Speaker 1: And now your voice for Dodger talking like that, David Basse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers defeat
Speaker 2: Paul Skeens and the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight by a final
Speaker 2: score of four to one. Welcome the Dodger Talk. David
Speaker 2: Vasse with you until the top of the hour. We
Speaker 2: have phone lines open at eight six six nine, eight seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. We will hear from River Ryan, we
Speaker 2: will hear from Dave Roberts, and also we will hear
Speaker 2: from the former owner of the Dodgers, the great Peter O'Malley,
Speaker 2: whose father Walter was honored before tonight's game and forever
Speaker 2: enshrine down the left field line in the Ring of
Speaker 2: honor with all those other greats than Dodger history. And
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for Walter O'Malley, there would be no
Speaker 2: La Dodgers, and there certainly would never be a Dodger
Speaker 2: stadium like this. So deservedly so, Walter O'Malley forever honored
Speaker 2: here at Dodgers Stadium, the house he built back in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty two, after the Dodgers moved here in nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty eight, and before we go any further with tonight's game,
Speaker 2: I just want to say what a great job the
Speaker 2: Dodgers did the last two nights with this alumni weekend,
Speaker 2: and tomorrow is going to be great as well on
Speaker 2: Matt camp Day. Congratulations to Stan Casten, Lon Rosen and
Speaker 2: Steve Brenner and Carrie Osbourne who really executed a great
Speaker 2: day today, a great night yesterday, and I'm sure another
Speaker 2: great day tomorrow with Matt camp Day.
Speaker 3: This is what the Dodgers are about. It the players.
Speaker 2: It's the people that came before all these guys and
Speaker 2: the current players need to really understand that and pay
Speaker 2: it forward. One day, Clayton Kershaw is going to be
Speaker 2: sitting in the stands where Sandy Cofax is sitting, and
Speaker 2: it's just really special. It was surreal for me growing
Speaker 2: up a Dodger fan in the San Fernando Valley. You know,
Speaker 2: I was born in nineteen seventy six, so I was
Speaker 2: starting to come of age around eighty two to eighty
Speaker 2: three to be start to understand what my dad was watching,
Speaker 2: what my uncles and my dad were watching and listening to.
Speaker 2: And Dusty Baker was the player that captured my imagination
Speaker 2: and today, you know, being on the field when all
Speaker 2: these great Dodger legends were coming out there for the ceremony.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a pinch me moment to see
Speaker 2: the legendary infield of Garvey Lopes, Russell and say, unfortunately
Speaker 2: Davy Lopes couldn't be here, But to see the other
Speaker 2: guys and to have a certain level of relationship with
Speaker 2: all of them, it's pretty special.
Speaker 3: And to see Steve Yeager, who was.
Speaker 2: The catcher for all those great teams, awesome to see him. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we see Oral Herscheiser here every night. We never take
Speaker 2: that for granted. Monday was a big part of those
Speaker 2: teams in the late seventies and early eighties. And it
Speaker 2: was special to see Hideo Nomo back at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: wearing his Dodgers number sixteen. Everybody was excited to see that.
Speaker 2: You heard Andre Ethier in the broadcast boot during the game,
Speaker 2: he was so excited showing a picture of him and
Speaker 2: Nomo before the game to everybody in the press box.
Speaker 2: Just a lot of great players in their own right
Speaker 2: that certainly have built this organization to where it's at
Speaker 2: right now, and it was really a pinch me moment.
Speaker 2: To see all these guys, and man Nicki Hatcher even
Speaker 2: gave me kind of a stunt man pumped me up
Speaker 2: type of thing going on when I saw him on
Speaker 2: the field.
Speaker 3: So really special.
Speaker 2: Love all those guys, and it was great to have
Speaker 2: Kurt Gibson out here in Los Angeles as well. So
Speaker 2: all of that makes the Dodgers who they are and
Speaker 2: this organization as special as it is. So once again,
Speaker 2: congratulations to everybody in the organization that had this vision
Speaker 2: and to all that executed it. And it was I
Speaker 2: know all the former players that were out here really
Speaker 2: felt special and appreciated with the way the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: treated them.
Speaker 3: So a great start to the game.
