that you you believe in but still
but knocked around, goes, give me the ball. Dave Roberts goes,
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you got the ball, not go get him, and he
got him. I thought that was very impressive. Give me
the ball.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Huge, I mean, we're doing it, you know, and think
about it. There's no Tanner Scott, there's no Kirby Yates,
there's no Michael Kopek. You just got trying in back
who's trying to get his sea legs back, although trying
to trying to throw some pitches yesterday that were whiffle
ball pitches that they swung. Tattoos swung at one. I
think it was eight feet out of the strike goo
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and he swung at it before almost before trying had left,
trying his hands. Hopefully he gets it back. But you're
right about Bessia to come through like that, and Dave
Roberts to believe in him, and also got to give
a shout to big big been in conspiraous just I
mean moments that he's been forced to come in him
and Roboleski got rubber arms right, and Jack Dryer right,
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but but casparraous and so many big spots. I think
it's come in either with two outs or he's got
to get two outs in an inny And he's come
out of that pen and he's come out and done
it more often than not. So I just want to
give a shout to Big Bend Man. He's been great
this year, I think with Jack Dryer and correct me
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if I'm wrong. He came in Friday night, right, Jack
Dryer came in Friday to get thee Yeah. Yeah, so
Jack Dryer is coming in and I can't was it
Joe was it? Or I don't know who said it,
Steven Nol, I can't remember who did the game. Well,
Jack Dryer, a rookie is being asked to get this done.
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I thought, a rookie.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It's like Jack Dryer's been your twelve years. Every time
he turned around, you see Jack Dryer riots.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Seriously, Yeah he's yeah, he's he comes out of the bullpen.
Probably got more innings than anybody any picture on the staff. Right,
maybe in baseball a rookie. I said, this guy can't
be a rookie. He's been here forever. He's been here
from the beginning. Jack Dryer, he came.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
In and got annot So it was a magnificent get right,
weekend for the Dodgers, and of course now they're in Colorado,
which could be and somebody suggested last week trap games,
those are trap games. So if the Dodgers have been
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playing really well and still had a bit of a league,
not just two games, let's say six, a six game lead,
and they go to Colorado, right now, those are trap games.
They could be looking ahead again to the Padres. I
don't think they're trap games now because of the struggle
they went through to get to the point where they're
at now, they want to put their foot on the
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gas a little bit open things up, but you have
to be mindful of that. Remember before Friday night, since
July third, the Dodgers and Rockies had basically had identical records.
Does that not speak to how bad the Dodgers were playing,
but it also speaks to the fact that it's one
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hundred and sixty two games. Losing streaks hurt. When the
Dodgers went through Theirs and losing a nine game lead,
that was painful. But now they're up to and they're
in Colorado, so I think that is good news. Indeed,
Kim and Keik are going to begin rehab assignments and
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triple A next week.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's good news as well. Oh yeah, I think both
those guys come October are going to be valuable. They
got to get them back, both because we know what
Kei k can do in the playoffs and in October
also the speed of Kim getting him back, so you
can have that option on the basis, I think he's
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gonna be valuable as well. So we'll see. But I
tell you, what, are you impressed with Freeland? The way
he's been playing as he's getting the ball like that
hit man, but he's playing with confidence. Defensively, He's made
some great stops and I don't mind that right now.
I think, you know, hit the ball early and struggling
right now, they're figuring them out a little bit. But
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I'm okay with that because I do. I love his
attitude and it's poise and he's not he's not shining
away from the moment like some guys come up and
you just worry about them or is it gonna be
too big for him? And eyes are wide open. It's
like he's been here for a minute. I like his
game a lot, you know. I like to say sometimes
a mind is a terrible thing to use. Yes, you
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think too much. You're worry too much. Who was playing
third base yesterday? Who is that?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Where did he come from? Honestly, have we seen him before?
I've never heard of that guy. In one of the
biggest games of the year, he's there. They come from
he looks he looks kind of like Max Muntzy.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Is that Max? No, it's not Max Muntzy. Right, Where
did he come from? You know?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It's like the outfielder Dean He's here, Perez gone gone.
And they're putting these guys in critical games. It's not
like you're playing the Royals in early May. They're in,
They're in, They're in.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And this is the team. This is how you say,
you know, really the Dogs a great organ This is
a team that going into the season, everybody talked about
the depth. The depth of the Dodgers is second to none.
That's why they win because they've got so much depth.
