Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 1: Let's I love writing these guys out to the show.
Speaker 1: Just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 4: Your attention, your fire and not a piss.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodger, world champion.
Speaker 4: Put a small soft time they get up people. What
Speaker 4: they want to die in a row two is special.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache one of them. Come,
Speaker 4: this ball's gone. You ready to go?
Speaker 6: Hell?
Speaker 5: Time to the sound, grab your phone to get in
Speaker 5: on the show called eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 5: two five seven and go to the show. And now
Speaker 5: your host of Dodger Talk, David Basse.
Speaker 7: We're here live at Truist Park in Atlanta in a
Speaker 7: rain delay. First pitch was supposed to be at four
Speaker 7: fifteen Pacific time, and right now this game is delayed
Speaker 7: because both teams do not want to risk losing their
Speaker 7: starting pitchers, Roki Sazaki for the Dodgers, Spencer Schwellenbach for
Speaker 7: the Atlanta Braves, Rick Monday, Tim Devericks still hanging out
Speaker 7: here in the.
Speaker 4: Booth with the windows closed.
Speaker 7: Now as we are anticipating the rain to come through
Speaker 7: right now it has not. And a little fun fact,
Speaker 7: I'm not sure even Rick Monday realizes. I know this
Speaker 7: weather factoid here being down in the camera well yesterday
Speaker 7: with obviously people from Atlanta. Those center field flags out there,
Speaker 7: when they're blowing from right field to left field, that's
Speaker 7: when you know the rain is on its way because
Speaker 7: the rain comes through Truest Park from the west. So
Speaker 7: the west is in right field and it's blown from
Speaker 7: right to left. Right now, the flags are down dead
Speaker 7: right now, Rick, are you impressed? I know my directions. Hey,
Speaker 7: jet streams come from the west. Who knew, Well, we
Speaker 7: just found that out. Anyway, phone lines are open eight
Speaker 7: sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy as the
Speaker 7: Dodgers and Braves are getting set for Game two of
Speaker 7: this three game series. And look, Dave Roberts said this
Speaker 7: in his office before the game about three hours ago,
Speaker 7: that the both teams, mostly the Braves, but both teams
Speaker 7: in Major League Baseball have agreed to quote hunker down tonight,
Speaker 7: and if you look at the radar, you can check
Speaker 7: it out right now.
Speaker 4: It's no secret the rain is expected to come through here.
Speaker 7: In the next fifteen minutes or so and is not
Speaker 7: going to let up until around nine thirty ten o'clock
Speaker 7: Eastern times seven o'clock Pacific. And the Dodgers are on
Speaker 7: Sunday Night Baseball tomorrow as well, so it's not as
Speaker 7: quick of a turnaround for these two teams. So maybe
Speaker 7: that's part of what went into this decision, to be
Speaker 7: able to wait around for the rain to come through.
Speaker 7: Me personally, I would have opted for the doubleheader, just
Speaker 7: call it a night, because the worst thing that could
Speaker 7: happen right now is if the Dodgers and Braves wait
Speaker 7: around for the rain to come and pass through.
Speaker 4: What if it doesn't. What if we're sitting.
Speaker 7: Here until eleven or midnight Eastern time and they haven't
Speaker 7: thrown a pitch, or even worse, they throw a pitch
Speaker 7: and more rain comes through. Very unpredictable weather here in
Speaker 7: the South. Don't know if you realize that, but it is.
