Speaker 1: It is Coachella Valley's best bet.
Speaker 2: All right, So does this year feel different than the
Speaker 2: ones in the past. Yeap, yes, not even close. Here's why. First,
Speaker 2: and we said this, at least I did at the
Speaker 2: start of the season. I don't care if they went
Speaker 2: one hundred games. I don't care if they won one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five games. I don't care if they
Speaker 2: win eighty nine games. None of that matters to me.
Speaker 2: The only thing that matters really is how they're going
Speaker 2: to do in the playoffs. So first you got to
Speaker 2: get there. Got to get there. Yeah, and then we'll
Speaker 2: see how you perform. At the beginning of this season,
Speaker 2: when you looked at them on paper, you thought they
Speaker 2: could win one hundred and ten games. I did, before
Speaker 2: all the pitching went south, before the Mookie injury. When
Speaker 2: you looked at the lineup, you thought this is a
Speaker 2: team that is going to smoke almost everybody. And we
Speaker 2: said that early in the year, Rodney, Remember when they
Speaker 2: were losing and we sat around and said, well everybody,
Speaker 2: they thought they'd smoke everybody's that's not really the way
Speaker 2: this works.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think it's been more of a struggle. I think
Speaker 2: it's been more of a battle. I think there have
Speaker 2: been moments not from the team or actually from you
Speaker 2: or I, but if we're to be honest from the
Speaker 2: fan base of doubt, yeah, I think it certainly has
Speaker 2: been far more difficult than anyone imagined it would be.
Speaker 2: So I think, yes, this year is very different. But
Speaker 2: let me say this, I think it's probably the best
Speaker 2: thing that could have.
Speaker 4: Happened to him.
Speaker 1: You do, yeah, yeah, we've seen what aspect what aspect
Speaker 1: of that is the best thing that happened to it,
Speaker 1: because you can look at this in several different ways.
Speaker 1: They had injuries, they you know, they they've struggled at times.
Speaker 1: Are you saying that they that they had to fight
Speaker 1: to the end? Is different and what makes it I
Speaker 1: think a little bit better for them this year going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: We listen, we've seen the movie where they blow everybody out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we know how that movie in the games, and
Speaker 2: they go into the playoffs, they got to buy. They
Speaker 2: you know, they they win a division in what late
Speaker 2: August or early September, their cruising guys are resting and
Speaker 2: then they got to buy and other teams are playing
Speaker 2: and then they show up and it takes them three
Speaker 2: games to get going, and next thing you know, they're down.
Speaker 4: Oh three, right, they're done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're basically done this year because of what they've
Speaker 2: been through and the adversity and the injuries, and to
Speaker 2: be completely honest, not knowing what was going to happen next.
Speaker 2: I mean, we still don't know about the pitching staff.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, Walker Bueler looks good last night
Speaker 2: and you're thinking, oh, Mike, where did that come from?
Speaker 2: How did that happen at that precise moment, So you
Speaker 2: really don't know. I think all of those factors contribute
Speaker 2: to them having to be more aggressive, more intense, because
Speaker 2: they've had to be more aggress have been more intense.
Speaker 2: The other night when they lost to San Diego on
Speaker 2: the triple play, that was a moment in time right
Speaker 2: there where they could have folded up ten. That was
Speaker 2: a moment if you look at that as it would
Speaker 2: have happened perhaps in the playoffs against the Padres. If
Speaker 2: that happens to them in the playoffs, are done, because
Speaker 2: that's what we've seen done. Yeah, right, it's over. We've
Speaker 2: seen that. We know what happens when they get down there.
Speaker 2: But this year they came back this year. They persevered,
Speaker 2: net Coletti always says, and it was true in the
Speaker 2: Padres series and even in the game they lost in
Speaker 2: the triple play. Where the Dodgers are going to get
Speaker 2: you is the late innings, because they're going to grind
Speaker 2: you and grind you and grind you you, and then
Speaker 2: they'll get you. Well, the problem in parts of this
Speaker 2: season has been before you get to the late innings,
Speaker 2: they're down five runs because of the pitching. Right, That's
Speaker 2: what that's right been the problem. You can't even get
Speaker 2: to the late innings because you're done by so much.
Speaker 2: Now you're just trying to get back up to the
Speaker 2: surface of the.