It's not only depth, but their system to be able
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to bring guys up like they bring guys up and
have them contribute right away. They don't hesitate to put
guys in. Get them flying today this morning, it could
be starting tonight. They it is amazing how many guys
they punched in. I was thinking the same thing, Fred,
I forgot all about that. Who played third base yesterday? Bro?
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I mean, who is it?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I don't even know the guy. It's like, oh my god.
And what about Enriquez? One hundred and three miles an
hour and three?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Man Young just doesn't even know what he's doing just yet,
but just throwing gas, I mean topping out at one
hundred and three out of the pen. Are you kidding me?
They get him some more work, Fred, he could be
very interesting, very interesting down the stretch. It's kind of
like these guys are there and they go, oh is
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it my turn? Okay, yeah, hey, don't worry about the situation.
We're putting you in Casparius. All right, Ben, get in there.
There's one out in the bases, loaded go what oh yeah?
And then he starts off three and oh, oh my god,
and he comes back and gets the out. It's been amazing.
It's been amazing. There's a lot of there's a lot
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of potential Wally Pips situation going on with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Fred Well, I think everyone can exhale a little bit.
So now, Dodger fans, we like to do this in
the first hour of the two hour shows, we'll get
a chance to weigh in. You know what happened before
the series, you know what happened during the series. Now,
how are you feeling? Eight sixty six nine eighty seven
two five seventy All right, we're gonna take a check
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of your feelings. This is cathartic. How will we feel
feeling now with the Dodgers headed up to Colorado? Eight
six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh yeah, come on, who have a worried about them Dodgers?
Not freddie not me. It's Monday, August eighteenth, Rodney p.
Fred Rogan, what a great weekend. Hope you had a
great weekend too. But let's go okay, feeling now in Colorado?
First of four? And to be honest, did they continue
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to play this way? Let's see how San Diego reacts
to this.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Maybe they're due, Maybe they hit the skids for a while.
Now the Dodgers can open up some ground and get
a little breathing room. So how we feel in Matthew
and Redondo Beach? Thanks for calling, go ahead, Thank.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
You for having me on your show. I am so
excited about this. Six man rotation.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We are so strong and deep.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I think we're just starting to see how strong these
guys on our starting invitation really aren't separate from the rest.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Appreciate it. Thanks for the call. Here's what's funny. Here's
what's funny. Everybody knew the pitching staff would be strong.
It's not a question. It's just when would they be healthy?
That's that's the only issue. It's not are they gonna
are they gonna be good? Yeah, they are gonna be good.
And one of the reasons is they get paid an
awful lot of money. Yeah, they're gonna be good, But
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when will they be healthy? And wouldn't it be ironic
if this was the turning point in the season and
still with this many games to go, we have no idea.
Wouldn't it be ironic if this was the turning point
of the season. The pitching's back, Mookie's hitting, and all
of a sudden, that adversity they went through propels them
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very much like last season. And they went through adversity
last year, but they got that momentum at the right time.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Rodney, every year they've gone through it. Remember that year,
I forget it was they went on that fifteen game
winning streak, and they were just winning games like crazy,
they were winning them in weird ways. And it was
I think mid June, late early August, and then they
hit a lull in August, and then they went into
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the playoffs kind of just kind of hole home like
blah blah blah, and they didn't finish the job. And
you can't pick and choose when you get hot and
when you get cold. But if you did have an
opportunity to choose how you go and when you get
on fire, this would be the time. This would be
the time, mid late August into September into the playoffs.
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If you're if you're Milwaukee right now, I know they're
flying high and they're winning, they're finding all kinds of
way to win, and they're rolling right now. But don't
you feel there's gonna come a time where they're going
to hit some sort of adversity before the season's out.
They have to. If they don't, it will be going
too long. It's been going too long for them.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
If they don't hit some sort of adversity, and that'll
be interesting. You know, at what point did they lay
it all out there and they're out of gas? Because
if they don't hit any adversity, they will turn into
one of the great teams in the history of Major
League base of all time. Yeaheah, no question about it.
They cannot continue like this. But to be honest, I
from afire, I'm rooting for them. Yeah, I think it's fun.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It's cool to see it. Really, I'm just glad they're
not in our division exactly, you know. But what it
does make you we talked about last week. It makes
you you better win the division. If you're the Dodgers,
and even if you're the Padres, you're sick right now
because you had an opportunity. But you gotta win the division,
and not only win the division, got to finish in
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the top two. Because you do not want to be
in the National League. You don't want to be in
a series with anybody where it's a three game series. Right.
