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Speaker 2: Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger
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Speaker 2: It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1: God Sax the Kates in the AM on this Thursday
Speaker 1: morning in October twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. Thanks for
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Speaker 1: a home with the Dodgers AM five seventy l A
Speaker 1: Sports as we are one day closer to Game one
Speaker 1: of the World Series Dodgers and Yankees. I am Tim Kates,
Speaker 1: joined by two time World Series Champion, a Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year, and one hell of a guy, Steve sack sacksy.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Tim Kates. How are you?
Speaker 3: Tim?
Speaker 1: Ah'm doing good. You're worried about nothing. See here we are.
Speaker 4: We're embarking on the World Series, and you were just
Speaker 4: worried as hell about you know, we're ever gonna get
Speaker 4: there again? Yes, it's here.
Speaker 1: It's I was worried it was gonna be a long week,
Speaker 1: that there'd be a lot of build up in the
Speaker 1: initial days and then a little bit of a well,
Speaker 1: downtime deprivation. Yeah, yeah, that's that's happened.
Speaker 4: A little little, little little you know, you know, not
Speaker 4: so good with the missus.
Speaker 1: Nope, nope, you know, a couple of arguments. Fault. We
Speaker 1: did go to dinner last night. Okay, good, that was fun.
Speaker 1: That's not her fault. No, no, yeah, we had a
Speaker 1: good time to talk and kind of catch up. You know,
Speaker 1: it's been a long month of October during this Dodgers
Speaker 1: baseball run. But what have an another way? And she
Speaker 1: doesn't like it, so be it. But yeah, we get
Speaker 1: ready for Game one tomorrow. Today is going to be
Speaker 1: a busy day out of Dodgers Stadium, as both teams
Speaker 1: are gonna have their media availabilities and they're gonna do
Speaker 1: it out in the center field plaza area behind the Pavilions,
Speaker 1: which has all been redone since COVID and beautiful out there,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have them there. All both teams will
Speaker 1: be there. They're gonna have a World Series type atmosphere
Speaker 1: for media day, and I mean that buy. They'll have
Speaker 1: like podium set up and tables set up for all
Speaker 1: the players and all the media that's gonna be there.
Speaker 1: The food hundreds for the media. Well, there's always food
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: Most guys want to know how long is the walk?
Speaker 4: Is their food? They want those two things. I don't
Speaker 4: want to bring the calories walking out there. That's one
Speaker 4: thing I was thinking of. Is the centerfield that's kind
Speaker 4: of track. You know, they might have the little carts
Speaker 4: you know to take them. Oh please, I'm serious now.
Speaker 4: They they want the they want the transportation ground transfer.
Speaker 4: Tation is always big when you're booking events, you know.
Speaker 4: So they went to ground transportation and hopefully there's food there.
Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you there's a huge parking lot
Speaker 1: that they can move their cars closer to where the
Speaker 1: availability is for the media, which I think a lot
Speaker 1: of them are probably gonna do because it is a
Speaker 1: long walk from from the from the press box all
Speaker 1: the way down to the center field plaza and then
Speaker 1: back up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to think the players are in the
Speaker 4: locker room and they've got to you know, make the
Speaker 4: walk and.
Speaker 1: Oh that's easy. That's see. They got the tunnel underneath
Speaker 1: there that will pop out by the bullpens and then
Speaker 1: next kind of walk right over. But the media folks, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be huffing and puffing and hands on knees
Speaker 1: and taking breaks in between and half way out there, right,
Speaker 1: and that escalator better be working to go back up
Speaker 1: to the press box level. Problem if it's not and
Speaker 1: they have to take stairs, the media is going to
Speaker 1: be mad.
Speaker 4: Need to get James Mims over there. They had the escalator. James,
Speaker 4: you know, James has been there forever for you can
Speaker 4: he can do the work over there.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a busy one out There's both
Speaker 1: teams will meet the media. They'll have the podium set up.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of international nation media and
Speaker 1: this is the day you're gonna get all those silly
Speaker 1: questions about what their favorite music is. It's it's like
Speaker 1: Super Bowl media embarrassing, Like, you know what, who cares
Speaker 1: about a walk up song?
Speaker 4: How about your barrel one up and get a base hit.
Speaker 4: Then we'll worry about your walk up song.
Speaker 1: But we need storylines, we need, we need, we need
Speaker 1: things to be written about Aaron Judge And did he
Speaker 1: grow up a Dodger fan in Fresno? And Jan Carlstanton?
Speaker 1: Why did you change your name? You were Mike Stanton
Speaker 1: and then you're Jen Carlston. Come out now, okay?
Speaker 4: H And by the way, Aaron Judge is from Linden.
Speaker 4: He it's a it's a little town. I drive there
Speaker 4: when I'm going down the freeway to LA from Sacramento.
Speaker 4: Here it's in Linden. He did go to Fresno State, Okay,
Speaker 4: but he's from a little town called Linden. Linden I've
Speaker 4: never even heard of. Just off the side of the road.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is a small one. It is a
Speaker 4: tiny You go through there, you'll miss it. You better
Speaker 4: watch out.
Speaker 1: Isn't close to Fresno, Yeah, you know, it's down the
Speaker 1: there and you know, I think it's somewhere down not
Speaker 1: far from Drest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's south of Stockton, Okay, it's south of Stockton.
Speaker 1: Okay, so all right, well, well he probably grew up
Speaker 1: a Giants fan, so we'll get asked, tell you what.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna google it right now. I'm gonna google map
Speaker 4: this thing right now. Perfect, and we're gonna see exactly
Speaker 4: where Aaron Judge is. Okay, I'm getting close now, Okay,
Speaker 4: So yeah, Linden Okay, that's a telling you it's not
Speaker 4: a big place.
Speaker 1: So that makes sense why he was flirting with the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants a few years ago when he was
Speaker 1: a free agent, because it's close to home. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know northern California Bay area, Jason of course up there,
Speaker 1: and they're.
Speaker 4: Getting everything else in the sacrament area from Lynden. So
Speaker 4: I grew up off Linden Road, so it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's fitting that it's gonna have to bring it into there.