Speaker 2: And then the current Dodgers did a great job of
Speaker 2: getting to Paul Skeens, who had never given up these
Speaker 2: many runs in a start before tonight, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: scored four runs off of Skeens. Gavin Lux, the cleanup
Speaker 2: hitter for the first time in his career, delivers and
Speaker 2: you know, maybe the Dodgers realize that, you know what,
Speaker 2: this guy lucks. He's pretty hot and he's even better
Speaker 2: all season long with runners in scoring position, and he
Speaker 2: delivered in the first inning with an RBI double and
Speaker 2: then with two outs in the third inning and two
Speaker 2: to on, Gavin Lux delivered just the base hit that
Speaker 2: scored two runs, and that is really, uh what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers needed, especially with the way River Ryan was pitching. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: River had to leave this game with the right forearm
Speaker 2: injury with two outs in the fifth inning. And the
Speaker 2: reason why I speculated initially that it was a blister
Speaker 2: issue was because going into his last start in Oakland, Uh,
Speaker 2: River Ryan showed me his right index finger. He had
Speaker 2: a bandage over it two days before start in Oakland
Speaker 2: and was managing a blister. So that's the reason why
Speaker 2: initially I thought it may have been the blister, but
Speaker 2: unfortunately a much more serious injury where River Ryan's going
Speaker 2: to have an MRI tomorrow to examine his right arm.
Speaker 2: A moment ago, River Ryan spoke to the media on
Speaker 2: Sports at LA.
Speaker 4: Did you feel it started inning? Started feeling a little
Speaker 4: bit of tightness in my form, got the uh.
Speaker 5: Called right now.
Speaker 4: There again running through my arm a little bit, went
Speaker 4: back out there for the fifth last two pitches really
Speaker 4: started tightening up on me a little bit, so I
Speaker 4: begged doctor let me keep going.
Speaker 5: But he pulled the plug on it, So.
Speaker 4: I mean not really no, Like I said, it just
Speaker 4: really started tightening up on me a little bit.
Speaker 5: And then doctor was concerned.
Speaker 4: Training was concerned. I thought it was a hard time to.
Speaker 6: Pull it, so concerned.
Speaker 7: Are you going forward now?
Speaker 8: Not very?
Speaker 4: I mean I feel pretty solid right now and random
Speaker 4: through some tests strong. I'm gonna go to the doctor
Speaker 4: inmorrow morning.
Speaker 5: See what happens.
Speaker 4: Did you when you started feeling it, did you tell
Speaker 4: like the training stat at the moment or is it
Speaker 4: something that you felt like you getting pitched through? Okay,
Speaker 4: I definitely didn't want to come out of the game.
Speaker 4: I wanted to finish, but they saw me grimace a
Speaker 4: little bit on the mountain and they're not gonna take
Speaker 4: any chances, so they decided to end it there.
Speaker 6: But disappointing is this considering how willy you're pitching.
Speaker 5: Not just tonight with that you got here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just as part of the game, man, happens.
Speaker 4: I mean, the pitchclock definitely makes you speed up a lot,
Speaker 4: which back in the day you didn't have to speed
Speaker 4: up as much when you threw. So throwing back to
Speaker 4: back pitches and then fifteen seconds.
Speaker 8: It starts to take a toll, but.
Speaker 4: I guess that we're gonna go throw to the doctor
Speaker 4: Marmore and see how there that fans out.
Speaker 2: All right, there's River Ryan on sports in at LA
Speaker 2: and maybe the first pitcher in a long time I've
Speaker 2: heard reference the pitch clock to an arm injury. So look,
Speaker 2: there's something to be said about the pitch clock and
Speaker 2: the number the time that you have between pitches to
Speaker 2: gather yourself, especially.
Speaker 3: As you get later in the game.
Speaker 2: Maybe fatigue is setting in and when you have to
Speaker 2: throw the ball within fifteen seconds, obviously, maybe you're starting
Speaker 2: to compensate with your arm and not using your lower half.
Speaker 2: So I know, talking to Oral Herscheizer during a rain
Speaker 2: delay in Chicago, he said, maybe that's part of it,
Speaker 2: where guys get fatigued with the pitch clock later in
Speaker 2: their starts, but also in between starts. These guys are
Speaker 2: not just doing a light bullpen session. They're trying to
Speaker 2: throw their max pitch, is what Oral speculated about, and
Speaker 2: really talking to guys, they validated what Oral Herscheizer said.