Then again, the National League is so strong that anybody
can beat anybody.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Right, you do not want to be in that series
unless you have to. Then it's okay, Well, you don't
want to be in that series. But since we are,
we're good.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You see.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's just how you think about it. Yeah, perfect, perfect world.
No if you end up there. Well, let's go get them.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
It'll work.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, perfect world. You don't want to be uh, Let's
go to Carson Many appreciate your holding.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
No, Manny, Okay, Manny, Manny's not saying anything. Let's go
to Pomona. Ray is on hold. Ray, thanks for holding.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Apparently Ray's not saying anything either. Okay, let's go to uh,
Hacienda Heights. I'll go to Ray again. Okay, Rain, Pomona, Ray.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Good? Good?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I was I was chilling pretty pretty low last We
still a little better, but I think we need to
get uh. I think we need to definitely sweep the Rockies,
and I think two or three out of the Padres,
it'll give it back in the game.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Okay, well, listen, I can't argue with that, right, can't
argue with it. Rod, you make a point back in
the game, I'll get us back in the game. You
you think they have to sweep the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
No, I mean it would be nice, It would be
really nice to sweep the Rockies. Going because now it
you mentioned this, this is as much of a psychological
game as anything with the Padres and their body language.
Leaving Dodgers Stadium being swept in the way they played
and just the way they're feeling. They got the Giants
for four games. Now, you know, the Giants have fallen off,
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and we kind of all called it that they started
off hot and they were not gonna be able to sustain,
and they have it. But the Giants are still there's
still a formidable opponent and the Padres playing for four games,
where the Dodgers have the Rockies for four games. I'm
much rather be in a Dodger situation playing the Rockies
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for four game on the roads and playing the Giants
at home for four games. And so we'll see coming
going into the series next weekend with the Padres where
everybody stands. I don't know if necessarily think they have
to sweep, but I think taking three out of four
is something that they should do. They definitely should do
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because they can't take their foot off the gas right now. Fred, Okay,
let's go back to Manny and Curson.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Manny, go ahead, Rodney, Fred, this was the best situation
that could have happened to these boys in Blue, because
once their backs were pushed against the edge of the wall,
the Dogs finally re emerged. They finally showed up, and
they finally had some bite to back them up. And
all these wins against San Diego was without one of
their best and most greatest hitter, Max Munty, in the lineup.
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So I expect three out of four. Also from Colorado,
you got the pick coming back in the Bulls in side,
healing up nice and taking their time. We're looking good
right now. I'm feeling I'm in a good spot. This
is the best thing that could have happened for this team.
Three game sweeper, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Appreciate it. Thanks Manny Uh. Let's go Christopher and Hacienda Heights. Christopher,
appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Holding. How are you feeling today?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Thanks Rodney. Well, we have to thank the California Los
Angeles Angels for spanking our butts last weekend to wake
us up to win that three game series. And I'm
gonna tell you the playoff atmosphere was tremendous this past weekend.
I think the I think Kershaw came in and handled
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handled baseball business for the Dodgers on Friday night. I
think that Saturday night, I think the Padres they gave
us a They gave us a Christmas gift in August,
you know, Merrill dropped that ball, that routine flyball in
center field, five runs, their pitcher couldn't get the ball
across the play. Holy smoked. And then yesterday, you know,
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Mookie comes up clutch with with a home run in
the eighth and that's classic Dodger baseball. So I expect
this four games series to be high scoring run or
runs up in Colorado. I think the Dodger bats are
gonna explode. They're probably gonna score six to eight runs
each game. I hope they're bullpen or they're pitching and
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their bullpen keep keep the runs down. And I'm going
for I'm gonna say three out of four should be good.
Go back down to San Diego and let's see what happened.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
All figured it out. Yeah, I love it, love it,
appreciate that. Thank you so much. Uh Moreno, Valley James,
thank you for holding go ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Hey, guys, thanks for all the entertainment. You guys are great.
I've got to touch base with you guys last week,
and the boys in Blue did rise to the occasion.
