September 18, 2025 • 46 mins
Blake Snell was dominant through 7 innings and the Dodgers avoided the sweep against the Phillies. We discuss which NL teams pose the biggest threat to the Dodgers and their pursuit of a repeat when the playoffs begin.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All Right, here we go, fred Rug and Rodney Peak
on a five seventy LA Sports three hour show today.
Coming up at one o'clock we'll talk to NFL with
Vinnie bond sor two o'clock David Vassi on the program
as the Dodgers get ready for the Giants. All right, Rodney,
So they broke through last night, Blake Snell looked great,
and that's the way it's supposed to go.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
But before we get into all that, Fredd, I gotta
give a big shout out to miss Holly Robinson Peak
because it's her birthday today. Alright, birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy birthday,
Happy birthday, Holly Robinson. Pay Yes, September eighteenth. It is
a great day around the Peat House for it. So
a couple of things. What do we have planned? What
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we have planned is absolutely nothing for it. This is
this is not a milestone, fred This is not a key,
This is not a kiddie party at five right, we
focus on the milestone birthday, Freddy. And this is not
a milestone. I'man not gonna say what it is, but
it's not the eles Tern birthday. So we keep it
in the family. We do something sweet. Certainly will be
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some gifts involved. She's already gotten seven cakes from her friends.
So I'm just playing on putting on eight pounds today alone.
But just a nice special intimate evening with us, that's all.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We're not going out to dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We have something.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But she listens to the show, fred I can't reveal
what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, she listens, to be honest, Yes, she does listen
to the show at a time. She yells at you
during the show. Is that the time, all the time,
all the time. But don't think we can't hear.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We do.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We can hear when she's not cleansed. We know something's
always going on at the house. It's not always about
the show. It's something about me not taking the dogs out,
or it's me not cleaning the kitchen, or me on
the honeydeo list that I didn't finish.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So there's always something going on.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Freddy, Well, happy birthday to Holly, right, congratulations right on?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
All right?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So yes, and I've been preaching it all year long,
and preached it when they signed him.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Snell Zilla, snell Zilla.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
If there's any doubt, any doubt, who the ace of
this staff is it should be no more doubt. And
it's not just last night, Fred, He's been good the
last three starts and last night is what what you
wanted to see and what you needed to see and
who Blake Snell is right and Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts
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had the cahonis I should say to do what Kevin
Cash didn't do in the World Series, that is, talk
to his picture, look at his picture in the eye
and say hey, I gotta take you out. And he says, hey,
oh no, you ain't taking me out. I got this
guy and Dave left him in. So hats off to
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Dave Roberts. I know the book said probably take him
out at that time, but Blake Snell wasn't coming out.
He was gonna get that final out in the seventh
and he did, and hats off to him. But man,
is he emerging right now at the right time for
this team.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So the m O the book on Blake Snell is
don't expect a lot during the first half of the season.
That's when he kind of wakes up, gets hurt, gets healthy.
But when when the second half of the season comes
and all bets are off, And that's exactly what you've
seen here by far, by far, the ace of the staff,
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the guy you count on at Yamamoto's had a healthy year.
Blake Stell's the guy you're gonna send out there Game one.
It's gonna be Blake Snell. And you saw why last night.
He did a masterful job against the Phillies and what
you're talking about in the seventh inning, and it was
really interesting. And I've never seen this happen before. Dave
Roberts went out to talk to him, and the assumption
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is that that's it, He's gonna go out and get him.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
It wasn't only the assumption of perhaps the people watching
the game, or maybe even the people broadcasting the game.
It was the assumption of Alex Vesia, who was in
the dugout in the bullpen, I should say. And the
minute Dave Roberts trotted out to the mound, the bullpen
gates opened and here came Alex Vesia. Then Dave Roberts
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talks to Blake Snell, turns around, goes back to the dugout.
Alex Vessia, who is now running in, stops, turns around
and goes back to the bullpen. So I have to
tell you, everybody thought, including Alex Vessier, that Dave Roberts
is coming to get Blake Snell.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, ecuseally how it happens, right, I mean yeah, and
all teams really that you the pitching coach will go
out and talk to his pitcher he's having trouble or
and he need a break, or he needs to waste
some time so the bullpen can get ready. It's usually
a pitching coach goes out, but when a manager comes out,
it's ninety five percent of time it is make a
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pitching change. So yes, Alex Vesia was anticipating it. He
was the next guy up, and as soon as Dave
left that dugout and started to walk, and he knew
it was his time. In fact, you know, and Alex
is not the one that opens the bullpen gate, that's
not him. So everybody thought it was time that for
Vessia to go in the game. But that was kind
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of weird that he had to turn around and trot
back into the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I think it speaks to Dave Roberts. We learned it
during the World Series when he went out to get
Blake trying and talk to him. He wants to trust
his guys. He wants to look them in the eye.
He believes if somebody says I can get this guy,
they can get this guy. He believes them because he
trusts them. And that's what happened. You talk about Dave
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robertson the trust tree when he goes out, if he
looks you in the eye and you say I got it,
you got it, he goes back to the dugout. Now
you have to understand what that takes from a manager's perspective.
I mean, it's his job to manage the game, to
make decisions. He's got to have an awful lot of
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trust in you if you go tell him I got
this and he leaves you in, because he's going out
to get you. When he goes he's going to get
you unless you convince him otherwise. And I don't know, Rodney,
And we saw it with Blake Tryinging last year. We
saw it with Blake Snell last night. I don't know
how many managers when they go out to get him,
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if the guy says I got it, leaves him in,
leaves him in.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That takes an awful lot of trust.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, on certain managers you know do it, and
it takes a lot of confidence, you know, not necessarily
in the picture, confidence and in yourself as a manager
that you're willing to switch gears in the moment in
real time because you leave that Doug out, Okay, I'm
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going to get him right now, and you raise your
right hand up or your left hand up to who
you want out of the bullpen. But you get out
to the mound, and usually with most managers there's not
really a conversation. It's give me the ball, next guy up,
and for Dave to kind of step back in a
moment and analyze the moment in real time and say, okay,
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we're gonna leave you in.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And a lot of times.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Too it will Dave is reading the body language and
reading the conviction of the picture that's out there to
see if he really means it or is he just
saying that. And you could tell that Blake Snell was
like I got it, I got him, and you know
it was thank god he got You didn't want anything to,
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you know, like everybody would have been yelling at fire
Dave Roberts if something happened. But also I think you cannot,
you cannot look at that scene last night and not
think about the World Series when Cash pulled them out.
I mean, is that one of the first things that
popped in your mind, Oh, this is a Kevin Cash situation.
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He's gonna pull him out of the game, because that
was the first thing that popped in my mind.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, when Cash wenton got him in that World Series,
there wasn't even gonna be a conversation. They just went
right by the book. You're not seeing these guys the
third time. Yeah, there's nothing you can tell us. Oh
despite the fact Lake druck out like everybody, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And he was visually upset. Blake Snell in that World
Series as well. You could tell his his mannerism, his
body language when he was taken out of that gay
he was not happy. I mean they didn't, necessarily, like
you said, have a full on conversation about it, but
Snell was not happy. He was not happy at all.
And Dodg just came back. All right, Kevin's looking for it.
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I don't know if he's found it yet, but okay,
we got it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Good.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So you talk about trusting somebody and the manager goes
out and when he gets out there, he's gonna take
the picture. Now, sometimes the pictures will argue back, I
know what you're gonna play. This is classic, classic the
man number two. This is Tommy Lasorda going out to
take Doug Rowe, who was pitching for the Dodgers, a
left hander, out of the game.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Listen, I don't give it. You feel good. At four
min it's up there.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I don't give a foot, left hair.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Give a shug.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Well, I may be wrong, but that's my goddamn job.
I'll make the food. I'll make the food decisions here, okay.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yesterday, I don't give a food.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'll make you food decisions.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Give your food.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I told you.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You talk about it, and I would say, go.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
To say talk about his side.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
This is not the fuss you talking about.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Great for you to be standing out here talking to
me like that, feel good, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Don't give it, Doug. I'm the manager of the team.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I gotta make the and I'll make him to the
best of my ability. But I'll make it, okay. I
don't think Dave Roberts conversation was went like that with
Blake Snell. I don't think that's how it went down
last night for Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
No, no, no, no, no, yeah, no, Tommy had definitely
made up his mind. He didn't want to hear anything
from from Doug. It was it was a done deal.
