Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 1: Let's not play one on Tom. Let's lend it.
Speaker 3: I love writing me these guys after the show. So
Speaker 3: just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 4: Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodger world championing for a.
Speaker 4: Small soft time they get a people what they want
Speaker 4: to die to in a row two is special.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache, as one of them.
Speaker 4: Con this ball's gone. You ready to go?
Speaker 5: Sure, Hell time go to the soud grab your phone
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Speaker 5: nine eighty seven two five seven. I'll go to the
Speaker 5: show and now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David vass with you until seven
Speaker 4: thirty tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4: We have phone lines open at eight six six nine
Speaker 4: eight seven two five seventy. The Dodgers beat the Guardians
Speaker 4: nine to in Cleveland. The Dodgers would love to come
Speaker 4: back home after a three game sweep at the hands
Speaker 4: of the Guardians. That would make everybody forget what took
Speaker 4: place at City Field as they lost two out of
Speaker 4: three in Flushing, New York out there, but certainly the
Speaker 4: Dodgers taking care of business offensively against one of the
Speaker 4: better pitching teams in Major League Baseball, certainly in the
Speaker 4: American League, in the Cleveland Guardians. And when you have
Speaker 4: sho Hao Tani doing show Heotani things, leading games off
Speaker 4: with a home run, coming up with another home run
Speaker 4: tonight in the fourth inning, homering in three straight games,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have a pretty good chance of winning. And
Speaker 4: how about Michael Confordo. Michael Confordo, who has been the
Speaker 4: topic of unkindly phone calls on this show for quite
Speaker 4: some time, emerged tonight there was a Michael Conforto signing
Speaker 4: in Cleveland. And like I said, I have been so
Speaker 4: tired of the narrative of excuses for Michael Conforto from
Speaker 4: so many different people. Well, he's hitting the ball hard.
Speaker 4: Have you seen the exit velocity? We don't care at
Speaker 4: this point in time. We want results. Baseball is a
Speaker 4: results based business now. Andrew Friedman, Dave Roberts, the hitting coaches,
Speaker 4: they're about the process, and usually their process wins out
Speaker 4: over the course of a long season, and they stuck
Speaker 4: with the process for with Michael Confordo, put him in
Speaker 4: there every day. It kind of reminded me of the
Speaker 4: movie Top Gun, you know, after Goose dies. They got
Speaker 4: to keep sending Maverick up there so he gets mentally straight.
Speaker 4: Keeps sending him up there, keeps sending him up there.
Speaker 4: Tom Scarrick's character saying, send him back up there. Well,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers kept sending Michael Confordo back up there, and
Speaker 4: he delivered tonight on base three times with a home run,
Speaker 4: and it was good to see. Also, Max Muncy. You
Speaker 4: may say, oh, a three run home run in the
Speaker 4: ninth inning, that doesn't mean anything. It means a lot.
Speaker 4: It means a lot for Max Munsey to get his
Speaker 4: confidence up. The Dodgers needed that breathing room. So a
Speaker 4: big night for two guys that have been struggling the
Speaker 4: first few months of the season in Michael Conforto and
Speaker 4: Max Munsey. Let's head back to Cleveland right now to
Speaker 4: hear from manager Dave Roberts.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's just really, I'm sure it was
Speaker 6: a way off his shoulders to be able to contribute offensively.
Speaker 6: I thought the abats that he took today using the
Speaker 6: big part of the field. I thought the swing looked
Speaker 6: much better at the bat state, in the hitting zone
Speaker 6: much longer, and to get a base hit Tasso hit
Speaker 6: the homer. I really like what I saw, and it's
Speaker 6: good to see that the work is paying off.
Speaker 7: Michael and Max can kind of contribute like they did
Speaker 7: tonight at the bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 6: It does. It's big, certainly not having Will in the
Speaker 6: lineup tonight, but for to do what he does, I
Speaker 6: think he's he's been trending in the right direction and
Speaker 6: then obviously hitting homework tonight and then yeah, I mean
Speaker 6: Tommy against right hand and fishing should be very good.
Speaker 6: And I think that we're seeing a lot of signs
Speaker 6: of life and it just adds that link that we've
Speaker 6: been that we expected, you know, coming to the season.
Speaker 4: So I'm fair.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that you just hit the ball the other
Speaker 2: way and still get a home un it looked like it.
Speaker 6: Was hitting to you, you know what. It wasn't flushed,
Speaker 6: but it was spun the right way and it's just
Speaker 6: one of those balls that when he hit it, it
Speaker 6: just kept going like a helium ball, and it is
Speaker 6: true that he has a lot more margin for air
Speaker 6: than everyone else on the planet.
Speaker 4: I think maybe him and Judge, Yeah, him and Aaron
Speaker 4: Judge show, hey, Otani, They've got a lot of margin
Speaker 4: for air for how strong they are and just the
Speaker 4: way they swing the bat. Certainly a big night for Otani,
Speaker 4: a big season for Otani. It's hard to imagine that
Speaker 4: he is on pace for more home runs this year
Speaker 4: than his fifty to fifty MVP season where he hit
Speaker 4: fifty four last year. Otani the first player in baseball
Speaker 4: this season with twenty home runs. He's on pace for
Speaker 4: fifty seven this season. Eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 4: two five seventy is the phone number. I want you
Speaker 4: to finish this sentence, since you've had a lot to
Speaker 4: say about Michael CONFORDO, finish this sentence. Michael CONFORDO is
Speaker 4: eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy for me,
Speaker 4: I'll finish it this way. Michael CONFORDO is better than
Speaker 4: what we've seen so far. Eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 4: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go
Speaker 4: back to Cleveland to hear from Max Muntsey. As we
Speaker 4: get these calls on the board.
