WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:07.480 This is off Night Dodger Talk David Vassey with you until eight o'clock tonight here 2 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:11.839 on AM five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers will be back in action 3 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:18.800 tomorrow night to host the Texas Rangers, possibly without Corey Seger because he heard 4 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:24.800 his hamstring over the weekend in San Francisco. So Corey Seger may not be 5 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:31.199 playing in this three game series against the Dodgers. And don't forget the Rangers 6 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:37.560 are the defending World Series champions and Corey Seger is the ragining World Series MVP, 7 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.759 So hopefully he's able to play. And I would love to see Dodgers 8 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:49.159 Stadium give Corey Seeger the due respect because he was one of the best players 9 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:54.479 the Dodgers have ever produced from their farm system. He was the Minor League 10 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:59.759 Player the Year back in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, and then burst onto the 11 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:04.640 sea in September of twenty fifteen and was one of the best shortstops and still 12 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:10.359 is an all a Major League Baseball, two time champion, two time World 13 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:15.120 Series MVP, And hopefully the umpires if Seeger is able to play this series, 14 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:23.640 hopefully the umpires shut down that dang pitchclock and allow Dodger Stadium to give 15 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:29.799 Seeger the rightful standing ovation he deserves, Unlike when Cody Bellinger came back last 16 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:34.879 year and he wanted to acknowledge the fans, but the pitch clock was running 17 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:40.879 and they did not make an exception. So hopefully Baseball has learned from their 18 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:45.760 mistakes last year to allow these moments to happen, because that's what makes it 19 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:51.280 special for everybody involved. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is 20 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.359 the phone number. We will get to your phone calls in a moment. 21 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.519 If you were at Yankee Stadium, I would love to hear from you. 22 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.319 But we have a Dodger fan that is one of the most decorated musicians and 23 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:08.479 a man that is a huge Dodger fan and a great person away from the 24 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:14.599 stage. He was at Yankee Stadium on Saturday Night for the Dodgers. Big 25 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:21.680 win for Tioscar Hernandez is big night and the man that brought GMS together during 26 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.919 the winter for the Dodgers to pull off the trade for Tyler Glass. Now 27 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.759 that's the one and only Brad Paisley. Brad thanks a lot for Colin, 28 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:35.479 appreciate it. Thanks for that intro. I don't know how much that I 29 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.240 deserve. Thank you, you deserve all of it. And I was it 30 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:43.599 was great to see what at Yankee Stadium. I couldn't believe how good your 31 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.039 seats were. I mean, you flew in for that game, and I 32 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:51.400 feel like you got your money's worth. Are you kidding? I mean, 33 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:55.280 I don't think it's That was one of those games where it's great to be 34 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:59.919 the fan of the winning team because it was the perfect game. It's like 35 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.240 tie, you know, we're up one, tied up one again, go 36 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:08.319 up too, and then it's all hell breaks loose thanks to ta Oscar, 37 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:15.680 and it's like it was just a blast. And the experience of being there 38 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:23.400 when these two Titans collide is just it's really it was really something I've been 39 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.319 to, you know, our World Series games before, and this was every 40 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.639 bit is exciting. It's it's crazy. I hope you weren't getting a hot 41 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:37.680 dog when Taoscar Hernandez hit his grand Slam, No, I was. I 42 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:43.879 was sitting there and I mean just as shocked, and I mean it was 43 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:47.840 just great. It was it was literally the moment the Yankees fans started to 44 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:53.319 leave. Yeah, exactly after that Grand Slam. You saw everybody had for 45 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:59.280 the exits that were wearing Yankee jerseys. They totally did. It was by 46 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:05.039 the end. One thing that Dodger fans need to know is, you know, 47 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:13.199 we always travel well, but I didn't know if we would have that 48 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.920 kind of presence at Yankee Stadium. Because if there's a if there's a fan 49 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:25.279 base that sort of could rival us or compete for sort of the most international 50 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:30.000 and worldwide sort of like recognition, it might be the Yankees. So it's 51 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:35.319 like this thing where I went there and when I was going into the stadium, 52 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:41.839 I went in this entrance and I'm telling you, there were no I 53 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:47.040 mean, there was none of the pantone was it two ninety four. Yeah, 54 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:53.639 It's like there was none a vac color it was. It was all 55 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:58.399 the dark blue with the pen stripes going in there, Judge jerseys. And 56 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.639 I mean I thought when I was going in the gate, I thought, 57 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:06.399 oh man, we are going to be outnumbered tonight. Because I also felt 58 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:10.959 like having won the night before, I thought they were really out the blood. 59 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:16.000 They really wanted that game. And when I got in the stadium, 60 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.639 I couldn't believe it. We I don't know, what do you say. 61 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:24.399 I think we had thirty to forty percent of that stadium, no doubt. 