Speaker 1: All right, we continue on Fred Rugan, Rodney Pete on
Speaker 1: a five to seventy LA Sports. He is standing by.
Speaker 1: Let's not make him wait, Rodney, Let's go to San Diego.
Speaker 1: Welcome on, David Vase, Dave, good afternoon to you.
Speaker 2: Hey guys.
Speaker 3: All right, Dave, last night game one, I thought it
Speaker 3: was a It wasn't the prettiest game, but it was
Speaker 3: a game the Dodgers won, and I thought it was
Speaker 3: pretty important to get the first one. Did I put
Speaker 3: too much emphasis on that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you just look at the standings, right,
Speaker 2: it kind of helps the Dodgers assure themselves that they
Speaker 2: have a very good chance of leaving San Diego in
Speaker 2: first place. I know the standings say two games, but
Speaker 2: in the lost column, the Dodgers and Padres were tied
Speaker 2: going into the game last night, So the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: a game better in the lost column. And look, last
Speaker 2: night was one of the most entertaining games you'll see
Speaker 2: in the month of June. The Dodgers have been playing
Speaker 2: so many entertaining games over the course of the entire season,
Speaker 2: but especially the last couple of weeks facing the Yankees
Speaker 2: and Mets and now coming to San Diego. This is
Speaker 2: always an emotionally charged atmosphere at Pecco Park, and last
Speaker 2: night was no different. Even Jackson Merrill from the Padres
Speaker 2: said it after the game. I know people are upset
Speaker 2: we lost, but how could you not love that baseball
Speaker 2: game last night?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, he's right, He's right.
Speaker 3: The excitement down there in the passion of that crowd,
Speaker 3: the way it's been the last five six years, has
Speaker 3: been great.
Speaker 4: Dave.
Speaker 3: I'm watching this on MLB Network of Otani doing a session.
Speaker 3: Are you watching that? Have you seen that today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in the radio broadcast booth. Otani just finished
Speaker 2: his first inning of a simulated game. They've called up
Speaker 2: some minor leaguers to face Otani. So yeah, this is
Speaker 2: something that I knew was going to happen, and that's
Speaker 2: why I'm here front row seed. Even there are some
Speaker 2: Padres in the Padre dugout that are drat on the railing,
Speaker 2: curious to see how this goes. So everybody wants a
Speaker 2: glimpse of Otani, and I guess MLB Network's getting a
Speaker 2: free show with their ballpark cam in center field.
Speaker 4: Yeah they are, Yeah, they are. That's exactly what I saw.
Speaker 3: Hey, Dave. Now he's in simulated games in your best
Speaker 3: guess when might we see him?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, Dave Roberts told me on the pregame show two
Speaker 2: weeks ago, you're not going to see him before the
Speaker 2: All Star break. That's on the record now. He is
Speaker 2: not going to pitch until after the All Star break.
Speaker 2: And that's what they've been basically planning for. They don't
Speaker 2: need Otani in June, they did not need Otani in May.
Speaker 2: They need Otani for October. So that's the plan for
Speaker 2: him to come back after the All Star break, have
Speaker 2: a couple of months of the regular season to start
Speaker 2: getting into peak performance for when they need him the most.
Speaker 2: And when you look at the playoff rosters, you are
Speaker 2: only allowed thirteen pitchers, but O'tanmi is designated as a
Speaker 2: two way player. So essentially the Dodgers have an extra
Speaker 2: and elite pitcher, one of the best in baseball, on
Speaker 2: their playoff roster that nobody else can have.
Speaker 4: No, that's a great advantage.
Speaker 3: As you mentioned, I didn't even think about that, but
Speaker 3: he's not listed as a pitcher.
Speaker 4: He's a two way player.
Speaker 3: Dave Tanner Scott looked good in the last couple outings man,
Speaker 3: is he corrected what was.
Speaker 4: Going on with him?
Speaker 3: I know a lot of what his talk was. Everything
Speaker 3: was going right down the middle, and he wasn't hit
Speaker 3: his spots.
Speaker 4: What have you seen? What have you known from Tanner.
Speaker 3: Scott that has allowed him to kind of get back
Speaker 3: to what we thought he should be.
Speaker 2: I've seen a more aggressive and confident Tanner Scott and
Speaker 2: something clicked for him. Not sure who spoke to him,
Speaker 2: but it feels like his teammates kind of rallied around
Speaker 2: him to remind him how good he is and how
Speaker 2: good he was last year. And we're starting to see
Speaker 2: the Tanner Scott from last year. And I personally believe
Speaker 2: what turned this season around. And when we look back
Speaker 2: at this year is last homestand where he gave up
Speaker 2: a couple of runs in the top of the ten
Speaker 2: thinning Dodgers lost that game. Dave Roberts went back to
Speaker 2: him the very next night in the very same situation.
