October 23, 2024 • 34 mins
RICK MONDAY: former Dodger and current Dodger broadcaster remembers Fernando Valenzuela //
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speed Chase. We're gonna have details on what happened at
the end of that chase coming up in the next
hour or so. But first, let me take you back
to nineteen seventy six Dodgers Stadium. Two idiots try to
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burn a flag in center field, and Rick Monday, who
is not playing for the Dodgers at the time, goes
and grabs the flag takes it away. Here's Vin Scully
calling that incident.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Sure what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It looks like he's.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Gonna burn a flag.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
And Rick Monday.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
It Monday.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
I think I was gonna fire the American flag. Can
you imagine that?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
How about that nineteen seventy six Vin Scully, God was
about to said, fly fire to American flag?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Nowadays people pile on to try to burn that flag,
but not Rick Monday.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
And Rick Monday is with us. Rick, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I know what you have six. That's why I would
run les fashionable. At least I had a fighting chance.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
How are you, Rick, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What a year for you guys for the Dodgers A
very sad, you know, a day for the Dodgers with
Fernando Vealezuela. But man, I really adored that, gentleman. I
have so many great memories of my childhood being there
for in nineteen eighty one and opening day driving back
from San Diego passing Dodgers Stadium when Vince Gully called
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that no hitter and draw you Sombrera to the sky.
I don't think any one person in Los Angeles, player, manager, owner, whatever,
had a bigger impact than Fernando Vealezuela.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I agree wholeheartedly Jackie Robinson obviously, coming up in forty
seven within the Brooklyn Dodgers, obviously I'm not an impact
on culture, and I also think Fernando did as well.
We were aware that, you know this, this was not
going to be This was not going to go well
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for Fernando from a house a house standpoint, But we
knew in advance. But that still does not really diminish
what I feel is really an emptiness. Fernando was more
than just a teammate. He was a friend, and I
think that the same thing applies that the people that
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never met him but viewed him as a friend. That's
the way I described Vin Scully. I said, well, before I
ever met Ben Scully, I mean, he was the friend
that was in my mom's car when we were driving
around and introduced me to Dodger Baseball along with Jerry
Dogget his broadcast partner. Fernando had this magnetism, if you will,
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almost a childlike magnetism over everyone, and it didn't matter
the ages. But I saw Fernando as a youngster at
the end of nineteen eighty that was called up, that
was in the bullpen, to where then he was going
to be in the bullpen in eighty one, but because
of an injury to Jerry Royce before opening day of
the season, tomulosortis, look, we're not going to disrupt the
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rest of the starting rotation because they were already in
a workload situation. They just go to a bullpen and
get Fernando. Well, he started opening day and the story went,
you know, he threw eight consecutive shutouts, eight victories on
that end of it, and he never moved out of
the starting rotation. Everywhere we went, Fernando became a bigger
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and bigger story. Not necessarily a star because he never
really wanted the spotlight, but he became a star everywhere
he went. And to see children who look at Fernando
when they first saw him, or a dope for that matter,
opened up a whole lot of avenues, I think from
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a cultural standpoint, from a baseball standpoint, and very sadden
that we have lost someone that meant so much to us,
and I think meant so much to the Dodgers organization,
to this entire community, and really to Major League Baseball
for that matter.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, he was. He was bigger than life.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I remember when he first started on the Dodgers, and
this is how you know, it was sort of there
was a movie, Disney movie called The World's Greatest Athlete
where they where they went to Africa and found this, uh,
you know, this Nanu who was an unbelievle athlete that
brought back to the United States and he was huge,
and there was sort of a real life, you know,
a Disney movie in going to Mexico and finding this
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kid in a in a in a town of a
thousand people, recognizing that he has talent and bring him
to Los Angeles and I remember Rick when he started,
there was a rumor and I don't know if it
was true or not. You know, back then there was
no internet to check it. But nobody really knew how
old he was. Nobody really even saw his certificates. That
that's how small of a town he came out of, Mexico.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, that's true. But then Tommy sort of said he
never went to the mound to talk to a pitcher
and asked for his either. But you're true. What you're
bringing up is exactly right. Mike Brito, who was the scout,
the gentleman of a white with a white hat right
behind home plate with the radar gun when Fernando was
pitching and everyone else was pitching at that particular time
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for the Dodgers, he was down scouting a different player
in Mexico when he spotted Fernando, and he came back
and told the doctors, Hey, I just I just saw this,
this left hander that is very interesting. And Fernando went
from being the first couple of times out. I think
the reaction to people, he went from being interesting to
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a big star. I mean I saw something yesterday and
just going over, you know, dealing with calling some of mine,
my teammates and teammates at Fernando yesterday and spending time
with just talking about him. You know, the attendance at
Dodger Stadium, from what I'm seeing, increased once he went
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from interesting to the star. An additional I think it
was eight thousand per game when they were pitching, and
then we saw that really accumulate that interest as we
went around the country, for that matter, everywhere we went,
the Fernando story became a huge story. And yet he
was able to I think, compartmentalize all of this, all
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of this recognition that he had, which is the same
way he was on the field to ten because and
talking to teammates. We never saw him at a loss
on what to do with the baseball once he had
it in his hand, once it was hit to him,
or even as a hitter once it was thrown to him.
You know, remember back of those dark ages when the
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pitchers actually hit. Yeah, well, Fernando, it's almost as if
he had lived this before.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And he also and he also did something I don't
see you'll you'll ever see anymore. I think he had
twenty complete games that year.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you don't get entire leagues with
that many complete games. Wow, you know he would throw
one hundred and thirty pitches. I think there was a
game he threw one hundred and forty pitches. Nobody counted
the pitches, but they counted were the twenty seven outs
he was able to register and the victories that the
Doggers had. So it was even though we knew ahead
of times, some of us, you know, this was not
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going to this was not going to end. Well, we're
going to lose a very good friend of ours.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
You know, it's too bad that he could.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You know, when Tommy Losorda was sick in twenty twenty,
he was able to see one more World Series. It's
too bad that Fernando couldn't hold on for another week.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Absolutely, and again, when whenever we walked around, whether it
was in the stadium or wherever it may have been,
when people saw Fernando, he was like the pied piper
honost the goodness, I mean everywhere that he went and
he was he was so gentle. The other part about
Fernando and reflects back to where years ago when Tommy
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was the manager. I remember in spring training and Thuropeach,
Tommy would initially the very first day of spring training,
he would say, hey, guys, you know whatever it was
last year we did, this is what we need to do.
We're going to do this, this and this. Here's my coach.