Speaker 7: I'm looking at you, Rick Monday. It's a risk, it's
Speaker 7: not guaranteed, you know. So, yes, he's holding up the
Speaker 7: radar for me. I appreciate it. Great color screen right there,
Speaker 7: led screen on Rick Monday's iPad. I could see the green,
Speaker 7: and the orange and yellow, so many colors. I saw
Speaker 7: some lightning coming from underneath the desk. Oh Man, we're
Speaker 7: having a good time. See, this is what happens when
Speaker 7: I leave for a few days and come back to
Speaker 7: my day job. These guys miss me so much, including
Speaker 7: Rick Monday the most. I mean, I feel like I'm
Speaker 7: the wind beneath his wings as a former pilot right there. Anyway,
Speaker 7: if you want me to really pull the curtain back
Speaker 7: a little bit more, while we were wrapping up the
Speaker 7: pregame show, I had to go downstairs to the Dodger
Speaker 7: Clubhouse to record some radio commercials with my guy, Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 7: And you know, every time I see Taoskar in the clubhouse,
Speaker 7: he's not just sitting at his locker. He's actually watching
Speaker 7: baseball'll he loves the game of baseball. He's watching other
Speaker 7: games while he's in the clubhouse and not in the
Speaker 7: batting cage. So as I got down there in this
Speaker 7: room that's off of the clubhouse just about fifteen to
Speaker 7: twenty minutes ago, I walked into the coaches room and
Speaker 7: ta Oskar's sitting there with the rest of the coaches.
Speaker 4: Denui bol Josevis Guyino.
Speaker 7: Especially, and they were watching the end of the A's
Speaker 7: Marlins game and talking baseball. I shouldn't have been surprised
Speaker 7: because taoscar was glued to the game. He wasn't just
Speaker 7: watching it, he was really into it. The strategy of
Speaker 7: what the whacking Marlins are doing now and the A's
Speaker 7: and all that. Mason Miller had walked the bases loaded
Speaker 7: in the bottom of the ninth inning and Kyle Stowers
Speaker 7: hit a walk off grand Slam as we were watching it,
Speaker 7: and they were talking about the fact before Stours came
Speaker 7: to the play there was a left handed hitter up
Speaker 7: for the Marlins against Mason Miller, and Tayo is asking
Speaker 7: the question, why is this guy in with two outs?
Speaker 4: He's not gonna bunt?
Speaker 7: And there was some sort of questions on whether or
Speaker 7: not the A's had some data about something.
Speaker 4: You know, Tail brought up a great question.
Speaker 7: That seems to be an internal eternal debate going on
Speaker 7: in baseball right now. Yes, the macro three year sample
Speaker 7: size says this, but what about the here and now
Speaker 7: against the relief pitcher that's storing one hundred miles an hour,
Speaker 7: why would you have the third basement in when he
Speaker 7: probably is not going to catch up to one hundred
Speaker 7: miles an hour and turn on and pull it. It's
Speaker 7: probably gonna be laid on it. And if he hits it,
Speaker 7: it's gonna be hard hit to the opposite side of
Speaker 7: the field. So just some baseball talk and just taking
Speaker 7: you inside the Dodger Clubhouse. There a great guy in
Speaker 7: Taoscar Hernandez, who loves the game of baseball, always watching baseball.
Speaker 7: When you see the smile on his face, that's not fake.
Speaker 7: He truly enjoys being here. And when I was filling
Speaker 7: in for Kirsten Watson back at Dodger Stadium, sitting so
Speaker 7: close to the Dodger dugout the first night especially, I
Speaker 7: was watching the game. You know, I'm trying to add casual.
Speaker 7: I don't want to act all weird down there. I'm
Speaker 7: just trying to blend in. And Taoscar, before each of
Speaker 7: his first two at bats, came and banged on the
Speaker 7: fence right next to where I was sitting and said,
Speaker 7: come on, let's go smile, have fun. Let's have fun.
Speaker 7: That's as he was in the hole getting ready to
Speaker 7: go on deck. So that just shows you his type.
Speaker 7: Of personality and why everybody loves being around Tioscar Hernandez.
Speaker 7: And obviously his celebration for his teammates is far above
Speaker 7: anything that I've seen from another teammate as far as
Speaker 7: being happy for another guy's success. Usually a lot of
Speaker 7: guys are just worried about they're at bats what they
Speaker 7: do and sometimes allows that to change their mood even
Speaker 7: if their team's winning, or even if they have or
Speaker 7: another teammate has success. But Taoscar Hernandez is the epitome
Speaker 7: of an inclusive teammate, a teammate that is unselfish. And
Speaker 7: those sunflowers heats are a great celebration organic, that's an
Speaker 7: organic celebration.