Speaker 2: This time, he struck out Soto, he struck out Alonso,
Speaker 2: and he got Nimo to pop up to end the
Speaker 2: tenth thinning to give Freddie Freeman the opportunity to walk
Speaker 2: it off. That was the first sign that Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: was had changed something in his demeanor, his mentality of
Speaker 2: attacking hitters.
Speaker 1: Dave ten Rosen, Bob Nightingale, I'm sorry, Bob Knightingale wrote
Speaker 1: that the Dodgers could be in the market for a
Speaker 1: left handed power hitter. Does that mean we were kicking
Speaker 1: this around earlier? Does that mean they're starting to look
Speaker 1: at Michael Confordo's lack of performing saying think they have
Speaker 1: to make a move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if that's what he's writing, I don't know where
Speaker 2: else that left handed power hitter would play. There isn't
Speaker 2: really one that fits that bill. At third base they
Speaker 2: got one in Max Munsey, So yeah, left field, a
Speaker 2: corner outfield spot would be the only spot I could
Speaker 2: think of to be able to fill that role. Look,
Speaker 2: Conforto had a big hit against the Mets that last
Speaker 2: day of the homestand no doubt about it, but he
Speaker 2: really hasn't done much since, and really hadn't done much before.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers are doing their due diligence to see
Speaker 2: how they can upgrade that position because they took a
Speaker 2: one year gamble on Michael Conforto and for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: he has not looked like himself at all. There's been glimpses,
Speaker 2: but he's hitting a lot of grand balls to second
Speaker 2: base this year. He's in the top five of hitting
Speaker 2: into double plays this year, he's hit into eight. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, like no, but he has an answer
Speaker 2: why Michael Conforto is not hitting because he's I mean,
Speaker 2: for all of us that have seen Conforto over his career,
Speaker 2: he's not this. He's not this deficient in hitting. So
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you're You're absolutely right, and it could.
Speaker 3: I don't know. He's changed the scenery. Who knows what
Speaker 3: it is? Something going on mentally. Dave Kopek comes back,
Speaker 3: Kirby Yates comes back, which is good science for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: What do we know about Blake Snell? I know glass
Speaker 3: now's down for even extended period of time, but what
Speaker 3: do we know about Blakesnell on his return.
Speaker 2: Well, Glassnell's in LA he was supposed to throw a
Speaker 2: bullpen session today at Dodgers Stadium, and Blake Snell's in
Speaker 2: San Diego with the Dodgers. He is supposed to throw
Speaker 2: a bullpen session today as well. So both those guys
Speaker 2: are sending in the direction of returning sometime in July.
Speaker 2: I know both would love to come back before the
Speaker 2: All Star break, but that's a Dodgers' training staff decision there.
Speaker 2: So both are paying free now, Both are starting to
Speaker 2: ramp up to be able to pitch in simulate the games,
Speaker 2: rehab games, and it's a process to build back up.
Speaker 2: And the earliest that could take place for them to
Speaker 2: return is July.
Speaker 3: All right, Dave.
Speaker 1: So that being said, are the Dodgers also going to
Speaker 1: be on the market for a pitcher at the deadline
Speaker 1: if these guys don't get back.
Speaker 2: Yeah? And also, I mean you have to wonder what's
Speaker 2: going to happen between now in July thirty first, if
Speaker 2: somebody else may get hurt. It seems like it happens, right,
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would say pitching is what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are in the market force. Specifically, Andrew Friedman told Petro
Speaker 2: some money that he's looking for a right handed reliever.
Speaker 2: I feel like they're going to put their focus on
Speaker 2: right handed relievers, and I wouldn't be shot. That's the
Speaker 2: opportunity presented itself. If the Braves are selling and Chris
Speaker 2: Sales available, why wouldn't the Dodgers. Take a look to
Speaker 2: see if it matches up. Because it's one thing to
Speaker 2: have guys in the rotation, it's another thing to have
Speaker 2: a dog like Chris Sale. He has that Walker Bueler mentality.
Speaker 2: You guys remember him coming out through the bullpen gates
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium in Game five of the World Series
Speaker 2: that year. That's the type of guy that you would
Speaker 2: love to have in the postseason. He is going to
Speaker 2: possibly be the most valuable starting pitcher that could get
Speaker 2: traded at the deadline.
Speaker 1: All right, Dave, thanks for jumping on. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We know you're busy. So Tony still pitching.
Speaker 2: He's still pitching. Second inning just started, Ronnie. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you could see that an MLB network.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am in.