Speaker 8: I'm getting to the top of baseball, which is the
Speaker 8: important thing. And you know, I've been driving it just
Speaker 8: like I said, haven't been driving it in the air,
Speaker 8: and so you know, you know you have then in
Speaker 8: New York one away just on the ground. You know,
Speaker 8: several balls hit hard just on the ground or low
Speaker 8: line drives, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but yeah,
Speaker 8: just one of those things where you have to kind
Speaker 8: of weather it thereat.
Speaker 7: So when you first got on base, stealing second and
Speaker 7: then getting home on Andy's little flair.
Speaker 8: Yeah, soul base was just you know, felt like I
Speaker 8: had something on them, took a chance, almost didn't work out,
Speaker 8: but you know, thankfully did and then the read on
Speaker 8: Andy's ball just I felt like it was gonna go
Speaker 8: to a second business head and so they got really
Speaker 8: good outfield. There's really good arms, and so I was
Speaker 8: trying to give myself the best chance possible to score
Speaker 8: with there.
Speaker 1: You mentioned I'm getting a ball in the year.
Speaker 5: You did have a couple of deep flyouts earlier in
Speaker 5: the games. Did you feel like it was kind of
Speaker 5: starting to get there?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Like I said, it was kind of a frustrating
Speaker 8: night up to that point. Because I felt like I
Speaker 8: had several pitches that I should have you know, driven
Speaker 8: and just missed them. Still hit them hard, but just
Speaker 8: missed them getting underneath it. And so you know, to
Speaker 8: get that one and at the end it felt really good.
Speaker 5: These last two games. Just does it feel like complete
Speaker 5: baseball games from the group and is it like kind
Speaker 5: of getting back to your guys? Is true identity on
Speaker 5: the field?
Speaker 8: Yeah, maybe a little bit. It's definitely been better. Offensive
Speaker 8: side has been great, Pitching has been great. You know,
Speaker 8: we had two guys get deep into the game for us,
Speaker 8: and that's always huge. And the bookmen came in into their job,
Speaker 8: you know, not putting too much stress on those guys,
Speaker 8: and that's the key for us on offense is to
Speaker 8: you know, kind of give them a little bit of
Speaker 8: lead to work with, and we were able to accomplish that.
Speaker 4: All right, there's Max Munsey. Thanks to sports net LA
Speaker 4: for bringing us the Dodger third baseman after a three
Speaker 4: run home run in the ninth inning of tonight's game.
Speaker 4: As the Dodgers beat the Guardians nine to five, they
Speaker 4: improved their record to thirty four and twenty one. It's
Speaker 4: the second best record in the National League. The Phillies
Speaker 4: have the best record thirty five and nineteen. The Dodgers
Speaker 4: got some help from their old buddy Jack Flaherty, who
Speaker 4: pitched six scoreless innings tonight for the tie against the Giants.
Speaker 4: The Giants lost tonight at the hands of Flaherty and
Speaker 4: the Tigers, so San Francisco now falls to third place.
Speaker 4: They're three games back of the Dodgers in the NL West.
Speaker 4: The Padres, who have lost seven of their last ten,
Speaker 4: are thirty and twenty two, two and a half games
Speaker 4: behind the Dodgers. All right, we're filling in finishing this
Speaker 4: sentence since so many of you have so many strong
Speaker 4: opinions about an established major league player in Michael Conforto,
Speaker 4: finish this sentence for me. Michael Confordo is eight sixty
Speaker 4: six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Let's go out
Speaker 4: to Whittier, ed Can you finish that sentence for me?
Speaker 4: And nothing is out of bounds except curse words.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm not gonna curse. I appreciate you taking my call, Dave.
Speaker 9: Michael Conforto is back.
Speaker 4: Question mark, okay, okay, are you're not sold yet? Despite
Speaker 4: what you saw and what you have seen in the
Speaker 4: last week or so, even in New York. You know,
Speaker 4: he was driving the ball. Rick Monday said, he hit
Speaker 4: the ball with authority. You're not sold yet, though.
Speaker 9: It's very exciting to see him do some get some
Speaker 9: great at bats with this pitching that they've been facing.
Speaker 9: Really hope he can keep it going moving forward. I
Speaker 9: know we have a tough schedule going ahead. They're gonna
Speaker 9: need him, so you know, hopefully he can stay clutch
Speaker 9: like you is right now.
Speaker 4: All right, ed, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 4: the phone number. Look when the Dodgers signed Michael Conforto,
Speaker 4: I looked at his splits home and road because that
Speaker 4: ballpark in San Francisco is tough, especially for left handed hitters,
Speaker 4: and away from that ballpark his slugging percentage was five
Speaker 4: point fifty three. So I don't believe he's this bad.
Speaker 4: And the Dodgers don't need him to be Michael Conforto
Speaker 4: from twenty fifteen. They just need him to be a
Speaker 4: semblance of what we saw today. Let's go out to
Speaker 4: Kenny in Anaheim. You're on Dodgery Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 10: Kenny, Hey, David, thanks for taking my call. I wanted
Speaker 10: to say Michael Conforto is resilient. It takes a lot
Speaker 10: of pressure, you know, to play in LA. There's been
Speaker 10: a lot of hard criticism from the fans, and to
Speaker 10: be sent out there continuously by Dave Roberts takes a
Speaker 10: lot of resiliency to stay in there and stay composed.
