Speaker 1: I will continue on to my Hollywood Park in Englewood
Speaker 1: one more hour.
Speaker 2: If you're in the area and you want.
Speaker 1: To crack at those World Series tickets, come on down
Speaker 1: here and sign up.
Speaker 2: The deal is.
Speaker 1: If you're already here and you've signed up, congratulations. You
Speaker 1: will find out tomorrow morning at eight a m. They
Speaker 1: will announce with Tim Kats and Steve Sachs who won
Speaker 1: the tickets for Friday nights. It's not yeah, well it's
Speaker 1: not a scam, but you're calling the show a scam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it's called, Okay.
Speaker 1: And then tomorrow starting at noon, will be at BJ's
Speaker 1: Restaurant in brew House in Rancho Kukamoga. Ne Kaletti will
Speaker 1: be there with me and you are invited to come
Speaker 1: down there, same drill. All you have to do is
Speaker 1: sign up and then on Friday morning you'll find out
Speaker 1: if you won the World Series tickets for Game two.
Speaker 1: We still have more to give away here charge your
Speaker 1: Saints tickets and Dodger merch. So if you're in the area,
Speaker 1: come on down for the final hour. Top of the show,
Speaker 1: we talked about the fact that we lost Fernando Aalenzuela
Speaker 1: last night. Mark Langele is the Dodger historian and he
Speaker 1: joins the program. Now, Mark, we appreciate you taking the time,
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here.
Speaker 4: It's going to be with you, all right.
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzuela, it's tough to sum it up, and there
Speaker 1: are so many different things to say, But as the
Speaker 1: Dodger historian, someone who knows this stuff like the back
Speaker 1: of his hand, what did Fernando Valenzuela mean to the organization,
Speaker 1: What did he mean to the city Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 4: He's right there alongside Cofax, Drysdale, Jackie Robinson, and he
Speaker 4: is so special because it's not just that Fernando mania
Speaker 4: from nineteen eighty one. He is the one that just
Speaker 4: inspired a generation and he was the one that was
Speaker 4: the one. The dream of Walter O'Malley was to have
Speaker 4: a star from Mexico and to be able to have
Speaker 4: a Latino fan base identify with such a player. Yet
Speaker 4: through it all, Fernando never changed. He was always the
Speaker 4: modest role model, but he knew his place in society
Speaker 4: in terms of what he had meant to the community.
Speaker 4: Regular Dodger fans just loved the fact that he led
Speaker 4: them to a championship but as far as those that
Speaker 4: weren't necessarily associated with baseball, the pride that they felt
Speaker 4: somebody from Mexico being a hero and just being a
Speaker 4: Southern California icon, both sides in terms of he met
Speaker 4: so much to so many different people.
Speaker 5: So we were trying to discuss whether or not that
Speaker 5: was really the start of the explosion of the popularity
Speaker 5: amongst Latinos when it came.
Speaker 3: To the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: He really was sort of the when you look at
Speaker 5: where they're at now and where they were, it started
Speaker 5: with him and just continued on, and it's why you've
Speaker 5: seen the popularity amongst Latinos in this town when it
Speaker 5: comes to the Dodgers be where it's at at this
Speaker 5: point in time.
Speaker 4: Yet still the only players since nineteen forty five to
Speaker 4: win his first eight major league starts, and I can
Speaker 4: remember that eighth victory. At the end of the day
Speaker 4: in a press conference, somebody actually asked, Fernando, can you
Speaker 4: go your whole career without losing the game? And HEIMI
Speaker 4: herein translated and the answer was, Fernando says, it will
Speaker 4: be difficult, but not impossible. And at that point nobody
Speaker 4: doubted that because it was just like the Beatles. It
Speaker 4: kept building and building and building, and the more people
Speaker 4: went crazy over this kid from Mexico. He was unflappable.
Speaker 4: He was like Harpo Marx. He's winking, he's shrugging his shoulders,
Speaker 4: he's acting like it's no big deal. And he would
Speaker 4: do that for the next four years as far as
Speaker 4: he would, you know, still be that playful person, but
Speaker 4: never really let on in terms of what it was
Speaker 4: like to be in the eye of the hurricane, because
Speaker 4: he just acted like, oh hum, I'll pitch a shut
Speaker 4: out opening day at my first major league start, and
Speaker 4: it just went on from there. He just amazed this
Speaker 4: with his poison control.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark I said earlier that there was a sense
Speaker 1: of innocence about him, that he truly was unflappable. And
Speaker 1: as you look back on the days he pitched it
Speaker 1: in this city, it just wasn't well, he's starting for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers tonight, if I remember correctly, on the days
Speaker 1: he pitched, that was the lead story period across all
Speaker 1: news media.
