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Speaker 2: We are live at Corsfield after the fireworks show here
Speaker 2: on a Friday night has concluded. The Dodger offense provided
Speaker 2: all the fireworks for these fans at Corsfield that we're
Speaker 2: chanting MVP for Shohei Otani during the Dodgers eleven to
Speaker 2: four win over the Rockies in the first game of
Speaker 2: the final weekend series of the regular season. Phone lines
Speaker 2: are open at eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy. In case you missed it last night, Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman let us know after the NLS clinching game that
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts spent over an hour in the batting cage
Speaker 2: before first pitch, taking close to four hundred swings to
Speaker 2: try to get his swing on track, and Mooki delivered
Speaker 2: with a big two run base hit last night and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers win over the Padres. We will share with
Speaker 2: you my exclusive interview with Mookie Betts about all that
Speaker 2: in about five minutes, So stay where you are, but
Speaker 2: we have to really celebrate where the Dodgers are and
Speaker 2: where sho Hey o'tani is. The Dodgers, with the win,
Speaker 2: now have a two game lead in the lost column
Speaker 2: over the Phillies in the National League and all of
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. The Dodgers and Phillies have the two
Speaker 2: best records in Major League Baseball, not to mention in
Speaker 2: the National League. So there's only two more games to go.
Speaker 2: For the Dodgers to fall from the number one seed.
Speaker 2: They would have to lose these next two games to
Speaker 2: the Rockies, and after tonight that seems like kind of
Speaker 2: a long shot, and the Phillies would have to win
Speaker 2: the next two games. The Phillies were beat by the
Speaker 2: lowly Washington Nationals, so right now the Dodgers have a
Speaker 2: two game lead on the Phillies for the best record
Speaker 2: in the National League. And the reason why I say
Speaker 2: the Dodgers need to win at least one of the
Speaker 2: next two to secure the best record in Baseball and
Speaker 2: home field advantage all through the World Series is because
Speaker 2: the Phillies own the season series over the Dodgers, so
Speaker 2: if on Sunday they had the same record, it would
Speaker 2: be the Dodgers being the number two seed while the
Speaker 2: Phillies being the top seed in the National League. In
Speaker 2: all of Major League Baseball right now, as it stands,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers would play the winner of a best out
Speaker 2: of three wildcard series between yes, the San Diego Padres
Speaker 2: and the New York Mets, who just lost their third baseman,
Speaker 2: their star third basemen who left the game with the
Speaker 2: back injury, Francisco Alva. And right now, the way it stands,
Speaker 2: the Phillies would play the winner of the Diamondbacks and
Speaker 2: Brewers series. So that's the way it stands right now.
Speaker 2: If all remains the same, that's the way it would
Speaker 2: stack up. More than likely the Dodgers facing the winner
Speaker 2: of a Padres Mets series, and that is going to
Speaker 2: be one of the most anticipated series in Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball if it does come to fruition. A rematch of
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two nlds and Francisco Alvarez helped off
Speaker 2: the field in a game that the Mets lost tonight,
Speaker 2: So a disappointing night for the Metropolitan So we'll see
Speaker 2: where all that goes. Because it's the Diamondbacks, it's the Mets,
Speaker 2: it's the Braves, all vying for the final two spots
Speaker 2: in the National League playoff. Picture show hey. Otani is
Speaker 2: not only trying to keep things rolling for him himself
Speaker 2: as he heads into his first ever playoffs, but he
Speaker 2: is competing for the triple Crown in the National League.
Speaker 2: After four hits tonight, Otani is just four points behind
Speaker 2: Luisa Rise of the San Diego Padres for the batting title.
Speaker 2: He's one point ahead of Marcelo Zuna of the Braves. Otani,
Speaker 2: after going four to five tonight, has a three to
Speaker 2: zero nine batting average. He has one hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: four hits on the season, which is six shy of
Speaker 2: his first ever two hundred hits season. The most hits
Speaker 2: Otani has ever had in one season was one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty back in twenty twenty two. Otani leads the
Speaker 2: National League in homers. He leads the National League in RBIs.
