Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 4: Let's wind it.
Speaker 2: I love writing me these guys after the show. So
Speaker 2: just thank you, give me are your attention, your fire
Speaker 2: and not a pisson.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodger, world champion.
Speaker 6: Put a small soft time they get up people what
Speaker 6: they want to die to in a row two is special.
Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. One of a con.
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Speaker 5: and now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 7: We are live in Miami after the Dodgers fall to
Speaker 7: the Marlins tonight in ten innings by a final score
Speaker 7: of five to four. Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse
Speaker 7: with you until eight tonight. We have phone lines open.
Speaker 7: We actually have three lines open right now at eight
Speaker 7: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy. Coming up
Speaker 7: later in the show, you'll hear from five time world
Speaker 7: champion David Cone. One of the most underrated pitchers when
Speaker 7: we look back at history. But certainly one thing that
Speaker 7: David Cone was a winner. And we'll hear from David
Speaker 7: Cone because he was part of the Yankees team that
Speaker 7: won three in a row back that was back in
Speaker 7: ninety nine, two thousand and ninety eight.
Speaker 6: Ninety eight ninety nine two.
Speaker 7: Thousand was when they repeated and we're the last team
Speaker 7: in baseball history to repeat his champions something the Dodgers
Speaker 7: are determined to try to do for the first time
Speaker 7: in twenty five years. So we'll hear from David Cone
Speaker 7: on what it takes to repeat his champions.
Speaker 6: But just about this game.
Speaker 7: Look, I'm not going to overreact to this game because
Speaker 7: it's one on one sixty two. I you know, I
Speaker 7: loved the Dodgers competitive spirit that we saw in the
Speaker 7: eighth inning as Anthony Banda was able to get an
Speaker 7: inning ending double play, not a conventional double play, a
Speaker 7: hard hit ground ball to Max Muncy.
Speaker 6: He threw home for one.
Speaker 7: Will Smith threw the first four the third out of
Speaker 7: the game or the inning, excuse me, And they all
Speaker 7: showed a lot of emotion. They were pumped up to
Speaker 7: get out of that jam and to have a chance
Speaker 7: to win the game in the ninth inning. It just
Speaker 7: didn't happen. And a big reason why is the Dodgers
Speaker 7: really didn't put the ball in play when they needed to.
Speaker 7: They struck out eleven times tonight and walked just five times.
Speaker 6: And I thought Jose Mona brought.
Speaker 7: Up a great point the bullpen game yesterday kind of
Speaker 7: handcuffs what you're able to do bullpen wise in this
Speaker 7: game because the Dodgers are playing ten straight games and
Speaker 7: you you can't overtax that bullpen that already has been
Speaker 7: taxed quite a bit. So that was a great point
Speaker 7: by Jose on what the Dodgers couldn't couldn't do with
Speaker 7: their pitching staff.
Speaker 6: So, you know, one of those nights, But big.
Speaker 7: Picture wise, I feel like the Dodgers are looking at
Speaker 7: a couple of different things here, especially with the loss
Speaker 7: of ti Oscar Hernandez. In case you missed it before
Speaker 7: the game, the Dodgers placed Hernandez on the injured list
Speaker 7: with a left groin strain, and Dave Roberts said it's
Speaker 7: an adductor issue and he's going to be out weeks,
Speaker 7: hopefully not months, just weeks. It's a grade one strain.
Speaker 7: I saw Ti Oscar before the game today. He was
Speaker 7: getting some treatment. He didn't seem to be limping that badly,
Speaker 7: So hopefully this is just a couple of weeks that
Speaker 7: Tai Oscar Hernandez is out, maybe three weeks, and until
Speaker 7: then they're gonna have to start getting production from some
Speaker 7: of the guys other than O'tani, Betts, Freeman, and Will Smith.
Speaker 7: It's time for Max Munsey to start get it going here.