Speaker 4: But I can find out where it is. But it's
Speaker 4: it's in between sac and and Fresno and Freso State.
Speaker 4: So chances are I think he was probably a Giants
Speaker 4: fan closer to San France.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure a thousand different questions will be asked
Speaker 1: to him about that. And coming back to the West Coast,
Speaker 1: and you know you're gonna get the the question to
Speaker 1: to Jen Carl Stanton and the guys who are from California,
Speaker 1: like Aaron Judge, Are you in and out guy? Are
Speaker 1: you a five guys guy? Which burder is it? Are
Speaker 1: you a happy as though?
Speaker 4: I mean, this is gonna be epic trying to get
Speaker 4: you know, a nice you know, media blitz out of him.
Speaker 4: What hasn't been said with showy O Tommy. What are
Speaker 4: they gonna pick out now?
Speaker 1: Well, I I imagine you're gonna get a lot of
Speaker 1: the national media asking and what's it like to be
Speaker 1: here for the first time?
Speaker 4: What if he brings out do what I've been here
Speaker 4: for seven years? If he brings out one of those.
Speaker 1: I would love somebody to ask. And nobody will do
Speaker 1: this because he might get upset or you know, people
Speaker 1: around him might get upset, but heck, I'd love to
Speaker 1: ask him. Do you feel like you wasted six years
Speaker 1: of your career at ANNAHI? Oh my gosh, really, I mean.
Speaker 4: That's a little harder.
Speaker 1: You put up the numbers, but you didn't win. And
Speaker 1: now that you're in and I say it nicely because
Speaker 1: you know, because you're now in a World series in
Speaker 1: your first year not with the Angels, and your first
Speaker 1: year with the Dodgers and the production you put up
Speaker 1: as a fifty to fifty player. Certainly you were all
Speaker 1: an all star player at MVP player at ANAM, I
Speaker 1: have no doubt about that. But team wise, I mean individually, yes,
Speaker 1: you're great, But team wise, do you feel like maybe
Speaker 1: if you'd gone to a different team you had a
Speaker 1: chance to win earlier in your career, you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: here for the first time? You're seven? Stinging stinging question
Speaker 1: right there? What if they have a valid question? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but what if they break out something like this, do
Speaker 1: you want to kind of like say, ha ha, I
Speaker 1: told you so to Mike Trout they bring up one
Speaker 1: of them. I think that's a good follow up question.
Speaker 1: Well maybe the initial question. Yes, you know, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, I mean, if they're gonna really you know, let's
Speaker 4: get real with it. Look what you did and Trout
Speaker 4: still and yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel you know what, between you and me, Tim,
Speaker 1: I know, but nobody else is nobody else just us,
Speaker 1: just us right, nobody else listening.
Speaker 4: I feel sorry for Trout.
Speaker 1: I do too. I do because he is such a
Speaker 1: good dude, and he's just he's just languishing there. I mean,
Speaker 1: I want to see Mike Trout in the World Series, right,
Speaker 1: I want to see showhy. I want to see Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: This whole thing with all these great players.
Speaker 4: With Judge and you know, Mookie Batson, Freeman and all
Speaker 4: these I just think it's, you know, don't for everybody
Speaker 4: When I say this, people say, don't forget Soto and
Speaker 4: John Carlo.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 4: There's just a lot of them, you know. But I mean,
Speaker 4: I want to see Mike Trout in there, don't you.
Speaker 1: I would love to have seen Mike Trout sometime in
Speaker 1: the last ninety years boiled make the postseason more than
Speaker 1: one time. I'd love to see him on a national stage.
Speaker 1: I would love to see him promoted. And we got
Speaker 1: into this yesterday about the lack of promotion for individual
Speaker 1: players in baseball, and it's it's been a thing forever.
Speaker 1: It's not something new that baseball just started not doing. Correct.
Speaker 1: But Mike Trout is a superstar and has been, and
Speaker 1: maybe he's on the back end of that superstar, possible
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame career because of all the injuries that
Speaker 1: he's suffered. But you know, it's funny you bring it up.
Speaker 1: You put in Mike Trout and immediately the first article
Speaker 1: that comes up is how does Mike Trout feel right
Speaker 1: now after seeing shoe Hey Otani make the World Series.
Speaker 4: I didn't read it. I just came up with that.
Speaker 4: I swear I didn't read it. I mean that's hard though,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, yeah, think.
Speaker 1: You know the biggest stage that he's been on the
Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic, right, Dacy Shohey for Team USA. What
Speaker 1: a year ago in Miami? I think it was. And
Speaker 1: that's or Arizona when they square it off and Otani's
Speaker 1: struck Hi Abrount. That's the biggest stage of Mike Trout's career.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: And and see how players elevate one another. It's a
Speaker 4: great thing. And that's that's a it's almost like stepping stones.
Speaker 4: That's a cascading effect of you know, one guy helping
Speaker 4: the other.
Speaker 1: And Mike Trout.
Speaker 4: The reason I feel feel for the guy is he's
Speaker 4: such an un you know, he signs the big deal.
Speaker 4: He's probably thinking that, you know, Ardie Morino is gonna
Speaker 4: go out and get a bunch of pitching, not you know,
Speaker 4: and it's.
Speaker 1: Always been the same thing. Boy, the Angels can sure
Speaker 1: score runs, but what's the issue?
Speaker 4: What do you think the issue is? Why did they
Speaker 4: draft every single player? I think a year ago or
Speaker 4: two years ago, every single guy they drafted twenty one
Speaker 4: picks or whatever it was before the COVID thing, So
Speaker 4: it was a few years ago, it was everyone was
Speaker 4: a pitcher, every single player, right, So you know what,
Speaker 4: what do you think the issue is? You need pitching
Speaker 4: over there.
Speaker 1: And for Mike Trout, he so loyal to the Angels.
Speaker 1: He'll always say it that he wants to be here,
Speaker 1: he wants to continue to be an Angel. I mean
Speaker 1: he is now thirteen years into his career. He came
Speaker 1: up in twenty eleven and now missed the season where
Speaker 1: he played twenty nine games. I mean he's played only
Speaker 1: one hundred games one time in the last four years.