Speaker 4: I'm with you. Baseball will beat you down mentally, Kenny,
Speaker 4: no doubt about it. And hopefully this is the moment
Speaker 4: in time where we look back and say that was
Speaker 4: the game Michael Conforto changed his season.
Speaker 3: Agreed?
Speaker 4: All right, Kenny, thank you for the phone call. Eight
Speaker 4: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 4: phone number I wanted to share with you because I
Speaker 4: know a lot of you are high school baseball fans
Speaker 4: and it's a big deal here in southern California. And
Speaker 4: since Dino Ebel, the Dodgers' third base coach, has two kids,
Speaker 4: two of his sons are on the Corona team, Brady
Speaker 4: and Trey Ebel. Brady is going to be drafted, no
Speaker 4: doubt about it, in the first round of this year's
Speaker 4: amateur draft. He's committed to LSU and Trey is a
Speaker 4: year younger than Brady, so he's got some time. But
Speaker 4: that team that Corona put together with the Ebel Bros
Speaker 4: And some of those other pitchers, they have some of
Speaker 4: the best pitching staff that you will ever see in
Speaker 4: Southern Section baseball. Well, they play the game for a reason.
Speaker 4: And Saint John Bosco, the alma mater of our very
Speaker 4: own No mar Garciapara, shut out Corona two to nothing
Speaker 4: in the Division one semi finals the All Trinity League.
Speaker 4: Saint John Bosco moves on to the to the Division
Speaker 4: one finals after beating Corona two to nothing. So that
Speaker 4: is a huge upset in high school baseball here and
Speaker 4: now Brady and Trey will have to wait to see
Speaker 4: if their coach wants to decide to try to go
Speaker 4: for state or whatever. But yeah, their team lost today,
Speaker 4: Corona losing to Saint John Bosco, and Nomar is very
Speaker 4: happy about that. Dino in Cleveland Number one, very depressing
Speaker 4: to be in Cleveland. Number two, very depressing when your
Speaker 4: son's baseball team loses to Saint John Bosco. Eight six
Speaker 4: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to Redondo Beach, Steve, Steve, have you
Speaker 4: ever even thought about going to Cleveland before?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Never me either. If I use a traveling with the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: I never would have gone to Cleveland in my life.
Speaker 11: Yeah. I'm from Rodondovich, I'm from the South Ay. They
Speaker 11: call it the bubble. It's one of the place is
Speaker 11: where you really don't want to go anywhere else. You know,
Speaker 11: if I go to Orange County, the valley, that's that's what.
Speaker 11: That's a lot for me.
Speaker 4: I agree, I agree. You guys are living in a bubble.
Speaker 4: You should get out once in a while.
Speaker 11: Well, Michael Conforto is not going to bounce back like
Speaker 11: Mike Mike Maximunty is okay?
Speaker 4: Now, uh okay, So you're saying you're not buying what
Speaker 4: you saw today continuing.
Speaker 11: Right, Well, I had said pretty much the exact words
Speaker 11: to a friend that you sat on the air earlier.
Speaker 11: I don't care about the eggs of z Low. I
Speaker 11: don't care about the approach. I care about the results.
Speaker 11: I know those things matter when you're working out of
Speaker 11: a slump. Right. Yeah, it comes a point in time
Speaker 11: when oh for twenty nine with runners in scoring position
Speaker 11: is it's it's it's a problem. And when you have
Speaker 11: certain slots in the offensive lineup that are down in
Speaker 11: the Los Angeles Dodgers lineup, they stick out like a
Speaker 11: sore sum, right, And so it is a very high
Speaker 11: caliber lineup that it's hard to play sub two hundred
Speaker 11: batting average offensively played.
Speaker 4: All right, let me play Devil's advocate on you, Steve.
Speaker 4: All that being said, you're right, Confordo has had a
Speaker 4: miserable start to the year. He has not delivered with
Speaker 4: runners in scoring position. But with all that being said,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers have the second best record in the National
Speaker 4: League at thirty four and twenty one in the toughest
Speaker 4: division in Major League Baseball. With everything that you said
Speaker 4: being true, so I feel like they have a little
Speaker 4: bit more wiggle room than other teams. Like if they
Speaker 4: were the Diamondbacks or even the Braves who started out slow,
Speaker 4: there might be more urgency to make a change. But
Speaker 4: the Dodgers have a great lineup and are still gonna
Speaker 4: stick with him. Money plays too, Steve. Let's not ignore
Speaker 4: the fact that he's making seventeen eighteen million dollars this year.
Speaker 4: And I know the Dodgers just released Chris Taylor, who
Speaker 4: was making fourteen fifteen in his final year of his
Speaker 4: sixty million dollar deal. But I mean, you don't just
Speaker 4: do that all the time.
Speaker 11: Oh true, true the Dodgers payroll. But so I want
Speaker 11: you because people come on the show and they talk
Speaker 11: about the Chris Taylors, they talk about the Confortos. But
Speaker 11: I want you to tell me what really is the alternative?
Speaker 11: Like you're saying, right, you know, put hess On Kim
Speaker 11: in the outfield. I didn't like him defensively out there.
Speaker 11: You know, I think Michael Conforto is a big league player.