Speaker 3: The ballpark camp, absolutely, Dave, you mentioned it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fly out the center right now to one of
Speaker 2: the kids shagging out there.
Speaker 3: All right, Dave, thanks thanks again.
Speaker 2: Okay, guys, thanks all right.
Speaker 3: So Rodney Howsey, Look, he looks good. He's doing a
Speaker 3: lot of off speed pitches like actually, but he uh,
Speaker 3: nobody's hit him just yet. I've seen three batters. Nobody
Speaker 3: fly it out right there, but no, he looks good.
Speaker 3: He looks good. You know, he's got the good body language.
Speaker 3: He's smiling and laughing and doing his thing. But you
Speaker 3: just want you don't want to see what the velocity is.
Speaker 3: I can't see the velocity on his fastballs or anything
Speaker 3: like that, but he's got a lot of movement on
Speaker 3: his off speed pitches. It just won't have a good time.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: You know he's a jokester and and loves just to
Speaker 3: laugh it up and have a good time and enjoying life,
Speaker 3: which you got to love about it.
Speaker 4: It's not too intense about everything.
Speaker 3: Whoa wow? What happened? That was a he threw a
Speaker 3: curveball a slider that broke about three feet.
Speaker 4: Yes, and it was a strike. And do it again
Speaker 4: for another strike?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: That was nasty.
Speaker 3: How many innings will this go?
Speaker 4: Do you know? I don't know.
Speaker 3: They haven't said, but this is his second inning. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you're gonna go three or just do pitches.
Speaker 3: But yeah, ground out the third. Yeah, nobody hit him hard.
Speaker 4: But interesting, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Dodger fan, let me ask you a question, do
Speaker 3: you do you want to weigh in and how important
Speaker 3: that win was last night? Do you want to do
Speaker 3: that ASIX six nine eighty seven two five seventy, you
Speaker 3: tell us I thought it was really important. It's a
Speaker 3: regular season game, we're in June, but I thought that
Speaker 3: was important. Do you agree as like six nine eighty
Speaker 3: seven two seventy? All right, let's find out what you
Speaker 3: guys think of the first one. It was close, it
Speaker 3: was a chaining one't really pretty, but the right guys won.
Speaker 3: How important was that win? Let's hear from you next.
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Speaker 4: Come on, let's go, Freddy, Let's get it in. Let's
Speaker 4: get it in the way we fit in.
Speaker 3: Rodney P.
Speaker 4: Fred Rogan. I'm watching.
Speaker 3: The MLB guys just marvel Freddy at Otani Session. They're marveling.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, they're going, I mean, their mouth is
Speaker 3: watering at Otani Session and it's it's al lighter. I think,
Speaker 3: is there Hell Reynolds and I forget who else the
Speaker 3: other guys, but they're marveling at at at his session,
Speaker 3: and they're suggesting that that we may see him in
Speaker 3: the next two weeks. Well, we just had David Das
Speaker 3: saying I have Dodgers better than anybody I know. He
Speaker 3: just said, Dave proper the All Star break.
Speaker 4: Yes, isn't that crazy? What the percession is?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to see him in the next two weeks.
Speaker 3: And they said it so confidently, but it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And they suggested that they use him, utilize him as
Speaker 3: an opener, like start him out as two innings as
Speaker 3: an opener, then maybe three here there and let him go,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of build.
Speaker 4: Up after that. But started him out as a two
Speaker 4: inning opener.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is great, this is great that you're actually
Speaker 3: watching this. And here's why.
Speaker 1: We just had David Dass say on who was with
Speaker 1: the team every single day and probably knows more about
Speaker 1: the Dodgers than anybody.
Speaker 3: Those folks are sitting on the East Coast in the
Speaker 3: MLB network studios. And by the way, I think they
Speaker 3: really do a great job MLB Network. I'll watch all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: I think they do a good So now they're popping
Speaker 1: up Otani pitching. And these guys, by the way, when
Speaker 1: they do those shows, and Rodney, you've done this type
Speaker 1: of show. When you sit down, you don't know half
Speaker 1: the time what's gonna happen. Right, Hey, we've got this
Speaker 1: coming from Fenway Park. Here we go, take a look.
Speaker 1: Start talking. So now they found this, they put it
Speaker 1: up and all of a sudden, Man, he looks great.
Speaker 3: He looks good. I think we'll see him in the
Speaker 3: next two weeks. Oh man, he looks great. All right,
Speaker 3: you know what I heard, you don't. I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna use him as an opener.
Speaker 4: I heard that. I heard that from somewhere.
Speaker 3: Hey, I don't want to say who, but I heard that.
Speaker 3: So they could use them as an opener now and
Speaker 3: have open games. These guys don't know anything. We just
Speaker 3: had David Vassay on.