Speaker 4: About COVID, it's not gonna get better. As you get older,
Speaker 4: you start to break down a little bit. He's thirty
Speaker 4: three already. Yeah, God, I mean that that's I feel
Speaker 4: for the dude. I don't know if it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen an Angel, you know, no I
Speaker 1: gotta get traded. Yeah, he's gonna have to go somewhere else.
Speaker 1: And if you're Mike Trout, you should have made that
Speaker 1: call to the front office and made that loud and
Speaker 1: claire shouting from the rooftops three four years ago that
Speaker 1: you wanted to get out of there, especially a year
Speaker 1: ago when Otawni left him free agency. At that point,
Speaker 1: you've really got to get the megaphone out and say
Speaker 1: I want out of here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, he doesn't want to cause any
Speaker 4: waves or anything. Do you think that there's something still
Speaker 4: in there health wise where we could see three or
Speaker 4: four more, you know, big vibrant years of one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty five games plus.
Speaker 1: No, I don't see it. So I don't see it.
Speaker 1: I think he's the agent part time. Oh yeah, ninety
Speaker 1: that's his future is a designated here. I mean he
Speaker 1: tried to give it a go after the tormniscus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and everybody said, oh, he's good to go. He went
Speaker 1: to Triple A Salt Lake City, first game out there,
Speaker 1: went out to the outfield right back in saying that
Speaker 1: he felt something again discomforting his knee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what, the guy's the guy's the
Speaker 4: thoroughbred man, and he he gets he wants to be
Speaker 4: out of the barn and run. I don't know how
Speaker 4: he's gonna sit, uh throughout through the game and just
Speaker 4: bat four times. I mean that would drive me crazy too.
Speaker 4: I got to be out there running around and you know,
Speaker 4: jumping over the wall and catching balls.
Speaker 1: If I'm like Trout, maybe he's too heavy. And I
Speaker 1: say this because he's, like you said, he's a thoroughbread Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is so physically chiseled. He's a specimen six five. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's more than two thirty five. I'm I'm thinking I'm
Speaker 1: thinking he's closer to two forty two fifty. That's gotta
Speaker 1: come down. Well, you know what.
Speaker 4: The thing about him, Look, there's only a couple of guys.
Speaker 4: And I'm just saying this from a sheer locker rooms.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: Standpoint is, uh, I've seen a few specimens in in
Speaker 4: baseball where or in any sport where you just look
Speaker 4: at the guy and the guy shakes his head. He
Speaker 4: just goes that can't be real. I mean it looks
Speaker 4: like the statue of David. He makes a statue of
Speaker 4: David go away and hide. Okay, you know you know
Speaker 4: the three guys I've seen like that Judge. Uh No,
Speaker 4: I haven't been in there with him, but Bo Jackson
Speaker 4: is one. It's not even real. It's it's it's absolutely surreal. Okay,
Speaker 4: bo Jackson is one, Mike Trout is two, and Nick
Speaker 4: Bosa from the forty nine ers. Really you can't even
Speaker 4: believe it when you look at it's this isn't real.
Speaker 4: It's it's sick. It's just how did God make that?
Speaker 4: It's it's unbelievable. Guys shake their head, They're like, I
Speaker 4: can't believe this.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's got to be frustrating for Mike try
Speaker 1: I was talking to Mike.
Speaker 4: I'm starting rep. I was talking to Mike Soshi one time.
Speaker 4: He says, yeah, bo Jackson, I know you talk about
Speaker 4: it in that body and I saw his body in
Speaker 4: the clubhouse and I can't believe it. And he says,
Speaker 4: at least I have to work hard to keep my
Speaker 4: great body. You know the same part as bo Jackson.
Speaker 4: Just crazy, Go hit Tim. Sorry, No, I just I
Speaker 4: feel for Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: I mean, I you think about the superstars in this game,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you brought up Trouty, because you know,
Speaker 1: the conversation right now in baseball going up to this
Speaker 1: World Series is how many future Hall of Famers are
Speaker 1: in this game and could it be one of the
Speaker 1: greatest World series we've ever seen when it's all said
Speaker 1: and done, ten, fifteen, twenty years from now, when these
Speaker 1: players' careers are all played out.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking seven. Yeah, I mean there could be more.
Speaker 1: I mean Will Smith's guy knocking on the doors, his
Speaker 1: numbers are equal to what Joe Mauer are out there.
Speaker 1: There are players that are still young in their career
Speaker 1: in the United States, like Yamamoto. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: paid to be Hall of Fame type player with the
Speaker 1: amount of money that he was given. Those are just
Speaker 1: two guys that aren't even considered Hall of Famers right now,
Speaker 1: but potentially could be you throwing both managers. You're throwing
Speaker 1: Andrew Freeman as Brian Cashman. I mean, in this whole
Speaker 1: World Series with both these organizations, I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of chattering, and certainly this is one of the
Speaker 1: things you talk about leading up a couple of days
Speaker 1: doing World Series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're absolutely right. Let's think off the top of
Speaker 4: my head. I'm looking at Judge Soto, possibly Kershaw is
Speaker 4: going to be in the first ballot, no question about it.
Speaker 4: Bets and Otani. Now, I mean there's five right off
Speaker 4: the top of my head, not counting anybody in administration.
Speaker 1: Did you say, Freeman. Oh yeah, Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 4: Sure. I think he's definitely got a great chance to
Speaker 4: be in the Hall of Fame. There's six of them already,
Speaker 4: said him. Yeah, so I got Judge Soto, Kersh, bets Otani,
Speaker 4: and Freeman. Uh, you know, right off the top of
Speaker 4: my head, Juan Soto, I said, Sodo. Obviously you're not listening.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Stanton. I'm just trying to run down names
Speaker 1: and writing down here. Possibly Garrett Cole. Garrett Cole is
Speaker 1: another one. I mean, there might be ten. When you
Speaker 1: count the guys in the front office.
Speaker 4: It's crazy. I mean, the best players in the sport
Speaker 4: are all in this World Series.
Speaker 1: What if Anthony Rizzo wins another World Series? Not this year,
Speaker 1: of course, but maybe down the road. He was part
Speaker 1: of that Cubs team that broke the curse in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably on the bubble, Yeah, I would say one
Speaker 4: of those bubble guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean really on the bubble Walker Bueller. I
Speaker 1: mean still has the rest of his career to play out.