Speaker 2: He is trying to become the first Dodger ever to
Speaker 2: win a triple crown and the first Japanese born player
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball to win the triple crown. Otani
Speaker 2: twenty six hours. In his last twelve games, he has
Speaker 2: been a video game like player It really is unbelievable
Speaker 2: to watch. And you know, even more impressive than his
Speaker 2: home runs was a ball he hit in the eighth
Speaker 2: inning opposite field and went to the left center field
Speaker 2: wall here at Corsefield. But it wasn't hit in the air.
Speaker 2: He hit a rocket through the infield that was hit
Speaker 2: so hard it split the outfielders for a double, a
Speaker 2: stand up double in the eighth inning. This guy is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Rockies tonight eleven to four.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Irwindale. Mike, You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: Live from Denver. How you doing, Mike, I'm good, David.
Speaker 3: Just a quick question, which players are on the bubble
Speaker 3: to not make the playoff ross Well.
Speaker 2: That's a great question. It depends on who the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to face in the NLDS. They could choose
Speaker 2: to carry one less pitcher and go with an extra
Speaker 2: position player like they have done in certain nlds is before.
Speaker 2: But as far as position players goes, it feels like
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermeier, Chris Taylor, and Andy pa haz are all
Speaker 2: fighting for two spots with three guys. As far as
Speaker 2: the bullpen goes, it feels like the Dodgers don't have
Speaker 2: really a lot of choices, So it feels like it's
Speaker 2: pretty set in the bullpen with Joe Kelly, Daniel Hudson
Speaker 2: and the young men that we saw again tonight Edgardo
Speaker 2: and Riquez being part of the Dodger bullpen at least
Speaker 2: in the NLDS.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Remember you can change your roster every round. Yeah, yep,
Speaker 2: I know that Henriquez.
Speaker 1: He looks really good from one way to the Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball and one Cheason.
Speaker 5: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. He's done a magnificent job. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the phone call, Mike, appreciate it. When you're talking
Speaker 2: about the star pitchers, Dave Roberts, let us in on
Speaker 2: who that's going to be, in no particular order, it
Speaker 2: is going to be Landon, Nack, Yoshi Yama, Moto, Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 2: and Walker Buehler. What I can tell you is in
Speaker 2: the best of five series, Game three is the most
Speaker 2: pivotal game in a best of five series because that
Speaker 2: can go any different ways, as we have seen in
Speaker 2: the last two years. Right, you get the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: going to play the first two games at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Let's say for some reason they split those two games,
Speaker 2: so now you're playing your first game on the road,
Speaker 2: and whoever wins Game three is in control of winning
Speaker 2: the series. So I personally believe Yoshi Yamamoto is going
Speaker 2: to be the Game three starter for the Dodgers, while
Speaker 2: they may go with Jack Flaherty as the Game one starter.
Speaker 2: And we all know how good Walker Bueller is at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium and we saw it last night, so it
Speaker 2: kind of feels like Bueller and Jack Flaherty would be
Speaker 2: the first two pitchers in a series. Not to mention, Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: even if he starts Game one or Game two, cannot
Speaker 2: come back to pitch a possible Game four or Game
Speaker 2: five with how many days off he needs in between starts.
