WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:06.360 Hello, Yeah, what's up? Man? We got technical, we got 2 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:10.519 technical difficult, technical difficult. That's going on over here right now. 3 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:12.000 I don't know, Yes we do. 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:15.640 We're blaming on Fred till he comes on. If you yeah, 5 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:16.679 we're blaming on Fred. 6 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.640 We're blame on Fred. I didn't get that, member, I'm sorry. 7 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:22.559 Like going on, lot going on, and a lot going 8 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:24.559 on this past weekend, ed we got to get to 9 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:27.960 all of that. Man, some great, some great NFL games. 10 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:34.840 But but man, that the Dodgers. Dodgers. Oh, I mean, 11 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:37.240 I know we're getting down to the wire and we're 12 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.759 getting down to to playoff time and Dodgers are still 13 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:43.280 in a dog fight to get into to win the division. 14 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:44.159 It's getting closer. 15 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:49.320 But that game yesterday for me, and then I'll hear 16 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.200 what you have to say about it. But the way 17 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.240 they was kind of like we losing to the Rockies. 18 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:58.119 Losing to the Rockies. We're down, and all of a 19 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.479 sudden they start to climb their way back into it, 20 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:05.000 and and and then comes the ninth any where you 21 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:07.359 know they're down to run and you say, you figure out, okay, 22 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:08.840 we got the top of the lineup. This is what 23 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:13.879 this is what we all envision this Dodger team to 24 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:18.159 be Uh. When when things are tight and you got 25 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:20.959 to face the top of the lineup and you opposing team, 26 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.680 you gotta like, oh man, I gotta go through Otani, 27 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.959 Mookie Freddie, you know, Will Smith, Maximunsey. 28 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:29.079 That's just a it's just. 29 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.239 A lineup that you don't want to face, especially late 30 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:34.040 in the game, if the game is tight. And sure 31 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:36.760 enough it came in. It came that way, right, It 32 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.959 came where Otani got an opportunity to tie the game up. 33 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.959 And I said it too. I said it to to 34 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:46.920 to my son and said it to Holliday, was like, 35 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:49.400 he gets ahead in the count, man, they're gonna have 36 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:51.040 to groove one to him because they don't want to 37 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.239 put him on because he's gonna steal a base and. 38 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:54.040 Get the same base. 39 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:54.760 Right. 40 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:56.480 So I was like, they're gonna if he gets ahead 41 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:57.799 in the count, he's gonna get a pitch to hit. 42 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.439 Sure enough, he got to pitch to hit and drove 43 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.719 it out man, and tied it up. It's like, man, 44 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:07.519 here we go. And then Moki. 45 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:11.840 Ronnie, can you hear me? Yes, we want to jump 46 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:15.719 in here. I want to Yeah, we've got our issues corrected. 47 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:17.560 Go ahead, talk about Mookie then, I've so. 48 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:20.560 I was saying that, you know, Moki and and and 49 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:23.080 fred and I've talked about this a lot. It's like, 50 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.919 O Tani's getting so much, you know, attention because it's 51 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.639 fifty to fifty club obviously you pass that now, and 52 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:33.840 it's getting so much attention that you sometimes wondered, like 53 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.240 Moki and Freddie Freeman sitting over there, like, you know, 54 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.120 I'm a pretty bad dude too, now, you know. I 55 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.520 know y'all want to, you know, praise Otani all this, 56 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:43.319 but I got some I got some history. 57 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:44.639 I was an MVP too now. 58 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.479 So I just felt that because you remember a couple 59 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.080 of weeks back where they walked Otani to get to Muki, 60 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.159 and Muki hit a home run to send him up 61 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:57.520 to make them pay. And this was the perfect moment 62 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.719 for Muki. Ohtani set the table by it up and 63 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.319 Mooki comes up and I could just feel it. I 64 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:05.879 don't know, probably the whole stadium could feel it like 65 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:10.240 Mookie gonna do something special, and I mean he did 66 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.439 it more than special. I felt he was gonna definitely 67 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.360 get a hit and get on but man to end 68 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.080 the game on a walk off home run. 69 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.479 Like he did back to back. That is the Dodger team. 70 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.360 I think everybody was like, this is the Dodger team 71 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.000 we expect to see when we started talking about this 72 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:26.039 team at the beginning of the year. 73 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:28.199 Yeah, I better not be the Dodger team we expect 74 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.400 to see in the playoffs. I'll tell you that, Yeah, 75 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:33.520 this is the Dodger team we expect to see right now. 76 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:37.159 Better not be that team in the playoffs. I'm talking 77 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.520 about the wins, friend. I'm not talking about Oh it's 78 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:40.159 the Rockies. 