Speaker 7: He was over two tonight with two walks. He's hitting
Speaker 7: a bucks seventy six on the season. It's time for
Speaker 7: Michael Confordo to get it going. He only has one
Speaker 7: hit in his last thirty five at bats. Michael Confordo's
Speaker 7: hitting one forty two this year with a five to
Speaker 7: nineteen ops. Before the sixth inning yesterday when he had
Speaker 7: a single, he was over his last thirty one. He's
Speaker 7: getting paid seventeen to eighteen million dollars, so this does
Speaker 7: not look them like the Michael Conforto that we know
Speaker 7: he can be. The Dodgers need him to get going here.
Speaker 7: James Autman, this is his opportunity, oh for three tonight
Speaker 7: with three strikeouts. For me, some of these players now
Speaker 7: were into May. Now it's it's time to get it going.
Speaker 7: Because if you don't get it going in May, May
Speaker 7: turns into June and all of a sudden you look
Speaker 7: up and say, all right, now, we've got to decide
Speaker 7: what we're going to do. And quite honestly, James Autman
Speaker 7: got a three month window last year before the Dodgers said,
Speaker 7: you know what, we got to find somebody else, and
Speaker 7: he's got to regroup in the minor league. So for me, now,
Speaker 7: I'm not saying the Dodgers need to trade Monseie or
Speaker 7: get rid of Monseie. But if Monsey doesn't start producing,
Speaker 7: do the Dodgers consider calling up Alex Freeland, who can
Speaker 7: play shortstop and third base. He's played third base ten
Speaker 7: times this season. He's a ballplayer. He's, from what I understand,
Speaker 7: a great teammate at Oklahoma City. Do the Dodgers consider
Speaker 7: if this continues and Max Monsey is not driving in
Speaker 7: runs and not doing Max Monsely things, walking, driving in runs,
Speaker 7: extra base hits, do the Dodgers consider calling up Alex
Speaker 7: Freeland and Freeland and Muncie sharing third base, Or do
Speaker 7: the Dodgers do what they did last year While Munsey
Speaker 7: was hurt and consider having key K a Hernandez play
Speaker 7: more days at third base. I mean, where's key K
Speaker 7: a Hernandez. I know he's not hitting the lights out
Speaker 7: right now. I know Keyk is only hitting a buck
Speaker 7: seventy nine himself, but he does have five home runs.
Speaker 7: He's not getting a lot of opportunities when there are
Speaker 7: opportunities to start at second base or anywhere else. Maybe
Speaker 7: the Dodgers need to start considering more key K Hernandez
Speaker 7: at third base. And what do the Dodgers do in
Speaker 7: left field? Are they going to keep riding it out
Speaker 7: with Michael Confordo. Obviously, money plays and professional sports. But
Speaker 7: if Michael Confordo doesn't get things going here in June,
Speaker 7: do the Dodgers consider Dalton Rushing? And the reason why
Speaker 7: I'm bringing up these young players, they're not that young.
Speaker 7: They've been in the minor leagues. Now they've been seasoned.
Speaker 7: It's their time is arriving. And in spring training the
Speaker 7: Dodgers said they were not going to play Dalton Rushing
Speaker 7: and left field anymore. Well, they started playing Dalton Rushing
Speaker 7: and left field again, and they're playing them at first base.
Speaker 7: So they're trying to find a position for him because
Speaker 7: his bad is that good. And like we've talked about,
Speaker 7: money's not an issue for the Dodgers. So if it
Speaker 7: comes to a point where the one year let's take
Speaker 7: a flyer on Michael Conforto isn't working out, do the
Speaker 7: Dodgers say, here you go, Dalton Rushing, here's your opportunity.
Speaker 7: Let's see what you can do. Do they do it
Speaker 7: while keeping Conforto. There's just a lot of different options
Speaker 7: that the Dodgers have. And the reason why I'm bringing
Speaker 7: up those two young guys, especially Alex Freeland at third base,
Speaker 7: is because if you look at the third base landscape
Speaker 7: in Major.
Speaker 6: League Baseball, as far as players that.
Speaker 7: May be available, there's really not that many better options
Speaker 7: than Max Munsey.
Speaker 6: Max Munsey is a really good.
