WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:04.320 The right quist. 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:12.000 Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual postseason. 3 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:14.160 Tradition, scam is back. Baby. 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.399 This is Saxon Cakes in. 5 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.839 The a APPA go with Proway. 6 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.399 Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger 7 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.559 pregame host Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers, 8 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:29.960 get in on the show on eighty six six nine, 9 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 eighty seven two five seven now. While the Dan Patrick 10 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.439 Show streams on the Ihearts radio app. We've been banished 11 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.039 to the internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes. Here 12 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:43.280 they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven e 13 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:46.960 LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve. 14 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.880 Sachs sax and Kate's and AM here on M five 15 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:54.799 seventy LA Sports on this Wednesday morning, October twenty third. 16 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:57.719 We appreciate you being with us as you get up, 17 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.880 make your way around city on your way to work, 18 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.439 school drop off the kids. We appreciate you being with 19 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.840 us and having us with you as you're driving around 20 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:09.560 here in southern California. Game one of the World Series 21 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:12.120 Dodgers and Yankees is Friday Night. Out of Dodgers Datium 22 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.920 Jack Felerty and Garrett Cole will be the Game one 23 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.359 pitching matchup, Dave Roberts making that announcement yesterday in a 24 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:21.719 press conference, also announcing that Yoshinoba Yamamoto will be the 25 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.920 Game two starter on Saturday night, first two games at 26 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.879 Dodgers Datium before heading back to New York on Monday 27 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.959 for Games three, four, and possibly five. We'll have Morogo 28 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:33.879 Casino Dodgers on deck in. It all started at four 29 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.879 o'clock on Friday. We got walda wall coverage lead up 30 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.159 to that, including the sad news that came down last night, 31 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:43.319 the passing of Fernando Valenzuela at the age of sixty three, 32 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:48.159 the cultural hero, the baseball legend who took southern California 33 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.519 by storm in nineteen eighty one, bringing together the cultures 34 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.439 of southern California and certainly the baseball community together for 35 00:01:55.519 --> 00:02:00.159 Fernando Mania. That really sparked a movement here in sather 36 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.719 Than California. Brought everybody together, and it was a symbol 37 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.200 of hope for a lot of people here in Los 38 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.879 Angeles and the city. And Fernando Mania took off in 39 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.879 nineteen eighty one. What a season. He had Cy Young Award, 40 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.719 Rookie of the Year, Silver Slugger, and of course a 41 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:18.080 World Series Championship. Ten years with the Dodgers, went on 42 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:20.319 to play with the Angels and of course a couple 43 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:23.560 of other teams before retiring and returning to the Dodgers 44 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.280 as a broadcaster with the Dodgers, Spinish brod at Brady 45 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:30.199 broadcast team for the last twenty plus season. Saxy, you 46 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:33.560 mentioned the hitting. I don't think people realize what a 47 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:36.000 good hitter he was. Silver Slugger Award winner in his 48 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:39.000 rookie season in nineteen eighty one. He was an extra 49 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:41.360 weapon off the bench on those nights when he wasn't pitching. 50 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:42.120 Yeah. 51 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:46.280 I mean, you talk about hitters today like Madison Bumgardner. 52 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.719 How good of a hitter he was, you know, with 53 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:50.479 the Giants and the d Backs, And then you look 54 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:51.039 at Fernando. 55 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:52.479 Fernando was at least that good. 56 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.639 There were times when Tommy would pinch hit and use 57 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:58.599 Fernando's bat and put him up there, and if we 58 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:01.199 were in a tough situation where we were depleted on 59 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:03.840 the bench, he felt good about putting Fernando in there. 60 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:05.719 And lots of times he came through He was a 61 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.520 really good hitter and all around athlete. And you mentioned 62 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:11.560 I think Gus had mentioned how much Fernando liked soccer. 