Speaker 1: The day has arrived.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty four Dodgers World Series Championship celebration is
Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles as Dodger fans celebrate the eighth
Speaker 2: World Series title for your Los Angeles Dodgers. We are
Speaker 2: live at Dodgers Stadium. Tim Kats live in the play
Speaker 2: by play booth here at Dodgers Stadium, and David Vassey,
Speaker 2: who is live on the bus here at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: as the team and coaches get ready to head out
Speaker 2: onto the parade route in a little over an hour.
Speaker 2: We are live with exclusive coverage here on an FI
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We've
Speaker 2: got the parade that starts at City Hall at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: We've got the parade that will go through downtown in
Speaker 2: LA and then it will come to Dodger Stadium, where
Speaker 2: the gates have already opened and Dodger fans are flooding
Speaker 2: in already at nine to thirty in the morning for
Speaker 2: a celebrat like no other here at Dodger Stadium. Later
Speaker 2: on this afternoon, Dave, where are you at and what
Speaker 2: are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm sitting on one of the parade buses that is
Speaker 3: going to be going down this parade route. First stop
Speaker 3: is to City Hall, and I'm sitting at the front
Speaker 3: of the bus and my understanding is show Hey Otani
Speaker 3: and Yoshi Yamamoto are going to be on this bus,
Speaker 3: so you'll hear from them. Kirsten Watson is on another bus,
Speaker 3: so we'll get all the players' reactions to Los Angeles
Speaker 3: celebrating them. And really, I'm so happy for a lot
Speaker 3: of the players that were on the twenty twenty World
Speaker 3: Series team to be able to experience this parade.
Speaker 1: You heard Walker.
Speaker 3: Buehler and t k Hernandez talk about it, and you know,
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking about guys that like Kenley Janssen and
Speaker 3: Justin Turner on a day today because they really wanted
Speaker 3: a parade in twenty.
Speaker 1: They deserved a parade in twenty.
Speaker 3: But we're keeping their spirited alive from all those Dodgers
Speaker 3: that you know, won the World Series in twenty but
Speaker 3: unfortunately could not experience this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a common message from the Dodgers during
Speaker 2: that World Series, especially after the three to zero series
Speaker 2: lead Dave that players that were still here from.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty team.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts talked about it in press conferences about how
Speaker 2: much they want to celebrate with Dodger fans. You're on
Speaker 2: one of the team buses. How many buses will there
Speaker 2: be on the parade route? Can you see how many
Speaker 2: are around you? And how many do you expect to
Speaker 2: be there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like there's going to be about seven
Speaker 3: to nine buses on this parade route. I've seen players
Speaker 3: that you know, weren't on the postseason roster but have
Speaker 3: been a part of the regular season. Remember, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: used a lot of players. In fact, they use forty
Speaker 3: different starting pitchers during the season. And for guys like
Speaker 3: Bobby Miller and James Outman there here. So just to
Speaker 3: give you an idea that the Dodgers have expanded the
Speaker 3: roster for this parade to include guys that contributed at
Speaker 3: some point in time during this regular season. No word
Speaker 3: if Taylor Tremmel is here, though I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 3: I did see Outman and Bobby Miller.
Speaker 2: How about Kevin Bizio, Cavin Bigio, Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: Out today.
Speaker 3: If he comes, he's not bringing his bat. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you that he didn't bring.
Speaker 2: It when he was with the Dodgers on the field, David, So,
Speaker 2: a lot of buses will be making the trip through
Speaker 2: the parade today. It will start at eleven o'clock this morning,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna hear it right here on ANFI seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports. Nobody else has got somebody on the bus
Speaker 2: is let alone on the bus with shoey o Tani
Speaker 2: except David Vasse hearing us at ANFI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: The parade will start at eleven. It will start with
Speaker 2: a message from Mayor Karen Bass. She will kick off
Speaker 2: the parade at City Hall on Spring Street, and then
Speaker 2: it'll go about one point two miles through downtown Los
Speaker 2: Angeles and ending right by the LA Central Main Library.