Speaker 1: He'd have to just shove for the next five years.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean think the World Series champ. How
Speaker 1: about Dave Roberts, Oh, he needs one more World Series
Speaker 1: when they win it this year. I think he's a
Speaker 1: lot because that'll put him as two as a manager,
Speaker 1: yeah and one is a player. Right, And we talked
Speaker 1: about it during the NLCS. The amount of divisional titles,
Speaker 1: Championship series titles he's got right next to Bobby Cox,
Speaker 1: certainly not the same quantity as Bobby Cox, but up
Speaker 1: there as far as right behind Bobby Cox for the
Speaker 1: most all time. Yeah, I mean the star power the
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famers in this series is off the charts.
Speaker 1: Well right now, how about Tommy Edmond. I'm just hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, you can make a bit splash World
Speaker 1: series about Aaron Boone?
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, yeah, I mean true.
Speaker 1: Okay, player, but manager if he can win a World Series.
Speaker 1: You know, he's known for the home run in the ALCS.
Speaker 4: Yep, big one.
Speaker 1: I mean they're saying this is the most star studded
Speaker 1: World series we've seen since nineteen ninety six and before
Speaker 1: that this is about nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 4: Right way back then, when you're talking to guys like
Speaker 4: Melott and you know all those cats, right, but this
Speaker 4: you're talking about really a very defining World series for
Speaker 4: some guys. I mean, look at Freddy Freeman can really
Speaker 4: push himself over the edge into the no doubt land,
Speaker 4: you know, if they win the World Series here because
Speaker 4: he's you know, he's out there playing on one leg
Speaker 4: and still doing it. Sodo is pushing himself into that
Speaker 4: elite group, I think, and Judge is already in there.
Speaker 4: And we're almost seeing a renaissance, if you will, of
Speaker 4: John Carlos Stanton because for a long time he was
Speaker 4: always the injuries and he was down so much. But
Speaker 4: now he's the one that's been lifting this team in
Speaker 4: the Divisional, in the Championship series. So we'll see what
Speaker 4: he does in the World Series. But he's been a
Speaker 4: guy that's been the big staple, and Judge really hasn't
Speaker 4: shined like we know that he can. It's been John
Speaker 4: Carlo that's been doing it so far.
Speaker 1: Thirteen players and managers from the nineteen thirty two Yankees
Speaker 1: Cubs World Series were Hall of Famers or went on
Speaker 1: to be Hall of Famers thirteen. That's the record nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty two lot of Nubbs. I'm not seeing his name
Speaker 1: for that. Yeah, that's a babe, Ruth Lukeerrick, Bill Dickey,
Speaker 1: Lefty Gomez, Herb Pinnic World Series. In the divisional era
Speaker 1: of the postseason nineteen ninety six is Yankees Braves series
Speaker 1: had eight Hall of Famers in there, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera,
Speaker 1: Wade Boggs, Tim Rains, Greg Maddox, John Smoltz, Tom Glavit,
Speaker 1: and Schipper Jones, not to mention managers Joe Tory and
Speaker 1: Bobby Cox. So this could surpass the nineteen ninety six
Speaker 1: Yankees Braves World Series and be right behind the nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty two World Series for the most Hall of Famers
Speaker 1: to play in the same series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, incredible, incredible. Yeah, and we're gonna get to
Speaker 4: view it really up close.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's not like in the thirties when you got to
Speaker 4: see an overhead view from behind home Plateton. It was all,
Speaker 4: you know, dark and not good reception. Now look at
Speaker 4: it as today. You have cameras on the field, you
Speaker 4: have players miked up. I mean you can't get any
Speaker 4: more personal other than you want to go maybe shopping
Speaker 4: for food with them.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: This is like really in depth stuff now that we're
Speaker 4: getting to enjoy.
Speaker 1: Well, one lucky five to seventy LA sports listener is
Speaker 1: not just going to be able to watch it on
Speaker 1: TV or listen on the radio. They're going to be
Speaker 1: able to go to Game one of the World Series
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Speaker 1: got a busy show later on this hour, David Vasse,
Speaker 1: we'll sit down with Charlie Steiner. Steve Yeger will join
Speaker 1: us in the eight o'clock hour. When we come back,
Speaker 1: your phone calls eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: It's a star studded World Series. And when they're out
Speaker 1: of Dodgers Stadium, Sax see everybody's gonna see two statues
Speaker 1: Sandy Kofax and Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 1: How soon will there be a third statue? And who
Speaker 1: should it be? We'll get into it next. It's Steve Sacks,
Speaker 1: Tim Kates and you on this Thursday morning. The build
Speaker 1: up continues for Game one of the World Series right
Speaker 1: here at NFI seventy il I Sports Jaxson kateson AM
Speaker 1: m five seventy LA Sports on this Thursday morning. The
Speaker 1: build up continues to Game one of the World Series
Speaker 1: tomorrow out of Dodger Stadium Dodgers Yankees Garrett Cole Jack
Speaker 1: Fularity Game one pitching matchup, first pitch at five oh
Speaker 1: eight from the GalF of Motors Broadcast Booth, as the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and Yankees will both have a media day today
Speaker 1: in the Dodgers center Field Plaza where they will talk
Speaker 1: to the media and it'll be lots of fun for
Speaker 1: about forty five minutes each. And also both teams will
Speaker 1: go through a workout at Dodger Stadium today's saxy but
Speaker 1: while they're out in the center Field Plaza today talking
Speaker 1: to the media at their respective boost and it will
Speaker 1: be all spread out out so the media can talk
Speaker 1: to players in a group setting, but one on one.
Speaker 1: They'll be in the area around the two Dodgers statues
Speaker 1: in center field. In twenty seventeen, the Dodgers a statue
Speaker 1: for Jackie Robinson and in twenty twenty two the Dodgers
Speaker 1: unveiled a statue for Sandy Kofax. So there are two
Speaker 1: statues in the center field plaza, which is being built
Speaker 1: out and the Dodgers have been a great job of
Speaker 1: that in the last six seven years of redoing the
Speaker 1: centerfield plaza area with new food areas and hangout areas.