Speaker 7: Option, and you know, there are certain years where you're
Speaker 7: not the same guy that you were in your previous
Speaker 7: careers in your previous career, and look, I don't believe
Speaker 7: the Dodgers need to give up on Max Munsey. He's
Speaker 7: a really good October player, and he's a really good
Speaker 7: player with a really good resume since twenty eighteen. But
Speaker 7: if he doesn't get things going in June and the
Speaker 7: Dodgers need some more production five through nine. Do they
Speaker 7: consider giving a young guy like Alex Freeland an opportunity
Speaker 7: to get some time, maybe share some time at third base.
Speaker 7: We'll have to wait and see, but those are the
Speaker 7: options for those that want to trade for Nolan Arenado.
Speaker 7: Nolan Arenado has come back to Earth. He's sitting two
Speaker 7: fifty seven with an OPS just over seven forty five.
Speaker 7: So everybody that believes that Nolan Aeronato is this super
Speaker 7: upgrade at third base, I'm not sure that's the case,
Speaker 7: especially with his contract. Eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 7: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's head downstairs
Speaker 7: right now to hear from manager Dave Roberts after tonight's
Speaker 7: five to four loss and ten innings to the Marlins.
Speaker 8: It was it was good early. I thought, you know,
Speaker 8: as the pitch count crap up, I thought he was
Speaker 8: getting a little fatigue. There wasn't as much miss but
Speaker 8: he gave us all he had. I mean, I thought
Speaker 8: that it's the most amount of pitches he's thrown since
Speaker 8: he's been back in two starts, and unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 8: it wasn't enough. But I thought he did a nice job.
Speaker 6: With Luis Garcia.
Speaker 5: Just what did you see was kind of missing for
Speaker 5: him tonight that allowed them to get in.
Speaker 8: Well, I thought he had good stuff. They hit some
Speaker 8: good pitches, some sliders when you had count leverage, and
Speaker 8: you know, the first set bat, the first pitch gets
Speaker 8: double and then I think he had norby one to two,
Speaker 8: and then a slider it just didn't get down enough
Speaker 8: and he put a good swing on it, and then
Speaker 8: obviously the base hit I think off Myer's bat, But
Speaker 8: you know, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 9: And I'm just kind of an example of just how
Speaker 9: many bulls you guys have taken that there's going to
Speaker 9: be a cost kind.
Speaker 8: Of absolutely, we had a few guys that were down,
Speaker 8: and so that's kind of the cost of you know,
Speaker 8: you know when yeah, that's just kind of the cost
Speaker 8: of using your pen and starters that are on you know,
Speaker 8: that don't go that haven't gone as deep, our pitch
Speaker 8: counts go up, and you know, you can't get into
Speaker 8: the sixth seventh inning. That's just kind of the cost
Speaker 8: of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you want to leave the Major's bullpen?
Speaker 8: And absolutely not, absolutely not. You know, it just seems
Speaker 8: like you know, just certain guys, and you know, I
Speaker 8: could go back on each starter, but you're still trying
Speaker 8: to manage their health and managed mindful of the innings
Speaker 8: that the bullpen's taking on and trying to stagger as
Speaker 8: much you can and manage leverage and all that stuff.
Speaker 8: So to your question, yeah, absolutely not. We want to
Speaker 8: lead the league in bullpen innings.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 7: There's manager Dave Roberts answering the question about how much
Speaker 7: he's had to use his bullpen this year, and let's
Speaker 7: face it, a lot of that comes from Tyler glass
Speaker 7: now starts where he.
Speaker 6: Had to come out of the game early for three
Speaker 6: different reasons in three different starts.
Speaker 7: So that's part of why they have so many innings.
Speaker 7: Glass now has come out of games after one inning,
Speaker 7: after three innings, so that's part of it. And also
Speaker 7: the fact that when the Dodgers called up Justin Robleski
Speaker 7: and Bobby Miller and now Landon Knack for a third start,
Speaker 7: they really haven't delivered. And given the Dodgers the option
Speaker 7: of using them more and more, they've had to go
Speaker 7: to bullpen games in place of those options early in
Speaker 7: the season. And if you look at how many innings
Speaker 7: the Dodger bullpen has thrown already one hundred and fifty
Speaker 7: seven innings so far this season, the.