They produced a guy, and he would every year would
call in Roy Campanella and Camping was there and Campy
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would come in in his wheelchair and he would start out, well,
fellas in a very gentle voice, but he addressed the
entire team, and one of the things he always said
was we need to let that little child inside each
and every one of us that come out and play. Occasionally, well,
Fernando did that on a regular basis, because he was
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at times he was that fifteen year old that seemed
like in the dugout taking in all of this, and
then all of a sudden, when he needed a big game,
that's fifteen year old went to the mound like he
had been around for ten or fifteen years at the
major league level and just as gritty as you can imagine.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, you know, the one thing, we got to take
a quick break here. But the one thing I always
appreciated about Fernandovelenzuela, and I mean this honestly, he was
a man of the people, and you could tell because
he never had a sports coat or a suit that
fit him properly.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
One thing about it. He was genuine every day.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Hey, Rick, can you hold on second? Can you say
with us?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Sure? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yes, okay, Rick mondays, but we'll talk about the Dodgers
coming up on Friday.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
They're hosting the New York Yankees the World Series.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And we'll talk a little more about Fernando Valenzuela, of course,
and the Dodgers gone up Yankees this Friday World Series
five aweight on five seventy am. Our sister station dinged
along with these Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Rick Monday is with us the broadcast one of the
broadcasters for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Rick, I've never asked
you this before, but I know this. In one hundred
percent of guys that do play by player color for baseball,
they grew up listening to their favorite broadcaster.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Who was it for you?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
There was only one Vinny and you know Jerry Doggett
was his was his broadcast partner. I mean that that
was my influence And I always said about Vinnie, is
it whether whether you actually met him or not, he
was your friend.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The way he came across and he was the same
person in person that we thought that he was on
the radio or if he was on the television, But
you know he was. He was in our car growing
up in Santa Monica listening all the time, you know,
to to Dodger game. Yeah, sure that was. You know,
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they were our friends. They brought this this intriguing, sometimes
in a frustrating game of baseball to us, you know,
all kinds of different forms. So it's going to be
interesting now too. What's going to happen Friday, Game one
of the of the World Series, And again it's a
matchup between the Dodgers and the New York Yankees for
the twelfth time in history these teams matchup.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You know, I heard a great story that Mel Allen
nineteen sixty three Dodgers Yankees, you know, playing early October
October second through the sixth or seventh, and now we're
going to extend into looks like November. But Mel Allen
got laryngitis and on Game four he I guess the
fifth or sixth inning in Game four, he was unable
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to broadcast any marks. He lost his voice, and the
kid that stepped in for him was Vin Scully.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, yeah, Vin. He told the story also a couple
of different sizes where he did football very very early
in his career. I don't know if he was just
he may have still been in college at Fordham or
just immediately after, but he thought that he would be
in the press box doing the call. It was in
the winter and they said no, no, no, you're on
top of the on top of the press box, and
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he was up there. He barely had had a coat
with him and it had to be somewhere around thirty
degrees and he was talking about doing that broadcast that
particular time, but he always it's something he wanted to
do and with great passion. And to listen to Vin
Scully when he would do a broadcast, I think we
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would all wonder, tim quite frankly, if English wasn't our
second language after listening to it, because he had complete
control of it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And I enjoyed, you know, the games where the Dodgers
were up or down by ten runs more than I did,
you know, the sweat games because he could tell these
great stories.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, and he had something else that a lot of
people overlook. You know, things have changed in the broadcast
team now. And I think it was Walter O'Malley that
believed many many years ago that one person behind the
microphone was a broadcast and two guys was a conversation.
And Vin was able to present the game of baseball
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without having someone next to him, which allowed him to
expand upon the story, allowed him to continue on through. Yes,
he wouldn't miss action on the field, but he didn't
have to feel as if he had to share the
booth and the microphone with someone else. He was working alone.
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So that's why he was enabled to be able to
tell those stories at length. But we used to laugh
all the time. They always tell you, so, look, don't
start a story with two outs. Well then he could
start start a story with two outs and two strikes.
And it seemed like the hitter must have realized that
he was telling his story because he fell off fifteen
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Ben was finishing the story. In fact, there's this real quickly.
Jerry Royce was on the mound fitching for the Dodgers.
I don't remember it's the day game or night game
doesn't really matter, but he could hear Everybody would bring
transistor radios to the stadium at that time, in the
late seventies, and you could hear Vinnie's voice. You couldn't
make out exactly from the field or in the dugout
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exactly what he was saying, but you know he was talking.
And sometimes you could hear the crowd and and Vin
would tell this story kind of manipulate the crowd into
an ooh or an uh or maybe a chuckle. And
Royce told the stories that he knew Vin was close
to the end of the story, so he backed off
the mount for a few seconds that he heard the chuckle.
But everybody stands, okay, I'm fine, Now go ahead and
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make the next pitch.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's an incredible story. That is wild that he could
even hear it on the mound.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
That's lable make out what you know, you could not
make out what he was saying, but that's you know,
that's before everybody was putting in the earbuds and yeah,
people being transistor radios and it might be three row
in front of his head. He turn her up a
little bit louder, you would, and they kind of shared
that experience, so that was kind of unique itself.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
One of the huge compliments I think you could ever
give Vin Scully is I saw this.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I went to a game with my dad. I think
it was like nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I must have been nine or ten years old, and I
saw a middle aged couple in front of us, and
they both had their radios, and they both had their
headphones on, and they sat next to each other and
never said a word to each other for nine innings.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
No, because they were listening to their friend. That's all.
I'm about the Dodgers and telling stories.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, that is great. Yeah, we got to talk about
the game. Can you please stay with us for one
more segment?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Hey, for you, I will. Your producer, Sharon is delightful.
She called a little bit earlier, and my first reaction was, well,
you haven't been able to escape yet. I mean, you
guys walk the doors from the outside or what?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
That's right? To bake a cake with a.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, we'll put a file in it so you're can.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Say, all right, holds say Rick mondays with us. We'll
go back and talk about the Yankees and Dodgers. It's Friday,
it's the day after tomorrow. We're forty eight hours away
from opening pitch. Forty eight and a half hours away
from opening pitch.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
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AM six forty and.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now they're doing it to Guerrero, hoping to distract him,
hoping to upset him, hoping perhaps to make him try
too hard.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Fernando ready in the strike.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Two pitch is hit back to the box, dribbling the
second Samuel on.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
The bag cross the first double play.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Fernando Valenzuela has pitched a no hitter at ten seventeen
in the evening of June the twenty ninth, nineteen ninety If.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You have a sombrero, throw it to the sky.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
There he goes.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Fernando Vealezuela is no hitter called by Vin Scully, Rick
Monday as well as Rick. I had sent a text
to my cousins and my sister and my brother hours
before Fernando died, and I put that line in, if
you have a sombrairie can throw it to the sky.
And I think he's the only guy in twenty twenty
four they can get away with exactly that phrase.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, in listening to that cade. Not only did he
tell you what was happening, he put a time stamp
on it, and where he came up with the Sobrero
threw it to the sky. Yeah, absolutely amazing. And if
you watch that play, bird Smith, you just can't find.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And if you watch that play, Fernando hit that ball
and curved it towards second base to get that double play.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing, amazing what was going to happen.