Speaker 4: He started back in Toronto.
Speaker 7: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 7: the phone number. David Vaseai, Rick Monday, Tim Neverett, and
Speaker 7: our producer engineer Dwayne McDonald out here at Truesce Park
Speaker 7: in Atlanta, Georgia, as the tarp has come on the
Speaker 7: field and we are waiting for this heavy rain system
Speaker 7: to pass through Atlanta so they can get first pitch
Speaker 7: thrown here between the Dodgers and Braves in Game two
Speaker 7: of this three game series Roki Sazaki going up against
Speaker 7: Spencer Schwellenbach. In case you missed the news, we have
Speaker 7: mentioned it throughout the pregame show, but at bears repeating,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers finally did place Tommy Edmund on the injured
Speaker 7: list with right ankle inflammation.
Speaker 4: What does that mean?
Speaker 7: It means the Dodgers are giving Edmund extra time to
Speaker 7: get that soreness out of his right ankle.
Speaker 4: He is eligible to return at the.
Speaker 7: End of this ten game road trip when the Dodgers
Speaker 7: are in Arizona for a four game series against the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 4: So that's good news.
Speaker 7: And the Dodgers recalled hes Sung Kim from TRIPAA Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4: We all know about Kim.
Speaker 7: There was a lot of hype surrounding his signing coming
Speaker 7: out of the KBO. He just seemed to be a
Speaker 7: little bit overmatched offensively in spring training, so the Dodgers
Speaker 7: hitting coaches kind of revamped his swing and started from
Speaker 7: the ground up. And the biggest thing that you would
Speaker 7: notice if you watched at bats of Kim in his
Speaker 7: first Cactus League game compared to his last one is
Speaker 7: the lake kick. He does not have as pronounced of
Speaker 7: a late kick as he did when he first arrived
Speaker 7: at Camel Back Ranch, and guys told me, he just
Speaker 7: doesn't have a quick enough bat to be able to
Speaker 7: have that type of lake kick.
Speaker 4: He need to shorten.
Speaker 7: He needed to shorten his swing and be able to
Speaker 7: get to the baseball quicker. So this is twofold, right.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers understand the marathon of a season. We hear
Speaker 7: this a lot with their pitchers. There's something barking, there's
Speaker 7: no need to push them. They want them for the
Speaker 7: stretch run the second half. Same thing with a guy
Speaker 7: like Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers need him.
Speaker 7: He is everything in a lot of ways to them,
Speaker 7: and certainly him and Taoscar Hernandez have been the glue
Speaker 7: of this Dodger offense since the start of the season,
Speaker 7: the most consistent guys since the start of the season.
Speaker 7: So the Dodgers want Tommy Edmond to be one hundred
Speaker 7: percent healthy. And remember last year he was coming back
Speaker 7: from his wrist surgery and he tweaked his right ankle. Well,
Speaker 7: that's the same ankle that he tweaked on Tuesday night
Speaker 7: at Dodgers Stadium just going from second to third in
Speaker 7: the sixth inning. So the right move by the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: and this gives Kim an opportunity to experience Major League
Speaker 7: Baseball and also for the Dodgers to see where his
Speaker 7: swing is at, where is he compared to the last
Speaker 7: time they saw him in Arizona at camel Back Ranch.
Speaker 7: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 7: the phone number. We're going to take a time out
Speaker 7: here on rain delay Dodger Talk. When we come back,
Speaker 7: your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eighty seven
Speaker 7: two five seventy. We have phone lines open and just
Speaker 7: for our Dodgers Audio Network, we are signing off at
Speaker 7: the top of the hour as we hunker down with
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts here in Atlanta, and we'll keep you updated
Speaker 7: when first pitch will come. So we're taking you to
Speaker 7: the top of the hour on the Dodgers Audio Network
Speaker 7: as we wait for first pitch between the Dodgers and
Speaker 7: Braves right here on AM five seventy LA Sports and
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Speaker 2: World champions. Once again, my friend.