63 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.599 I remember Fernando would be down in the dugout constantly 64 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.240 with it. Remember the hacky sack. Oh yeah, Fernando could 65 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:19.680 hit that. It could you know, pop that hacky sack 66 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.759 up for just endlessly with his feet and he hit 67 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:24.120 it with his head, hit it with his hand, and 68 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.120 he was good at that. He was just an all 69 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:33.520 around great athlete. And again not a big wondering why 70 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:37.039 Fernando won, you know, that Silver Slugger Award. He was 71 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.319 a really good hitter and he could hit the ball 72 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:39.879 out of the park. 73 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:43.280 We talk about nineteen eighty one because it started Fernando 74 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.319 Mania and what he did with those eight complete games 75 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:48.840 to start his major league career there in nineteen eighty one, 76 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:53.000 with that first start and opening day, the five shutouts, 77 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.919 the accolades that he gets from nineteen eighty one surly, 78 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:58.479 But you played with him in the years after that, 79 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.639 and what Fernando man after that was equally impressive. And 80 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:05.439 will we spotlight nineteen eighty one because that's when it started, 81 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.000 That's when the fever started. He burst onto the scene 82 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:12.560 and really galvanized the city. The years after eighty two, 83 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:14.479 eighty three, eighty four, of the years on that you 84 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.680 played with him, was that fever still the same when 85 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.519 you guys traveled on the road. Fernando Mania was special 86 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.160 in eighty one. How special was it in those years 87 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:28.879 after that? Oh, Fernando was always electric and another part 88 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.800 of him. When you talk about him, you kind of 89 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.720 dissect the different parts and great things about Fernando. It 90 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:36.959 keeps adding on, it keeps layering on. Another thing about him, 91 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:41.040 his competitiveness. Besides being able to throw that great screwball, 92 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.439 and you know how he carved up hitters. He was 93 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:45.519 a tough competitor. 94 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:49.000 There were games and I remember if it was in 95 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:50.959 the World Series, where they kept him in a game 96 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.279 he gave up three or four runs, kept him in 97 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:54.959 the game, deep in the game, and he winds up 98 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:57.959 winning it. And that's because of his intestinal fortitude. The 99 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:02.120 guy was just absolutely nails. Nothing would bother him. He 100 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:04.959 was like, you know, it was like ice water in 101 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.240 his veins. He would not get caught up in the moment. 102 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.319 And he was always, you know, central to just getting 103 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:14.639 that hitter out and Fernando was the best at it. 104 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:19.240 Game five of the series against the Montreal Expos in Montreal, 105 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.160 the Rick Monday home run, that was a Fernando start, 106 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:24.800 And I was watching it last night on Spectrum Sports 107 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:26.639 in at La. They had the whole feature on on 108 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:29.800 Fernando Plane, and they brought it up about how Fernando 109 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:32.120 struggled and gave up a run in that first inning 110 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:36.160 on that cold day in Montreal, and Tommy Lasorda got 111 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:39.000 Bobby Castillo up warming in the bullpen in the bottom 112 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:41.720 of the first inning, and Fernando even said he looked 113 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:44.839 over and he saw Bobby Castillo warming up, and he said, 114 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.160 uh huh, this ain't happening today. I'm gonna go out 115 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:49.720 and I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the guy, and 116 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.600 I'm gonna pitch and went on to pitch a great 117 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.759 game there against the Montreal Expos. But it was Tommy 118 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:57.680 lighting that little fire getting somebody warm that ticked off 119 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.639 Fernando in Game five of that series. Again, that's the Expos. 120 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:02.759 Hey, how about in his twenty five starts that year, 121 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:04.959 Fernando pitched one hundred and ninety two and a third. 122 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.319 Then he went on to pitch seven years of two 123 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:11.600 hundred plus innings, including in nineteen eighty two two hundred 124 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.000 and eighty five innings, the next year two hundred and 125 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.720 fifty seven innings, the next year two hundred and sixty one, 126 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.079 two seventy two, two sixty nine, and on and. 127 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:20.879 On it goes. 128 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:23.720 You talk about one and one hundred and twenty innings 129 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.000 that pitchers go today. Fernando was more than double in 130 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:30.120 that more than double. So you talk about a guy 131 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.560 that took the workload on his back and carried the team. 132 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:34.720 That's what he would do. 133 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.079 In nineteen eighty eight, he for the first time went 134 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.519 on the injured list because of shoulder issues, and it 135 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.160 cost him two months, but also costing the opportunity to 136 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.680 pitch in the World Series. I think that's something that 137 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:50.839 gets lost is we talk about Gabee and Oral and 138 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.439 what you guys did as a group in nineteen eighty eight. 