Speaker 2: And then the buses will head back to Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: and Dave, when they get back, they're gonna be awaited
Speaker 2: and greeted by fifty two thousand Dodger fans who are
Speaker 2: on the parade route. But here at Dodgers Stadium and
Speaker 2: being inside right now, you're outside on the bus inside
Speaker 2: the stadium right now. I mean it feels like you
Speaker 2: can feel like a playoff game in here. The fans
Speaker 2: are here. It's nine thirty five in the morning, and
Speaker 2: they couldn't be more fired up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see the parking lot. It's filling up, no
Speaker 3: doubt about it. And it reminds me of when the
Speaker 3: Lakers had one of their parades with Kobe and Gasol.
Speaker 3: I believe it was in nine where they had the
Speaker 3: parade down Figueroa and ended it at the Coliseum, and
Speaker 3: that place was with what ninety thousand plus there. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers definitely could have had it and filled it up
Speaker 3: and then some at the Coliseum. But I love the
Speaker 3: idea of having a parade route and then ending it
Speaker 3: at Dodgers Stadium. I thought it was a great idea
Speaker 3: to be able to find a way to organize something
Speaker 3: like this by selling tickets for Dodgers Stadium. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's a great way to do it. I
Speaker 3: remember back in the day in the eighties, Tim, I
Speaker 3: know it seems like yesterday, but it wasn't. Watching the
Speaker 3: Lakers and the eighty eight Dodgers parade finish up at
Speaker 3: City Hall. That was somewhat the tradition back in the day.
Speaker 3: But I kind of like how in two thousand, the
Speaker 3: Lakers first parade since their back to back championship in
Speaker 3: eighty eight ended in front of Staples Center before they
Speaker 3: built LA Live, so they had all that parking lot space.
Speaker 3: That was a controlled chaos in some ways. I like
Speaker 3: having a stadium for an ending point, and I love
Speaker 3: it being organized so everybody has a chance to celebrate
Speaker 3: their world champion LA Dodgers, and I don't know about you, Tim,
Speaker 3: but it feels like this team connected with the city
Speaker 3: more than any other teams in recent past. Twenty twenty
Speaker 3: was a phenomenal team. They would have won the World
Speaker 3: Series even if it was a full season, but there
Speaker 3: was some sort of emotional disconnect because the city couldn't
Speaker 3: celebrate with each other. The parades like this for sports
Speaker 3: teams are a uniting kind of feeling in the city.
Speaker 3: With so many differences and extreme differences in the world
Speaker 3: today and in the city today, to bring every walk
Speaker 3: of life together to celebrate one team is really special.
Speaker 2: Dave, Why do you think it's different this year? As
Speaker 2: you mentioned this group, this Dodger team resonates maybe a
Speaker 2: little bit more with the Dodger fan base this year.
Speaker 2: I mean, is it Otani? You think that has changed
Speaker 2: that the addition to him and maybe more Japanese fans.
Speaker 2: I mean, is it the sentiment of Clayton Kershaw and
Speaker 2: seeing him at the end of his career and wanting
Speaker 2: to win another World Series. Why this year different than
Speaker 2: previous years?
Speaker 3: You think, well, number one, because of the way this
Speaker 3: team kind of came together after having so many injuries.
Speaker 3: And yes, Otani got the excitement going, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: A lot of star power, but it feels like, you know,
Speaker 3: no matter how much money you spend, as Miguil Rojas
Speaker 3: said in the clubhouse after they won the World Series,
Speaker 3: this team did not just rely on talent. They relied
Speaker 3: on character. And I think the sunflower seed celebration by
Speaker 3: Taoscar Hernandez. He was a fan favorite in his first year.
