This is off Night Dodger Talk David Vassey with you until eight o'clock tonight here
on AM five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers will be back in action
tomorrow night to host the Texas Rangers, possibly without Corey Seger because he heard
his hamstring over the weekend in San Francisco. So Corey Seger may not be
playing in this three game series against the Dodgers. And don't forget the Rangers
are the defending World Series champions and Corey Seger is the ragining World Series MVP,
So hopefully he's able to play. And I would love to see Dodgers
Stadium give Corey Seeger the due respect because he was one of the best players
the Dodgers have ever produced from their farm system. He was the Minor League
Player the Year back in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, and then burst onto the
sea in September of twenty fifteen and was one of the best shortstops and still
is an all a Major League Baseball, two time champion, two time World
Series MVP, And hopefully the umpires if Seeger is able to play this series,
hopefully the umpires shut down that dang pitchclock and allow Dodger Stadium to give
Seeger the rightful standing ovation he deserves, Unlike when Cody Bellinger came back last
year and he wanted to acknowledge the fans, but the pitch clock was running
and they did not make an exception. So hopefully Baseball has learned from their
mistakes last year to allow these moments to happen, because that's what makes it
special for everybody involved. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. We will get to your phone calls in a moment.
If you were at Yankee Stadium, I would love to hear from you.
But we have a Dodger fan that is one of the most decorated musicians and
a man that is a huge Dodger fan and a great person away from the
stage. He was at Yankee Stadium on Saturday Night for the Dodgers. Big
win for Tioscar Hernandez is big night and the man that brought GMS together during
the winter for the Dodgers to pull off the trade for Tyler Glass. Now
that's the one and only Brad Paisley. Brad thanks a lot for Colin,
appreciate it. Thanks for that intro. I don't know how much that I
deserve. Thank you, you deserve all of it. And I was it
was great to see what at Yankee Stadium. I couldn't believe how good your
seats were. I mean, you flew in for that game, and I
feel like you got your money's worth. Are you kidding? I mean,
I don't think it's That was one of those games where it's great to be
the fan of the winning team because it was the perfect game. It's like
tie, you know, we're up one, tied up one again, go
up too, and then it's all hell breaks loose thanks to ta Oscar,
and it's like it was just a blast. And the experience of being there
when these two Titans collide is just it's really it was really something I've been
to, you know, our World Series games before, and this was every
bit is exciting. It's it's crazy. I hope you weren't getting a hot
dog when Taoscar Hernandez hit his grand Slam, No, I was. I
was sitting there and I mean just as shocked, and I mean it was
just great. It was it was literally the moment the Yankees fans started to
leave. Yeah, exactly after that Grand Slam. You saw everybody had for
the exits that were wearing Yankee jerseys. They totally did. It was by
the end. One thing that Dodger fans need to know is, you know,
we always travel well, but I didn't know if we would have that
kind of presence at Yankee Stadium. Because if there's a if there's a fan
base that sort of could rival us or compete for sort of the most international
and worldwide sort of like recognition, it might be the Yankees. So it's
like this thing where I went there and when I was going into the stadium,
I went in this entrance and I'm telling you, there were no I
mean, there was none of the pantone was it two ninety four. Yeah,
It's like there was none a vac color it was. It was all
the dark blue with the pen stripes going in there, Judge jerseys. And
I mean I thought when I was going in the gate, I thought,
oh man, we are going to be outnumbered tonight. Because I also felt
like having won the night before, I thought they were really out the blood.
They really wanted that game. And when I got in the stadium,
I couldn't believe it. We I don't know, what do you say.
I think we had thirty to forty percent of that stadium, no doubt.
I feel for at least Saturday and Sunday, the Dodger fans were definitely out
in force, and they were on your side of the stadium. It felt
like, I don't know how Dodger fans do this, but the Dodger fans
were seated on all three levels at Yankee Stadium on the Dodger dugout side.
And when I was looking at the stadium when ta Oscar hit that Grand Slam
and all the Dodger fans were on that side of the stadium. I know.
I don't think they thought that through you watched, They'll close that loophole
in the ticketing, but it was really I couldn't believe. By the end
of the game, it was let's go Dodger chance going through the stadium.
I mean, I'm not saying the Yankees weren't they Their fans weren't fired up.
They were, and they for the first part of that game thought they
were going to win it. Thought they had a chance. It's the home
team, and we I mean when ta Oscar hit that, we were going
to win it anyway, I think. But when he hit that Grand Slam,
it was just like they knew they were losing the series. I feel
like you could kind of feel the momentum putting on a Dodger Jersey mister momentum,
as Stu Lance likes to say. After Kinley walked Freddie Freeman and it
brought up t Oscar Hernandez, he kind of felt like, with the bases
loaded there, Taoskar was going to deliver, wasn't it Will Smith, Will
Smith before him? Yeah, that's right, Will Smith before him, but
not you know, I wasn't expecting a Grand Slam, but you kind of
felt like tay Oscar was going to drive in at least one run there.
Yeah, yeah, I knew he was going to do that. But the
fact that he hit that change up out it was crazy and and we knew,
like you knew when he hit that, it was like it was going
And you know, you think that to yourself too. You see him go
up to the plate. He's been red hot the whole time, and you
think, no, not again, like not another. You know, It's
like to some degree, it's like as you play the odds in your mind
you're thinking, oh, no, this is the wrong guy to have up
because he's not due anymore. But he was so incredible, you know what
I'm saying, Like the odds are against him hitting another home run, especially,
the odds are against him against anybody pitching to him. Hey, that's
why I wanted to have you on. Brad Paisley is one of you.