139 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:57.639 Fernando was hurt in nineteen eighty eight, Yeah. 140 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.600 And I imagine if we would have had him on 141 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:02.560 the team, you know, it would have been a much 142 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.199 smoother ride. I think into the World Series when we 143 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.160 had that real tough confrontation with the Mets. If we 144 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:10.279 would have had Fernando on there. I mean, imagine how 145 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:11.319 much better we would have been. 146 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.800 Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. Eight 147 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.040 sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy A sad 148 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.560 day for Dodger Nation with the passing of Fernando Vealezuela 149 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:26.000 as at the age of sixty three here in Los Angeles. 150 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:27.839 What did he mean to you? How much did he 151 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.079 mean to your baseball family and your family here in 152 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:35.360 southern California eight six sixth nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Uh, 153 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:38.720 Aaron and all Hambro, I's been waiting patiently. Thank you, Erin. 154 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.319 How you doing hey, good buddy, how you guys doing good? 155 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:42.639 Good? 156 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:43.879 Aeron good. 157 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:44.199 Hey. 158 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.199 I'll just relate a couple of quick stories. My sister 159 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:49.199 used to work for the Dodgers, and she was down 160 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.879 in San Diego. They were at a game and they 161 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:57.519 saw Fernando getting into his car after the games, and 162 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.800 she says, hey, mister valencewaie can have your autograph? And 163 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:05.079 he says no, in a very serious tone. And so 164 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:07.600 he gets in those car, rolls down the window and 165 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.199 he says come over, and she says, mister Elnezuela. I 166 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:12.879 work at the stadium, and he says, I know, come 167 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:16.120 over here, and he signs it. My second story is, 168 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:22.120 and I'm sorry, I'm a little choked up. A friend 169 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:26.360 who worked at for the Dodgers, a bad boy, Peter Sandoval, 170 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:30.240 he passed away. I'm sitting in the back of the 171 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.960 church at the funeral as a very last pew, and 172 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:40.399 Fernando comes in and he just very quietly comess sits 173 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:45.320 down at the funeral, pays his respects because Mike Brito 174 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:49.639 was Peter Sandoval's godfather, and so he was there paying 175 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:50.360 his respects. 176 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:53.519 Just a humble guy, and just you know, it was 177 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:56.000 such a neat thing to see this man is such 178 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.000 a great picture, comes in, sits down without anybody knowing, 179 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:04.879 and and you know, and just do this thing so humbly. 180 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.399 I was like always impressed with that. So I just 181 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:09.720 wanted to share those couple of stories. What a nice guy. 182 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.000 I appreciate it, Aaron, Thanks for sharing that. David and Riverside. 183 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.000 Next up here on Saxon Kate's and a am Alive 184 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.000 a local on your Home with the Dodgers A five 185 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:17.879 seven e LA Sports. 186 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:22.639 Hi David, good morning, Steve and Tim, thank you for 187 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:27.679 having us on and this opportunity to share about Frando. 188 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:33.159 Absolutely, go ahead, David, Hell yeah, go ahead, David Okay. 189 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.360 The story I want to share speaks to not just 190 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:42.039 Fernando Mania, but to the man Fernando of Alanzuela. About 191 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:47.159 twelve years ago, I had the opportunity to bring in 192 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:50.799 six young ladies that were in their mid twenties or 193 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.159 mid I'm sorry, mid thirties to mid forties to the 194 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:59.759 suite and they were our tough performing employees for the quarter. 