So now we're going to find out what happens this year.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Hey, here's a side story for you.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Dave Roberts and Aaron Boone, who's the manager of the Yankees.
You know they play against one another in college, Dave
for UCLA, Aaron for USC and Roberts came up with
the great line. He says, Hey, we weren't friends. He says,
I really didn't care too much for him back then.
He says, I'm sure he didn't care too much for
me back in either. So now they're going to be
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the opposite ends of the spectrum as far as as
far as managers. Quick story, I've known Aaron Boone since
he was a kid. Oh wow, you know, he's a
third generation major League player to begin with. And I
knew Aaron my son Mike, who was a coach at
Golden West College. They were on the same Pop Warner team.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh wow, is that right?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And Aaron was a running back. We used to kid.
He goes, hey, you're the one boone in your family
that has some speed. So yeah, it goes way back.
And I was with Mike yesterday. Now his team was
playing at El Camino College and I went down there
and watched that game yesterday. But yeah, my son, Mike
and Aaron run the same Pop Worner football team down
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in yogaal Inda.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Small world, very small world, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So it's been nineteen eighty one since the Yankees have
been here for a World Series. Fox has got to
be loving this for ratings, and I think the entire
nation will be watching. I think it's East coast, West coast.
It's a big deal. I also think that Donald Trump
is from New York, Kamala Harris is from Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
There's that factor. There's also the factor that.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Matt Drudge and I'm Shoho Tani their very first World Series.
And it's also they're also going to be probably MVP
from the American League and National League and the very
first time they meet in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
A lot of things coming together for this series.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Well, you mentioned MVP. How about this, There's gonna be
five players playing in this World Series that have won
an MVP award. That's the most effort in a World Series.
Otani bets Free Freeman and for the Yankees, you've got
Judge and for Stanton. The nine previous World Series it
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had four m vps. The last time, I mean it
is the first time there's been this many since nineteen
seventy one to have five players MVP players in a
World Series. So you also have the two league leading
home run hitters with with Otani and with with Judge. Also,
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that's not happened, says nineteen fifty six when it was
Mickey Mannel and Duke Snyder. Wow, and that was another
that was another Dodger and Yankee matchup, So the first
time that's happened in a number of years as well.
There's a lot there's a lot of different things that
really take place in this And you know Jack Flarry
is going to start for the Dodgers, It'll be it'll
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be Cole on the mound for the New York and
for Flaherty it will be one week after disappointing out
that he had in New York game it's the Mets
where he went just three innings. But we found out
afterwards that he was very ill. And yeah, he took
the ball and answered the bell. It didn't work out
well for him.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
But what did he have, By the way, nobody's ever
disclosed what he had. Do you have the flu or coldness?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
He just felt crummy, you know, he was just one
of those I don't know if he had a fever.
You know, we were not in the locker room. We
don't have access to the locker room. And I've always
felt Championship Series that locker room is for the players.
It's not for us. If I see him on the field,
that's all well and.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Good and so sort of like a Super Bowl and
the Breeders Cup, you know when when during the Super Bowl,
the NFL comes in and takes over the arena, But
it's always, uh, you know, it's always an arena that
you know, except for the recently with the Rams that
they played at home, it's usually at a at a
neutral arena. But when Major League Baseball takes over during
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the World Series, they take over both stadiums and they
call all the shots.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You got that right, Yeah, Well, MLB believes that they
own just about everything in the Western Hemisphere and especially
to ballparks. It will be played rick.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You remember, obviously, you remember when you know, in nineteen
eighty one, nineteen eighty eight, when you know, when the
Dodgers played the Yankees and then they played the A's
all the press used to sit up behind home plate
in the second deck. They reserve that whole area for
the press. Now the press is on the top deck
way out in the left field, and the reporters doesn't
seem like anyone want to go out there, and they
don't go out there.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well, they have to go out there because the press box,
the actual press box that you're aware of, is full.
I mean it's like a standing room only, so there's
other areas down. It's high up. They get a real
good view if the bull's fair or foul going around
the left field. Powerful because they can almost reach out
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and touch it. But it is what it is, and
you can only put so many people in the in
the press box itself.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I wanted to say one more thing because I know
you got to go, You've got very busy forty eight
hours until the game starts. But I got an email
last night that I thought was really great. You know,
everyone's made a big deal about lebron James and Bronnie
James playing in the NBA, father's son together, Griffy and
Griffy Junior in baseball. But I got an email, and
I know you'll be on You'll be into this because
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I know your background. Every single day in this in
the streets of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, United States,
there are father and sons who are on police forces,
patrolling the neighborhoods, and nobody makes a big deal.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Out of that. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. And from a generational
standpoint too, I mean you have entire amilies, yeah that
pass it down, whether it be you, first responders, military, whatever,
whatever it may be. Yeah, this gets focus of attention.
Obviously doesn't happen that often, but you're absolutely right. I mean,
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there's so many different things. It's always always fun to
talk to you about because I remember you. I remember
you sharing with us years ago. Then as a kid
growing up at night when the Dodgers are playing, you
would be on your bed, and you would put on
your bed, spread out who's playing in left field and
center field in my field, and move them around in
the game. So you know you've been in the need
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of counseling for a long time.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I will be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Once I got into junior high and high school and
told that to some of the girls in my class.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Not that impressive.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well, you'll be on the air Friday at game time,
so maybe you can put it in your desk in
front of it. But yeah, try and move the Dodger
runners around a little bit, a little bit off.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And I loved, you know, collecting baseball cards back then
because a guy would play his entire career with a
team and you just look at the name and you
would instantly know what team he was with because the
guy played fifteen years for the same team.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Well, you did not have free agency. And the other
part too, is very seldom did you go from one
league to the other.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right, yeah, that's right. But I really I really appreciate
coming on. Go Dodgers. I hope they win, and I
hope you get a ring another ring, and and and
then have a great off season.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You deserve it. Well, it just makes sure he cleared
the desk in front of them Friday. On Saturday too,
moved the Dodger runners around.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
All right, thank you, Ed, I appreciate it. All right, there,
he goes Rick Monday. That's great that he remembered that.
But yeah, as a kid, I had a green bread
spread and I used to put masking tape because I
was punished a lot as a kid, mostly for things
I did. And I put masking tape for on the
foul lines, then masking tape in the outfield, and I'd
get my Dodgers and Cincinnati Red's cards out, my baseball cards,
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and I'd move them around and i'd place them on
the field and I could see the game while listening
to Vince Scully. I could see the game in front
of me because I had the baseball cards on my
green blanket.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
That's amazing. Here, remember that, that's wild a small world.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Small world, maybe not that many stations available where he's
listening to that all the time.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (26:12):
Vasse had to go off and do his Dodger stuff.