79 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.360 They got behind, they struggled to get you know, they 80 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:44.439 shouldn't have been behind in that ninth inning against the 81 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:48.159 rock I'm talking about the way they won it against 82 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.159 the Braves. It could be against the Phillies. It could 83 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.120 begin inst anybody. But that team comes up and you 84 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.800 got the top of the lineup going, I gotta get 85 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.719 three outs against Otani, Mookie and Freddie. How do I 86 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:02.560 do that and the game's tied or you're only up 87 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.400 by one. That's a tough deal or frightening deal for 88 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:06.199 a posing pitcher. 89 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.919 Very exciting. They won the game ninth inning, came from behind. 90 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.280 All that good I'm with you. Checks the boxes, exciting 91 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.439 if you're a Dodger fan. Great home run for Mookie. 92 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:17.000 Not taking anything away from it. 93 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:17.480 None. 94 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.360 But here's the problem. Yamamota goes out there and uh, 95 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.639 not so good. Walker Bueller goes out on Saturday and 96 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.120 not so good. And it really now gets me back 97 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.800 to what I've been saying, because we're now what week 98 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.560 and a half away from when the season really begins, 99 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:39.639 the playoffs. They gonna have pitching. You cannot be in 100 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.920 a hole like that. Yes, the Dodgers hit when they 101 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:44.839 needed to hit, and it was great. I'm not denying that. 102 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:46.800 I'm not taking it away. Please don't think I am. 103 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:50.759 But what I'm saying is you're down that fast. Two 104 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.319 games in a row, you're down that fast. Well, you're 105 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.600 gonna see the Padres starting tomorrow. And they do have hope. 106 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:58.959 They're not no hope anymore. They have hop Yeah, a 107 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:00.839 lot of hope. All right, So you're going to see 108 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.120 them starting tomorrow, you know, hopefully you do. You take 109 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.399 care of your business, you win your division, great either 110 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:08.439 way you're in the playoffs. But when you get to 111 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:11.000 the playoffs, you know, if you're down for nothing in 112 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:14.319 the first inning. I would say it's a very different 113 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.480 game than if you're down four nothing against Colorado in 114 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:20.439 the first inning. And it still speaks to the overriding 115 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:25.319 concern who's pitching. I gotta say I I don't think 116 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:30.079 I'm glad the Dodgers won Sunday, and I'm not a 117 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.040 class half full guy. I don't think it could have 118 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.920 been a worse weekend for the time. You're an empty 119 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.639 guy right now, I'm not empty. 120 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:40.959 I don't think it could have been and went all 121 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.839 the way from green and its yellow? 122 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:45.800 Now is it all right? 123 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:49.839 It's not read yet, not blood right. But what I'm 124 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:51.759 saying is I don't think it could have gone any worse. 125 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:56.879 Quite frankly, Uh have a great outing. You needed Yama 126 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.839 Moto to have a great outing, didn't Could they have 127 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:01.519 a great outing in their next outing? 128 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.560 Absolutely? Absolutely? 