62 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:30.480 I feel for at least Saturday and Sunday, the Dodger fans were definitely out 63 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.600 in force, and they were on your side of the stadium. It felt 64 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:39.040 like, I don't know how Dodger fans do this, but the Dodger fans 65 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:45.120 were seated on all three levels at Yankee Stadium on the Dodger dugout side. 66 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.920 And when I was looking at the stadium when ta Oscar hit that Grand Slam 67 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:54.560 and all the Dodger fans were on that side of the stadium. I know. 68 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:59.040 I don't think they thought that through you watched, They'll close that loophole 69 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:03.360 in the ticketing, but it was really I couldn't believe. By the end 70 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:08.639 of the game, it was let's go Dodger chance going through the stadium. 71 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:13.240 I mean, I'm not saying the Yankees weren't they Their fans weren't fired up. 72 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:16.600 They were, and they for the first part of that game thought they 73 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.600 were going to win it. Thought they had a chance. It's the home 74 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:25.720 team, and we I mean when ta Oscar hit that, we were going 75 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:29.839 to win it anyway, I think. But when he hit that Grand Slam, 76 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.800 it was just like they knew they were losing the series. I feel 77 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:39.800 like you could kind of feel the momentum putting on a Dodger Jersey mister momentum, 78 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:45.959 as Stu Lance likes to say. After Kinley walked Freddie Freeman and it 79 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.399 brought up t Oscar Hernandez, he kind of felt like, with the bases 80 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:56.639 loaded there, Taoskar was going to deliver, wasn't it Will Smith, Will 81 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.480 Smith before him? Yeah, that's right, Will Smith before him, but 82 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.399 not you know, I wasn't expecting a Grand Slam, but you kind of 83 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.759 felt like tay Oscar was going to drive in at least one run there. 84 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:11.879 Yeah, yeah, I knew he was going to do that. But the 85 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:16.839 fact that he hit that change up out it was crazy and and we knew, 86 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:21.560 like you knew when he hit that, it was like it was going 87 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:27.680 And you know, you think that to yourself too. You see him go 88 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.399 up to the plate. He's been red hot the whole time, and you 89 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:35.319 think, no, not again, like not another. You know, It's 90 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.279 like to some degree, it's like as you play the odds in your mind 91 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.199 you're thinking, oh, no, this is the wrong guy to have up 92 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.120 because he's not due anymore. But he was so incredible, you know what 93 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.279 I'm saying, Like the odds are against him hitting another home run, especially, 94 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:55.680 the odds are against him against anybody pitching to him. Hey, that's 95 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.000 why I wanted to have you on. Brad Paisley is one of you. 96 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.040 He has the same roller coaster emotions as any other Dodger fan out there, 97 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.839 and you know, I just I want to gage your temperature now. After 98 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.800 being immersed in the excitement of that game Saturday night, Are you lead? 99 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.360 Did you leave New York more optimistic about the Dodgers' chances not just the rest 100 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.839 of the regular season, but in a playoffs series moving ahead? Are you? 101 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:26.439 Are you back on board all the way that this is their year? 102 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.200 Yeah? I was never off of that. I just think there's a lot 103 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.159 that still has to be done as a team, and some of that, 104 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.879 who knows what the team completely looks like by October. But more than that, 105 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.840 we've done all this in the last like we have held our own in 106 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:58.480 the last couple of weeks with the Big Three not necessarily going and this is 107 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:05.279 going to be really scary when when it's Beth Otani Freeman being who they are, 108 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.240 who they really are, you know, and yeah, yeah, I 109 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:13.159 mean they haven't all clicked at the same time. It's been Mooki and Otani 110 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.639 at times. But Freddy, I think that's the most scary part for the 111 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:24.480 rest of the league. Freddy has not gotten super hot yet. He's so 112 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.960 dependable, and you know, dependable isn't what he's going for. No, 113 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:35.879 he's not. He wants to be scary and he will be. But I 114 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:41.759 think the thing I like about where we're at is we only need to win 115 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:48.320 the division. We really do. That's it because the other trick is going 116 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.679 to be Okay, We're going to put it all together in October. So 117 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.919 it doesn't really matter. Honestly, if we win one hundred games or ninety 118 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:01.799 five games or one hundred in ten games, it doesn't matter. We have 119 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:09.080 to be rocking in October. And that's I know that. I'm sure that's 120 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:15.679 what this front office is thinking, like, how do we become the well 121 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:20.240 oiled machine that wins the World Series? And it's not about winning the you 122 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:26.000 know the first half, hey, and Brad Paisley is super optimistic about the 123 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:31.440 Dodgers being in the Fall Classic, because I know you have scheduled your tour 124 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:39.320 to work around a potential World Series schedule a little bit. I definitely am 125 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:48.039 made sure because what happened last year. I had some tour dates that when 126 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.919 when the World Series came down, we obviously weren't going to it, but 127 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:58.279 we didn't know that. But I remember looking at the schedule and thinking, 128 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:01.639 well, we're definitely going to it because I have a game on what would 129 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:05.960 be Game on or right, not a game I have a gig on what 130 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.879 would be Game one? I think, And I remember thinking, are you 131 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.720 kidding me? You know of all the time to not be able to and 132 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:18.279 you can't, you can't, can't you wouldn't. I wouldn't answer that. 133 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:20.320 So now it's like a matter of like I've I've given them warning. I'm 134 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:26.080 like about the time when when you know, we when the dust settled and 135 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:31.440 we had all the we had you know, Otani, Almamoto and Glass Glass. 