WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:09.199 Right first, Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back and with it 2 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:13.439 an annual postseason tradition scam is back. 3 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:13.960 Baby. 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:17.800 This is Sax and Cakes in the A app Go 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.359 with Broway. Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your 6 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:26.679 favorite Dodger pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to 7 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:29.239 talk Dodgers, get in on the show on eighty six 8 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.159 six nine, eighty seven two five seven now while the 9 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.880 Dan Patrick Show streams on the iHeartRadio app. We've been 10 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.640 banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes. 11 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:43.200 Here they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven 12 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:47.759 e LA Sports. It's Tim Kats and Steve sachs Ah. 13 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:51.679 Here we are. It's game day, Game three of the 14 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:57.679 n l DS Dodgers podres series time and a game 15 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:01.840 of beats. This rivalry he has heated up to levels 16 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:05.640 we have never seen before after Game two and what 17 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:09.040 happened on the field at Dodgers Stadium and now even 18 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.040 more fuel to this fire before Game three in San 19 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:16.959 Diego tonight. Good morning, Southern California. I have Tim Kate 20 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.079 joined by two time World Series Champion, Rookie of the 21 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.439 Year and my favorite number three of all time. Steve 22 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:26.159 Sacks Saxy, Good morning. 23 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.280 What up, Tim? Hey, this is the first time I 24 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:29.640 get to see you in action. 25 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:32.400 Yeah, we got a little video going back and forth 26 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.519 for social media. It's gonna be posted up on a 27 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.519 FI seventy LA Sports and all their different social media 28 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:40.159 outlets this morning. So we hope you enjoy that. We 29 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.799 got a jam pack three hour show coming up here 30 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:45.280 on Saxon Kates and the am. Plenty of time for 31 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:48.280 your phone calls this hour and next hour as we 32 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:51.760 get into Game three tonight, Dodgers and Padres, Michael King 33 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.840 and Walker Bueller the pitching matchup. In our final hour, 34 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:59.040 David Vassay, our Dodger insider, will join us. Also, Steven Nelson, 35 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.120 one of the new voices of the Dodgers, used to 36 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:03.799 be on MLB Network. Now you see him on sports 37 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.560 and at LA and he's calling this NLDS right here 38 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.800 on AM five seventy LA Sports. So excited to talk 39 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.199 to Nelly. In the final hour of the show, We're 40 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.759 gonna go a little Major League Baseball whip around. In 41 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:16.879 the second hour of the show, gets Steve's thoughts on 42 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:20.319 the other series that are happening around baseball in this postseason. 43 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.560 A wild game last night between the Royals and the Yankees, 44 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:25.840 as the Royals have tied that series up at a 45 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.039 game of piece. Well here from Walker Bueller, the Game 46 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.360 three starter tonight for the Dodgers. This is a huge 47 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.159 one for Walker Bueller. Later on this hour, we're gonna 48 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:38.240 get into this rivalry. Isn't really a rivalry between the 49 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.639 Dodgers and the Padres, so we'll get into that. But 50 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:45.039 Saxy Game two, the dramatics. We saw what happened between 51 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:48.000 Manny Machado and Jack Flaherty, and then of course what 52 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:51.159 happened in this seventh inning on the field with the 53 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.159 fans and the Padres outfielders. But we find out now 54 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.599 twenty four hours later, there's a little bit more fuel 55 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:02.840 to this fire. And here is manager Dave Roberts yesterday 56 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.240 talking to the media and our own David Vassa with 57 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:07.719 a very interesting. 58 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:11.039 Question, Dave, last night, did the ball that Machado threw 59 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:13.520 into your dugout almost hit you? And did you feel 60 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.759 like that should have been an ejection because Trip Gibson 61 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:19.520 went over there right away to try to intervene, but 62 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.840 that seemed to be what sparked the giant between Flaherty 63 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.919 and Machado. Did it almost hit you, well? Did you 64 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:26.199 know that? 65 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:28.199 I didn't know. I didn't notice it at the time. 66 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:32.960 I really didn't. I didn't notice it. I did see 67 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:40.319 the video and it was it was unsettling. Obviously, I 68 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:43.639 have a relationship with Manny from from years past. There 69 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:47.560 was intent behind it. It didn't almost hit me because 70 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:53.280 there was a net and that was very bothersome. It's 71 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.639 it's uh, if it was intended at me, i'd be 72 00:03:55.879 --> 00:04:00.719 very it's it's it's it's pretty disrespectful. So I don't 73 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:02.680 know his intent. I want to speak for him, but 74 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:05.280 I did see the video and the ball was directed 75 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:09.439 at me with something behind it, So but I don't 76 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:11.800 know what led to that. I didn't see it in 77 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:13.319 real time, but I did see the video. 