Speaker 1: Five minutes ago telling us what was gonna happen. Why
Speaker 1: would they know more than David Vassay.
Speaker 3: They can't.
Speaker 1: But it just shows you how this business works, Right, guys,
Speaker 1: we gotta kill four hours out there today.
Speaker 3: Sit down, yes this Now we're gonna get people talking
Speaker 3: about this. So we're gonna throw it out there that
Speaker 3: Otani's gonna pitch in the next two weeks, all right,
Speaker 3: because that's gonna be the thing that people the buzz
Speaker 3: is gonna be out there. So now everybody's gonna be
Speaker 3: calling the Dodgers and figuring out and when is Otani
Speaker 3: gonna go? He looked great in his bullpen session and
Speaker 3: uh live pitching, and man, maybe could he be an opener?
Speaker 4: That's gonna be a question for Dave Roberts tonight.
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, could he be an opener? Will be a question.
Speaker 1: And the other question will be I know you said
Speaker 1: it was gonna be after the All Star break, but
Speaker 1: do you think it'd be in two weeks?
Speaker 3: Wh You know how this stuff happens?
Speaker 4: Absolutely it does, Absolutely it does.
Speaker 3: Hey, did you see that catch by Clark from the
Speaker 3: A's against the Angels when he went over over or
Speaker 3: center field, went up over the fence and caught it.
Speaker 4: Anybody, you guys see that? Kevin?
Speaker 3: You see that catch? That might be the best catch
Speaker 3: that I've ever seen. No, yes, he didn't just rob
Speaker 3: a home run. He robbed a home run that was
Speaker 3: probably gonna be five to eight feet deep over the fence. Really,
Speaker 3: I did not see that.
Speaker 4: He climbed it.
Speaker 3: He climbed it, weighted, timed it right, climbed it, got
Speaker 3: all the way like, climbed it with his feet and
Speaker 3: spiked got to the top of the wall before he
Speaker 3: reached over and grabbed the ball.
Speaker 4: It was. It was incredible.
Speaker 3: Lunged over and did an acrobat move to come back
Speaker 3: down like he was a gymnast. But that ball was
Speaker 3: way gone and he went and got it. It was
Speaker 3: did he come down on the other side of the
Speaker 3: fence or he came down he twisted his body to
Speaker 3: come back down in the field to play it was.
Speaker 3: It was the best catch I've seen in the last
Speaker 3: ten years. Maybe really Griffy made that one catch over
Speaker 3: the wall. Wow, all right, I did not see that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was incredible.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Let's let's find out what the Dodger fans thought about
Speaker 3: last night. How important was game one? Also, what do
Speaker 3: you think of those fans in San Diego? All right, Tony,
Speaker 3: thanks for holding in Santa Clarina. We appreciate it. You're
Speaker 3: on a five seventy LA sports Go ahead.
Speaker 8: Hey, friend, Rodney, somebody needs to tell this nine gale
Speaker 8: guy that Dalton Rushing is also an outfielder and and anyway,
Speaker 8: this was just like Game three of the playoffs where
Speaker 8: the pigeon and the defense was really bad in the beginning,
Speaker 8: but this time they won that game. The bullpen came
Speaker 8: through and just held on till the end came when
Speaker 8: the Walker Bueller game in the playoffs, Remember that one, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: it was in the beginning.
Speaker 3: There's the thing they want, the Dodgers. The Dodgers have
Speaker 3: said Dalton Rushing is just going to catch.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, but what is he going to sit around
Speaker 8: for five days doing nothing? Like he's got to get
Speaker 8: some bad at bats. It's like, really, he's uh David's
Speaker 8: David VESI says, Dalton rush in the future outfielder more
Speaker 8: than anything, but.
Speaker 4: Not this year.
Speaker 3: I don't see him playing much outfield this year. I
Speaker 3: see him maybe he can work in in spring training,
Speaker 3: but I don't see them playing him.
Speaker 8: The switch hitting, you got to take advantage of switch hitting.
Speaker 8: That's what he is, you know, all right? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Oh that was it. They take advantage of the switch hitting,
Speaker 3: which is right, okay. You know he said just left
Speaker 3: handed bat. You know Tommy Edmonds is a switch hitter too,
Speaker 3: so consider that a left handed bat as well. I'd
Speaker 3: like seeing Edmond hit from the left side better than
Speaker 3: the right. He's better right. He even and admitted it
Speaker 3: when he came back. He came back the right hand side.
Speaker 3: This was natural, but he has a lot of work
Speaker 3: to do with the left hand side. That is his
Speaker 3: weaker side.
Speaker 1: All right, eight six six ninety seven seventy Dodger fans,
Speaker 1: Jim and Westminster Jim appreciate you holding now, what's on
Speaker 1: your mind?