Speaker 2: So for all those reasons, I believe Yamamoto will be
Speaker 2: the Game three starter. Now where does that leave Clayton Kershaw, Well,
Speaker 2: it may leave him on the outside looking in, and
Speaker 2: it's a long shot right now for him to be
Speaker 2: the be part of the NLDS roster. I feel like
Speaker 2: there's a great shot at him being part of the
Speaker 2: NLCS roster, but there is now seven days to go
Speaker 2: before Game one of the NLDS. Unless his left big
Speaker 2: toe makes a big time improvement between now and then,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure the Dodgers can allow Kershaw to be
Speaker 2: on the rosters. So I kind of feel like he's
Speaker 2: going to have to be patient and keep his fingers
Speaker 2: crossed for the NLCS. And in case he missed it,
Speaker 2: his good buddy Brad Paisley released his latest song, The
Speaker 2: Truck Still Works, and Brad told me he believes Clayton
Speaker 2: is the truck. So here is part of Brad Paisley's
Speaker 2: newest released song. And a big Dodger Talk fan and
Speaker 2: a close friend of Clayton Kershaw, it feels like he
Speaker 2: wrote this song for Kershaw to hang in there even
Speaker 2: though the truck is still in the garage because of
Speaker 2: the left big toe. Don't give it up. When we
Speaker 2: continue here on Dodger Talk, we will get to your
Speaker 2: phone calls and also you will hear my exclusive conversation
Speaker 2: with Mookie Begs a night after he helps the Dodgers
Speaker 2: win another NLS championship. Tonight, the Dodgers beat the Rockies
Speaker 2: eleven to four. But hey, the Kershaw truck still works.
Speaker 2: How about little Testra down by the lane. Let it works.
Speaker 6: Let's see if that song and says let's see them
Speaker 6: miles of course, still got that seed.
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Speaker 2: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi. They all pitture
Speaker 2: three two to show, Hey, O'tani, these wings hits a
Speaker 2: drive deep to right field, way back upper deck home
Speaker 2: run show. Hey old Tony with home run number fifty four.
Speaker 7: He's coming in three more.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers add on it's nine to two show.
Speaker 2: Hey Otani is absolutely incredible. He's three for four in
Speaker 2: the game. Otani would finish score for five with four RBIs.
Speaker 2: He is trying to get that triple crown in the
Speaker 2: National League. His batting average at three to zho nine,
Speaker 2: just four points behind the leader and Luis arise. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers defeat the Rockies tonight by a final score of
Speaker 2: eleven to four. They had a few regulars in the
Speaker 2: starting lineup tonight, including Mookie Betts. You will hear my
Speaker 2: conversation with Mookie in just one moment but we want
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Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that last night Freddie Freeman wanted to heap
Speaker 2: praise on Mookie Betts and his work ethic, saying that
Speaker 2: MOOKI spent over an hour in the Dodger batting cage
Speaker 2: before the game, taking to four hundred swings to get
Speaker 2: his swing right. Well, Mookie was able to come up
Speaker 2: with a key to run base hit in the Dodgers
Speaker 2: clinching win over the Padres last night, and I caught
Speaker 2: up with the Dodger right fielder, a two time World
Speaker 2: Series champion, and asked him what led him to put
Speaker 2: in that much time and that many swings before such
Speaker 2: a big game. That really showed a lot about who
Speaker 2: you are. But what made you go in there for
Speaker 2: four hundred swings for an hour?
Speaker 4: Give a edition?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know where this narrative, this is
Speaker 6: like a narrative that people think I don't care or
Speaker 6: some me doing the podcast has something to do with
Speaker 6: me at work.
Speaker 4: I don't understand how.
Speaker 6: They correlate, but I mean it's my job, like flake
Speaker 6: up every morning, want to do this. Of course I
Speaker 6: have to establish a life doing podcasts and other things
Speaker 6: because you don't play this forever, and you know, sometimes
Speaker 6: you got to do both. But man like me going
Speaker 6: in there and take three hundred swings, that means to me.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is just shows me how I want
Speaker 6: to win a world series.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: You know, hey, I don't know if anyone else.
Speaker 2: Did you feel like your swing was that far off?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 6: I felt like it was close, but that was the problem,
Speaker 6: Like it was close, but it wasn't working.
Speaker 4: So I just keep swinging and eventually didn't.