78 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:15.599 Did you feel after seeing the video he should have 79 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:16.560 been ejected for that? 80 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:20.759 I don't think they should have had a little arm 81 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:25.000 around each other conversation. If players can throw balls at 82 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.079 opposing managers. 83 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:28.759 You said that you felt the ball was directed at 84 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.560 you after I saw the video. Did you have any 85 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:33.199 dialogue with Manny before that? 86 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:39.199 The only dialogue I had was he was chirping at 87 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:44.319 Jack and I looked at him and shook my head 88 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:46.920 and making a point that we wouldn't hit him on 89 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:50.800 purpose to lead off an inning in a being down 90 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:54.959 two runs. And again the point being is, I think 91 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:59.639 he's using a fuel. As a baseball person, anyone understands 92 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.240 that you don't do that intentionally, put the leadoff man 93 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.240 on base with three, four or five coming up behind. 94 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:08.000 It just makes no sense, all right, Steve, he called 95 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:12.160 it unsettling, He called it disrespectful. Manny Machado throwing a 96 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:16.160 baseball towards the Dodgers dugout. When you hear that, is 97 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:20.240 this bad? Well there's no need for it, that's for sure. 98 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:22.959 And you know, it would have been maybe a different 99 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:24.480 story if Dave sawt in real time. 100 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:27.560 Who knows what would have happened. But you know, if 101 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:30.199 Dave Roberts says it, it's real because he's not a 102 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:33.160 guy that's gonna start trash or anything like that. He's 103 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:35.920 not that kind of man. And so seeing it, you 104 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.160 know in video, he felt that there was some intent 105 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.160 behind it, and I believe it. 106 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.839 There was a throw down in a second after you 107 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.120 Darvish got warm done warming up and the ball skipped 108 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:48.800 on the dirt, and so when it was thrown around 109 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.480 the infield, Manny mitchatdo got in a third and threw 110 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:53.480 it towards the dugout. And Manny said he threw it 111 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.480 towards the dugout because he was getting it out of 112 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.360 play because a new baseball had been inserted to you, darbish, 113 00:05:58.399 --> 00:05:59.920 to start the inning there in the bottom half of 114 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.240 the sixth. So he just threw the ball, as he said, 115 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:05.560 towards the Dodgers dugout to get it out of play, 116 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.079 towards a ball boy. But he threw it pretty hard, 117 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.519 and he did throw it towards the direction of Dave Roberts. 118 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:13.680 And there's a netty now in front of the dugouts 119 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.279 at Dodgers Stadium. Is it one of these unwritten rules 120 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:19.360 of baseball, because I'm confused, there's a lot of unwritten 121 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:23.120 rules in baseball about throwing a baseball towards a dugout 122 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.720 like that. Because the video that we do see now, 123 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.480 Teoscar Hernandez kind of perks up and yells out at Manny. 124 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:33.720 Machado didn't like it. Bob Garrett, I think, was sitting 125 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:35.759 right next to Dave Roberts. There was a couple of 126 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:38.879 Dodgers that took umbrage to the fact that Manny threw 127 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:39.800 that ball over there. 128 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.720 At the time he did, and especially with the tenor 129 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:45.920 between the two teams, you could have just you know, 130 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:48.800 rolled it over there. You could have done it a lot, 131 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:53.079 a lot simpler. But there was some slight intent there between, 132 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:56.360 you know, between you know, Dave and him, and I 133 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:58.319 believe I believe he was trying to send him a 134 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.079 message like, you know, you're not going to intimidate us. 135 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:02.920 I know we're in your house, but here you go, 136 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.759 and you know it's not good. But I didn't see 137 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.000 it in real time either, But I think what Dave's 138 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:09.000 saying is factual. 