Speaker 1: Water exactly exactly. I mean, if you look and we
Speaker 1: know this, we've said this. With this firepower that they had,
Speaker 1: and let's be honest, you cannot win in this in
Speaker 1: this league, this era. I don't care if you've got
Speaker 1: ten Otani's on your team. You cannot win if you
Speaker 1: don't have good quality pitching. And you said it. Oftentimes
Speaker 1: they get to the late innings, the sixth, seventh, eighth inning,
Speaker 1: and they're down five runs, they're down six runs, and
Speaker 1: all you ask and all I'm sure those guys asking
Speaker 1: the clubhouse is like, keep us close, keep us in
Speaker 1: striking distance. If you keep us in striking distance, I
Speaker 1: believe they're the best team in baseball.
Speaker 4: Game.
Speaker 1: If the game is close, I put my money on
Speaker 1: the Dodgers against anybody. It is those problems when they
Speaker 1: get you know, someone gets five runs in the third
Speaker 1: or you know, they get four runs in the second inning,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they're playing catch up the whole.
Speaker 4: Game because your mentality changes.
Speaker 1: Whole mentality changes, And I know if you're sitting in
Speaker 1: that clubhouse, you go, we're only one rundown or two
Speaker 1: runs down. All it takes is in one home run,
Speaker 1: we're back in this thing. Like it did last night
Speaker 1: with Will Smith. Somebody get on base and somebody pick
Speaker 1: him up, and then it becomes contagious. And so that's
Speaker 1: the thing that can't happen in the postseason. You know,
Speaker 1: you're not saying you gotta throw shutouts, but you can't
Speaker 1: let the game get out of hand, especially out of
Speaker 1: hand early.
Speaker 2: Keep us in the game, that's all we're asking. Just
Speaker 2: keep us in it, give us a shot. And the
Speaker 2: problem is when you're starting pitching, your so banged up
Speaker 2: and guys are going four innings. Oftentimes you don't get
Speaker 2: that shot, but they did the last two nights, and
Speaker 2: you saw the result of that. I don't think And
Speaker 2: it's funny because people have speculated on this from the beginning,
Speaker 2: and I don't think you have. I know I haven't,
Speaker 2: and I don't think you have. Well, how will o'tani
Speaker 2: perform on the big stage. How is he going to
Speaker 2: react in the biggest moments of his life? That guy
Speaker 2: is the greatest player of all time. He's going to
Speaker 2: react just fine. Well, is he going to be ready
Speaker 2: for the moment. He's going to be ready for the moment.
Speaker 2: And we saw that in those games against the Padres
Speaker 2: because after the triple play game, and remember he was
Speaker 2: on deck in that game. But after that triple play
Speaker 2: game where everything could have gone south, who stepped up
Speaker 2: and suddenly who had that enormous burst of energy and
Speaker 2: adrenaline an enthusiasm. It was him. It was him when
Speaker 2: he was running, it was him when he was on
Speaker 2: the bench. All of a sudden, he was made for
Speaker 2: the moment. That's who he is. He's made for the moment.
Speaker 2: I really thought after that remains to be seen. We
Speaker 2: haven't seen him in the moment.
Speaker 4: I think he's made for the moment.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen it. I hope he's made it. I
Speaker 1: hope he's made for the moment. We haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 1: he's made. What I will say is that he's feeling
Speaker 1: it because we haven't seen him with that type of
Speaker 1: emotion all season long, the way we've seen him in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, uh, and especially this series against
Speaker 1: the Padres, where he's pumping his fist, he's looking at
Speaker 1: the dugout, yelling back at the dugout. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: that from Otani. He's usually reserved and quiet and mild
Speaker 1: mannered and all that. And now he's bat flipping and
Speaker 1: pumping his fists as he's running the first base after
Speaker 1: a home run, and and on the base path he's
Speaker 1: hitting the double, he's jumping up and doing the dance
Speaker 1: to the dugout and the and the and the bullpen.
Speaker 1: And that becomes contagious because if you notice when your guy,
Speaker 1: your superstar, does that, it becomes contagious. Mess Will Smith
Speaker 1: last night after he hit the home run, You know,
Speaker 1: we don't see that kind of emotion out of him
Speaker 1: he's he's a Clark Kent kind of mild manner guy too,
Speaker 1: doesn't show a whole lot of emotion.
Speaker 4: But he hit that home run and he chucked that bat.
