Dodgers reporter David Vassegh joins the show with standout stories and insider perspective on the newly crowned World Series champions. He breaks down which pitchers may return, including talk of SnellZilla and how the Padres missed their chance to keep him. The crew plays a round of “Dodgers: True or False” with Vassegh, and he closes by discussing the personal sacrifices that come with covering a team at this level.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I
watch Game seven of the World Series from start to finish,
and I still at the end of it am stunned
that the Dodgers won that game. And a guy that
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was there for every inning of every playoff game and
every regular season game, David Vasse. Hi you boff, Hey,
I'm doing great, Conway Man. So David Vasse comes in
and he's got somebody on his cell phone and it's
Snell Zilla.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's right, Blake Snell two time, two time.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I didn't know you was with them.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh yeah, we've been close for the last three years.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You gave him that nickname.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Uh no, I did not.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I thought you did.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But in LA I let Dodger fans know this was
the guy to get. And he carried the Dodgers with
Yamamoto through the first three rounds that's right, of the
World Series, and also pitched a biginning in the World
Series Game seven. So you know he's he's going to
come back bigger, better than ever next year too.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh that's sensa Sean, buddy. I still where were you
when this whole game was going on. Are you in
the dugout? Are you in the press booth?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was in the press box at Rogers Center, And
then in the eighth inning when it's getting close, you
got to go downstairs. So in case there's a Dodger win,
you can go out on the field to get the
player interviews that you see on sports and at LA
and here on AM five seventy. So I'm in the
camera well right next to the Dodger dugout. Wow, limited visibility,
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but I had a great view of Miguel Rojas's game
tying home run and Will Smith's go ahead home run
in the eleventh inning, which I feel is not getting
the love that it should, right because everybody's talking about
Rojas's home run, and Rojas is a more outgoing interview
than Will Smith. Will Smith is a great player, but
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he doesn't say much.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know, Will Smith wasn't really able to enjoy his
home run because there were two outs and he had
to quick or one out it was one or two.
I think it was two outs, so they had to
quickly come in and put his catch up here on
and get back out there.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's right, and you know that catch that Andy Pae
has made unbelievable. He came in during the pitching change
and he had his hoodie on the entire game. Dave
Roberts tells him, go in there. He rips his hoodie off. Wow,
and the ball finds him right away. Interesting enough. Deano Ebel,
the Dodgers third base coach and outfield coach, showed me
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the catch probability for Andy Paye has to make that
play and save the game at that point in time
was thirty six percent.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Is that right? What were the odds that Kik was
doing a Willie May's catch on that?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What do you think it was? I bet ten ninety
seven percent. Yes, he was going to catch it. Wow,
you right, play, he was going to catch it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I love how he sat there like he was injured,
but he wasn't injured. He was depressed because he thought
the Dodgers just lost the World Series exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He thought the ball dropped and they lost the World Series.
There were two, at least two times where the Dodgers
could have lost it. That play and then bases loaded.
There's a great play by Miguel Rojas and field in
ninth inning throws to Will Smith. It's a forced place,
so all he has to do is have his foot
on home plate. It comes off for us second.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I watch that over and over and over again. But
you know, both will Smith and Rojas were very instrumental
in the last couple of innings there.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
To get defensively and offensively.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Okay, let me ask you some David Assay is with us.
Can you stay with us for a while? I can? Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Good, Okay, I told my wife I'm not coming back
until ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Excellent, excellent, Okay, We're gonna go borrow some time then
from the seven PM show. But here's what I want
to ask you. I have never seen this before in
my life. You're close to the team than I am.
How did Yammoto pitch a full game and then even
get up in the morning the next day without, you know,
without a sling on his arm the way I understand? Well,
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before I start it, before I see the question, tell
us what you know about pitchers the day after they've pitched,
and what kind of pain they're in.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They are like they've been in a car crash. The
next day, that's how their body feels.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
They can't even lift their arm.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Especially consider this it's not April, it's not the first
day of the season. It's October. He's made thirty starts
and the playoffs are higher intensity, so it takes more
out of you. Not to mention he pitched back to
back complete games earlier in the postseason and the NLCS
against the Brewers and Game two of the World Series.
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Then he came back and pitched six innings in game
So it's the end of the year, right. But one
thing about Yamamoto and Oral herscheizer, who understands the pitching
mechanics better than I do, has said that he has
incredible mechanics where he's not putting a lot of stress
on his arm. He's using his lower half his legs
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to be able to bring and carry his arm forward,
and that's the only way that he would have been
able to bounce back and pitch Game seven in relief. Now,
the way I understand it is he has a personal trainer,
older gentleman revered in Japan. They call him sense YadA.
He's a guy that has coached up Yamamoto has been
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there to help with his pitching mechanics and routine. And
the way I understand it, in the Japanese culture, is
your last game of pitching the season, you do a
specific bow and you say thank you to your trainer.
In this case, sense YadA. Run Yamamoto after game six,
after he comes out of the game, goes to do
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this formal goodbye to his sense sense YadA. Sense YadA
did not accept it. Wow, he said, let's see how
you feel tomorrow. Wow, it would be a great inspiration
if you can be in the bullpen for your teammates.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
In a lot of ways, it was sense YadA that
convinced and made Yamamoto believe that he would at least
give it a try for Game seven. Yamamoto got word
to the Dodgers brass and that's when Dave Roberts and
the pitching coaches, the way it was told to me
by Mark prior to their pitching coach found out after
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Game six into the morning of Game seven that yes,
Yamamoto might be available to pitch. And I was told
before game seven. When I asked Dave Roberts, what do
you expect to get the last three outs without hesitation?
He said, Yama Moto, no way. He told me that
before before Game seven.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know, there's a great David vassays with us from
the La Dodgers. There's a great video that a guy
took who was in the stands, and he's showing the
you know, the entire ball park there up in Toronto,
and they's showing Then they also in the background there
they have the jumbo tron and the fans are cheering
because they're showing a Toronto player. And then they cut
to Yamamoto in the bullpen and everybody goes quiet because
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they hate him up there, because they just can't get
a hit off this guy. They just, I mean, it's
impossible to beat. This guy is Yammoo.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If Vin Scully was alive and calling that game the
what you described, he would go into his poetic way
and he would say, there he is Yoshinobo Yamamoto, public
enemy number one in Canada.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Interesting enough talk about public enemy number one. Rick Monday,
who's a big time listener, hit a big home run
in another Canadian city in Montreal nineteen eighty year.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I was watching.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He is still despised and he wore number sixteen. Will Smith,
who hit the game winning home run in the eleventh
inning for the Dodgers in Game seven of the World
Series in Canada in Toronto, Ontario. Where's number sixteen?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Wow? Is that right? Yes? Oh, that's great. I loved
when when the Dodgers flipped the double play and Freddy
throws his arms up and Joe Davis says, to beat
the champion, got to knock him out. Yeah, that's a
great line. It's a great line.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Joe Davis had a great World Series from what I
heard I was listening to. I was obviously listening to
Amshire seventy, but from going back and listening to his calls,
they were great. But here's something else being in that
camera well, with a ward of other reporters that were
going to go out on the field and Major League
Baseball officials. When Game six ended, Key Key Hernandez to
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Miguel Rojas game ending double play to double off Barger
at second, nobody moved onto the field. I said, double
play game over, Get out there. Nobody's that right. Nobody
could believe it. And when Mookie Betts turn an unassisted
double play to end game seven, nobody moved either. I said,
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that's a double play game over.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Wow. I heard that. Kershaw thought there was only two outs.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Kershaw told me the day of the parade we got
off the buses. He told me this as soon as
we got off the bus, and you connected with these guys.