Speaker 5: This is the home of your world champion LA's Dodgers.
Speaker 3: The only way I love the my Dodger game.
Speaker 5: Don't miss a moment all season long.
Speaker 2: It's almost ninety six miles an hour.
Speaker 4: Ookay swings HiT's a drive to left field.
Speaker 7: Indeed going back is Perdugo still going back?
Speaker 4: And this pros gone.
Speaker 7: It's a home run for Bets, his fifth of the season,
Speaker 7: a solo shot per Mookie, and the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Lead it two to nothing.
Speaker 7: That was the difference in last night's game, as Mookie
Speaker 7: beds homeward for the first time.
Speaker 4: Since April fourteenth.
Speaker 7: He now has seven RBIs in his last three games.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers beat the Braves in the opener of this
Speaker 7: ten game three ten game, ten day road trip, the
Speaker 7: start of a three game series here in Atlanta. This
Speaker 7: is David Vasse. We are live at Truest Park in Atlanta,
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Speaker 7: Eight sixty six, nine to eighty seven two five seventy
Speaker 7: is the phone number with the Dodgers win last night.
Speaker 4: They have now won six in a row.
Speaker 7: And in case you didn't realize this, the Dodgers have
Speaker 7: the best record in baseball now at twenty two and ten.
Speaker 7: It's kind of weird, right. Just a week or two ago,
Speaker 7: everybody was asking what's wrong.
Speaker 4: With the Dodgers. Why aren't they beating teams?
Speaker 7: Why aren't they taking off with the highest payroll in baseball?
Speaker 4: Well, it was.
Speaker 7: Never that bad. Have they hit their stride? Absolutely not.
Speaker 7: Is their ceiling a lot higher? Absolutely it is. Those
Speaker 7: players down there would tell you their offense isn't even
Speaker 7: hitting on all cylinders. They've done this without Michael hopeeck,
Speaker 7: they're going to be doing it without Blake Trining. They've
Speaker 7: only gotten two starts from Blake Snow. Clayton Kershaw hasn't
Speaker 7: even returned. So all that being said, and all that,
Speaker 7: I guess early season adversity if you want to call
Speaker 7: it that, And the Dodgers still have the best record
Speaker 7: in Baseball twenty two to ten, looking to win their
Speaker 7: seventh in a row. Tonight, whenever this game gets started,
Speaker 7: let's go out to Ontario. Ronald, You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 7: live from Atlanta.
Speaker 4: Hi Ronald, Hi Dave.
Speaker 3: How's it going.
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: It's great quality time with Rick Monday. Nothing gets better
Speaker 7: than this.
Speaker 3: I guess not. Hey, I just called my first time
Speaker 3: calling it been a listener forever. I was just a
Speaker 3: couple of things on my mind with the pitching, the
Speaker 3: starting picking com back are going down, the pictures with
Speaker 3: injuries where they can turn. I mean, they don't have
Speaker 3: the same people. They're the same you know farm system
Speaker 3: that had last year, you know Emmett and those guys
Speaker 3: going down. What's our thought on that? Who they you know,
Speaker 3: somebody else goes down.
Speaker 4: We're not concerned at all. I'm not concerned at all.
Speaker 7: Speaking of Mit, she and he's gonna be ready to
Speaker 7: pitch the second half of the season.
Speaker 4: They still have Landon Knack, they still have Bobby Miller.
Speaker 7: They got a guy like Justin Robleski that can fill
Speaker 7: in for a few innings. But I'm not concerned about that.
Speaker 7: And when people talk about the Dodgers pitching going down.
Speaker 7: Has it really gone down? Has it really been as
Speaker 7: bad as it was last year? I mean, Kershaw, we
Speaker 7: all knew was going to start the year on the
Speaker 7: il Tyler glass. Now you know, you couldn't count on
Speaker 7: And Dave Roberts still doesn't seem to have a clear
Speaker 7: answer on what's going on with his shoulder his arm,
Speaker 7: and neither didn't pitching coach Mark Pryor. Blake Snell is
Speaker 7: being treated very cautiously with that stiff left shoulder. He's
Speaker 7: gonna start throwing in Miami. He'll be back before the
Speaker 7: All Star breaks. So I feel like, again everybody wants
Speaker 7: to make things worse.