Speaker 2: A lot of these younger pitchers are looking at the iPad,
Speaker 2: looking at their best stuff, trying to make their best
Speaker 2: pitch in a bullpen session. That's not what they are
Speaker 2: meant for. So hopefully things work out for River Ryan.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately he had to leave with two outs in the
Speaker 2: fourth inning. He does not get a decision, but Michael
Speaker 2: Kopek does. Michael Kopek, who the Dodgers acquired from the
Speaker 2: White Sox in that three team trade that brought Cope
Speaker 2: and tom Y edmund t l A. Copeck now has
Speaker 2: not allowed to run in five appearances, and tonight was
Speaker 2: his first outing where he went one plus one in
Speaker 2: a third scoreless innings for Michael Kopek to pick up
Speaker 2: his first win as a Dodger. Eight six six seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Got to go
Speaker 2: out to my guy Sergio in American Canyon. He is
Speaker 2: a cable car guy in San Francisco. Sergio, I'm glad
Speaker 2: you called in.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 9: Good, DV Man nicely nice to speak with you again. Man,
Speaker 9: it was It was nice to see you inside the
Speaker 9: bar station last Sunday.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 9: I totally recognize you, and I was just like, Man,
Speaker 9: what a trip, because I've seen you before at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 9: Uh in your suit but I've seen you from Afar,
Speaker 9: so I.
Speaker 7: Was like, oh man, I know where that guy is.
Speaker 9: So hey, thank you for taking the time for being
Speaker 9: like your real uh down on earth, your real uh pleasant.
Speaker 9: You know you didn't seem all stuff got man, So
Speaker 9: I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean people, did you think I was
Speaker 2: stuck up when you listened to the show.
Speaker 3: Did you think I was a top one percenter?
Speaker 9: Nah? No, never thought that. But you know, you never
Speaker 9: know how people could come up when you meet them
Speaker 9: in real life. That's what I say.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it, Sergio, and I really appreciate you
Speaker 2: listening up there in Giants Country. Do you wear your
Speaker 2: Dodger hat? When do you drive the cable car all
Speaker 2: the time?
Speaker 9: And I got different kinds. I got the green nineteen
Speaker 9: thirty seven Brooklyn Dodgers hat. I got many of them,
Speaker 9: so I'm always wearing them all the time, and all
Speaker 9: my coworkers are always giving me crap, but hey, come on,
Speaker 9: they know who runs San Francisco. It's a Dodgers baby.
Speaker 3: Come on out love it.
Speaker 2: Sergio, thanks a lot for calling in, and uh, if
Speaker 2: you're up in San Francisco, look out for Sergio wearing
Speaker 2: that Dodger hat on the cable car. Thanks a lot
Speaker 2: for calling in and it was great meeting you.
Speaker 9: You're too, my friend, and just know you're welcome anytime
Speaker 9: you and the family. So next year when you got
Speaker 9: I'll call you again and we'll try.
Speaker 2: To set that up, all right, Love it appreciated, Sergio'll
Speaker 2: be safe out there. Eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Pirates four to one and keep the Diamondbacks and Padres
Speaker 2: at arms distance length.
Speaker 3: Because they both won tonight. That's right.
Speaker 2: The Padres now have won seven in a row. They're
Speaker 2: just two and a half games back of the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: while the Diamondbacks won again. They've won eight of their
Speaker 2: last ten. They are three and a half games behind
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, so they.