And I got to listen to the Dodger talk a
little bit, and I think tred you said they just
might sweep him. Good call, buddy, good call.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Thank you, thank you very much. Good call. Ready, good call. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I don't like the flex much, but I think I
nailed this one over the weekend. Again, I apologize. I
should not have done what I did, and I did it,
and you guys will admit I never do that. But
when Dylan Ceas got rocked on Saturday, I just wrote
to Kevin and Rodney dylancs dot dot.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
That's all I said, right, that's all you.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, okay, And then you responded about Enriquez and how
fast he threw to relieve you.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Uh huh. Sunday after the first inning, I wrote you darbish.
I must have. I mustn't laughed for like three minutes
straight just when just reading that, because we did have
a whole conversation about you, and Kevin pulled up the
stats and all that, and you're like, I don't care.
I don't care. I don't care. Your dollies. They gotta
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own him, they gotta owe him. That's sure enough.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
All right, Let's wrap it up with Antonio and Fullerton. Antonio,
thanks for holding.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Woo. Let's go Dodgers. I'm feeling good.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I thought it was Friday today because I don't care.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'm all about it.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Think Blue a new chapter.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
We have answered.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Keep a strong Dodger fans. Let's go Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I like that, Antonio solid call.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
All right, we want to thank you everybody for calling
the program. Next hour, we'll have an update on Matthew
Stafford with the Rams. Louka suffered an injury scare. And
when we come back, could major League Baseball change and
perhaps change forever? Okay, we'll get to my Rob Manfred's
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comments next.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Come on, let's keep it moving on a Monday. Yes,
quick sprint for us today. Two hours on a Monday,
Dodgers in Colorado, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan, come on, all.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Right, So the commissioner was on Sunday Night Baseball last night,
Rob Manfred, and you know he will be stepping down,
but he did during this conversation bring up the possibility
of expanding to thirty two teams. Thirty two teams, okay,
so the first question becomes and he wants to get
it done. By the way, by twenty twenty nine, he'll
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be done. That's when he's officially scheduled to retire. Right, Yeah,
so what he wants, he wants it in place. He's
not saying the new teams will be there, but he
does want it in place.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
He wants people, we wants the teams named. Yeah, where
do you think they're going?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Okay, let's start number one. I'm going to Nashville. Anybody,
anybody want to debate me on Nashville.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Wow, it's a perfect market, perfect market in a perfect state.
That very I don't even think they I think they're
like Florida and Texas. I don't have I don't think
they have state tax. Intend no state tax, no state tax,
which is good. It's a growing, crazy market. Anybody has
gone to Nashville or or anywhere in in in Tennessee,
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Tennessee is uh, it's they love it what they've done there.
Memphis as well. Yeah, I could see Nashville. I could
see Nashville. And given given the popularity of baseball there
to college baseball is huge obviously with Vanderbilt and in
Tennessee and some of the other schools there. So it's
a big baseball market, and so it would make sense
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that that Nashville be the next city where.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, where would the other one be. Let's think about it.
Where could it be? Here's don't we know the Florida
markets ultimately are not good for baseball. It's odd but true.
They're not good for baseball. But the so the Florida
teams will stay there. And if you look around the country,
where are the next growth centers? Where do you think
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the population will expand? Because that's how they're going to
basis just what's going to get bigger? Where will people go? Yeah,
I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Salt Lake City. Mm. Interesting interesting. See, I don't know.
I don't know if they can support it. I don't
know if Salt Lake City can really support anything other
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than the Jazz have hockey. Now, oh yeah, they do
have hockey. They do have hockey. I just don't feel
like Salt Lake City is a baseball market. I just
I really don't. It also feels like it's it, you know,
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the start of the season is going to be an issue.
Even though the weather's you know, the sky's blue, it's
still chilly in March. I don't know. I don't know
about I'm not feeling Salt Lake City like I felt
when you said in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You know, it's funny, so I just as you were
talking typed into chat GPT. Where would MLB expand.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Here's what it said. MLB is likely to expand in Nashville,
in Salt Lake City. That's why you said it.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
No, I hadn't even seen that yet other cities. Other
cities potential candidates could include Portland, Austin, Montreal, and Mexico City.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah. I don't see three teams in Texas. Much like
the football situation, I don't see three going to Texas.
I would. I think Montreal kind of screwed it up
for Canada go back there because the only other city
you could go back to is Vancouver, And I don't
know if they support it with the Mariners being right there. Man, A,
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that's a tough one. That's a tough one. You almost think,
you know, the love that the Dodgers get in Oklahoma City,
that might be a place that they go because of
the success of the Thunder moving there, that they may
be able to support baseball in Oklahoma City. Fred, I
don't know if Oka see where the NBA went obviously.