Speaker 4: No, I mean the alternative would be to play Andy
Speaker 4: pa has more in left or right in the corner
Speaker 4: spots and have Key Kay or Tommy Edman play more
Speaker 4: center field if it got to that point. And by
Speaker 4: the way, Tommy Edman and is not swinging the bat
Speaker 4: that great. He hit into two double plays today in
Speaker 4: the second and eighth innings. He's in a big time
Speaker 4: slump right now. So I would say, Steve, the way
Speaker 4: you're talking right now is like Michael Confordo went zero
Speaker 4: for five with four strikeouts today, he was on base
Speaker 4: three times with a big home run. So let's see
Speaker 4: where it goes from here and get out of the
Speaker 4: bubble once in a while, Steve, make your way to
Speaker 4: Sherman Oaks once in a while.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, Dave later, all right.
Speaker 4: Steve, thanks for the phone call. Eight six six eight
Speaker 4: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat
Speaker 4: the Guardians nine to five tonight. They hit three home runs.
Speaker 4: Otani hit his twentieth months he went deep in the
Speaker 4: ninth inc and Michael Confordo hit his first home run
Speaker 4: since April fifth. Let's go out to Corona, Ronnie. Were
Speaker 4: you at the baseball game? Did you watch Saint John
Speaker 4: Bosco upset Corona High School?
Speaker 3: I did not, DVI. I actually the game with at
Speaker 3: Saint John Bosco. Get a chance to go down there
Speaker 3: and okay, my bad high person. My son's team played
Speaker 3: against him, and they're actually really good.
Speaker 4: Oh so you got to see Brady and Trey up
Speaker 4: close and personal.
Speaker 3: We saw Brady and Trey and Seth and Billy all
Speaker 3: them up close and they're very good, very talented team.
Speaker 3: They should be proud of the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I wrote a story about is it Seth Hernandez,
Speaker 4: who's one of the best high school pitchers. Uh in
Speaker 4: high school baseball this year? Did I have his right
Speaker 4: his last name correct?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: It is Seth Hernandez. And actually I had my youngest
Speaker 3: son take a picture with him after the game. It
Speaker 3: was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well he'll be drafted. He'll be going to major
Speaker 4: league baseball as well. All right, Ronnie, I'm going to
Speaker 4: brace myself here, finish this sentence for us. Michael Confordo is.
Speaker 3: A free agent signing that I was really happy about.
Speaker 3: But now he's got to go.
Speaker 4: Already, after a home run and being on base three times,
Speaker 4: are you ready to cut him today?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not saying cut him, but I think he
Speaker 3: deserves to.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 11: Well, if he has to go, he's got to be cut.
Speaker 3: Well, I would like to see Dalton rushing actually on
Speaker 3: left field. What do you think about that?
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a good idea. I think the
Speaker 4: Dodgers saw what they needed to see in the minor
Speaker 4: leagues and decided catcher is his spot. So no, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't want to see that. And look, I'm a I'm
Speaker 4: a Michael Confordo fan. I like his swing, I like
Speaker 4: his temperament. I like that he cares and let's just
Speaker 4: see where it goes from here. I don't believe it's
Speaker 4: time to pull the plug or start sitting him down
Speaker 4: three days out of the out of the week, but
Speaker 4: certainly the Dodgers have options if this continues at the
Speaker 4: end of June, Ronnie, So, can we just agree to
Speaker 4: give him a little bit more grace going into the
Speaker 4: month of June?
Speaker 3: Dvie, Can I say something? If he was getting paid
Speaker 3: league minimum with the same stats, would you give him
Speaker 3: to chance.
Speaker 4: I would still give him a chance, because I feel
Speaker 4: like he's a good hitter, but obviously the leash would
Speaker 4: be a lot shorter. And look, that's just professional sports, right,
Speaker 4: I mean money plays. I hate to keep saying that,
Speaker 4: but money plays.
Speaker 3: I agree, But I also looking at it. We're almost
Speaker 3: a quarter or a third of the way done with
Speaker 3: the season, and he.
Speaker 4: Just hit a home run, he was on base three times.
Speaker 4: He had a good series in New York.
Speaker 3: True, but take away these last couple of games and
Speaker 3: fifty average.
Speaker 4: I'm not looking back. I just saw an interview with
Speaker 4: Mark McGuire when he was playing, and he told the reporter,
Speaker 4: don't tell me what happened yesterday. We're only looking forward.
Speaker 4: So I think we all know that it hasn't been
Speaker 4: good for Michael Confordo through Memorial Day. But all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, the day after Memorial Day, Ronnie, you might
Speaker 4: be calling back and saying, you know what, David, you
Speaker 4: were right. You are the voice of re.
Speaker 3: Well. As a Dodger fan, I wish him the best
Speaker 3: of luck for the rest of the season, and I
Speaker 3: hope this is a turnaround for him.
Speaker 4: All right, Ronnie, thanks for a phone call. Great phone call. Look,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to deny and I'm basically the lone
Speaker 4: voice here where I am tired of hearing about exit vlo,
Speaker 4: hard outs, all that stuff. At some point, you got
Speaker 4: to get some hits. And I don't hear anybody saying
Speaker 4: that Michael Conforto has hit into bad luck. He hasn't
Speaker 4: hit into bad luck. He's just hit into outs. I
Speaker 4: don't care how hard you hit it. But today was
Speaker 4: hopefully the day that things change for him, because, like
Speaker 4: we talked about, he's aware, he's aware he hasn't been hitting.