195 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.240 We treated them to a game. I happen to run 196 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:09.399 into Jorge Hereen in the walkway out there behind the suites, 197 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:14.639 and I said, well, what are the chances that Fernando 198 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.480 would be available, maybe between innings when he's not at 199 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:20.399 the mic. And he said, let me see, let me see. 200 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.480 I'll be right back, and he says, top of the 201 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:31.960 third Fernando's coming in. Awesome. Now, these are these are 202 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:35.039 ladies that are, like I said, in the mid thirties 203 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:40.480 to mid forties. They grew up as elementary and junior 204 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:46.720 high kids during Fernandomania. So you can imagine when he 205 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.120 walks through the door. I mean, it's just like it 206 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:52.159 might have been the Beatles, or it might have been 207 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:55.000 like in today's world. You know, maybe it's Taylor Swift 208 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:57.720 walking in the door while they're sitting there eating their 209 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:02.480 Dodger dogs and their peanuts, and they dropped everything and 210 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.399 rushed to this guy, like maybe Elvis. 211 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:05.840 Yeah. 212 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:11.720 Uh, it's just it's amazing the magnets, the magnetism that 213 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:15.399 he had, Uh, the impression that he had on these people. 214 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:17.399 Uh during that time. 215 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:18.320 Uh. 216 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.799 And and he's spoke closed for pictures, he figned autographs. 217 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:23.720 Uh. 218 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:28.200 They told their stories about him. He smiled and listened 219 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:32.759 to every one of those stories. But one lady, and 220 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.320 they were all able to bring a guest, so a spouse, 221 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.440 a child. One lady brought her father who's in a 222 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:46.519 wheelchair and he had terminal cancer. Didn't speak English. He 223 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.279 was in the restroom when Fernando came in and missed 224 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:57.000 the whole thing. I went out to Himie again, I said, Jimie, 225 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:59.679 we missed one. We missed one. And he says, I'll 226 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.600 be right back. He comes back and it says, come 227 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:08.360 with me. So I took the employee, I took her dad. 228 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:14.360 We went next door into the broadcast booth. Fernando then 229 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:20.559 leaves his spot. It's between innings. He squats down like Fosha, 230 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:23.600 catch her behind the plate next to this man's wheelchair 231 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:25.879 and sits there and talks to him to the next 232 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.879 almost the full next half inning. And I don't know 233 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.639 what they're saying. I'm just watching this thing, and I'm 234 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:38.000 watching her cry. I'm watching her father cry. And then 235 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.720 Fernando puts his arm around the man. After they've done talking, 236 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:45.240 and Fernando starts crying. And I looked at her afterwards, 237 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:50.000 I said, what were they saying? And he was telling Fernando. 238 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.360 I tell my children, this is how you This is 239 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.799 how you take care of yourself. This is what you do, 240 00:12:57.159 --> 00:13:00.279 no matter how humble and low your beginnings are, this 241 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:02.759 is what you can make of yourself. Fernando is a 242 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:04.799 role model. It doesn't matter if you're a boy, if 243 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.480 you're a girl. This is how you put yourself up. 244 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:11.360 And it's not that you didn't have anybody in your beginning. 245 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:14.320 This is your family and fam Fernando had a family. 246 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:20.159 He's telling them. He's telling Fernando this, and and the 247 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.320 emotions that came out of that. It speaks about that 248 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.360 all of these girls remember when they were kids. But 249 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:31.679 the man that Fernando Valenzuela was for someone like that. 250 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.960 This this man passed away a few months later, but 251 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:40.480 he was able to tell his children's hero what he 252 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:42.720 meant to that entire family. 253 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:45.840 That's awesome, David, appreciate you sharing that. That is a 254 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.840 that is an unbelievable story and and sort of just 255 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.759 fits right to what we're hearing about Fernando Valenzuela, about 256 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.480 the kind of man he was. And to think about Steve, 257 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:58.720 he could have been a superstar that got so big 258 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:02.759 that he he wasn't amongst the people, and you know, 259 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.440 could have been a rock star type of person that 260 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:10.279 got carried away with things and you know, maybe you know, 261 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:13.879 lives a different lifestyle and becomes somebody else, not who 262 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.759 he was growing up and who he was initially as 263 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:20.279 Fernando and Fernando Mania nineteen eighty one. Things could have gotten, 264 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.639 you know, rockstar esque. You know, people change with fame 265 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.200 and fortune. It just happened, and it happens for the 266 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.679 bad a lot of the times. But it never changed 267 