That guy's great, and you'll hear a lot from that
dude and that guy's the best. All right, let's get this.
The chase that a lot of people saw this afternoon
ended up in the grape vine, very sad ending where
the woman.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I was watching television, I can't remember what station it was,
and I was watching the broadcast to that chase, and
one of the anchors at one of the local news
stations said, Oh, because it's a woman, it makes the
chase much more interesting. I'm like, really, I thought women
were in this game for a while, but I guess not.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
They're new to the game.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But it was a woman and had to be at
her wits end. She was, I don't know, evidently suicidal
and cha and running away from the cops. And even
at the m she could have taken out three or
four or five innocent people with her, and she didn't.
She didn't.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
She killed herself, but she.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Didn't take anyone out who is an innocent bystander. So
even with all that depression, all that anxiety, all that
fear but being chased by cops, all that anger at
the end, with all that working in her mind, she
still didn't take out innocent people.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
You gotta give her that. You gotta give her that.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Here's what happened literally about an hour ago, maybe an
hour and a half ago, on the chase that ended
up off the five Freeway up in the Grapevine area.
We showed you this live within the hour of frightening
into a high speed pursuit.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It ended in a deadly crash on the five Freeway
headed towards Gorman. Bad situation that the way this ended
here after LAPD started chasing the stolen vehicle and then
actually gave it over to the CHP. I want to
go live now to Skycow who has overhead the five
and the one thirty eight. You see here, that is
where the crash came to This world's all came to
an end southbound five on the one thirty eight. Now,
it appears that the suspect may have seen some spike
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strips and tried to veer off of the roadway to
get away from them. We know that there were spikes
trips coming up just an exit before this, and she
was going.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
One hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty miles.
You know, you can fly when you're up in the
grape Vine. It's very hilly age go you go uphill
for cup miles, you go down for cup miles. But
when you're on the on the the Magic Mountain side,
the Valencia side, and you're coming down, you can get
up to one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty miles
an hour for last seven or eight miles it's straight downhill.
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And then on the other side as well, going towards Bakersfield,
the last five or six miles straight down one hundred
and forty one hundred and fifty easily on any car,
any car.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I want to take you to some video here of
the pursuit, though it was intense and it was at
very high speeds upwards of one hundred and twenty miles
an hour at times, weaving in and out between big
rigs on the shoulder, even through construction zones. Now we
are still getting some details about exactly how this car
was stolen and when, but the LAPD Devonshire Division originally
chase it. There was one woman inside of the car
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that was running very very aggressively from the LAPD and
then eventually the CCHP as they go northbound through the
five Here. The shoulder driving was something that we saw
very very commonly Now, she actually made it all the
way to the other side of the county line up
into Kern County before she gets through this construction zone
there you see hit some of the cones. Thankfully, there
were no construction workers in that area. That's what got
CCHP to back off, was that construction zone. She apparently
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at some point realized this as she was near the
outlets at Fort to Home where she exits gets back
on the southbound side and those same units were right
there waiting for her. Now, we're going to show you
in just a moment video of the crash. We do
want to warn you it is graphic to watch. I
have paused it before the moments of the impact.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
We'll go ahead and show you that video here.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Okay, the video.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They are not going to show it anymore on TV,
And as soon as Channel five and Channel nine showed it,
they said, hey, we're not going to reverse this and
show it to you. But what they don't realize is
that about ninety five five percent of the people who
are watching it have a DVR and you can just
literally press the reverse button and look at it yourself.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
You don't need to have local news show it to you.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
And it's also on Twitter. It's everywhere. So if they
don't show it to you, it's not a big deal.
You just have to go through another step to do
it yourself and show it. And it's all over the place.
So I don't understand why they keep doing that. You
know why they can't say, oh, we can't show it.
They do the same thing on football games when a
guy runs naked across the field. It's like, oh, we
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can't show it to you. Okay, Well, the first thing
I do is I pause the game and I go
to YouTube and I see nine angles of it. And
this is why local news and news in general in
a lot of ways is not keeping up with technology
in the times. It's got to change. It's got to
change because we all want to see it. We all
want to see it. We want to see everything, everything.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
And you'll see what I'm talking about. She apparently may
have seen something. That's what the spike trips were. Veers
off the side of the road over the gore point
onto the off ramp or the transition road rather, and
that is when she comes to the shoulder, here hits
the dirt path, swerves and there you can see right
before she hits the guardrail. She goes head on into
the guardrail. The car would eventually flip, and we had
heard from HP that she died as a result, that
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one person inside that car died as a result of
the crash. And here it is one more time. You
can see she hits the dirt patch here on the
side of the shoulder, loses control, and that's when she
goes head on right in there.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
To that center.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Devidra, I'll take you back live now to Skycow, who's
still over that scene where this will now be an
hours long investigation as a California High Patrols Major Accident
Investigation team has to come out here and do a
full investigation, not only because of the death during this
traffic collision, but because it was during the course of
a HP pursuit as those officers were actively pursuing her.
Those spike strips just a couple hundred feet from where
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she decided to veer off the freeway. Unclear she actually
saw those spike strips and that's what caused her to veer,
but certainly they were right about to be in front
of her, and then she made that turn across all
lanes of the freeway onto the transition road and unfortunately
crashed and lost her life.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, and fairly selfish at the end because she didn't
kill anybody, I'll give her that. But now she's got
you know, five, ten, fifteen police officers that have to
go in and look at that and then have to
go home to their families.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It's like, you know, about three or four.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Times a year, you hear a guy doing you know,
eighty five miles an hour and then bang he flies
into the Grand Canyon right off the edge, and you know,
it's a roadrunner time where he goes down, there's a
little puff of smoke and he or she is gone. Well, okay, again,
they didn't take anybody out, but the park rangers now
have to clean that up. And so they've got to
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clean that up. They got to see the dead body
probably you know, you know, probably dismembered, and then they
got to go home to their family and keep that
inside them, and keep a million of those things inside
of them.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
And it's a lot. It takes its toll. That's why cops.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
When you know, as they get older and they retire,
a lot of them turn to heavy drinking because they've
kept a lot inside of them over the years, a lot.
This is one of them. This incident is one of them.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
We are forty eight hours away from the Dodgers starting,
forty eight hours and ten minutes away from first pitch
at Dodger Stadium. First time the Yankees have played at
Dodger Stadium for the World Series since nineteen eighty one.
What a week in Los Angeles. A lot of events
going on Friday as well. We come back, we'll tell
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you all about them. There are six major events going
on Friday afternoon into Friday evening, and we're going to
tell you about all of them when we come back.