Oh yeah, god, he told me, Dave. I never even
saw Isaiah Kana Fileffa get to third base. I had
no idea that he was there. Oh really, because I'm
locked in warming up in the bullpen. He was coming
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in for the next batter if the Dodgers don't get
a double play to end the game. He was coming
in to face Dalton varshow So, he was oblivious to
what was transpiring, unbelieved on that final play. So I
saw more of that final play than he did one
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You did. That's great? All right? Can you stay with us,
David Vaz say, is whether we're going to talk this
Game seven, the whole Dodgers season, probably for the hour.
I watch it almost every night when I go home,
I watch it last night. I don't go to bed
sometime till three o'clock. I fast forward through the commercials.
I watch every inning, and I put myself through the
misery of them, you know, going ahead and almost winning
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and the Dodgers pull it out. Sorry, it's a spoiler alert.
But I can't I still can't believe they won the
World Series.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I'm two outs away from losing it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's right, all right, Dave assays, Well, this is We're
live on KMFI.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's Coneway Show. David Vassay is with us from the
Los Angeles Dodgers Game seven, Back to back world chance,
that's right to back? Maybe back to back to back,
very possible, possible. Who's coming back for the Dodgers on
the pitching staff? Kershaw's done?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
My guy snell Zilla.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Snell Zilla who made like seven hundred million dollars this year.
He made a lot. How much did he make this.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
From a couple of different teams? Close to fifty million?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
How many teams are paying him?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Uh? At least two?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, so the Padres are paying him, yeah, and the
Dodgers and the Dodgers. Yeah, that's got to sting the Padres.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh yeah, they had a chance to keep him, and
they chose some guy named Joe Musk Musk Grove or
whatever his name is from elkoholone was he reliever? Is
he started starter and he's hurt. And uh, Jake Cronenworth.
They gave a guy, Jake Cronenworth's ninety million dollars, who's
you know, a punch and Judy hitter, and you know
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they let what.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Was that term mean? Punching juice?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It means he could barely get it out of the infield.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's a great term. I let me tell you what
I did on Game seven. It was it was raining here.
I told us already, and I'm gonna tell you again,
it's raining here. And I got nervous watching the game.
So I had to go and get my car and
listen to the radio. And I'm listening, and I drove
out to Valencia so I could listen to the game.
And I get to Valencia, I go into Walmart and
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I bought some crap for charity, because that's when everyone
was out of food and they needed food. And right
when I put that those cans of soup and beans
in my cart, I checked the score again and the
Dodgers scored a run. So now I say, okay, was
that the Monsey home run? It was no, it was
before that. It was before that, And and so they
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got close and then I put some more stuff in
the cart, and then that's when they got closer. And
they kept getting closer, and so I had to keep
piling up this cart. I owed like one hundred and
thirty two dollars when I left. It was horrible, but
I got in the cart and I drove home, and
I was on the on the five freeway right where
the one eighteen and the five meat and the one
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eighteen was right over my head, and I heard Rick
Monday and who's the other guy called Melson and Stephen Nelson.
I heard them say, oh, it's it's hit over key
K's head. I don't think he's going to get there,
you know. I don't think Pa is going to get there.
And I thought, okay, it's over, you know. They hit
it over this over the guy's it's done. And then
they both flipped out. He's caught. He's actually caught the ball.
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The Edning's overready, caught the ball. And I'm honking my
horn on the five freeway flipping out, and nobody else
is doing that. Everyone's just driving.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Probably the Dodger fans that were interested in that game
were at home watching it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You're right, okay, not.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Driving, couldn't do that. I could see a Walmart, so I.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Was So I drove back and I drove by the
station because I wanted to watch it with Kate's and
and who else was here that Coliny was here that night? Yeah,
And then so I pulled into the into the parking
area right here, and I get out of the car
and I go, I can't go up there because if
I go up there and the Dodgers lose Petros some
money for the next three months, will say they lost
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because of me. Yeah, And I'm I'm not going to
do that. You would have to wear that. So I
went home. I watched it with my wife and I
still can't believe they won.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
That kid, how did your wife react?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
She flipped out. You know, she's she's not she's a
semi sports fan, but she would watch for the World Series.
She was watching every game.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Tim, I could tell you this talking to people like
you and other fans. There are two moments in the
last I don't know ten years, fifteen years, where moments
that the Dodgers have had in these last two World
Series are moments that will live forever in people's families. Sure,
Game seven this past year and Freddie Freeman hitting his
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walk off grand Slam in Game one of last year's
World Series. Right, people have showed me videos of jumping
in the pool in their homes, buying their own champagne,
to have a champagne party outside in their backyard, having
moments with parents and grandparents and kids. I took my
ten year old for his annual checkup. The pediatrician would
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only talk about the Dodgers. He didn't care about whether
or not my son was doing well or not. He
was just wanting to tell me about him and his
kids coming back from college watching Game seven together. And
then we go home and my wife I asked my son,
how did it go. It's like they only talked about
the Dodge.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Oh that's classic. See, buddy, you you're flying too close
to the sun. You're with the team, and you know
I'm I'm sitting at home with the blue collar guys
at Walmart. That really means a lot to them, it does.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I can't believe you support Walmart.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I love Walmart. I'm a Low's fan depot. Last night
to the best.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You know that story you told me about driving because
you were too nervous watch on TV the last time
I heard a story like that was Jerry West. So
he was the GM of the Lakers Game seven or
Game six of the two thousand NBA Finals. He couldn't
be at the arena, so he drove around Los Angeles
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for the entire Game six of the two thousand NBA Finals,
the first Shack and Kobe Championship, because he was that
nervous and that you know he had Ah was that chick?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Hen That was Jerry West.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh, Jerry West. But Jerry was calling the game, calling
the game. Yeah, the simulcast was still on. Bellio is
probably producing that game probably there. Yeah, that's great, all right,
stay with us. I got a million more questions for you,
all right. David Assay was at every single playoff game.
