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Speaker 2: Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger
Speaker 2: pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers,
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Speaker 4: run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
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Speaker 1: It's a matchup everybody wanted, the Los Angeles Dodgers and
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees. Game one of the World Series
Speaker 1: is coming up on Friday night as the Dodgers advance
Speaker 1: beating the New York Mets last night in six games
Speaker 1: of the National League Championship Series. It's Sax and Kates
Speaker 1: in the AM. Here. You're a home of showy Otani
Speaker 1: in the Dodgers AMPI seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us here until nine o'clock this morning. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be here every morning all week long leading up to
Speaker 1: Game one of the National League Championship Series. These two
Speaker 1: teams meeting in the World Series for the first time
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty one. So we will go back and
Speaker 1: check in with members of the nineteen eighty one Dodgers
Speaker 1: and look back at that series in which the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and Yankees battled and the Dodgers prevailing with a World
Speaker 1: Series championship. The Dodgers playing in their twenty second World Series,
Speaker 1: the Yankees played in their forty first World Series. These
Speaker 1: two teams now, well, I've squared off for will be
Speaker 1: the twelfth time head to head in the Fall Classic.
Speaker 1: The Yankees lead the overall series eight to three, but
Speaker 1: the Dodgers advancing to their fourth World Series in eight
Speaker 1: years in Saxy Again, the national narrative is and the
Speaker 1: questioning last night from members of the media to Dodger players, well,
Speaker 1: you guys, you get to play the Yankees? What's that
Speaker 1: gond you like to play the New York Yankee? What's
Speaker 1: it gonna be like to play Wan Soto, play Aaron Judge?
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to about playing the Yankees? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: excuse me. The Yankees haven't been to the World Series
Speaker 1: since two thousand and nine. This is the fourth trip
Speaker 1: in the last eight years, with a good majority of
Speaker 1: this Dodger team being on these Dodger runs the last eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten years. So it should be reversed. It should be
Speaker 1: asking the Yankee players what to like to go out
Speaker 1: to LA and face the Dodgers. What's it gonna be
Speaker 1: like to go out and face Jack Felerity. What's it
Speaker 1: gonna be like to face the dogs the bullpen. That's
Speaker 1: what the questioning should be.
Speaker 5: Yes, And remember, I want to tell them that the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have already beaten the Padres, all right, maybe the
Speaker 5: second best team in all the playoffs next to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I believe it.
Speaker 5: I mean that Padre team was stacked, right, and they
Speaker 5: went through those guys. And this is not just national coverage,
Speaker 5: this is global coverage of the whole world. You think
Speaker 5: about New York and the proximity to Europe, okay, not far.
Speaker 5: I mean you're talking about what five hour flight, six
Speaker 5: hour flight, So the Yankees have probably got a little
Speaker 5: bit more panache maybe over there because of just the
Speaker 5: proximity to New York. And so that's kind of the team.
Speaker 5: You come out west and you go more west. Okay,
Speaker 5: you got Japan, right, and then you've got a two
Speaker 5: players on this team with Shohei o Tani and Yamamoto.
Speaker 5: So those guys kind of bring those connections in. So
Speaker 5: what you're talking about now is a global interest in
Speaker 5: this game, and it's gonna be huge. This This might
Speaker 5: be you know, with the transfer of information today and
Speaker 5: the way you know, social media is and whatnot, and
Speaker 5: Baseball's outreach. I mean, this could be the biggest and
Speaker 5: most prolific World Series ever, and it rightfully will be.
Speaker 5: I one percent agree. I think the stage has never
Speaker 5: been bigger for Major League Baseball in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: And you put the Dodgers and yankeeses against each other,
Speaker 5: and you put Judge and Soto and standing against Yamamoto
Speaker 5: and Mookie Bett and Freddie Freeman and oh yes, some
Speaker 5: guy named shoe Hey Otani who happens to be the
Speaker 5: goat and happens to be the biggest name on the planet.
Speaker 5: I mean, this, this is gonna be unbelievable. Well, we
Speaker 5: told you about it last night. What a celebration it was.
Speaker 5: In the Dodgers' clubhouse and our own David Vase, the
Speaker 5: best of the best, gets the best.
Speaker 1: Information on and off the field. He's got the respect
Speaker 1: of these guys in that Dodger clubhouse for what he
Speaker 1: does and what he brings to Dodger fans as the
Speaker 1: communicator of Dodger information, host to Dodger Talk. You hear
Speaker 1: him all over the station. Last night he was talking
Speaker 1: to everybody in that Dodger clubhouse. You've heard a lot
Speaker 1: of the interviews that Dave did last night right here
Speaker 1: this morning with Saxon Kates in the AM. But last
Speaker 1: night something know, very organic happened and he was talking
Speaker 1: and ended up talking to Brent Honeywell Junior and Max
Speaker 1: Munsey and the interview has since gone really viral and
Speaker 1: a lot of people just love the honest from both
Speaker 1: of these guys from the Dodgers. Here it is last night,
Speaker 1: postgame in the clubhouse, our own David Vasse with Max
Speaker 1: Munsey and Brent Honeywell Jr.
Speaker 6: Hey, Honeywell's got that turtleneck gone.
Speaker 1: It's all soaked with champagne. Brent Honeywell, how does this feel?
Speaker 2: Win?
Speaker 1: Is fun man?
Speaker 7: Winning his best field in the world, especially when you're
Speaker 7: at the highest.
Speaker 8: Level because.
Speaker 1: Nobody else there's just two teams.
Speaker 7: Less the best, best world stage. I wanted it my
Speaker 7: whole entire life, ever since I was a little kid
Speaker 7: I've been I wanted my whole life.
Speaker 6: How does it feel to be such a big part
Speaker 6: of this Bullpen?