Speaker 3: Are not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: I love the urgency the Dodgers have shown in the
Speaker 2: last two games, including tonight against the Pirates, and they've
Speaker 2: got to continue to show that urgency because their record
Speaker 2: since June twenty first I saw coming into tonight's game
Speaker 2: was fifteen and eighteen. That's right there with the Rockies
Speaker 2: since that period of time. And things are starting to
Speaker 2: turn in the Dodgers direction because they are starting to
Speaker 2: get some of their players healthy and they're looking to
Speaker 2: sweep the Pirates with their Ace on the Mound tomorrow
Speaker 2: the former Pirate Tyler Glass now, so that would be
Speaker 2: a good way to end this homestand after a disappointing
Speaker 2: series against the Phillies, and the Dodgers' schedule does not
Speaker 2: get any easier because they will be playing the Brewers
Speaker 2: and the Saint Louis Cardinals on this trip. And I
Speaker 2: know we focus on Mookie Bets coming back. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: already got Freddie Freeman back, but they need starting pitching
Speaker 2: and certainly that's what's going to carry the Dodgers from
Speaker 2: here to the finish line. And that's what's really going
Speaker 2: to be something to watch going forward in the last
Speaker 2: forty five games of the year. How deep can Dodgers
Speaker 2: starters get into a game? Because this Rodger bullpen has
Speaker 2: been used quite a bit. Eight six six, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Santa Monica.
Speaker 2: I was out in Santa Monica on Thursday night. Diane,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: How you doing Diane, good, good, thanks, How are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Maybe I saw you at the bungalow on Thursday night.
Speaker 7: Going I'm going tomorrow, okay, and yeah, just not. I'll
Speaker 7: be excited to see Matt camp for sure.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And are you gonna wear your twenty seven jersey tomorrow?
Speaker 7: Diane, Yes, I yes, I will, yes, I will.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: I know it's gonna be warm, so taking water and sunscreen.
Speaker 7: But I just remember back in the back in the day.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you're with them, but when uh,
Speaker 7: the Cardinals were facing us and we and the second
Speaker 7: game when James Long hit the ball and Matt Holiday
Speaker 7: dropped it and we scored all the.
Speaker 3: He lost it in the towels.
Speaker 7: And then anime right matteels for dropping it.
Speaker 3: Hey, that was great.
Speaker 2: And then the Dodgers went on to shock the world
Speaker 2: and get to the NLCS.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I remember those days, good times.
Speaker 2: You don't have to go all the way back to
Speaker 2: the seventies to have some fond memories of Dodger baseball.
Speaker 2: And hard to believe Matt Kemp is retired because we
Speaker 2: all remember him when he just got called up, and
Speaker 2: we all remember the great seasons he had with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and it was really cool that Matt was able to
Speaker 2: come back in twenty eighteen and prove a lot of
Speaker 2: doubters wrong, making the All Star.
Speaker 3: Team in twenty eighteen and going.
Speaker 2: To the World Series with the Dodgers against the Boston
Speaker 2: Red Sox.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to.
Speaker 2: James in North Hollywood. Hi, James, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hey, David, I gotta tell you, I'm excited about the
Speaker 10: NL West getting tight, and the reason is because iron
Speaker 10: sharpened iron. And you have said before that you're a
Speaker 10: big proponent of this team needs more edge. Well, if
Speaker 10: we get enough iron sharpening us, we're gonna be darn
Speaker 10: right edgy come the postseason. So I absolutely love the
Speaker 10: fact that the race is getting tight. I also love
Speaker 10: the swings tonight from the bottom of the lineup, watching.
Speaker 6: Nick got Meg come in there and do his thing,
Speaker 6: Kevin Kiermyer do his thing. I just love watching Tay
Speaker 6: Oscar go opposite field. You know, he's not a huge man,
Speaker 6: but boy does he have great power to all fields.
Speaker 6: And isn't it great to see Gavin Lux go to
Speaker 6: all fields? So I look at that, but I'm absolutely
Speaker 6: thrilled that the way the team is trending. And the
Speaker 6: last thing I wanted to say is Mookie BET's going
Speaker 6: to write I asked you about this the last time
Speaker 6: I called in. I was surprised to hear you say
Speaker 6: that you thought it maybe wouldn't happen to closer to
Speaker 6: the postseason, because with the way Lux is hitting since
Speaker 6: the all start breaking, the way Mickey Rose hit all season,
Speaker 6: and with the way our other outfielders not named Tey
Speaker 6: Oscar Hernandez have hit, to me, it just seems like
Speaker 6: the best lineup was clearly with Lux holding down second
Speaker 6: and Mike you Row when he came back from injury
Speaker 6: holding down short.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, that was the best alignment, and Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts read the room. He understood that was the best
Speaker 2: spot for him, and I'm glad that he was the
Speaker 2: one to initiate that. Hey, you know what, the team
Speaker 2: is better with me in right field. So kudos to
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts, who's a great guy and a superstar that
Speaker 2: is doing things that no other superstar would be as
Speaker 2: flexible to do. Eight six six nine seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. We're going to take a
Speaker 2: time out here on Dodger Talk. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll give you an update on Max Muncie and Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmond's first rehab game, and also let you know when
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler is going to start for the Dodgers. Plus
Speaker 2: we will hear from Peter O'Malley, the legendary owner of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and his father Walter honored earlier tonight in
Speaker 2: the Ring of honor. The Dodgers beat Paul Skeens in
Speaker 2: the Pirates tonight four to one on a five to
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 3: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassin. That's to offer two.
