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Episode Transcript
We're joined now by AM five to seventy LA sports
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reporter and host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse. Fresh off
covering the dodgers thrilling Game seven victory over the Blue
Jays that seals their ninth World Series championship, David's here
to break down how the boys in Blue pulled it
off and what fans can expect as LA gets ready
to celebrate big today. David, how did it feel to
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be there as the Dodgers won?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well? Heather obviously very thrilled for the Dodgers to be
able to pull off what many believe, including the players
that were involved in that game yesterday, the greatest Game
seven and certainly the most entertaining World Series we have
had in quite some time. Obviously sweeter with the Dodgers
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becoming the first team since the Yankees twenty five years
ago to repeat as champions and look, the city is
ready to celebrate. When we arrived at the airport yesterday,
the players were greeted by the fire department with a
water hose celebrating them. Fans somehow realized where they were
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landing and were there to greet them as they were
leaving the airport so everybody in Los Angeles we could
feel the energy. The team felt the energy as soon
as they touched down at Lax yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I was in my living room jumping up and down.
I would get I was getting up every five seconds,
wringing my hands together. I can only imagine the energy
that you felt there in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
From the Toronto fans heather before the game, there was
a nervous energy. And then once the Blue Jays took
the four to two lead, obviously they could smell it.
Two outs in the ninth inning, they really got loud.
Maybe the loudest environment I have ever experienced in my
fourteen years traveling with the Dodgers at Rogers Center last
night or in Game seven, and the Dodgers after the game,
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just I mean, there's so much elation that they were
able to not play their best but still find a
way to get veteran contributions from an unlikely hero in
Miguel Rojas, who has been a team leader and maybe
the quietest assassins in baseball. Will Smith, their catcher who
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did a great job catching every single inning of the
World Series and coming up with the biggest home run
of his life, and extra innings, So everybody was you know,
everybody talks about the salaries, the talent being around these guys,
nobody talks about their heart, how much they played through
pain and did it for every did it for each other,
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and played through a lot of injuries to be able
to get to the championships. So very very happy to
be able to document just what a team this is.
And we'll go down in Dodger history as the greatest team,
considering they're the only Dodger team ever to win back
to back World Series championships.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
So how would you describe then the moments right after
the game in the clubhouse as the champagne is spraying everywhere,
what was that moment?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Like? Yeah, so I was in there and Dave Roberts
gave a speech, saluted some of the guys, and everybody
knew it was Clayton Kershaw's last game in his major
league career and what a way to go out. So
Dave Roberts gave him the floor and Kershaw's not a
guy that likes to show his feelings or get too emotional,
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but he started to get choked up when he was
addressing the team and how much they meant to him,
and I mean everybody was singing the praises of Yoshinubu Yamamoto,
who did something unprecedented to pitch six innings in Game
six and come back and pitch three innings and extra
innings the very next day. I mean, that really was
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a microcosm of the team, how everybody would go to
great lengths to win this World Series championship.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now is AM five to seventy LA Sports Dodgers reporter
and host of Dodger Talk David Vasse, So let's talk
about the big parade today. I wish I could go
down there. I wish I was going to be there.
Are you going to be there?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I am. I'm going to be on one of the buses.
I'll be interviewing players from the bus I'm on for
Sports at LA and of course A five to seventy
LA Sports, and at nine am, I'll be co hosting
with Tim Kats Dodger Talk preview show from one of
the buses from nine am to eleven AM until my
connection goes out in downtown. So it's pretty spectacular. We
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did this last year and very very fortunate that the
Dodgers can bring back another championship. In consecutive years to
do it again.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
After this historic run. Are there any early signs of
what the off season could bring.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, so there are some decisions to be made. Keith
a Hernandez and Miguel Rojas are both free agents. The
Dodgers have to, you know, consider reconstructing their bullpen. It
was a bullpen that had one of the highest eras
in the last fifty years for a team to win
the World Series. So they do have to reconstruct that
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bullpen and decide whether or not they want to get
aggressive and add an outfielder to a group that maybe
needed a little bit more contact. So, yeah, there are
things to do. And you know, this is a veteran group.
Andrew Friedman, the president of Baseball Operations, is that it
has to take into account how to get younger to
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keep this thing going because they have a lot of
aging veteran.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This has been an incredible season to watch them play.
It's been full of like heartbreaking losses but also incredible wins.
Let's talk about you personally. What are you looking forward
to in the off season? Here are you going on vacation,
You're going to kick your feet up. What are you
going to be doing.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I'm just looking forward to spending time with my kids again.
They've been troopers throughout the postseason and the entire year.
Remember the Dodgers started the year in Tokyo and finished
it in Toronto. They had the longest season last two
years of any baseball team, and I've been with them
every step of the way and certainly blessed to have
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that opportunity. But obviously I missed my family and can't
wait to know just regroup with them during the off season.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well, it has been well earned and we have enjoyed
listening to your coverage all season long, and if everybody
head on over to AM five seventy LA Sports for
all of your Dodgers coverage. David, thank you so much.
Enjoy the parade today and enjoy spending time with your family.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Great talking to you, Heather, Thank you.
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