He missed Halloween with his kids to be with that team.
That's right, that's the I hope that doesn't happen again.
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And I missed my mom's Ablazian procedure as well.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I did. I missed that one too. Yeah, I didn't
go to that either. All right, we're live on KFI.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (16:32):
David with the LA Dodgers is with us.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I heard back to back world champion Dodgers, back.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
To back world champion Dodgers, and when they get that ring,
they should give you one.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'll get a ring. I think.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I hope you do.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I got one last year. Good for you got.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I wouldn't say I deserve it. I didn't do anything.
I was just a lot of the right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You kept that locker room light, and you kept the players.
You know, you took their mind off the seriousness of
the game with your interactions with them. I think you're
a huge part of that team. Thank you. I also
let me tell you some things I heard. Can you
tell me whether they're right or wrong? Okay? I heard
the Yamamoto after he pitched in Game seven and he
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won the MVP Trophy. He was not kidding about not
being able to lift it over his head. He physically
couldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That's one hundred percent right. I saw after his press
conference in the bowels of Rogers Center in Toronto. He
came to give me a hug, and I gave him
a bear hug, and to the touch of his right arm,
it was tender, and he said, very tired I said, sorry,
I won't hug you. But he was good enough to
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go for the parade. He held up the trophies, so
he was feeling better by the parade.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Okay. I heard another rumor that when you flew to
Toronto for the first couple of games and also for
this game six and seven, the Canadian customs were a
holes to you.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That is false, okay, because the are very gracious during
the postseason. They allowed the coaches to bring their families,
front office to bring their families.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
A plus one.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, and nobody's telling anybody like, hey, only bring one
bag because we're going through customs. So it was unlimited bags.
There were wives, kids, nannies along with the working people there,
so it takes time to get those bags through customs.
It wasn't anybody messing with us, it was just the process.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
How many people went, oh.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I would say they were like at least three hundred
and fifty people on one plane.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
How many planes went? The players have their players only
plane where it's only players, and you're usually on that
during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I am not that changed at during the last year's playoffs,
where they wanted to be together and block out distractions.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So they carried that through into this year's regular season.
And so the players' wives and their kids and their
nannies were on the staff plane headed to Toronto for
games one and two.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Is Rick Monday on that plane?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He was not on that first one. He was on
a staff another staff plane.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Okay, does is Dave Roberts allowed to travel with the
team with the players? No, he was on my plane.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Play managers and coaches are on my on the staff plane.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Is that? Yes? Wait a minute, there's when the players are.
It's only player players only, really players only. Wow. And
that's the right idea.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yes, if you can afford it, and the Dodgers can.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
What an insult to Dave Roberts though he's not a player,
I know, but he's the main I agree. Joe Davis
caught some crap about being in that parade, true or false?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
True from a national radio host and personality, Chris mad
Dog Russo, who is a very vocal Joe Davis critic
in general. Why just not his cup of tea? He mus,
Joe Davis is great. Joe Davis is not from New York.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
He was jealous that Joe Davis was doing the play
by play.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Maybe I don't think that's his aspiration. But I can
understand from the national perspective, because Vince Scully was never
that involved in Dodger parades, I can understand his point
of view. But I thought he went way overboard criticizing Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I know Shanks who runs Eric Shanks, Eric Shanks who
runs and Fox Sports, and he picked Joe Davis to
do those games. That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Is it Shanks or Brad Zaeger?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I think, well, Brad Zeiger's was hired by Shanks, got you.
I think I don't know the hierarchy. I just know
that Shanks is my buddy and nobody is above him
on score.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Okay, but don't you think optic wise you can understand
people in Toronto and across the country day after Game seven,
where you're playing it down the middle, you're out there
on the stage with the Dodgers. I can understand it,
But I thought Mad Dog went way overboard with the criticism.
It means nothing to what took place on the field,
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and Joe did a great job calling it down the middle.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Mad Doctor, whoa all right. Rojas's first home run off
of Righty was the Game seven of the World Series.
That's right, that's incredible, Slider.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I don't know why he would throw him a pitch
that wasn't ninety five plus because Rojas would not have
been able to hit a home run off of ninety
five fastball.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
He should have gotten with the fastball, should.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Have gone with the fastball. Made a huge miss bent over,
huge mistake, all right, But that's why he's Jeff Hoffman.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So the Olsen twins who are very popular in Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang or what was the show whas? And
they have a sister, Elizabeth, who's in love with you
and talks about you constantly. She went on Jimmy Kimmel
and talked about.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
You, yes, but backstage, and then she went on stage
with Seth Myers Wow and talked about me. Got my
last name wrong, she pronounced it wrong, but she could
call me whatever she wants. I'm a big fan of
Elizabeth Olsen. I bet you are, and I bet your's
on my radar. Now, if your wife is listening, it's
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going to be a quiet night. It might be the
last Thanksgiving with my wife.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Now, yeah, you're gonna move on with a listener, you know,
and tell the kids.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Hey, TMZ might see us outside of Craigs or nobu.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Were you at Mookie Bets had a party after the
World Series? Were you there? I was? Were you there
when Freddie Freeman did the worm?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I was, but I didn't videotape it, and I thought
it was out of turn for anybody to put it
out there. It turned out it was Mookie Bets's TikTok
that day. So that's and Freddy did the worm at
a wedding over the weekend for former Dodger Gavin Lux. Okay,
Lux had a wedding here in La Freddie was invited
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and Lux encouraged him to do the worm again.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Where is Lux now? Is he a Philly or who's
hei Cincinnati? Okay, So that's the second time that people
are either making fun of or videotaping Freddie Freeman for
his crazy dancing. Yes. The first time was at Max
Monsey's house in Texas.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's where it originated. And then it got taken to
the Dodgers Foundation gala where he was doing it was
with a performer on stage. Okay, all right, So he
took it from a kids party to a public place
and that's the celebration they do at second base.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, I am thrilled whenever I see an interview now
with Scherzer and watching him cry that he didn't win
the World Series.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So great because Max suers aer.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Stript over the Dodgers tapped out.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
And pitching Game six of the NLCS in twenty twenty
one and pointed to Walker Buehler that he should be
the guy.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah. Yeah, and that cost him the World Series.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It cost him a chance to advance to the World Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And he was worried about free agency the next.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's right, Yeah, and he cared more about that. Very
selfish guy hired gun. They knew what they were getting into.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So when you guys move come back, I want to
talk about the after the World Series. You guys win
the World Series, the Dodgers do back to back World Series,
and then I want to know where the party goes
that night. All right, let's talk about the party that
all right, and then you guys don't fly home until
the next day. Yes, you must have been hungover as hell.