Speaker 4: Am I right, You're absolutely right, because it was kind
Speaker 4: of like, just imagine the most famous person flying in
Speaker 4: for a concert, and a concert is maybe you know,
Speaker 4: one or two days and then that's it. They leave.
Speaker 4: It's the same every fourth, every fifth day. It wasn't
Speaker 4: a baseball game. It was an event. And that was that.
Speaker 4: The crowds got bigger and bigger, the expectations got bigger
Speaker 4: and bigger, and it just was beyond baseball as far
Speaker 4: as what it meant culturally in Southern California to have
Speaker 4: this icon from Mexico who is really acting like it's
Speaker 4: no big deal, and even now think about what's going
Speaker 4: to happen on Friday. As far as the tributes to
Speaker 4: him and Yankee Stadium and everything like that, he would
Speaker 4: just shrug his shoulders and say why because he never
Speaker 4: put himself on a pedestal, but he recognized his importance
Speaker 4: with the community, so he never shirked that responsibility as
Speaker 4: an ambassador. But not once did you ever have the
Speaker 4: feeling that he was ever going to tell you how
Speaker 4: good he was.
Speaker 5: When did you know, when did you know this feels
Speaker 5: different like when it was it? You know, because I mean,
Speaker 5: I know you mentioned after his eighth start he talked about, well,
Speaker 5: you know, it could be possible to win every game.
Speaker 5: But when did you notice that the fan base was
Speaker 5: really starting to wrap their arms around him and vice versa.
Speaker 4: Well, there's the shutout opening days and they go on
Speaker 4: the road for a couple of games, and then they
Speaker 4: come back in late April and he shuts out the
Speaker 4: Giants and that's when it really starts to get crazy.
Speaker 4: But the other thing you notice, if you're listening to
Speaker 4: Vince Scully, he had been been behind the microphone since
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty. He's acting like he's never seen this before.
Speaker 4: And I think that also helped in terms of wait
Speaker 4: a second, Vinnie seeing Colfax, Drysdale, Duke Snyder and he's
Speaker 4: going crazy over this kid from Mexico. That's really when
Speaker 4: it lents. As far as you know, Vinnie's going nuts,
Speaker 4: the fans go going nuts. But meanwhile Fernando is just, ohum,
Speaker 4: just there's another shout out, there's another win. About two
Speaker 4: months into the season, he's at a White House reception
Speaker 4: for the presidents of Mexico and the United States, and
Speaker 4: just imagine at the White House, they're all lining up
Speaker 4: for this kid's autograph.
Speaker 2: Mark.
Speaker 1: Aside from how the fans embraced him and Timmy sort
Speaker 1: of loved him, his teammates quickly embraced him right.
Speaker 4: His teammates adored him. His teammates also wanted to protect him,
Speaker 4: because Bobby Castillo would say, Hey, I can go out
Speaker 4: in the town and do whatever I want. The whole
Speaker 4: world knows who you are. You've got to stay in
Speaker 4: your hotel room. So the clubhouse was his sanctuary. And
Speaker 4: so whether it's Hacky Sack, he had a little laugh though.
Speaker 4: As far as playing games and practical jokes, he savored
Speaker 4: his teammates, and his teammates recognized that he was all
Speaker 4: about the team in mad Adiva And to this day.
Speaker 4: I was talking to Tom daton Trier this morning, former
Speaker 4: relief pitcher, that his teammates just loved him behind the
Speaker 4: scenes for who he was.
Speaker 5: Has anybody come close like like Otani? I mean, there's
Speaker 5: a lot of buzz about Otani. We've talked about, you know,
Speaker 5: when Manny Wood was here for a short time. But
Speaker 5: has anybody in your mind in the history of the
Speaker 5: Dodgers come close to just the Fernando mania, the mania
Speaker 5: itself when it came to the popularity.
Speaker 4: Of him, No, not at all. It was kind of
Speaker 4: like Joe Hardy and Dan Yankees as far as this
Speaker 4: person just sort of parachutes in from a small town
Speaker 4: and you know, in Mexico and does what he does. See,
Speaker 4: when O'tani comes to the Dodgers, everybody knows who he is.