Speaker 7: Phi, guys, I played a lot of some of my
Speaker 7: pro ball as a center fielder. I always focus on
Speaker 7: the outfielders mostly. Piees is a natural right fielder. I
Speaker 7: don't think too. I think maybe he's lost a little bit.
Speaker 7: Left field would be better as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 7: center field is a bit of an open spot right now.
Speaker 7: Kim has got possibilities at their speed, good arm, but
Speaker 7: I think they need to move their outfield around a
Speaker 7: little bit. That ball that too missed last night, I
Speaker 7: think pie Has would have had it. That cost him
Speaker 7: two runs, potentially three runs. Edmund is great out there,
Speaker 7: but he's a gold glove second basement. He needs to
Speaker 7: place that in base.
Speaker 4: TK is a.
Speaker 7: Great still in a lot going on, and I know
Speaker 7: you guys are busy. I'm trying to talk fast. And
Speaker 7: the best thing on that team is Freeman, no question
Speaker 7: about it. Freddy is the clutch guy. He's the guy
Speaker 7: you want up there.
Speaker 3: Thank you all right, good Jim, Thanks Jim. He covered it,
Speaker 3: He covered it all. I felt the same way though,
Speaker 3: And I love me some ta Oscar Hernandez, but I
Speaker 3: thought that ball should have been caught. That ball should
Speaker 3: have been caught. And I'm not saying anybody else. You know, you, oh,
Speaker 3: you put him there and you get caught. I think
Speaker 3: ta Oscar felt that ball should have been caught as well.
Speaker 3: But he's got to be in the lineup because of
Speaker 3: his offense. Definitely because of his offense. So I don't
Speaker 3: know what you do. And I actually I actually like
Speaker 3: Edmunds at second base, and I like Kim in centerfield.
Speaker 3: I like that, And then you know, maybe paz Is
Speaker 3: is your regular left fielder. I think because Kim can
Speaker 3: cover so much ground. Got it fast, yeah, extremely fast?
Speaker 3: So right now, I mean I like that that, you know,
Speaker 3: a Simbilus of the defense. Maybe next year as they
Speaker 3: get through spring training, Kim moves back into the infield
Speaker 3: and he played second base and goes to the outfield.
Speaker 3: But right now I like the I like Kim and
Speaker 3: the outfield and Edmond at second base. All right, let's
Speaker 3: go a joy in Alpine. Thanks for holding go ahead.
Speaker 6: Gentlemen, good day. You so a couple of a couple
Speaker 6: of ways answer the question. I think ye asswer it
Speaker 6: was important due to the fact of how we had
Speaker 6: played Sunday to Sunday of the previous week, especially that
Speaker 6: series against the Cardinals there as far as against being
Speaker 6: you know with the Padres. You know, I live in
Speaker 6: San Diego County. I went to the game last night.
Speaker 6: They feel like it's a little serious shit them every time.
Speaker 6: But last year I heard all my softball teammates, you know,
Speaker 6: you know, happy about how they had won the few
Speaker 6: series for the first time and how did that turn
Speaker 6: out for them? So not important, we know we have
Speaker 6: bigger aspirations, but definitely always good to put it to
Speaker 6: a division rival there, can I ask you.
Speaker 4: Real quick before you go? I mean they're going on.
Speaker 3: So how is it, you say, you playing your softball
Speaker 3: team with all the Padre fans in there? How is
Speaker 3: it dealing with the Padre fans being down there and
Speaker 3: you're a Dodger fan man.
Speaker 6: So you know, Alpine has one of the best breweries
Speaker 6: in all of San Diego County, and all my friends
Speaker 6: there are parties fans. So I walk in on Friday
Speaker 6: night games and all my gear and I get booed
Speaker 6: and I waved to the crowd like like anybody else,
Speaker 6: you know. But they're good guys, man. A lot of
Speaker 6: them know baseball, and they played baseball, their kids played baseball.
Speaker 6: But you have those bandwagon fans that just you know,
Speaker 6: they came along in the last few years, and they
Speaker 6: weren't here when I was going to games watching TV
Speaker 6: and Khalil Green and I know more than they do
Speaker 6: about their team in the last twenty years. So it's
Speaker 6: a little sad, but it's a good time, man. It's
Speaker 6: a good time with the guys that actually know baseball.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But it was crazy, wasn't it.