Speaker 4: Than what they really are.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers have the best record twenty to ten, and
Speaker 7: they have two starters missing from their rotation, one that
Speaker 7: you could probably anticipate, the other.
Speaker 4: They're just being cautious with it.
Speaker 7: And they do have the depth in the minor leagues,
Speaker 7: not only at Triple A but also we're talking about
Speaker 7: Double A. Jackson Ferris and Jared Carros they got more
Speaker 7: on the way.
Speaker 3: Ronald didn't think about that, but yeah, hey, that's why
Speaker 3: I'm here.
Speaker 7: I don't know much, I know, just a little bit
Speaker 7: about the Dodgers in baseball, just a little.
Speaker 4: Thanks a lot for the phone call.
Speaker 7: Don't ask me to be a hitting guru, though, but
Speaker 7: I don't give hitting lessons on Instagram or Twitter or anywhere.
Speaker 7: I allow that kind of stuff to be held to
Speaker 7: the professionals. Let's go out to bishop.
Speaker 4: Jeff. You're on Dodger Talk Live from Atlanta.
Speaker 6: Hi, Jeff, Thanks, thanks a lot, David, I just want
Speaker 6: to know where does otait in rotation?
Speaker 7: Hey, Otani, I'm glad you brought him up. He threw
Speaker 7: a bullpen session today. It still hasn't rained. So he
Speaker 7: went out there and threw a bullpen session about thirty
Speaker 7: five pitches, and I could tell it went really well
Speaker 7: for him because he was in a great mood in
Speaker 7: the clubhouse when he came in, and he was joking around.
Speaker 4: He was having a good time.
Speaker 7: And you know, Jeff, when it comes to a Twani pitching,
Speaker 7: it's not about the regular season because the Dodgers don't
Speaker 7: need him. It's about having him as a weapon in
Speaker 7: the postseason. And look, he's not going to be able
Speaker 7: to go out on a rehab assignment. How do they
Speaker 7: get him built up? And that's why I could envision
Speaker 7: him in the postseason starting a playoff game and going
Speaker 7: three or four innings, because that's all he's built up
Speaker 7: to do, and that's more than enough for the Dodgers now.
Speaker 7: So that's how I see it playing out. I know
Speaker 7: everybody wants to know when's he gonna pitch, when's he
Speaker 7: gonna Well, I don't see it happening until after the
Speaker 7: All Star break, and it's going to have a purpose,
Speaker 7: and the purpose is for him to be a weapon
Speaker 7: in October. And look, the reality is, yes, he is
Speaker 7: the most unique player in baseball history, certainly modern day baseball,
Speaker 7: and now with the roster restrictions, he's even more of
Speaker 7: a weapon that nobody else has because when you go
Speaker 7: into the postseason, you can only carry thirteen pitchers. Well,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers will do that, and they'll have a position
Speaker 7: player that can pitch in show Aotani, So essentially they
Speaker 7: have fourteen pitchers on their roster while other teams can
Speaker 7: only have thirteen. Let's go out to Wineka Waldo. You're
Speaker 7: on Dodger Talk Live from Atlanta.
Speaker 6: Hi Waldo, h Dave, I have one question in one comment,
Speaker 6: I wanted to get a update from you on Charlie Steiner,
Speaker 6: see how he's doing and Helk wise and if he's
Speaker 6: playing on returning to play by play.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I actually spoke to Charlie before we left for
Speaker 7: the road trip, and he's taken it day by day,
Speaker 7: just like everybody else that's going through something. And he
Speaker 7: is still hopeful that he can return this year. And
Speaker 7: we we send our best to Charlie. We hope that
Speaker 7: he does come back, but it's bigger than baseball. He's
Speaker 7: got to take care of himself. And then when he's
Speaker 7: ready for that, and you'll come back to.