It was a done deal. That was classic though. I'm
the damn manager, right or wrong, I make the decisions. Yeah, love,
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love love Tommy lists order well, and guys will fight
to come to stay in the game. They don't want
to come out, you know. You see that all the time.
Guys are gonna fight to stay in the game. But
Dave Roberts had trust with Blake Snell and it was
well placed.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Remember the remember the uh the ritual situation. Remember everybody
got on Dave Roberts about that he was at the
head a no hitter going, but he was kind of
laboring along the way at the end.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And it wasn't like I got him. Leave me in
this game.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It was hey, okay, I think I can get the guy,
but you got to keep an eye on me. You
got to keep an eye on me. Just just watch me.
Well when the guy says that, that's not saying it
with conviction, leave me in the game.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, But I think Dave went out there and he
said afterwards, Yeah, I went to talk to him but
the minute he came out, rich Hill thought he was
coming to get.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Him, so he just put the ball Dave's hand and
walk off the field exactly as so, why I really,
I was just coming out to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He just walked off.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Bishop was like, I'm gassed, man, know I got left.
You know, he got it all out of me. But
I'll go if you need me, I'll go. But that
was at least he was being honest, meaning rich Hell.
At least he was being straight up and honest because
guys will say it, just say it because they don't
want to. You know, I ain't no punk, I ain't
no sissy, I ain't scared. I can do it all
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and they don't really mean it. So you got to
give the bishop. You got to give a bishop credit
for just being straight up with his manager. Hey, you know,
I don't know how much more I got. I got
in the tank, so just keep an eye on me.
So that was the invitation for Dave say, okay, you're out.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Uh, you've got to also feel good. You keep your
fingers crossed, knock on wood, robinod Rabbit's food, but you
gotta feel good about the bullpen last night. He wh
when when that was it for Blake Snell, I thought,
oh God, is this lead big enough? I really did,
which is the which is awful to say, but I
really did. Oh no, oh god, no, bestie, you did
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the job. And Tanner Scott did the job.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Tanner Scott did the job and they got out of
there with a win.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
That was an.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Important win, too, importantly for a couple of reasons. First,
you don't want to be swept, and you don't want
to lose the first two games the way you did
and then lose the third that was bad. And of
course you want to stay ahead of the Padres. I
think it's going to be virtually impossible, and I've said
this for the Dodgers to catch the Phillies. So right
now they would be three. They would play six, which
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would be the Mets. If the Mets can hang on, and.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
The metsic killing the Padres right now.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Right So the Mets need this. And then if they
beat the winner of six, the Mets, who do they
end up playing the Phillies, which I can't think it
is a blessing with the guy's quite frankly, but they
play the Phillies. So the question is now given what
you saw in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Why is that a blessing in this guy? Because I
think they can beat the Phillies. Do you think they
can beat anybody? Well, that's true, but I really think
they can beat the Phillies. Although although to be honest,
I knew the philly and I've said this, the Phillies
are very good.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
We knew that early on. They're going to be tough.
But I think you saw a bit of a preview
here what you're going to see. Remember, Alec Baum isn't playing.
Trey Turner's not playing, so they're missing a couple of
sticks and one guy that can fly, because we all
know Trey Turner. But the Dodgers got to their pitching,
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and that was the key for me. They hit their pitching.
Lozaro's having a very good year. They got him last night.
They got their pitching. They hit him, and to me,
that's the whole key. Can they hit and they did?
And that being the case, I think they can beat
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the Phillies and.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
End up back in the n What he keeps saying,
I think they can beat the Phillies. They get the
tremendous uphill battle like No, of course, they can beat
the Phillies, they beat anybody. Yeah, but I think it'll
be a battle. Are you saying that with pause in
your in your throat? It's gonna be a battle. If
they played the Padres, it's gonna be a battle. Like
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so in that scenario, if it ended so Dodgers would
play the Mets and Padres would play the Cubs. Then
how it worked, Yeah, that's exactly what would happen. Padres
would play the Cubs and the Dodgers would play the
what the winner of.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Dodgers would play or whoever?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Since then they played Philly and then the and then
the Milwaukee Brewers would play the winner of the Cubs Padres. Yes, yeah,
so I think you know, yeah, either way you go,
it's gonna be difficult. So, you know, those the series
against the Padres would be intense. I think of all
those teams, and granted they've had a great season, I
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think the Cubs are probably the weakest going into the playoffs,
I would say, or or the team that you I mean,
they're good, but without Tucker now, I just didn't think
they have the firepower to to hang with the Brewers
or the hang with the Phillies. Or even the Padres.
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So of all those teams, I think the Cubs are
the most beatable team going into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Well, that becomes the question.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So assuming it plays out the way it is, Dodgers
are three, they play six. Rodney has mentioned everybody that's
in it right now, is there a team the Dodgers
should fear in the National League? First, we understand they
have to fear everybody because they've got to beat them.
So we got that part of it. Well, maybe we'll
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phrase it like this, what team concerns you the most?
What would the team you don't want to face be
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Speaker 1 (17:53):
All right, Fred, Rogan, Rodney Pete AM five seventy LA Sports.
Here is the question as a thing, what team presents
the biggest amount of concern for you that the Dodgers
may face? Is there a team that you fear more
than the other possibilities? Eight six six ninet eighty seven
two five seventy. Let's get started in Ocean side, Bill,
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appreciate you holding you're saying the Padres are the team
you're concerned about.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yeah, as much as it pains me to say that,
you know, I live in North San Diego County and
I've been a Dodger fan all my life, and uh
yeah to the fan base here, you know, that's all
they live for is to beat the Dodgers, so they're
gonna have a lot of support from their from their fans.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Right, appreciate the call built that.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I get that it based on intense you know, for
the last series in the playoffs, the last few series
Dodgers played, that's been the most intense series, you know,
exception obviously the World Series, but leaning up to it
have been the team and they obviously get up for
the Dodgers like no other.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
So we will see.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, what's interesting is and Rodney, would you say the
Padres are getting beat now by the Mets.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, yeah, they're down.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I think it's six to one now, uh in the
seventh or late inning something like that.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, the Mets are beating up on them.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I don't know what it'll be more galling if the
teams meet in the playoffs and the Dodgers were to
beat them, or for Padre fans, if given the opportunities,
which have been plentiful, they couldn't catch the Dodgers and
and win the division. Yeah, the Padres have done the
Dodgers a great service by the way. Yeah, and the
way they have been the Dodgers went now there.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
There are two games up now today, yep, two games
about to beat three games. Yeah, it's it's it's gonna
be uphill for the Padres to even beat the beat
the Dodgers. But by the way, though, Dodgers don't have
an easy road to finish the season for it, No,
not at all. I mean they've got four against San
Francisco this weekend. Then I think they play Seattle as
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well right at the end. And Arizona still who Arizona
now is creeping kind of trying to creep into that
picture right now. I don't think they can get there,
but they're trying to creep.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, the Diamondbacks, who with the trade deadline, were sellers,
but now we're back in.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Which is even more interesting. They're in it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
When you sell it the trade deadline, you're either completely
dead and you think, well, let's let's get going for
next year, or you believe, you know, we got a
couple of guys here that we think can play. We
think can play, We've done our homework, we've looked at
the analytics. They can play. So even though it looks
like we're giving up, we're really not. And that's kind
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of what the Diamondbacks did all right. Chris is in
Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Chris.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
The team that concerns you the most is wholemen. Who's
the team that concerns you the most, Chris?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
The Phillies.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Why Phillies?
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Why?
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Period? Because they have a strong team. We barely beat
him when they were at home. And I want to
tell you I'm sick and tired of these commentator commentators
being so soft on the Dodgers. It started with the
Oshi takeout. He should have left him in the game.
I am a die hard Dodger fan. I pay one
hundred spectrum.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
What takeout?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
When he took out the picture when he almost had
a no hitter?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh okay, does not play for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
But you mean Tony You know what I'm saying. No, no, no, no,
the picture, the picture they took out.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, you're talking about Otani. What are you talking about Tyler
Blast when no.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
No, no, no, When he almost had a perfect game.
It was last Saturday. The kid almost had a perfect game.
He was an Asian player. His name I thank you all.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
He didn't take him, well, he didn't take him out
until he Yeah, you gave up a home run.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
He gave up a home run, they blew the game,
and and I'm I'm so sick and tired of of
the people on the Dodgers staff being soft on him.