Speaker 1: I can't do it without him down there. I could
Speaker 1: have done it without them. How about this guy, Max Munsey?
Speaker 1: What would you do without Max Munsey?
Speaker 8: Here?
Speaker 7: You're here in Munsey, this dude a few times?
Speaker 9: Yes, all right?
Speaker 10: Good?
Speaker 1: Just making sure you can drive about.
Speaker 6: Right now, David, I feel like I'm a got more
Speaker 6: champagne and beer than you.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 10: Hey, no story for you, right?
Speaker 11: This guy threw was.
Speaker 1: It four innings or two dirts?
Speaker 8: Or two dirts?
Speaker 10: For us in New York?
Speaker 8: He came out of the game.
Speaker 1: What what did I tell you? He said, I want
Speaker 1: this game six?
Speaker 8: And you were right.
Speaker 1: How much does Brent Honeywell mean to this team? Just
Speaker 1: everything he brings. That's a dog. That's a dog.
Speaker 6: Our whole Bullpen's dogs. But this guy put him in
Speaker 6: a musition. Hey, you need two outs, he's got you.
Speaker 6: You need three innings, he's got you. This guy who cares, Hey,
Speaker 6: you need someone to throw LIVEVP in San Diego.
Speaker 1: He's got you this today.
Speaker 6: This guy might have gotten Moovie Bets right because he
Speaker 6: threw him LIVEVP.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you.
Speaker 8: Guys do that.
Speaker 12: He threw VP because he wasn't He wasn't active at.
Speaker 1: The time he threw LIVP. Rookie Betts started going off.
Speaker 11: Did you throw him a screwball?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 7: I fed him down the middle and said, cract, that's
Speaker 7: the ballpark.
Speaker 3: That's what I said.
Speaker 7: I told all three of them, I'm throwing it down
Speaker 7: the middle.
Speaker 5: You know it's hit it as far as you can.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Brent Honeywell might be the under copper MVD of this team.
Speaker 1: You never know.
Speaker 10: You never know.
Speaker 1: This guy's a dog. He's one of the heart beats
Speaker 1: of this team. It doesn't get stated enough. He doesn't
Speaker 1: get enough credit. This dude's amazing in him on the bus,
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, in the bullpen. This dude's amazing. Lexie,
Speaker 1: What does this team mean to you?
Speaker 6: As far as going back to the World Series.
Speaker 1: You were here in eighteen, you want it in twenty.
Speaker 1: How bad do you want to ring for these guys?
Speaker 1: And how bad do you want to break this? This
Speaker 1: is one of the closest groups that I've ever been
Speaker 1: to Bardo.
Speaker 6: Man, you know, we had to get some work to
Speaker 6: get here, but it's been amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is probably the closest keep.
Speaker 6: I've had since twenty And you know when you talking
Speaker 6: about twenty twenty, when you're stuck in a hotel with
Speaker 6: everybody for forty five days, yeah, you're gonna get close.
Speaker 6: We're finding a way to do that while not being
Speaker 6: stuck together.
Speaker 8: And this goes.
Speaker 6: Back to you know, all the way back in Atlanta,
Speaker 6: we had a team meeting.
Speaker 1: Tyler Glastan got told.
Speaker 6: That he couldn't pitch anymore. That was a real kick
Speaker 6: in the gut. But we had a team meeting.
Speaker 1: We said, hey, guys, look around.
Speaker 6: We have all stars, we have Hall of Famers, we
Speaker 6: have guys making a lot of money.
Speaker 1: In this clubhouse. We can still do this. And we
Speaker 1: had to get everybody to believe in that. And our
Speaker 1: season turned right there. And then we had five days
Speaker 1: off and we've.
Speaker 8: Talked about that.
Speaker 3: The last two years.
Speaker 6: We've had five days off, right, we didn't know how
Speaker 6: to handle that, and coming into this year.
Speaker 1: You know, we tried multiple things, right, they let.
Speaker 6: Fans into the stadium for a city game. We're trying
Speaker 6: to make it a real situation. And this year us
Speaker 6: as players, we went to the front office and said, hey,
Speaker 6: this is what we're doing, and we told.
Speaker 10: Them what we want to do.
Speaker 6: And everyone stresses out about having the five days off,
Speaker 6: and we treated it as a.
Speaker 1: Reward, because it is a reward.
Speaker 6: You grind for eight months, going back to February spring training,
Speaker 6: this is in this is the reward.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: We played the best of the bath and we said, hey,
Speaker 6: we earned the number one seed.
Speaker 1: It's every ward. You get five days off as ever reward.
Speaker 1: So we wanted to treat those award. We brought into
Speaker 1: I Doo. We had unbelievable catering.
Speaker 12: We had fun, We had fool table thing, bok tables.
Speaker 1: Papa shots. We had a really good time. We were
Speaker 1: here together as a group, were for eight hours a.
Speaker 6: Day, and you know in the past we were here
Speaker 6: for two three hours a day. We tried to make
Speaker 6: it as serious as possible.
Speaker 1: This year, Rena said, no, we're here together. Boys.
Speaker 12: I am not questioning you as a father, you as
Speaker 12: a husband, you as a boyfriend, whatever, but give me
Speaker 12: three weeks.
Speaker 1: I need three weeks out of you to be with
Speaker 1: the boys. We're gonna cline through this together for.
Speaker 6: Three weeks, and then you can be the best husband
Speaker 6: and father you can you've ever been.
Speaker 1: But I need three weeks out of you.
Speaker 12: So for eight hours a day and those five days off,
Speaker 12: we were here together. I'm just hanging out, have your fun,
Speaker 12: having some food, talking about what we're gonna do, get
Speaker 12: a picture, watching watching baseball.
Speaker 1: We were just here for eight hours a day being boys,
Speaker 1: and I really think that's translated into when we're.