Speaker 2: Ti Oscar Hernandez driven high and data right center.
Speaker 3: Way back in time.
Speaker 2: Tioscar Hernandez with home run number twenty six and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers waited for nothing. Ti Oscar Hernandez with another three
Speaker 2: hit game tonight, his eighth of the season. Ti Oscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez hit one a mile in the fifth inning off
Speaker 2: of Paul Skeens to give the Dodgers a four nothing
Speaker 2: lead against the rookie sensation. They would go on to
Speaker 2: beat Pittsburgh tonight four to one in hand Skemes just
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Speaker 2: The only disappointing part about tonight was that River Ryan
Speaker 2: left the game tonight with a right forearm injury. He
Speaker 2: is going to have an MRI tomorrow and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are placing him on the injured list, and we'll recall
Speaker 2: Landon Knack, who will be available for the Dodgers out
Speaker 2: of the bullpen tomorrow afternoon as they look to sweep
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Pirates out of La Pittsburgh now all of
Speaker 2: a sudden fifty six and sixty.
Speaker 3: On the season.
Speaker 2: They have lost five or six in a row and
Speaker 2: our five games back out of the final wildcard spot
Speaker 2: in the National League. In case you missed it earlier,
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks and Padres both won tonight, so the Dodgers
Speaker 2: remained two and a half ahead of San Diego, three
Speaker 2: and a half ahead of Arizona. We were talking about
Speaker 2: the cavalry arriving soon. Max Munsey and Tommy Edmund played
Speaker 2: their first rehab games at Oklahoma City tonight. Munsey was
Speaker 2: one for two with a walk and a double. Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmund was one for three, starting in center field. Also,
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler will make his return to the Dodger rotation
Speaker 2: next week in Milwaukee. Dave Roberts said before the game
Speaker 2: today that Walker Bueller will start Wednesday against the Brewers.
Speaker 2: That's a four game series at Miller Park. All right,
Speaker 2: want to share a very special conversation we had tonight
Speaker 2: with Peter O'Malley. The O'Malley family is synonymous with the
Speaker 2: Dodger family and certainly great to have Peter here and
Speaker 2: his sister Terry Sidler. And this was a very candid
Speaker 2: and intimate conversation I was able to have with the
Speaker 2: great Peter O'Malley after the special pregame ceremony which honored
Speaker 2: his father, Walter O'Malley. And in case you don't know
Speaker 2: the backstory, Walter O'Malley passed away in nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 2: but Peter O'Malley became the president of the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one, so the transition was in place. And
Speaker 2: as a young man, Peter O'Malley started from the very
Speaker 2: bottom and worked his way throughout the organization to really
Speaker 2: know the ins and outs. And here's what mister O'Malley
Speaker 2: had to say about that and many other things surrounding
Speaker 2: the O'Malley family, Walter O'Malley and the Dodgers.
Speaker 11: And that's the key word that if you're responsible for
Speaker 11: your family, family, or for driving a car with the
Speaker 11: kids in the car, responsibility And that always kind of
Speaker 11: stuck in my mind that if you realize, hey, Peter,
Speaker 11: you're responsible for this franchise. You're going to get up early,
Speaker 11: you're going to work late, You're going to come in
Speaker 11: here Saturdays and Sundays in the wintertime. So nobody ever
Speaker 11: asked me for advice, but that's kind of on my mind.
Speaker 8: Do you realize how much the O'Malley family meant, not
Speaker 8: only to your players, to the staff and the organization,
Speaker 8: but to the city.