139 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.959 Yeah, it kind of feels like both teams right now 140 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.199 Saxy are trying to find some fuel, trying to find 141 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.519 something to maybe motivate their teams. I don't need I 142 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.279 don't know why you need motivation at this point in 143 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:23.600 the postseas, especially with this series the way it is 144 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:26.040 and the way these two teams have battled in three 145 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.800 of the last five years. But maybe Dave Roberts is 146 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:31.680 using this, maybe it's something, but he's making it more 147 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:34.560 of an issue to fire up his guys because the 148 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:36.720 Padres are such a fiery team. 149 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.199 They are, and he's probably just looking for a little edge. 150 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.000 And and this is this is reminiscent of what happened 151 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:46.439 with us in eighty eight when Tommy Lasorda posted that 152 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.639 note down in the locker room. Actually a couple times, 153 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:55.040 once once with David David Cone who was chirping about 154 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:57.959 our club, and we use that against him. And then 155 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.959 Bob Costas in the news again today saying that this 156 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:05.120 is the worst looking team, This is a this is 157 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:08.120 the least talented major league team I've ever seen. And 158 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:10.560 then we went out and Beata's and Tommy used that 159 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.680 as fuel as well. So it's not you know, this 160 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:17.639 is this is not some revelation, but it's good to 161 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.399 use some of those things to kind of get to 162 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:20.879 a little bit of edge for your ball club. 163 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.000 I look at this as more and more we talk 164 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.079 about in SAXE. I think this is what Dave Roberts 165 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.800 is trying to maybe hang his hat on to rally 166 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.959 his team because they've got nothing else outside of hey, 167 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:34.279 we got to win this series to move on. He 168 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.720 needs something to fire up this team. Maybe it's an 169 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:40.600 individual thing to Mookie to jumpstart him offensively. Maybe it's 170 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.960 something to give a little bit more juice to Freddie 171 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:45.279 Freeman to come back and play tonight in Game three. 172 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:49.840 Maybe it's whatever to motivate these guys individually and collectively. 173 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:51.960 But yeah, it kind of feels like one of those 174 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.480 things Dave Roberts is trying to rally this team around 175 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:55.639 and get him fired up. 176 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:58.600 I look at it as I look at it as 177 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.919 not necessarily a motivation thing, because I don't think anybody 178 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:04.120 needs motivation. I mean, this is this is for everything 179 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:06.799 right now, right, and I don't think they you're gonna 180 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.879 need somebody to motivate you. But I think it's it's 181 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:12.960 a slight edge against the other team to get in 182 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.840 their head. Maybe not necessarily to motivate my guys, but 183 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.120 to you know, put a little bit of thought in 184 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:19.919 the head of the other guys. I think that's what 185 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:21.840 he's using it for, and it's a very smart move. 186 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.559 I don't know if I agree, because that team across 187 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.240 there in San Diego, they don't need anything else. They 188 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.080 don't need motivation, They don't need Dave Roberts saying that 189 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.720 to get them fired up. I think he's directing this 190 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:36.159 more towards his team because they need something to rally around. 191 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:39.960 They need a common ground to stand on going into 192 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.559 San Diego, in particular. Now this series is shifting to 193 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.360 San Diego. If what happened on Sunday night in Game 194 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:47.720 two and the incident the fans and the chirping back 195 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:51.360 and forth wasn't enough, this hopefully maybe cranks it up 196 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.000 a little bit and now they can have this hole. 197 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:56.440 Let's circle the wagons. We're going into Petco Park. You 198 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.679 know what they tried to do to our manager. You 199 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:01.120 saw what they did through that ball of Dave Roberts. 200 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:04.360 How damn Manny Machado, What are they doing? We gotta 201 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.039 go into the pet cole Park and we gotta rally together. 