Speaker 8: At now.
Speaker 1: Well said, I think in New York, no three of
Speaker 1: us should share a room.
Speaker 7: What I think all three of us we should hang out,
Speaker 7: spend quality time in New York when the.
Speaker 1: Series goes there, David, I can't think of anything worse.
Speaker 1: Worse because I got your shower with my dad.
Speaker 9: That's a bolt.
Speaker 1: I'll take that out of maybe unbelievable candid stuff from
Speaker 1: Max Munsey and Brentney.
Speaker 5: My tail off. I mean, it's beautiful, that's you know
Speaker 5: what I can't. I'm sitting here listening to this and
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm twenty eight years old again, going
Speaker 5: against the Olga. That's the same kind of stop that
Speaker 5: comes out of the guys today. It's no different. You
Speaker 5: know what, It wasn't any different in the thirties and
Speaker 5: forties either. They maybe not the same music, but they
Speaker 5: they had the same feeling, the same uh you know,
Speaker 5: the same you know, chemistry with all the players on
Speaker 5: the team. I just thought it was great. Eight hours
Speaker 5: a day, that's what they do. That would this is
Speaker 5: the difference. This is the difference in this team. When
Speaker 5: we talk about that it factor, when we talk about
Speaker 5: this team really wants it. This decision to be the
Speaker 5: best dad, you can be the best boyfriend, be the
Speaker 5: best whatever you can be. After this is over, give
Speaker 5: me eight hours a day instead of the two or three.
Speaker 1: This is this is.
Speaker 5: He said, just a bunch of guys being boys. This
Speaker 5: is the difference in this team. I really wholeheartedly believe
Speaker 5: that decision could have changed everything.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, very candid stuff, Vira, very real.
Speaker 5: And you're not any of that stuff from other reporters
Speaker 5: other than David Vassey. No, you know why, because they're
Speaker 5: not gonna let their guard down and talk like that.
Speaker 5: Percent it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent that's why it has gone viral, and
Speaker 1: so many Dodger fans and baseball fans are like, man,
Speaker 1: this is real stuff. This is real, great information, and
Speaker 1: this is awesome to see what this team does to
Speaker 1: prepare and the buy in that this team has in
Speaker 1: fact joining us now is our own. David Vase, what
Speaker 1: a night he had last night, David, we just heard
Speaker 1: Brent Honeywell Junior and Max Munsey as you're talking to
Speaker 1: these guys, have you have you ever seen Max Munsey
Speaker 1: open up like this before and be as candid as
Speaker 1: he was. It felt like he was just getting it
Speaker 1: off his chest, like Hey, Dodger fans, we're grinding, we're working.
Speaker 1: We want this as much as you guys do. It
Speaker 1: was awesome.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was surprised that he shared as much as
Speaker 8: he did because before the first game of the postseason, guys,
Speaker 8: Monsey laid out all of that to me, and at
Speaker 8: that point in time, we obviously didn't know where it
Speaker 8: was going to go. They might have done all that
Speaker 8: and got bounced in the first round. But the one
Speaker 8: thing that he felt good about and the rest of
Speaker 8: the team felt good about, is even if they lost,
Speaker 8: they wouldn't second guess whether or not they invested everything
Speaker 8: into trying to win. And that's the biggest thing for
Speaker 8: this team. After the last two years. Quite frankly, I
Speaker 8: didn't feel like they were as invested as this team
Speaker 8: set out to be to begin the playoffs. And look,
Speaker 8: that's the one thing, Steve, you know this, I think
Speaker 8: we can all relate whatever we do in life. You
Speaker 8: don't want to have any what ifs. And if the
Speaker 8: Dodgers didn't make it to the World Series, they would
Speaker 8: be able to have peace of mind that they tried
Speaker 8: everything to be invested and give it all to be
Speaker 8: able to try to make a run. And look now
Speaker 8: it's paid off. So kudos to Max Munsey, Will Smith.
Speaker 8: Those guys really were the catalysts to making sure everybody
Speaker 8: was all in as you heard Max Mounsey described.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dave, I know we like the Ribbia and all that.
Speaker 5: It's only because we are very fond of you. But
Speaker 5: that really shows, uh that you're not going to get
Speaker 5: an interview. You're not going to have somebody put their
Speaker 5: guard down and talk like that unless they have an
Speaker 5: extreme reverence in the highest regard for you. So kudos
Speaker 5: to you forgetting that interview. That's that's It says a
Speaker 5: lot about you, and it's just great. I also thought
Speaker 5: it was great. They said it wasn't. It was about
Speaker 5: the worst idea ever for you to hang out with
Speaker 5: them in a room and.
Speaker 2: They'd rather shower with their dad is absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 8: Brandon Honeywell reminds all of us of Kenny Powers from
Speaker 8: Eastbound and Down and before the playoffs started they made
Speaker 8: him get a perm so he had a perm and
Speaker 8: he had the shaved side because he is that guy.
Speaker 8: He was basically out of baseball. He'll come out of
Speaker 8: the bullpen, he'll make a start. And you heard I
Speaker 8: mean I didn't know that he threw live BP to
Speaker 8: Mookie Bets and the rest of the team that I mean,
Speaker 8: that's who he is. He's just a guy that ball
Speaker 8: or do anything that it takes.
Speaker 5: Dave, Dave, you know what you know, as you can see,
Speaker 5: is the Dodgers collectively as a team have put all
Speaker 5: their chips in the middle. They've completely bought in. Everything's
Speaker 5: moved to the middle. They have stepped over the line,
Speaker 5: and they have completely committed to this. That's a dangerous
Speaker 5: combination for the great Yankee team that's coming in here
Speaker 5: to play them in game one. And I just want
Speaker 5: to know you mentioned a couple of guys who were
Speaker 5: the main guys that were stirring this drink here to
Speaker 5: get these guys to do this, to buy in, to
Speaker 5: spend the time the eight hours. Who were the guys
Speaker 5: that were mainly the drivers for this.
