October 24, 2025 • 29 mins
The World Series starts today! Ken Rosenthal and Alanna Rizzo discuss Bo Bichette’s latest status after missing over a month of game action. (top of show)
(2:11) The hosts discuss Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia stepping away from the team due to a deeply personal family matter.
(3:39) Into matchups talk, Ken and Alanna touch on why Los Angeles can't fall into the same trap of relying too heavily on fastballs like the Yankees and Mariners did.
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(6:47) Plus, how much of a role will postseason and Fall Classic experience play for the Dodgers vs. the Jays?
(11:43) The hosts answer live Grillin' Ken Questions.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome everyone to the World Series edition of Fair Territory.
I'm Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. We're going to
talk about all things World Series, the addition of Bobaschett
to the roster, the situation with Alex Vesia. We're going
to get into some other things going on in the
sport as well, the Angels, the Giants, all kinds of things.
But first Alana, Hello, how are you And it's good
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to be with you again.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, great to be with you too.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Ken.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Of course, the time we've been waiting for the rosters
are out. What do you make of it?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The big one is Bobachhett, the big addition now he
was added to the roster, as was Ty France, and
the Jays are dropping Yaiel Rodriguez the reliever and Joey
low Perfito, who has added for Anthony Santander in the
last round. Bashett obviously is major news. Now the next
question is how are the Jays going to deplay Bobashett.
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They obviously feel he is healthy enough to play, even
though he has not played since September sixth due to
a left knees sprain. So do you use him as
a DH Do you use him at shortstop doubtful because
Andres heimen As is playing so well and Bobaschett's coming
over for Knees Sprain. Or do you use him at
second base, which is where he has taken ground balls
the last couple of days. That's a position he hasn't
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played since twenty nineteen at Triple A. I don't see
that happening to me. With Blake Snell, a left hander
on the mound tonight, the obvious move is Bishett at
DH George Springer in the outfield. Now, George Springer hasn't
played the outfield since September twenty fourth, hasn't done it
all that much this year. But when I asked manager
John Schneider yesterday, can Springer play the outfield? Is he
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capable of doing that? Schneinder's answer was yes, absolutely he
is so. Bogashett again is not on the roster just
for appearance's sake. Maybe they will use him solely as
a pinch hitter. I can kind of see that. But again,
with the lefty on the mound Ilana tonight, the night
we see Boba shed in my opinion, yeah, and it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Looks like Jario Rodriguez, Joey low Berfito, we're off. As
you mentioned, Ken ty Franz also added to the roster.
You look at the Los Angeles Dodgers side and they
are out there without Alex Vesia at least for now.
What more can you tell us.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, he had what the Dodgers described as a family
emergency over the last couple of days, so he is
not going to be on the roster. There was some
question over whether he would be added to the Family
Emergency Bereavement list, which is something that would require him
to be at a minimum of three days and a
maximum of seven. As far as we know, he has
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not been put on that list. They announced their roster
this morning. Will Klein was on it, others were on it,
and Alex Vessia was not. So it seems to me
that because of what happened with Alex Vessia, and we
don't know more details just yet, he is not going
to be available and the roster is set, and that
is that. Obviously, it's a shame for the Vessi has
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been a terrific reliever for them all year. But the
bigger concern, of course is Vessia and his family and
everything going on with him, So our thoughts obviously go
out to him as in addition to everything else going
on here. But no, he will not be on the roster.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, we certainly are thinking about Alex Vessia, his wife Kayla.
The Dodgers said it's with heavy heart that they're dealing
with a deeply personal matter. Ben Casparius also left off
of the roster. No Tanner Scott, he wasn't activated at
Gardo Henriquez And as you mentioned, Ken Will kleinb we're
added for Los Angeles for the Fall Classic. Let's talk
about some not so obvious World series storylines. Ken Jay's
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ability to adjust to off speed stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What do you know, Well, in the first two rounds,
we saw the Yankees and the Mariners try to fastball
the Jays out of existence. It didn't work very well,
and the Mariners kept pounding fastballs because that is what
they do. This is who we are. We pound his
own and the Jays basically not be held down. I
would expect that the Dodgers are not going to fall
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into this same trap. I would expect that the Dodgers
are going to go more breaking ball with Snells starting
tonight and onward, and if the jas can adjust to
that because they're heavy first pitch swinging team, aggressive early
incounts all the power to them. It's just a different
look and they're going to get a different look from
the Dodgers. One of the things the Dodgers do really well.
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We talk about their money endlessly, but they gain plan
really well, and obviously right now their starting pitchers are
executing at a level that we haven't seen in the
postseason for quite some time. Ken.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
One of the things about the matchup between the Dodgers
and whether it was going to be the Mariners or
the Blue Jays, is that the Blue Jays don't have
as many left handed starters in the starting rotation, but
they do have some pretty darn good left handed relievers.
How do you think that will affect the Freeman's of
Tawny's and Munsies of the world.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I would say a lot of they have left handed relievers.
I don't know how good they are now. Mason Fleuhardy
has been pretty good and he's had a good run
in the postseason. He's been someone actually who had to
save against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. That game kind
of swung the home field advantage for this series. If
you look back on it now, Jays with ninety four
wins Dodgers with ninety three. That game could have changed it.
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Brendan Little gave up the big game time Homer to
cal Rally in Game five of the Alcs, and that
was a situation where they wanted Rolli batting right handed.
Didn't work out too well. Brendan Little has been for
the JS until I would say the last month or so,
a very effective reliever, but right now not as hot
as he was earlier in the season. And then there's
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Eric Lower who is more of a swingman, not a
matchup guy, but I would imagine that they'll have him
on the Dodgers left handed hitters as well. So this
is a pivotal question in the series. How will the
J's hold down the Dodgers offense, Because if you remember,
going back, even to the Wildcard round, the Dodgers faced
great pitching with the Reds, they faced it with the
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Phillies for sure, and even with the Brewers. Now they're
facing a staff where you Savage is really interesting and
this is the first time they'll see him. It's probably
going to be difficult, I would imagine, and then Gossman,
who has been good, but we're getting later in the postseason. Now.