We'll save that for later. Okay, all right, it's Convoy show.
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David Vassay is with us with the La Dodgers. Back
to back World champs.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
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Speaker 1 (24:40):
David Vassa is with us. He was with the Dodgers
for every game of the playoffs into the World Series.
Dodgers are back to back World Series champs. And you
missed Halloween with your kids, that's a big deal for you.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I did. And the day before Game one of the
World Series, my mom had a hard oblation procedure that
she had scheduled two months before. I couldn't really say, hey, mom,
would you mind postponing that after the World Series. So
luckily my brother came out from Boston and was there
for her.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
So your dad, your mom had heart surgery, You go
to Cedars. Uh? No, she was at Northridge. A gambler.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What would the what were the odds she was coming
out of.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That probably, I don't know. Northridge is pretty good. It's
pretty good hospital. Yeah, hospital, but there's a I mean,
if you're talking about heart surgery, you really want.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It wasn't surgery. It was an Ablazian procedure.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
They're opening her up and taking you know, they're trying
to prevent a clot from No. No, it was aphib
all right, that's clop. Yeah, so she it's uh at
Cedars or you want to go to Saint Joe's or
Cedars for that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So you're saying I should take her to Vegas now
because she survived.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's exactly right. Okay. Who are you close with with
the LA Dodgers. Well, like when you came in today,
you were on the phone with Snell Zilla.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, Blake Snell is my number one guy. Players used
to get mad that I went to go talk to
him when he was on other teams.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I was right.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I would go to the opponent's dugout where he would
be waiting for me, and as I was walking back,
they would be screaming at me vulgarities and profanities. Why
I would be talking to him.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You mus been thrilled that he came to the Dodgers.
Oh thrilled? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I mean I don't want to take full credit, but
I was. I was very vocal about good for you,
the Dodgers signing him, or should sign him. I was
just at Justin Turner's ninth Annual golf Tournament. Still tight
with JT. He does great things with the Dream Center
here in LA. Even though he hasn't played for them,
and he's going to retire out here. He told me
he would sign a one day contract to retire with
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the Dodger, but he's going to play this year. But
as far as guys on this team looked, tim, it's
a bittersweet. I spent every day of the last fourteen
years with Clayton Kershaw, who's going to the Hall of
Fame fourteen the last fourteen years, every day of the
baseball Yeah, that's to be different.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
And I believe this is right. You met your wife
through Kershaw that tests was going to the first game,
and you went to the same game. That's where you
guys started going out.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
We were both at his major league debut back on
that June afternoon in two thousand and eight. I met
her here in the hallways, told her I'm going to
be at the game she was coming to. We met
at the stadium club and that's where we set our
first date. And now have two beautiful kids, been married
since twenty eleven, and now that Elizabeth Olsen's in my life,
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it's coming to an end.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Buddy. I hope you don't. I hope you can deal
with this insult. But you married way over your head. Yeah,
no doubt, like a billion light years. I'm going to
divorce over my head too. You probably should. I heard
after the Game seven that all these you know, Toronto
fans were leaving the stadium, and then they had to
deal with the subway shuts down at midnight, so they
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all had to get ubers.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It was crazy too, it was barely forty degrees freezing
rain coming down.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Buddy, they've had to be so pissed. Where did the
Dodgers party that night? Because I know they didn't come
home till the next day.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
No, I mean, you have to understand a lot of
these Dodgers are They're very home. They've been attached to
their significant others. A lot of them are married with kids.
So they all just went back to the hotel. The bar.
Hotel bar was open until two am. They did not
keep it open later for them.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
That's horrible, I know, right, keep it open because they
didn't get back to the hotel Broun at one o'clock. Yeah,
keep it open. What time did you get back to
the hotel after game set? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
See, I tried to explain this to you. I was
completely sober because by the time I got an uber
back to the team hotel.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It was one thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I was still soaked in champagne, had to shower By
the time I do all that I had to pack
for the plane ride back. It's two thirty in the morning.
But I did watch the replays of the World Series
until three thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Bat, that's great. I mean, to be so close to
that is so awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, here's the thing. I'm from LA born and raised
in La.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Right, and Dodger fan, your whole life, whole.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Life Dodgers Lakers. And never in my wildest imaginations would
I think listening to Dodger games, calling into Dodger Talk.
Would I be hosting Dodger Talk, traveling with the team
that has just won back to back World Series championships.
That just seemed so far something inconceivable back then.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
How old were you when you first called into Dodger
Talk on KBC.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It was probably nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Okay, so you're like, what ten? Yeah, I was the
same age. I was like nine or ten? Yeahah, sure,
And I called I would call kbcah and talk to
Steve Edwards. It wasn't Steve Edwards, who is the guy
that gave up the home run to Hank Aaron down
Al Downing was hosted.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It was not very nice, people think. I mean, Al
Downing was extremely mean.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I would call Dodger Talk and they answered, you know,
KB snaking out And I said, yeah, I would like
talk to deal Downing and they would say, don't bring
up Hank Aaron's home run. Yeah, and they would they'd
say the first thing to do, Hey, how about that
pancake he gave up the Henk Garrett and he would
start swearing, you mother, I love Max Monday. Is he
coming back?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Max Munsey had his contract picked up for next year. Yeah,
Max Munsey will be back next year.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Somebody who called into Dodger Talk drunk gave him the
nickname Max Monty.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
They were so locked in on Max Munsey they called
him Max Monday.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Uh. Kershaw was gonna be gone, but I think he's
going to every time he goes to Dodger Stadium. It
was gonna be a standing ovation for that guy.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Do you believe he deserves a statue?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Only two players have a statue at Dodger Stadium, Jackie
Robinson and Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh really, oh, then he does not.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, I mean that's that's an incredible company.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, he's not done.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I mean Fernando doesn't even have a statue. I love
the guy, but Fernando should have a statue.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
First. Does Vinny have a statue? No? Oh, he never
wanted one. Oh I see, okay, but they he I
think he deserves one.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
In Philadelphia there broadcaster legendary Harry Kallis has a statue.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, Harry carry has one.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Too, outside of Wrigley.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
That's right. Yeah, buddy, I appreciate you coming on your
giant style. You came all the way in just to
do this. Yes, wow, of course, buddy, you're the best.
Thank you for go Dodgers. I love the shirt and
we'll see you for round three.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Do you need some gear?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yes, I need a lot of I need everything. All right,
I'll bring you some gear. Okay, all right, David, best buddy.