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay they talking about they're soft on him with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
When I hear some of the commentators on the.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Guys you started this about taking him out, and he
left him in. He left him in to see if
he can complete the no hitter. What are we talking about?
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Okay, I'm talking about that first. That was Dave roberts
first mistake.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Are you backtracking that he left him in? He left
him in. Dave Roberts left him in.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
He took him out after the guy hit the home run.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, because was over.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
He had like one hundred and fifteen pitches. That's the
natural time to take him out of it.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Well, I felt he should have left in.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Damn if you do, Damn if you don't.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
All right, thanks, thanks Chris, Thanks, Well, he was mad.
He took out Ocean. God forbid, the bullpen comes in
and shuts a game down like that, God forbid, It's
anything on the bullpen, But damn, Dave Roberts, us Christ, all.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Right, let's see, Jeremiah. Jeremiah, the team you're concerned about
is the Mets.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
Yeah, I'm concerned for the Mets. I feel like they
gave us the biggest challenge last year. Once we got
to their team. They added one Soto. If he catches fire,
if the whole team catches fire at the right time,
I just I am concerned. I feel like they could
give us their biggest run for their money.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, I appreciate the call, thanks so much.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
So.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
The deal is this about the Mets? I mean, given
the way they have played this year, this would be
the year you want to get them. I'll tell you that,
because they certainly haven't been as feared as everybody thought
they would be. But now when we get to the playoffs,
things could be different, could be different. And using your logic, Jeremiah,
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if it shook out the way it is and started tomorrow,
that's exactly who the Dodgers would open against the Mets.
All right, let's go to line seven, Line seven, Edgar
and Anaheim Edgar. You fear no one, is that correct.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Alry FREDI?
Speaker 12 (24:22):
Yeah, I don't think we just fear anybody.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
If our bullpen gets going and we're clicking.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
I don't think anybody can.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Beat us, and if we're not clicking, we can lose
to anybody.
Speaker 12 (24:32):
As simple as that.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, I think fear is the wrong word.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
To use, is to say to describe the Dodgers and
what they got to face. Maybe it is the team
that has a better chance to beat the Dodgers as
opposed to because I don't think the Dodger fear anybody.
So it's really about the team that could give the
Dodgers the most.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Trouble when the Dodgers are not playing well. Any team
can beat us, any team. I don't care if it's
the best team or the lowest team. Any team can
beat us. We're not clicking.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
That's absolutely fair, Absolutely fair. All right, thanks for the call,
appreciate it. We'll go down to Corona now, Henry, thank
you for holding. So you think the team that would
give the Dodgers the most troubles the Phillies.
Speaker 12 (25:18):
Right if I'm definitely looking at the Phillies that's waggered
that that that team has is just it's gonna be tough.
They kind of remind me somewhat of the you know,
the the Houston Astros. I hated Astros. But anyway, I
just think the Phillies just got a complete solid team,
and once they get Turner back and a couple other
guys back, I think it's just it's gonna be tough
(25:40):
to kind of get past them, especially if we got
to go, uh, you know, back to Philly and they
got home filled advantage the way it's set up now.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
All right, appreciate the call that being said, And you're right,
when they get those two guys back, they're gonna be tougher.
I think the Dodgers did well against their pitching. To me,
that's it. I mean now, Dodgers starting pitching is where
it needs to be. So we've got that down. If
you can hit, I think they can really beat anybody
if they're hitting. So I know Philly's going to get stronger,
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but you got to be pretty damn strong to beat
the Dodger starting pitching.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Right now, let's go to line eight.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Felix is in San Diego, Felix, and your concern is
not the Padres, it's the Brewers.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
Right absolutely well here, Fred, right quick, I want to
thank you for making that Tanner uh Tanner Scott comment.
Last night. David gave me shade for a Saint verbatim,
exactly the comment you.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Just made, and you give me.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
He gave me a big ol' spiel about why why
why why? I'm my man, exactly what you just said.
I mean it. Last time, I said, look, I'm watching
the game, and my girlfriend says, and I quote, hey, man,
that ball, that bearded ball guy is about to get
into the game.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
She's not a Dodger fan.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
My cat started hissing at the TV and I'm cursing
at the television and I'm like, man, I can't believe
this guy's going in. And he basically tells me, well, obviously,
you know money talks, he's going to be in the postseason. Like, man,
I hope. I don't wish him. I don't wish him bad,
but I hope he's not in the postseason roster and that,
(27:21):
and he gave me a big old spiel about it.
But I digress. First off, four o USC fight on
Rodney absolutely, and you know what, and I'll go back
with the previous caller. I don't fear anybody.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Last I checked, we have the crown.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
So with that said, I want the Madres and I
want the Brewers.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
The Brewers gave us.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
We're zero and six against them, but that's back in
July when the team started. I mean, we don't need
to go back to what happened that was back then.
This is now, back then July to what our lineup
is now. It's a different team. So I don't hear anybody,
but I do worry about the Brewers, and somehow, some way,
(28:06):
I living down here, man, I hear it every freaking
that I want to go through the Madres or better yet,
I want the Madris to go through us.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Appreciate it. Thanks so much for the call on Felix.
He looks the cat.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I like it. Let's go to.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Well, all right here we got a new jersey, Mitch, Mitch,
come on, who are you concerned about?
Speaker 12 (28:31):
Mitch?
Speaker 13 (28:33):
Hello? Hello, A, how you guys doing.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We're fint Mitch? How Mitch?
Speaker 7 (28:37):
How are you happy to missus?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Pet?
Speaker 13 (28:41):
My biggest concern is the Phillies.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (28:44):
They have a great closer and they have three Hall
of Fame candidates and Turner Kyle Schweber and almost a
Dodger Harper Brice Hopper who's always a Dodger. That's my
biggest concern, and it's commical as you get to Matt
him money, even sending a car run.
Speaker 12 (29:04):
So okay, thanks, all.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Right, take care Mitch, take care? Why why why are
you doing that? You're doing that right?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Well?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
No, because Mitch made his point the Phillies. But then
he went to the Mets. And the thing about him
is we love Mitch. Nobody's saying we don't love him.
That could have been another forty minutes. You just don't know,
because Mitch goes on a stream of consciousness and just
keeps going. You know, he'll talk about the Mets, he'll
talk about his grandson. You know, he'll talk about a haircut.
You don't know what Mitch is going to say. So
(29:35):
rather than risk it, I just thought, okay, you know,
Mitch made his point. I think they did all about
the service, and there's time to go. All right, do
we have time for one more? Should we do one more?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Because this is the person that nails it. When this
person speaks, we all listen. This is the voice of reason.
Here we go to Anaheim.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Hello, Isabelle, Hey, guys.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
How are you good?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Isabelle? How are you?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
I'm made good? Actually I'm coming from panting.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
But anyway, I.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Did to do it. We have even did them all year.
So but yeah, until until we leave this crown, I'm
I'm not even I dis one. I think one day
now think I did this jog? Did we leave it
to stop kicking better? I keep goes through different more
(30:32):
differently to be leave it me crazy you anyway, but yeah,
we're we'll see what happens weave the playoffs, so anyway,
but anyway, thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
All right, all right, thanks as well.
Speaker 14 (30:46):
Now let it go, good stuff, all right, right, goodbye, okay,
go Isabelle, goodbye, good job, good job is well.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But now we have two more. I mean normally Isabelle
is the dot on the exclamation point. He's the closer.
She's the closer. I'll tell you what. She's no Tanner Scott.
She comes in and she strikes people out.
Speaker 12 (31:12):
Remember Tim Conway used to have a bit where he
had it with like what did Jesse Jackson say?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Who might have one that says?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
What did Isabelle and Anaheim say?
Speaker 5 (31:18):
We might have to do that and give a prize
to whoever wins to see if they can deciphering.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I'm just saying this, Kevin, Okay, you said that, not me,
you said that I did.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, fine, I mean me and Isabel go way back.
We're cool, worry about it, okay, right, it's all in fun.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
All right, let's go Westlake Village.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
David David.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Oh, David, David's got concerns about all teams, right.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
David, Hey, thanks for taking my call. Friend Ronnie loved
the show Man. Yeah, I called Dodger talk all the time,
and and uh, David Vasse always cuts me off, so
I figured I'll try you guys. But yeah, I'm a
I'm a lifelong Dodger fan. Uh, but I am concerned
about every team. I've watched almost every game this year.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
David, Yeah, talk to me.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Why does vass cut you off all the time?