Speaker 1: Sports in at LA has got their pre and post
Speaker 1: game stage out there. You've got great Dodger artifacts and
Speaker 1: memorabilia and different things to go see. It's not a museum,
Speaker 1: but it's a great spot to go out there and
Speaker 1: see Dodgers of the past. And there's a whole section
Speaker 1: on the fence as Dodger Rookies of the year. And
Speaker 1: there's Steve Sacks right there in nineteen eighty two, your
Speaker 1: mug up there with the big thing about you. That's
Speaker 1: out in center field as well. So two statues, Sandy
Speaker 1: Kofax and Jackie Robinson. And when the Jackie Robinson statueing up,
Speaker 1: it was fantastic, it's Jackie. When the Sandy Kovax statue
Speaker 1: went up, the first thought was who's next. And between
Speaker 1: then and now we've we've unfortunately lost Tommy Lasorda and
Speaker 1: now we lost Fernando Valenzuela. We've lost Vin Scully as well,
Speaker 1: and the question has been the last few years, who's
Speaker 1: gonna be the next statue? Dodger Stadium. You're gonna keep
Speaker 1: that thing going. And just like out of Crypto dot Com,
Speaker 1: you've got statues of Chick hern and Shaquille O'Neill and
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant and Wayne Gretzky and all that at Dodgers statum.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be the third statue? Because there's gonna be one?
Speaker 1: Who should it be? And and I was thinking about
Speaker 1: this last night. My wife said, it's got to be Fernando, right,
Speaker 1: And I thought, well, we got Vin and you've got Tommy,
Speaker 1: but Saxy, I I think before they get a statue,
Speaker 1: you've got to give one to Fernando Valenzuela.
Speaker 4: Yes, right, yeah, I think I think Fernando's got to
Speaker 4: be out there, Scully, And look, you can start by
Speaker 4: lopping off the guys at the top, I mean the
Speaker 4: Hall of Famers. You can start there. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: for uh, the sorta right, certainly he's got to be
Speaker 4: in there, Vince Scully and then other guys that you
Speaker 4: know that aren't necessarily in the Hall of Fame, but
Speaker 4: made the huge difference, Like Fernando, they retired his number,
Speaker 4: and rightfully, so how about Steve Garvey? You know he's
Speaker 4: right on the cusp. I think he should be in.
Speaker 4: Dusty Baker is going to go on the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: You could do one of him. You could go there's
Speaker 4: a lot of guys you could put statues out there,
Speaker 4: but you could start right at the top, guys that
Speaker 4: are on the bubble the Hall of Fame and guys
Speaker 4: that are in. Yeah, that's probably a good place to start.
Speaker 1: And they got the Legends of Dodgers Baseball for players
Speaker 1: who aren't in the Hall of Fame. And as we mentioned,
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzuela is one of two players that aren't in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame but have their number retired at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium in the Ring of Honor. I've just been thinking, like,
Speaker 1: since you know, the unfortunate passing sixty three years old,
Speaker 1: Vin was up there in age and lived a great life,
Speaker 1: and Tommy lived a great life and was up there
Speaker 1: in age. And and now I think of Fernando sixty
Speaker 1: three years old, you know, gone too soon at the
Speaker 1: age of sixty three. Maybe he should go first. Maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean, we cherish and we honor Vin and Tommy
Speaker 1: and their icons with the Dodgers. A statue for Fernando
Speaker 1: to me would be I don't know, it just kind
Speaker 1: of feels right to nobody give Kim. Nobody would question
Speaker 1: why Fernando now and not somebody else. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was such a difference maker. He was he was Fernando
Speaker 1: was an absolute one off. There'll never be another Fernando.
Speaker 1: He transformed the fan base in Los Angeles. He invigorated
Speaker 1: a bunch of fans not only to come back then,
Speaker 1: but they're still involved in that because of Fernando. This
Speaker 1: has been such a long term thing with him, and
Speaker 1: he really engendered a Mexican American population to always be
Speaker 1: Dodger fans now. I mean lots of times back then,
Speaker 1: I think there was some some animosity. You know, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers were kind of like taking over some of the
Speaker 1: housing that was there in the Mexican American community, and
Speaker 1: you know, I think Fernando made everybody kind of get
Speaker 1: over that pretty quickly. That's that's what the story goes.
Speaker 1: So you know, he was different. See, he was a
Speaker 1: different difference maker. I think of the people who go
Speaker 1: to Dodger Stadium, the fans are there for one hundred
Speaker 1: and you know, or eighty one home games in postseason
Speaker 1: and the diversity that's out of Dodger Stadium. And to
Speaker 1: have a Fernando statue go up next, and not to
Speaker 1: say that even and you know Tommy aren't going to
Speaker 1: get there, because they're going to get becausey're the greatest,
Speaker 1: but next to put one up there for Fernando, it
Speaker 1: would be a meeting spot for fans. Yes, every night
Speaker 1: out of Dodger statem pay question, let's meet the Fernando statue.
Speaker 1: Let's go see the Fernando statue. It'll get to I'll
Speaker 1: meet you at the Fernando right. Absolutely, it'd be a
Speaker 1: meeting spot. It'd be a spot for people who are
Speaker 1: coming to their first game, or maybe bringing their child
Speaker 1: for the first game, or their parent for the first game,
Speaker 1: or the grandparents the first game in a long time. Hey,
Speaker 1: they put a statue up for Fernando, let's go see it.
Speaker 1: It would be a spot to gravitate towards. And it
Speaker 1: would be for any statue moving forward. And it is now
Speaker 1: for Jackie and for Sandy Kovax's statues, but I think
Speaker 1: for the fan base and to I mean yesterday sactually
Speaker 1: calls on this station. We're heartbreaking and at the same
Speaker 1: time you realize how much he was loved, and maybe
Speaker 1: we forgot about that and what he meant to people
Speaker 1: and what he meant to a community here in southern California.
Speaker 1: To put up a statue next to have him be
Speaker 1: the next one in line behind Jackie and Sandy, it
Speaker 1: kind of feels right.