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna go on the other team's
Speaker 1: dugout the way he flipped that bat and then and
Speaker 1: then the fist pump around the bases, Mookie Betts, you know,
Speaker 1: after he got the hit that that put him ahead.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just everybody's feeding off everybody. But I
Speaker 1: think even more so, they're feeding off of the excitement
Speaker 1: that o'tani is feeling for the first time. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get a chance to play on the big stage and
Speaker 1: in the postseason. Now he has to deliver, and there's
Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, more pressure on him than he's
Speaker 1: ever felt before. And he's gonna have to deliver. Don't
Speaker 1: smirk for it, because he is. It's gonna be more
Speaker 1: pressure on him than it ever was.
Speaker 2: No, you know what, you know I did that. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you why. I think you're right. But I think
Speaker 2: he's immune to it. I think he's immune to the pressure.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be just fine. I swear
Speaker 2: to God, I do. I think he is immune. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's going to affect him one bit. And
Speaker 2: as you were saying that, Rodney, another thing that was
Speaker 2: running through my mind. He only came to the Dodgers. Well,
Speaker 2: he came because it's a great organization at Southern California.
Speaker 2: He came for one reason. That reason was confirmed last night.
Speaker 2: He's in the postseason. Yeah, after all those years with
Speaker 2: the Angels, he wanted one thing, give me a shot,
Speaker 2: give me a shot to win this thing. And in
Speaker 2: his first year with the Dodgers, he's got that shot.
Speaker 2: I think that for him is just the beginning now,
Speaker 2: and that's why I think he will be immune to
Speaker 2: the pressure. This is all he wanted, get me into tournament.
Speaker 1: Sometimes all you want, you want it too bad sometimes
Speaker 1: and then you overdo it and then you overtry because
Speaker 1: you want something so bad. I'm not saying that's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but it does happen. Where you waited your whole life
Speaker 1: for an opportunity and it gets there and you start
Speaker 1: to press a little bit, you try to do something
Speaker 1: different than you've done all season long. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's got the right people in his ear, you know,
Speaker 1: especially a guy like Dave Roberts is just don't change anything.
Speaker 4: Do what you've been doing.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes guys get in big moments and they
Speaker 1: change the routine or they got it, they feel like
Speaker 1: they have to change it, and he shouldn't have to
Speaker 1: change it at all. And the good news for him,
Speaker 1: I think, which is gonna be really good and because
Speaker 1: well we hope Freddy's gonna be all right, we'll touch
Speaker 1: on that in a minute, it is that he's got
Speaker 1: a team around him like he's not had before either.
Speaker 1: And you know, yes, he had Mike Trout down in Anaheim,
Speaker 1: but aside from that, he really didn't have a line
Speaker 1: like he's had with the Dodgers. Where Will Smith can
Speaker 1: be and get the big hit, big home runn in
Speaker 1: the game, Ookie right behind him, Freddie right behind him,
Speaker 1: Max Muntsey can come up with bit. Gavin Lux who's
Speaker 1: been on fire, can come up with the big ag,
Speaker 1: Taoscar Hernandez who's been on fire this whole season. He's
Speaker 1: got a squad behind him, so it's not going to
Speaker 1: call and fall on him, and he can go oh
Speaker 1: to three. He can go oh for three in a ballgame,
Speaker 1: Fred and come up that fourth time, or or at
Speaker 1: least field during the course of that game. That is
Speaker 1: not all on my shoulders. I got other guys. And
Speaker 1: so if he does go oh for three and he
Speaker 1: comes up that fourth time, it's like, Okay, now's my time.
Speaker 1: I can deliver this time. And so that to me,
Speaker 1: I agree with you that I think he's gonna thrive
Speaker 1: because it's not all gonna be about him. A team
Speaker 1: can't look at the dog and go if we just
Speaker 1: stop Otani, then we beat him. That's not the case
Speaker 1: because several guys can beat you on this team, and
Speaker 1: guys are getting there at the right time.
Speaker 4: So it'll be fun, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: But going back to what he started with, they gotta
Speaker 1: stay in a striking distance because I don't care what inning,
Speaker 1: and then if they're one to two runs away, they're dangerous.
Speaker 4: So I'll give you this. I know Tani.
Speaker 2: I will give you this. He's made for the moment.
Speaker 2: I think he's immune to the pressure. I think in
Speaker 2: his first at bat in the playoffs, he'll have either
Speaker 2: hit a home run or cork strew himself into the ground.