129 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.079 Would it have made everybody feel a little better if 130 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.879 they had had great outings in their last outings, one 131 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:13.600 thousand percent, because that's now where we're at. That's it, 132 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:19.959 and it's coming now to fruition. Who's pitching and how 133 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.199 good is it if they have a starter that can 134 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:24.000 keep them in the game. I believe they can win 135 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.160 the game. I believe offensively they will win the game, 136 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.439 even in the playoffs and with the hitting issue, Rodney, 137 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.639 I do believe that unlike last year. But if you 138 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:34.519 go out there and you're down four or five runs, 139 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.279 two winnings in, I also think you're in a heap 140 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.639 of trouble. And I think that's the concern here, Rodney's 141 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.519 you are. You are in a big trouble, especially in 142 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.439 the playoffs. Gets a good teams, and you don't want 143 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.759 to be down. We saw this member Game seven. We 144 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:53.519 talk about it a lot when they playoffs rolled around 145 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:56.120 where you Darvis got down and it felt like the 146 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:59.279 game was over in the second inning because the Dodgers 147 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:00.839 were down four right away. 148 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:04.160 And so you can't do that. No, you can't do 149 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.839 that in the postseason. But I will say that if 150 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.360 there ever was a Dodger team, if you go back 151 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:11.800 and look at all of them, that has the ability 152 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.040 and the firepower to come back from a deficit like that, 153 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.519 given there's a lot of game left. If you're down 154 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.920 that early, is this team And when you start to 155 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:23.879 get that feeling of I don't care how many runs 156 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:26.399 were down, we're gonna We're gonna our bats are gonna 157 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.399 get us back in it. That's a good feeling to have. 158 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:30.399 But don't get me wrong. You know, pitching's got to 159 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.959 hold up their end of the bargain. And and right now, 160 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.920 like you said, you know guys that you counted on. 161 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.920 I mean, I think the Tiler Glass now injury just 162 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.800 to a whole monkey wrench in the whole thing. Yeah, 163 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.879 because he for most of the season was the consistent guy, 164 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.639 really known as the ace of that staff, and now 165 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:52.639 you don't have him, y'ama modo coming back after injury, 166 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:54.519 He's kind of been inconsistent. He had he had an 167 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:57.560 okay performance before this last one, but still not to 168 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:00.000 where you would like him to be going into the playoff. 169 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:05.680 So you know, it could be by committee. And I 170 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.240 think this is going to be one of those things 171 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.600 where you, Dave Roberts and that staff is going to 172 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.160 have to really manage the pitching because you can't let 173 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:16.399 these games get out of hand. 174 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.759 Eric, from where you sit, you're on a team, you've 175 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.600 had a good season, You've dealt with injuries. You know, 176 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.600 if everybody's healthy, you've got a real shot here. But 177 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:32.039 you also know now you're starting quarterbackers in trouble, may 178 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:33.919 be able to go, may not be able to go, 179 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.519 and if he can go, may not be as effective 180 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:39.200 as you would hope. So if that's the case, this 181 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.240 is football. You're on that team, you start the playoffs, 182 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:42.639 what are you. 183 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:46.360 Thinking, Well, you're thinking hopefully that if he can't go, 184 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:48.799 what does our backup look like? You know, I have 185 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.279 the backup situation? And can he play and can he 186 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:54.519 be effective? And I think that's the things the Dodgers 187 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.480 is like, Yeah, you know that the hitting is good 188 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:59.600 right now, but you know, think about it even last 189 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:02.039 year when when they bats went cold, you know, in 190 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.000 the playoffs and they had won over one hundred games. 191 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:06.399 You know, you talk about the pitch and I see 192 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.759 what you're talking about, Fred when you said, uh, you know, 193 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.679 you know it was a win. But we never should 194 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:14.000 have gotten that kind of situation. I mean, because the 195 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.159 Rockets are not a very good baseball team at all, 196 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.200 and the Dodgers are one of the elite teams. And yeah, 197 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:21.559 that was like that was almost like a Hollywood ending there, 198 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.799 you know, or time of hit and hitting, you know, hit, 199 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:26.559 get hitting and hit the home run and then lookie 200 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.519 come and finishing off and winning and winning the game, 201 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:30.600 you know, but that's not gonna happen all the time. 202 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:32.240 You know, when you get through these teams that have 203 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.120 really good