Speaker 4: To do it, and people would love it because Fernando
Speaker 4: brought so much joy to this to this area and
Speaker 4: the organization changed it. Yeah, there's nobody that would ever
Speaker 4: doubt that. That's not a great thing to do. And
Speaker 4: here's another one I thought of too alongside that is,
Speaker 4: you know you kind of look at, you know, a player,
Speaker 4: and he's almost synonymous with another player. You kind of
Speaker 4: put him in groups, you know, like Stanton and Judge
Speaker 4: are kind of like, you know, these two gigantic, you know,
Speaker 4: towering players, and you kind of put those guys together.
Speaker 4: I would put another possibility of Don Drysdale and put
Speaker 4: him next to Sandy. Yeah, right, because those he's a
Speaker 4: Hall of Famer, He's deservingly so. And I mean those
Speaker 4: guys were always synonymous with one another. Remember the contract
Speaker 4: holdouts and all that and that happened. So I think
Speaker 4: that might be another possibility too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Cofax, Drysdale, Drysdale, Kofax went hand in hand
Speaker 1: for so many years with the Dodgers. You know, that's
Speaker 1: the rich history of the Dodger organization. You're not struggling
Speaker 1: to find names. You're not struggling to find players or
Speaker 1: managers to put into Rings of Honors or Legends of
Speaker 1: Baseball or the Hall of Fame, or retiring their numbers.
Speaker 1: It's like the Yankees, the rich history that both these
Speaker 1: franchises have. You know, you can retire so many numbers,
Speaker 1: you would have no numbers to give players. They all
Speaker 1: be in the seventies and eighties and nineties would be
Speaker 1: because all the numbers would be retired from you know,
Speaker 1: one to forty five. It's just yes, it's crazy. You
Speaker 1: just can't retire all of them. You wouldn't have any
Speaker 1: left here.
Speaker 4: You have to go on triple digits eventually, you know
Speaker 4: you can't do that. But you know what's becoming more
Speaker 4: in vogue now as you see Aaron Judge Wards ninety nine.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's not a big deal now to
Speaker 4: oh I have a double digit number, not only double digit,
Speaker 4: but you're talking guys like you know, that are the
Speaker 4: interior line of the you know, football club or you know,
Speaker 4: the linebackers now, so it's not a big deal to
Speaker 4: have those numbers. It was always good to have something
Speaker 4: under forty, probably, but now it's you know, or under fifty.
Speaker 4: Now it's just hey, whatever, you know, whatever, whatever suits you.
Speaker 1: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Should
Speaker 1: Fernando get the next statue at Dodger Stadium? There's two
Speaker 1: already with Jackie and Sandy. Should number three go to
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzuela eight six six ninety eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: It was very cool yesterday. Ay Sports net LA did
Speaker 1: a two hour tribute to Fernando Valenzuela and talk to
Speaker 1: a lot of the same people we talked to yesterday
Speaker 1: morning that we're on the station all day long. Yesterday
Speaker 1: and our buddy Nomar Garcia Paro was on the station
Speaker 1: or on sports and at LA and Nomar right when
Speaker 1: he came on reference he was listening to Saxon Kate's
Speaker 1: yesterday everybody listens to scatced it. It was talking about
Speaker 1: the calls and the emotion from the calls, and you know,
Speaker 1: it got to him and he was thinking about him
Speaker 1: and his family and his friends, and you know it's
Speaker 1: He's like, it's true. You know people people had a
Speaker 1: connection with Fernando, and he's like it was. It was
Speaker 1: so awesome to hear fans communicate that. And it was yesterday,
Speaker 1: all day long to hear people talk about their stories
Speaker 1: and their families and what Fernando meant to him. And
Speaker 1: we heard it over and over again, from the golf
Speaker 1: course to a little league field, to a running at
Speaker 1: a park somewhere, at the store somewhere. Fernando meant so
Speaker 1: much to so many people, and especially the Hispanic community.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like a statue is the
Speaker 1: right thing to do. Yeah, I'd love And how about this,
Speaker 1: how about the story where Fernando came over with all
Speaker 1: the ladies from work and then the one person, the
Speaker 1: father couldn't couldn't get there. He was in the restroom,
Speaker 1: and so Fernando came back or actually brought the father
Speaker 1: into the booth and spent all that time with him
Speaker 1: and made the men cry. And that's that is just
Speaker 1: absolutely moving. And you know Fernando, hey, look, he was
Speaker 1: great for the Mexican American community, but he was great
Speaker 1: for everybody. He everybody loved for now. I don't care
Speaker 1: where you're from or what nationality were, it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: Fernando was just he was just one in a billion.
Speaker 1: He was an amazing person. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 1: two five seventy. Robert and Riverside, Good morning. You're on
Speaker 1: Sax and Kates and the Am. What do you think
Speaker 1: Fernando's statue? Next in line?
Speaker 5: Fernando, what he what he means to California?
Speaker 3: What he means?
Speaker 5: I mean, we talked about Steve Sacks. Everybody loves Steve Sacks.
Speaker 5: Part of that's because you think of Fernando when you
Speaker 5: think of Steve Sax. You know Gibby, We love Gibby.
Speaker 5: But that's when we used to go to the Dodger games.
Speaker 5: My dad he's taking the Dodger games when I was little.
Speaker 5: You know, you know, the Latino community. The father's coming
Speaker 5: home from work, you know, taking you to a game
Speaker 5: in their construction boots and stuff like that. That's what
Speaker 5: you would see back in those days. Because no one
Speaker 5: was going to miss a Fernando game. It was just
Speaker 5: it was just something something different. Man. You know, He's
Speaker 5: like you guys had mentioned. He's on the same level
Speaker 5: as Kobe, without a doubt, maybe even more, maybe even
Speaker 5: more than that. I mean, that's what that got meant
Speaker 5: to us then, so no doubt. It's got to be Fernando.
Speaker 1: Robert appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Robert.
Speaker 1: Talk there Saxy. It's in nice and and it's just
Speaker 1: it give me a spot where people gather and it's
Speaker 1: a meeting spot, like you mentioned, meet at the Fernando
Speaker 1: statue and me would mean so much to the community.