Speaker 8 (32:07):
I have too many great things to say, Fred, and
he just doesn't have enough time. I guess in the show,
I mean, how long realistic you're going to talk?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
If you have something great to say, why wouldn't he
hear it?
Speaker 8 (32:20):
You know, he he runs the show Man, he's the star,
so you know he doesn't want he doesn't want anyone
to steal his thunder.
Speaker 12 (32:27):
I guess I don't.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Know, is that what it is? Okay, just just wondering.
I mean, because you know, you sound like an intelligent guy.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
I'd like to think so. But I enjoy his show,
and I enjoy watching the games, and I enjoy your
show too. So yeah, look, this team this year, twenty
twenty five, they have a losing record with pretty much
every playoff team out there, and the way they play
(32:56):
fundamental baseball or the lack thereof a fundamental baseball this season,
they've got guys playing out of position in the outfield.
I mean last night actually was the perfect outfield situation.
But I guarantee you tonight it won't be that outfield.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
And that don't make them.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Don't make us bessa, don't make us bess.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Here's why. Here's why.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Because you said, well, the guys are playing out of position,
but the guys have been hurt all year. Now you're
starting to see what it's supposed to look like, right,
I mean it was kind of a man shift guys
out of position, No, but not for.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
The last couple of weeks. I mean, Edmund's been back
for more than a week, right, and yet he still
platoons him and and and Edmond should be in center
field every day, and Pahz and Tao should be in
the corner outfield every day from now on.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Good.
Speaker 8 (33:45):
But watch tonight tonight. Look at the starting lineup tonight.
You'll see Confordo in there.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Okay, Well, who's pitching for the Giants web Yep, you will,
You'll see Conforto. All right, Well, okay, David, thanks, appreciate it.
Andras and Norco you're gonna wrap it up. The team
that concerns you the most is.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
It's, yeah, the Phillies because of their lineups.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
I mean, they're proven, their veterans.
Speaker 11 (34:11):
I just I just think, I mean, that's the affilies.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
That has to be the affilies.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Everybody else is.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, all right, well off the road, all right, thanks
and yeah, appreciate it. Okay, undress is fine, you know,
just it's rough out there sometimes. Dodgers on the Giants
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Speaker 2 (37:17):
I got it. So these guys had.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
This ingenious idea, a way to make money if you
play golf and you don't join or you're not a
member of a club. And let's be honest, if you're
a member of a club, you got a lot of money.
Costs a lot of money to join a country club.
Majority of people do not belong to a country club,
so they play public courses and they're great.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Nothing wrong with it. Not all of them are great.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Well, okay, but they're great and most of them are
dog tracks.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Okay, well, so a lot of these people play these
dog tracks and nice and uh, you got to get
a tea time. Now, that's the hard thing in a
public course because there's far more people than aren't members
of clubs that like to play golf. You played the
public course. You got a fight to get a public
court a tea time at a public course. So these
(38:06):
two guys, twin brothers, had an idea, he said, well,
it's pretty smart. What they did is the minute tea
times opened, they went in and they tried to buy
all of them, everywhere as many as they could. All
the courses that had available tea times they paid for them.
(38:27):
So that would mean when you or I would log
on Rodney, we want to play De Belle and Burbank,
they don't.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Have any tea times. Huh.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Oh, look here's another site, these Gulf tea time brokers.
They might be able to get us at tea time.
And that's what they did. They went and they bought
all the tea times they could. Then when people couldn't
get them, they would go to this broker who just
happened to have them and They used social media platforms
(38:59):
like cokeo Talk, south Korea's leading messaging app, to advertise
their tea times and to communicate with buyers. They used
Venmo and Zell accounts to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So what they would do, they'd buy them. They'd be
a broker, you'd want to play, it'd be great. They'd
have the tea time and they just mark it up.
(39:22):
They'd mark it up. Sounds simple enough, sounds simple enough.
The problem is they made over a million dollars and
did not report any of it to the IRS, So
multiple counts of tax evasion and they're making of false
tax documents.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
You can't do that. And they also.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Are in trouble for grabbing the public tea times and
marking them up to make a profit. So you think
that's a pretty ingenious plan, but you can't do that. First,
if you try, you better report the income. But aside
from that, should you really be doing that? It was
(40:11):
very smart. It went on for like two years, but
then they finally got caught.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Rodney, Hmmm, I'm surprised the lasted two years. I'm wondering
if so their their their crime was not reporting their
income to the I R S. That was the crime.
That's what they got them for. Okay, so did they.
But they were successful in getting these tea times for
(40:39):
for these individuals or their clients at at places where
it was very difficult to get tea times. Is that
is that correct? Yes, that's what they did. Yeah, you
know it's Look, everybody wants convenient convenience, and you know
you want a guy. Everybody needs a guy, as we
(41:00):
always say. And man, I'm flying into Phoenix this weekend.
I'd love to play golf. Should I should not bring
my clubs? Oh, let's call the brothers up. They can
find us a tea time at a very good public
course in Phoenix. Sounds simple enough, because, like you said,
it's not easy to get on a private course unless
you know somebody at that private course. But you may
(41:23):
not know someone in Wyoming or you know, Idaho or Maine.
And these guys apparently would book all these tea times.
I'm sure they did their homework and research and book.
You know, summers in Maine is great to play golf.
Let's go gobble up all the tea times and we
advertise it and whenever.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
You're there, we got you.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
It's a pretty good idea.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Do you think there's anything wrong though with doing that?
You take the public tea times, you bought them, they're yours,
but then marking them up for profit, do you think
there's anything wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (42:05):
They're entrepreneur so not, you know, unless they're you know,
if somebody's willing to pay double for a tea time
and that's what they're charging double or triple because you
can't get a t time any anywhere else, you know,
it sounds like they they found a niche and worked
(42:25):
to their advantage and doing this now, I don't you
know morally do you you take advantage of people and
mark it up. But the people also don't have to
take the tea time either. They don't have to necessarily
go play golf. But if you're there for three days
and one of those days off, it's the first day
(42:46):
off you've had in seven months, and like, man, it
should be great to play golf on that day off. Oh,
I'm in the area and I can't even find a
course to go play. You call these guys up. They
just made your day for it.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
And if they had filed tax returns, they never would
have been in trouble. That's the best part doing what
you did. Oh, you know, it's not great, but okay,
there's nothing wrong with it. But you didn't find your
tax returns. Instead you bought a time share in Hawaii
and the government found that out.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
What no, no, no, no, no, no, that doesn't work.
We can't have that. Do you have a problem with them?
Speaker 3 (43:25):
What they did? You know, buying up these d times
like ticket brokers? Basically right, you know, you deavel up
all the tickets for a weekend series against the Giants,
and it's a tough ticket Dodgers' rival, both of them. Well,
Dodgers are in it and San Francisco's chasing to get
into the playoffs. So pretty pretty good atmosphere to be
a part of. But you can't find Dodger tickets. How
(43:47):
many people you think are willing to basically overpay for
tickets on a Saturday night to go see the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Many many people are willing to do that.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Yeah, I don't know. It just to me it's.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
A public golf course. I don't know. It's a brilliant idea.
Don't get me wrong, give them that, but I just
it doesn't it doesn't smell right to me. I'm not
thinking it's a bad idea, but it's like I I
it's a public Well.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
You think they're taking advantage of people, taking advantage of
the public a little bit, Yeah, I do, even if
the public is willing to pay.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Yeah, people don't have to buy it.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
No, they don't have to buy it, but then they
if they don't buy it, they don't play, and they
don't play because these guys bought it and are are
holding on to it for more than it's worth. It's
just it's a public golf course. That's the thing that
gets me. Dodgers are a business, so public golf courses.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
You know everybody can't afford to go to the Dodgers.
You know that some people save all season for one
game and then they go, oh right, And if you
get it on the secondhand market, it's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
But you know that's just the way you play it.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
This is the public golf course where if the greens
fees are thirty bucks and these guys are charging seventy, Yeah,
they get the markup. It's smart, but I don't know.
It just doesn't feel right to me, And I'm the
first guy to say, if you're smart and.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Can make money, you should do it. But this one
it just shouldn't market up. They shouldn't mark up the
price of the Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
I don't think they should. Now they make money doing
something else.