Speaker 3: Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman obviously have had two disappointing
Speaker 3: postseasons the last two years, so for them to come
Speaker 3: back and perform the way they did in October, especially Freddie,
Speaker 3: and you know, Mooki had his best postseason since twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: If you go back to twenty eighteen, he wasn't one
Speaker 3: of the main guys on that Red Sox championship team
Speaker 3: in October, but with the Dodgers, he was and I
Speaker 3: just think now those two guys, they officially had been
Speaker 3: embraced by LA, they're going to experience it today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned Taoscar Hernandez David, and I don't think.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't remember a Dodger player that wasn't
Speaker 2: a star like an Otani or somebody coming over like
Speaker 2: a Freddie Freeman and Adrian Gonzalez on his first game
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Dandy hitting the home run in this first
Speaker 2: AP bat, going way back when he was acquired. In
Speaker 2: recent memory, I'm trying to think of a free agent
Speaker 2: signing that maybe went under the radar and wasn't a
Speaker 2: star player like a Taoscar Hernandez who instantly, instantly fans
Speaker 2: fell in love. But I mean to go back to
Speaker 2: media day and him and shoe a Otani on the
Speaker 2: Dodger social media platforms and talking to each other and
Speaker 2: having fun behind the scenes before they took their individual pitchers.
Speaker 2: I think it was from then on fans fell in
Speaker 2: love with him, and then certainly his production on the field,
Speaker 2: winning the home run derby. I mean, they just absolutely
Speaker 2: loved this guy.
Speaker 3: And more importantly, his team loved him. Yeah, he was
Speaker 3: a first year guy. That found a way to bring
Speaker 3: everybody together. You know, they've had guys in the past
Speaker 3: like Anser Alberto last year or a couple of years
Speaker 3: ago where he didn't play very much. But a guy
Speaker 3: like Taoscar Hernandez who not only can perform on the
Speaker 3: field the way he did, but bring together the Latin
Speaker 3: Spanish speaking players together with the English speaking players. That's
Speaker 3: a huge dynamic inside the clubhouse and in the dugout,
Speaker 3: and it means more when you have a player of
Speaker 3: his caliber.
Speaker 1: And he bet on himself.
Speaker 3: You know, he could have gotten a multi year contract,
Speaker 3: but he felt like it was under a market value
Speaker 3: for him, and he said, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 3: to bet on myself. I'm going to sign one year
Speaker 3: with a team that I believe has a chance to
Speaker 3: win a World Series championship and it's only going to
Speaker 3: boost my value across the league.
Speaker 1: And little did we know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I remember talking to Enrique Rojas from ESPN
Speaker 3: to sport this in spring training. He said, you are
Speaker 3: going to love Taoscar Hernandez, not just because of the
Speaker 3: player he is, but also what key brings, the intangibles
Speaker 3: that he brings. So he really lived up to it
Speaker 3: and the Sunflower Seeds celebration was organic, spontaneous, and that's
Speaker 3: why it was so great.
Speaker 2: It was, and he was a huge part of this
Speaker 2: team in the postseason as well. Tim Kats David Vass
Speaker 2: live here on AM five to seventy LA Sports at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. As the fans are starting to make their
Speaker 2: way into Dodger Stadium, the parking lot is filling up.
Speaker 2: Those that are here will be able to watch the
Speaker 2: celebration on the jumbotrons here on Dodger Vision as it's
Speaker 2: going through downtown Los Angeles. Of course, thousands have already
Speaker 2: lined up along the streets in downtown LA. I'm inside
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. David Vasse is on one of the team buses.
Speaker 2: There's nobody else in LA that's got somebody on a
Speaker 2: bus during the parade except AM five seventy LA Sports
Speaker 2: and our own David Vass, So we will be having
Speaker 2: that during the parade. Dave's outside waiting with the team.
Speaker 2: Some players day are actually on the field here getting
Speaker 2: some family shots as the players are trickling into the stadium. Obviously,
Speaker 2: in the club, I was getting ready, probably probably enjoined
Speaker 2: some coffee, but some players have trickled out here onto
Speaker 2: the field. They've got John Suhu and crew down here
Speaker 2: taking family pitchers with the championship trophy. So it's it's
Speaker 2: starting to get buzz in here at the stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could feel it. I hear it in the background.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful day here in La Blue Skies. I
Speaker 3: could see downtown perfectly from the players parking lot here
Speaker 3: at Dodgers Stadium, because that's where they will be loaded
Speaker 3: up and the buses will head to City Hall and
Speaker 3: from there, like you mentioned earlier, they will start that
Speaker 3: mile plus parade route that will end up here at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium. You know Tim growing up here in La
Speaker 3: I know you as well. This is a pinch me
Speaker 3: moment because the eighty eight championship period seems so far away,
Speaker 3: it seems so unattainable. And to be on one of
Speaker 3: the floats right now, for you to be at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 3: I mean, isn't this really cool? This is the first
Speaker 3: I don't think people realize this. There are fans out
Speaker 3: there that have never experienced a Dodgers World Series parade.