Speaker 1: But it also be I think, sort of like a
Speaker 1: flag in the ground kind of a this is a
Speaker 1: monument right here for the Mexican American community and this
Speaker 1: is this is all statue.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad that the Dodgers are really reaching out
Speaker 4: and going to do this and really what they've done
Speaker 4: in centerfield because that was just a parking lot before
Speaker 4: and now it is such a gathering place. It's so
Speaker 4: so great for for all everybody. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 4: it's great for the Dodgers too, but it's really great
Speaker 4: for the fan base.
Speaker 1: They love it.
Speaker 4: Every time I see people out there, they are just
Speaker 4: absolutely loving it. The food out there, the drink, the gathering,
Speaker 4: you know, all the memberbilia that you can get in
Speaker 4: the stores. It's it's awesome. That's a fantastic thing they're doing.
Speaker 4: It's a great and mazzy statues is gonna be just amazing.
Speaker 4: It'll be like a wonderland out there. Oh, it's gonna
Speaker 4: be awesome. It's gonna be it's gonna be a spot
Speaker 4: where people are gonna want to go to. Coming from
Speaker 4: their Dodgers Datium for the first time, seeing the view
Speaker 4: from the top deck, going down, seeing the field level view,
Speaker 4: and then going out to center field and seeing the
Speaker 4: history of all the Dodger greats from the rookies of
Speaker 4: the years, the MVPs, the Cy Young Award winners, and
Speaker 4: seeing the statues out there, two of them now and
Speaker 4: again the third one should be Fernando eight six ninety
Speaker 4: seven to two five seventy. Coming up, we're gonna hear
Speaker 4: from Charlie Steiner. Charlie Steiner, longtime Dodger radio voice for
Speaker 4: the last twenty years, stepped away from calling games this year.
Speaker 4: Charlie Steiner battling cancer now in remission, and that is
Speaker 4: certainly great news. We'll hear from Charlie Steiner as he
Speaker 4: sits down with David Vassa. When we come back, it's
Speaker 4: Saxon Kate's in the Am on this Thursday morning, leading
Speaker 4: you up to Game one tomorrow the World Series Dodgers
Speaker 4: Yankees right here on NFI seventy ICE Sports. Saxon Kate's
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Speaker 4: local to nine o'clock this morning. Coming up eight o'clock,
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Speaker 1: Also, get back to your phone calls. Fernando Valenzuela. It
Speaker 1: just makes sense. The third statue in the center field
Speaker 1: plaza needs to be number thirty four for El Toro
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzuela eight six six ninety seven two five seventy Saxy.
Speaker 1: Though this year we have not had Charlie Steiner on
Speaker 1: the radio calls twenty years as a radio voice of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. He was out all year and we find
Speaker 1: out that he was in a battle and he is
Speaker 1: now in remission. But he was diagnosed last January with
Speaker 1: MELLMA blood cancer. He had severe back issues. It has
Speaker 1: been a fight for Charlie Steiner for the last ten
Speaker 1: month plus and he has announced that he is now
Speaker 1: in remission. That is awsin goes yeah, I thank god. Indeed,
Speaker 1: remission is a beautiful word, he said talking to Bill
Speaker 1: Plashki La Times. In fact, Charlie Steiner just yesterday sat
Speaker 1: down with our own David Veasse. Thanks guys.
Speaker 6: We are jorin right now by a man that has
Speaker 6: the unique distinction, along with only Red Barber, to call
Speaker 6: all play by play for both the Yankees and the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: And that's our very own Charlie Steiner, who is in
Speaker 6: his twentieth season with the Los Angeles Dodgers as they
Speaker 6: embark on this World Series against the New York Yankees. Charlie,
Speaker 6: great to share you with the fans. Hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3: Come along, David, coming along.
Speaker 6: I know you're looking at fondness of this World Series matchup.
Speaker 6: Like I mentioned, hard to believe you and the great
Speaker 6: Red Barber are the only two broadcasters to call games
Speaker 6: for both the Yankees and Dodgers. How excited are you
Speaker 6: for this World Series.
Speaker 3: Well, let me say first, that is the height of
Speaker 3: coincidence that Red Barber and I are mentioned in the
Speaker 3: same sentence. But you know, it just happened to work
Speaker 3: out that way. As a kid growing up in New York,
Speaker 3: I was a Brooklyn Dodger fan. Then the Dodgers left
Speaker 3: in fifty seven. Then I became a Yankee fan because
Speaker 3: the Dodgers were gone. Upshot of it is and was.
Speaker 3: I've been incredibly fortunate to have worked for two iconic franchises,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers in Brooklyn and of course in Los Angeles
Speaker 3: and the Yankees, and so to have broadcast for those teams,
Speaker 3: to spend time with the players that I have over
Speaker 3: the years, and here they are playing in the World Series.
Speaker 3: It's it's wonderful. I'm really looking forward to the next
Speaker 3: week or so.
Speaker 6: Charlie, it's been forty three years since the Dodgers and
Speaker 6: Yankees played in the World Series. You covered those World
Speaker 6: Series not only eighty one, but seventy seven and seventy eight.
Speaker 6: Can you just describe the temperature of those matchups back then?
Speaker 3: Well, here to a little personal aside that kind of
Speaker 3: involves you and Moe and me in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 3: I was out here covering the World Series where the
Speaker 3: then RKO Radio network, and I would go downstairs as
Speaker 3: you do after a game and interview the players and
Speaker 3: come back with the sound bites and so on. That
Speaker 3: was the first time I met Rick Monday. What did
Speaker 3: I know from Rick Monday? He was the center fielder
Speaker 3: played for the Cubs, now with the Dodgers, and he has,
Speaker 3: as everybody knows, that wonderful voice. And when the interview
Speaker 3: was over, I went back and fed the tape as
Speaker 3: we often do, and I said to the folks back
Speaker 3: in New York, I just finished talking to this guy,
Speaker 3: Rick Monday. He's got the voice, he's got a presence.