Speaker 4: There's no mystery. But when Fernando comes to the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: it takes a while to do a little bit investigating.
Speaker 4: And so people go down to Mexico, they discover and
Speaker 4: they start to learn all these facts, and then everybody's wondering, well,
Speaker 4: is this just a one week fluke? Is this a
Speaker 4: two week fluke? And he ends up leading into the
Speaker 4: Championship and the irony this week that the only time
Speaker 4: he was ever in the World Series, he pitched that
Speaker 4: five to four complete game for the Dodgers when they
Speaker 4: had lost the first two games at Yankee Stadium. That's
Speaker 4: on a Friday night. And now forty three years later,
Speaker 4: you've got a Friday night with the Yankees, and now
Speaker 4: it's going to be a tribute to Fernando as far
Speaker 4: as not only what he meant in that World Series,
Speaker 4: but Major League Baseball is going to get in on
Speaker 4: it too, as far as just what he meant to
Speaker 4: the sport globally.
Speaker 2: Mark Langele with us he is the Dodger historian.
Speaker 1: Final question, because you have followed the Dodgers as long
Speaker 1: as you have, but obviously you know LA sports, and
Speaker 1: we were trying to figure this out earlier. Mark, we said, well,
Speaker 1: maybe Magic Johnson had made the kind of impression Fernando did.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody, honestly that has made the kind of
Speaker 1: impression Fernando Belenzuela did in Los Angeles?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not, because you could say Magic Johnson, but they
Speaker 4: had won the championship ten years earlier with West and Wilton,
Speaker 4: and you could say hockey. As far as Wayne Gretzky
Speaker 4: bringing awareness to the sport, but as far as what
Speaker 4: Fernando meant to people, nobody else is close. I can't
Speaker 4: even think of the second because the fact that he
Speaker 4: was from Mexico and affecting the fan base, nobody else
Speaker 4: could come close.
Speaker 3: Who are your favorites? He's got to be out there.
Speaker 5: But as far as players to cover, players to watch
Speaker 5: Dodger players, where does he at? Where is he on
Speaker 5: your list?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: I'm fifty nine years old, and so I was a
Speaker 4: tenth grader in high school watching Opening Day nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 4: and I think anything from your childhood that's the first
Speaker 4: championship that I ever saw, and those three home games,
Speaker 4: Games three, four, and five, all decided by one run.
Speaker 4: Those are the things that you carry as far as
Speaker 4: those childhood memories.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: And then the Fernando. Later I become a sports writer
Speaker 4: and cover Fernando's no hitter in nineteen ninety. Whoever thought
Speaker 4: toward the end of his career he had it in
Speaker 4: him to throw a no hitter. So he was just
Speaker 4: an amazing person. And the thing I would tell you, yes,
Speaker 4: I'm the team historian. He would drive me crazy in
Speaker 4: terms of not telling me the insight in terms of
Speaker 4: what he really felt in those pressure moments. But in
Speaker 4: the same vein he would spend twenty minutes showing me
Speaker 4: the pictures of his granddaughters their Halloween costumes for twenty
Speaker 4: minutes and showing that family side of him. He was
Speaker 4: a dedicated family man. And so you either knew him
Speaker 4: as a plan you appreciated his pitching, or if you
Speaker 4: were in the front office or you met him in
Speaker 4: the community, you just realized just what a wonderful person
Speaker 4: he was.
Speaker 1: Well, Mark, we appreciate you coming on, thank you for
Speaker 1: the insight, and thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: All Right, Mark Langele, who is the Dodger historian, all right,
Speaker 1: I just want just for the record, ye know, I
Speaker 1: went on baseball a reference to follow along with everything
Speaker 1: he just said.
Speaker 3: Okay, guy nailed everywhere, every bit of it. How hell's
Speaker 3: that happened?
Speaker 2: Well, he's the historian.
Speaker 3: Okay, I get it.
Speaker 5: But like you think you would slip up here there,
Speaker 5: he had the days of the week, he had the result,
Speaker 5: the innings, pitched everything.
Speaker 1: Right because he is dedicated and committed his life to that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, and perhaps that's something you should understand.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: He, by the way, should be pointed out two times
Speaker 5: a Silver Slugger Award winner Fernando an Zuela as well, too.
Speaker 1: Well, he could hit, I could hack Losorni's used him
Speaker 1: as a pinch hitter. Yeah, a pitcher would pinch hit.
Speaker 1: And you know the real I think.