This is not as dominant a group, in my opinion
as some of the Dodgers' opponents earlier. So we'll see
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how it goes. But what I like about this series
a lot. I'm interested in your opinion. It seems to
me that people think, Eh, Dodgers in five, Dodgers will
roll them. I'm not so sure that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well can I want it to be entertaining. I did
say Dodgers in six, just to be different than my Dodgers'
territory co host Clint Pasias, who took the Dodgers in five.
But one of the questions, or one of the discussions
that we had yesterday can and I'm interested in your
thoughts about it. How much do you think experience plays
into this? The Toronto Blue Jays haven't been to the
World Series, I believe since ninety three. You would know
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better than I. The Dodgers have been there as recently
as last year. Not just the players that have the experience,
it's Dave Roberts and his coaching staff as well. How
much does that experience lend into what the Dodgers are
experiencing this time versus what the Blue Jays are experiencing
because it's new for the majority of them.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I would say the biggest edge perhaps is with the
managers because Dave Roberts has been through this time and
time again. He has learned how to manage effectively in
the postseason, and he's done it in different ways with
the pullpen last year, with the rotation this year. He
understands the urgency. John Schneiner does too for the Toronto
Blue Jays, but it is newer for him and he
had an experience with Brendan Little in Game five where
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maybe he should have used Jeff Hoffman, and he's kind
of learning as he goes. But at the same time,
he's done a really good job for them. So certainly
Roberts has more experience and more experience on this the
biggest stages. As for the players, keep in mind the
Jays have some veterans who have been here. George Springer
is one. Max Schurzer is another. Facet maybe not, but
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he is a veteran. And they have a pretty good
mix of veteran players and less established players. And then
they have a guy named Vladimir Guerrero Junior who seems
too relish being on the stages. So I don't know
that it's going to matter that much. It certainly helps
them as well, being at home to start the series
where they've been really good all season long, even though
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the first two games of the ALCS were dropped at
Rogers Centers by the JS. I just expect they're going
to be playing at their usual level. I don't expect
them to be intimidated or stage fright, anything like that.
That's not them.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And can we know that you've been to multiple World Series,
You've covered a lot of them. You know you've been
to at least twenty, maybe closer to forty in terms
of coverage. What are you looking the most forward to
in terms of this particular matchup.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, we haven't talked much about the possibility of the
Dodgers going back to back, and that's something that hasn't
been done since the nineteen ninety eight to two thousand Yankees.
That is something that is of course the backdrop to
this series. And the other aspect of that is if
the Blue Jays win somehow, if they upset the Dodgers,
it seems to me that a lot of people who
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are not Dodgers fans are going to be very happy.
And all those people who talk about the Dodgers ruining
the sport and all of this, and Jason Stark has
a wonderful article today explaining how they're not ruining the sport.
Those people are going to be screaming louder when, if,
and when the Dodgers do win the series. So it
almost seems to me and people are going to take
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objection to this that for the sport as we go
into a labor negotiation coming up. Not that the Jays
are a small market team, they've got the fifth hard
largest payroll. It seems to me that some of that
talk would calm down if the Jay's won. So all
of these things are kind of swirling around Alana, and
I'm just looking forward to the games themselves because I
expect they're going to be good.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, obviously Canada cheering for the and I would imagine
a lot of folks in the United States cheering for
the Jays as well, Ken if they're not Dodgers fans.
Don't forget though the Dodgers do have the entire country
of Japan back in them with Sho hee O Tani
and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, as well as Roki Sasaki. Of course,
I kid, it's gonna be a fun, fun series, all right,
get your questions in, guys on the chat for Ken Rosenthal.
(10:20):
So much to talk about here as we're getting ready
for Game one of the twenty twenty five World Series.
We'll be back right after a quick break.
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Speaker 2 (11:34):
All right, we welcome you back to Fair Territory with
Ken Rosenthal. Time now to get some questions in the
first question is in regards to matchup, and this one
I believe is from Mikey Romeo, and it's about what
matchup Ken, you're looking the most forward to. I would
imagine they're talking about a hitter pitcher matchup. Mikey Romeo
twenty one sixty six. Who do you want to see
at the plate and on the hill.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Let's start with game one, Treya Savage versus the Dodgers.
He has this unique high arm slot that players rarely see.
I don't know that anyone in the major leagues right
now is even comparable to you, Savage. So the Dodgers
are going to be seeing him for the first time,
but not really in the sense that they have the
traject Machine. And if you haven't heard about this, that's
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a machine that can simulate any pictures, delivery and pitch shapes.
You look at the video on the screen in the
distance sixty feet six inches whatever it is, and that's
the picture coming at you. So they were watching you
Savage hitting off you Savage on the machine before they
left for Toronto. Now it's not the same as doing
it in the game, obviously, but it's pretty darn close.
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But that, to me is the most intriguing thing. When
a team has not seen this guy, it's not easy
to deal with his split, with his slider, with his fastball.
He is a different look.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Can some folks want to make a case that he
only has six big league starts under his belt, had
a meteoric rise obviously, Tray Savage, I'm talking about through
the system and getting to the point where he gets
the ball for Game one of the World Series. Should
we look into that too much? Do you think the
moment will be too big? How will you know when
you watch this game tonight that he's on Just.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
If he's in the zone and commanding his pitches. I
don't expect the moment to be big for him because
he's done this against the Yankees. Now, he's done it
twice against the Mariners and the Alcs. He has faced
big moments. Now. Granted, this is Game one of the
World Series, but a lot of this is a unique individual.
He's twenty two years old and talks like he's thirty
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two when we interview him. It's not like you're interviewing
a kid. He's got the presence and the fearlessness and
all of those things that you would want. So I
do not expect the moment to be too big for him. Obviously,
the Dodgers might be too big for him. It's Otani
and Betts and Freeman and Munsey and Smith, but I
don't expect them be nervous. Put it that way.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, I think Treya Savage certainly has a bright future
in the sport. He does seem like he's ahead of
his time in terms of his poison professional as the
Next question is from Luke Artema seventy fifty six. Which
bullpen has the advantage in this series? Can the Dodgers'
bullpen has been suspect if you will, What do you
think in terms of Luke's.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Question, I would say both are suspect, and the Dodgers
then would have the advantage because their starters are going
deeper into games. This thirty five to forty game stretch
that they've been on, the starters have been incredible. So
I would say the Dodgers have the advantage typically because
we're not going to see their relievers as much. And
we'll see what happens. I know Mike Petrillo and MLB
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dot Com has mentioned and others have too, that Sasaki
because he's not striking out guys. What he's doing is
a little bit smoking mirrors, all right, But he's doing it.