Speaker 6: Most in baseball.
Speaker 7: The second most are the Marlins at one hundred and
Speaker 7: forty eight. Compare that to how many innings their starters
Speaker 7: have thrown. It's it's shocking, it really is, considering how
Speaker 7: much talk about the Dodger rotation, and I wasn't buying
Speaker 7: into that, at least to start the year, and especially
Speaker 7: now with Glass now and Blake Snell on the IL.
Speaker 7: I was never buying into this great Dodger starting rotation
Speaker 7: to start the year because I knew there was no Kershaw,
Speaker 7: there was no Otani. Suzaki was going to start out slow.
Speaker 7: He's gotten better each and every time out. And you
Speaker 7: look at the Dodgers' innings started by their their rotation,
Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty two innings, which is the fewest
Speaker 7: among major league staffs out there, compared to the team
Speaker 7: that's got the most innings out of their starters, the
Speaker 7: Kansas City Royals two hundred and ten innings. And look,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers' goal is not to have any of their
Speaker 7: starters throw one hundred and ninety innings or two hundred innings.
Speaker 7: They were hoping to get one hundred and eighty and
Speaker 7: thirty starts from Blakes now, but unfortunately that's just not
Speaker 7: the case. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five
Speaker 7: seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Marlins tonight,
Speaker 7: five to four in ten innings. Let's go out to
Speaker 7: the phone south Central. Tyson.
Speaker 6: You're on Dodger Talk live from Miami. How you doing, Tyson?
Speaker 3: Pretty good? I wanted to talk about Michael Conforto. It
Speaker 3: kind of reminds me of when the Dodgers signed Aj
Speaker 3: Pollock and it just never seemed like he really belonged
Speaker 3: or clicked. Kind of felt kind of weird and kind
Speaker 3: of felt like Pollock was maybe pressing a little bit.
Speaker 3: I know he was pretty good at the end there,
Speaker 3: like twenty twenty one ish, but I remember that first season.
Speaker 3: He was a big free agent signing and they expected
Speaker 3: him to be hit like Conforto was like middle of
Speaker 3: the order, and he just never really got going and
Speaker 3: never really felt like he really belonged.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he signed a bigger contract than what Michael Confordo did,
Speaker 7: but you're right, the first year was early on he
Speaker 7: was trying to do too much, and that was twenty nineteen.
Speaker 7: But he did hit two sixty six and he did
Speaker 7: hit fifteen home runs that year. And you're right, in
Speaker 7: twenty one he got a lot better. By twenty one
Speaker 7: he got a lot better. He had a lot of injuries.
Speaker 7: So yeah, that's not a stretch of a comparison, Tyson.
Speaker 3: I'm just from thinking of Pollock. I don't know his
Speaker 3: regular seam stats. Remember the playoffs he went like, oh
Speaker 3: for with like majority stroke.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, he was not a playoff player by
Speaker 7: any stretch of the imagination. You're right, but he was
Speaker 7: a pretty good regular season player, big time, all right, Tyson,
Speaker 7: Thanks for the phone call, appreciated. Yeah, you know, like
Speaker 7: I said, that's not a stretch of a comparison. With
Speaker 7: the Dodgers were thinking with Confordo a one year contract.
Speaker 7: They're hitting coaches him being out of San Francisco because
Speaker 7: that ballpark is not conducive, especially to left handed hitters.
Speaker 6: Because if you look at what Confordo did away.
Speaker 7: From that ballpark in San Francisco, his offensive numbers were
Speaker 7: considerably better. Slugging percentage was well over five hundred. We
Speaker 7: just haven't seen it since the first couple of weeks
Speaker 7: of the season and asking around not a lot of answers.
Speaker 7: Nobody can figure it out why Michael Confordo is struggling
Speaker 7: as much as he is. But at this point in time,
Speaker 7: it's more mental than physical.
Speaker 6: Let's go out to the OC. Richard. You're on Dodger
Speaker 6: Talk with David vasse Hi. Richard Off, how's it going?
Speaker 8: How's it going?