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Speaker 2 (46:15):
Next
All Right, here we go, fred Rug and Rodney Peak
on a five seventy LA Sports three hour show today.
Coming up at one o'clock we'll talk to NFL with
Vinnie bond sor two o'clock David Vassi on the program
as the Dodgers get ready for the Giants. All right, Rodney,
So they broke through last night, Blake Snell looked great,
and that's the way it's supposed to go.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
But before we get into all that, Fredd, I gotta
give a big shout out to miss Holly Robinson Peak
because it's her birthday today. Alright, birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy birthday,
Happy birthday, Holly Robinson. Pay Yes, September eighteenth. It is
a great day around the Peat House for it. So
a couple of things. What do we have planned? What
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we have planned is absolutely nothing for it. This is
this is not a milestone, fred This is not a key,
This is not a kiddie party at five right, we
focus on the milestone birthday, Freddy. And this is not
a milestone. I'man not gonna say what it is, but
it's not the eles Tern birthday. So we keep it
in the family. We do something sweet. Certainly will be
(01:05):
some gifts involved. She's already gotten seven cakes from her friends.
So I'm just playing on putting on eight pounds today alone.
But just a nice special intimate evening with us, that's all.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We're not going out to dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We have something.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But she listens to the show, fred I can't reveal
what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, she listens, to be honest, Yes, she does listen
to the show at a time. She yells at you
during the show. Is that the time, all the time,
all the time. But don't think we can't hear.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We do.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We can hear when she's not cleansed. We know something's
always going on at the house. It's not always about
the show. It's something about me not taking the dogs out,
or it's me not cleaning the kitchen, or me on
the honeydeo list that I didn't finish.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So there's always something going on.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Freddy, Well, happy birthday to Holly, right, congratulations right on?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
All right?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So yes, and I've been preaching it all year long,
and preached it when they signed him.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Snell Zilla, snell Zilla.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
If there's any doubt, any doubt, who the ace of
this staff is it should be no more doubt. And
it's not just last night, Fred, He's been good the
last three starts and last night is what what you
wanted to see and what you needed to see and
who Blake Snell is right and Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts
(02:32):
had the cahonis I should say to do what Kevin
Cash didn't do in the World Series, that is, talk
to his picture, look at his picture in the eye
and say hey, I gotta take you out. And he says, hey,
oh no, you ain't taking me out. I got this
guy and Dave left him in. So hats off to
(02:54):
Dave Roberts. I know the book said probably take him
out at that time, but Blake Snell wasn't coming out.
He was gonna get that final out in the seventh
and he did, and hats off to him. But man,
is he emerging right now at the right time for
this team.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So the m O the book on Blake Snell is
don't expect a lot during the first half of the season.
That's when he kind of wakes up, gets hurt, gets healthy.
But when when the second half of the season comes
and all bets are off, And that's exactly what you've
seen here by far, by far, the ace of the staff,
(03:29):
the guy you count on at Yamamoto's had a healthy year.
Blake Stell's the guy you're gonna send out there Game one.
It's gonna be Blake Snell. And you saw why last night.
He did a masterful job against the Phillies and what
you're talking about in the seventh inning, and it was
really interesting. And I've never seen this happen before. Dave
Roberts went out to talk to him, and the assumption
(03:51):
is that that's it, He's gonna go out and get him.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
It wasn't only the assumption of perhaps the people watching
the game, or maybe even the people broadcasting the game.
It was the assumption of Alex Vesia, who was in
the dugout in the bullpen, I should say. And the
minute Dave Roberts trotted out to the mound, the bullpen
gates opened and here came Alex Vesia. Then Dave Roberts
(04:20):
talks to Blake Snell, turns around, goes back to the dugout.
Alex Vessia, who is now running in, stops, turns around
and goes back to the bullpen. So I have to
tell you, everybody thought, including Alex Vessier, that Dave Roberts
is coming to get Blake Snell.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, ecuseally how it happens, right, I mean yeah, and
all teams really that you the pitching coach will go
out and talk to his pitcher he's having trouble or
and he need a break, or he needs to waste
some time so the bullpen can get ready. It's usually
a pitching coach goes out, but when a manager comes out,
it's ninety five percent of time it is make a
(05:00):
pitching change. So yes, Alex Vesia was anticipating it. He
was the next guy up, and as soon as Dave
left that dugout and started to walk, and he knew
it was his time. In fact, you know, and Alex
is not the one that opens the bullpen gate, that's
not him. So everybody thought it was time that for
Vessia to go in the game. But that was kind
(05:20):
of weird that he had to turn around and trot
back into the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I think it speaks to Dave Roberts. We learned it
during the World Series when he went out to get
Blake trying and talk to him. He wants to trust
his guys. He wants to look them in the eye.
He believes if somebody says I can get this guy,
they can get this guy. He believes them because he
trusts them. And that's what happened. You talk about Dave
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robertson the trust tree when he goes out, if he
looks you in the eye and you say I got it,
you got it, he goes back to the dugout. Now
you have to understand what that takes from a manager's perspective.
I mean, it's his job to manage the game, to
make decisions. He's got to have an awful lot of
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trust in you if you go tell him I got
this and he leaves you in, because he's going out
to get you. When he goes he's going to get
you unless you convince him otherwise. And I don't know, Rodney,
And we saw it with Blake Tryinging last year. We
saw it with Blake Snell last night. I don't know
how many managers when they go out to get him,
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if the guy says I got it, leaves him in,
leaves him in.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That takes an awful lot of trust.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, on certain managers you know do it, and
it takes a lot of confidence, you know, not necessarily
in the picture, confidence and in yourself as a manager
that you're willing to switch gears in the moment in
real time because you leave that Doug out, Okay, I'm
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going to get him right now, and you raise your
right hand up or your left hand up to who
you want out of the bullpen. But you get out
to the mound, and usually with most managers there's not
really a conversation. It's give me the ball, next guy up,
and for Dave to kind of step back in a
moment and analyze the moment in real time and say, okay,
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we're gonna leave you in.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And a lot of times.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Too it will Dave is reading the body language and
reading the conviction of the picture that's out there to
see if he really means it or is he just
saying that. And you could tell that Blake Snell was
like I got it, I got him, and you know
it was thank god he got You didn't want anything to,
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you know, like everybody would have been yelling at fire
Dave Roberts if something happened. But also I think you cannot,
you cannot look at that scene last night and not
think about the World Series when Cash pulled them out.
I mean, is that one of the first things that
popped in your mind, Oh, this is a Kevin Cash situation.
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He's gonna pull him out of the game, because that
was the first thing that popped in my mind.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, when Cash wenton got him in that World Series,
there wasn't even gonna be a conversation. They just went
right by the book. You're not seeing these guys the
third time. Yeah, there's nothing you can tell us. Oh
despite the fact Lake druck out like everybody, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And he was visually upset. Blake Snell in that World
Series as well. You could tell his his mannerism, his
body language when he was taken out of that gay
he was not happy. I mean they didn't, necessarily, like
you said, have a full on conversation about it, but
Snell was not happy. He was not happy at all.
And Dodg just came back. All right, Kevin's looking for it.
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I don't know if he's found it yet, but okay,
we got it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Good.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So you talk about trusting somebody and the manager goes
out and when he gets out there, he's gonna take
the picture. Now, sometimes the pictures will argue back, I
know what you're gonna play. This is classic, classic the
man number two. This is Tommy Lasorda going out to
take Doug Rowe, who was pitching for the Dodgers, a
left hander, out of the game.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Listen, I don't give it. You feel good. At four
min it's up there.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I don't give a foot, left hair.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Give a shug.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Well, I may be wrong, but that's my goddamn job.
I'll make the food. I'll make the food decisions here, okay.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yesterday, I don't give a food.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'll make you food decisions.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Give your food.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I told you.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You talk about it, and I would say, go.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
To say talk about his side.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
This is not the fuss you talking about.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Great for you to be standing out here talking to
me like that, feel good, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Don't give it, Doug. I'm the manager of the team.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I gotta make the and I'll make him to the
best of my ability. But I'll make it, okay. I
don't think Dave Roberts conversation was went like that with
Blake Snell. I don't think that's how it went down
last night for Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
No, no, no, no, no, yeah, no, Tommy had definitely
made up his mind. He didn't want to hear anything
from from Doug. It was it was a done deal.