Speaker 6: Always work like that would work out like that where
Speaker 6: you figure something out.
Speaker 4: But I mean it's better than not doing anything.
Speaker 2: Can they keep it real with you? Did you feel
Speaker 2: like you heard stuff that people were upset if you
Speaker 2: interviewing tattoos?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean yeah everybody. A lot of fans didn't
Speaker 6: like it. They they got thinking I'm not don't care
Speaker 6: or this, this, that series meant too much to be
Speaker 6: a normal person. I don't understand how that correlates, but
Speaker 6: you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, they didn't matter.
Speaker 6: Like I've been trying to get him for a minute,
Speaker 6: I've been trying to get guys.
Speaker 4: It's not The podcast has nothing to do with the game.
Speaker 4: It's about getting to know the players the game. That's
Speaker 4: the whole point of it.
Speaker 6: Like you, some people may not have ever heard from
Speaker 6: Tatis or know where he's from, or know why he
Speaker 6: does what he does. That's the point of the podcast,
Speaker 6: not that's that's the whole objective of it. And I
Speaker 6: don't understand how me doing that, bettering myself in my
Speaker 6: life and not getting in the way of my job.
Speaker 4: I don't understand why that affects people.
Speaker 6: But I mean, people are gonna always have their opinions
Speaker 6: and they're entitled to it.
Speaker 2: It kind of feels like baseball's behind the other sports,
Speaker 2: and it feels like you're trying to market the.
Speaker 6: Sports exactly other sports do it. It's never a problem.
Speaker 6: So because we've played that, I don't know. I don't know, man,
Speaker 6: I mean, maybe people are stuck in their way.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm I'm trying. I can't. I can't
Speaker 4: stop living my life in trying to better.
Speaker 6: Myself for my life. I mean, I got eight years left, man,
Speaker 6: I don't want to get to the end of this
Speaker 6: and not have explored other avenues of what I want
Speaker 6: to do when I'm forty years old.
Speaker 4: Like forty is young. You have a whole life to
Speaker 4: live in front of you. And I'd be a fool to.
Speaker 6: Lose the platform, you lose what I've created from playing
Speaker 6: the game and just let that kind of go by
Speaker 6: the wayside.
Speaker 4: Like you know, I just my opinion, but you know,
Speaker 4: it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you interviewing Tatis affected you coming
Speaker 2: up with a big hit last night.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't. It didn't.
Speaker 6: That's why I'm trying to figure out how to interview,
Speaker 6: you know, But it is what it is.
Speaker 4: You know, people are gonna think and say and do
Speaker 4: whatever they want.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mikey to serve there he is. Mookie Bets, addressing
Speaker 2: the criticism that he got he heard about interviewing Fernando
Speaker 2: Tatists Junior after the first game of that series on
Speaker 2: the podcast that he's been doing for two years, interviewing
Speaker 2: players from other teams that the Dodgers are playing, and look,
Speaker 2: I can relate to Mookie Bets. I know how hard
Speaker 2: it is to get a superstar like Fernando Tatists Junior
Speaker 2: to do a podcast or a radio show or even
Speaker 2: a TV show. I'm also with Mookie Bets that baseball
Speaker 2: needs to do a better job of showing the personalities
Speaker 2: of these players. I mean, I'm a big fan of
Speaker 2: the Netflix series Receiver, where they highlight last season Devonte Adams,
Speaker 2: a mon Saint Brown, Justin Jefferson. I'm sure you've seen it.
Speaker 2: Baseball would help itself if they did more things like that.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that every player needs to do
Speaker 2: a podcast, But all I'm saying is Mookie Betts has
Speaker 2: a vision for his career and his brand, and it's
Speaker 2: not going to affect him playing, as evident by the
Speaker 2: way he played last night. Mookie Betts interviewing Fernando Tattis
Speaker 2: Junior has nothing to do with Mookie Betts playing the
Speaker 2: game that night. Because Mookie Betts isn't late for the games.