Speaker 3: There are people that are alive that never got to
Speaker 3: see nineteen eighty eight. Of course they got to celebrate
Speaker 3: with their own families in twenty twenty. But think about
Speaker 3: what this means to Dodger fans, this generation that weren't
Speaker 3: around for.
Speaker 1: A nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3: This is the first time ever they will experience a
Speaker 3: Dodger World Series parade, and I think that's what makes
Speaker 3: it all really special. It's one thing to win, but
Speaker 3: without the fans, it means absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think we're spoiled by the Lakers
Speaker 2: and the championships in the two thousands and the parades
Speaker 2: that they had in their early two thousands, the mid
Speaker 2: two thousands, the Rams having this sort of a parade
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one. But you're right, for the first
Speaker 2: time in thirty six years, a championship parade here for
Speaker 2: this Los Angeles Dodgers team and Mookie Betch and his
Speaker 2: family right now along the third baseline gathered taking pictures.
Speaker 1: Together with the championship. Mookie told me he wanted me
Speaker 1: in the family picture.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 2: I apologize, Hey, Mo, can you wait? No, they're not
Speaker 2: waiting for you to Dave unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I mean that's disappointing for Mookie and his family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they can photoshop you in to one of
Speaker 2: the family pictures. He is David Vat say, folks, he
Speaker 2: is live on one of the Dodgers team buzzes that
Speaker 2: is gonna make its way to City Hall and then
Speaker 2: go through the parade route. I'm inside Dodger Stadium that's
Speaker 2: starting to fill up. The entertainment has happening. We've got
Speaker 2: a band in the right field pavilion. We've got exclusive
Speaker 2: coverage here on A five seven.
Speaker 1: Will take a band, Tim, What kind of band is it?
Speaker 1: You know? It's a I can see a saxophone. I
Speaker 1: see something reggae, ska. Who is it?
Speaker 2: It's it's just a band, like a marching band, maybe
Speaker 2: kind of playing day.
Speaker 1: A lot of horns and some drums. Hey, what I
Speaker 1: heard's happening?
Speaker 3: You know what I heard is happening in San Diego today,
Speaker 3: Tim school absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. They can watch on TV this championship
Speaker 2: celebration brought to you by Yama BA.
Speaker 1: We'll come back.
Speaker 2: We'll get an update from the parade route from break
Speaker 2: Blake trolley from kfive. David Vass inside the team bus.
Speaker 2: Nobody else has his coverage except your Home of the
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Speaker 2: day has begun. Dodger fans filing in here to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: What a sound effect him, great sound effects? You got.
Speaker 1: We love.
Speaker 2: The folks at Yamaba are presenting it today. David Matgic
Speaker 2: Johnson is on the field here at Dodger Stadium. Is
Speaker 2: he is getting some pictures with John Sue, who looks
Speaker 2: like the trophy. Championship trophy here is is implanted on
Speaker 2: the field and fans are, players and owner are just
Speaker 2: coming by and taking pictures one at a time as
Speaker 2: they make their way out of the dug David Masse
Speaker 2: is live on a team bus as the Dodgers will
Speaker 2: have the parade beginning eleven o'clock. We'll have it for you.
Speaker 2: David will be on the bus during the parade with
Speaker 2: the exclusive nobody else has this interviews from the parade
Speaker 2: as it's happening, and then of course make its way
Speaker 2: back here to Dodgers Stadium. David, let's check in with
Speaker 2: camfive's Blake Trolley, who's on the parade route. In fact,
Speaker 2: he's at City Hall right now where the parade will
Speaker 2: begin in just over an hour.