Speaker 6: The booth, Well, send him my love. I really appreciate him.
Speaker 6: I hope he's just given better.
Speaker 4: You just did. You just sent him your life.
Speaker 8: And and my comment is with with ed bn out
Speaker 8: and you know, I wouldn't mind seeing more Chris Taylor,
Speaker 8: and and not just because I think, you know, he
Speaker 8: deserves to be out there, but it's last year of
Speaker 8: his contract. He's about, you know, fifty million dollars sitting
Speaker 8: at the end of the bench. The only way they
Speaker 8: could possibly trade him at the deadline would be if
Speaker 8: he plays, and other teams, you know, see some potential there.
Speaker 7: What do you think I don't think right now another
Speaker 7: team's gonna try to trade for Chris Taylor. He's in
Speaker 7: the starting lineup tonight at second base. And look, he
Speaker 7: has a track record, he has a resume, and he
Speaker 7: plays hard and that's something the Dodgers value. Thanks for
Speaker 7: the phone call, Waldough appreciated. Yeah, the Dodgers have Taylor
Speaker 7: at second base tonight. And Dave Roberts before the game
Speaker 7: was asked why not Kim starting, and he basically said,
Speaker 7: we weren't sure if Kim was gonna get here in
Speaker 7: time to put him in the starting lineup.
Speaker 4: So there's a good.
Speaker 7: Chance that you may see him tomorrow or eventually when
Speaker 7: the Dodgers get to Miami. But the way the Dodgers
Speaker 7: have stacked their lineup tonight, it's so Tani Betts, Freeman,
Speaker 7: ta Oscar Hernandez, will Smith, Max Muncy, Andy Pie has
Speaker 7: Michael Conforto and Chris Taylor. You know, Dave Roberts talks
Speaker 7: about when guys are struggling just having them watch the game.
Speaker 7: How much longer is Michael Confordo going to start every
Speaker 7: day in left field? I know the Dodgers made a
Speaker 7: big investment in him, and they believe in Conforto. I'm
Speaker 7: not saying I'm giving up on him or the Dodgers
Speaker 7: should pull the plug, But how about giving Chris Taylor
Speaker 7: or Key a Hernandez a start in front of Michael Conforto,
Speaker 7: Because not only is he not hitting the ball well,
Speaker 7: he's only hitting a buck fifty two with an ops
Speaker 7: of five sixty five, and that's even with a very
Speaker 7: hot first two weeks of the season. How about Key
Speaker 7: k a Hernandez in center field and Andy Poe hasn't left,
Speaker 7: or Chris Taylor and left. I feel like that's a
Speaker 7: fair question to ask why Confordo is continually being ran
Speaker 7: out there against righty's and lefties. I just think he
Speaker 7: could benefit from taking a day off and being able
Speaker 7: to regroup mentally. I'm sure it's weighing on him, no
Speaker 7: doubt about it. Eight six six ninety seven two five
Speaker 7: seventy is the phone number. We are live at Tru's
Speaker 7: Park as the Dodgers and Braves are in a holding
Speaker 7: pattern until they're able to get this rain through the
Speaker 7: Atlanta area and be sure that the game will not
Speaker 7: be interrupted, because that's what both teams are trying to
Speaker 7: avoid having this game started and then wash out their
Speaker 7: starting pitchers, and Roki Sazaki for the Dodgers and Spencer
Speaker 7: Schwellenbach for the Atlanta Braves. Right now, the tarp is
Speaker 7: on the field. It doesn't seem like it's raining yet. So,
Speaker 7: like Dave Roberts said before the game, we are going
Speaker 7: to hunker down, and we're continuing to hunker down, waiting
Speaker 7: for that rain to get here and get out of
Speaker 7: here as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4: A little bit more behind the curtain.
Speaker 7: I try to be proactive, and Freddie Freeman gave me
Speaker 7: a couple of good Italian restaurants and I did make reservations,
Speaker 7: but soon after Dave Roberts said we were going to
Speaker 7: hunker down, I canceled it. So there you go, go
Speaker 7: to El Segundo.