Speaker 2: He gets here on time. It's not like he's late
Speaker 2: for betting practice or stretch He's here when he needs
Speaker 2: to be, and he puts in the work when he's here,
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure why he got so much much
Speaker 2: criticism from you. And the reason why I know he
Speaker 2: got a lot of criticism is because I had fans
Speaker 2: sending me on Instagram a clip of Mooki and Fernando
Speaker 2: Tattist Junior talking about the game ending triple play the
Speaker 2: night before. Now, don't you want to hear it like
Speaker 2: you do in NFL films or NBA productions, NBA entertainment.
Speaker 2: What Fernando tattists Junior and what Mooki bets were thinking
Speaker 2: when the bunt was not laid down and instead a
Speaker 2: game ending triple play occurred. I don't know about you,
Speaker 2: but I love hearing that type of stuff and knowing
Speaker 2: what those guys in a relaxed setting, in an intimate
Speaker 2: setting like Mooki has really think about plays like that.
Speaker 2: So you know, I was not anticipating Mooki going in
Speaker 2: that direction when I asked him about why he put
Speaker 2: in so much time before yesterday's game, But he went
Speaker 2: there and obviously wanted to get some things off his
Speaker 2: chest and set the record straight with you. And that's
Speaker 2: why he came to me. Eight six six nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Rockies tonight, eleven to four. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: the phones. What did you think about what MOOKI had
Speaker 2: to respond with after the criticism he received for just
Speaker 2: talking to Fernando Tatist Junior well before hours before first
Speaker 2: pitch between the Dodgers and Padres. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Roland Heights. Paul, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Paul?
Speaker 7: Hey, good? Thank you, Dave. I was gonna talk about
Speaker 7: the trades that the inter freedom made. But yeah, Mookie's
Speaker 7: very smart, intellectual. I mean, it's beautiful to hear him speak.
Speaker 2: And do you feel a little bit better hearing his
Speaker 2: reasoning on all of that criticism he got. I feel
Speaker 2: like he really I think if I'm a guy out
Speaker 2: there in LA that was upset with him after hearing
Speaker 2: his point of view, how can you be upset with him?
Speaker 7: You can't. You can't because I I know it's not
Speaker 7: the same I play on Sunday League Baseball. I work
Speaker 7: as a male man. But thank you. I did go
Speaker 7: three for three last game, but that's beyond the subject.
Speaker 2: Podcast before the game.
Speaker 7: No, I'm not as intellectual as Mookie Bets. Obviously I
Speaker 7: did go to college, but no, but definitely he It
Speaker 7: is good to hear him speak to these other players
Speaker 7: and to really like Rob Maffort has really dropped the
Speaker 7: ball and getting these guys, you know, more involved in
Speaker 7: I think we would get a lot more fans. You know,
Speaker 7: if if.
Speaker 2: Everybody Baseball and Netflix teamed up with all MAHA productions
Speaker 2: to have cameras follow Mookie Bets, Aaron Judge and pick
Speaker 2: whoever else, maybe you know a journeyman type player and
Speaker 2: make a series similar to Receiver and Quarterback on Netflix
Speaker 2: right now, So Mookie's trying to do all he can
Speaker 2: to promote the game of baseball by showing the real
Speaker 2: personalities of these players. I agree, Yeah, I don't have
Speaker 2: any issues with it. Thanks for the phone call, Paul,
Speaker 2: And yes, the trades Andrew Freeman made at the trade deadline,
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty, Michael Kopek, and Tommy Edmond all in the
Speaker 2: same deal. Edmund and Kopek in the same deal in
Speaker 2: a three way trade certainly paid off huge for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I don't believe the Dodgers win the NL West without
Speaker 2: any one of those three players. They needed all three.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Aliso Via. Ho, Gil, what did
Speaker 2: you think about what Mookie Bets had to say?