So we'll see how that all plays out. But yes,
I would not say either team as a particular advantage
in that regard. Both bullpens are capable of being had. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I love this next question. Toronto is a beautiful city.
Canada is a beautiful country. I love this question. Do
you see this World series igniting talks about a team
coming back to Montreal. We'll see that support fandom, fan
base in baseball in Canada, it's big. It's not just
hockey there They love their baseball.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
As well, no question, and some of the TV ratings
for the Alcs Game seven especially were off the charts
for Rogers. Now, Rogers has the rights in Canada, just
as Fox has them in the United States, and Game
seven the average viewership was six million in a country
of forty million. That's an amazing number. Now what does
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it mean from Montreal. I don't know that it means anything.
It seems to me that Nashville is a strong favorite
whenever baseball does expand for one of the teams and
the other team would be out west. Montreal is a
city that once supported baseball, and you can make a
strong case that the strike of nineteen ninety four ninety
five is what did in baseball in Montreal, and that
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was through no fault of the people living there or
the fans there. But I just don't see Montreal being
at the forefront of expansion talks. It just doesn't seem
like it has been that way in recent years.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
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out on Netflix. All right after the break, Ken and
I are going to discuss our dude and dorks of
the week. We'll be right back, bet.
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Speaker 1 (16:41):
Dude, Dude, dude, dud.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Ken, Let's give somebody some praise. Who is your due
to the week?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I'm going to go with San Francisco Giants President of
Baseball Operations, Buster Posey. Now, the hiring of Tony Botello
as manager could be great, it could be a disaster.
I don't know that it's going to be somewhere in between.
But what I admire about Posey here is the guts
that he has shown since taking this position. This is
a former player moving into the front office in the
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highest role possible, and he is just doing some things
that have been unconventional, to say the least, this hiring
being most of all, you see here the quote from
Scott Ostler, the brilliant Commiss San Francisco Chronicle. Buster Posey
didn't just think outside the box and hiring Tony Battello
to be the new manager of the San Francisco Giants.
He's thinking outside the warehouse where the boxes are store.
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That is a great line. I wish I could write
like that, And Scott's right, it's completely outside the box.
But you know what, it's different and maybe it works
and maybe Buster Posey looks really good. He made a
daring trade as well for ralphae Old Devers, and people
in the industry are like, oh, they take on all
that money. Well, they couldn't get a star any other way.
They struck out on all those free agents. So I
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just admire the way he's going about it, and whether
he succeeds that remains to be seen.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, they lost out on Shoho Atani, they lost out
on Aaron Judge. They made that big move for Rafael Devers.
Hopefully it pays dividends for them in the future. My
Dude of the Week Ken is a baseball lifer don
Mattingly Donnie Baseball, who of course has been around this
game for a very long time thirty six years in fact,
almost four decades, and he's never been to the World Series,
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not as a player. Of course, his unbelievable career was
shortened by injuries. He very much could be in the
Hall of Fame had he kept going. You know, he
hasn't been there as a manager, he has not been
there as a coach until now. So congratulations to Donnie Baseball,
obviously a part of John Schneider's staff with the Toronto
Blue Jays. I'm happy for him. I'm so happy for Laurie,
his wife, their kids, Preston Mattingly, who obviously is with
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the Philadelphia Phillies. Just congratulations and good luck to Donnie
Baseball in terms of that. Time now for the dork
of the week, and you and I typically split this up,
but I think this is a question of this could
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potentially be our dork of the year on those are
my words, not your words, But why don't you go
ahead and start us off? Who is the dork of
the week this week?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Certainly the dork of the week now Dork of the
year will deal with it another time a lota, But
we're going to divide this up because we each have
reasons why we want to name this person dork of
the week, and it's going to be Artie Moreno, the
Angel's owner, and I'm going to name him dork of
the Week for giving Kurt Zuzuki's new manager a one
year contract. One year managers typically get three or even four,
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And in this case, it seems that Moreno wants to
keep his options open in case there's a lockout next
year and doesn't want to pay a manager in that circumstance.
I don't know that that is entirely his motivation. Maybe
he just wants to see whether Kurt Zuzuki can do
this job. But Suzuki enters his final year, Menazi in
the GM enters his final year. And here's the problem.
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When you're on a one year deal as a manager.
Players know it, man, they know you're a laying duck,
and they know that your authority is only going to
extend so far. So Kurt Suzuki, who has a chance,
I'm sure to be a good manager, even though he's
never had a coaching or managing position. He's playing from
behind before he even starts, and that's no good.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Go ahead a lot before I get into my reasons, though,
let's follow up on that a little bit. Ken is
the reason to take the job just to get your
foot in the door as a manager, to say, hey,
it's on my resume now I'm a big league manager.
There's only thirty jobs in the bigs. What's Suzuki's incentive here?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I think it's just that Alana, You're right, And to me,
that's a little bit flawed logic because this franchise is
so difficult to win with with moreno running the team
the way he does. You inherit all the inherit, all
the problems that the previous managers all had, and it's
an uphill fight. I just don't see it ending well
for Kurt. And I hate saying that because I like Kurt.
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He's a good baseball person. Obviously, he was a great
catcher for many years, a World Series champion, But he's
in tough here.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Let me ask you this, do you think the reason
Albert Poolholtz or Tory Hunter were no longer under consideration
is a they're like, I'm not only taking a year,
Or do you think Kurt Suzuki was more qualified just
being that he is a catcher and he's been in
the system already as a special assistant.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So was Toy. So I don't know that he's more
qualified than Tory in that regard with Pooholes, it seems
it was contractual. He's under contract to the Angels with
his personal service thing. He wanted some kind of arrangement
that Ardie Marino did not want to give him. Whether
it's years, money, whatever, the number or problem was not sure,
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but that was the issue and Tory. I'm not sure
Tory would have taken one year, and I'm not sure
they just didn't see Suzuki as a bed fit as
a manager. I don't know the answer to that, but
given where this process started with Albert the favorite, it
was a surprising.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, I would think a year deal is kind of
a slap in the face for me. Can the reason
is that just what you see, Kokuchi was saying that
the air conditioning did not work all year. This is
a major league franchise, guys, you know the general manager
plays the dumbest man ever. As far as an Angel's
post for HVAC help, what are we doing? I mean,
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it's just it seems so ridiculous. You can't make this up.