Speaker 4: Paul Rick, you gotta play just the case.
Speaker 1: Also, just a question, hey man, how are you? Question
Speaker 1: is amongst those fans about the Jerseys on the road,
Speaker 1: sometimes it says Los Angeles, sometimes it says Dodgers. We
Speaker 1: feel it should always say Los Angeles all eighty one
Speaker 1: road games, and for a while there it seemed like
Speaker 1: it was Los Angeles against the Division the West. Right,
Speaker 1: Is there any what is the story with that, why
Speaker 1: is it? Sometimes it says.
Speaker 7: La on the road this question said, Okay, I'll answer
Speaker 7: that question if you buy a new bluetube.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm in my car.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the phone call, Paul.
Speaker 7: Look, that question pops up from time to time, and
Speaker 7: I've asked Alex Torres, the Dodgers equipment manager, about the
Speaker 7: rhyme or reason of why the Dodgers sometimes where the
Speaker 7: Dodgers script on the road or the Los Angeles script
Speaker 7: And a lot of times it comes down to superstition.
Speaker 7: If they're winning with the Los Angeles road jerseys, they're
Speaker 7: gonna keep going to that style. If the Dodgers is
Speaker 7: doing the trick, they're sticking with that. But that's the
Speaker 7: guess superstition behind it. Maybe we'll see where things are
Speaker 7: at now. But I actually don't dive that far into
Speaker 7: whether or not they're wearing Los Angeles on the front
Speaker 7: or the Dodgers, so I just take it in stride.
Speaker 7: I actually grew up in the eighties after the Dodgers
Speaker 7: went away from having Los Angeles on their road jerseys,
Speaker 7: and then it was brought back in the early two thousands,
Speaker 7: So it's a it's.
Speaker 4: A cool little option. I guess to all that.
Speaker 7: I I used to love how on the Dodger road
Speaker 7: jerseys and home jerseys. It was a lot more unnoticeable
Speaker 7: with the home jerseys, but it brought something. Was the
Speaker 7: white border to the lettering of not only the jersey
Speaker 7: number and the name on the back, but the Dodgers
Speaker 7: on the front.
Speaker 4: I thought I made it pop. Let's go out to That's.
Speaker 7: Enough designed Jersey talk right there, Tom in Santa Monica.
Speaker 7: You could tell we're in a rain delay, Tom as
Speaker 7: we wait for the rain to get in and out.
Speaker 4: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks David, eating up time here. I see today
Speaker 2: you're doing a great.
Speaker 4: Job eating up time.
Speaker 7: I mean, I feel like we're getting into some deep
Speaker 7: subjects here that really solve the world's problems.
Speaker 2: Well here, I'm gonna bring world piece. You just real
Speaker 2: interested in tying out what's going on? Brent Honeywell, you
Speaker 2: were talking earlier about eating up the endings, and I
Speaker 2: thought he did an amazing job last year, and he
Speaker 2: was a really good clubhouse presence. Is there any talk
Speaker 2: about maybe bringing him back right now out?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Brent Honeywell actually showed up at Globelife Field on
Speaker 7: the last road trip because he lives close close to
Speaker 7: Arlington and he's still a free agent h and is
Speaker 7: looking for the right fit right now, the Dodgers are
Speaker 7: not considering signing Honeywell, but you'll be happy to know
Speaker 7: the Dodgers presented him with his World Series ring in Texas.
Speaker 2: Tom, that's excellent, any of it thought to bringing any
Speaker 2: other veteran pitchers meat up innings that you've heard him?
Speaker 7: Well, there's an interesting name that's out there right now
Speaker 7: on waivers, and that's former Dodger Kenta Maaida, who was
Speaker 7: designated for assignment by the Tigers. Now there's a reason
Speaker 7: why a team like the Tigers designates a pitcher like
Speaker 7: Kent to Maida's because he hasn't pitched well at all
Speaker 7: all year long. So it's a great nostalgia name, and
Speaker 7: he was great for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: When they signed him.