202 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:08.960 We gotta play as the team, and we gotta go 203 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.399 in there like this is a battle between us and 204 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.159 them and only one teams coming out of this. 205 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:17.600 I'm excited. Let's go Tim. Yeah, no, it's uh, it's 206 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.080 it can work that way for sure. But I also 207 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.919 think my point was that if you give them another 208 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.840 thing to think about the opposition, then it maybe it 209 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:29.399 takes away from what they're doing. You know, how good 210 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.360 they've been with us. I don't think they need motivation 211 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:34.279 at all. They kind of thrive on this stuff. But 212 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.000 if you give them something else to think about, that 213 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.440 might be, that might be a good distraction for you know, 214 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:40.480 for the Dodgers. But you know what, it's gonna come down. Team. 215 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.600 We're gonna talk about this later on. As far as 216 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:44.360 points of the game. We all know what they are 217 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.039 and we'll we'll drill down on those later. But but 218 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:50.279 I'll tell you what it's gonna have to you know, 219 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:52.759 when this team is loaded with stars, they're gonna have 220 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.519 to shine, just like O'tani did in Game one, you know. 221 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:58.039 And I think we're gonna we're gonna see that this 222 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.559 is gonna be. This is gonna be the best baseball 223 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.240 in the United States of America right now, This Dodger 224 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.279 Padre rivalry is being talked about everywhere on these coast. 225 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.320 I got friends back East that are talking about this stuff. 226 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.200 We can't wait to watch that game at six o 227 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.120 eight pm Pacific. We're on pins and needles. We can't 228 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:16.639 wait to see it. And they got the Yankees and 229 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:17.600 Mets playing back there. 230 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:22.720 Exactly when the MLB Network, based in New York is 231 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:27.120 starting there all their broadcasts with Padre's Dodgers. You know 232 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:29.559 something is right with this series because the other series 233 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:31.120 are good and we'll get into them, and there's a 234 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.720 lot of exciting teams and young players that we could 235 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.600 be focusing on in Major League Baseball in this postseason. 236 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.240 But you mentioned eighty eight and the David Cohne comments 237 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:43.559 and the Bob Costas comments that got posted up as 238 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.840 bulletin of war and material. Did it work? Was it 239 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:49.679 a little extra fuel at that time for you guys 240 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.080 or was it an eye roll from that eighty eight 241 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:53.440 Dodgers team in that clubhouse? 242 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.320 I think it worked. I mean it was something to 243 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:01.840 get get you a little bit on edge and a 244 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.039 little little more spice in your in your shoes. I 245 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:07.519 think I think it. I think it worked, and it 246 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.840 gave us something to kind of, uh to put your 247 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:14.000 energy towards, because you know, there's so much energy going on, 248 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.399 especially right before the game start, and this was a 249 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.799 place to kind of like burn off some of that 250 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:22.600 excess fuel, I guess you could say. And it worked 251 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.600 for us. It certainly did, because you know, beating the 252 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.519 the Mighty Mets in seven, where they just absolutely trounced 253 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:30.919 us during the season. Was was a feat in and 254 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:32.480 of itself, but then to go ahead and beat the 255 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.000 A's after that was it was a pretty great thing. 256 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.639 And that you know that team was we were not 257 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:40.039 the talent was talented team. I'll tell you one thing though, 258 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.559 We had great pitching and that's where it is. That's 259 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.240 where the game is one of the lost as we 260 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:44.559 all know. 261 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:46.799 I'm gonna tell you what the other motivation for Dave 262 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:51.120 Roberts is in by bringing up Manny Machado, throwing the 263 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.440 ball at him and calling it as he did, unsettling 264 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:58.440 and disrespectful. This, Steve Sachs, is what you call a 265 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.480 Phil Jackson move. Phil Jackson was the king and Tommy 266 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:07.000 Lestorda as well the king of Hey, look over here 267 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.679 at me. Let's all distract and look at me. I'm 268 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:12.159 gonna make me the center of attention to take the 269 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:15.440 pressure off of my guys, to take the attention away 270 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:19.679 from Mookie Betts being over twenty two, Freddie Freeman hurt 271 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:22.279 the need for starting pitching in Walker Buehler to be 272 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.240 Walker Buehler five years ago. All that needs to happen, 273 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.600 but I'm gonna take that focus away from them and 274 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:29.519 the pressure off of them. And I'm gonna make it 275 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:33.639 about me, So talk about me. Make this an incident, me, me, me, 276 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:35.879 so my guys don't have to worry about talking to 277 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:40.720 the media. Yeah, this is Phil Jackson to a t, right. 