Speaker 2: He'll swing so hard. I will give you that. I
Speaker 2: think in his first at bat He's either gonna hit
Speaker 2: the ball five hundred feet or they're gonna have to
Speaker 2: unscrew him because he's gonna swing so hard he'll be
Speaker 2: stuck in the ground. Then he'll be fine. I do
Speaker 2: think that will happen. I think he is waited for
Speaker 2: this every moment he's played in the major leagues, and
Speaker 2: now he has that moment. Freddie Freeman, let's touch on that.
Speaker 2: You know, Listen, Dave Roberts loves his guys. Loves his guys.
Speaker 2: Somebody gets hurt, Dave will get out there. When Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman went down, I thought Dave Roberts was running one
Speaker 2: hundred meters dash.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1: He was running like he was running for the Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox when he stole second base when they won
Speaker 1: the title back then. He Yeah, he sprinted to first
Speaker 1: base to check on Freddy. And watching that thing, it
Speaker 1: was awkward to begin with the way he went into
Speaker 1: first play first base trying to sidestep it, and then
Speaker 1: the rolling of the ankle. I was actually please because
Speaker 1: initially I didn't see the rolling of the ankle. I
Speaker 1: thought he did. Rodney, Yeah, I thought he had his
Speaker 1: knee popped out or his knee. It was something going
Speaker 1: on with his knee, and that would have been capastrophic.
Speaker 1: But when he rolled his ankle, it's like, Okay, they're
Speaker 1: gonna win the division. They're gonna have time off. He
Speaker 1: doesn't go to Colorado at all. He just rehabbed. Then
Speaker 1: you have another week. He'll be fine. He'll be fine.
Speaker 1: He'll be in a probably in a boot crutches for
Speaker 1: the next week and a half and then they'll rehab it.
Speaker 1: It'll be okay. But I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, wait, wait, what what? No, No, Freddy, and
Speaker 1: but hopefully he's he's gonna be okay. But the fact
Speaker 1: that they didn't win and get the buy that's big.
Speaker 4: No, that is big.
Speaker 2: And I think because they've had to fight so hard
Speaker 2: this year just to be where they're at. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Padres are the hottest team in baseball since see
Speaker 2: All Star Break, and we all know the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: not been the hottest team.
Speaker 1: So nobody wants to see the Padres in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you that right now. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: nobody I know. But the thing is, the thing is
Speaker 1: given on hard. They've had to fight this year, there's
Speaker 1: really been no downtime for them. So even though they
Speaker 1: get the buye in that week and you remember last
Speaker 1: year they tried something different obviously didn't work, but uh,
Speaker 1: in that week, you know, Freddie will rehab, they'll work out.
Speaker 1: But I just think because they had work so hard
Speaker 1: this year, that buye is not gonna be as much
Speaker 1: of a problem as it's been in the past.
Speaker 4: I agree, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think that they they got because I think deep down,
Speaker 1: even though you're in it and you believe it, you
Speaker 1: gotta work hard and you got every everybody gets paid
Speaker 1: and they're professionals on the other side, and they're good
Speaker 1: players out there on on every team, you still feel like,
Speaker 1: we gotta gotta we got a monster of a team.
Speaker 1: We're gonna blow people out this year. We're gonna run
Speaker 1: away with this thing. You feel that it just subconsciously
Speaker 1: you can't help it. And then when that doesn't happen
Speaker 1: and teams are beating you and you're struggling, and you're
Speaker 1: you gotta fight to win series. Not only just gets
Speaker 1: good teams, but against mediocre teams, you they're they're battling you.
Speaker 1: In a series, you do get a wake up call, going, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 1: Because if they would to cruised through like everybody thought
Speaker 1: they were gonna do it, I just probably would have
Speaker 1: went to Vegas and say, Dodger just don't win it,
Speaker 1: because cruising through with adding O'tani in the lineup, in
Speaker 1: Yamamoto and all the things that they had, if they
Speaker 1: cruised through this season, it'd be like, it's too easy,
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna be that easy in the postseason.
Speaker 1: And you're right, the fact that they had to earn it,
Speaker 1: the fact that they had to fight, is only gonna
Speaker 1: be a good thing for the Dodgers.
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Speaker 4: We absolutely positively no, we don't. We don't care, Freddy, Let's.