Speaker 1: Blake, what's going on out there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so, looking out my news truck window right now,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to wonder if there's any civilization left in
Speaker 5: the rest of southern California. I don't know how it
Speaker 5: looks for you, David, but it seems like the entire
Speaker 5: region is dressing their blue today and they are out
Speaker 5: here to show some support for the dam. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You get a chance to talk to some of the fans
Speaker 2: already that are out there. When did you see them
Speaker 2: start arriving around City Hall and on the streets of
Speaker 2: the parade route.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been really funny to actually watch the fans.
Speaker 5: So I got here about five in the morning, and uh,
Speaker 5: you know, I was telling your producer that at about
Speaker 5: five am this morning, the fans that were here, it
Speaker 5: would be like one dad with his red eyed family
Speaker 5: that he dragged to the parade line. And the dad
Speaker 5: was really excited to do the interview and the family
Speaker 5: would be would be watching dad as what I've seen
Speaker 5: is at the rate of people that are now showing
Speaker 5: up to downtown LA and the masses have just really arrived,
Speaker 5: not only in physical presence, but also the energy is
Speaker 5: just building here. Uh and and go to this. I
Speaker 5: talked to these two fans and I just love this.
Speaker 5: It's the type of interview where you're interviewing one and
Speaker 5: everybody wants in on if he could go to this
Speaker 5: first bit, Let's go.
Speaker 3: Beautiful that was inile. That was incredible, Blake, that was
Speaker 3: great audio right there. It really gave us the feel
Speaker 3: of the streets.
Speaker 5: It has been one of those situations where I pull
Speaker 5: out the mic to interview one per and it's like
Speaker 5: a newsperson's dream out here because you pull out your mic,
Speaker 5: you try to interview one person and a bunch of
Speaker 5: people start yelling into your microphone. And for us in
Speaker 5: our business, that's pretty rare that it's that easy to
Speaker 5: get people talking.
Speaker 2: Blake, real quick, What is the situation at City Hall
Speaker 2: when the buses arrived. Karen Bass is expected to kick
Speaker 2: off the parade the LA Mayor. Is there a podium
Speaker 2: and set up for her with the players going to
Speaker 2: disembark and then get back on. What is the scene
Speaker 2: set there around City Hall?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so of course the two buses are set up here.
Speaker 5: The mayor is set to kick this thing off at
Speaker 5: eleven am. It's really I mean, my train of vision
Speaker 5: quite honestly, has been crowded by the flocks of people
Speaker 5: that have been arriving, so I'm able to see those
Speaker 5: double decker buses and again those take off at about
Speaker 5: eleven am. They're going to ride through downtown for about
Speaker 5: forty five minutes and then it's a pretty quick trip
Speaker 5: back to Dodger Stadium for that ticketed event. I understand
Speaker 5: you're there right.
Speaker 2: Now, absolutely, Blake. We appreciate you checking in from City Hall.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next hour and get it for updates.
Speaker 2: Then appreciate thanks, Blake. I got all right there, he
Speaker 2: goes Kfi's Blake trolley. He is at City Hall. We'll
Speaker 2: check o with Corbyn Carson next hour. He's on the
Speaker 2: parade route, which Dave you were gonna be on at
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock when the bus is head over there, you're
Speaker 2: gonna be on shoey Otani's bus and for show, Hey, Dave.
Speaker 2: Being around this guy all season long, the career season
Speaker 2: that he had the fifty to fifty is one thing.
Speaker 2: The postseason and finally winning the championship after six years
Speaker 2: in baseball purgatory down in Anaheim, to finally win a championship.
Speaker 2: We saw the smile in the clubhouse. I imagine that
Speaker 2: smile probably hasn't.
Speaker 1: Left his face now.
Speaker 3: I saw him this morning. Actually we arrived about ten
Speaker 3: minutes apart, saw him in the clubhouse and show hey.
Speaker 3: I mean, it feels like even it was a game day.
Speaker 3: The way he came in. He had the same type
Speaker 3: of foot the way he does during the season, So
Speaker 3: it was great to see him. It'll be great to
Speaker 3: see him in this environment on the bus to see
Speaker 3: how it goes. But yeah, this is great, and I
Speaker 3: hope A Corbin has some audio from Dodger fans screaming
Speaker 3: do yours doyers, goodyers.