Speaker 6: Oh, it was an awesome game.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: We actually looked out. A buddy of ours who worked
Speaker 6: for SDG now out here sold me his tickets for
Speaker 6: one hundred bucks for the pair because we got to
Speaker 6: work a twenty hour shift, so we looked out. We
Speaker 6: had to sit in a potterish territory. Unfortunately, through the
Speaker 6: potterish gun. But it was a good game, man, It
Speaker 6: was a really exciting and I think you had mentioned
Speaker 6: earlier either way, like Jackson merriland said it was a
Speaker 6: good game regardless. I love to watch good baseball, especially
Speaker 6: between two top tier teams. So that's exciting where it
Speaker 6: is right now in the rivalry. But yeah, definitely a
Speaker 6: little more exaggerated, I think on one side and the other.
Speaker 6: But again, good good win compared to how frustrating the
Speaker 6: weekend series had been.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the call. Appreciate it. Let's
Speaker 3: go to Compton.
Speaker 1: Skip is on the line, Skip, thanks for holding eight seven?
Speaker 3: Oh, Skip's out? Oh Chris in La Hey, Chris, you're
Speaker 3: on go ahead?
Speaker 9: Hey, I just wanted to say something alluding to what
Speaker 9: the last collars said. It's all about defense when you're
Speaker 9: trying to win a championship. And they can be so
Speaker 9: much better if they put Tiascar in left, but Kim
Speaker 9: in in center. And you know, let's get rid of
Speaker 9: this MOOKI has short experiment. I know they want to
Speaker 9: pee him, but mooky.
Speaker 4: Did we lose them? Those?
Speaker 3: Chris? All right, Robert, let's go to Robert. Robert, thanks
Speaker 3: for holding. Go ahead?
Speaker 10: How's it going, guys, really quick? I agree with the
Speaker 10: previous caller. Uh, the Mookie experiment long gone. He belongs
Speaker 10: in right period, Kim in center, Edmund at second base,
Speaker 10: and Taylker in left field?
Speaker 4: Who plays short? Who plays short? Bab who plays short stuff?
Speaker 10: Oh, I'd go with row House in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3: So Rojas, you take the bat of Rojas. So you
Speaker 3: got to take a bat out of the lineup. Who
Speaker 3: are you taking out?
Speaker 6: But look what you get?
Speaker 3: Look you who you taking out? Offensively? You gotta you
Speaker 3: gotta have the you gotta have the lineup to hit.
Speaker 10: No, you've let Rojause said. Of course he's good when
Speaker 10: he's in there for the long run. He needs a
Speaker 10: back And look at you gained defensively.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mookie ranks it around the top of the league
Speaker 3: and shortstops defensively.
Speaker 4: You guys know that, right.
Speaker 10: I don't know why he throws the ball side arm
Speaker 10: from the shortstop position. If you notice in right field
Speaker 10: it's straight over the top.
Speaker 3: It's different. It's a different position enfield. Infielder's a different position,
Speaker 3: different throwing motion.
Speaker 10: I understand, I understand, But look at Win of the Cardinals,
Speaker 10: he's straight.
Speaker 3: Up manny throw from third base. He throws it side on.
Speaker 3: I mean most guys.
Speaker 10: That many has probably been doing that since childhood, over
Speaker 10: the top.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's the thing. But here's the thing. Mickey
Speaker 1: Rojas is not going to be the Dodger shortstop in
Speaker 1: two years. He's not going to be the short Okay.
Speaker 10: That may be true.
Speaker 4: But what you're going to do.
Speaker 10: You're going for the run this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, Mookie's gonna play short. You're saying that is
Speaker 3: that you don't think Mookie is a good defensive short
Speaker 3: stuff when he ranked in high in every category from
Speaker 3: shortstops around the league.
Speaker 4: Right now, So the.
Speaker 10: Statement he makes Freddie work way too hard. Look how
Speaker 10: many balls Freddie has to dig out of the dirt
Speaker 10: on a Mookie throw. Please just watch. It's rare that
Speaker 10: he throws it on target most of the time.
Speaker 3: All right, Robert, thank you, thank you. I hear what happened.
Speaker 3: We appreciate him calling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go Ethan and Elsa Gundo. Ethan, thanks for
Speaker 1: holding go ahead. What do you think?
Speaker 11: Yeah, so the game last night was great.
Speaker 7: Obviously, it's always great. Skips of the Padres and Indivision rival.
Speaker 11: But my biggest thing right now with the team is
Speaker 11: we need to stop not giving Kim plain time. Man,
Speaker 11: I mean, see him out there daily. I'm tired of
Speaker 11: this Hernandez. You know, I love he's a fan favorite.
Speaker 11: But Kim's flourishing and then we're not giving him playing time.
Speaker 11: It's mind boggling to me.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think he's getting more and more yeah, meaning
Speaker 3: meaning Kim. He's getting more at bats, he's getting more
Speaker 3: playing time. I think KEYK knows knows the role. He's
Speaker 3: the utility guy. We lost Chris Taylor in that role.