Speaker 2: Go all right, Uh, let's talk about by the way,
Speaker 2: if you want to start dialing in if you were
Speaker 2: there last Now do you want to talk about what
Speaker 2: this division means?
Speaker 4: And what does it mean? It means.
Speaker 2: For eleven times and twelve years their division champs. But
Speaker 2: are you to a point where you're saying, okay, that's great,
Speaker 2: but now we need to see more A six six, nine,
Speaker 2: eighty seven, two five seventy. Uh you let us know
Speaker 2: and uh we'll put that in a bit. Let's get
Speaker 2: to Dave Roberts. And I watched him last night. I
Speaker 2: watched him after the game on the field, I saw
Speaker 2: him in the clubhouse afterwards. He's start to remind me
Speaker 2: a little bit of assorta. He's got a little Losorta
Speaker 2: in him. Now, what way are you talking about? And
Speaker 2: I'm talking about in a good way. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: in a good way, his enthusiasm, his honesty, that he
Speaker 2: can always carry himself a certain way, and the majority
Speaker 2: of those times is pretty positive. And when I saw
Speaker 2: him celebrate last night Rodney, I thought that was genuine.
Speaker 2: That was genuine. That was a show that was not
Speaker 2: an act. And when they had won the World Series
Speaker 2: and he came on the show and I asked him
Speaker 2: a question, we are more excited or relieved? And I'll
Speaker 2: never forget his answer, He goes, I was relieved we'd
Speaker 2: won the World Series, And last night when I was
Speaker 2: watching him, I got the same sense.
Speaker 4: He was relieved.
Speaker 2: We took care of what we had to take in
Speaker 2: a year where quite frankly, we shouldn't have. I thought
Speaker 2: he was relieved last and he'll never get the credit
Speaker 2: for that. He'll never get the credit.
Speaker 1: People don't really won't understand because Otani's such a bigger
Speaker 1: than life story and player that it doesn't matter. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, Fred that you had all these injuries. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. And it's not injuries. We're not talking injuries
Speaker 1: to the left fielder or injuries to position players where
Speaker 1: you know you can bring guys up and they can
Speaker 1: play for a month or two. We're talking to injuries
Speaker 1: to you were pitching staff that you counted on. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not like positioned players. But it doesn't matter to
Speaker 1: people when they look at it. And what I love
Speaker 1: about him is that he has never wavered and he
Speaker 1: believes in his club and he will never throw anybody
Speaker 1: under the bus. And you could tell, and you talk
Speaker 1: to anybody that's that plays for him, now, who ever
Speaker 1: played for him, Go back and talk to Corey Seeger.
Speaker 4: And and and and.
Speaker 1: Justin Turner and whoever Corey, Cody Belly, all those guys
Speaker 1: that play, they all love him. They all love him
Speaker 1: because he's a stand up guy. He's a straight shooter.
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna love you. He's gonna tough love
Speaker 1: you too. And I saw the same thing. And yes,
Speaker 1: that World Series, he was definitely relieved, and I I
Speaker 1: think I think this one was a little bit less
Speaker 1: relieved than joy. To me, I think he felt like,
Speaker 1: now it's time to go to work. Now I'm excited
Speaker 1: about this. We got this behind us. Now it's time
Speaker 1: to go to work. And I much like Tommy when
Speaker 1: you mentioned Tommy, much like Tommy no matter what people say,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna get under his skin. You know, people
Speaker 1: could try to rask Tommy, try to get under his skin.
Speaker 1: He's gonna getch you back with a joke, or he's
Speaker 1: gonna hit you back with a clever line. Now he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to the comedic elements as Tom of Lesorda,
Speaker 1: but he's got that thick skin where he's not gonna
Speaker 1: let he's not gonna let anybody get to him. And
Speaker 1: it is gonna be what is gonna be, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna keep smiling, keep doing things the way he's done it.
Speaker 1: So I mean best winning percentage obviously in baseball, and yes,
Speaker 1: only one World Series, and that's not good enough for
Speaker 1: Dodger fans. If he was in any other city, any
Speaker 1: other ball club, maybe other than New York, it would
Speaker 1: be a tremendous feat and people would be celebrating him
Speaker 1: left and right. He'd have billboards everywhere. But the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: the standard is to win it all and that's where
Speaker 1: it has to be. And that's good because they're in
Speaker 1: a position to win it all every single year, which
Speaker 1: is why guys want to come here, and which is
Speaker 1: why Otani's here.