Speaker 8: It was Max Munsey and Will Smith. They got Kershaw
Speaker 8: barnesk on board, and they just wanted to get Mookie
Speaker 8: Betts and Freddie Freeman to buy in. Those were the
Speaker 8: last two guys they needed to buy in, and those
Speaker 8: two guys were all in. And once it got started,
Speaker 8: My understanding is Mookie Bets was the leader and more
Speaker 8: involved in all this time together just as much as
Speaker 8: anybody else. So once they got those two guys to
Speaker 8: buy in, you know, Steve, you get the two best
Speaker 8: players to buy in. Yeah, you know that's all shot.
Speaker 5: Everybody follows it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dave, well, let you save your voices. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a long way. But real quick, what does the
Speaker 1: next four plus days look like for this Dodgers team?
Speaker 1: Game ones not till Friday night at five o'clock. What
Speaker 1: do you understand as far as maybe the schedule workouts.
Speaker 1: What they're going to do be between now and then.
Speaker 8: Yeah, my understanding. Today they're going to get some treatment.
Speaker 8: There's no really work being done on the field. Maybe
Speaker 8: more rams up as the days go along. Thursday they
Speaker 8: have a World Series media day. Did they have that
Speaker 8: in nineteen eighty eight Saxy Media Day?
Speaker 5: I don't remember that. No, I don't remember. No, I
Speaker 5: don't think so.
Speaker 8: I'm sure Kirk Gibson was right there right at media
Speaker 8: day front.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, we had a media day.
Speaker 5: We got John Shueho Sue who brought his camera that day.
Speaker 8: Well, Dave want two guys to keep in mind as
Speaker 8: we get closer to the World Series rosters being said,
Speaker 8: do not rule out Bruce Dark Radol or Alex Vesia
Speaker 8: coming back and being able to pitch.
Speaker 1: That'd be awesome to get both those guys back to
Speaker 1: help out the bullpend David, fantastic job last night. Tremendous
Speaker 1: work in the clubhouse. I can't say it enough how
Speaker 1: great these interviews were the candidates from all the players,
Speaker 1: Key Ahern Nandiz nobody else is getting that information out
Speaker 1: of him. Brent Honeywell Junior, Max Muncy, everybody you talk to,
Speaker 1: they had the respect for you. They talked to you
Speaker 1: and give you great information, and that information translates to
Speaker 1: the listeners right here on am FI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: So rest your voice. I'm sure we'll check in with
Speaker 1: you later today on petch with some money. But great
Speaker 1: job last night, man, Thanks David, great job.
Speaker 8: Hey, thank you guys. If I if I had one
Speaker 8: wish in the I wish I had a time machine
Speaker 8: to be able to have this role with the eighty
Speaker 8: eight Dodgers and celebrate the fruits of victory.
Speaker 10: What a team.
Speaker 1: That's it. There he goes, and only David Vass said,
Speaker 1: what a great job last night. That that I told
Speaker 1: you that monthy Honeywell just candid Monthsy going off talking
Speaker 1: about what they did during the bring.
Speaker 5: I mean, really, where where are you going to hear
Speaker 5: that stuff? No, it's great, you know you hear this
Speaker 5: stuff on the top it, you know. I mean they
Speaker 5: peeled the onion back there a little bit, right, That's
Speaker 5: beautiful stuff.
Speaker 1: And the joking around at the end about hey, we
Speaker 1: should hang out together in New York and I'd rather
Speaker 1: shower with my dad.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that was absolutely hilarious. They they love
Speaker 5: David they do. If they if they didn't, they're not
Speaker 5: going there with them, believe me.
Speaker 1: And they respect the ton out of David. So thanks
Speaker 1: to DV for popping on this morning, late night last night.
Speaker 1: You can hear it in his voice. It's been a
Speaker 1: long NLC, has been a long postseason so far. But
Speaker 1: guess what, Dodger fans, A World Series is coming up up.
Speaker 1: The ride continues, Saxon Kates in the am. Dodgers going
Speaker 1: to the World Series to face the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: Your phone calls coming up. What a night it was
Speaker 1: as we celebrate another NLCS for the Dodgers and a
Speaker 1: showdown against the Yankees. But getting on Friday. Right here
Speaker 1: are your home of the Dodgers, Afi seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: It's Saxon Kate's in the am. The dogs are loose,
Speaker 1: Dodgers' bullpen. It's a bunch of dogs down there, caged up,
Speaker 1: and they have been tormenting everybody in the postseason, Padres
Speaker 1: Mets and now a World Series showdown against the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees beginning on Friday night. Right here on five
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports. Steve Sacks, Tim Kates and you on
Speaker 1: this Monday morning, as LA celebrates yet another National League pennant,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers advancing to their fourth World Series years, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers going for their eighth World Series title. And how
Speaker 1: about this the first ever chance to celebrate a World
Speaker 1: Series championship at Dodgers Stadium. I mean, at the seven
Speaker 1: titles here it is nineteen fifty five against the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Did not celebrate Dodger Stadium. There was no Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: Nineteen fifty nine against the White Sox. Celebrated in Chicago,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, celebrated against the Yankees. Nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 1: They won the World Series in Minnesota against the Twins.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty one, won at Yankee Stadium against the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees. Nineteen eighty eight, you guys won against the
Speaker 1: A's at the Coliseum in Oakland, twenty twenty the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers won it in the Bubble down in Tampa,
Speaker 1: the only time that they've actually won one. The only
Speaker 1: time they've ever won a World Series on their home
Speaker 1: field nineteen sixty three. I stand corrected. At the seven
Speaker 1: World Series championships, only one has been clenched on the
Speaker 1: home field. That was nineteen sixty three against the Yankees
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. So not a lot of people remember that,
Speaker 1: not alive for that. A lot of the young Dodger
Speaker 1: fans hoping this is the first time since nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: three that they can win a Dodger Stadium a World
Speaker 1: Series championship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is gonna be absolutely epic when you
Speaker 5: consider these two teams going out. I mean, this is
Speaker 5: it's like a build up that's been coming for a
Speaker 5: long time. I mean, we team people were talking about
Speaker 5: this in spring training. Look at these two teams. I mean,
Speaker 5: this is probably gonna be a World Series matchup. Ah,
Speaker 5: what are the odds of that? I'm looking at the
Speaker 5: Kentucky Derby. When does a favorite ever win the Kentucky Derby?