It was a done deal. That was classic though. I'm
the damn manager, right or wrong, I make the decisions. Yeah, love,
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love love Tommy lists order well, and guys will fight
to come to stay in the game. They don't want
to come out, you know. You see that all the time.
Guys are gonna fight to stay in the game. But
Dave Roberts had trust with Blake Snell and it was
well placed.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Remember the remember the uh the ritual situation. Remember everybody
got on Dave Roberts about that he was at the
head a no hitter going, but he was kind of
laboring along the way at the end.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And it wasn't like I got him. Leave me in
this game.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It was hey, okay, I think I can get the guy,
but you got to keep an eye on me. You
got to keep an eye on me. Just just watch me.
Well when the guy says that, that's not saying it
with conviction, leave me in the game.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, But I think Dave went out there and he
said afterwards, Yeah, I went to talk to him but
the minute he came out, rich Hill thought he was
coming to get.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Him, so he just put the ball Dave's hand and
walk off the field exactly as so, why I really,
I was just coming out to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He just walked off.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Bishop was like, I'm gassed, man, know I got left.
You know, he got it all out of me. But
I'll go if you need me, I'll go. But that
was at least he was being honest, meaning rich Hell.
At least he was being straight up and honest because
guys will say it, just say it because they don't
want to. You know, I ain't no punk, I ain't
no sissy, I ain't scared. I can do it all
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and they don't really mean it. So you got to
give the bishop. You got to give a bishop credit
for just being straight up with his manager. Hey, you know,
I don't know how much more I got. I got
in the tank, so just keep an eye on me.
So that was the invitation for Dave say, okay, you're out.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Uh, you've got to also feel good. You keep your
fingers crossed, knock on wood, robinod Rabbit's food, but you
gotta feel good about the bullpen last night. He wh
when when that was it for Blake Snell, I thought,
oh God, is this lead big enough? I really did,
which is the which is awful to say, but I
really did. Oh no, oh god, no, bestie, you did
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the job. And Tanner Scott did the job.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Tanner Scott did the job and they got out of
there with a win.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
That was an.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Important win, too, importantly for a couple of reasons. First,
you don't want to be swept, and you don't want
to lose the first two games the way you did
and then lose the third that was bad. And of
course you want to stay ahead of the Padres. I
think it's going to be virtually impossible, and I've said
this for the Dodgers to catch the Phillies. So right
now they would be three. They would play six, which
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would be the Mets. If the Mets can hang on, and.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
The metsic killing the Padres right now.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Right So the Mets need this. And then if they
beat the winner of six, the Mets, who do they
end up playing the Phillies, which I can't think it
is a blessing with the guy's quite frankly, but they
play the Phillies. So the question is now given what
you saw in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Why is that a blessing in this guy? Because I
think they can beat the Phillies. Do you think they
can beat anybody? Well, that's true, but I really think
they can beat the Phillies. Although although to be honest,
I knew the philly and I've said this, the Phillies
are very good.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
We knew that early on. They're going to be tough.
But I think you saw a bit of a preview
here what you're going to see. Remember, Alec Baum isn't playing.
Trey Turner's not playing, so they're missing a couple of
sticks and one guy that can fly, because we all
know Trey Turner. But the Dodgers got to their pitching,
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and that was the key for me. They hit their pitching.
Lozaro's having a very good year. They got him last night.
They got their pitching. They hit him, and to me,
that's the whole key. Can they hit and they did?
And that being the case, I think they can beat
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the Phillies and.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
End up back in the n What he keeps saying,
I think they can beat the Phillies. They get the
tremendous uphill battle like No, of course, they can beat
the Phillies, they beat anybody. Yeah, but I think it'll
be a battle. Are you saying that with pause in
your in your throat? It's gonna be a battle. If
they played the Padres, it's gonna be a battle. Like
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so in that scenario, if it ended so Dodgers would
play the Mets and Padres would play the Cubs. Then
how it worked, Yeah, that's exactly what would happen. Padres
would play the Cubs and the Dodgers would play the
what the winner of.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Dodgers would play or whoever?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Since then they played Philly and then the and then
the Milwaukee Brewers would play the winner of the Cubs Padres. Yes, yeah,
so I think you know, yeah, either way you go,
it's gonna be difficult. So, you know, those the series
against the Padres would be intense. I think of all
those teams, and granted they've had a great season, I
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think the Cubs are probably the weakest going into the playoffs,
I would say, or or the team that you I mean,
they're good, but without Tucker now, I just didn't think
they have the firepower to to hang with the Brewers
or the hang with the Phillies. Or even the Padres.
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So of all those teams, I think the Cubs are
the most beatable team going into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Well, that becomes the question.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So assuming it plays out the way it is, Dodgers
are three, they play six. Rodney has mentioned everybody that's
in it right now, is there a team the Dodgers
should fear in the National League? First, we understand they
have to fear everybody because they've got to beat them.
So we got that part of it. Well, maybe we'll
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phrase it like this, what team concerns you the most?
What would the team you don't want to face be
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Speaker 1 (17:53):
All right, Fred, Rogan, Rodney Pete AM five seventy LA Sports.
Here is the question as a thing, what team presents
the biggest amount of concern for you that the Dodgers
may face? Is there a team that you fear more
than the other possibilities? Eight six six ninet eighty seven
two five seventy. Let's get started in Ocean side, Bill,
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appreciate you holding you're saying the Padres are the team
you're concerned about.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yeah, as much as it pains me to say that,
you know, I live in North San Diego County and
I've been a Dodger fan all my life, and uh
yeah to the fan base here, you know, that's all
they live for is to beat the Dodgers, so they're
gonna have a lot of support from their from their fans.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Right, appreciate the call built that.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I get that it based on intense you know, for
the last series in the playoffs, the last few series
Dodgers played, that's been the most intense series, you know,
exception obviously the World Series, but leaning up to it
have been the team and they obviously get up for
the Dodgers like no other.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
So we will see.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, what's interesting is and Rodney, would you say the
Padres are getting beat now by the Mets.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, yeah, they're down.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I think it's six to one now, uh in the
seventh or late inning something like that.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, the Mets are beating up on them.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I don't know what it'll be more galling if the
teams meet in the playoffs and the Dodgers were to
beat them, or for Padre fans, if given the opportunities,
which have been plentiful, they couldn't catch the Dodgers and
and win the division. Yeah, the Padres have done the
Dodgers a great service by the way. Yeah, and the
way they have been the Dodgers went now there.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
There are two games up now today, yep, two games
about to beat three games. Yeah, it's it's it's gonna
be uphill for the Padres to even beat the beat
the Dodgers. But by the way, though, Dodgers don't have
an easy road to finish the season for it, No,
not at all. I mean they've got four against San
Francisco this weekend. Then I think they play Seattle as
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well right at the end. And Arizona still who Arizona
now is creeping kind of trying to creep into that
picture right now. I don't think they can get there,
but they're trying to creep.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, the Diamondbacks, who with the trade deadline, were sellers,
but now we're back in.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Which is even more interesting. They're in it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
When you sell it the trade deadline, you're either completely
dead and you think, well, let's let's get going for
next year, or you believe, you know, we got a
couple of guys here that we think can play. We
think can play, We've done our homework, we've looked at
the analytics. They can play. So even though it looks
like we're giving up, we're really not. And that's kind
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of what the Diamondbacks did all right. Chris is in
Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Chris.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
The team that concerns you the most is wholemen. Who's
the team that concerns you the most, Chris?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
The Phillies.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Why Phillies?
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Why?
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Period? Because they have a strong team. We barely beat
him when they were at home. And I want to
tell you I'm sick and tired of these commentator commentators
being so soft on the Dodgers. It started with the
Oshi takeout. He should have left him in the game.
I am a die hard Dodger fan. I pay one
hundred spectrum.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
What takeout?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
When he took out the picture when he almost had
a no hitter?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh okay, does not play for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
But you mean Tony You know what I'm saying. No, no, no, no,
the picture, the picture they took out.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, you're talking about Otani. What are you talking about Tyler
Blast when no.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
No, no, no, When he almost had a perfect game.
It was last Saturday. The kid almost had a perfect game.
He was an Asian player. His name I thank you all.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
He didn't take him, well, he didn't take him out
until he Yeah, you gave up a home run.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
He gave up a home run, they blew the game,
and and I'm I'm so sick and tired of of
the people on the Dodgers staff being soft on him.
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay they talking about they're soft on him with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
When I hear some of the commentators on the.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Guys you started this about taking him out, and he
left him in. He left him in to see if
he can complete the no hitter. What are we talking about?