Sam Blum, who covers the Angels for the Athletics, says
the Angels posted a job for an HVAC air conditioning
technician today today, what are we doing? You have a
major league club that doesn't have air conditioning in certain
areas of their clubhouse. I mean, it just seems unbelievable
that this continues to happen. But again, it's not just
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this little and this is a minor issue, I guess.
I mean what you're going to talk about next, in
terms of the owner facing the franchise and long term
loyalist loyalists to testify, that's even a bigger issue in
terms of why this man could easily be dork of
a year.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, what you're talking about, Alana is the Tyler Skaggs
trial and the Angels are being sued by the family
of Skags. And we've been following this and being aware
of it, and had Ardi Moreno settled this lawsuit, then
Mike Trout wouldn't have had to testify, testify about some
uncomfortable things that he was a part of in the clubhouse.
To me, their longtime former PR man would not have
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had to testify and basically said nothing. They wouldn't have
put all of these people in uncomfortable positions. Now, I
don't know what Ardi Moreno's thinking is there why he
wanted to proceed with the suit. Maybe he just feels
he's in the right here. The Angels are in the
right and we're not given in I can understand that.
But as a result of not going to a settlement,
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here is where we are, and this is what has happened.
It's kind of laid bare what was going on with
the Angels for a few years there, and it's not
pretty at all.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
My next thought here is Anthony Rendon, who I have
played more major league games then in the last four years.
It still owed thirty eight million dollars Ken Rosenthal, this
has to be one of the worst contracts in Major
League history in terms of time on the field versus
amount of money given.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I would agree with that a lot. It's certainly true.
Josh Apmel didn't work out too well for them, Albert
Pooholes did really work out too well for them. They
have not done well with some of their long term deals,
even Trout. You can argue they're not getting the return
there that they thought they were going to get initially.
So the way this franchise is run, to sum this
all up, in general, has been incompetently and we talk
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about the Rockies a lot and how insular they are
and how they do things different than the rest of
the teams in Major League Baseball. The Rockies, seemingly under
Walker Montfort now are trying to at least hire a
general manager from the outside. It'll start being less insular.
The Angels, you look at them, it's the already show
all the time, And my goodness, when are we going
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to see this team be a representative franchise again in
a large market? People talk about the Dodgers, this the
Dodgers that. Yeah, the Angels have a lot of the
same advantages the Dodgers do, and they squandered them, starting
with Otani, but including many other things. So it's just
a shame what has happened here, And it's a shame
what's happened with that team. It's tough to be a
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fan of that club right now, and it's going to
be difficult until there's some real changes in either the
way Moreno operates or the sale of the club.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. A sale
might be the only thing that saves this franchise. Ken Rosenthal,
what what if the Dodgers ended up signing Anthony Rindon.
Thank goodness he didn't want that Hollywood lifestyle because maybe
the Dodgers would not be in the World Series. I
know it doesn't come down to one guy. That being said,
we're going to say goodbye right now for our folks
watching us on TV. Thank you so much. We'll see
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you next time. We have a couple more minutes with
the YouTube family right after this. All right, if you're
still with this, that means that you're on YouTube. We
appreciate you guys supporting us Ken Congratulations your twentieth World
Series for you on Fox. A great crew over there,
of course, not your twentieth World Series, but your twentieth
with them. That's exciting. I mean, tell us why you
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still get the juice out of doing maybe that's not
a good phrase in baseball, while you still get jazzed up,
if you will, for covering the World Series. And I
would imagine there's still a big part of you that's
just a fan of this great game.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, that's basically it a lot, and the excitement comes
from this uncertainty and what's going to happen here and
the stories that we are going to get one way
or the other and that's what drives me always just
covering the stories and talking to the people and telling
those stories, whether television, print, however you want to do it,
that is what is it for me. And that's the
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fun part. The competition of that, trying to be the
best you can be, trying to get things that other
people don't have, all of that. But before I even
go any further, actually forget going any further with me,
I want to mention our producer, Pete mccheska. This is
his final world series. He's done twenty two of them,
and he is going out with this World series. He's
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going to continue to do football, but he has been
to me incredibly welcoming this whole time, and especially at
the start when they had not had a print reporter
at Fox do Sideline. Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Of
course we're very supportive as well. But Pete, he's been
the guy for a long time and that job is
not easy. He does it extremely well and it's been
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a joy working for him.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I hopefully we're still pet out with a really good
world series.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Let's put it badfully. It's entertaining and everything works in
the truck as it's supposed to work. Congratulations to Pete
and best of luck as you continue your career covering football.
Of course for Fox, I'm looking forward to just good games.
I want to be competitive, you know, I'm excited for
a lot of reasons. But this is the greatest game
in the world, and I'm just grateful that we get
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to cover it, not only here unfair territory, but obviously
watching you and the guy's on Fox and talk about
the crew a little bit, Ken, I mean, it's incredible.
You have Big Poppy, you have obviously Derek Jeter, Hall
of famers, Kevin Burkhardt does a tremendous job you of
course for Ducci, and not to mention the guys in
the booth, Hall of Famer John Smoltz of course, and
our buddy with the Dodgers, Joe Davis. It's just a
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great crew, it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Is, and it's been that way ever since I've been there,
with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. We have Bill Webb
at that time was the director. Now it's Matt Gangle.
Bill Webb was a revolutionary directory changed the way baseball
was shown on television, and Matt Gangle has taken it
to another level. I always look at it this way.
Alone it I feel like I'm part of an all
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star team with this group. And it's not just the
people you just mentioned, and you know this from working
in TV. It's all of the people behind the scenes
in the truck manning the cameras, the audio people. Everyone
that works on these broadcasts is big time, really great
and I'm grateful just to be a part. Honestly.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, well good luck. I can't wait to watch your
coverage tonight. We appreciate it. Game one of the World
Series on Fox of course, everybody tuning in, thanks for
watching and listening today, everybody, we appreciate it. Fair Territory
is back on Monday. Today's Foul Territory coming up. Todd Frazier,
Eric Krat, Scott braun Has, John Smolt, Kevin Plar and Braves.