Speaker 2: You know, if you think about it and you look
Speaker 2: at the season in its totality, as you as a
Speaker 2: fan do, and we talk about every day, you know,
Speaker 2: your emotions are up and down. They stay right in
Speaker 2: the middle. Don't get too high, don't get too low.
Speaker 2: You know, Walker Bueler pitched well last night, but Walker
Speaker 2: Buler had not been pitching well. And we go back
Speaker 2: to when Gavin Lux was not hitting, and David Vasse
Speaker 2: said before the trade deadline, who would even want him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, couldn't even move them. But they're trying to give
Speaker 1: them away. Remember he's dead. They're trying to give him away.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: The thing that they do really well, and Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: has said it to us in the past, and Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman has said it to us in the past, And
Speaker 2: I don't know who else in life functions this way.
Speaker 2: They just have incredible patience. Patience where you or I agonize,
Speaker 2: oh god, they lost in Cincinnati last night, or somebody
Speaker 2: made an error, or Lux has been zero for eight
Speaker 2: in the last two games. They're very, very patient because
Speaker 2: they believe, and I've talked about this in the past,
Speaker 2: they know somebody's ceiling. If they think you've hit your ceiling.
Speaker 2: They move you no matter what they thought of you,
Speaker 2: no matter what kind of prospect you were supposed to be.
Speaker 2: They have a system, they use analytics. They decide when
Speaker 2: you've hit the ceiling. Sometimes they miss, but not very often.
Speaker 2: And in doing that, they will sit with guys they
Speaker 2: believe in sit with them. Let's be honest, do you
Speaker 2: really think Walker Bueller, after the way he came back
Speaker 2: would be out there pitching in that game last night
Speaker 2: if they had anybody else. No, you don't, because you
Speaker 2: didn't know what you'd get. But they were patient and
Speaker 2: they sat with him and he looked very good last night.
Speaker 2: That's a function of patience. That's what they do so
Speaker 2: well I do. And so, by the way, Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: has done another great job. Now, granted next week you'll
Speaker 2: call and say fire him because it's Monday. That's fine,
Speaker 2: but he has done a great job in a really
Speaker 2: difficult year. And oftentimes when you have that much talent,
Speaker 2: it's overlooked. He won't be a Manager of the Year.
Speaker 2: He won't, but he should be because that's the kind
Speaker 2: of job he did. One other thing I noticed on
Speaker 2: the television broadcast last night, and I can't remember a time,
Speaker 2: because I've been in that locker room so many times
Speaker 2: when they won, I've never seen as many guys with
Speaker 2: their shirts off.
Speaker 4: That's a thing, now, that's a thing.
Speaker 1: Kershaw started that back in the day, and now every
Speaker 1: year more and more guys take their shirts off. It
Speaker 1: was a Kershall thing. He did it a few years ago,
Speaker 1: and before there was a lot of comments about it.
Speaker 1: But then, you know, it became you know, let's just
Speaker 1: you know, let's face it. You know, baseball guys don't
Speaker 1: have the same bodies as basketball or football skill guys.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Baseball often is looked upon as a lot of guys
Speaker 1: have dad bodies, right, right. But Kershaw took his shirt up,
Speaker 1: and I think that that made a big splash a
Speaker 1: few years ago, and so that became a thing, and
Speaker 1: now everybody's doing it. A lot of guys are doing it,
Speaker 1: you know and popping that champagne.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of guys at their shirt off. Last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's go. Ronnie and Corona. Appreciate you
Speaker 2: holding Ronnie. Come on the show. Were you there last night?
Speaker 5: No, guys, I was there on Wednesday night and it
Speaker 5: was actually a really good atmosphere to see the fans
Speaker 5: out there supporting the Dodgers. Obviously, it was a very
Speaker 5: nervous series for myself and I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 5: other fans. Knowing that we're the number one seed. What
Speaker 5: do you guys think about us? Because we're probably gonna
Speaker 5: end up playing the Padres again. I almost want to say,
Speaker 5: like it'd be better for us to be that number
Speaker 5: two seed where we'd either have to face the Mets
Speaker 5: or the Brewers. Because the Padres, I mean, they're on fire.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: I hate to say it, but they look pretty good.
Speaker 5: These last couple of games.