Speaker 7: Hey, again, I think the fans are upset because we
Speaker 7: are we're in a battle. We're in a battle, and
Speaker 7: we are.
Speaker 3: Not spoiled to talk to the enemy after the season
Speaker 3: is over.
Speaker 7: Yes, there's no issue. That's what most of the fans
Speaker 7: are probably mad at.
Speaker 2: I can understand that guilt, but the reality is that
Speaker 2: podcast took place even before noon and the game was
Speaker 2: at seven to ten. Do you believe Mookie Bets talking
Speaker 2: to Fernando Tattis Junior about just what makes him take
Speaker 2: his personality really was going to affect anything. I understand that,
Speaker 2: but come on, you see it now in every sport,
Speaker 2: these guys hugging each other on other teams. That is,
Speaker 2: unfortunately something that is not is not part of the
Speaker 2: culture anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's still after after our series is over today.
Speaker 7: Yeah, go ahead, but not not in the.
Speaker 4: Middle of the series.
Speaker 7: We're fighting.
Speaker 5: We're fighting there.
Speaker 3: We're fighting a war against San Diego, and you don't
Speaker 3: want to you don't know the.
Speaker 2: Diletrics are going to win the NLA. I understand, Gil,
Speaker 2: But if MOOKI did that during a playoff series against
Speaker 2: the Padres, I completely understand your point of view. But
Speaker 2: it was three regular season games. The Padres were a
Speaker 2: huge long shot to beat the Dodgers in the nl West.
Speaker 2: To me, in the regular season, I think it's within bounds.
Speaker 2: If it's the playoffs, it's out of bounds.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, that's what I believe the fans coming from.
Speaker 7: I mean the middle of the middle of the you know.
Speaker 2: I hope, I hope you listened to what Mooky had
Speaker 2: to say and understand that he wasn't trying to upset
Speaker 2: you or any other Dodger fan out there. He did
Speaker 2: not feel like like Chick Curran used to say, no harm,
Speaker 2: no foul. The Dodgers won the last two games of
Speaker 2: the series, so obviously Mooky coming up big last night
Speaker 2: as well and interviewing Tatisse the day before did not
Speaker 2: really affect that. Okay, all right, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: He look, he respects your point of view, and he's
Speaker 2: hoping that you respect his. Let's go out to Harber's
Speaker 2: Greg You're on Dodger Talk. And by the way, this
Speaker 2: was not planned between me and Mookie. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to know what drove him to take four hundred swings
Speaker 2: before a big game last night. And that's the tangent
Speaker 2: he went on because obviously he wanted to get it
Speaker 2: off his chest. Greg in Harbor City, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Greg, I'm doing real good.
Speaker 5: I to know, I'm sure about the Mookie thing. I
Speaker 5: can't even really believe it's an issue. It's just, you know,
Speaker 5: these guys are professionals. We all got families. I think
Speaker 5: maybe back like when the NHL has six teams, everybody
Speaker 5: hated each other. It's a little different. But these guys
Speaker 5: are all professionals, and Mookie's gonna play good and so tatis.
Speaker 5: They should have nothing to do with anything. If you
Speaker 5: ask me, it's a bunch of just social media has
Speaker 5: given a bunch of people a voice that maybe they
Speaker 5: shouldn't have a voice, that they're gonna be bothered by
Speaker 5: something this so minuscule. It just it just bothers me
Speaker 5: that even I don't say anything.
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people were, and I would have
Speaker 2: to say, I agree with you, Greg. It's given a
Speaker 2: lot of people a voice and it feels like it's
Speaker 2: given the vocal minority really some power that in sports
Speaker 2: that really nobody else that I talked to on the
Speaker 2: streets of LA were really upset about Mooki and interviewing
Speaker 2: Fernando Tattis Junior. Thanks for the phone call, Greg, Do
Speaker 2: you want to know where this changed the culture? Free agency?