Speaker 9: I just wanted to say, you know, it's because the
Speaker 9: Dodgers are We're always trying to buy stars.
Speaker 1: Can we bring them?
Speaker 10: Can we bring them up from our farm team?
Speaker 9: Are we always that week that we don't have anyone
Speaker 9: to bring up? Stop buying all the stars, and that's
Speaker 9: bringing up our farm team to place a good ball team,
Speaker 9: a good ball club that could win, that we.
Speaker 6: Can win away. Don't you don't like Freddy Freeman?
Speaker 9: You know what, I'm tired of buying all the stars?
Speaker 9: Where I got to hear it from everyone saying all the.
Speaker 6: Time the World Series last year. You didn't like winning
Speaker 6: the World Series last year?
Speaker 10: Don't you want to?
Speaker 6: I want to?
Speaker 9: I want to.
Speaker 6: I want to I want to win the World Series.
Speaker 6: I like winning. I like winning. Richard, then become a
Speaker 6: Marlins fan.
Speaker 7: If you want to talk about the farm system and
Speaker 7: playing young players.
Speaker 9: Tommy and the Porter said this, we don't. We don't
Speaker 9: go free agent.
Speaker 10: We go for our farm team.
Speaker 1: I guess that's over with.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say it's over with.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers are are grooming a lot of players in
Speaker 7: the minor leagues, but right now the expectations are high.
Speaker 7: You don't have an opportunity like the Marlins to give
Speaker 7: a young player time to grow into becoming a major
Speaker 7: league player.
Speaker 9: I'm always getting beat up about because the Dodgers, by everyone,
Speaker 9: they're buying All Star team.
Speaker 7: I don't know at the OC, but they must be
Speaker 7: angel fans just to just remember who won the World Series.
Speaker 6: Remind them that, Richard.
Speaker 9: Well, let me say this. I'm just getting beat up
Speaker 9: because all my friends say, all, all right, we.
Speaker 6: Heard you, we heard you. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's ridiculous, Sophomore, thank you for the phone call, Richard. Look,
Speaker 7: would the Dodgers love to have handed the job in
Speaker 7: left field or uh somewhere else to Dalton Rushing. Sure,
Speaker 7: but the expectations are really high for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 7: they have a lot of veteran players that want to
Speaker 7: win now, and rightfully so they are built to win now,
Speaker 7: and they don't have the time to wait five six
Speaker 7: months for a player to get his feet wet. That's
Speaker 7: why if they do incorporate a young player, they do it.
Speaker 7: They stagger it like an Andy pie has who's a rookie.
Speaker 7: If you want to talk about homegrown guys, Will Smith
Speaker 7: homegrown guy, they stagger them in. They can't just bring
Speaker 7: up three or four Triple A guys rookies to start immediately.
Speaker 7: You have to stagger them when you have a veteran
Speaker 7: group like this. So if they do decide to pull
Speaker 7: the trigger on Dalton Rushing, it's because things haven't gone
Speaker 7: well with Michael Confordo for an extended period of time.
Speaker 7: If they decide to go to Alex frielan route, it's
Speaker 7: because Max Munsey hasn't gotten back on track and is
Speaker 7: not the same player that we have known Max Munsey
Speaker 7: to be. So that's when you start to tap into
Speaker 7: your farm system. You don't call up three or four
Speaker 7: guys and hand them the job coming out of spring training.
Speaker 7: Haysan Kim. Same thing started the year in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 6: There's a need. Now he's going to start playing.
Speaker 7: So whoever says the Dodgers are just buying their championships. Yeah,
Speaker 7: they're spending on really good players, but a lot of
Speaker 7: teams spend on a lot of teams spend on players,
Speaker 7: but they're.
Speaker 6: Not the right players.