Speaker 3: Key K can play every position, so he's going to
Speaker 3: continue to get, you know, get playing time.
Speaker 4: Guys need rest. But I don't look at k K
Speaker 4: is not.
Speaker 3: Going to be your every day center fielder, third baseman,
Speaker 3: second basement or whatever.
Speaker 4: He's going to fill in for guys.
Speaker 3: And I think more and more as the season goes on,
Speaker 3: you will see Kim in the lineup more and more. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I really like Kim. Yeah, I want to see him
Speaker 1: play more. I want to see him play every game.
Speaker 1: I think he's the most electrifying guy in the roster.
Speaker 4: He has.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has been in more.
Speaker 1: But remember they called him up and in spring training
Speaker 1: he was having trouble hitting. You don't want to put
Speaker 1: a guy in a position to.
Speaker 3: Faight having trouble. He was struggling. They couldn't Yeah, they
Speaker 3: couldn't hit. I was trying to be kind, But the
Speaker 3: last thing you want to do is put a guy
Speaker 3: in a position where he won't succeed. So maybe it's
Speaker 3: slow and steady, Slow and steady with him. Let's go
Speaker 3: to Compton. Now we got skip back, skip go ahead.
Speaker 12: It was going on, fred Hey, it.
Speaker 4: Was going on, Rodney, what's happening.
Speaker 3: Let's go all bad now.
Speaker 12: I just wanted to say, I mean, maybe we're being
Speaker 12: a little tad bit reactionary. I mean, we're ten days
Speaker 12: away from the beginning of summer. It's a marathon, not
Speaker 12: a sprint. You know, the guy's got a lot to
Speaker 12: work on. Maybe some people need a little bit more
Speaker 12: time in the field, Maybe we need to figure out
Speaker 12: our pitching. But at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 12: like we have our eyes on the championship. So whatever
Speaker 12: it is that's going on right now, we're just working
Speaker 12: through it. I think Dodger fantasy is defidation man.
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3: As Fred always said, it's still June, it's still in
Speaker 3: first place, and there's still got eighteen million guys on
Speaker 3: the injury list that are coming back. So to be
Speaker 3: in this position with the il roster that the Dodgers have,
Speaker 3: it's actually incredible. And I know we can't see it
Speaker 3: as Dodger fans, but put that on any other team,
Speaker 3: put the injury list on any other team in Major
Speaker 3: League Baseball and see where they are. You're exactly right,
Speaker 3: You're well, look at major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean when I saw when Corbyn Burns was
Speaker 1: done for the year, I thought, oh my.
Speaker 3: God in Arizona. Yeah, that's the guy they that was it.
Speaker 3: They spent a ton of money on him, he was
Speaker 3: the guy. He's done. You think the Diamondbacks really and
Speaker 3: there are more down than up this year. Yeah, look
Speaker 3: at where they are now, exactly right.
Speaker 1: They it's hard for them to weather the loss of
Speaker 1: one Yeah, just think about that one picture may have
Speaker 1: cost them their chance to make the playoffs. The guy
Speaker 1: they spent all that money on, well, hell, that Dodgers
Speaker 1: spent a ton of money on Blake Snow they're still
Speaker 1: in first place. Tyler Glassnew still in first place. They
Speaker 1: went out and won the Sauzaki Derby, still in first place.
Speaker 1: Gonsolin is now on the injured list, still in first place.
Speaker 1: Just think about that. Think about the number of players
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have on the injured list. Arizona has one.
Speaker 1: And granted they're not hitting as well this year, that's fine,
Speaker 1: but they've won picture of that caliber. And now look
Speaker 1: what happened. The Pindres could not withstand these kinds of injury.
Speaker 3: They couldn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know anybody could. It's just unrealistic. No team
Speaker 1: is that deep. And Andrew Friedman said before the season started.
Speaker 1: Don't forget this. He's going to spend all of his money.
Speaker 1: He's going to do with shopping now, right, that was
Speaker 1: his plan. Let's go out, go crazy, get everybody we want,
Speaker 1: and then I don't have to pay two times on
Speaker 1: the dollar at the trade deadline because everything's more expensive.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, what do you hear, Well, he's looking for a
Speaker 1: right handed reliever at the trade deadline. Well, they could
Speaker 1: be looking for a big, left handed, power hitting back.
Speaker 1: So he'll go again. He thought he had taken care
Speaker 1: of this so that there would be no issue, no concern.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't have to do a thing and everything would
Speaker 1: be fine. Didn't work out that way. Now here we
Speaker 1: go back into the market again and he'll do it too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever it calls. Nos, Yeah, we do what we gotta do.