Speaker 1: Not very much. And it's too hard to be here.
Speaker 5: We are it's gonna happen. I mean, coming into this too,
Speaker 5: you're gonna have guys that are really hot Standings swinging
Speaker 5: a big bat. Soto swinging a big bat, Mookie Bets
Speaker 5: and and uh you know, Sho Tani are swinging big bat.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is gonna be just a major clash.
Speaker 5: This is gonna be This is gonna be profound. This
Speaker 5: is gonna be a huge event in our country, no
Speaker 5: doubt about it.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a Yankees team with Jazz Chisholm.
Speaker 1: This is a Yankees team with the names you just
Speaker 1: rattled off. You throw Anthony Volpi, you throw in the
Speaker 1: catcher Wells. Yeah, throwing Alex Dugo, former Dodger who we
Speaker 1: seem to have forgotten about, batting ninth and playing left
Speaker 1: field for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 5: And by the way, Tim, have you seen Chisholm throw
Speaker 5: from third base?
Speaker 1: No, Holy cow, good or bad? He has got a
Speaker 1: freaking missile.
Speaker 5: Really, Oh my god, you're talking about, you know, three
Speaker 5: feet off the ground the whole way from from in
Speaker 5: the hole, from like short left field. You're talking about
Speaker 5: three feet off the ground with a little hippitie hop
Speaker 5: when he gets near your first base. I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: this guy's got a cannon over there. I mean, way,
Speaker 5: do you see this? It's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's a pickup they made for the Miami ro like that.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Anthony Volpi is a guy that they
Speaker 1: absolutely love, a New Yorker, a hometown kid there, twenty
Speaker 1: three years old, playing shortstop for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: He was annointed as the next Derek Jeter. Uh as
Speaker 1: far as possible legacy shortstop. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5: I mean, but you know, people, I mean, I'm I'm
Speaker 5: saying they weren't talking about it. But Derek Jeter's like,
Speaker 5: you know, generational. But now he's a good player, No
Speaker 5: doubt he's a good player. I wouldn't trade him for
Speaker 5: Tommy Edmund No, heck, no, no way, heck no.
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmand now is cemented himself in Dodger history with
Speaker 1: eleven runs driven in and the NLCS Ty and Corey
Speaker 1: Seeger for the franchise record NLCS MVP.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, Tim, remember this though, Rizzo, they're gonna
Speaker 5: have an opperatity. I think if there's one spot where
Speaker 5: you could exploit, you know, this team is going after Rizzo.
Speaker 5: That's and the fact that Judge isn't swinging a big bat.
Speaker 5: He may be you know it it's somebody sometime he's
Speaker 5: going to Yeah, uh, hopefully it's when the season's over.
Speaker 5: But Anthony Rizzo has got Remember he's got two broken
Speaker 5: fingers on his right hand. Remember he's a left handed hitter.
Speaker 5: So this is the hand bottom hand that pulls the
Speaker 5: bat through probably more important than the other hand, so
Speaker 5: you could see them. You can see in his some
Speaker 5: of his swings. He got one hit on an inside
Speaker 5: pitch that he usually pulls. What did you do?
Speaker 1: He broke his bat and.
Speaker 5: Flared it over the shortstop. So if you can mitigate
Speaker 5: some of the power that's coming out of Rizzo and
Speaker 5: and not the same hitter with two broken fingers, uh,
Speaker 5: and and and and he's playing through this simply on
Speaker 5: a pure as much as you can stand pain basis.
Speaker 5: It's not really anything that he's gonna do worse to
Speaker 5: his fingers other than let him heal. But he's on
Speaker 5: he's on a pain basis only right now.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a great series. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to see these two teams, Uh square off. Everybody's
Speaker 1: wanted it, and we got it. Let's go to Glenn
Speaker 1: and him. It been waiting patiently. We appreciate that. Glenn,
Speaker 1: good morning, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about adding players. I know they
Speaker 3: haven't until Friday to add more players. What about Kris
Speaker 3: Shaw and Miguel Rojash Are they gonna be able to fight.
Speaker 1: Good question. As far as Miguel Rojas is concerned, he's
Speaker 1: a possibility. H Clayton Kershaw has already you know, shut
Speaker 1: it down, so he's not ramped up, he's not ready
Speaker 1: to go. He is watching this postseason from the dugout.
Speaker 1: But Miguel Rojas, the adductor, we'll see if he's available
Speaker 1: to go. And that's a serious question that we're gonna
Speaker 1: have the next couple of days to talk about. Sexy
Speaker 1: is do you mess with the chemistry of the position
Speaker 1: players right now or do you leave it as it is?
Speaker 1: I know you're getting back maybe Bruce dar Graderole and
Speaker 1: Alex Vessia, which you need another left hander. That's the
Speaker 1: Pitching's one thing you can mess with, maybe tinkering with
Speaker 1: who you put on the roster. But I mean the
Speaker 1: bench away that Chris Taylor's played.