We'll continue to tell you about all of them and
how to get to the stadium on Friday. You're going
to want to listen to KFI all day on Friday
because there's gonna be traffic everywhere everywhere. Six major events
(33:41):
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Speed Chase. We're gonna have details on what happened at
the end of that chase coming up in the next
hour or so. But first, let me take you back
to nineteen seventy six Dodgers Stadium. Two idiots try to
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burn a flag in center field, and Rick Monday, who
is not playing for the Dodgers at the time, goes
and grabs the flag takes it away. Here's Vin Scully
calling that incident.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Sure what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It looks like he's.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Gonna burn a flag.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
And Rick Monday.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
It Monday.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
I think I was gonna fire the American flag. Can
you imagine that?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
How about that nineteen seventy six Vin Scully, God was
about to said, fly fire to American flag?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Nowadays people pile on to try to burn that flag,
but not Rick Monday.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
And Rick Monday is with us. Rick, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I know what you have six. That's why I would
run les fashionable. At least I had a fighting chance.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
How are you, Rick, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What a year for you guys for the Dodgers A
very sad, you know, a day for the Dodgers with
Fernando Vealezuela. But man, I really adored that, gentleman. I
have so many great memories of my childhood being there
for in nineteen eighty one and opening day driving back
from San Diego passing Dodgers Stadium when Vince Gully called
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that no hitter and draw you Sombrera to the sky.
I don't think any one person in Los Angeles, player, manager, owner, whatever,
had a bigger impact than Fernando Vealezuela.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I agree wholeheartedly Jackie Robinson obviously, coming up in forty
seven within the Brooklyn Dodgers, obviously I'm not an impact
on culture, and I also think Fernando did as well.
We were aware that, you know this, this was not
going to be This was not going to go well
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for Fernando from a house a house standpoint, But we
knew in advance. But that still does not really diminish
what I feel is really an emptiness. Fernando was more
than just a teammate. He was a friend, and I
think that the same thing applies that the people that
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never met him but viewed him as a friend. That's
the way I described Vin Scully. I said, well, before I
ever met Ben Scully, I mean, he was the friend
that was in my mom's car when we were driving
around and introduced me to Dodger Baseball along with Jerry
Dogget his broadcast partner. Fernando had this magnetism, if you will,
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almost a childlike magnetism over everyone, and it didn't matter
the ages. But I saw Fernando as a youngster at
the end of nineteen eighty that was called up, that
was in the bullpen, to where then he was going
to be in the bullpen in eighty one, but because
of an injury to Jerry Royce before opening day of
the season, tomulosortis, look, we're not going to disrupt the
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rest of the starting rotation because they were already in
a workload situation. They just go to a bullpen and
get Fernando. Well, he started opening day and the story went,
you know, he threw eight consecutive shutouts, eight victories on
that end of it, and he never moved out of
the starting rotation. Everywhere we went, Fernando became a bigger
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and bigger story. Not necessarily a star because he never
really wanted the spotlight, but he became a star everywhere
he went. And to see children who look at Fernando
when they first saw him, or a dope for that matter,
opened up a whole lot of avenues, I think from
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a cultural standpoint, from a baseball standpoint, and very sadden
that we have lost someone that meant so much to us,
and I think meant so much to the Dodgers organization,
to this entire community, and really to Major League Baseball
for that matter.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, he was. He was bigger than life.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I remember when he first started on the Dodgers, and
this is how you know, it was sort of there
was a movie, Disney movie called The World's Greatest Athlete
where they where they went to Africa and found this, uh,
you know, this Nanu who was an unbelievle athlete that
brought back to the United States and he was huge,
and there was sort of a real life, you know,
a Disney movie in going to Mexico and finding this
(04:44):
kid in a in a in a town of a
thousand people, recognizing that he has talent and bring him
to Los Angeles and I remember Rick when he started,
there was a rumor and I don't know if it
was true or not. You know, back then there was
no internet to check it. But nobody really knew how
old he was. Nobody really even saw his certificates. That
that's how small of a town he came out of, Mexico.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, that's true. But then Tommy sort of said he
never went to the mound to talk to a pitcher
and asked for his either. But you're true. What you're
bringing up is exactly right. Mike Brito, who was the scout,
the gentleman of a white with a white hat right
behind home plate with the radar gun when Fernando was
pitching and everyone else was pitching at that particular time
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for the Dodgers, he was down scouting a different player
in Mexico when he spotted Fernando, and he came back
and told the doctors, Hey, I just I just saw this,
this left hander that is very interesting. And Fernando went
from being the first couple of times out. I think
the reaction to people, he went from being interesting to
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a big star. I mean I saw something yesterday and
just going over, you know, dealing with calling some of mine,
my teammates and teammates at Fernando yesterday and spending time
with just talking about him. You know, the attendance at
Dodger Stadium, from what I'm seeing, increased once he went
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from interesting to the star. An additional I think it
was eight thousand per game when they were pitching, and
then we saw that really accumulate that interest as we
went around the country, for that matter, everywhere we went,
the Fernando story became a huge story. And yet he
was able to I think, compartmentalize all of this, all
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of this recognition that he had, which is the same
way he was on the field to ten because and
talking to teammates. We never saw him at a loss
on what to do with the baseball once he had
it in his hand, once it was hit to him,
or even as a hitter once it was thrown to him.
You know, remember back of those dark ages when the
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pitchers actually hit. Yeah, well, Fernando, it's almost as if
he had lived this before.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And he also and he also did something I don't
see you'll you'll ever see anymore. I think he had
twenty complete games that year.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you don't get entire leagues with
that many complete games. Wow, you know he would throw
one hundred and thirty pitches. I think there was a
game he threw one hundred and forty pitches. Nobody counted
the pitches, but they counted were the twenty seven outs
he was able to register and the victories that the
Doggers had. So it was even though we knew ahead
of times, some of us, you know, this was not
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going to this was not going to end. Well, we're
going to lose a very good friend of ours.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
You know, it's too bad that he could.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You know, when Tommy Losorda was sick in twenty twenty,
he was able to see one more World Series. It's
too bad that Fernando couldn't hold on for another week.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Absolutely, and again, when whenever we walked around, whether it
was in the stadium or wherever it may have been,
when people saw Fernando, he was like the pied piper
honost the goodness, I mean everywhere that he went and
he was he was so gentle. The other part about
Fernando and reflects back to where years ago when Tommy
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was the manager. I remember in spring training and Thuropeach,
Tommy would initially the very first day of spring training,
he would say, hey, guys, you know whatever it was
last year we did, this is what we need to do.
We're going to do this, this and this. Here's my coach.