Speaker 5: That he's got ten career home runs Fernandola.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if you were to looked this up,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the best pinch hitting pitcher was
Speaker 1: in baseball history.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's not what I'm going to say, although.
Speaker 3: He wait, to let everybody down.
Speaker 2: Ware you go.
Speaker 1: He played for the Red Sox and the Tigers. Do
Speaker 1: you know who it is?
Speaker 5: I don't care.
Speaker 2: Okay, the answer is Earl Wilson.
Speaker 5: Really hold on, let me see this.
Speaker 2: Look up, Look up, Earl Wilson, Pet.
Speaker 7: Wilson.
Speaker 2: See just see, let me see, let me see. What
Speaker 2: do you mean? I'm wasting your time.
Speaker 3: Gidding what you're giving away prizes? We're doing tributes and
Speaker 3: shout out.
Speaker 1: You know what you're out. I'm sorry you're not winning.
Speaker 1: Just see, just see, Earl Wilson.
Speaker 5: Know you're saying, Oh man, let's be uh efforting when.
Speaker 3: We come back efforting.
Speaker 1: All right, we still have more to give away except
Speaker 1: to one person. Come on down in Hollywood Park at Inglewood,
Speaker 1: Fred Rogan.
Speaker 3: And Jonas Scott at thirty five home runs.
Speaker 2: On five seventy l A your right.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are we doing here? Fred? What are
Speaker 3: we doing here? We had side and autographs the entire break.
Speaker 1: I went to the ATM and the ATM didn't work.
Speaker 1: Then I went to another ATM and the ATM didn't work.
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 1: They would just see my face and give me a
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Speaker 2: How they do it? Quite worked that way?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, anyway, hey, we just heard about this story.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever been summoned to jury duty? Oh god, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: who has served on a jury All right, So one
Speaker 1: time I got to a summons and the Lakers were.
Speaker 3: Way to let oj off by the way, nice job, guys.
Speaker 1: Hey, Right, the Lakers were headed to the playoffs and
Speaker 1: they were playing in the UH late rounds against Portland.
Speaker 1: Right if they beat Portland a advanced. So I get
Speaker 1: summoned to jury duty. And it was in San Fernando,
Speaker 1: and you know the guy. The judge starts by saying,
Speaker 1: under no circum stances, none can you be excused from
Speaker 1: jury duty. This is your duty, he said, I, myself,
Speaker 1: as a judge, have been summoned to jury duty. So
Speaker 1: if anybody has any reason they shouldn't be on the jury,
Speaker 1: you should tell us. And of course my reason was
Speaker 1: I have to go cover the Lakers in Portland. So
Speaker 1: we begin the questioning in the morning and people are
Speaker 1: coming up with all kinds of excuses, and the judge
Speaker 1: will let no one off, and You're going through the
Speaker 1: whole jury pool, and I'm thinking to myself, now I'm
Speaker 1: really gonna get screwed because I got to cover the
Speaker 1: Lakers in Portland. So we take a break and the
Speaker 1: bailiff says, if anybody has anything to say to the judge,
Speaker 1: you know, you can wait over here during this break.
Speaker 1: So I go stand off on the side. Now it
Speaker 1: turns out this is going to be a murder case,
Speaker 1: all right. So the guy accused of murderer is sitting
Speaker 1: there with his attorneys and the prosecution is on.
Speaker 2: The other side.
Speaker 1: So I walk sheepishly down the middle up to the
Speaker 1: bench and I go, your honor, I have to say
Speaker 1: something to you. I know what is my duty, and
Speaker 1: I feel terrible and by all means I would want
Speaker 1: to serve, but I have a professional hardship and I
Speaker 1: will not.
Speaker 2: I really can't be on the journey.
Speaker 1: And the judge says, well, what is your hardship, mister Rogan.
Speaker 2: Oh uh oh?
Speaker 1: I said, well, your honor, the Lakers in Portland are
Speaker 1: playing and I.
Speaker 7: Need to be there.
Speaker 1: And he just gives me this look and he says
Speaker 1: to the prosecution, do you have any questions for mister Rogan?
Speaker 2: That this is a murder trial?
Speaker 1: And the prosecuting attorney looks at me and he goes, so,
Speaker 1: do you think if Shaq plays on the blocks more
Speaker 1: the Lakers will work the ball inside?
Speaker 7: To him?
Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, I think that would be
Speaker 1: a key. Now I'm standing right next to the person
Speaker 1: accused of murder. He is sitting in the chair directly
Speaker 1: to my left.
Speaker 2: I think he did it. Oh yeah, And.
Speaker 1: The defense attorney is sitting there, and he says to
Speaker 1: the defense attorney, any questions for mister Rogan, go, Jess,
Speaker 1: I have a question. Do you think if the Lakers
Speaker 1: play better in transition that they will be able to
Speaker 1: run past Portland?
Speaker 2: And the judge goes, that's enough.
Speaker 3: They're spustering your balls at this point.
Speaker 1: That's enough from both of you. He says, mister Rogan,
Speaker 1: you are dismissed. Tell no one about this conversation. Please
Speaker 1: leave out the side door.
Speaker 2: And that was it. I got off the jury.
Speaker 3: Were they even playing Portland that night?
Speaker 2: No, you know what they were there. But Kevin, you
Speaker 2: have a story here of someone who's been summoned to
Speaker 2: jury duty.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So Brandon Aubrey is the kicker for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 6: and apparently he missed practice today and the designation was
Speaker 6: jury duty. And now he apparently was on a case.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I thought all of this was private.
Speaker 6: How'll we even find out what kind of case he
Speaker 6: would be potentially on. I thought it was supposed to
Speaker 6: be all confidential. But maybe if he.
Speaker 5: Goes public, they'll take him off it automatically.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the move.
Speaker 6: We all know now that he's on a trial trial
Speaker 6: jury for a case senator around third degree January strangulation,
Speaker 6: if I can speak, I.
Speaker 2: Was only third degree, big deal exactly.
Speaker 6: So apparently the Cowboys attempted to get him off of
Speaker 6: jury duty, which means they would have gotten them off.
Speaker 3: It's Jerry Jones, come on. But he wanted to do it, he.
Speaker 6: Said, if he wanted to fulfill a civic duty and
Speaker 6: he wanted to be a part of the jury.
Speaker 3: So that's how much. That's how bad the Cowboys are
Speaker 3: this year. The kickers.
Speaker 5: I'd rather be a jury duty than go out to practice,
Speaker 5: because kickers don't do anything in practice.
Speaker 6: You literally kick, then you just as as a judge
Speaker 6: in Dallas would they said that will work with Aubrey
Speaker 6: and his football schedule.
Speaker 2: Now, how that.
Speaker 6: Works with a trial jury for someone for a strangulation charge.
Speaker 6: How you work with a juror and his schedule? I
Speaker 6: have no idea, but apparently this judge in Dallas is
Speaker 6: going to find the way to make it work.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I got something not that long ago. But there's like
Speaker 5: this process to where you're given a number. I forget
Speaker 5: how it worked, Like you're given a number and a
Speaker 5: section and like you have to call every day to
Speaker 5: see if your number has been called. And my mind
Speaker 5: didn't get called, so thankfully I didn't have to go
Speaker 5: through it. But yeah, but I've heard people have just
Speaker 5: been stuck on those things like legitimate trials, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: you do your duty, and then years later they want
Speaker 5: to relitigate it and go, no, maybe the Menanda's brothers
Speaker 5: didn't do it.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like like what do we do? Like
Speaker 3: why did I waste my time years ago?
Speaker 7: Do you want to make a documentary?
Speaker 2: We gotta make money there, Uh you know.
Speaker 3: Jonas, come on, yeah, they're gonna get a cut.
Speaker 5: No, Like if you're somebody on the jury do you
Speaker 5: appear in that documentary you get like your sad card
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 1: Like that or what No, no, no, you don't get
Speaker 1: that sucks. I wonder if Vic the Brick's ever been
Speaker 1: on a jury. Because we need spirituality and we need
Speaker 1: to daily hide and provide that. Right now, we welcome
Speaker 1: on Vic the Brick and Vic, good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: I thought he passed out.
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Speaker 10: He's Fred Rogan. Hello, Vic, and what a great shoe
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Speaker 3: Knox Dayoma Puppy.
Speaker 9: I'm not sure if Baby Oliver is live in Inglewood today,
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Speaker 3: He's not twenty one up there, Victim. He is not
Speaker 3: feeling you. Emagine he's playing Texas older right now.
Speaker 10: Baby ohs a good luck. Johnny picked Dodgers in six.
Speaker 9: I'm not sure where he stands with the Yankees.
Speaker 7: One musical tapestry.
Speaker 9: Musical tapestry, taking the Dodgers to the Promised Land.