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I don't know if that market is big enough though
to support it at all times yet yet. So here's
the other thing they're thinking of. Expansion.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
But then Rob Manford said, and we're thinking about realignment,
and it's not necessarily the current al NL model. It
would be geographic realignment.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, wait, could Indianapolis support it? That's fifty to fifty.
I say more no than yes, more no than yes.
It's almost got to be a new city that explored.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
It, growing a growing city. Right, So it would be
geographic realignment because in the terms of professional sports leagues
when it comes to their media rights deals, the beast
is the East.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
So what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
They don't like these seven o'clock West Coast starts for
East Coast teams. That means a game starts at ten
o'clock at n in the East coast. Yeah, and imagine
if every Dodger game started at ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Here, if you're a Yankee fan, a Dodger or a
Yankee fan, Boston fan, right, those games, Philly fan, those
games start at ten o'clock, and you know you're losing
the audience after the third inning, right if they make
it that long. Quite honestly, yeah, yeah, even if they watch.
But I get it. I get the realign because it
worked for football, right Football, NFL realigned to geographic locations,
(38:03):
and it's really worked. It's really worked because no longer
I played in the league where in the NFC East
you were in Philadelphia and the Giants and the old
Redskins are now the Commanders and Cowboys would play out
in Arizona. Arizona was part of the NFC East because
they used to be in Saint Louis and they never
(38:25):
changed it. The Rams used to be in the NFC
West but also play New Orleans on a regular basis
in the NFC West. That's no longer the case. So
the realignment in the NFL has worked because it's structured
geographically and so I get where they're going, and it
might it does actually make sense that you you and
(38:49):
he's saying, making National League and American League East and West. Yes, right,
So no longer would the Mets be in the National League.
They would be in the American League. And same thing
with the Angels or the Mariners or anybody like that
would be in the National League. So that's a little
bit different than the realignment like they did in football,
(39:11):
because the football's got the different divisions. But hm, I
don't know if that works, Fred, I don't I don't know,
because baseball is such a traditional kind of sport. I mean,
they're they're so they're the last of the sports that
are that are really progressive. They're they're to get off
my lawn kind of sport of all the four major ones,
(39:32):
I don't know if that works, allowing you know, Oakland
not to be in the American League Oakland now Las
Vegas or or the who who were talking at the Cubs,
So the cub would go to the American League, right
(39:55):
if that was the East? Yeah? Or where we would
to cut off be the Mississippi Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
River time zones. I'm sure, yeah, time zones to accommodate
the media packages. That's what it would be.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
See.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I look, I'm the only guy that looks at it
like this in all sports, and I know I'm crazy.
I don't even know why we need divisions or conferences.
I guess you can have conferences, but I don't know
why we need divisions. You go, why is that all?
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Right? There's thirty teams go so league, National League, American League, No,
no West, East, Central or anything like that is National
League American League? Right?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And then just break them down by time zones, which
will look better for the media packages, and then let's
play top. So many teams make the playoffs, good luck everybody.
Not they're gonna win the National League West. There is
no National League West. There's an NBA West and East,
East and West NBA. Do it like that, Just do
it like that. You don't need this conference in that division.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
You don't need it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
How many teams in each conference? Okay, there's a division,
all right? You got fifteen in this one, fifteen in
that one.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
That's it. Go the top. So many make the playoffs? Done? Yeah,
let's go. Who cares? Eight and eight, seven and seven?
Whatever you want to do, right, that's it. You're in.
Everybody else you're out. You lose.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Do it like that. That's why the NFL is so stupid.
But of course the owners will never change that. You know,
I'm a seven and ten. Yeah, but we finished first
in our division, so we get a buy really, or
we get home field?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah right right? Or we get home field? Really? Why?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Well, you know, somebody has to win from this division. Actually,
somebody doesn't have to win from that division. No one
has to win from that division.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I don't know why. Why?
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Because that division sucked this year so you don't need
to win. Top teams pole pair them up, let them go.
You know, if it's eight and eight, eight plays one,
seven plays two, let's go. Yeah, let's do it like
that and figure it out how long. I actually don't
mind that. I don't mind that at all. In the NFL,
I think they it's almost time to change that, because
(42:17):
you do hate to see a team go. There's several
years that it's happened. I remember a year the New.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
England Patriots won eleven games and didn't make the playoffs,
you know, and that should and and a team that
was six and six and ten at that point when
they were playing six and game made the playoffs, and
then and New England didn't make it, which should never be.