Speaker 4: He's aware he hasn't hit a home run before today
Speaker 4: since April fifth. He's aware that he hasn't had an
Speaker 4: extra base hit since May fifteenth. Trust me, he's aware.
Speaker 4: I feel like a day like today can just relax
Speaker 4: him a little bit more press not try to chase it.
Speaker 4: You can't chase twenty doubles in one at bat, and
Speaker 4: hopefully this home run and this game today can relax
Speaker 4: him against a very good team. And he hit his
Speaker 4: home run off a really good relief pitcher, one of
Speaker 4: the best in Major League Baseball in Hunter Gaddis. So
Speaker 4: you got to you got to acknowledge that part of
Speaker 4: this equation. Let's take one more phone call before we
Speaker 4: check in with Jose Mota Eddie in Redlands. You're on
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi, Eddie.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 4: David's going It's going great. Hope you had a great
Speaker 4: Memorial Day.
Speaker 7: Yeah, likewise, likewise went by quick, but still pretty.
Speaker 4: What are you going to finish this sentence for us?
Speaker 4: Michael CONFORDO is.
Speaker 3: He's going to bounce back?
Speaker 4: Is going to bounce back? All right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I thought after watching him today smiling and have that confidence,
Speaker 7: I think that was kind of like the booty needed.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty honest. I was one of the brutal ones
Speaker 7: that kind of bashed them online. But that's kind of
Speaker 7: like Rudoo. For me, it seems like every time I
Speaker 7: hate on a player, they bounce the bag and they
Speaker 7: do better. So I'm gonna stick with my little routine
Speaker 7: because it seems to be working.
Speaker 4: Hey, I will say this, Michael Confordo played in New
Speaker 4: York when he first came up, and I don't believe
Speaker 4: it's a bad thing for fans to hold the players accountable.
Speaker 4: In fact, I think it helps them. If they get
Speaker 4: a free pass and nobody's booing them or acknowledging they're
Speaker 4: not playing well, then they feel like, all right, well,
Speaker 4: I guess it's no big deal. But if you're able
Speaker 4: to hold these guys accountable in a tasteful, classy way,
Speaker 4: I think it does make a difference. Eddie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 3: It does definitely.
Speaker 7: But he's got to give back to the fans too,
Speaker 7: and not by playing something simple as like changing his
Speaker 7: profile pictures on the social media. He still has a
Speaker 7: mets on his Twitter and he still has a giant
Speaker 7: and it ends the ground.
Speaker 4: Well, he's not on social media a lot.
Speaker 3: I hold that against him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but one fan see that they still kind of
Speaker 7: don't feel like he's, you know, par of the team.
Speaker 7: I know it sounds stupid, but all right, something that
Speaker 7: can definitely change the chemistry.
Speaker 4: I'll tell Sujo. I'll tell Sujo with the Dodgers social
Speaker 4: media team to put that in Michael's ear. Maybe change
Speaker 4: out your avatar. All right, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 4: Eddie Wower keeping score on what picture you have on
Speaker 4: your avatar for Instagram when the guy is not like
Speaker 4: Blake Snell. He's not on Instagram twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4: But if you want to follow me on Instagram at
Speaker 4: officially Vassay eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 4: seventy is the phone number I know, cheap plug. We're
Speaker 4: gonna take a time out. Jose Moto will join us
Speaker 4: and we'll try to fit in more phone calls. After
Speaker 4: the Dodgers beat the Guardians nine to five on a
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Speaker 4: This is Dodger Tom with David Basse.
Speaker 12: Gonnis. This's his glove up in front of his bearded face.
Speaker 12: Now the pitch swung out of this one's well hit
Speaker 12: the center field headed back toward the bullpens.
Speaker 4: It is going to home run.
Speaker 12: Michael Confortola solo homer and the Dodgers now with a
Speaker 12: five to three league for Confordo, his third home run
Speaker 12: of the year.
Speaker 4: And his first since April fifth. Michael Conforto on base
Speaker 4: three times today, including that home run in the sixth inning,
Speaker 4: to help the Dodgers beat the Guardians nine to five
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Speaker 4: get to your calls in a moment, but.
Speaker 5: First, it's tough to go around the horn with Josean Motor.
Speaker 4: All right, jose Motor refreshing to say, Michael Confordo got
Speaker 4: results today instead of trying to just come up with
Speaker 4: some little league encouragement that he hit the ball hard.
Speaker 2: Hey, I thought you're gonna put me on the spot.
Speaker 2: So I was gonna say, Michael COLFORDO is mm hm
Speaker 2: on his way to hitting twenty home runs and driving
Speaker 2: their over sixty runs.
Speaker 4: Hey, there we go, Hose, I like that.
Speaker 2: Come on right, I mean, come on, you gotta believe
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 6: Listen to this.
Speaker 2: I mean it's crazy what what he had not done
Speaker 2: this year. He's one of the worst fastball hitters in
Speaker 2: baseball coming today one sixty two. Smug you a two
Speaker 2: fifty seven against fastballs, one home run up until today today.
Speaker 2: I guess, as you mentioned, one of the best relievers
Speaker 2: in all baseball in Hunter dadis he had ninety five
Speaker 2: death center in sell the ball ex velocity one six
Speaker 2: and then yes, I am one that can talk about
Speaker 2: ex velocities and barrels and all that stuff. But I've
Speaker 2: told you here too. If you see this, this more
Speaker 2: athletic and just sometimes gets on top of the plate
Speaker 2: and says, jam me, I don't care go out there,
Speaker 2: get in my kitchen. He's gonna dub telling your pictures
Speaker 2: a little bit more. Finding some players or barrel doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: EV's doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But just getting.