Speaker 2: When guys stayed on the same team for their entire careers,
Speaker 2: that's where there was a lot more animosity and guys
Speaker 2: really did not fraternize with each other. But once free
Speaker 2: agency became a big thing, not only in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 2: but also in the NBA, that's where guys did not
Speaker 2: stay with one team for their entire careers, and a
Speaker 2: lot of teams were changing. A lot of players were
Speaker 2: changing teams multiple times. So when your teammates for eve
Speaker 2: in just one season, you have a connection with those players.
Speaker 2: So that's why I'm not saying that's the case here
Speaker 2: with Mooki and Tatis, But that's where the culture changed,
Speaker 2: where there is a lot more fraternizing between the lines
Speaker 2: in between plays. That's my opinion. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Long Beach. Mark, You're a Dodger, talk how you doing.
Speaker 3: Mark, you're doing fantastic for someone to say that, I
Speaker 3: don't have any problem with it. I mean, look, you
Speaker 3: Bett has access to people we don't have access too,
Speaker 3: so it's it's refreshing to hear what the other side says.
Speaker 3: But I understand the fans upset because what was Mookie
Speaker 3: Bets in the postseason last year? Like oh for ten
Speaker 3: and then going into right before he had his four
Speaker 3: hundred swings, he was oh for eight. If Luky Betts
Speaker 3: was four for you know, four four eight going into
Speaker 3: the interview, you wouldn't be hearing anything. But at that
Speaker 3: point he was over. And the biggest series of the
Speaker 3: year he's over. Just like the postseason, he was over.
Speaker 3: And I think that's why the fans were upset.
Speaker 2: Great point, Mark, and maybe that's what drove him. It
Speaker 2: sounded like what he just told us. It sounded like
Speaker 2: that drove him to put in the work to maybe
Speaker 2: silence the critics with a good game, and he finally
Speaker 2: came up with a big hit. So everybody around the
Speaker 2: Dodgers was very impressed by a player of Mooki's stature
Speaker 2: to be able to put in that work and deliver
Speaker 2: in a big game. Thanks for the phone call, Mark
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Speaking of Freddy Freeman, who let us in
Speaker 2: on the work that MOOKI put in before the game yesterday,
Speaker 2: Freddie is back in Los Angeles, as is Miguel Rojas. Freeman,
Speaker 2: from what I understand, is still in a walking boot.
Speaker 2: We'll see where things progress. Dave Roberts did not have
Speaker 2: any new information on whether or not the swelling went down.
Speaker 2: Likely tomorrow we may know more about the swelling, and
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if Freeman got an MRI just
Speaker 2: to see what the ligaments look like. And as far
Speaker 2: as Miguel Rojas goes, there was some sort of plan
Speaker 2: where he might have played Sunday if the game mattered,
Speaker 2: but after the Dodgers clinched yesterday, he stayed back in
Speaker 2: LA as well to get treatment on that left groin.
Speaker 2: And Dave Roberts does not see any reason why Rojas
Speaker 2: wouldn't be ready for Game one of the NLDS, which
Speaker 2: will be a week from tomorrow at Dodgers Stadium. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers still have another game to play, Game one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty one as Otani chases two hundred hits,
Speaker 2: chases the Triple Crown and chases sixty stolen bases. Yoshiyamamoto
Speaker 2: will have a final tune up before his first ever
Speaker 2: start in a Major League Baseball playoff game. He's going
Speaker 2: up against Antonio Senzateela Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
Speaker 2: at five o'clock tomorrow, with first pitch at six ' ten.
Speaker 2: I'll do it for us tonight from Corsfield. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin Ee back at our Burbank studios, thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at coors Field, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening. In case you missed any of the show,
Speaker 2: including our exclusive conversation with Mookie Betts. You can find
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Speaker 2: from Denver, the Dodgers defeat the Rockies eleven to four.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your Friday night. We'll talk
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