136 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:33.679 Now I was like, will you make sure I don't have any gigs 137 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:39.000 during the World Series this year? Yeah? We need you a Dodger stadium 138 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.480 to sing the national anthem for Game one of the World series, do you 139 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.320 you guy? If they ask I'm there, you know, it would be 140 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:54.320 such a great, great reason to not have dates, wouldn't it. No, 141 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:58.679 And you're a true Dodger fan, true blue. Brad Paisley is our 142 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.919 guest, and I got to ask you this. Can you set the scene 143 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:07.799 for Dodger fans? Are you in the part of your property in Nashville where 144 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:13.039 you brought Eric Meander and Andrew Freeman together for Tyler Glass? Now? You 145 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.639 miss Glass Now? I feel like both times you've seen the Dodgers this year, 146 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:22.039 you've missed glass Now pitching by one game. You still have not seen 147 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:28.639 Glass Now pitch for the Dodgers, but you you brought them together. Well 148 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:33.600 that's I mean, that's really that's a kind thing to say. I don't 149 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:37.120 know if it would have happened without me, but I like to I'll definitely 150 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.120 pretend to take the credit, but it's really it was a really amazing night. 151 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:45.639 We have a I have this bar. We broadcast from there. You 152 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:50.360 can go back and see it on your I guess your Instagram look at you, 153 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:52.960 yeah, right right on the iHeartRadio app, you can find that Dodger 154 00:12:54.080 --> 00:13:01.759 talk. We had about forty executives and baseball people here between the two teams, 155 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:07.799 mostly Dodgers, But it was a really amazing experience to see the way 156 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:13.519 that this sport is just like it's always been. I don't know whether the 157 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:18.879 NFL or basketball or how or soccer or how they they operate in terms of 158 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:24.120 like the way deals get done, But for these it was it felt like 159 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:31.480 in the days of the you know, Babe Ruth and Yeah and you know 160 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:33.679 what I mean, Garrik and these guys, like the things were going on 161 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.000 where these guys would need it, you know, Rudy's Bar in New York 162 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.960 and just hash out like, well, I mean, I don't know if 163 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.840 we need them this year, do you want them? Yeah, I guess 164 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:48.600 I'll you know that kind of thing. It felt like that was It was 165 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.440 that kind of thing, like basically, the Dodgers really wanted glass now and 166 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.840 the the Tampa Bay Rays knew they couldn't really keep them and they wanted to 167 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:00.480 see what they could get. And over the course of sitting at there and 168 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:05.879 having drinks, you know, it became really clear that these are guys that 169 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.200 really want to build the best teams they can, and they like each other 170 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:15.879 and everybody had alcohol. And then the fun part was like reminiscing was sitting 171 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:20.600 there and talking to Eric about the World Series against the Race, and then 172 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:24.639 you know, watching as we kind of teased him about something that happened in 173 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.519 that and then the same with like what happened in years prior, and just 174 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:33.960 memories and it's just baseball is the best, it really is, and you 175 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.679 only get so many summers, right, Brad and the Dodgers need to go 176 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.039 for it this summer, and we need you at Dodger Stadium. I don't 177 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.679 care what game it is, but it would be perfect if you sang the 178 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:52.120 national anthem at Dodgers Stadium for the World Series game that Tyler Glass now will 179 00:14:52.159 --> 00:15:00.919 start at Dodger Stadium. That's how we bring this full circle. Okay, 180 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:07.240 you got a deal whatever whatever they I mean, I'll heck, I'll I'll 181 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.799 carry the towels for the team. O don't here. I know you would 182 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:16.320 thanks a lot for the time, Brad. And if you want to support 183 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:20.919 Brad and his great wife Kim, you can do so by going to the 184 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:26.919 store dot org. They've had this free grocery store that helps underprivileged families have 185 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:31.919 the dignity to shop for groceries themselves, and it's all free thanks to Brad 186 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:37.519 and Kim Paisley the store dot org. Brad, you're the best. Great 187 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.480 seeing you on Saturday. That was great to see you too, and in 188 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:46.120 fact I barely got to see you and that was just exactly the right amount 189 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:52.279 of time. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. I love you, buddy, 190 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.799 Love you to see you soon. Talk to you soon.