You win eleven games, you deserve to be in the playoffs, right, well,
(42:46):
the teams that win the most game.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
And then there's the argument, well, the strength of schedule,
luck of the draw, way it happens and everything.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
The computer, you know, sets it up, and so it's
no bias or anything, not like the Giants fan sitting
in the room saying, oh, I'm gonna put this, I'm
gonna make this the way favorable for the Giants, so
they can win in games easy. Now it's a computer
generated system where they picked the game, so there's no
bias going on. I actually would like that in the
(43:17):
NFL because that had bothered me over the years of
teams that are have losing records that make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
It should not be Yeah, well, they can do the
same thing in baseball, same thing in basketball, same thing
in hockey.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Shouldn't it be that way? But do you like the
East West thing in baseball that he's talking about. Yeah,
taking the NL the West and AL the East or
whatever however you make it. Yeah, I do like that.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
You have to call it something, right, it has to
be something. It can't just be teams. You gotta call
them something. So yeah, I like that some of the Eights,
some of the West go, or if you really want
to do it, make three Midwest go.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Figure it out. Good luck to all do it. But
then you lose those multiple games against the Giants and
the Padres that you.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Have, right, And that was an argument everybody always made Rodney,
that was the argument, what about the series? Well, things change.
You don't need to play the Giants thirty nine times.
It's okay, it's fine, you don't need to You don't
need to play everybody. You don't need to play a
team fourteen times. Well they're in my division. Well there's
(44:33):
no division, so you don't have to do it anymore.
Who would you rather see play twelve times? Dodgers, Padres
or Dodgers, three games with the Yankees, three games with
Red Sox, three games with whoever?
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Who would you rather see? Spread it out?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Let everybody play ever, You don't need to play all
these teams that many times.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah, you would never see a Yankees Mets World Series
ever again, No, that would never happen. No, would you
see a Dodger's Angels, No, Dodgers Angels ever, Dodgers as No,
no nineteen eighty eight anymore.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Nope, you wouldn't see that anymore. And maybe that's just
the way it has to be. But you could see
in the Al or Eastern Final Yankees Mets, you could
see that. And for the Dodgers, he'd still be in
the division with the Padres or the conference or the league. Yeah,
(45:47):
how about this? Yeah, how about how about we do this?
Final thought? Split them up East West?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Good?
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Good, Now, look at everybody's records, got it, got it okay,
and then we have tide breaks and things like that.
Keep that in mind. Here's everybody's records. Now we're gonna
see you one through. However, many from both Dodger's best
record in the whole thing, you're first, Boston and San
(46:19):
Diego are tied for second, but according to the tie break,
it's the Podres, then Boston. How about that? How about
you just do it like that. Then everybody's in a
big tournament. Best best overall and then best in your conference.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Is what you're saying. And then you just look at it.
If Boston is the best in the East, they have
the tide break in the East, they have the home
field in the East, right and the Dodgers have the
home field in the West. And if it flips and Padres,
then Dodgers not getting knocked off, then it reverts to
the Padres, and then Boston becomes the number one seed
right height, and then going forward, highest seat always has
(46:54):
his home field.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
How about that? Then you really do have the best teams.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah, just I don't mind that in baseball. I don't.
I don't. I don't mind that in baseball. If they
if they went east west like they do, in basketball
in the NBA down it would cut down the travel
aspect of it, and and and then the media so
would but you would you would still play those teams
(47:27):
on the East Coast. They wouldn't alleviate all of the
media issues that you're dealing with. If Boston in a
regular season game was playing the Dodgers, you still have
that issue.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Yes, but it'd be more let's say an unbalanced schedule
where you would have more games against the teams in
the East. If you're in the East, you'd have fewer
games on the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Which you know would be called today interleague play, right, Right,
you'd have fewer, right, You'd have fewer of those games.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Right, That's where you would make up the difference. You'd
have fewer games in the West. You'd have to play,
but not as many, not like you come out and
play Dodger San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
If you're the Mets, or you're right, you know, Pittsburgh
or somebody like that. You got to, right, you gotta
play all the teams right in the West.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yeah, Well, it's something to think about. He wants to
get it done by twenty twenty nine, all right, Has
Mookie Bets made the difference? First, guys wanted to run
him out of town. Now has he made the difference?
That's next.
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