Reporter Brant mccauleay. Don't forget both Foul Territory and Dodgers
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Terry with myself and Clymphesias, we'll have live postgame shows
right after every World Series game. Let's do it.
Welcome everyone to the World Series edition of Fair Territory.
I'm Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. We're going to
talk about all things World Series, the addition of Bobaschett
to the roster, the situation with Alex Vesia. We're going
to get into some other things going on in the
sport as well, the Angels, the Giants, all kinds of things.
But first Alana, Hello, how are you And it's good
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to be with you again.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, great to be with you too.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Ken.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Of course, the time we've been waiting for the rosters
are out. What do you make of it?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The big one is Bobachhett, the big addition now he
was added to the roster, as was Ty France, and
the Jays are dropping Yaiel Rodriguez the reliever and Joey
low Perfito, who has added for Anthony Santander in the
last round. Bashett obviously is major news. Now the next
question is how are the Jays going to deplay Bobashett.
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They obviously feel he is healthy enough to play, even
though he has not played since September sixth due to
a left knees sprain. So do you use him as
a DH Do you use him at shortstop doubtful because
Andres heimen As is playing so well and Bobaschett's coming
over for Knees Sprain. Or do you use him at
second base, which is where he has taken ground balls
the last couple of days. That's a position he hasn't
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played since twenty nineteen at Triple A. I don't see
that happening to me. With Blake Snell, a left hander
on the mound tonight, the obvious move is Bishett at
DH George Springer in the outfield. Now, George Springer hasn't
played the outfield since September twenty fourth, hasn't done it
all that much this year. But when I asked manager
John Schneider yesterday, can Springer play the outfield? Is he
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capable of doing that? Schneinder's answer was yes, absolutely he
is so. Bogashett again is not on the roster just
for appearance's sake. Maybe they will use him solely as
a pinch hitter. I can kind of see that. But again,
with the lefty on the mound Ilana tonight, the night
we see Boba shed in my opinion, yeah, and it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Looks like Jario Rodriguez, Joey low Berfito, we're off. As
you mentioned, Ken ty Franz also added to the roster.
You look at the Los Angeles Dodgers side and they
are out there without Alex Vesia at least for now.
What more can you tell us.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, he had what the Dodgers described as a family
emergency over the last couple of days, so he is
not going to be on the roster. There was some
question over whether he would be added to the Family
Emergency Bereavement list, which is something that would require him
to be at a minimum of three days and a
maximum of seven. As far as we know, he has
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not been put on that list. They announced their roster
this morning. Will Klein was on it, others were on it,
and Alex Vessia was not. So it seems to me
that because of what happened with Alex Vessia, and we
don't know more details just yet, he is not going
to be available and the roster is set, and that
is that. Obviously, it's a shame for the Vessi has
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been a terrific reliever for them all year. But the
bigger concern, of course is Vessia and his family and
everything going on with him, So our thoughts obviously go
out to him as in addition to everything else going
on here. But no, he will not be on the roster.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, we certainly are thinking about Alex Vessia, his wife Kayla.
The Dodgers said it's with heavy heart that they're dealing
with a deeply personal matter. Ben Casparius also left off
of the roster. No Tanner Scott, he wasn't activated at
Gardo Henriquez And as you mentioned, Ken Will kleinb we're
added for Los Angeles for the Fall Classic. Let's talk
about some not so obvious World series storylines. Ken Jay's
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ability to adjust to off speed stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What do you know, Well, in the first two rounds,
we saw the Yankees and the Mariners try to fastball
the Jays out of existence. It didn't work very well,
and the Mariners kept pounding fastballs because that is what
they do. This is who we are. We pound his
own and the Jays basically not be held down. I
would expect that the Dodgers are not going to fall
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into this same trap. I would expect that the Dodgers
are going to go more breaking ball with Snells starting
tonight and onward, and if the jas can adjust to
that because they're heavy first pitch swinging team, aggressive early
incounts all the power to them. It's just a different
look and they're going to get a different look from
the Dodgers. One of the things the Dodgers do really well.
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We talk about their money endlessly, but they gain plan
really well, and obviously right now their starting pitchers are
executing at a level that we haven't seen in the
postseason for quite some time. Ken.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
One of the things about the matchup between the Dodgers
and whether it was going to be the Mariners or
the Blue Jays, is that the Blue Jays don't have
as many left handed starters in the starting rotation, but
they do have some pretty darn good left handed relievers.
How do you think that will affect the Freeman's of
Tawny's and Munsies of the world.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I would say a lot of they have left handed relievers.
I don't know how good they are now. Mason Fleuhardy
has been pretty good and he's had a good run
in the postseason. He's been someone actually who had to
save against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. That game kind
of swung the home field advantage for this series. If
you look back on it now, Jays with ninety four
wins Dodgers with ninety three. That game could have changed it.
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Brendan Little gave up the big game time Homer to
cal Rally in Game five of the Alcs, and that
was a situation where they wanted Rolli batting right handed.
Didn't work out too well. Brendan Little has been for
the JS until I would say the last month or so,
a very effective reliever, but right now not as hot
as he was earlier in the season. And then there's
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Eric Lower who is more of a swingman, not a
matchup guy, but I would imagine that they'll have him
on the Dodgers left handed hitters as well. So this
is a pivotal question in the series. How will the
J's hold down the Dodgers offense, Because if you remember,
going back, even to the Wildcard round, the Dodgers faced
great pitching with the Reds, they faced it with the
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Phillies for sure, and even with the Brewers. Now they're
facing a staff where you Savage is really interesting and
this is the first time they'll see him. It's probably
going to be difficult, I would imagine, and then Gossman,
who has been good, but we're getting later in the postseason. Now.
This is not as dominant a group, in my opinion
as some of the Dodgers' opponents earlier. So we'll see
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how it goes. But what I like about this series
a lot. I'm interested in your opinion. It seems to
me that people think, Eh, Dodgers in five, Dodgers will
roll them. I'm not so sure that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well can I want it to be entertaining. I did
say Dodgers in six, just to be different than my Dodgers'
territory co host Clint Pasias, who took the Dodgers in five.