Speaker 3: Someday if he wants to get on the air, he can,
Speaker 3: he will, and he'll be great. What did I know
Speaker 3: all those years later and now the last twenty that
Speaker 3: Rick and I would work together. So eighty one was
Speaker 3: a big deal. Eighty one was also the year that
Speaker 3: we were introduced to Fernando, So all of that has
Speaker 3: come full circle for me. And then sadly, with the
Speaker 3: news that we've received in the last day or two,
Speaker 3: it's we're reminded about a baseball means to us, what
Speaker 3: the individuals within the games mean to us. So I've
Speaker 3: thought about that a lot in the last couple of days.
Speaker 6: Obviously, Fernando meant so much to Los Angeles in the
Speaker 6: baseball world, Charlie, but I felt like our interactions with
Speaker 6: him were similar in some ways but definitely unique. Up
Speaker 6: in the broadcast booth and in the press box. What
Speaker 6: stories can you share about Fernando the broadcaster and how
Speaker 6: he used to tease you and you used to tease him.
Speaker 6: I'll always remember those times.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, and that's what it was he teased.
Speaker 3: He's got such a natural sense of humor. And you know,
Speaker 3: he knew Rick as a teammate, he knew me as
Speaker 3: one who covered him forty something years ago, So the
Speaker 3: teasing was quite from the heart. Neither of us or
Speaker 3: none of us had an axe to grind, and so
Speaker 3: it was always fun. You know. We would stop into
Speaker 3: the Spanish booth immediately to the left of Valles, where
Speaker 3: Fernando would come into our booth, and you know, he
Speaker 3: wouldn't say much, but when he said it, it was funny.
Speaker 3: He had a great natural sense of humor. He was
Speaker 3: a guy that when we were on the road, would
Speaker 3: go to lunch with Fernando quite a bit. I was
Speaker 3: certainly honored when we retired his number to have hosted
Speaker 3: that ceremony. So he was very special to us. Above
Speaker 3: and beyond Fernando being Fernando, he was just a good
Speaker 3: guy with a caustic sense of humor. That know Mo
Speaker 3: again as an old teammate, and May is one who
Speaker 3: covered him a long, long time ago. It's part of
Speaker 3: the family.
Speaker 6: Fernando is not a guy that took himself too seriously.
Speaker 6: He left it on the field. He did not want
Speaker 6: to talk about his playing days that often. But can
Speaker 6: you describe being on the field with him last year
Speaker 6: when they retired number thirty four, could you get a
Speaker 6: sense that he was a little bit more emotional than
Speaker 6: what the daily interactions were with him.
Speaker 3: He was, and I think there are a couple of reasons.
Speaker 3: One above and beyond everything else. He was a great player.
Speaker 3: He was very comfortable in his setting on the mound,
Speaker 3: his foot on the slab, that's where he was most comfortable.
Speaker 3: And now all of a sudden he is being asked
Speaker 3: to speak about the stuff that he really didn't like
Speaker 3: speaking about. He just liked performing, and boy did he perform. Well.
Speaker 3: It was one of those where, yeah, he was a
Speaker 3: little out of a little out of sorts. Give him
Speaker 3: a ball, you know, let him look skyward, let him
Speaker 3: throw with his left arm, and there he was comfortable.
Speaker 3: Talking about it, not so much.
Speaker 6: Charlie Steiner is joining us here on SAX and Kate's
Speaker 6: in the Morning. And Charlie, obviously you know the history
Speaker 6: of this Dodgers and Yankees rivalry. Fernando one of the
Speaker 6: characters forever, will be part of it for what he
Speaker 6: did in nineteen eighty one. But where do you put
Speaker 6: Judge Sodo, stanton Otani, Freeman Betts. Does it stack up
Speaker 6: to the Duke and Roy and Whitey and Mickey? Are
Speaker 6: these Is this the new chapter? Will they go down
Speaker 6: in history as part of this great rivalry history?
Speaker 3: I guess the answer is I think so, and we
Speaker 3: will find out. But currently they are the biggest stars
Speaker 3: in the game. And that's what makes this particular World
Speaker 3: series so unique to me. In recent years, when there's
Speaker 3: been a World Series, inevitably there was one team that
Speaker 3: came in and they were the team to win, and
Speaker 3: then you have these other teams who kind of like
Speaker 3: backdoor their way in. They parallel park into the World Series,
Speaker 3: as Arizona did last year. From the beginning of this season,
Speaker 3: go back to February and March, most baseball fans were
Speaker 3: hoping for and many baseball reporters and those who covered
Speaker 3: just thought, well, these are the two best teams. They're
Speaker 3: gonna be in the World Series. How often do you
Speaker 3: hear that and see that, and it never happens, But
Speaker 3: this World Series, these are the two best teams in
Speaker 3: baseball this year. I think it's great with great, big stars.
Speaker 6: How badly does the game of baseball need this World
Speaker 6: Series matchup?
Speaker 3: Charlie, Oh, I think they like it needed. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's what happens at the end of a season. But
Speaker 3: you've got two teams who are great, two teams that
Speaker 3: have a history, two teams with a bevy of stars.
Speaker 3: I don't know that need is the right word. It
Speaker 3: sure is nice to have, Charlie.
Speaker 6: It's nice to have your voice back on a five seventy.
Speaker 6: We're all thinking about you, and we know you're gonna
Speaker 6: come back stronger and better than ever for year twenty
Speaker 6: one next year, and obviously you'll have a front row
Speaker 6: seat wherever you may be watching this World Series.
Speaker 3: Thank you, David. That's exactly where I'm gonna be. Love it.
Speaker 6: Charlie Steiner, one of the best ever to do it,
Speaker 6: Tim Steve Sacks, we'll send it back to you.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks a lot of TV. Thank you, Charlie.
Speaker 1: Great news from Charlie Steiner. His melonoma blood cancer in remission.
Speaker 1: That's why he's been gone all season long, battling in
Speaker 1: that and certainly great news. Great to have best, Yeah,
Speaker 1: awesome to have Charlie back here his voice, and he'll
Speaker 1: be back full time coming up in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: But certainly this twenty twenty four run a lot of
Speaker 1: fun for Charlie having called Yankees games and Dodgers games
Speaker 1: now for the last twenty seasons. All right, one hour down,
Speaker 1: two to go, eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two,
Speaker 1: five seventy. We'll check in with David bad say again.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Steve Jaeger coming up in the eight
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