Speaker 5: I think I do.
Speaker 11: I think I'm talking to today the luncheon, were you
Speaker 11: with the luncheon today. Okay, well I had a chance
Speaker 11: to visit with all them who I knew on my watch.
Speaker 5: I didn't know the fellows that came after, but.
Speaker 11: They truly appreciated it was a special time. It's going
Speaker 11: to get greater. The stadium is greater, the teams are
Speaker 11: going to be greater, the players are going to be greater.
Speaker 5: But when we had it.
Speaker 11: It was a special, unique time everyone looks back at
Speaker 11: with Even living in the barracks at Dodgertown Old Navy Barracks,
Speaker 11: everybody complained no heat, no air conditioning, no telephones, the
Speaker 11: fuse would go, nobody had electricity. But the next morning
Speaker 11: everybody laughed and said, I survived the night or mosquitoes,
Speaker 11: but you know.
Speaker 5: When it gets hot. No, the reviews of that fifty
Speaker 5: years are pretty good.
Speaker 8: What was Walter O'Malley the father?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 3: He was great?
Speaker 11: You know, he fished together, we hunted together. He was honest.
Speaker 11: He uh we disagreed, maybe a couple of times on
Speaker 11: something minor. He would hear me out, Okay, well why
Speaker 11: do you want to do that? I would tell him,
Speaker 11: and he might say, yeah, I think you're right, or well,
Speaker 11: think about this it. It was a frank relationship.
Speaker 8: It seems like you not only took the torch, but
Speaker 8: you ran with it.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 11: Yes, I thought about going to law school when I
Speaker 11: was an undergraduate at Penn, and then I thought, Hey,
Speaker 11: I'd like to run a farm team, and the fella
Speaker 11: in Spokane. Spencer Harris, the GM, he passed away in
Speaker 11: the winter suddenly and there's an opening general manager of Spokane, Washington,
Speaker 11: and my dad and Buzzy said, would you want to
Speaker 11: do that? And I said sure, So I go to Spokane.
Speaker 11: That was great experience, running the tripa a farm team
Speaker 11: in the Coast League. So and then came here vice
Speaker 11: president stadium operations, dealing with the maintenance, the unions, that
Speaker 11: ticket takers and everybody else. So the pattern, if you
Speaker 11: look back at the path, it wasn't by design. It
Speaker 11: just happened to follow the different areas of responsibility, and
Speaker 11: so it worked out.
Speaker 8: Mister O'Malley, the history lesson we've gotten is of course
Speaker 8: from the great Vin Scully about not only the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: but your father. And I remember interviewing Vin for the
Speaker 8: first time and he said his two wishes before he left.
Speaker 8: In his words, this mortal coil was that Gil Hodges
Speaker 8: and your father, Walter O'Malley would get into the Hall
Speaker 8: of Fame.
Speaker 5: That's very true.
Speaker 11: Well let's take Vinnie first. He really wanted Gil in
Speaker 11: the Hall of Fame and Gil Vinnie wanted Gil to
Speaker 11: get in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: And I think Vinny helped.
Speaker 11: And if you look back at Gil's record when he played,
Speaker 11: his numbers were up there. But then after he retired,
Speaker 11: new numbers, new circumstances. But Gil's numbers, in my opinion,
Speaker 11: should have put him in the Hall of Fame quicker
Speaker 11: before other numbers got not inflated, they were earned for
Speaker 11: different reasons. As far as my dad goes, I think
Speaker 11: Vinnie lived to see my dad go in the Hall
Speaker 11: of Fame.
Speaker 5: Yeah he did. Yeah, he was alive then. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8: He told me that he appreciated when the team was
Speaker 8: moving to Los Angeles that your father did not have
Speaker 8: a secretary call him. He called Vin Scully directly.
Speaker 11: Sure, a fifty six trip to Japan, everybody's got a roommate,
Speaker 11: every ballplayer, doctors, trainers, everybody on the trip. That's the
Speaker 11: way it was in those days, to to a room.
Speaker 11: So my dad says that Peter's going to go with us.
Speaker 5: To the fifty sixth trip to Tokyo? Could he room
Speaker 5: with you?
Speaker 11: Now? Ever, gracious Vinnie would never say no, even if
Speaker 11: he felt like he.