Speaker 10: Ronnie Foscio, he.
Speaker 7: Is the Blue Bamboo.
Speaker 9: And Ladrigo, it's funny you say, Ladrio, and again Fernando
Speaker 9: Valezuela so loved not only in Los Angeles but all
Speaker 9: over the world.
Speaker 10: Inspirational. And I met Fernando.
Speaker 9: First in nineteen eighty eight when it first came to
Speaker 9: Los Angeles, and he embraced me. He welcomed me as
Speaker 9: he welcomed everyone. I mean, you read the story with
Speaker 9: Bill Plashki when Plaski first covered the Dodgers his first
Speaker 9: year also, I believe nineteen eighty eight, and Fernando had
Speaker 9: a playful lasso that he used to use, and he
Speaker 9: lassoed Bill Plashki when he first saw him to welcome
Speaker 9: him in. And he welcomed me in as well by saying,
Speaker 9: you are Victor Brick.
Speaker 10: I said, yes, Fernando. He says you're Ela Drio. I said,
Speaker 10: thank you, Fernando.
Speaker 9: I am Eladrio, dubbed by the Great Fernando Valezuela.
Speaker 10: What a moment.
Speaker 9: American hero, a Dodger god among men. Azul forever icon.
Speaker 10: And remember fair.
Speaker 9: We talked about Fernando just yesterday, Yes, talked about his mural.
Speaker 10: Which was going up in bail Heights.
Speaker 9: Il Toro, galvanizer who died Latino fan base in nineteen
Speaker 9: eighty one. Fernando's journey from his tiny village at Joheophilo
Speaker 9: in the state of Sonora, Mexico, to Los Angeles. I'm
Speaker 9: inspiring generations of not just Mexican.
Speaker 10: Americans, but everybody.
Speaker 9: I mean, there is no Azul without thirty four. His
Speaker 9: pure vital energy captivated the baseball world and such a
Speaker 9: scroup all he threw. And then when he wound up
Speaker 9: and looked up into the heavens. I mean, kids around
Speaker 9: the world imitated Fernando's wind up and he was a
Speaker 9: great liberator, liberating the Latino fans to root for the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: El Toro's impact is beyond profound, but a great void.
Speaker 9: Not just Los Angeles felt last night when we heard
Speaker 9: the news, but you know, the whole baseball world.
Speaker 3: Anyone who knows.
Speaker 9: His story, you know, from that tiny village in Nahiko. Wow,
Speaker 9: it's it's just uh, it was so impactful and so wonderful.
Speaker 9: No ego talk about talk about move God, talk about
Speaker 9: no ego.
Speaker 1: Well, he didn't speak Japanese. He didn't speak Japanese.
Speaker 9: No ego whatsoever. Just such a beautiful person. We love,
Speaker 9: We love Fernando always will. Yes, So Dodgers Yankees, you
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Speaker 1: All right, we welcome Vic back in and Vic, you
Speaker 1: know where that leads.
Speaker 2: Us to.
Speaker 10: Source fread yes.
Speaker 9: On a sidebar, celebratory note, my beloved bride, you go,
Speaker 9: sucker most and myself. Our wedding anniversary is today.
Speaker 6: Ride Lacius Grassiers.
Speaker 10: Everybody Moss Grassiers.
Speaker 7: Oh gods right, you know where that leads is big.
Speaker 9: This is the high Cup for Fernando goes something like this,
Speaker 9: Fernando Dodger icon legend, hero for generations from his tiny
Speaker 9: village in the state of Sonora in Mexico to us
Speaker 9: see you dodge electrifying the baseball planets. Viva Fernando, Viva Mexico,
Speaker 9: Viva Vealezuela. As Vince Scully says, if you have a sombrero,
Speaker 9: throw it to the sky. Fernando Mania s forever, Fernando Mania,
Speaker 9: pausi emprey.
Speaker 7: We love you, Fernando. I'm feeling you.
Speaker 1: Bert, thank you all the folks from our street team
Speaker 1: and I heard media. Thank you, Dave Weese, appreciate you
Speaker 1: being down here. Dodger fans, MLB Tonight on MLB Network
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Speaker 1: back in the studio, Kevin, appreciate this very much.
Speaker 2: Jodahs. Good hanging with you.
Speaker 3: Al, thanks for having me. This is a blast. Guys,
Speaker 3: thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Be safe leaving.
Speaker 7: We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And Rancho Cucamonga