He has the same roller coaster emotions as any other Dodger fan out there,
and you know, I just I want to gage your temperature now. After
being immersed in the excitement of that game Saturday night, Are you lead?
Did you leave New York more optimistic about the Dodgers' chances not just the rest
of the regular season, but in a playoffs series moving ahead? Are you?
Are you back on board all the way that this is their year?
Yeah? I was never off of that. I just think there's a lot
that still has to be done as a team, and some of that,
who knows what the team completely looks like by October. But more than that,
we've done all this in the last like we have held our own in
the last couple of weeks with the Big Three not necessarily going and this is
going to be really scary when when it's Beth Otani Freeman being who they are,
who they really are, you know, and yeah, yeah, I
mean they haven't all clicked at the same time. It's been Mooki and Otani
at times. But Freddy, I think that's the most scary part for the
rest of the league. Freddy has not gotten super hot yet. He's so
dependable, and you know, dependable isn't what he's going for. No,
he's not. He wants to be scary and he will be. But I
think the thing I like about where we're at is we only need to win
the division. We really do. That's it because the other trick is going
to be Okay, We're going to put it all together in October. So
it doesn't really matter. Honestly, if we win one hundred games or ninety
five games or one hundred in ten games, it doesn't matter. We have
to be rocking in October. And that's I know that. I'm sure that's
what this front office is thinking, like, how do we become the well
oiled machine that wins the World Series? And it's not about winning the you
know the first half, hey, and Brad Paisley is super optimistic about the
Dodgers being in the Fall Classic, because I know you have scheduled your tour
to work around a potential World Series schedule a little bit. I definitely am
made sure because what happened last year. I had some tour dates that when
when the World Series came down, we obviously weren't going to it, but
we didn't know that. But I remember looking at the schedule and thinking,
well, we're definitely going to it because I have a game on what would
be Game on or right, not a game I have a gig on what
would be Game one? I think, And I remember thinking, are you
kidding me? You know of all the time to not be able to and
you can't, you can't, can't you wouldn't. I wouldn't answer that.
So now it's like a matter of like I've I've given them warning. I'm
like about the time when when you know, we when the dust settled and
we had all the we had you know, Otani, Almamoto and Glass Glass.
Now I was like, will you make sure I don't have any gigs
during the World Series this year? Yeah? We need you a Dodger stadium
to sing the national anthem for Game one of the World series, do you
you guy? If they ask I'm there, you know, it would be
such a great, great reason to not have dates, wouldn't it. No,
And you're a true Dodger fan, true blue. Brad Paisley is our
guest, and I got to ask you this. Can you set the scene
for Dodger fans? Are you in the part of your property in Nashville where
you brought Eric Meander and Andrew Freeman together for Tyler Glass? Now? You
miss Glass Now? I feel like both times you've seen the Dodgers this year,
you've missed glass Now pitching by one game. You still have not seen
Glass Now pitch for the Dodgers, but you you brought them together. Well
that's I mean, that's really that's a kind thing to say. I don't
know if it would have happened without me, but I like to I'll definitely
pretend to take the credit, but it's really it was a really amazing night.
We have a I have this bar. We broadcast from there. You
can go back and see it on your I guess your Instagram look at you,
yeah, right right on the iHeartRadio app, you can find that Dodger
talk. We had about forty executives and baseball people here between the two teams,
mostly Dodgers, But it was a really amazing experience to see the way
that this sport is just like it's always been. I don't know whether the
NFL or basketball or how or soccer or how they they operate in terms of
like the way deals get done, But for these it was it felt like
in the days of the you know, Babe Ruth and Yeah and you know
what I mean, Garrik and these guys, like the things were going on
where these guys would need it, you know, Rudy's Bar in New York
and just hash out like, well, I mean, I don't know if
we need them this year, do you want them? Yeah, I guess
I'll you know that kind of thing. It felt like that was It was
that kind of thing, like basically, the Dodgers really wanted glass now and
the the Tampa Bay Rays knew they couldn't really keep them and they wanted to
see what they could get. And over the course of sitting at there and
having drinks, you know, it became really clear that these are guys that
really want to build the best teams they can, and they like each other
and everybody had alcohol. And then the fun part was like reminiscing was sitting
there and talking to Eric about the World Series against the Race, and then
you know, watching as we kind of teased him about something that happened in
that and then the same with like what happened in years prior, and just
memories and it's just baseball is the best, it really is, and you
only get so many summers, right, Brad and the Dodgers need to go
for it this summer, and we need you at Dodger Stadium. I don't
care what game it is, but it would be perfect if you sang the
national anthem at Dodgers Stadium for the World Series game that Tyler Glass now will
start at Dodger Stadium. That's how we bring this full circle. Okay,
you got a deal whatever whatever they I mean, I'll heck, I'll I'll
carry the towels for the team. O don't here. I know you would
thanks a lot for the time, Brad. And if you want to support
Brad and his great wife Kim, you can do so by going to the
store dot org. They've had this free grocery store that helps underprivileged families have
the dignity to shop for groceries themselves, and it's all free thanks to Brad
and Kim Paisley the store dot org. Brad, you're the best. Great
seeing you on Saturday. That was great to see you too, and in
fact I barely got to see you and that was just exactly the right amount
of time. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. I love you, buddy,
Love you to see you soon. Talk to you soon.