Speaker 7: And look, the Dodgers are not going to apologize for
Speaker 7: the fact that the Red Sox decided to make one
Speaker 7: of the worst decisions in their franchise's history to trade
Speaker 7: Mookie Betts. The Dodgers are not going to apologize that
Speaker 7: the Angels couldn't capitalize on having six years of show
Speaker 7: he Otani and he decided to leave and go to
Speaker 7: a team that has the infrastructure to win a World
Speaker 7: Series championship, which they did in his first year. The
Speaker 7: Dodgers are not going to apologize that the Braids made
Speaker 7: one of their worst decisions in their franchise history by
Speaker 7: letting one of the all time greats walk away for
Speaker 7: basically nothing as far as salary in Freddie Freeman. The
Speaker 7: Dodgers are very fortunate those three guys were available when
Speaker 7: they were, or this would not be happening. It just
Speaker 7: doesn't happen all the time, and the Dodgers were in
Speaker 7: the right place at the right time and have the
Speaker 7: right ownership to be able to capitalize on all that.
Speaker 7: Nothing to apologize for. Let's go out to Mission Viejo. Bill,
Speaker 7: you're on Dodger Talk with David Vassay.
Speaker 10: Hi, Bill, Hi, thanks for taking my call. Why didn't
Speaker 10: Dave let Goslin pitch the sixth inning? I know that
Speaker 10: he had the number of pitches you mentioned in the
Speaker 10: postgame show, but they had a lead and then Garcia
Speaker 10: gave it up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I agree with you, Bill, I wouldn't have
Speaker 7: been opposed to that, But we have to take into
Speaker 7: account the fact that Tony Gonsolin has not pitched in
Speaker 7: the major leagues in almost two years.
Speaker 6: So it's a gradual build up with a guy like that.
Speaker 6: Maybe a time he.
Speaker 7: Goes out and is able to throw ninety pitches, but
Speaker 7: obviously there were some restrictions on how far Dave could go.
Speaker 10: With him, right. But also he did give up the
Speaker 10: two run home run to Hicks, who's a ninth place hitter, Right.
Speaker 6: He did, and Andy Paie has rob Hicks of what would.
Speaker 10: Have been two home runs tonight, right, So it's just
Speaker 10: one of those nights. Yeah, it's not going to happen
Speaker 10: a lot with the number nine hitter gets a home run.
Speaker 10: So there's a couple of quirks at about tonight's game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, number nine hitter for the Marlins. Especially thanks for
Speaker 7: the phone call bill. We have two lines open now
Speaker 7: that we've taken some phone calls at eight sixty six
Speaker 7: nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 6: When we continue here from Miami, we'll get more of
Speaker 6: your phone calls in. We'll let you know which former
Speaker 6: Dodger retired officially on social media. I guess that's how
Speaker 6: you announce your retirement these days. And you also hear
Speaker 6: from David Cohne on what it takes to repeat as
Speaker 6: world champions and whether or not Cone believes show how
Speaker 6: Tani should pitch this season. So a lot to get
Speaker 6: to between now and the bottom of the hour as
Speaker 6: the Dodgers fall to the Marlins tonight five to four
Speaker 6: in ten innings on A five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 4: Sho Heltani leads off against leftand or Anthony Veneziano.
Speaker 6: He comes out of the bullpen to take over for
Speaker 6: Cal Quantrill on the top of the sixth and Otani hammers.
Speaker 11: One a ton that is an offer deck monster shot
Speaker 11: from the first pitch against the Marlins reliever, and he
Speaker 11: ties the game of two.
Speaker 7: Rick Monday Tim Nevert on the call tonight as the
Speaker 7: Rogers fall to the Marlins in ten innings, five to four,
Speaker 7: despite home runs from sho Hey Otani and Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 7: Freeman's home run, by the way, his forty second against
Speaker 7: the Marlins in his career. That's the most home runs
Speaker 7: any player has hit against the Marlins as long as
Speaker 7: the franchise has been around since nineteen ninety three. Freeman's
Speaker 7: first home run against the Marlins came when they were
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Speaker 7: we go back to the phone calls, I want to
Speaker 7: get this in because I forgot last night. After sharing
Speaker 7: our conversation with Joe Tory, former Dodd Ross Stripling announced
Speaker 7: his retirement on social media yesterday. Ross Stripling a big
Speaker 7: fan favorite in LA. He was drafted, developed by the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: went through Tommy John surgery, came back a really good pitcher.