pitching, and you know what are they three 204 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:36.879 they three day? They three games up on the pot 205 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.919 bes right now. So I mean, you can't make those 206 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.279 kind of mistakes against a good baseball the same, the 207 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.039 same in football. You know, you can't make errors against 208 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.279 a good football team. You can't turn the ball over, 209 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.960 you can't throw in exceptions, you know you can't. You 210 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:54.200 can't drop the fly balls, you can't. You know, you 211 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:55.840 get the top of the ending, well, you got your 212 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:57.840 strong hitters coming up, you can't strike you can get 213 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:02.279 them all struck out. So I mean, like I said, 214 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:04.879 I'm I'm with I'm, I'm kind of on the fence 215 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.679 because you know, I you know, like you guys know 216 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.039 baseball a lot better than I know baseball. But I'm 217 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.000 with Fred and I think you two riding. And when 218 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.080 it comes to pitching, pitching is is very, very very 219 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.279 important in baseball. I thought, I thought, I really thought 220 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.039 that that hitting was was the thing when I saw, 221 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:22.519 you know, the Dodgers were hitting the ball like like 222 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:24.799 last year, really killing it. And they got in the 223 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.360 playoffs and everything went cold and so but but if 224 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.039 you're pitching is good, you know, you're still good. But 225 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:31.559 if you can't hit the ball you don't have and 226 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.519 your pitching is bad, are you in trouble? And and I, 227 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:37.320 you know, and I hate to say it, I hope not, 228 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.759 but I kind of foresee that with the Dodgers because 229 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:42.240 you know, the bats are hot right now and it's 230 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.960 and it's coming down to the riding in the playoffs. Man, 231 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:48.519 you know, who's the hottest team, who's hot, who's really hot? 232 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.000 You know? But and in baseball you need to have 233 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.519 hot bats and hot pitching at the same time. And 234 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:56.279 that's that's that's the difference. Yeah, And that's the thing. 235 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:57.919 You you know, you may be able to like the 236 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:00.200 game like yesterday, you might be able to get to 237 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.600 get around, you know, winning one of those games in 238 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.399 the series, but you can't. You can't have a steady 239 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.559 tiet of winning games like that, you know what I mean. 240 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.639 He's like, We're gonna walk it over again. 241 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:15.759 Count on O'donnie to come up, and then Mookie gonna 242 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:17.519 come behind him, and then Freddy's gonna do it. 243 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:20.519 No, you can't count on that. 244 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:21.440 You're absolutely right. 245 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:23.360 I mean, the teams that have won it in the 246 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:26.120 last few years have been teams that had both right that, 247 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.919 both their offense and it and hitting and then uh 248 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.399 and then on top of that, you've got you've got 249 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:38.759 the pitching, the complement. The Arizona last year, their pitchers, 250 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.559 their pitchers got hot last year. Nobody could hit them 251 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.279 down the stretch They're two aces, couldn't nobody hit them. 252 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:48.799 And and then their bats were hot too. They were 253 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:51.960 hitting everything and and and stealing bases and doing all 254 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.960 those things. So as a team, they were the hottest team. 255 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:58.720 And that's the scary part of that about the Dodgers 256 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:03.200 right now is that you you know, we know how 257 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:08.120 good they are, but they could they could lose games 258 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:10.559 when they score eight to nine runs because the. 259 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:13.559 Pitching you get good, that's it. You can't you can't 260 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:19.000 be winning a game of fifteen or twelve. You can't 261 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.279 win no game like I mean, look at last year 262 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:25.000 they took last year, that's exactly I mean the basketball 263 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:26.480 how they were playing great. You know, they want like 264 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:28.120 I said, what do you want one hundred and five 265 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.240 games something like that? Hunting some games and then got 266 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:33.600 to the playoffs. Boom, it was over right quick. 267 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:38.240 Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's gonna be very very interesting. 