278 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:44.360 And because we all know Dave Roberts, he doesn't want 279 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:46.240 anything to do to do with the stuff other than 280 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.399 what's going on in the field and playing the game. Yeah, 281 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.039 that's what that's what he's central about. But so it's 282 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.720 a good move by Dave. I think it works in 283 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.759 a lot of different subtle ways. And we're gonna see 284 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.279 if it's going to pay dividends tonight. It's gonna be 285 00:13:59.279 --> 00:13:59.799 a great event. 286 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.240 It's gonna be a great game three tonight. Right here 287 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.799 on an five seventy LA Sports first pitch at six 288 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:07.879 oh eight, Michael King, Walker Buehler, the pitching matchup. I'll 289 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.120 have Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck at five o'clock PM. 290 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.320 Right here on an five seventy eight, six, six, nine 291 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.200 eighty seven, two five to seventy is our phone number. 292 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.320 Your thoughts on Dave Roberts and this incident with Manny Machado, 293 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.519 Is it Dave Roberts firing up the troops. Is it 294 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.000 Dave Roberts playing mind games with the San Diego Padres? 295 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.639 Or is this a big deal going into Game three? 296 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:36.120 Manny Machado trying to throw baseball at the Dodger manager 297 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:39.639 eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Coming 298 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.159 up in our final hour, David Vez, who you heard 299 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.519 ask the question at the media availability yesterday, will join us. 300 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.279 Steven Nelson, one of the voices of the Dodgers right 301 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.799 here during the NLDS on ANFI seventy, will join us 302 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:53.080 in the final hour as well. We'll hear from Walker Bueler. 303 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:55.799 You heard from Dave Roberts. We want to hear from 304 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:57.960 you at eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. 305 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:03.360 And is this series now a r ivalry Dodgers Giants? Yeah, 306 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:07.279 Dodgers Padres. I think we've officially got there. We'll get 307 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.840 to it next he is Steve Sacks. I am Tim Kats. 308 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:11.360 We want you to be a part of the show 309 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.720 at eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight. 310 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:25.360 Scam right, you're on NFI seventy. La Sports Saxon Kates 311 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:27.960 in the am on this Tuesday Morning on m five 312 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:33.159 seventy LA Sports leading up to Game three of the NLDS, 313 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:38.639 Walker Buehler on the mount tonight, searching all regular season. 314 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:42.320 Maybe he found it in his final couple of starts 315 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:46.360 going into the postseason. Dodger's certainly gonna need a vintage 316 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:49.720 Walker Buehler from twenty eighteen, nineteen twenty to be on 317 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:52.000 the mountain tonight in Game three to night Tim Kate, 318 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.639 Steve Saxon You on this Tuesday morning eight sixty six, 319 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:57.879 nine eighty seven two five seventy You heard Dave Roberts 320 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:01.799 comments to the media yesterday Manny Machado throwing a baseball 321 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:04.080 at him in between the innings and the sixth inning 322 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.240 on Sunday night. That's why Jack Flarity and Manny Machado 323 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:10.320 really got chirping from the dugout in third base, and 324 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.200 Dave Roberts said it was unsettling and disrespectful for Manny 325 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.720 Machado to throw a ball towards him in the dugout 326 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.000 on Sunday nights. Could lead to something tonight, could lead 327 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.919 to nothing. We'll find out in the game tonight in 328 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:29.120 San Diego. But Saxy, this Dodgers Padres series is certainly 329 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:32.639 fueled by a lot of things on and off the field, 330 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.919 But this is a rivalry. Maybe, are we getting to 331 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.360 the point now, Saxy, where the Dodgers and Padres have 332 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:43.919 elevated their games and they're head to head series now 333 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:47.039 where this is a legitimate rivalry between the two. 334 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:51.559 Heck, yeah, this is a big rivalry. And look at 335 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:54.759 this isn't something that's just been creeping up on us. 336 