But one of the questions, or one of the discussions
that we had yesterday can and I'm interested in your
thoughts about it. How much do you think experience plays
into this? The Toronto Blue Jays haven't been to the
World Series, I believe since ninety three. You would know
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better than I. The Dodgers have been there as recently
as last year. Not just the players that have the experience,
it's Dave Roberts and his coaching staff as well. How
much does that experience lend into what the Dodgers are
experiencing this time versus what the Blue Jays are experiencing
because it's new for the majority of them.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I would say the biggest edge perhaps is with the
managers because Dave Roberts has been through this time and
time again. He has learned how to manage effectively in
the postseason, and he's done it in different ways with
the pullpen last year, with the rotation this year. He
understands the urgency. John Schneiner does too for the Toronto
Blue Jays, but it is newer for him and he
had an experience with Brendan Little in Game five where
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maybe he should have used Jeff Hoffman, and he's kind
of learning as he goes. But at the same time,
he's done a really good job for them. So certainly
Roberts has more experience and more experience on this the
biggest stages. As for the players, keep in mind the
Jays have some veterans who have been here. George Springer
is one. Max Schurzer is another. Facet maybe not, but
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he is a veteran. And they have a pretty good
mix of veteran players and less established players. And then
they have a guy named Vladimir Guerrero Junior who seems
too relish being on the stages. So I don't know
that it's going to matter that much. It certainly helps
them as well, being at home to start the series
where they've been really good all season long, even though
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the first two games of the ALCS were dropped at
Rogers Centers by the JS. I just expect they're going
to be playing at their usual level. I don't expect
them to be intimidated or stage fright, anything like that.
That's not them.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And can we know that you've been to multiple World Series,
You've covered a lot of them. You know you've been
to at least twenty, maybe closer to forty in terms
of coverage. What are you looking the most forward to
in terms of this particular matchup.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, we haven't talked much about the possibility of the
Dodgers going back to back, and that's something that hasn't
been done since the nineteen ninety eight to two thousand Yankees.
That is something that is of course the backdrop to
this series. And the other aspect of that is if
the Blue Jays win somehow, if they upset the Dodgers,
it seems to me that a lot of people who
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are not Dodgers fans are going to be very happy.
And all those people who talk about the Dodgers ruining
the sport and all of this, and Jason Stark has
a wonderful article today explaining how they're not ruining the sport.
Those people are going to be screaming louder when, if,
and when the Dodgers do win the series. So it
almost seems to me and people are going to take
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objection to this that for the sport as we go
into a labor negotiation coming up. Not that the Jays
are a small market team, they've got the fifth hard
largest payroll. It seems to me that some of that
talk would calm down if the Jay's won. So all
of these things are kind of swirling around Alana, and
I'm just looking forward to the games themselves because I
expect they're going to be good.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, obviously Canada cheering for the and I would imagine
a lot of folks in the United States cheering for
the Jays as well, Ken if they're not Dodgers fans.
Don't forget though the Dodgers do have the entire country
of Japan back in them with Sho hee O Tani
and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, as well as Roki Sasaki. Of course,
I kid, it's gonna be a fun, fun series, all right,
get your questions in, guys on the chat for Ken Rosenthal.
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So much to talk about here as we're getting ready
for Game one of the twenty twenty five World Series.
We'll be back right after a quick break.
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Speaker 2 (11:34):
All right, we welcome you back to Fair Territory with
Ken Rosenthal. Time now to get some questions in the
first question is in regards to matchup, and this one
I believe is from Mikey Romeo, and it's about what
matchup Ken, you're looking the most forward to. I would
imagine they're talking about a hitter pitcher matchup. Mikey Romeo
twenty one sixty six. Who do you want to see
at the plate and on the hill.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Let's start with game one, Treya Savage versus the Dodgers.
He has this unique high arm slot that players rarely see.
I don't know that anyone in the major leagues right
now is even comparable to you, Savage. So the Dodgers
are going to be seeing him for the first time,
but not really in the sense that they have the
traject Machine. And if you haven't heard about this, that's
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a machine that can simulate any pictures, delivery and pitch shapes.
You look at the video on the screen in the
distance sixty feet six inches whatever it is, and that's
the picture coming at you. So they were watching you
Savage hitting off you Savage on the machine before they
left for Toronto. Now it's not the same as doing
it in the game, obviously, but it's pretty darn close.
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But that, to me is the most intriguing thing. When
a team has not seen this guy, it's not easy
to deal with his split, with his slider, with his fastball.
He is a different look.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Can some folks want to make a case that he
only has six big league starts under his belt, had
a meteoric rise obviously, Tray Savage, I'm talking about through
the system and getting to the point where he gets
the ball for Game one of the World Series. Should
we look into that too much? Do you think the
moment will be too big? How will you know when
you watch this game tonight that he's on Just.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
If he's in the zone and commanding his pitches. I
don't expect the moment to be big for him because
he's done this against the Yankees. Now, he's done it
twice against the Mariners and the Alcs. He has faced
big moments. Now. Granted, this is Game one of the
World Series, but a lot of this is a unique individual.
He's twenty two years old and talks like he's thirty
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two when we interview him. It's not like you're interviewing
a kid. He's got the presence and the fearlessness and
all of those things that you would want. So I
do not expect the moment to be too big for him. Obviously,
the Dodgers might be too big for him. It's Otani
and Betts and Freeman and Munsey and Smith, but I
don't expect them be nervous. Put it that way.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, I think Treya Savage certainly has a bright future
in the sport. He does seem like he's ahead of
his time in terms of his poison professional as the
Next question is from Luke Artema seventy fifty six. Which
bullpen has the advantage in this series? Can the Dodgers'
bullpen has been suspect if you will, What do you
think in terms of Luke's.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Question, I would say both are suspect, and the Dodgers
then would have the advantage because their starters are going
deeper into games. This thirty five to forty game stretch
that they've been on, the starters have been incredible. So
I would say the Dodgers have the advantage typically because
we're not going to see their relievers as much. And
we'll see what happens. I know Mike Petrillo and MLB
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dot Com has mentioned and others have too, that Sasaki
because he's not striking out guys. What he's doing is
a little bit smoking mirrors, all right, But he's doing it.
So we'll see how that all plays out. But yes,
I would not say either team as a particular advantage
in that regard. Both bullpens are capable of being had. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I love this next question. Toronto is a beautiful city.