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Okay, I'm talking about that first. That was Dave roberts
first mistake.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Are you backtracking that he left him in? He left
him in. Dave Roberts left him in.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
He took him out after the guy hit the home run.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, because was over.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
He had like one hundred and fifteen pitches. That's the
natural time to take him out of it.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Well, I felt he should have left in.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Damn if you do, Damn if you don't.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
All right, thanks, thanks Chris, Thanks, Well, he was mad.
He took out Ocean. God forbid, the bullpen comes in
and shuts a game down like that, God forbid, It's
anything on the bullpen, But damn, Dave Roberts, us Christ, all.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Right, let's see, Jeremiah. Jeremiah, the team you're concerned about
is the Mets.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
Yeah, I'm concerned for the Mets. I feel like they
gave us the biggest challenge last year. Once we got
to their team. They added one Soto. If he catches fire,
if the whole team catches fire at the right time,
I just I am concerned. I feel like they could
give us their biggest run for their money.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, I appreciate the call, thanks so much.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
So.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
The deal is this about the Mets? I mean, given
the way they have played this year, this would be
the year you want to get them. I'll tell you that,
because they certainly haven't been as feared as everybody thought
they would be. But now when we get to the playoffs,
things could be different, could be different. And using your logic, Jeremiah,
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if it shook out the way it is and started tomorrow,
that's exactly who the Dodgers would open against the Mets.
All right, let's go to line seven, Line seven, Edgar
and Anaheim Edgar. You fear no one, is that correct.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Alry FREDI?
Speaker 12 (24:22):
Yeah, I don't think we just fear anybody.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
If our bullpen gets going and we're clicking.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
I don't think anybody can.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Beat us, and if we're not clicking, we can lose
to anybody.
Speaker 12 (24:32):
As simple as that.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, I think fear is the wrong word.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
To use, is to say to describe the Dodgers and
what they got to face. Maybe it is the team
that has a better chance to beat the Dodgers as
opposed to because I don't think the Dodger fear anybody.
So it's really about the team that could give the
Dodgers the most.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Trouble when the Dodgers are not playing well. Any team
can beat us, any team. I don't care if it's
the best team or the lowest team. Any team can
beat us. We're not clicking.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
That's absolutely fair, Absolutely fair. All right, thanks for the call,
appreciate it. We'll go down to Corona now, Henry, thank
you for holding. So you think the team that would
give the Dodgers the most troubles the Phillies.
Speaker 12 (25:18):
Right if I'm definitely looking at the Phillies that's waggered
that that that team has is just it's gonna be tough.
They kind of remind me somewhat of the you know,
the the Houston Astros. I hated Astros. But anyway, I
just think the Phillies just got a complete solid team,
and once they get Turner back and a couple other
guys back, I think it's just it's gonna be tough
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to kind of get past them, especially if we got
to go, uh, you know, back to Philly and they
got home filled advantage the way it's set up now.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
All right, appreciate the call that being said, And you're right,
when they get those two guys back, they're gonna be tougher.
I think the Dodgers did well against their pitching. To me,
that's it. I mean now, Dodgers starting pitching is where
it needs to be. So we've got that down. If
you can hit, I think they can really beat anybody
if they're hitting. So I know Philly's going to get stronger,
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but you got to be pretty damn strong to beat
the Dodger starting pitching.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Right now, let's go to line eight.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Felix is in San Diego, Felix, and your concern is
not the Padres, it's the Brewers.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
Right absolutely well here, Fred, right quick, I want to
thank you for making that Tanner uh Tanner Scott comment.
Last night. David gave me shade for a Saint verbatim,
exactly the comment you.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Just made, and you give me.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
He gave me a big ol' spiel about why why
why why? I'm my man, exactly what you just said.
I mean it. Last time, I said, look, I'm watching
the game, and my girlfriend says, and I quote, hey, man,
that ball, that bearded ball guy is about to get
into the game.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
She's not a Dodger fan.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
My cat started hissing at the TV and I'm cursing
at the television and I'm like, man, I can't believe
this guy's going in. And he basically tells me, well, obviously,
you know money talks, he's going to be in the postseason. Like, man,
I hope. I don't wish him. I don't wish him bad,
but I hope he's not in the postseason roster and that,
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and he gave me a big old spiel about it.
But I digress. First off, four o USC fight on
Rodney absolutely, and you know what, and I'll go back
with the previous caller. I don't fear anybody.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Last I checked, we have the crown.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
So with that said, I want the Madres and I
want the Brewers.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
The Brewers gave us.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
We're zero and six against them, but that's back in
July when the team started. I mean, we don't need
to go back to what happened that was back then.
This is now, back then July to what our lineup
is now. It's a different team. So I don't hear anybody,
but I do worry about the Brewers, and somehow, some way,
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I living down here, man, I hear it every freaking
that I want to go through the Madres or better yet,
I want the Madris to go through us.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Appreciate it. Thanks so much for the call on Felix.
He looks the cat.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I like it. Let's go to.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Well, all right here we got a new jersey, Mitch, Mitch,
come on, who are you concerned about?
Speaker 12 (28:31):
Mitch?
Speaker 13 (28:33):
Hello? Hello, A, how you guys doing.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We're fint Mitch? How Mitch?
Speaker 7 (28:37):
How are you happy to missus?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Pet?
Speaker 13 (28:41):
My biggest concern is the Phillies.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (28:44):
They have a great closer and they have three Hall
of Fame candidates and Turner Kyle Schweber and almost a
Dodger Harper Brice Hopper who's always a Dodger. That's my
biggest concern, and it's commical as you get to Matt
him money, even sending a car run.
Speaker 12 (29:04):
So okay, thanks, all.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Right, take care Mitch, take care? Why why why are
you doing that? You're doing that right?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Well?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
No, because Mitch made his point the Phillies. But then
he went to the Mets. And the thing about him
is we love Mitch. Nobody's saying we don't love him.
That could have been another forty minutes. You just don't know,
because Mitch goes on a stream of consciousness and just
keeps going. You know, he'll talk about the Mets, he'll
talk about his grandson. You know, he'll talk about a haircut.
You don't know what Mitch is going to say. So
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rather than risk it, I just thought, okay, you know,
Mitch made his point. I think they did all about
the service, and there's time to go. All right, do
we have time for one more? Should we do one more?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Because this is the person that nails it. When this
person speaks, we all listen. This is the voice of reason.
Here we go to Anaheim.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Hello, Isabelle, Hey, guys.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
How are you good?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Isabelle? How are you?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
I'm made good? Actually I'm coming from panting.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
But anyway, I.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Did to do it. We have even did them all year.
So but yeah, until until we leave this crown, I'm
I'm not even I dis one. I think one day
now think I did this jog? Did we leave it
to stop kicking better? I keep goes through different more
(30:32):
differently to be leave it me crazy you anyway, but yeah,
we're we'll see what happens weave the playoffs, so anyway,
but anyway, thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
All right, all right, thanks as well.
Speaker 14 (30:46):
Now let it go, good stuff, all right, right, goodbye, okay,
go Isabelle, goodbye, good job, good job is well.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But now we have two more. I mean normally Isabelle
is the dot on the exclamation point. He's the closer.
She's the closer. I'll tell you what. She's no Tanner Scott.
She comes in and she strikes people out.
Speaker 12 (31:12):
Remember Tim Conway used to have a bit where he
had it with like what did Jesse Jackson say?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Who might have one that says?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
What did Isabelle and Anaheim say?
Speaker 5 (31:18):
We might have to do that and give a prize
to whoever wins to see if they can deciphering.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I'm just saying this, Kevin, Okay, you said that, not me,
you said that I did.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, fine, I mean me and Isabel go way back.
We're cool, worry about it, okay, right, it's all in fun.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
All right, let's go Westlake Village.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
David David.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Oh, David, David's got concerns about all teams, right.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
David, Hey, thanks for taking my call. Friend Ronnie loved
the show Man. Yeah, I called Dodger talk all the time,
and and uh, David Vasse always cuts me off, so
I figured I'll try you guys. But yeah, I'm a
I'm a lifelong Dodger fan. Uh, but I am concerned
about every team. I've watched almost every game this year.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
David, Yeah, talk to me.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Why does vass cut you off all the time?