Speaker 4: We clutched up.
Speaker 5: We looked good, but they're they're a little you know,
Speaker 5: I gotta admit, all.
Speaker 2: Right, appreciate the call. Uh, Yeah, you don't want to
Speaker 2: play the Padres. You're right, But didn't the Dodgers just
Speaker 2: take two or three from them? Yeah you don't want
Speaker 2: to play them? I agree, But now, when you get
Speaker 2: into the playoffs, you play who you play to be
Speaker 2: the best. You gotta beat the best. If they're there,
Speaker 2: they gotta beat them. I think by taking two of three,
Speaker 2: especially after what happened in that first game, psychologically, they've
Speaker 2: delivered a message Now does it last?
Speaker 4: Does it stick? Maybe not?
Speaker 2: But I know the Dodgers probably if they play them,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a little pep in their step now,
Speaker 2: little pep in their step because of what just happened.
Speaker 2: So I know people are saying, don't play the Padres.
Speaker 2: They just beat the Padres two of three games. So
Speaker 2: who was that more important for the Dodgers beating them
Speaker 2: or the Padres losing?
Speaker 4: Right? Who had to have it more?
Speaker 1: And it was the Padres had to have it more,
Speaker 1: you know they, I mean, both teams wanted to win
Speaker 1: the division, but the Padres, where the ones had their
Speaker 1: backs against the wall, were losing. They were behind the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: so they needed to sweep this series at least win
Speaker 1: it in order to go win the division. Yes, they're
Speaker 1: hot team, but the Dodgers, as you mentioned for it,
Speaker 1: took two out of three in a series where the
Speaker 1: Padres had a chance, had a chance to really to
Speaker 1: win the division. And keep in mind, the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: not locked in yet as the number one seed. They're
Speaker 1: not locked in yet. All right, let's go to Sritos. Robert,
Speaker 1: appreciate you holding. Were you there last night?
Speaker 6: Oh? I'm talking about Dodger pitching in general. Right, you know,
Speaker 6: speaking of patients, they have a reputation of fixing pictures,
Speaker 6: but lately they seemed to just break them. And then
Speaker 6: another point would be, happily they signed a broken pitcher
Speaker 6: and now we're seeing one of the most exciting offensive
Speaker 6: seasons they've seen in a long time. And my third
Speaker 6: point would be, uh, the broken pitching staff could probably
Speaker 6: use that deviant and the woman beater.
Speaker 2: All right, Robert, thanks for calling Roberts Hall broken up.
Speaker 2: The whole pitching staff has broken up.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. They know.
Speaker 2: There's something wrong. You're not sharing something they don't already know,
Speaker 2: and they've commented on that, and they've got to figure
Speaker 2: out why so many of their guys have suffered these
Speaker 2: arm injuries. So that's acknowledged. It's on the table. They
Speaker 2: know it. There's a problem, and they're going to figure
Speaker 2: that out. But all that being said, at this point
Speaker 2: in time, that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You gotta
Speaker 2: go with what you got, and what you got was
Speaker 2: good enough to get you here. So let's look at
Speaker 2: the pitching. Yamamoto's last out, and he looked bad. Dylan
Speaker 2: Hernandez told us yesterday he was sick, right, So is
Speaker 2: that an aberration or will he look the way he
Speaker 2: did the first two times out when he came back right.
Speaker 2: Flaherty is a guy that's gritty and determined and he's
Speaker 2: going to keep you in the game. And at this
Speaker 2: point that's all you can ask. There is no ace,
Speaker 2: there is no one going out there to mow people down.
Speaker 2: You just want to be in the game. Walker Butler
Speaker 2: last night, that could not have been more critical.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he pitched last night. He pitched. He really did.
Speaker 1: He pitched last night instead of just being a thrower.
Speaker 1: And and he has talked about it. We have talked
Speaker 1: about it, Dave Roberts, everybody's talked about you know, he's
Speaker 1: got to learn to pitch a little bit differently and
Speaker 1: become a pitcher and not a thrower. Because guys can
Speaker 1: catch up to the fastball, guys can hit the fastball.
Speaker 1: It's about hitting your spots. And he he did that.
Speaker 4: Last night with confidence.