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:32.159 Fernando very easily. He could have been a rock and 268 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:35.080 roll type icon, which he is, but gone down a 269 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.679 different path and treated fans differently and acted differently. But 270 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:42.039 the guy never did. He was amongst the people all 271 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:42.440 the time. 272 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.399 Well, when you say it could have happened, I get 273 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.600 your point, but impossible with him, he was not that 274 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:53.360 way at all. He was like I said, he was 275 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.600 the most grounded guy and his family was it for 276 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:59.879 him and all this stuff. You know, how this guy 277 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.279 I transformed the sports the way you look at sports 278 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.519 in southern California, it paled in comparison to what was 279 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:12.639 important to him, and that was his family and his friendships. 280 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.440 That's what meant, That's what meant the most of Fernando, 281 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.320 and that's what everybody says, and it's the absolute truth. 282 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.679 Rosemary and Riverside, thanks for being patient. You're on with 283 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:23.919 Saxon Kates in the am. You're on your home with 284 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:25.039 the Dodgers A five seventy. 285 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.519 How you doing, Rosemary, Hi, good morning guys. Thank you 286 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:32.440 for taking my call and love your show. I was 287 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:36.679 a little girl when I remember when I started watching 288 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.159 the Dodgers, and I got to tell you, I fell 289 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.559 in love with the Dodgers because of Venezuela. I just 290 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:48.039 remember him being such a great player, and then of 291 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.559 course I started lik Saxy and Marshall and everybody else 292 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:57.519 and Herscheiser. But he makes us Mexican so proud. I mean, 293 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:01.720 I remember my grandparents used to watch him, you know, 294 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:05.120 playing the game, and it makes me so sad. I 295 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:09.000 actually cried last night, guys, because I got emotional. You know, 296 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:15.759 it brought up so many memories and keeviva toro borbida geviva. 297 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:19.399 I love him. He just changed the baseball world. 298 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:19.759 Guys. 299 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:21.320 Thank you, Ron. 300 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.679 It couldn't be any more proud. Thank you guys for 301 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:26.200 taking one more thing. Guys, I can't find you on 302 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:29.000 the radio. I can't listen to you while I'm at 303 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.519 home getting ready. They're showing the other guy. What's his name, 304 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:33.240 Dan Patrick? 305 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:34.559 Yeah? 306 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:36.639 Yes, how do I find you? 307 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.399 A f I seventy over the terrestrial radio. I know 308 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:42.720 Dan's on the iHeart app. There's other outlets you can find, Rosemary. 309 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:44.759 If you follow me on Twitter, I can give you 310 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:46.600 a give you a give you a good listen. So 311 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.519 appreciate Rosemary. Thank you so much for sharing and uh again, 312 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:55.080 just another example of what Fernando Valezuela meant to people 313 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:59.600 here in southern California and the people he brought to baseball, 314 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.080 the eyeball sacks he that he brought to you. Think 315 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.359 about that, a different a different amount of people that 316 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:09.039 may have never known who the great Steven Sachs was 317 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:13.599 unless Fernando Vealezuela was there bringing that group of people, 318 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:17.279 and those fans that weren't baseball fans that became Dodger 319 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:18.920 fans and became fans of Saxons. 320 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:23.319 Tim He he made everybody better, He made his teammates better, 321 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:27.160 and everybody that was around him, and not a cliche. 322 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:29.359 Everything about Fernando was the real deal. 323 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:32.440 Eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy more 324 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:35.440 of your phone calls this morning as we remember Fernando Vealezuela. 325 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:37.599 Mike Sosh is gonna join us, coming up here at 326 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:39.839 the bottom of the hour. Dusty Baker's going to join 327 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.240 us next hour. Your phone calls, your memories, your rememberances. 328 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:45.480 He met so much to so many people here in 329 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:49.279 southern California and the city of Los Angeles. Fernando Mania 330 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.400 will live on forever. We're your home of the Dodgers. 331 00:17:52.440 --> 00:18:02.519 An Fhi seventy I Sports sax and Kates in the 332 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:06.000 am on this Wednesday morning. In five to seventy, LA 333 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:09.960 Sports gave one of the World Series coming up on 334 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:14.880 Friday nights, Jack Flaherty and Garrett Cole the pitching matchup 335 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.920 in the series opener, first pitch at five oh eight. 