I really appreciate you. The greatest guy, and we have
in this station thing gong with you. I were live
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It's camp I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I
watch Game seven of the World Series from start to finish,
and I still at the end of it am stunned
that the Dodgers won that game. And a guy that
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was there for every inning of every playoff game and
every regular season game, David Vasse. Hi you boff, Hey,
I'm doing great, Conway Man. So David Vasse comes in
and he's got somebody on his cell phone and it's
Snell Zilla.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's right, Blake Snell two time, two time.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I didn't know you was with them.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh yeah, we've been close for the last three years.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You gave him that nickname.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Uh no, I did not.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I thought you did.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But in LA I let Dodger fans know this was
the guy to get. And he carried the Dodgers with
Yamamoto through the first three rounds that's right, of the
World Series, and also pitched a biginning in the World
Series Game seven. So you know he's he's going to
come back bigger, better than ever next year too.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh that's sensa Sean, buddy. I still where were you
when this whole game was going on. Are you in
the dugout? Are you in the press booth?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was in the press box at Rogers Center, And
then in the eighth inning when it's getting close, you
got to go downstairs. So in case there's a Dodger win,
you can go out on the field to get the
player interviews that you see on sports and at LA
and here on AM five seventy. So I'm in the
camera well right next to the Dodger dugout. Wow, limited visibility,
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but I had a great view of Miguel Rojas's game
tying home run and Will Smith's go ahead home run
in the eleventh inning, which I feel is not getting
the love that it should, right because everybody's talking about
Rojas's home run, and Rojas is a more outgoing interview
than Will Smith. Will Smith is a great player, but
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he doesn't say much.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know, Will Smith wasn't really able to enjoy his
home run because there were two outs and he had
to quick or one out it was one or two.
I think it was two outs, so they had to
quickly come in and put his catch up here on
and get back out there.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's right, and you know that catch that Andy Pae
has made unbelievable. He came in during the pitching change
and he had his hoodie on the entire game. Dave
Roberts tells him, go in there. He rips his hoodie off. Wow,
and the ball finds him right away. Interesting enough. Deano Ebel,
the Dodgers third base coach and outfield coach, showed me
(02:30):
the catch probability for Andy Paye has to make that
play and save the game at that point in time
was thirty six percent.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Is that right? What were the odds that Kik was
doing a Willie May's catch on that?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What do you think it was? I bet ten ninety
seven percent. Yes, he was going to catch it. Wow,
you right, play, he was going to catch it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I love how he sat there like he was injured,
but he wasn't injured. He was depressed because he thought
the Dodgers just lost the World Series exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He thought the ball dropped and they lost the World Series.
There were two, at least two times where the Dodgers
could have lost it. That play and then bases loaded.
There's a great play by Miguel Rojas and field in
ninth inning throws to Will Smith. It's a forced place,
so all he has to do is have his foot
on home plate. It comes off for us second.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I watch that over and over and over again. But
you know, both will Smith and Rojas were very instrumental
in the last couple of innings there.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
To get defensively and offensively.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Okay, let me ask you some David Assay is with us.
Can you stay with us for a while? I can? Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Good, Okay, I told my wife I'm not coming back
until ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Excellent, excellent, Okay, We're gonna go borrow some time then
from the seven PM show. But here's what I want
to ask you. I have never seen this before in
my life. You're close to the team than I am.
How did Yammoto pitch a full game and then even
get up in the morning the next day without, you know,
without a sling on his arm the way I understand? Well,
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before I start it, before I see the question, tell
us what you know about pitchers the day after they've pitched,
and what kind of pain they're in.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They are like they've been in a car crash. The
next day, that's how their body feels.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
They can't even lift their arm.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Especially consider this it's not April, it's not the first
day of the season. It's October. He's made thirty starts
and the playoffs are higher intensity, so it takes more
out of you. Not to mention he pitched back to
back complete games earlier in the postseason and the NLCS
against the Brewers and Game two of the World Series.
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Then he came back and pitched six innings in game
So it's the end of the year, right. But one
thing about Yamamoto and Oral herscheizer, who understands the pitching
mechanics better than I do, has said that he has
incredible mechanics where he's not putting a lot of stress
on his arm. He's using his lower half his legs
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to be able to bring and carry his arm forward,
and that's the only way that he would have been
able to bounce back and pitch Game seven in relief. Now,
the way I understand it is he has a personal trainer,
older gentleman revered in Japan. They call him sense YadA.
He's a guy that has coached up Yamamoto has been
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there to help with his pitching mechanics and routine. And
the way I understand it, in the Japanese culture, is
your last game of pitching the season, you do a
specific bow and you say thank you to your trainer.
In this case, sense YadA. Run Yamamoto after game six,
after he comes out of the game, goes to do
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this formal goodbye to his sense sense YadA. Sense YadA
did not accept it. Wow, he said, let's see how
you feel tomorrow. Wow, it would be a great inspiration
if you can be in the bullpen for your teammates.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
In a lot of ways, it was sense YadA that
convinced and made Yamamoto believe that he would at least
give it a try for Game seven. Yamamoto got word
to the Dodgers brass and that's when Dave Roberts and
the pitching coaches, the way it was told to me
by Mark prior to their pitching coach found out after
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Game six into the morning of Game seven that yes,
Yamamoto might be available to pitch. And I was told
before game seven. When I asked Dave Roberts, what do
you expect to get the last three outs without hesitation?
He said, Yama Moto, no way. He told me that
before before Game seven.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know, there's a great David vassays with us from
the La Dodgers. There's a great video that a guy
took who was in the stands, and he's showing the
you know, the entire ball park there up in Toronto,
and they's showing Then they also in the background there
they have the jumbo tron and the fans are cheering
because they're showing a Toronto player. And then they cut
to Yamamoto in the bullpen and everybody goes quiet because
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they hate him up there, because they just can't get
a hit off this guy. They just, I mean, it's
impossible to beat. This guy is Yammoo.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If Vin Scully was alive and calling that game the
what you described, he would go into his poetic way
and he would say, there he is Yoshinobo Yamamoto, public
enemy number one in Canada.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Interesting enough talk about public enemy number one. Rick Monday,
who's a big time listener, hit a big home run
in another Canadian city in Montreal nineteen eighty year.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I was watching.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He is still despised and he wore number sixteen. Will Smith,
who hit the game winning home run in the eleventh
inning for the Dodgers in Game seven of the World
Series in Canada in Toronto, Ontario. Where's number sixteen?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Wow? Is that right? Yes? Oh, that's great. I loved
when when the Dodgers flipped the double play and Freddy
throws his arms up and Joe Davis says, to beat
the champion, got to knock him out. Yeah, that's a
great line. It's a great line.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Joe Davis had a great World Series from what I
heard I was listening to. I was obviously listening to
Amshire seventy, but from going back and listening to his calls,
they were great. But here's something else being in that
camera well, with a ward of other reporters that were
going to go out on the field and Major League
Baseball officials. When Game six ended, Key Key Hernandez to
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Miguel Rojas game ending double play to double off Barger
at second, nobody moved onto the field. I said, double
play game over, Get out there. Nobody's that right. Nobody
could believe it. And when Mookie Betts turn an unassisted
double play to end game seven, nobody moved either. I said,
(09:07):
that's a double play game over.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Wow. I heard that. Kershaw thought there was only two outs.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Kershaw told me the day of the parade we got
off the buses. He told me this as soon as
we got off the bus, and you connected with these guys.