Speaker 1: It was it was like watching the old Walker Buhler,
Speaker 1: to see his animation on the hill, him yelling at
Speaker 1: the umpire, yelling after a strikeout, pumping his fists. You know,
Speaker 1: if you thank God, he wasn't Mike because he used
Speaker 1: every profanity in the but he was pumped up, and
Speaker 1: it felt like it was the old Walker Buler.
Speaker 4: Because of his animation and the way he was fired up.
Speaker 2: Three weeks ago, by the way, I didn't. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you didn't. You didn't think he'd pitched like that last
Speaker 2: night three weeks ago, No way, no, three weeks ago
Speaker 2: you were trying to figure out what to do with
Speaker 2: him on the playoff roster. Where could you hide him
Speaker 2: and maybe he could come in for an inning, and
Speaker 2: then he turned into that last night. Let's go to Honolulu.
Speaker 2: Our friend Angela has not checked in for a while,
Speaker 2: and she is holding now Angela.
Speaker 4: Aloha.
Speaker 7: Aloha, Fred, fight on, Rodney, fight on. I saw your
Speaker 7: boy and them celebrations over there, getting in his photo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was getting in him. Yes, he was got
Speaker 1: a little champagne all over him too.
Speaker 7: I bet he was happy. Yes, Hey, Fred, you know
Speaker 7: your issue with the shirts.
Speaker 3: Who wants to walk around.
Speaker 7: In a soaked Budweiser shirt or a soaked Champagne shirt.
Speaker 7: That's nasty, Fred.
Speaker 4: I understand you.
Speaker 7: Don't wear a shirt.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, No, Angela's not a good look, it's not
Speaker 2: let me Angela, angel for short haircut? What fred Angela?
Speaker 2: You'd like, Angela? You liked seeing them of their shirts off,
Speaker 2: didn't you?
Speaker 7: No, I didn't. I've had my share, your share. I'm
Speaker 7: done with that, your share.
Speaker 3: I'm sixty two. I'm done.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know what, just got a little you still
Speaker 2: got a little, little, little little heat in the oven. Angela,
Speaker 2: you're fine, You're sixty two.
Speaker 4: You're not done.
Speaker 7: Oh you know the carpeting match in the drapes.
Speaker 1: Okay, Angela, Oh, Angela, we need.
Speaker 7: Angelus Rodney Rodney.
Speaker 3: Yes, if you ever see if you ever see Marcus.
Speaker 7: Allen, do you ever talk to him? You tell him
Speaker 7: that he still owes me five bucks with interest from
Speaker 7: nineteen what was it eighty one?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, nineteen seventy eight, No, no, nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 3: He was in the because he was in the elevator
Speaker 3: with me at Residence West, at Residence West at USC
Speaker 3: and I was going and he was going to visit
Speaker 3: the Browner brothers, Joey and Keith Browner.
Speaker 4: What you say?
Speaker 3: And he said, you got five bucks I could borrow?
Speaker 7: Oh, you know, I could.
Speaker 3: Kick out five bucks for brothers you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: I never got it back, Rodney.
Speaker 4: You never got it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mention that to him because I'm thinking nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty one with interest. That's that's a that's a pretty
Speaker 1: pinny now, Angela, Yeah, a few thousand.
Speaker 2: Okay, Angela, Jesus, how is the weather today in Hawaii?
Speaker 6: Well, let's see there's a little bit clouds.
Speaker 7: That's nice, Fred you know that?
Speaker 4: All right? Okay, Angela?
Speaker 7: Am I saying about this Dodgers?
Speaker 3: We need to stop.
Speaker 7: They need to stop celebrating when just because they win
Speaker 7: the thing. We've seen that before, we've seen it. Stop celebrating.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Angela, I used to say that.
Speaker 1: He's all happy.
Speaker 4: Angela. What you know?
Speaker 1: I used to say that too as a as a
Speaker 1: football guy. We don't celebrate after every playoff win and
Speaker 1: things like that. But it is a ritual in baseball,
Speaker 1: not only the Dodge. Every team does it. They do
Speaker 1: it after everything every series.
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts is just looking a little too happy, you know,
Speaker 7: like he really did something.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, all right, Angela, we gotta go,
Speaker 2: all right, goodbye, Angela, goodbye, There goes Angela in Hawaii.
Speaker 2: What did Angela say she's had her share?
Speaker 4: She's had her share you've been doing She's just sitting
Speaker 4: there and done it all. She's had her share. She's fine, Yes,
Speaker 4: she's good, all right.
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