336 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:20.319 We've got you covered wall the wall coverage leading up 337 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:23.680 to first pitch on Friday night. But certainly sad news 338 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:28.359 the loss of Fernando Vealezuela passed away yesterday at the 339 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:33.480 age of sixty three. El Toro, an icon here in 340 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:36.799 Los Angeles, in southern California, burst onto the scene in 341 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:38.759 nineteen eighty one. We've been taking a lot of your 342 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:41.279 phone calls and memories, and he touched the lives of 343 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.319 so many people here in Southern California. In Los Angeles. 344 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:50.640 He changed the baseball culture here in Southern California. He 345 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:55.160 changed baseball across the country in the nineteen eighties, and 346 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.519 SAX you mentioned it. It wasn't just in La thing 347 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:00.480 that that caught Fernando mania and ran with it. It 348 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.119 was across the country and being on the road and 349 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:06.319 traveling and playing in other cities. You saw it firsthand. 350 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.559 Even after the nineteen eighty one season. In the years 351 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:12.200 following that when Fernando pitched, it was different in those cities, 352 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:14.359 wasn't It was a different crowd. It was more crowded 353 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:15.160 in those stadiums. 354 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.359 I remember Fernando walking out of the clubhouse and you know, 355 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.079 the people had pretty good accessibility to the players and 356 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:24.640 you go out and you know, go to your car whatever. 357 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:28.400 I remember that even in spring training in Vero, where 358 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:31.640 people were very accessible, they would just want to touch 359 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.240 Fernando's shoulder, they or do you want to touch his coat? 360 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:36.720 You know when he when he was walking out, when 361 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:38.359 they said he was like one of the Beatles. He 362 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:42.160 was that much of an attraction. And you know, there's 363 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.039 one other thing in the professional realm. I want to 364 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.160 just marvel for a moment if we could about Fernando 365 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.160 in this day and age of you know, maybe five, six, seven. 366 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:53.279 Eighties and then you're out of the game. 367 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:56.680 I mean, how many players, how many pitchers today can 368 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.240 you think of that really go out and pitch a 369 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.799 complete game where they start and finish the game, which 370 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.799 is you know, should be the idea when you go 371 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:07.640 out and take the ball to try to you know, 372 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:09.880 pitch the full game, the nine innings. That's what pitchers 373 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:11.960 used to do. I don't think they really try to 374 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:13.920 do that or really shoot to do that, but to 375 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:17.359 complete the game is a is almost to something that 376 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:20.480 you never see today because they just don't go the 377 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:26.880 full tilt. Fernando Vealezuela had one hundred and thirteen complete 378 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:31.160 games in his career. Wow, you will go through and 379 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:35.480 see people today, even the great pitchers, they don't complete 380 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.359 games today. They have a smattering of games that they'll 381 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:42.799 complete throughout their career, a few, maybe one hundred and 382 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:47.559 thirteen complete games. That is called taking it on your 383 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:50.920 shoulders right, all the team together and putting it on 384 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:51.440 your back. 385 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:52.400 That's what he did. 386 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:55.680 That was Fernando Vealezuela, the guy who went out and 387 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:58.039 took the ball every time he was asked to go 388 00:20:58.119 --> 00:20:59.920 out and do it, do it into the postseason. Is 389 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.599 well and dominating and carrying a city on his shoulders 390 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:06.759 as well through the nineteen eighties with Fernando Mania, taking 391 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:09.519 your phone calls eight sixty six, ninety seven, two five 392 00:21:09.640 --> 00:21:12.440 seventy Angel and Lincoln Heights is next up here on 393 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:16.240 an FI seventy Oli sports. Hi Angel, Hey how. 394 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:17.039 You doing Boston? 395 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:18.519 Good? Hi Angel? 396 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:23.839 This is Angel. Yeah, listen I grew up in Lincoln Heights. 397 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:25.839 My dad used to work at Dodger Stadium. 398 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:26.000 Man. 399 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:29.160 My brother used to work at the Stadium club. My 400 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:33.200 dad used to serve all the time he was at 401 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:36.279