Speaker 7: But that would be the only name out there that
Speaker 7: I would say if maybe you might recognize them picking up,
Speaker 7: but they're pretty stacked. They you know what name I'm
Speaker 7: waiting for, Tom whenever they need another relief pitcher. It's
Speaker 7: Nick Frosso, a local kid from Lmu from Palace Verdes,
Speaker 7: and he was really impressive in spring training, and it
Speaker 7: seems like things are coming together for Frosso.
Speaker 4: He definitely is a guy that I.
Speaker 7: Could see making his his major league gabut at some
Speaker 7: point this seasonable A Yeah, triple A Oklahoma City Nick Frosso.
Speaker 7: He's on the forty man roster as well, so it
Speaker 7: would be very convenient if the Dodgers needed a relief
Speaker 7: pitcher at some point this season. And I remember Dave
Speaker 7: Roberts saying this before the team left for Japan. He
Speaker 7: agreed that Nick Frosso will make his major league debut.
Speaker 4: At some point this season.
Speaker 7: That's how good he was in Arizona. And certainly a
Speaker 7: guy that is six' six has a long extension and
Speaker 7: certainly was impressive during The Cactus. League eight six six
Speaker 7: ninety seven two five seventy is the phone. Number The
Speaker 7: dodgers And braves are a waiting first pitch to be.
Speaker 4: Thrown, here the tarp is on the. Field it's getting
Speaker 4: a little darker.
Speaker 7: Here the lights are taking real, effect And Tim nevertt
Speaker 7: is pointing to the west where the rain comes in.
Speaker 7: From it's about to start raining, Now, no it is raining,
Speaker 7: now all, Right, okay we got the showers going. Here
Speaker 7: it's hard to see the windows are, closed can't see
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Speaker 7: be thrown between The dodgers And, Braves game two of
Speaker 7: this three game, series only the second game of The
Speaker 7: dodgers' longest road trip of the, season ten games in ten.
Speaker 7: Days from, here The dodgers will go To miami and
Speaker 7: then close it out with a four game series against
Speaker 7: The Arizona.
Speaker 4: Diamondbags and, look as you.
Speaker 7: Embark on whatever you're doing, tonight just remember and remind
Speaker 7: your friends when they ask you what's going on with The.
Speaker 4: Dodgers what's going on with The.
Speaker 7: Dodgers, oh they have the best record in baseball twenty
Speaker 7: two to, ten And, Otani freeman And betts have not
Speaker 7: even hit their. Stride they haven't Had Blake snell basically all.
Speaker 7: Year kershaw is going to be coming back Around may.
Speaker 7: Seventeenth may, Eighteenth kershaw can be officially activated off the
Speaker 7: sixty DAY il On may, Seventeenth SO i would imagine
Speaker 7: once he's, activated he's going to, start possibly as soon
Speaker 7: As may eighteenth against The, angels because, hey he's not
Speaker 7: just going through all this to sit around for another five.
Speaker 4: Or six days when he's.
Speaker 7: Activated so it's coming, here and he just made another
Speaker 7: rehab start In Oklahoma. City, also you know WHAT i
Speaker 7: found interesting as we're closing things out here with the
Speaker 7: rain really coming down, Now Freddie freeman making his third
Speaker 7: return To atlanta as A, dodger the first time as
Speaker 7: A World SERIES mvp and A World series champion with The.
Speaker 7: Dodgers the reception For freddy was a lot more subdued
Speaker 7: last night in his first at bat than what we
Speaker 7: had experienced and what he experienced the first two years
Speaker 7: coming back To. Atlanta so Maybe Freddie freeman having that
Speaker 7: iconic moment in A dodger uniform has basically closed the
Speaker 7: book on the emotional attachment Between braves fans and their
Speaker 7: world Champion Freddie, freeman who helped The braves win their
Speaker 7: Last World series in twenty twenty. One all, right Then
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Speaker 7: to be thrown between The dodgers And. Braves hunker down
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