Speaker 2: I watched a little bit of the local news coverage
Speaker 2: from the parade route and it's deep. I mean, we
Speaker 2: talk about parades in the eighties, the floats that the
Speaker 2: Dodger players and coaches were on for the Lakers and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers parades in eighty seven and eighty eight for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, the last time we had one for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: but the early two thousands and the mid two thousands
Speaker 2: of double decker buses. You mentioned ending at the coliseum,
Speaker 2: But I remember that twenty the two thousand parade ending
Speaker 2: in front of Staples Center.
Speaker 1: The two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: Thousand Laker fans that were there with Shaq and Kobe
Speaker 2: and that crew. I imagine we're going to see numbers like
Speaker 2: that when it's all said to done. On top day
Speaker 2: of the fifty two thousand, it'll be jampacked inside Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's going to be like two thousand,
Speaker 3: because that was the first time the Lakers had a
Speaker 3: championship since.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty eight. Shack Kobe.
Speaker 3: Now we're talking Otani, Moogie, Freddie Freeman, same type of
Speaker 3: star power. But let's face it, Tim, the Lakers were
Speaker 3: not LA's team until probably the sixties, and even then
Speaker 3: they weren't the hottest ticking in town. Ever since the
Speaker 3: Dodgers arrived in nineteen fifty eight, they've been the jewel franchise.
Speaker 1: Of this city. There is so much emotional.
Speaker 3: Attachment to the Dodger franchise, and obviously when Fernando Vealezuela
Speaker 3: burst onto the scene in nineteen eighty one, that took
Speaker 3: it to another level. And by the way, today is
Speaker 3: Fernando's birthday, and we're thinking about Fernando, the Valezuela family,
Speaker 3: and I know everybody was talking about trying to win
Speaker 3: the World Series in game six on Fernando's birthday. I
Speaker 3: think Fernando would be very happy that a parade is
Speaker 3: happening on his birthday instead of a game six.
Speaker 4: So we're we're celebrating the Dodgers, and right all the
Speaker 4: others are here, they just don't ye right on cue,
Speaker 4: as you mentioned Fernando Valenzoyla's name, David, the mariachi band
Speaker 4: started and Dodger fans starting to get up out of
Speaker 4: their seats that already sitting down and starting to move
Speaker 4: around loving the mariachi movesic I'm telling you, there are
Speaker 4: a lot of Fernando Valen Valenzuela number thirty four jerseys
Speaker 4: here inside Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Did you see all the balloons in front of the
Speaker 3: stadium when they when you first arrive at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: That thing has grown to him from the day that
Speaker 3: Fernando we learned of his passing and from when the
Speaker 3: Dodgers left for Yankee Stadium after Game.
Speaker 1: Two of the World Series.
Speaker 3: It's the homage and the memorial in front of that
Speaker 3: landmark sign on Vin Scully Avenue. I mean, I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe it. I saw the happy Birthday balloons. It's really grown.
Speaker 3: And look, Fernando and the current players may have not
Speaker 3: had a tide of relationship as he had with his
Speaker 3: Dodger teams, but obviously the players understand what Fernando means
Speaker 3: to this city. They they had his patch on their
Speaker 3: left sleeve. The city loved Fernando Vealezuela. And it's going
Speaker 3: to be great to celebrate the Dodgers and Fernando's birthday
Speaker 3: with this parade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure they're going to have a tribute for
Speaker 2: Fernando as today is Fernando Valenzuela's birthday. Miss him deeply.
Speaker 2: After a few weeks ago his passing away, they got
Speaker 2: a number thirty four certainly out here reving represented by
Speaker 2: Dodger fans, the mariachi band playing here already this morning,
Speaker 2: as we are a little over an hour away from
Speaker 2: the start of the parade, we'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 2: We'll come back with more exclusive coverage of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: World Series Championship celebration, presented by Yamavah Tim Cats David Vesey.
Speaker 2: David is on one of the Dodgers team buses and
Speaker 2: he will be on the bus as it makes its
Speaker 2: way to City Hall in a little over an hour,
Speaker 2: and then on the bus during the one point two
Speaker 2: miles of the parade. Nobody else has this kind of
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