Speaker 13: Basists and sometimes even in batting practice. I remember, like
Speaker 13: rock Crew, just tell me this. Sometimes in batting practice,
Speaker 13: go out there, don't look at your swing. Swing to
Speaker 13: get base hits. And let me tell you, mentality changes
Speaker 13: is not that easy to do. It doesn't transfer into
Speaker 13: the game that easily. But you got to have the
Speaker 13: mentality of I'm going to hit the ball because I
Speaker 13: want to get basis and hopefully he right into that
Speaker 13: mold too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of mentality, what does this do for a
Speaker 4: Michael Conforto mentally? How much will it help him relax?
Speaker 4: Moving forward?
Speaker 11: Oh big kill?
Speaker 2: Go home, you know, back to the hotel tonight and
Speaker 2: go well, I don't want to talk about that pad
Speaker 2: in the bag, that the ball. Well, I won some
Speaker 2: hits and he's getting some hits. And I think overall,
Speaker 2: because he does take a walk here and there, he
Speaker 2: can feel good about what happened today, what happened coming
Speaker 2: back from heard you and Rick talking about before the
Speaker 2: game in New York. But man, the hits or the
Speaker 2: hits you play to get, bass Man, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna give you a troph for your exit velocity
Speaker 2: and barrels at the end of the season. If you
Speaker 2: don't have results of hopefully this.
Speaker 4: Will be one.
Speaker 2: We'll just get him over the hump, give him confidence,
Speaker 2: but also let him know that you've got to still
Speaker 2: compete to play, and that it's okay sometimes just be
Speaker 2: a little bit later on the baseball because you will
Speaker 2: find some basis the other way, especially all.
Speaker 4: Right, Jose Mota. The Dodgers be Cleveland today nine to five.
Speaker 4: Dustin May had nine strikeouts in five innings. He did
Speaker 4: give up a three run home run. So from your eyes,
Speaker 4: your standpoint, how would you grade his outing today?
Speaker 2: I'll get him a B plus. There's some things that
Speaker 2: I know that he wants to do better and he
Speaker 2: can do better. To me is a fastball command. But
Speaker 2: the strikeouts his era, everybody loves it. I'll take the
Speaker 2: strike out. So the one thing that I know he
Speaker 2: could have done better is just being a little more
Speaker 2: economical on the pitching side to maybe go to the
Speaker 2: sixth inning and to the seventh inning. But also that
Speaker 2: comes with a price when you track out a lot
Speaker 2: of people, obviously you're gonna get more pitches. So I'll
Speaker 2: take this and I'll take the plus anytime. Because he competed,
Speaker 2: I was more impressed after the home run where he
Speaker 2: did not mope or put his head down.
Speaker 11: He got back to.
Speaker 2: Arias hit the ball for the right field, but then
Speaker 2: got through strike cuts. The next four to hind is
Speaker 2: because he executed a pitch. And again, I'll tell you
Speaker 2: one thing, David Bessey Dalton Rushing is a big factor
Speaker 2: behind the plate a Dustin May.
Speaker 4: Why is he such a big factor.
Speaker 2: He goes out there and is very energetic, very emphatic
Speaker 2: on his targets. He gives a very good target. He's
Speaker 2: able to read swings, he moves around late or hitters
Speaker 2: not on tips many one thing or the other. And
Speaker 2: he kind of knows how to when to call that
Speaker 2: backdoor sweeper that he gets a lot of people to
Speaker 2: look at the lefties and certainty he knows how to
Speaker 2: get him to establish the fastball, which is number one
Speaker 2: for Dustin May. We saw it once again on display
Speaker 2: with Rushing behind the plate.
Speaker 4: All right, Jose, we talked about this yesterday. It bears repeating.
Speaker 4: Jose Ramirez a couple of more hits today. He has
Speaker 4: the longest active hitting streak in baseball this year. It's
Speaker 4: up to twenty games. Now, is it fair to say
Speaker 4: it's Aaron Judge at Sho Heo Tani and Jose Ramirez
Speaker 4: is the third best hitter behind those two guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you go back five to six years,
Speaker 2: this guy's been on the top and every category from
Speaker 2: stealing basis to a extra basis to the doubles and
Speaker 2: the home runs of the RBI and scoring runs. He's
Speaker 2: been right there at the top. So he can be
Speaker 2: on my team anytime. And he's a top five player
Speaker 2: in baseball for many reasons, including the one that he plays.
Speaker 2: Hurt plays every day and is a tremendous leader with
Speaker 2: a lot of energy in the clubhouse, on the planes,
Speaker 2: on the buses, and especially on the field in the dugout.
Speaker 4: Jose, any time you sweep a team, especially on the road,
Speaker 4: the Guardians are a playoff contender, it's a big deal.
Speaker 4: But how much more big would it be for the
Speaker 4: Dodgers to get the sweep tomorrow, especially after the way
Speaker 4: things went in New York and after the way the
Speaker 4: last homestand went for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: It would be huge considering now that at least the
Speaker 2: bullpen is a little bit more settle because they are
Speaker 2: going five or six innings, but just the lifts. Knowing
Speaker 2: that you have this stretch of teams that are playing
Speaker 2: good baseball right in front of you. You clean some
Speaker 2: things up from the last series until now, and you
Speaker 2: think about tomorrow. Just tomorrow, take care of business. You
Speaker 2: have curse on the mound, cat to baseball behind them.