Speaker 5: You know, they'll give you at I'll give you a
Speaker 5: little subset, okay, of you know, so pitching is one thing,
Speaker 5: but you go to hit, you know, the hitting regular players. Okay,
Speaker 5: what about Freddie Freeman. I mean that's a no brainer.
Speaker 5: If Freddy's ready, he If Freddy is ready, he's going
Speaker 5: to be in there.
Speaker 1: No question about it. But but I you know, I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't take Edmond out.
Speaker 8: How can you do that?
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 5: I mean if Miguil Rojas, he's gonna have to be
Speaker 5: He's gonna have to be a guy off the bench
Speaker 5: right now, now, now, now for the regular season. Okay, sure,
Speaker 5: maybe different story because that's Edmund's role is to play everywhere.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: So but right now you kind of ride the pony, right,
Speaker 5: and the pony's hot, so that's the pony you jump on.
Speaker 1: Well, you think about Miguel Rojas's role, He's a shortstop.
Speaker 1: He doesn't really play a lot of other positions.
Speaker 5: No, that's all he plays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so if you're looking at him as a
Speaker 1: bench player, role player, since Tommy Edmans now playing shortstop,
Speaker 1: do you want Rojas off the bench where all he
Speaker 1: can play a shortstop? Or did you rather have a
Speaker 1: guy like a key Key Hernandez or a Chris Taylor
Speaker 1: who or Andy Pajas who can play multiple spots in
Speaker 1: the outfield. But for Chris Taylor who can play four
Speaker 1: different positions right right, and Rojas only one.
Speaker 5: Well, Rojas will have to be specific in where he plays.
Speaker 5: If something goes down with Tommy Edmond. He can go
Speaker 5: into shortstop. Okay, he can do that, but you might
Speaker 5: use Rojas just off the bench to hit, you know,
Speaker 5: if you need if you need a guy to come
Speaker 5: in and hit, you know, maybe you use them.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 5: You got guys that can you can plug and play.
Speaker 5: Like you just said, k he can play anywhere too, right,
Speaker 5: So I mean for a short time you can do that.
Speaker 5: But for the long haul, Rojas is a shortstop and
Speaker 5: if he earns the position, that's where he'll be. I
Speaker 5: really do think that that position is going to be
Speaker 5: up for up for grabs this winter. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: We check in with Father Gary here in Burbank. He
Speaker 1: has blessed the Dodgers all postseason a long hopefully that
Speaker 1: continues into the World series. Father Gary, good morning.
Speaker 10: Hey, good morning guys. Listen, I want to thank you
Speaker 10: for indulging me and letting me participate in your shows
Speaker 10: these last couple of weeks. I'm really excited about this,
Speaker 10: so let me ask you something. Two things I want
Speaker 10: to say. One observation last night, the guys looked like
Speaker 10: they were celebrating, but it looked like they knew that
Speaker 10: they had more business to take care of. They weren't
Speaker 10: going bananas on the field. They were shaking hands, they
Speaker 10: were nodding at each other, they were patting each other
Speaker 10: on the back. I didn't see much of the clubhouse stuff,
Speaker 10: but on the field it looked like they were like,
Speaker 10: we got more business to take care of, guys.
Speaker 8: This is not it.
Speaker 10: This is just another step into the direction we want
Speaker 10: to go. Then I have a prophecy for you, Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 10: MVP of the World Series record. That keep that that's
Speaker 10: going to be money.
Speaker 1: All right, father Gary, we appreciate it. Hopefully you can
Speaker 1: bless that ankle a little bit and get some healing
Speaker 1: a little sooner and faster on that ankle. For Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if the guy that we kind
Speaker 1: of forgot about in Game six in the NLCS because
Speaker 1: of Tommy Edmond and everybody else that's contributed here in
Speaker 1: the National League Championship Series, to have Freddie Freeman back
Speaker 1: healthy and just put on a series a show at
Speaker 1: the plate and just produce offensively and be named the
Speaker 1: World Series MVP.
Speaker 5: I would get shocked, and everybody on the team would
Speaker 5: be good too. They would just want a World Series Look,
Speaker 5: the other thing about Freddie is he's a professional hitter.
Speaker 5: That's the best compliment you can ever give a baseball player.
Speaker 5: A guy's everyday player. He's a professional, he's in he's
Speaker 5: a professional hitter. And that's what Freddy is. I've seen
Speaker 5: him in stumps slumps before. I've seen him in practice
Speaker 5: and how he fixed those slumps. Been down in the
Speaker 5: field watching him at every single ball line drive in
Speaker 5: practice over the shortstop's head. What happened in the game
Speaker 5: that night? He came out and he had three line
Speaker 5: drives to left field for base hits out of the slump.
Speaker 5: That's what pros do, and that's what Freddy does. He
Speaker 5: is one of a kind. He is a tremendous hitter.
Speaker 5: Ish in Riverside.
Speaker 1: Next up with Saxon, Kate's and Am is the Dodgers
Speaker 1: a punch their ticket for a World Series bit against
Speaker 1: the Yankees.
Speaker 11: Is Hey Man, Kim, Hey Steve, how are you guys
Speaker 11: doing this morning?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 11: Thanks, beautiful day, beautiful day. Hey, Well listen, I have
Speaker 11: I did have a couple of comments here, but first
Speaker 11: I'm wondering if I could wish a happy birthday shout
Speaker 11: out to my brother Isaac Dodgers October baseball. It's pretty
Speaker 11: much like one in the same for our family. So
Speaker 11: I definitely want to wish my brother Isaac a happy
Speaker 11: birthday today.
Speaker 1: Very nice. I just did.