Speaker 1: Whereas a lot of clubs would go, I spend all
Speaker 1: this money in the off season. I'm not spending another
Speaker 1: dime at the trade deadline. We're going to have to
Speaker 1: just take our lungs and hope the guys come back.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to spend any more money. I
Speaker 1: spent the money in the all season. Why am I
Speaker 1: going to spend it at the treade deadline? Tread deadline.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. But that's not how the
Speaker 1: Dodgers operate, which is why we keep saying, be thankful
Speaker 1: you're a Dodger fan. Be appreciative you're a Dodger fan,
Speaker 1: because they get it right.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we will get right out of here
Speaker 3: when we come back.
Speaker 1: I'll wrap it up and turn it over to Petros
Speaker 1: and money.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, Rodney Pete Fred Rogan on a Tuesday, thank
Speaker 3: you for all the calls. You know, I always love
Speaker 3: to hear from Dodger fans and different perspectives. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, fred it sometimes we get sometimes we get
Speaker 3: the ones that are unrealistic. But I think this this
Speaker 3: caller batch was very interesting, brought up some valid points,
Speaker 3: and I thought they, you know, even with the Mookie
Speaker 3: stuff that I don't agree with and him not playing
Speaker 3: short stuff anymore. I think, you know, Dodger fans are
Speaker 3: very knowledgeable about the team, you know, although passionate, but knowledgeable.
Speaker 3: You didn't hear any fire Dave Roberts calls today. Uh,
Speaker 3: and that was shocking. If had they lost Game one,
Speaker 3: maybe they against San Diego, maybe there would have been.
Speaker 1: Some of those If you remember this, Rodney, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: won the World Series. The next day, we opened the
Speaker 1: phone line. Tell me if you remember this. The next
Speaker 1: day we opened the phone line. Put somebody on fire.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts. They had just won the World Series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the next day. Yeah, they should have swept him.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, what is wrong with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1: They should have swept him.
Speaker 3: And the guy goes fighter, Dave Roberts. They just won
Speaker 3: the World Series.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, remember what he did? He said? Yeah, but like
Speaker 3: three years ago. Three years ago.
Speaker 4: He went he went back. Oh that's right.
Speaker 3: But three years ago he made that decision not to
Speaker 3: take Kershall out, or he made that decision to leave
Speaker 3: so and so in, And that's why they need to fower. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Rachel against baseball. Everybody inside baseball that knows baseball considered him,
Speaker 3: considers him on the top two three managers in league.
Speaker 4: Everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And that's what's so comical.
Speaker 1: Then the other part of it is this from where
Speaker 1: he started as the manager, and he was a by
Speaker 1: the book guy. You have to understand he was learning,
Speaker 1: he was learning, he was a by the book guy.
Speaker 1: From where he started to where he is now, no
Speaker 1: one ever questions anymore, did they have this all scripted out?
Speaker 1: You notice that too, No one ever says that anymore. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you expect, He's just doing what they told him. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's doing what they told them. I
Speaker 1: think they have a meeting before the game, which almost
Speaker 1: everybody does.
Speaker 3: This is what we're gonna do. This is what we're
Speaker 3: going to do in the seventh. This is what we're
Speaker 3: going to do in the eighth. First, coming in off
Speaker 3: the out of the bullpen. It's going to be X
Speaker 3: Y Z, depending on what the lead is. But they're
Speaker 3: in the course of the game. As the game flows,
Speaker 3: it becomes all about the clubhouse. Dave Roberts, Bob Garren,
Speaker 3: the bench mark pryor of how they handle the game.
Speaker 3: Within the game, there's always a game plan going into it,
Speaker 3: just like any sport. There's always a game plan. But
Speaker 3: those game plans get adjusted along the way, and that
Speaker 3: falls on Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, all right, they'll try to make it too
Speaker 1: in a row.
Speaker 3: Tonight. We're not on tomorrow. Don't cry.
Speaker 4: It's okay. I know.
Speaker 1: We have something on pretty good instead of us Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we have the game. It's a one o'clock start in
Speaker 1: San Diego. So tomorrow, enjoy the game, and hell, by
Speaker 1: four o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the Dodgers may have swept.
Speaker 4: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: All will be forgiven. They can come home. That's how
Speaker 1: we operate. Now, if you have a bad road trip,
Speaker 1: you cannot return, but if you play well, you can
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 3: So that'll be fun.
Speaker 4: Is that how it works? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is a Tony still pitching? No, he's done, he's done.
Speaker 4: All right, he's all done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Ronnie, thank you for today. Very good work.
Speaker 1: Very good work, Kevin. Appreciate your your efforts as well.
Speaker 1: Rodney enjoyed tomorrow. We'll be back Thursday, right,