Speaker 2: You're going to have a very hungry team, but that
Speaker 2: does not do very well offensively and really has struggle
Speaker 2: offensively this series. But don't think it for granted. But
Speaker 2: it'll be a great feeling and bring it home because
Speaker 2: you know the stretch coming in the Yankees and Mets
Speaker 2: can continue to be challenging, but the Dodgers are in
Speaker 2: a good spot right now to go out there and
Speaker 2: get that sweep.
Speaker 4: All right, Hose, we'll talk to you after tomorrow's game.
Speaker 4: Hopeful no interruptions and the Dodgers can have a happy
Speaker 4: flight back home as they get set for the World
Speaker 4: Series rematch.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, hurtfully, No juvia, that's right.
Speaker 4: No juvia, that's right. No rain please, there he goes
Speaker 4: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast after
Speaker 4: the Dodgers beat the Guardians nine to five. Hey, speaking
Speaker 4: of the Yankees and the World Series rematch. I'm watching
Speaker 4: the Yankees right now down the road in Anaheim, and
Speaker 4: then they had the convenience of the road trip to
Speaker 4: just come up the Five Freeway, change hotels, and stay
Speaker 4: on the West Coast, stay in the same county basic, well,
Speaker 4: not the same county, but stay within thirty miles to
Speaker 4: play the Angels and Dodgers. Don't have to get on
Speaker 4: a plane, don't have to come back to the West
Speaker 4: Coast separately to play the Dodgers after playing the Angels.
Speaker 4: Why doesn't Major League Baseball ever take care of the
Speaker 4: Dodgers that way? Last year the Dodgers had to make
Speaker 4: two separate trips to New York to play the Mets
Speaker 4: and Yankees. I remember last year of the year before
Speaker 4: the Giants even stayed in the city to play six
Speaker 4: or seven games against the Yankees and Mets. Why do
Speaker 4: the Yankees get this rig carpet treatment of being able
Speaker 4: to have this golden road trip where they're hanging out
Speaker 4: in Orange County playing the Angels and then just have
Speaker 4: to change hotels to Los Angeles and play the Dodgers
Speaker 4: this weekend again East Coast bias. How about take care
Speaker 4: of the Dodgers major League Baseball with the schedule once
Speaker 4: in a while and give them that type of luxury
Speaker 4: that does not happen. I don't even before I started
Speaker 4: traveling with the Dodgers fourteen years ago, the Dodgers never
Speaker 4: had this type of luxury where they get to play
Speaker 4: the Mets and Yankees consecutively and don't have to make
Speaker 4: two separate trips. But Major League Baseball wants to take
Speaker 4: care of the Golden Child, the runner up from last
Speaker 4: year's World Series, and give them this cushy road trip.
Speaker 4: I'm in LA. Let's go out to Pasadena. Daryl, you're
Speaker 4: on Dodger Talk. Sorry, Darryl had to get that off
Speaker 4: my chest.
Speaker 1: That's all. That's all right, that's all right, all right, Finish.
Speaker 4: The sentence for me. Finish the sentence. Michael CONFORDO is.
Speaker 1: Lucky, lucky to have a manager like Dave Roberts. Okay,
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts gave this guy a vote of confidence and
Speaker 1: told I don't girl, how bad you're playing, you're going
Speaker 1: to be there. And anybody, any other manager would would
Speaker 1: have think said it. But Dave gave him a little
Speaker 1: competence that that he did. You know that they gave
Speaker 1: him that that relaxed and go ahead there and play
Speaker 1: you game.
Speaker 4: All right, Darryl, you're saying that he should thank Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts every day when he walks into the clubhouse.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, maybe bring him some.
Speaker 4: New golf balls that Dave loses on the golf course.
Speaker 4: He should gift Dave Roberts since he is gifting him
Speaker 4: a spot in the lineup.
Speaker 1: Yes he did, but what he did he just earned
Speaker 1: himself another team games because you don't want to go
Speaker 1: with another.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, all right, Daryl, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 4: How about this, Darryl uh and you dropped off. I'll
Speaker 4: make you a bet that Michael Confordo will not go
Speaker 4: too for his next forty We'll keep track of that.
Speaker 4: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 4: number Sebastian and Irvine. Michael Confordo is finished the sentence
Speaker 4: based for now. Okay, Well, baseball is what have you
Speaker 4: done for me lately? Type of sports? So what what
Speaker 4: does he say from?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 14: I mean, I think this Dodgers team, this Dodgers staff
Speaker 14: is completely different than any other Dodgers' staff, especially coming
Speaker 14: off of that World Series win.
Speaker 3: I think the.
Speaker 14: Front office is sending a message. Maybe I'm just reading
Speaker 14: any things, but I think they're willing to send They're
Speaker 14: sending a message this year with Austin Barnes and Chris
Speaker 14: Taylor saying, hey, you know, if you're not producing, if
Speaker 14: you're not hitting, we're we're gonna cut our Wait, I'm
Speaker 14: sure there's a milk now, not a million. I'm sure
Speaker 14: there's plenty of left fielders that would love to play
Speaker 14: for the Dodgers and that can produce and have better hitting,
Speaker 14: better batting averages than Michael.