Oh yeah, god, he told me, Dave. I never even
saw Isaiah Kana Fileffa get to third base. I had
no idea that he was there. Oh really, because I'm
locked in warming up in the bullpen. He was coming
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in for the next batter if the Dodgers don't get
a double play to end the game. He was coming
in to face Dalton varshow So, he was oblivious to
what was transpiring, unbelieved on that final play. So I
saw more of that final play than he did one
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You did. That's great? All right? Can you stay with us,
David Vaz say, is whether we're going to talk this
Game seven, the whole Dodgers season, probably for the hour.
I watch it almost every night when I go home,
I watch it last night. I don't go to bed
sometime till three o'clock. I fast forward through the commercials.
I watch every inning, and I put myself through the
misery of them, you know, going ahead and almost winning
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and the Dodgers pull it out. Sorry, it's a spoiler alert.
But I can't I still can't believe they won the
World Series.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I'm two outs away from losing it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's right, all right, Dave assays, Well, this is We're
live on KMFI.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's Coneway Show. David Vassay is with us from the
Los Angeles Dodgers Game seven, Back to back world chance,
that's right to back? Maybe back to back to back,
very possible, possible. Who's coming back for the Dodgers on
the pitching staff? Kershaw's done?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
My guy snell Zilla.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Snell Zilla who made like seven hundred million dollars this year.
He made a lot. How much did he make this.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
From a couple of different teams? Close to fifty million?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
How many teams are paying him?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Uh? At least two?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, so the Padres are paying him, yeah, and the
Dodgers and the Dodgers. Yeah, that's got to sting the Padres.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh yeah, they had a chance to keep him, and
they chose some guy named Joe Musk Musk Grove or
whatever his name is from elkoholone was he reliever? Is
he started starter and he's hurt. And uh, Jake Cronenworth.
They gave a guy, Jake Cronenworth's ninety million dollars, who's
you know, a punch and Judy hitter, and you know
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they let what.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Was that term mean? Punching juice?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It means he could barely get it out of the infield.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's a great term. I let me tell you what
I did on Game seven. It was it was raining here.
I told us already, and I'm gonna tell you again,
it's raining here. And I got nervous watching the game.
So I had to go and get my car and
listen to the radio. And I'm listening, and I drove
out to Valencia so I could listen to the game.
And I get to Valencia, I go into Walmart and
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I bought some crap for charity, because that's when everyone
was out of food and they needed food. And right
when I put that those cans of soup and beans
in my cart, I checked the score again and the
Dodgers scored a run. So now I say, okay, was
that the Monsey home run? It was no, it was
before that. It was before that, And and so they
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got close and then I put some more stuff in
the cart, and then that's when they got closer. And
they kept getting closer, and so I had to keep
piling up this cart. I owed like one hundred and
thirty two dollars when I left. It was horrible, but
I got in the cart and I drove home, and
I was on the on the five freeway right where
the one eighteen and the five meat and the one
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eighteen was right over my head, and I heard Rick
Monday and who's the other guy called Melson and Stephen Nelson.
I heard them say, oh, it's it's hit over key
K's head. I don't think he's going to get there,
you know. I don't think Pa is going to get there.
And I thought, okay, it's over, you know. They hit
it over this over the guy's it's done. And then
they both flipped out. He's caught. He's actually caught the ball.
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The Edning's overready, caught the ball. And I'm honking my
horn on the five freeway flipping out, and nobody else
is doing that. Everyone's just driving.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Probably the Dodger fans that were interested in that game
were at home watching it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You're right, okay, not.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Driving, couldn't do that. I could see a Walmart, so I.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Was So I drove back and I drove by the
station because I wanted to watch it with Kate's and
and who else was here that Coliny was here that night? Yeah,
And then so I pulled into the into the parking
area right here, and I get out of the car
and I go, I can't go up there because if
I go up there and the Dodgers lose Petros some
money for the next three months, will say they lost
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because of me. Yeah, And I'm I'm not going to
do that. You would have to wear that. So I
went home. I watched it with my wife and I
still can't believe they won.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
That kid, how did your wife react?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
She flipped out. You know, she's she's not she's a
semi sports fan, but she would watch for the World Series.
She was watching every game.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Tim, I could tell you this talking to people like
you and other fans. There are two moments in the
last I don't know ten years, fifteen years, where moments
that the Dodgers have had in these last two World
Series are moments that will live forever in people's families. Sure,
Game seven this past year and Freddie Freeman hitting his
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walk off grand Slam in Game one of last year's
World Series. Right, people have showed me videos of jumping
in the pool in their homes, buying their own champagne,
to have a champagne party outside in their backyard, having
moments with parents and grandparents and kids. I took my
ten year old for his annual checkup. The pediatrician would
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only talk about the Dodgers. He didn't care about whether
or not my son was doing well or not. He
was just wanting to tell me about him and his
kids coming back from college watching Game seven together. And
then we go home and my wife I asked my son,
how did it go. It's like they only talked about
the Dodge.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Oh that's classic. See, buddy, you you're flying too close
to the sun. You're with the team, and you know
I'm I'm sitting at home with the blue collar guys
at Walmart. That really means a lot to them, it does.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I can't believe you support Walmart.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I love Walmart. I'm a Low's fan depot. Last night
to the best.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You know that story you told me about driving because
you were too nervous watch on TV the last time
I heard a story like that was Jerry West. So
he was the GM of the Lakers Game seven or
Game six of the two thousand NBA Finals. He couldn't
be at the arena, so he drove around Los Angeles
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for the entire Game six of the two thousand NBA Finals,
the first Shack and Kobe Championship, because he was that
nervous and that you know he had Ah was that chick?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Hen That was Jerry West.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh, Jerry West. But Jerry was calling the game, calling
the game. Yeah, the simulcast was still on. Bellio is
probably producing that game probably there. Yeah, that's great, all right,
stay with us. I got a million more questions for you,
all right. David Assay was at every single playoff game.