Speaker 5: Said, are you kidding, mister Omanalley?
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 5: Now that's where.
Speaker 11: Vinnie and I bonded on that fifty six He wasn't
Speaker 11: in the room a lot.
Speaker 5: He used in two beds in the room.
Speaker 11: He was out doing his thing. He was a single guy.
Speaker 11: He wanted museums and places of art and drama and
Speaker 11: all that. But yeah, fifty six that's a long time.
Speaker 11: That's someone He and I really connected.
Speaker 8: That's amazing.
Speaker 5: Vinny telling that to.
Speaker 11: My dad, imagine my dad's saying it to Vinnie and
Speaker 11: then he said, yeah, of course, mister O'Malley, no problem,
Speaker 11: Just like what else is new?
Speaker 8: So you mentioned that your dad was somewhat of a
Speaker 8: father figure to Vinnie, So were you Did you have
Speaker 8: a brother type of relationship with him? Especially after that trip, I.
Speaker 11: Would say, yeah, brother, Vinnie was ten years older, but yeah,
Speaker 11: brother works, brother works, a good friend works, honest relationship.
Speaker 11: Vinnie I talked about things that he may not have
Speaker 11: talked to too many people about honest because he knew
Speaker 11: me and I think we trusted each other.
Speaker 5: He told me something and I'm never going to repeat it.
Speaker 8: I could sit here all day with you. You just
Speaker 8: mean so much to the city and to Dodger fans.
Speaker 8: The O'Malley family is synonymous with Dodger baseball, and family
Speaker 8: is synonymous with the O'Malley. So thank you so much
Speaker 8: for your time, and rightfully so, your father and the
Speaker 8: O'Malley family will always be remembered here.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 11: Just one quick note, my sister and I were blessed
Speaker 11: with great parents. I don't say that too often because
Speaker 11: not everyone is fortunate to have that experience. You know,
Speaker 11: a lot of families are split, divided and everything else.
Speaker 11: But my sister, Terry and I grew up in a
Speaker 11: perfect mother, father for people, home support, fun. It was remarkable.
Speaker 11: So I would give my sister Terry and I talk
Speaker 11: about it a lot. I'd give that a lot of credit.
Speaker 5: And I'm lucky. That's a blessing. Not everybody else can
Speaker 5: say that.
Speaker 8: Sadly, thank you for your time.
Speaker 5: All right, good to be with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Steve Brenner of the Dodgers for connecting us
Speaker 2: with the great Peter O'Malley. Obviously I have a lot
Speaker 2: of reverence for him because the O'Malley family was so
Speaker 2: special with this Dodger organization. And now forever, Walter O'Malley
Speaker 2: will be enshrined here down the left field line with
Speaker 2: all the retired numbers. So awesome here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: And thank you so much to Peter O'Malley for allowing
Speaker 2: us to catch up with him after tonight's ceremony. A
Speaker 2: real big honor for me to be able to interview
Speaker 2: him and share him with you because he has never
Speaker 2: been on the show with us in recent memories. So
Speaker 2: thank you Peter O'Malley, Thank you Walter O'Malley, and thank
Speaker 2: you Terry Seidler, who is Peter's sister and Walter's daughter.
Speaker 2: It was great to see her at Dodgers Stadium as well.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for us tonight. An Dodger talk coming
Speaker 2: up tomorrow. Tyler Glass now will be on the mound.
Speaker 2: The former Pirate will be looking to help the Dodgers
Speaker 2: sweet Pittsburgh out of town. Glass now this season is
Speaker 2: nine to six with an ERA of three P fifty four.
Speaker 2: He's going up against Bailey Falter, who is five and
Speaker 2: seven this season with an ERA of three eighty seven.
Speaker 3: Morongo Casino.
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck begins at noon, first pitch at one ten.
Speaker 2: Thanks to calling me back at our Burbank studios, thanks
Speaker 2: to dwayn mcdo Ronald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and
Speaker 2: thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
Speaker 2: of the show or our conversations with Miguel Rojas and
Speaker 2: Peter O'Malley, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: once again. The final score from Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: defeat the Pirates four to one. Have a great rest
Speaker 2: of your Saturday.
Speaker 3: See yam