Canada is a beautiful country. I love this question. Do
you see this World series igniting talks about a team
coming back to Montreal. We'll see that support fandom, fan
base in baseball in Canada, it's big. It's not just
hockey there They love their baseball.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
As well, no question, and some of the TV ratings
for the Alcs Game seven especially were off the charts
for Rogers. Now, Rogers has the rights in Canada, just
as Fox has them in the United States, and Game
seven the average viewership was six million in a country
of forty million. That's an amazing number. Now what does
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it mean from Montreal. I don't know that it means anything.
It seems to me that Nashville is a strong favorite
whenever baseball does expand for one of the teams and
the other team would be out west. Montreal is a
city that once supported baseball, and you can make a
strong case that the strike of nineteen ninety four ninety
five is what did in baseball in Montreal, and that
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was through no fault of the people living there or
the fans there. But I just don't see Montreal being
at the forefront of expansion talks. It just doesn't seem
like it has been that way in recent years.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I believe that Netflix just came out with a documentary
on the expos that our friend Ken Rosenthal has a
cameo in talking about the Washington, DC market. Check it
out on Netflix. All right after the break, Ken and
I are going to discuss our dude and dorks of
the week. We'll be right back, bet.
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Speaker 1 (16:41):
Dude, Dude, dude, dud.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Ken, Let's give somebody some praise. Who is your due
to the week?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I'm going to go with San Francisco Giants President of
Baseball Operations, Buster Posey. Now, the hiring of Tony Botello
as manager could be great, it could be a disaster.
I don't know that it's going to be somewhere in between.
But what I admire about Posey here is the guts
that he has shown since taking this position. This is
a former player moving into the front office in the
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highest role possible, and he is just doing some things
that have been unconventional, to say the least, this hiring
being most of all, you see here the quote from
Scott Ostler, the brilliant Commiss San Francisco Chronicle. Buster Posey
didn't just think outside the box and hiring Tony Battello
to be the new manager of the San Francisco Giants.
He's thinking outside the warehouse where the boxes are store.
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That is a great line. I wish I could write
like that, And Scott's right, it's completely outside the box.
But you know what, it's different and maybe it works
and maybe Buster Posey looks really good. He made a
daring trade as well for ralphae Old Devers, and people
in the industry are like, oh, they take on all
that money. Well, they couldn't get a star any other way.
They struck out on all those free agents. So I
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just admire the way he's going about it, and whether
he succeeds that remains to be seen.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, they lost out on Shoho Atani, they lost out
on Aaron Judge. They made that big move for Rafael Devers.
Hopefully it pays dividends for them in the future. My
Dude of the Week Ken is a baseball lifer don
Mattingly Donnie Baseball, who of course has been around this
game for a very long time thirty six years in fact,
almost four decades, and he's never been to the World Series,
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not as a player. Of course, his unbelievable career was
shortened by injuries. He very much could be in the
Hall of Fame had he kept going. You know, he
hasn't been there as a manager, he has not been
there as a coach until now. So congratulations to Donnie Baseball,
obviously a part of John Schneider's staff with the Toronto
Blue Jays. I'm happy for him. I'm so happy for Laurie,
his wife, their kids, Preston Mattingly, who obviously is with
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the Philadelphia Phillies. Just congratulations and good luck to Donnie
Baseball in terms of that. Time now for the dork
of the week, and you and I typically split this up,
but I think this is a question of this could
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potentially be our dork of the year on those are
my words, not your words, But why don't you go
ahead and start us off? Who is the dork of
the week this week?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Certainly the dork of the week now Dork of the
year will deal with it another time a lota, But
we're going to divide this up because we each have
reasons why we want to name this person dork of
the week, and it's going to be Artie Moreno, the
Angel's owner, and I'm going to name him dork of
the Week for giving Kurt Zuzuki's new manager a one
year contract. One year managers typically get three or even four,
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And in this case, it seems that Moreno wants to
keep his options open in case there's a lockout next
year and doesn't want to pay a manager in that circumstance.
I don't know that that is entirely his motivation. Maybe
he just wants to see whether Kurt Zuzuki can do
this job. But Suzuki enters his final year, Menazi in
the GM enters his final year. And here's the problem.
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When you're on a one year deal as a manager.
Players know it, man, they know you're a laying duck,
and they know that your authority is only going to
extend so far. So Kurt Suzuki, who has a chance,
I'm sure to be a good manager, even though he's
never had a coaching or managing position. He's playing from
behind before he even starts, and that's no good.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Go ahead a lot before I get into my reasons, though,
let's follow up on that a little bit. Ken is
the reason to take the job just to get your
foot in the door as a manager, to say, hey,
it's on my resume now I'm a big league manager.
There's only thirty jobs in the bigs. What's Suzuki's incentive here?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I think it's just that Alana, You're right, And to me,
that's a little bit flawed logic because this franchise is
so difficult to win with with moreno running the team
the way he does. You inherit all the inherit, all
the problems that the previous managers all had, and it's
an uphill fight. I just don't see it ending well
for Kurt. And I hate saying that because I like Kurt.
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He's a good baseball person. Obviously, he was a great
catcher for many years, a World Series champion, But he's
in tough here.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Let me ask you this, do you think the reason
Albert Poolholtz or Tory Hunter were no longer under consideration
is a they're like, I'm not only taking a year,
Or do you think Kurt Suzuki was more qualified just
being that he is a catcher and he's been in
the system already as a special assistant.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So was Toy. So I don't know that he's more
qualified than Tory in that regard with Pooholes, it seems
it was contractual. He's under contract to the Angels with
his personal service thing. He wanted some kind of arrangement
that Ardie Marino did not want to give him. Whether
it's years, money, whatever, the number or problem was not sure,
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but that was the issue and Tory. I'm not sure
Tory would have taken one year, and I'm not sure
they just didn't see Suzuki as a bed fit as
a manager. I don't know the answer to that, but
given where this process started with Albert the favorite, it
was a surprising.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, I would think a year deal is kind of
a slap in the face for me. Can the reason
is that just what you see, Kokuchi was saying that
the air conditioning did not work all year. This is
a major league franchise, guys, you know the general manager
plays the dumbest man ever. As far as an Angel's
post for HVAC help, what are we doing? I mean,
(22:31):
it's just it seems so ridiculous. You can't make this up.