They produced a guy, and he would every year would
call in Roy Campanella and Camping was there and Campy
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would come in in his wheelchair and he would start out, well,
fellas in a very gentle voice, but he addressed the
entire team, and one of the things he always said
was we need to let that little child inside each
and every one of us that come out and play. Occasionally, well,
Fernando did that on a regular basis, because he was
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at times he was that fifteen year old that seemed
like in the dugout taking in all of this, and
then all of a sudden, when he needed a big game,
that's fifteen year old went to the mound like he
had been around for ten or fifteen years at the
major league level and just as gritty as you can imagine.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, you know, the one thing, we got to take
a quick break here. But the one thing I always
appreciated about Fernandovelenzuela, and I mean this honestly, he was
a man of the people, and you could tell because
he never had a sports coat or a suit that
fit him properly.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
One thing about it. He was genuine every day.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Hey, Rick, can you hold on second? Can you say
with us?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Sure? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yes, okay, Rick mondays, but we'll talk about the Dodgers
coming up on Friday.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
They're hosting the New York Yankees the World Series.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And we'll talk a little more about Fernando Valenzuela, of course,
and the Dodgers gone up Yankees this Friday World Series
five aweight on five seventy am. Our sister station dinged
along with these Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Rick Monday is with us the broadcast one of the
broadcasters for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Rick, I've never asked
you this before, but I know this. In one hundred
percent of guys that do play by player color for baseball,
they grew up listening to their favorite broadcaster.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Who was it for you?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
There was only one Vinny and you know Jerry Doggett
was his was his broadcast partner. I mean that that
was my influence And I always said about Vinnie, is
it whether whether you actually met him or not, he
was your friend.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The way he came across and he was the same
person in person that we thought that he was on
the radio or if he was on the television, But
you know he was. He was in our car growing
up in Santa Monica listening all the time, you know,
to to Dodger game. Yeah, sure that was. You know,
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they were our friends. They brought this this intriguing, sometimes
in a frustrating game of baseball to us, you know,
all kinds of different forms. So it's going to be
interesting now too. What's going to happen Friday, Game one
of the of the World Series, And again it's a
matchup between the Dodgers and the New York Yankees for
the twelfth time in history these teams matchup.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You know, I heard a great story that Mel Allen
nineteen sixty three Dodgers Yankees, you know, playing early October
October second through the sixth or seventh, and now we're
going to extend into looks like November. But Mel Allen
got laryngitis and on Game four he I guess the
fifth or sixth inning in Game four, he was unable
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to broadcast any marks. He lost his voice, and the
kid that stepped in for him was Vin Scully.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, yeah, Vin. He told the story also a couple
of different sizes where he did football very very early
in his career. I don't know if he was just
he may have still been in college at Fordham or
just immediately after, but he thought that he would be
in the press box doing the call. It was in
the winter and they said no, no, no, you're on
top of the on top of the press box, and
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he was up there. He barely had had a coat
with him and it had to be somewhere around thirty
degrees and he was talking about doing that broadcast that
particular time, but he always it's something he wanted to
do and with great passion. And to listen to Vin
Scully when he would do a broadcast, I think we
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would all wonder, tim quite frankly, if English wasn't our
second language after listening to it, because he had complete
control of it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And I enjoyed, you know, the games where the Dodgers
were up or down by ten runs more than I did,
you know, the sweat games because he could tell these
great stories.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, and he had something else that a lot of
people overlook. You know, things have changed in the broadcast
team now. And I think it was Walter O'Malley that
believed many many years ago that one person behind the
microphone was a broadcast and two guys was a conversation.
And Vin was able to present the game of baseball
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without having someone next to him, which allowed him to
expand upon the story, allowed him to continue on through. Yes,
he wouldn't miss action on the field, but he didn't
have to feel as if he had to share the
booth and the microphone with someone else. He was working alone.
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So that's why he was enabled to be able to
tell those stories at length. But we used to laugh
all the time. They always tell you, so, look, don't
start a story with two outs. Well then he could
start start a story with two outs and two strikes.
And it seemed like the hitter must have realized that
he was telling his story because he fell off fifteen
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Ben was finishing the story. In fact, there's this real quickly.
Jerry Royce was on the mound fitching for the Dodgers.
I don't remember it's the day game or night game
doesn't really matter, but he could hear Everybody would bring
transistor radios to the stadium at that time, in the
late seventies, and you could hear Vinnie's voice. You couldn't
make out exactly from the field or in the dugout
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exactly what he was saying, but you know he was talking.
And sometimes you could hear the crowd and and Vin
would tell this story kind of manipulate the crowd into
an ooh or an uh or maybe a chuckle. And
Royce told the stories that he knew Vin was close
to the end of the story, so he backed off
the mount for a few seconds that he heard the chuckle.
But everybody stands, okay, I'm fine, Now go ahead and
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make the next pitch.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's an incredible story. That is wild that he could
even hear it on the mound.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
That's lable make out what you know, you could not
make out what he was saying, but that's you know,
that's before everybody was putting in the earbuds and yeah,
people being transistor radios and it might be three row
in front of his head. He turn her up a
little bit louder, you would, and they kind of shared
that experience, so that was kind of unique itself.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
One of the huge compliments I think you could ever
give Vin Scully is I saw this.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I went to a game with my dad. I think
it was like nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I must have been nine or ten years old, and I
saw a middle aged couple in front of us, and
they both had their radios, and they both had their
headphones on, and they sat next to each other and
never said a word to each other for nine innings.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
No, because they were listening to their friend. That's all.
I'm about the Dodgers and telling stories.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, that is great. Yeah, we got to talk about
the game. Can you please stay with us for one
more segment?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Hey, for you, I will. Your producer, Sharon is delightful.
She called a little bit earlier, and my first reaction was, well,
you haven't been able to escape yet. I mean, you
guys walk the doors from the outside or what?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
That's right? To bake a cake with a.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, we'll put a file in it so you're can.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Say, all right, holds say Rick mondays with us. We'll
go back and talk about the Yankees and Dodgers. It's Friday,
it's the day after tomorrow. We're forty eight hours away
from opening pitch. Forty eight and a half hours away
from opening pitch.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty and.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now they're doing it to Guerrero, hoping to distract him,
hoping to upset him, hoping perhaps to make him try
too hard.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Fernando ready in the strike.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Two pitch is hit back to the box, dribbling the
second Samuel on.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
The bag cross the first double play.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Fernando Valenzuela has pitched a no hitter at ten seventeen
in the evening of June the twenty ninth, nineteen ninety If.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You have a sombrero, throw it to the sky.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
There he goes.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Fernando Vealezuela is no hitter called by Vin Scully, Rick
Monday as well as Rick. I had sent a text
to my cousins and my sister and my brother hours
before Fernando died, and I put that line in, if
you have a sombrairie can throw it to the sky.
And I think he's the only guy in twenty twenty
four they can get away with exactly that phrase.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, in listening to that cade. Not only did he
tell you what was happening, he put a time stamp
on it, and where he came up with the Sobrero
threw it to the sky. Yeah, absolutely amazing. And if
you watch that play, bird Smith, you just can't find.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And if you watch that play, Fernando hit that ball
and curved it towards second base to get that double play.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing, amazing what was going to happen.
So now we're going to find out what happens this year.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Hey, here's a side story for you.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Dave Roberts and Aaron Boone, who's the manager of the Yankees.