268 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:41.320 So tell me what's your gut before because we're gonna 269 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.559 finish this up and then we'll get into the into 270 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:49.519 the NFL Spotlight Monday, brought to you by Ford. But 271 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:52.960 your gut going into the playoffs with the Dodgers, how 272 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:54.879 do you feel? I mean, I know, we just heard 273 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.799 Fred and where he is, but you're leaning towards that 274 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.399 way too, But how do you feel about them going 275 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.120 Because a lot of people saying, you know, this is 276 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:06.279 make or break for a lot of folks, especially Dave Roberts. 277 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:08.519 They don't win at all than Dave Roberts's gone, despite 278 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:11.879 the fact that they've had, you know, multitude more injuries 279 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.840 than any other team in the league. If they don't 280 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.480 win the World Series, it's gonna be nobody's gonna care 281 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:20.399 that they you know, you know, and and and that's 282 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.000 the problem that that's that's okay, that's the problem right there, 283 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:25.519 right And people need to care because if you you 284 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.399 don't have your your starting pitchers or your starting quarterback 285 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:31.000 or starting starting offensive line, it's hard to win. 286 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.919 I don't care. You know how good you are, how 287 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:34.799 well you played so far. But right now we're in 288 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:38.519 the playoffs. My gut tells me that. And I hope 289 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.080 I'm wrong, because you know, I'm a Dodger fan. I 290 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.200 think we're gonna be in the same situation we weren't 291 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.200 last year. I think we're gonna win the division, get 292 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:49.919 to the playoffs, and probably lose. 293 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:50.840 I hope not. 294 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:52.799 I mean, I say, and I say, I hope we don't, 295 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.360 because I think the pitching is a big factor. I mean, 296 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:58.120 like I said, you can't you can't rely on having 297 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.480 ten runs a game. You can't rely on you know, 298 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.559 walk off home runs. That's just not gonna happen. I mean, 299 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.240 and then you have a pitching staff that is basically decimated. 300 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:10.000 I mean, and I said it, I said it to 301 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.799 some guys. Yet yes day before yesterday, how is it 302 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:17.279 that all our pictures are hurt? I mean, it's something 303 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:19.240 going on now. I mean, I mean, you got to 304 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.440 look at somebody. You can't. It's like it's like, Okay, 305 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:24.840 why is the Like I said this before, why is 306 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:26.879 the Why is the what we got guys going the 307 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:31.159 acls out, you know, or the MCLs or the hamstrings. 308 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:34.039 Something is going on with the with the coaching staff 309 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:37.240 or the pitching coach. Something is happening there that's just 310 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.879 not working out right. And I just think that I 311 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.240 don't think it's gonna turn out good from im. I'll 312 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:46.080 say it again, I'm a Dodger fan, but again I'm realistic. 313 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.240 I mean, and I hope, I hope we can get 314 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.919 through it. I hope we can, you know, some kind 315 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.000 of get it together and say, hey, let's win it all. 316 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.600 And I feel bad for Dave Robberts because Dave Robberts 317 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:57.120 to me, is a great manager. But if you don't 318 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:01.799 have your aces, it's hard to win. It is. Yeah, 319 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:02.960 he can't go out and pitch for him. 320 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.480 But then again, you know, people don't don't really care 321 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.320 about that, which you, like you said, tom they should 322 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.720 care because if you're if you're really gonna be a fan, 323 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.960 or you're gonna analyze the team, you got to analyze 324 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.080 the whole team, the whole team, right. 325 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.080 And you can't. I don't care who you bring in there. 