Speaker 11: Thank you awesome, man, awesome, I'm awesome. So as far
Speaker 11: as the baseball is concerned, man, I have been watching
Speaker 11: these Yankees. They I'm not gonna lie as a fan
Speaker 11: of baseball. They they do play some exciting ball, but
Speaker 11: I think that we are better messed up. Steve, you
Speaker 11: hit the nail on the head there with Rizzo. He
Speaker 11: doesn't look like the same Rizzo from back in Chicago,
Speaker 11: so I think that's definitely something we can exploit. But
Speaker 11: to the fans, hey, let's show up, let's show out.
Speaker 11: Let's make it loud and rockus. Let us get that
Speaker 11: Ding World Series out?
Speaker 1: All right? Is appreciate the phone call eight six seventy Mike,
Speaker 1: and Fresno has been waiting patiently. Thank you for Mike.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Hey, good morning boy.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 9: As a guy, that's harding to be on the phone
Speaker 9: with Saxton Kate, ask you, I'm I can't listen to
Speaker 9: you guys drive because they have someone else playing on
Speaker 9: iHeart right now. But uh, I just want to say
Speaker 9: I wanted to come down this week and be it
Speaker 9: all right, I'm not going to go to the game,
Speaker 9: but where's the best place to go watch the game
Speaker 9: where I'll have they thought the biggest atmosphere, like dog
Speaker 9: your atmosphere is.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a great I'm not sure there's so
Speaker 1: many great Dodger viewing parties. Uh here in southern California,
Speaker 1: a lot of local spots around Dodgers Stadium. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. When maybe we'll post it up on
Speaker 1: social media. Maybe we'll get into the next couple of
Speaker 1: days where some great viewing spots are for Dodger fans
Speaker 1: to watch the World Series.
Speaker 5: Because probably not at the Kate's house. You don't want
Speaker 5: to get too much bad language of screaming at the TV. Yeah,
Speaker 5: because uh yeah, that wouldn't be a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: First of food to be gone quickly, and second you'd
Speaker 5: probably not like to hear the third commentary from the
Speaker 5: radio TV and me uh during the game that it
Speaker 5: gets quite annoying from people and they's why what kind
Speaker 5: of food you supporting at the house? Too?
Speaker 1: Well, it depends I like to go to the pizza.
Speaker 1: There's a local spot here in Bourband called dinas Dino's Pizza,
Speaker 1: which is a great spot. I love doing that. The
Speaker 1: wife can made chicken and steakkebobs last night, so that
Speaker 1: was that was fun to have. So but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm into the pizza and a wine. So that's that's
Speaker 1: a big thing for us.
Speaker 5: We we got the scoreboards right down on the right
Speaker 5: down the street from me, right around the corner, and
Speaker 5: the best pizza everywhere, just amazing and the place is
Speaker 5: jam packed. Okay, best pizza. What kind of pizza that
Speaker 5: we Talcaroni? Just stay listen. I like the plain stuff. No,
Speaker 5: but pepperoni and mozzailla, thin pepperoni, mozzarella and a Coca cola.
Speaker 1: That's all I like.
Speaker 5: I don't know why people have a beer with it
Speaker 5: and they blow the whole reason for having a pizza. No,
Speaker 5: it's pizza and Coca cola.
Speaker 1: The best ever. Okay, because I mean, people'll start people
Speaker 1: started saying Chicago deep dish. Det I don't like the thick.
Speaker 5: I want the New York feel like you just gained
Speaker 5: fourteen pounds by the time you go to bed.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 10: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: The only thing good about New York in my mind
Speaker 1: is the pizza, the New York pizza, the big fat
Speaker 1: you know slices that you can fold up and eat.
Speaker 1: The chubbies. Yeah, yeah, those they're big. Those are good,
Speaker 1: they are those are really good.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But I like the thin slice. Brother, I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: Pepperoni really good. Well, you you're like like an adonnas.
Speaker 5: You watch what you eat, your count your calories, you
Speaker 5: have cheap days. You're one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Actually, I'm not.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that at all.
Speaker 8: He is.
Speaker 1: Steve sax Up Jim Gates with you here until the
Speaker 1: top of the hour. We're here all week long, getting
Speaker 1: you ready for Game one of the World Series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's happening, Dodgers Yankees Friday night, Dodgers Stadium. We'll have
Speaker 1: all the action, We'll have all the lead up, all
Speaker 1: the build up, all the previewing, all the great guests
Speaker 1: right here on NFI seventy LA Sports, Sax and Kate
Speaker 1: to Am on this Monday morning. Dodgers clinching the NLCS
Speaker 1: last night with a Game six victory over the New
Speaker 1: York Mets, a ten to five win, for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: The bullpen game that panned out for the Dodgers, starting
Speaker 1: with Michael Kopek and any with Blake Trying getting the
Speaker 1: final six outs of the game. The Dogs as they
Speaker 1: call themselves down there in the bullpen have emerged here
Speaker 1: in September now October as the Dodgers relying on bullpen
Speaker 1: games throughout the NLDS, the NLCS and Saxon no doubt
Speaker 1: going into this World Series with Jack Flaherty, with uh
Speaker 1: Yoshanoba Yamamoto, Walker Bueller, they've got three starters that they
Speaker 1: can throw out there in a seven game series. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna at least once, at least one time, we're
Speaker 1: gonna see a bullpen game against the Yankees.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's a bad thing. I mean, you do.
Speaker 5: I wish we had one extra starter, five guys that
Speaker 5: can go out there and tow the line and do
Speaker 5: it the traditional way. Yeah, But the Padres found out
Speaker 5: when they got into the tooth of the Dogs what happened, Well,
Speaker 5: it didn't go too well for them because they were
Speaker 5: facing a different guy every inning. Just about you had
Speaker 5: a couple of guys, would you know, maybe bank in
Speaker 5: a couple innings, but for the most part, it's a
Speaker 5: new look and that's not good for the timing of
Speaker 5: a hitter.