You know they play against one another in college, Dave
for UCLA, Aaron for USC and Roberts came up with
the great line. He says, Hey, we weren't friends. He says,
I really didn't care too much for him back then.
He says, I'm sure he didn't care too much for
me back in either. So now they're going to be
(18:16):
the opposite ends of the spectrum as far as as
far as managers. Quick story, I've known Aaron Boone since
he was a kid. Oh wow, you know, he's a
third generation major League player to begin with. And I
knew Aaron my son Mike, who was a coach at
Golden West College. They were on the same Pop Warner team.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh wow, is that right?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And Aaron was a running back. We used to kid.
He goes, hey, you're the one boone in your family
that has some speed. So yeah, it goes way back.
And I was with Mike yesterday. Now his team was
playing at El Camino College and I went down there
and watched that game yesterday. But yeah, my son, Mike
and Aaron run the same Pop Worner football team down
(19:02):
in yogaal Inda.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Small world, very small world, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So it's been nineteen eighty one since the Yankees have
been here for a World Series. Fox has got to
be loving this for ratings, and I think the entire
nation will be watching. I think it's East coast, West coast.
It's a big deal. I also think that Donald Trump
is from New York, Kamala Harris is from Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
There's that factor. There's also the factor that.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Matt Drudge and I'm Shoho Tani their very first World Series.
And it's also they're also going to be probably MVP
from the American League and National League and the very
first time they meet in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
A lot of things coming together for this series.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Well, you mentioned MVP. How about this, There's gonna be
five players playing in this World Series that have won
an MVP award. That's the most effort in a World Series.
Otani bets Free Freeman and for the Yankees, you've got
Judge and for Stanton. The nine previous World Series it
(20:09):
had four m vps. The last time, I mean it
is the first time there's been this many since nineteen
seventy one to have five players MVP players in a
World Series. So you also have the two league leading
home run hitters with with Otani and with with Judge. Also,
(20:30):
that's not happened, says nineteen fifty six when it was
Mickey Mannel and Duke Snyder. Wow, and that was another
that was another Dodger and Yankee matchup, So the first
time that's happened in a number of years as well.
There's a lot there's a lot of different things that
really take place in this And you know Jack Flarry
is going to start for the Dodgers, It'll be it'll
(20:52):
be Cole on the mound for the New York and
for Flaherty it will be one week after disappointing out
that he had in New York game it's the Mets
where he went just three innings. But we found out
afterwards that he was very ill. And yeah, he took
the ball and answered the bell. It didn't work out
well for him.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
But what did he have, By the way, nobody's ever
disclosed what he had. Do you have the flu or coldness?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
He just felt crummy, you know, he was just one
of those I don't know if he had a fever.
You know, we were not in the locker room. We
don't have access to the locker room. And I've always
felt Championship Series that locker room is for the players.
It's not for us. If I see him on the field,
that's all well and.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Good and so sort of like a Super Bowl and
the Breeders Cup, you know when when during the Super Bowl,
the NFL comes in and takes over the arena, But
it's always, uh, you know, it's always an arena that
you know, except for the recently with the Rams that
they played at home, it's usually at a at a
neutral arena. But when Major League Baseball takes over during
(21:58):
the World Series, they take over both stadiums and they
call all the shots.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You got that right, Yeah, Well, MLB believes that they
own just about everything in the Western Hemisphere and especially
to ballparks. It will be played rick.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You remember, obviously, you remember when you know, in nineteen
eighty one, nineteen eighty eight, when you know, when the
Dodgers played the Yankees and then they played the A's
all the press used to sit up behind home plate
in the second deck. They reserve that whole area for
the press. Now the press is on the top deck
way out in the left field, and the reporters doesn't
seem like anyone want to go out there, and they
don't go out there.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well, they have to go out there because the press box,
the actual press box that you're aware of, is full.
I mean it's like a standing room only, so there's
other areas down. It's high up. They get a real
good view if the bull's fair or foul going around
the left field. Powerful because they can almost reach out
(22:58):
and touch it. But it is what it is, and
you can only put so many people in the in
the press box itself.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I wanted to say one more thing because I know
you got to go, You've got very busy forty eight
hours until the game starts. But I got an email
last night that I thought was really great. You know,
everyone's made a big deal about lebron James and Bronnie
James playing in the NBA, father's son together, Griffy and
Griffy Junior in baseball. But I got an email, and
I know you'll be on You'll be into this because
(23:25):
I know your background. Every single day in this in
the streets of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, United States,
there are father and sons who are on police forces,
patrolling the neighborhoods, and nobody makes a big deal.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Out of that. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. And from a generational
standpoint too, I mean you have entire amilies, yeah that
pass it down, whether it be you, first responders, military, whatever,
whatever it may be. Yeah, this gets focus of attention.
Obviously doesn't happen that often, but you're absolutely right. I mean,
(24:01):
there's so many different things. It's always always fun to
talk to you about because I remember you. I remember
you sharing with us years ago. Then as a kid
growing up at night when the Dodgers are playing, you
would be on your bed, and you would put on
your bed, spread out who's playing in left field and
center field in my field, and move them around in
the game. So you know you've been in the need
(24:22):
of counseling for a long time.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I will be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Once I got into junior high and high school and
told that to some of the girls in my class.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Not that impressive.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well, you'll be on the air Friday at game time,
so maybe you can put it in your desk in
front of it. But yeah, try and move the Dodger
runners around a little bit, a little bit off.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And I loved, you know, collecting baseball cards back then
because a guy would play his entire career with a
team and you just look at the name and you
would instantly know what team he was with because the
guy played fifteen years for the same team.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Well, you did not have free agency. And the other
part too, is very seldom did you go from one
league to the other.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right, yeah, that's right. But I really I really appreciate
coming on. Go Dodgers. I hope they win, and I
hope you get a ring another ring, and and and
then have a great off season.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You deserve it. Well, it just makes sure he cleared
the desk in front of them Friday. On Saturday too,
moved the Dodger runners around.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
All right, thank you, Ed, I appreciate it. All right, there,
he goes Rick Monday. That's great that he remembered that.
But yeah, as a kid, I had a green bread
spread and I used to put masking tape because I
was punished a lot as a kid, mostly for things
I did. And I put masking tape for on the
foul lines, then masking tape in the outfield, and I'd
get my Dodgers and Cincinnati Red's cards out, my baseball cards,
(25:49):
and I'd move them around and i'd place them on
the field and I could see the game while listening
to Vince Scully. I could see the game in front
of me because I had the baseball cards on my
green blanket.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
That's amazing. Here, remember that, that's wild a small world.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Small world, maybe not that many stations available where he's
listening to that all the time.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Vasse had to go off and do his Dodger stuff.
That guy's great, and you'll hear a lot from that
dude and that guy's the best. All right, let's get this.