326 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.039 You bring Tommy back, you know, Tommy comes right right, 327 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:26.480 you know Tommy, you don't have any pitching you know, 328 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.159 and they You know Tommy, you know though he used 329 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:31.559 to pitch back in the day, you know, Tommy can't 330 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.840 go out here and pitch for him. So it's gonna 331 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.039 be a tough dynamic. Just your take on now that 332 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:39.879 we're winding up the season with the Dodgers. Uh, and 333 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.080 just be you know, before we go to preak, you're 334 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:44.759 you're your assessment of o Tany and what he's been 335 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.000 able to do this year. 336 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.399 Oh man, you know you know, uh right now, I 337 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:50.559 was thinking about that a minute ago. I said, what 338 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:54.039 he's done is actually phenomenal. It's almost like a I'm 339 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.200 gonna use myself as a running back. I ran for 340 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:01.639 two thousand yards and I and I had I caught 341 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:05.159 another had another twelve to fifteen hundred yards receiving. That's 342 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:07.600 what kind of that's that's the kind of season here, 343 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.360 And that sounds crazy. You think about that. You ran 344 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:12.639 for two thousand yards and you had another fifteen yards 345 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:14.519 one hundred yards received even a thousand yards for see, 346 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.320 but you ran for so you had three thousand yards. 347 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:19.399 That is the kind of season that he's like, like 348 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.519 David robertson that Dave, Dave Roberts said, it's almost like 349 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:25.399 he's not human. And and when you think about baseball, 350 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.639 because man, you know people say, oh man, I could 351 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.440 hit that ball. Oh if I hurt my shoulder, I 352 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:32.720 could have been a pro baseball player. Yeah right, I 353 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:34.879 mean it's hard to hit a baseball. It's hard to 354 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.519 hit a ninety five, one hundred miles hours baseball and 355 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:39.159 come up and do some of the things he's like, 356 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.519 fifty home runs, fifty stolen bases, well fifty five now 357 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:43.919 fifty five home runs. 358 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.240 Fifty three home runs, fifty five stolen stolen bases. 359 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.679 Yeah, I mean, it's phenomenal. So that's how I uh, 360 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:52.879 look at look at his his season he's had so 361 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.679 far as it's running back has had basically two thousand 362 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:59.519 yards rushing and another thirteen to fifteen hundred yards receiving, 363 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:02.279 and you and you know he'd be MVP. 364 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:05.319 The running back would be for sure. Yeah, no doubt, 365 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:05.839 no doubt. 366 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:07.880 How do you think that Mookie and Freddie are handling 367 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.160 or what do you think of what's going on in 368 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.279 their heads? I mean sometimes at some point, and it'd 369 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:14.680 be different if he was you know, he was arrogant 370 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:16.519 and he was cocky and he was doing it like 371 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:18.200 that there might be some tension. 372 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:18.880 Uh. 373 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:21.440 Like I was saying, these two guys were m vps 374 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.960 themselves and they're they're watching, you know, somebody come along 375 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:29.319 on their team that's doing this. You think it could 376 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:32.160 go either way, right, It could motivate you even harder, 377 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:34.000 or it could be like, this is my teammate. We 378 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.000 gonna We're gonna roll with this cat all the way 379 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:36.960 to the World Series. 380 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.759 I'm gonna tell you something, Rodney. One thing I link 381 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.839 at the Dodger organization, and I see the organization is 382 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:45.400 a very stable organization. The Dodgs have been a great 383 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.039 baseball team for a long time. I think about when 384 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.319 I was in Indianapolis and I told you before how 385 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:52.480 selfish some of the players on the team were, like 386 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:54.240 it was jealous if your name was in the paper, 387 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:56.359 stuff like that. I linked the Dodgers. They don't. I 388 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:58.400 don't think they have those kind of problems because I 389 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.920 think they have players on that football, that baseball team 390 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:06.440 that are confident in themselves, like a Mookie that's Freddie Freeman. 391 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.599 You know, we're not worrying about we We're glad to 392 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.200 have him. We were happy to have him here. You know, 393 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.480 he can help out baseball team. And that's what it's 394 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:15.559 all about. Because when you have when you have a 395 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:19.519 history of baseball like the Dodgers have, you don't have 396 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:21.359 those kind of guys. You might have one or two 397 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.400 guys like that, but I don't think the stars like 398 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:27.640 Mookie and Otany and Freddie Freeman and those guys. You know, 399 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:29.200 you don't you don't don't. I don't think you have. 400 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.160 I don't think they're like, hey, look, I'm happy for him. 401 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.119