Speaker 4: Mporter is right, Well, don't you think the Dodgers signed
Speaker 4: Michael Conforto for a reason. It just wasn't a charity case.
Speaker 4: They obviously saw something, evaluated something for them to sign
Speaker 4: him to a one year, eighteen million dollar contract. Do
Speaker 4: you believe that all of a sudden, now they're they're
Speaker 4: second guessing themselves and believe that he stinks after they
Speaker 4: thought he was really good and after him having an
Speaker 4: established major league resume. I mean, come on, Sebastian, take
Speaker 4: a step back and listen to what you're saying.
Speaker 14: I mean, one hundred percent, obviously, you don't sign guys
Speaker 14: to not expect them to you know, not contribute.
Speaker 4: But look, do you think the Dodgers signed him to
Speaker 4: an eighteen million dollar contract for one year and said,
Speaker 4: you know what, we're gonna give him the first three
Speaker 4: months and after that we're gonna make a decision whether
Speaker 4: or not to keep him or to get rid of him.
Speaker 4: I just don't you've been you've watched the Dodgers. Andrew
Speaker 4: Friedman doesn't operate that way. I mean, he let Jack
Speaker 4: Peterson and Key Hernandez go through full seasons when they
Speaker 4: were barely hitting two hundred but had the slugging percentage,
Speaker 4: and he believed that they were going to deliver for him.
Speaker 4: So I know Michael Confordo doesn't have that local credibility
Speaker 4: with you and other Dodger fans, But take a look
Speaker 4: at what he's done in his career. He's a pretty
Speaker 4: good player. And they don't need him to be the
Speaker 4: cleanup hitter. They got five or six guys that can
Speaker 4: do that. They need him to be a piece to
Speaker 4: a lineup.
Speaker 3: Right he is.
Speaker 14: He is a great player, but.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 4: Touch no. No, I did not say great. He's a
Speaker 4: really good player.
Speaker 14: He's a good player, but you want to at least
Speaker 14: hit over the Mendoza line, which he hasn't each other.
Speaker 4: Are we willing to start fresh today? How about if
Speaker 4: we start fresh today the day after Memorial Day. You
Speaker 4: call back at the end of this next upcoming homestand
Speaker 4: Yankees Mets, and let's see where I'll do this again.
Speaker 4: I'll have you and others finish the sentence for Michael Conforda.
Speaker 4: How about that if he has a big series against
Speaker 4: the Yankees and Mets, you guys will in fact, you
Speaker 4: won't call because you won't call to complain about him.
Speaker 14: I'm always going to root for every single Dodger player
Speaker 14: to do well. But I'm just wondering how long of
Speaker 14: a leash they all make me.
Speaker 4: A promise I would say, I would say Confordo Confordo's
Speaker 4: leash is the end of June, Sebastian. If it looks
Speaker 4: like this, he's he's gonna lose playing time by the
Speaker 4: end of June. Trust me, But you make me a
Speaker 4: deal at the end of the next homestand call me
Speaker 4: back and let me know where Michael Confordo is.
Speaker 11: I will do that, all right.
Speaker 4: We have a deal. And Darryl and Pasadena we have
Speaker 4: a deal as well. That'll do it for us tonight
Speaker 4: on Dodger Talk. I loved it. Great phone calls tonight,
Speaker 4: great discussion. Loved it. Even though we disagree, that's perfectly fine.
Speaker 4: I love to hear that. I don't want to agree
Speaker 4: with you. I just want you to be accurate. And
Speaker 4: obviously the emotions are always high when it comes to
Speaker 4: the Dodgers. But today was a good day for Michael Conforto.
Speaker 4: It was a good day for the Dodgers, and if
Speaker 4: they can get the sweep tomorrow, it would be a
Speaker 4: really good road trip, considering the way things started in
Speaker 4: New York and then beating a playoff contender, the reigning
Speaker 4: Al Central champs, and the Guardians from a year ago,
Speaker 4: and they're still really good now. Tomorrow, Clayton Kershaw will
Speaker 4: take the mound. It's his third start of the year.
Speaker 4: Remember he was interrupted by an hour and thirty eight
Speaker 4: minute rain delay that first night at City Field, so
Speaker 4: he only pitched two innings, so he should be fresh,
Speaker 4: ready to go and determined to give the Dodgers six innings. Kershaw,
Speaker 4: by the way, twenty nine strikeouts away for three thousand
Speaker 4: in his regular season career. He's going up against Slade Chacone,
Speaker 4: who is one in one with an era at three
Speaker 4: twenty seven and two starts Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 4: begins at nine am with first pitch from Progressive Field
Speaker 4: in Cleveland at ten after ten in the morning. By
Speaker 4: the way, I know, there's been talk about rain, whether
Speaker 4: or not the Dodgers and Guardians are going to play tomorrow,
Speaker 4: whether or not the Dodgers might have to stay over
Speaker 4: to play on the off day Thursday. So far, so good.
Speaker 4: We got good news. It is scheduled to go off
Speaker 4: on time. First pitch is on time as of now
Speaker 4: according to Major League Baseball, so that's a good thing,
Speaker 4: and hopefully the Dodgers can get out of there with
Speaker 4: a win, even after five innings. Thanks to Colinie back
Speaker 4: at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald in Cleveland.
Speaker 4: Thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
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Speaker 4: Once again. The final score tonight from Progressive Field in Cleveland.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers defeat the Guardians nine to five. Have a
Speaker 4: great rest of your Tuesday. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: See ya standing, let's st