The chase that a lot of people saw this afternoon
ended up in the grape vine, very sad ending where
the woman.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I was watching television, I can't remember what station it was,
and I was watching the broadcast to that chase, and
one of the anchors at one of the local news
stations said, Oh, because it's a woman, it makes the
chase much more interesting. I'm like, really, I thought women
were in this game for a while, but I guess not.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
They're new to the game.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But it was a woman and had to be at
her wits end. She was, I don't know, evidently suicidal
and cha and running away from the cops. And even
at the m she could have taken out three or
four or five innocent people with her, and she didn't.
She didn't.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
She killed herself, but she.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Didn't take anyone out who is an innocent bystander. So
even with all that depression, all that anxiety, all that
fear but being chased by cops, all that anger at
the end, with all that working in her mind, she
still didn't take out innocent people.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
You gotta give her that. You gotta give her that.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Here's what happened literally about an hour ago, maybe an
hour and a half ago, on the chase that ended
up off the five Freeway up in the Grapevine area.
We showed you this live within the hour of frightening
into a high speed pursuit.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It ended in a deadly crash on the five Freeway
headed towards Gorman. Bad situation that the way this ended
here after LAPD started chasing the stolen vehicle and then
actually gave it over to the CHP. I want to
go live now to Skycow who has overhead the five
and the one thirty eight. You see here, that is
where the crash came to This world's all came to
an end southbound five on the one thirty eight. Now,
it appears that the suspect may have seen some spike
(28:12):
strips and tried to veer off of the roadway to
get away from them. We know that there were spikes
trips coming up just an exit before this, and she
was going.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
One hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty miles.
You know, you can fly when you're up in the
grape Vine. It's very hilly age go you go uphill
for cup miles, you go down for cup miles. But
when you're on the on the the Magic Mountain side,
the Valencia side, and you're coming down, you can get
up to one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty miles
an hour for last seven or eight miles it's straight downhill.
(28:39):
And then on the other side as well, going towards Bakersfield,
the last five or six miles straight down one hundred
and forty one hundred and fifty easily on any car,
any car.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I want to take you to some video here of
the pursuit, though it was intense and it was at
very high speeds upwards of one hundred and twenty miles
an hour at times, weaving in and out between big
rigs on the shoulder, even through construction zones. Now we
are still getting some details about exactly how this car
was stolen and when, but the LAPD Devonshire Division originally
chase it. There was one woman inside of the car
(29:08):
that was running very very aggressively from the LAPD and
then eventually the CCHP as they go northbound through the
five Here. The shoulder driving was something that we saw
very very commonly Now, she actually made it all the
way to the other side of the county line up
into Kern County before she gets through this construction zone
there you see hit some of the cones. Thankfully, there
were no construction workers in that area. That's what got
CCHP to back off, was that construction zone. She apparently
(29:30):
at some point realized this as she was near the
outlets at Fort to Home where she exits gets back
on the southbound side and those same units were right
there waiting for her. Now, we're going to show you
in just a moment video of the crash. We do
want to warn you it is graphic to watch. I
have paused it before the moments of the impact.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
We'll go ahead and show you that video here.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Okay, the video.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They are not going to show it anymore on TV,
And as soon as Channel five and Channel nine showed it,
they said, hey, we're not going to reverse this and
show it to you. But what they don't realize is
that about ninety five five percent of the people who
are watching it have a DVR and you can just
literally press the reverse button and look at it yourself.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
You don't need to have local news show it to you.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
And it's also on Twitter. It's everywhere. So if they
don't show it to you, it's not a big deal.
You just have to go through another step to do
it yourself and show it. And it's all over the place.
So I don't understand why they keep doing that. You
know why they can't say, oh, we can't show it.
They do the same thing on football games when a
guy runs naked across the field. It's like, oh, we
(30:30):
can't show it to you. Okay, Well, the first thing
I do is I pause the game and I go
to YouTube and I see nine angles of it. And
this is why local news and news in general in
a lot of ways is not keeping up with technology
in the times. It's got to change. It's got to
change because we all want to see it. We all
want to see it. We want to see everything, everything.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
And you'll see what I'm talking about. She apparently may
have seen something. That's what the spike trips were. Veers
off the side of the road over the gore point
onto the off ramp or the transition road rather, and
that is when she comes to the shoulder, here hits
the dirt path, swerves and there you can see right
before she hits the guardrail. She goes head on into
the guardrail. The car would eventually flip, and we had
heard from HP that she died as a result, that
(31:10):
one person inside that car died as a result of
the crash. And here it is one more time. You
can see she hits the dirt patch here on the
side of the shoulder, loses control, and that's when she
goes head on right in there.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
To that center.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Devidra, I'll take you back live now to Skycow, who's
still over that scene where this will now be an
hours long investigation as a California High Patrols Major Accident
Investigation team has to come out here and do a
full investigation, not only because of the death during this
traffic collision, but because it was during the course of
a HP pursuit as those officers were actively pursuing her.
Those spike strips just a couple hundred feet from where
(31:40):
she decided to veer off the freeway. Unclear she actually
saw those spike strips and that's what caused her to veer,
but certainly they were right about to be in front
of her, and then she made that turn across all
lanes of the freeway onto the transition road and unfortunately
crashed and lost her life.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, and fairly selfish at the end because she didn't
kill anybody, I'll give her that. But now she's got
you know, five, ten, fifteen police officers that have to
go in and look at that and then have to
go home to their families.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It's like, you know, about three or four.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Times a year, you hear a guy doing you know,
eighty five miles an hour and then bang he flies
into the Grand Canyon right off the edge, and you know,
it's a roadrunner time where he goes down, there's a
little puff of smoke and he or she is gone. Well, okay, again,
they didn't take anybody out, but the park rangers now
have to clean that up. And so they've got to
(32:31):
clean that up. They got to see the dead body
probably you know, you know, probably dismembered, and then they
got to go home to their family and keep that
inside them, and keep a million of those things inside
of them.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
And it's a lot. It takes its toll. That's why cops.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
When you know, as they get older and they retire,
a lot of them turn to heavy drinking because they've
kept a lot inside of them over the years, a lot.
This is one of them. This incident is one of them.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
We are forty eight hours away from the Dodgers starting,
forty eight hours and ten minutes away from first pitch
at Dodger Stadium. First time the Yankees have played at
Dodger Stadium for the World Series since nineteen eighty one.
What a week in Los Angeles. A lot of events
going on Friday as well. We come back, we'll tell
(33:21):
you all about them. There are six major events going
on Friday afternoon into Friday evening, and we're going to
tell you about all of them when we come back.
We'll continue to tell you about all of them and
how to get to the stadium on Friday. You're going
to want to listen to KFI all day on Friday
because there's gonna be traffic everywhere everywhere. Six major events
(33:41):
going on. We'll tell you about all of them. We'll
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