Speaker 8 (32:07):
I have too many great things to say, Fred, and
he just doesn't have enough time. I guess in the show,
I mean, how long realistic you're going to talk?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
If you have something great to say, why wouldn't he
hear it?
Speaker 8 (32:20):
You know, he he runs the show Man, he's the star,
so you know he doesn't want he doesn't want anyone
to steal his thunder.
Speaker 12 (32:27):
I guess I don't.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Know, is that what it is? Okay, just just wondering.
I mean, because you know, you sound like an intelligent guy.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
I'd like to think so. But I enjoy his show,
and I enjoy watching the games, and I enjoy your
show too. So yeah, look, this team this year, twenty
twenty five, they have a losing record with pretty much
every playoff team out there, and the way they play
(32:56):
fundamental baseball or the lack thereof a fundamental baseball this season,
they've got guys playing out of position in the outfield.
I mean last night actually was the perfect outfield situation.
But I guarantee you tonight it won't be that outfield.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
And that don't make them.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Don't make us bessa, don't make us bess.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Here's why. Here's why.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Because you said, well, the guys are playing out of position,
but the guys have been hurt all year. Now you're
starting to see what it's supposed to look like, right,
I mean it was kind of a man shift guys
out of position, No, but not for.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
The last couple of weeks. I mean, Edmund's been back
for more than a week, right, and yet he still
platoons him and and and Edmond should be in center
field every day, and Pahz and Tao should be in
the corner outfield every day from now on.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Good.
Speaker 8 (33:45):
But watch tonight tonight. Look at the starting lineup tonight.
You'll see Confordo in there.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Okay, Well, who's pitching for the Giants web Yep, you will,
You'll see Conforto. All right, Well, okay, David, thanks, appreciate it.
Andras and Norco you're gonna wrap it up. The team
that concerns you the most is.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
It's, yeah, the Phillies because of their lineups.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
I mean, they're proven, their veterans.
Speaker 11 (34:11):
I just I just think, I mean, that's the affilies.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
That has to be the affilies.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Everybody else is.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, all right, well off the road, all right, thanks
and yeah, appreciate it. Okay, undress is fine, you know,
just it's rough out there sometimes. Dodgers on the Giants
at the State in First Pitched seven. Listen to All
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Speaker 3 (35:10):
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Today's Throwback Thursday edition of Afternoon Delight is another one
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Speaker 1 (37:11):
By the way, who wants to see the Dodgers and Giants?
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Speaker 2 (37:17):
I got it. So these guys had.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
This ingenious idea, a way to make money if you
play golf and you don't join or you're not a
member of a club. And let's be honest, if you're
a member of a club, you got a lot of money.
Costs a lot of money to join a country club.
Majority of people do not belong to a country club,
so they play public courses and they're great.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Nothing wrong with it. Not all of them are great.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Well, okay, but they're great and most of them are
dog tracks.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Okay, well, so a lot of these people play these
dog tracks and nice and uh, you got to get
a tea time. Now, that's the hard thing in a
public course because there's far more people than aren't members
of clubs that like to play golf. You played the
public course. You got a fight to get a public
court a tea time at a public course. So these
(38:06):
two guys, twin brothers, had an idea, he said, well,
it's pretty smart. What they did is the minute tea
times opened, they went in and they tried to buy
all of them, everywhere as many as they could. All
the courses that had available tea times they paid for them.
(38:27):
So that would mean when you or I would log
on Rodney, we want to play De Belle and Burbank,
they don't.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Have any tea times. Huh.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Oh, look here's another site, these Gulf tea time brokers.
They might be able to get us at tea time.
And that's what they did. They went and they bought
all the tea times they could. Then when people couldn't
get them, they would go to this broker who just
happened to have them and They used social media platforms
(38:59):
like cokeo Talk, south Korea's leading messaging app, to advertise
their tea times and to communicate with buyers. They used
Venmo and Zell accounts to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So what they would do, they'd buy them. They'd be
a broker, you'd want to play, it'd be great. They'd
have the tea time and they just mark it up.
(39:22):
They'd mark it up. Sounds simple enough, sounds simple enough.
The problem is they made over a million dollars and
did not report any of it to the IRS, So
multiple counts of tax evasion and they're making of false
tax documents.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
You can't do that. And they also.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Are in trouble for grabbing the public tea times and
marking them up to make a profit. So you think
that's a pretty ingenious plan, but you can't do that. First,
if you try, you better report the income. But aside
from that, should you really be doing that? It was
(40:11):
very smart. It went on for like two years, but
then they finally got caught.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Rodney, Hmmm, I'm surprised the lasted two years. I'm wondering
if so their their their crime was not reporting their
income to the I R S. That was the crime.
That's what they got them for. Okay, so did they.
But they were successful in getting these tea times for
(40:39):
for these individuals or their clients at at places where
it was very difficult to get tea times. Is that
is that correct? Yes, that's what they did. Yeah, you
know it's Look, everybody wants convenient convenience, and you know
you want a guy. Everybody needs a guy, as we
(41:00):
always say. And man, I'm flying into Phoenix this weekend.
I'd love to play golf. Should I should not bring
my clubs? Oh, let's call the brothers up. They can
find us a tea time at a very good public
course in Phoenix. Sounds simple enough, because, like you said,
it's not easy to get on a private course unless
you know somebody at that private course. But you may
(41:23):
not know someone in Wyoming or you know, Idaho or Maine.
And these guys apparently would book all these tea times.
I'm sure they did their homework and research and book.
You know, summers in Maine is great to play golf.
Let's go gobble up all the tea times and we
advertise it and whenever.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
You're there, we got you.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
It's a pretty good idea.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Do you think there's anything wrong though with doing that?
You take the public tea times, you bought them, they're yours,
but then marking them up for profit, do you think
there's anything wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (42:05):
They're entrepreneur so not, you know, unless they're you know,
if somebody's willing to pay double for a tea time
and that's what they're charging double or triple because you
can't get a t time any anywhere else, you know,
it sounds like they they found a niche and worked
(42:25):
to their advantage and doing this now, I don't you
know morally do you you take advantage of people and
mark it up. But the people also don't have to
take the tea time either. They don't have to necessarily
go play golf. But if you're there for three days
and one of those days off, it's the first day
(42:46):
off you've had in seven months, and like, man, it
should be great to play golf on that day off. Oh,
I'm in the area and I can't even find a
course to go play. You call these guys up. They
just made your day for it.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
And if they had filed tax returns, they never would
have been in trouble. That's the best part doing what
you did. Oh, you know, it's not great, but okay,
there's nothing wrong with it. But you didn't find your
tax returns. Instead you bought a time share in Hawaii
and the government found that out.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
What no, no, no, no, no, no, that doesn't work.
We can't have that. Do you have a problem with them?
Speaker 3 (43:25):
What they did? You know, buying up these d times
like ticket brokers? Basically right, you know, you deavel up
all the tickets for a weekend series against the Giants,
and it's a tough ticket Dodgers' rival, both of them. Well,
Dodgers are in it and San Francisco's chasing to get
into the playoffs. So pretty pretty good atmosphere to be
a part of. But you can't find Dodger tickets. How
(43:47):
many people you think are willing to basically overpay for
tickets on a Saturday night to go see the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Many many people are willing to do that.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Yeah, I don't know. It just to me it's.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
A public golf course. I don't know. It's a brilliant idea.
Don't get me wrong, give them that, but I just
it doesn't it doesn't smell right to me. I'm not
thinking it's a bad idea, but it's like I I
it's a public Well.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
You think they're taking advantage of people, taking advantage of
the public a little bit, Yeah, I do, even if
the public is willing to pay.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Yeah, people don't have to buy it.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
No, they don't have to buy it, but then they
if they don't buy it, they don't play, and they
don't play because these guys bought it and are are
holding on to it for more than it's worth. It's
just it's a public golf course. That's the thing that
gets me. Dodgers are a business, so public golf courses.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
You know everybody can't afford to go to the Dodgers.
You know that some people save all season for one
game and then they go, oh right, And if you
get it on the secondhand market, it's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
But you know that's just the way you play it.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
This is the public golf course where if the greens
fees are thirty bucks and these guys are charging seventy, Yeah,
they get the markup. It's smart, but I don't know.
It just doesn't feel right to me, And I'm the
first guy to say, if you're smart and.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Can make money, you should do it. But this one
it just shouldn't market up. They shouldn't mark up the
price of the Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
I don't think they should. Now they make money doing
something else.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
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