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:58.240 This thing's been a rivalry for a long time, no 337 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.320 question about it. We always he's looked at the Padres 338 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:05.559 as a rivalry really as much as San Francisco. Yeah, 339 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:09.039 because they were always really tough to beat, especially down 340 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.640 in San Diego. They were very tough to beat. I remember, 341 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.799 didn't matter their teams, even when the Padres weren't that good, 342 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:18.000 remember where they were just like Stepchild and the you know, 343 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:19.960 it was a lot of years in the West and 344 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:22.079 they were just getting beat downs all the time. But 345 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.200 every time we went down there, there was you know, 346 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:26.160 one of their pictures was up hitting a home run 347 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:28.119 in the eighth inning and it was like, oh, ye, 348 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:31.200 are you kidding me? The most unlikely of people would 349 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:33.960 step to the forefront and just put a big thorn 350 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:35.759 on our side, and it was it was all And 351 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:38.200 of course they had Tony Gwenn. So every time it 352 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.640 seemed that we were playing the Padres, it was always 353 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:43.559 a packed house down there. Uh it was a you know, 354 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:46.279 it was a one run game there was the bases 355 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.960 were loaded and that guy was coming up with one out. 356 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:51.319 You figure you have a meeting at the mound, and 357 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:53.759 it was like, Okay, we know he's gonna hit it hard, 358 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:56.799 just hopefully it's at somebody. So we would just try 359 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.480 to position them, you know, as the picture was going 360 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.160 to pitch against him because you couldn't really defend that guy. 361 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.480 But it was always a rivalry with San Diego. 362 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.640 I kind of feel like it's recency by this because 363 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.160 these two teams in the last four to five years 364 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:14.039 have been really good atop the division and the other 365 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:16.799 teams just haven't. And the Giants have fallen off and 366 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:19.079 have been trying to figure it out and rebuild. And 367 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:21.519 now they're going in a different direction after far Hans 368 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.400 Aidies era is over and they're bringing Buster Posey in 369 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.920 to run baseball operations. Arizona's kind of been up and down. 370 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:29.960 Don't even make the Playoffs this year, but they go 371 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.880 to the World Series last year. Colorado's just kind of 372 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.480 been fledgling there as a team that everybody picks on 373 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.920 in the NL West. But Dodgers Padres since twenty twenty. 374 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.279 Of course, they met in the bubble in the postseason, 375 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:43.839 had a great series there. Things got chippy with Manny 376 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:47.160 Machado and Bruce dargraderol going back and forth yelling at 377 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:49.960 each other from opposing Dougouts. They met again in twenty 378 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.119 twenty two, and of course we know the Padres beat 379 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:54.240 them in the NLDS and that was the first time 380 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.119 they kind of got over that hump of beating the Dodgers. 381 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.440 And now this year with the rivalry starting in South 382 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.079 Korea to start the season, and you know, the Padres 383 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:05.759 winning the season series, taking eight of the thirteen games, 384 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:09.119 and now a split here in the first three. I think, yeah, 385 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:13.119 the last five or six years, this certainly is a rivalry, 386 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.799 But in the eyes of baseball, you're a Dodger throw 387 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:20.480 and through for decades here saxy is it will every 388 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:24.119 get to that Giants Dodgers' rivalry cannon or is there 389 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:26.960 just too much history with the Dodgers and Giants coming 390 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:29.279 to get coming to the West Coast in nineteen fifty 391 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:30.599 eight together from New York. 392 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:32.640 Well, there's a lot of history there, of course, with 393 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:36.119 the incident with Johnny Roseborough and all that, you know, 394 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:38.880 hit and hitting the catcher, you know, So there's so 395 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:44.200 much history with the Giants. But this Padre rivalry, I feel, 396 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:48.759 is even more intense. It's newer, of course, but it's 397 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.359 it's a little more intense because I don't know, maybe 398 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:54.279 it's maybe it's proximity. You know, they're so close to us. 399 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:57.000 They're not far from Los Angeles, right down the road 400 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.440 there and there. It almost seems like every time the 401 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.720