He missed Halloween with his kids to be with that team.
That's right, that's the I hope that doesn't happen again.
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And I missed my mom's Ablazian procedure as well.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I did. I missed that one too. Yeah, I didn't
go to that either. All right, we're live on KFI.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
David with the LA Dodgers is with us.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I heard back to back world champion Dodgers, back.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
To back world champion Dodgers, and when they get that ring,
they should give you one.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'll get a ring. I think.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I hope you do.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I got one last year. Good for you got.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I wouldn't say I deserve it. I didn't do anything.
I was just a lot of the right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You kept that locker room light, and you kept the players.
You know, you took their mind off the seriousness of
the game with your interactions with them. I think you're
a huge part of that team. Thank you. I also
let me tell you some things I heard. Can you
tell me whether they're right or wrong? Okay? I heard
the Yamamoto after he pitched in Game seven and he
(17:13):
won the MVP Trophy. He was not kidding about not
being able to lift it over his head. He physically
couldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That's one hundred percent right. I saw after his press
conference in the bowels of Rogers Center in Toronto. He
came to give me a hug, and I gave him
a bear hug, and to the touch of his right arm,
it was tender, and he said, very tired I said, sorry,
I won't hug you. But he was good enough to
(17:42):
go for the parade. He held up the trophies, so
he was feeling better by the parade.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Okay. I heard another rumor that when you flew to
Toronto for the first couple of games and also for
this game six and seven, the Canadian customs were a
holes to you.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That is false, okay, because the are very gracious during
the postseason. They allowed the coaches to bring their families,
front office to bring their families.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
A plus one.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, and nobody's telling anybody like, hey, only bring one
bag because we're going through customs. So it was unlimited bags.
There were wives, kids, nannies along with the working people there,
so it takes time to get those bags through customs.
It wasn't anybody messing with us, it was just the process.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
How many people went, oh.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I would say they were like at least three hundred
and fifty people on one plane.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
How many planes went? The players have their players only
plane where it's only players, and you're usually on that
during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I am not that changed at during the last year's playoffs,
where they wanted to be together and block out distractions.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So they carried that through into this year's regular season.
And so the players' wives and their kids and their
nannies were on the staff plane headed to Toronto for
games one and two.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Is Rick Monday on that plane?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He was not on that first one. He was on
a staff another staff plane.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Okay, does is Dave Roberts allowed to travel with the
team with the players? No, he was on my plane.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Play managers and coaches are on my on the staff plane.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Is that? Yes? Wait a minute, there's when the players are.
It's only player players only, really players only. Wow. And
that's the right idea.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yes, if you can afford it, and the Dodgers can.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
What an insult to Dave Roberts though he's not a player,
I know, but he's the main I agree. Joe Davis
caught some crap about being in that parade, true or false?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
True from a national radio host and personality, Chris mad
Dog Russo, who is a very vocal Joe Davis critic
in general. Why just not his cup of tea? He mus,
Joe Davis is great. Joe Davis is not from New York.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
He was jealous that Joe Davis was doing the play
by play.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Maybe I don't think that's his aspiration. But I can
understand from the national perspective, because Vince Scully was never
that involved in Dodger parades, I can understand his point
of view. But I thought he went way overboard criticizing Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I know Shanks who runs Eric Shanks, Eric Shanks who
runs and Fox Sports, and he picked Joe Davis to
do those games. That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Is it Shanks or Brad Zaeger?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I think, well, Brad Zeiger's was hired by Shanks, got you.
I think I don't know the hierarchy. I just know
that Shanks is my buddy and nobody is above him
on score.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Okay, but don't you think optic wise you can understand
people in Toronto and across the country day after Game seven,
where you're playing it down the middle, you're out there
on the stage with the Dodgers. I can understand it,
But I thought Mad Dog went way overboard with the criticism.
It means nothing to what took place on the field,
(21:04):
and Joe did a great job calling it down the middle.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Mad Doctor, whoa all right. Rojas's first home run off
of Righty was the Game seven of the World Series.
That's right, that's incredible, Slider.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I don't know why he would throw him a pitch
that wasn't ninety five plus because Rojas would not have
been able to hit a home run off of ninety
five fastball.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
He should have gotten with the fastball, should.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Have gone with the fastball. Made a huge miss bent over,
huge mistake, all right, But that's why he's Jeff Hoffman.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So the Olsen twins who are very popular in Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang or what was the show whas? And
they have a sister, Elizabeth, who's in love with you
and talks about you constantly. She went on Jimmy Kimmel
and talked about.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
You, yes, but backstage, and then she went on stage
with Seth Myers Wow and talked about me. Got my
last name wrong, she pronounced it wrong, but she could
call me whatever she wants. I'm a big fan of
Elizabeth Olsen. I bet you are, and I bet your's
on my radar. Now, if your wife is listening, it's
(22:13):
going to be a quiet night. It might be the
last Thanksgiving with my wife.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Now, yeah, you're gonna move on with a listener, you know,
and tell the kids.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Hey, TMZ might see us outside of Craigs or nobu.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Were you at Mookie Bets had a party after the
World Series? Were you there? I was? Were you there
when Freddie Freeman did the worm?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I was, but I didn't videotape it, and I thought
it was out of turn for anybody to put it
out there. It turned out it was Mookie Bets's TikTok
that day. So that's and Freddy did the worm at
a wedding over the weekend for former Dodger Gavin Lux. Okay,
Lux had a wedding here in La Freddie was invited
(22:53):
and Lux encouraged him to do the worm again.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Where is Lux now? Is he a Philly or who's
hei Cincinnati? Okay, So that's the second time that people
are either making fun of or videotaping Freddie Freeman for
his crazy dancing. Yes. The first time was at Max
Monsey's house in Texas.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's where it originated. And then it got taken to
the Dodgers Foundation gala where he was doing it was
with a performer on stage. Okay, all right, So he
took it from a kids party to a public place
and that's the celebration they do at second base.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, I am thrilled whenever I see an interview now
with Scherzer and watching him cry that he didn't win
the World Series.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So great because Max suers aer.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Stript over the Dodgers tapped out.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
And pitching Game six of the NLCS in twenty twenty
one and pointed to Walker Buehler that he should be
the guy.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah. Yeah, and that cost him the World Series.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It cost him a chance to advance to the World Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And he was worried about free agency the next.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's right, Yeah, and he cared more about that. Very
selfish guy hired gun. They knew what they were getting into.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So when you guys move come back, I want to
talk about the after the World Series. You guys win
the World Series, the Dodgers do back to back World Series,
and then I want to know where the party goes
that night. All right, let's talk about the party that
all right, and then you guys don't fly home until
the next day. Yes, you must have been hungover as hell.