Speaker 1: I love the whole Dog's mantra. I love the borrowing
Speaker 1: of a postseason run. And you know, naming the group
Speaker 1: after and solidarity together. I mean, you mentioned the Stuntman
Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty eight, you mentioned the run with
Speaker 1: the White Sox and the group they called out of
Speaker 1: the Bullpen. I mean, it's it's something that's pretty cool,
Speaker 1: and it's it's something you don't see a lot. But yeah,
Speaker 1: for this Dodgers team, this group, I mean, with all
Speaker 1: the superstars, they have to see that group of relievers,
Speaker 1: the bullpen guys come together. It's almost fitting though, once
Speaker 1: you think about it. A lot of unsung heroes down there,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who are at the back end
Speaker 1: of their career, guys trying to win championships late in
Speaker 1: their career, Guys tried to establish themselves, re establish themselves
Speaker 1: like Brent Honeywell Junior and Anthony Bonda, who the Dodgers
Speaker 1: picked up mid season. Names you don't know, like Ben Casparius.
Speaker 1: Just unsung heroes down there doing the job and doing
Speaker 1: the job that more than they thought they'd be doing
Speaker 1: here in October.
Speaker 5: And it's amazing how much the game has changed. It
Speaker 5: used to be, you know, those guys down in the bullpen,
Speaker 5: you had guys that would mop up because the expectation
Speaker 5: of the starter was to go nine. You'd have guys
Speaker 5: that would mop up, guys that would just come in.
Speaker 5: And the middle relievers were almost like triple A guys.
Speaker 5: I mean, they were just like, you know, who cared.
Speaker 5: I mean, now every guy has got a you know,
Speaker 5: the target, two guys that this one guy can get out.
Speaker 5: It seems so it's a much different game now. It's
Speaker 5: much more technical. Uh, and it's much more it's more
Speaker 5: it's much more plotted out, you know, because they go
Speaker 5: before the game and they get up there, the brain trust,
Speaker 5: and they say, okay, you know seventh and eighth inning.
Speaker 5: You know, we know the closer is gonna be, but
Speaker 5: seventheen thinning, what he got. Okay, let's let's get these
Speaker 5: guys that we're gonna have, uh, you know, trying's gonna
Speaker 5: get these three guys out, you know, and and so
Speaker 5: on and so forth. They map out who they're gonna
Speaker 5: get and that's how technical this is. Yeah, Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: said it. They asked, well, what was your plan late
Speaker 5: in the game, and he said, I had nine outs
Speaker 5: to get and it was gonna be Daniel Hudson and
Speaker 5: Blake trying in that combination. And then to ask Blake
Speaker 5: trying to go back out there and get a two out,
Speaker 5: say excuse me, two innings save was fantastic. He hits stuff,
Speaker 5: tim It's wicked. It's I'm telling you coming from somebody
Speaker 5: used to hit that stuff is wicked. I mean, you
Speaker 5: don't want to The only thing that you can hope
Speaker 5: for on against trying is that he hangs one. He
Speaker 5: makes a mistake. He's throwing that slider and and he
Speaker 5: gets it up and he does it, you know, he
Speaker 5: tries to snap it off too hard and he just
Speaker 5: gives a cement mixer up there and he hangs one.
Speaker 5: That's the only chance you got because if his his
Speaker 5: stuff's working, if it's going down with some tilt and
Speaker 5: going down on the zone and it has got the
Speaker 5: action on the ball, forget it. And look he's throwing
Speaker 5: ninety seven ninety eight. He's not throwing as hard as
Speaker 5: he can either. I can promise you he's got more
Speaker 5: in there, but the ball probably wouldn't have the same
Speaker 5: action if he's throwing it harder. Actually, there's a certain
Speaker 5: speed where it works, and he's figured it out. Bro,
Speaker 5: He's figured it out, and that's where he's staying.
Speaker 1: Eric in Hollywood, wrap things up on this Monday. You
Speaker 1: got about thirty seconds.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Eric, god Jert Day shed World Series, Here
Speaker 8: we come.
Speaker 3: Tommy was a beast. Bullpen is a force to reckon
Speaker 3: with the hubant rally towel says, let's.
Speaker 1: Go all right, Eric in Hollywood, appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1: Eric's ant to let's go Dodgers Dodger Nation. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a thing on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, he's got to figure it out, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he does.
Speaker 11: He does.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be with you every single day this week
Speaker 1: leading up to Game one of the World Series on
Speaker 1: Friday night. We're gonna get a coverage from New York.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go back to nineteen eighty one and that
Speaker 1: team that made a World Series run against the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees. Will check in with some of your former
Speaker 1: teammates during the week. So yeah, a lot of phone
Speaker 1: calls we got some great stuff in store coming up tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 1: Game one is on Friday, and as David Vats mentioned,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers today a day to get some rest, a
Speaker 1: day to recoup, get right, get some treatments, and then
Speaker 1: they'll be back at it with workouts. Media Day on Thursday,
Speaker 1: which is something new for the World Series. Media Day. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so if you say so, media Day exactly,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think Baseball needs to tell
Speaker 1: us who these guys are. It's not the Royals versus
Speaker 1: the you know, the the Rays here or something. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, it's the Dodgers and the Yankees. We all
Speaker 1: know these guys are saxy, awesome stuff. Looking forward to
Speaker 1: a great week. We'll talk to you tomorrow. You see you, buddy.
Speaker 1: All right, there he goes the great Steve Sacks, NEANXS
Speaker 1: to Zach, thanks to Michelle. Thanks to you Dodger fans
Speaker 1: for being a part of it. This morning. It's a Monday.
Speaker 1: It's great to be a Dodger fan. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great week leading up to the twenty twenty
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