Sam Blum, who covers the Angels for the Athletics, says
the Angels posted a job for an HVAC air conditioning
technician today today, what are we doing? You have a
major league club that doesn't have air conditioning in certain
areas of their clubhouse. I mean, it just seems unbelievable
that this continues to happen. But again, it's not just
(22:54):
this little and this is a minor issue, I guess.
I mean what you're going to talk about next, in
terms of the owner facing the franchise and long term
loyalist loyalists to testify, that's even a bigger issue in
terms of why this man could easily be dork of
a year.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, what you're talking about, Alana is the Tyler Skaggs
trial and the Angels are being sued by the family
of Skags. And we've been following this and being aware
of it, and had Ardi Moreno settled this lawsuit, then
Mike Trout wouldn't have had to testify, testify about some
uncomfortable things that he was a part of in the clubhouse.
To me, their longtime former PR man would not have
(23:34):
had to testify and basically said nothing. They wouldn't have
put all of these people in uncomfortable positions. Now, I
don't know what Ardi Moreno's thinking is there why he
wanted to proceed with the suit. Maybe he just feels
he's in the right here. The Angels are in the
right and we're not given in I can understand that.
But as a result of not going to a settlement,
(23:55):
here is where we are, and this is what has happened.
It's kind of laid bare what was going on with
the Angels for a few years there, and it's not
pretty at all.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
My next thought here is Anthony Rendon, who I have
played more major league games then in the last four years.
It still owed thirty eight million dollars Ken Rosenthal, this
has to be one of the worst contracts in Major
League history in terms of time on the field versus
amount of money given.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I would agree with that a lot. It's certainly true.
Josh Apmel didn't work out too well for them, Albert
Pooholes did really work out too well for them. They
have not done well with some of their long term deals,
even Trout. You can argue they're not getting the return
there that they thought they were going to get initially.
So the way this franchise is run, to sum this
all up, in general, has been incompetently and we talk
(24:46):
about the Rockies a lot and how insular they are
and how they do things different than the rest of
the teams in Major League Baseball. The Rockies, seemingly under
Walker Montfort now are trying to at least hire a
general manager from the outside. It'll start being less insular.
The Angels, you look at them, it's the already show
all the time, And my goodness, when are we going
(25:08):
to see this team be a representative franchise again in
a large market? People talk about the Dodgers, this the
Dodgers that. Yeah, the Angels have a lot of the
same advantages the Dodgers do, and they squandered them, starting
with Otani, but including many other things. So it's just
a shame what has happened here, And it's a shame
what's happened with that team. It's tough to be a
(25:30):
fan of that club right now, and it's going to
be difficult until there's some real changes in either the
way Moreno operates or the sale of the club.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. A sale
might be the only thing that saves this franchise. Ken Rosenthal,
what what if the Dodgers ended up signing Anthony Rindon.
Thank goodness he didn't want that Hollywood lifestyle because maybe
the Dodgers would not be in the World Series. I
know it doesn't come down to one guy. That being said,
we're going to say goodbye right now for our folks
watching us on TV. Thank you so much. We'll see
(25:58):
you next time. We have a couple more minutes with
the YouTube family right after this. All right, if you're
still with this, that means that you're on YouTube. We
appreciate you guys supporting us Ken Congratulations your twentieth World
Series for you on Fox. A great crew over there,
of course, not your twentieth World Series, but your twentieth
with them. That's exciting. I mean, tell us why you
(26:21):
still get the juice out of doing maybe that's not
a good phrase in baseball, while you still get jazzed up,
if you will, for covering the World Series. And I
would imagine there's still a big part of you that's
just a fan of this great game.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, that's basically it a lot, and the excitement comes
from this uncertainty and what's going to happen here and
the stories that we are going to get one way
or the other and that's what drives me always just
covering the stories and talking to the people and telling
those stories, whether television, print, however you want to do it,
that is what is it for me. And that's the
(26:56):
fun part. The competition of that, trying to be the
best you can be, trying to get things that other
people don't have, all of that. But before I even
go any further, actually forget going any further with me,
I want to mention our producer, Pete mccheska. This is
his final world series. He's done twenty two of them,
and he is going out with this World series. He's
(27:17):
going to continue to do football, but he has been
to me incredibly welcoming this whole time, and especially at
the start when they had not had a print reporter
at Fox do Sideline. Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Of
course we're very supportive as well. But Pete, he's been
the guy for a long time and that job is
not easy. He does it extremely well and it's been
(27:40):
a joy working for him.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I hopefully we're still pet out with a really good
world series.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Let's put it badfully. It's entertaining and everything works in
the truck as it's supposed to work. Congratulations to Pete
and best of luck as you continue your career covering football.
Of course for Fox, I'm looking forward to just good games.
I want to be competitive, you know, I'm excited for
a lot of reasons. But this is the greatest game
in the world, and I'm just grateful that we get
(28:07):
to cover it, not only here unfair territory, but obviously
watching you and the guy's on Fox and talk about
the crew a little bit, Ken, I mean, it's incredible.
You have Big Poppy, you have obviously Derek Jeter, Hall
of famers, Kevin Burkhardt does a tremendous job you of
course for Ducci, and not to mention the guys in
the booth, Hall of Famer John Smoltz of course, and
our buddy with the Dodgers, Joe Davis. It's just a
(28:27):
great crew, it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Is, and it's been that way ever since I've been there,
with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. We have Bill Webb
at that time was the director. Now it's Matt Gangle.
Bill Webb was a revolutionary directory changed the way baseball
was shown on television, and Matt Gangle has taken it
to another level. I always look at it this way.
Alone it I feel like I'm part of an all
(28:50):
star team with this group. And it's not just the
people you just mentioned, and you know this from working
in TV. It's all of the people behind the scenes
in the truck manning the cameras, the audio people. Everyone
that works on these broadcasts is big time, really great
and I'm grateful just to be a part. Honestly.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, well good luck. I can't wait to watch your
coverage tonight. We appreciate it. Game one of the World
Series on Fox of course, everybody tuning in, thanks for
watching and listening today, everybody, we appreciate it. Fair Territory
is back on Monday. Today's Foul Territory coming up. Todd Frazier,
Eric Krat, Scott braun Has, John Smolt, Kevin Plar and Braves.
Reporter Brant mccauleay. Don't forget both Foul Territory and Dodgers
(29:34):
Terry with myself and Clymphesias, we'll have live postgame shows
right after every World Series game. Let's do it.
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