We'll save that for later. Okay, all right, it's Convoy show.
(24:26):
David Vassay is with us with the La Dodgers. Back
to back World champs.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
David Vassa is with us. He was with the Dodgers
for every game of the playoffs into the World Series.
Dodgers are back to back World Series champs. And you
missed Halloween with your kids, that's a big deal for you.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I did. And the day before Game one of the
World Series, my mom had a hard oblation procedure that
she had scheduled two months before. I couldn't really say, hey, mom,
would you mind postponing that after the World Series. So
luckily my brother came out from Boston and was there
for her.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
So your dad, your mom had heart surgery, You go
to Cedars. Uh? No, she was at Northridge. A gambler.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What would the what were the odds she was coming
out of.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That probably, I don't know. Northridge is pretty good. It's
pretty good hospital. Yeah, hospital, but there's a I mean,
if you're talking about heart surgery, you really want.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It wasn't surgery. It was an Ablazian procedure.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
They're opening her up and taking you know, they're trying
to prevent a clot from No. No, it was aphib
all right, that's clop. Yeah, so she it's uh at
Cedars or you want to go to Saint Joe's or
Cedars for that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So you're saying I should take her to Vegas now
because she survived.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's exactly right. Okay. Who are you close with with
the LA Dodgers. Well, like when you came in today,
you were on the phone with Snell Zilla.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, Blake Snell is my number one guy. Players used
to get mad that I went to go talk to
him when he was on other teams.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I was right.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I would go to the opponent's dugout where he would
be waiting for me, and as I was walking back,
they would be screaming at me vulgarities and profanities. Why
I would be talking to him.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You mus been thrilled that he came to the Dodgers.
Oh thrilled? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I mean I don't want to take full credit, but
I was. I was very vocal about good for you,
the Dodgers signing him, or should sign him. I was
just at Justin Turner's ninth Annual golf Tournament. Still tight
with JT. He does great things with the Dream Center
here in LA. Even though he hasn't played for them,
and he's going to retire out here. He told me
he would sign a one day contract to retire with
(26:39):
the Dodger, but he's going to play this year. But
as far as guys on this team looked, tim, it's
a bittersweet. I spent every day of the last fourteen
years with Clayton Kershaw, who's going to the Hall of
Fame fourteen the last fourteen years, every day of the
baseball Yeah, that's to be different.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
And I believe this is right. You met your wife
through Kershaw that tests was going to the first game,
and you went to the same game. That's where you
guys started going out.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
We were both at his major league debut back on
that June afternoon in two thousand and eight. I met
her here in the hallways, told her I'm going to
be at the game she was coming to. We met
at the stadium club and that's where we set our
first date. And now have two beautiful kids, been married
since twenty eleven, and now that Elizabeth Olsen's in my life,
(27:32):
it's coming to an end.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Buddy. I hope you don't. I hope you can deal
with this insult. But you married way over your head. Yeah,
no doubt, like a billion light years. I'm going to
divorce over my head too. You probably should. I heard
after the Game seven that all these you know, Toronto
fans were leaving the stadium, and then they had to
deal with the subway shuts down at midnight, so they
(27:54):
all had to get ubers.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It was crazy too, it was barely forty degrees freezing
rain coming down.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Buddy, they've had to be so pissed. Where did the
Dodgers party that night? Because I know they didn't come
home till the next day.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
No, I mean, you have to understand a lot of
these Dodgers are They're very home. They've been attached to
their significant others. A lot of them are married with kids.
So they all just went back to the hotel. The bar.
Hotel bar was open until two am. They did not
keep it open later for them.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
That's horrible, I know, right, keep it open because they
didn't get back to the hotel Broun at one o'clock. Yeah,
keep it open. What time did you get back to
the hotel after game set? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
See, I tried to explain this to you. I was
completely sober because by the time I got an uber
back to the team hotel.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It was one thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I was still soaked in champagne, had to shower By
the time I do all that I had to pack
for the plane ride back. It's two thirty in the morning.
But I did watch the replays of the World Series
until three thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Bat, that's great. I mean, to be so close to
that is so awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, here's the thing. I'm from LA born and raised
in La.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Right, and Dodger fan, your whole life, whole.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Life Dodgers Lakers. And never in my wildest imaginations would
I think listening to Dodger games, calling into Dodger Talk.
Would I be hosting Dodger Talk, traveling with the team
that has just won back to back World Series championships.
That just seemed so far something inconceivable back then.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
How old were you when you first called into Dodger
Talk on KBC.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It was probably nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Okay, so you're like, what ten? Yeah, I was the
same age. I was like nine or ten? Yeahah, sure,
And I called I would call kbcah and talk to
Steve Edwards. It wasn't Steve Edwards, who is the guy
that gave up the home run to Hank Aaron down
Al Downing was hosted.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It was not very nice, people think. I mean, Al
Downing was extremely mean.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I would call Dodger Talk and they answered, you know,
KB snaking out And I said, yeah, I would like
talk to deal Downing and they would say, don't bring
up Hank Aaron's home run. Yeah, and they would they'd
say the first thing to do, Hey, how about that
pancake he gave up the Henk Garrett and he would
start swearing, you mother, I love Max Monday. Is he
coming back?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Max Munsey had his contract picked up for next year. Yeah,
Max Munsey will be back next year.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Somebody who called into Dodger Talk drunk gave him the
nickname Max Monty.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
They were so locked in on Max Munsey they called
him Max Monday.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Uh. Kershaw was gonna be gone, but I think he's
going to every time he goes to Dodger Stadium. It
was gonna be a standing ovation for that guy.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Do you believe he deserves a statue?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Only two players have a statue at Dodger Stadium, Jackie
Robinson and Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh really, oh, then he does not.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, I mean that's that's an incredible company.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, he's not done.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I mean Fernando doesn't even have a statue. I love
the guy, but Fernando should have a statue.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
First. Does Vinny have a statue? No? Oh, he never
wanted one. Oh I see, okay, but they he I
think he deserves one.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
In Philadelphia there broadcaster legendary Harry Kallis has a statue.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, Harry carry has one.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Too, outside of Wrigley.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
That's right. Yeah, buddy, I appreciate you coming on your
giant style. You came all the way in just to
do this. Yes, wow, of course, buddy, you're the best.
Thank you for go Dodgers. I love the shirt and
we'll see you for round three.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Do you need some gear?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yes, I need a lot of I need everything. All right,
I'll bring you some gear. Okay, all right, David, best buddy.
I really appreciate you. The greatest guy, and we have
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