Speaker 7: His first start back back in twenty sixteen after Tommy
Speaker 7: John surgery, he had a no hitter after seven innings
Speaker 7: in San Francisco. We all remember that and Ross was
Speaker 7: one of those valuable hybrid pitchers that could pitch out
Speaker 7: of the bullpen or make a start. He actually was
Speaker 7: an All Star with the Dodgers as well, and part
Speaker 7: of the twenty twenty Dodgers, even though he was not
Speaker 7: on the team when they went to the World Series.
Speaker 6: He was traded by then.
Speaker 7: But congratulations Ross Strippling on a great career, and certainly
Speaker 7: the Dodgers will always remember you being a part of
Speaker 7: the franchise's history during this period of sustained success eight
Speaker 7: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 7: oh number. Let's go out to Ash and Sherman Oaks. Ash,
Speaker 7: did you know Ross Strippling retired or you already.
Speaker 6: Saw it on?
Speaker 2: Actually I did, Dave, because if you followed some social media.
Speaker 2: Even though I just left work from just like yourself,
Speaker 2: I've been working all day, but I did.
Speaker 6: Want to work at the Woodman.
Speaker 2: No, I'm a I'm a dentist. I pulled teeth all day.
Speaker 2: My friend.
Speaker 6: A job.
Speaker 2: And yeah, but you are my favorite Dodger non player.
Speaker 4: Of course, thank you, Ash.
Speaker 6: I appreciate we all.
Speaker 2: I think we all appreciate you know how much time
Speaker 2: you spend from morning till nighttime to give us all
Speaker 2: the updates the news. This is not going to be
Speaker 2: a fun conversation with you because I know Max Munsey
Speaker 2: is your son's favorite player.
Speaker 6: But that's son's favorite player, that's Petros.
Speaker 2: Yes, well then you know then I don't feel bad
Speaker 2: so I can be even more comfortable talking to you
Speaker 2: about this. But my friends, at some point, how many
Speaker 2: years can we handle a sub two hundred hitter. I
Speaker 2: love Max Muncy as well. My son's name is Maddix,
Speaker 2: so it's a you know, close but not close enough,
Speaker 2: but it's not enough. It's either walks or home runs.
Speaker 2: We need players that can hit the ball and get
Speaker 2: on base. You just mentioned that we don't have that
Speaker 2: luxury of bringing up young players like we did back
Speaker 2: in the year, you know, in the years with Piazza
Speaker 2: and whatever. We're in the win now mode.
Speaker 6: You don't even have to go far back where you
Speaker 6: could talk about Kershaw. You don't have to go that far.
Speaker 2: Kersha is still you know, he's still within the team.
Speaker 2: He hasn't pitched, and we're going to use him when
Speaker 2: we need him the most. But I'm really tired of
Speaker 2: you know, and you would just alternative.
Speaker 6: It's fine that you you feel like you need to
Speaker 6: make a move.
Speaker 2: You the man, well Arnado's name. I'm tired of reading.
Speaker 6: I'm tired of hearing about Nolan Aeronado. I'm tired of
Speaker 6: hearing that.
Speaker 7: I feel like at this point, if somebody says, bring
Speaker 7: trade for Nolan Aeronado, it's the most lazy take out there.
Speaker 7: Anybody could say that. That's why I came up with
Speaker 7: a very creative solution. Ash Alex Freeland is a really
Speaker 7: good player in the minor leagues for the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Now, is he going to be a really good Major leaguer.
Speaker 7: We don't know, but I would love to see him
Speaker 7: get the opportunity because he's a guy that I was
Speaker 7: really impressed with in spring training. He's sitting three hundred
Speaker 7: for Oklahoma City. He's a baseball player, he's a baseball rat.
Speaker 7: I love guys like that, and Hayesan Kim told me
Speaker 7: he loves Alex Freeland as well, guys I have heard
Speaker 7: he is a great teammates. So it might be Alex
Speaker 7: Freeland and Dalton rushing time if Munsey and CONFORDO don't
Speaker 7: get on track soon.
Speaker 2: I don't with you. I didn't call you know. You
Speaker 2: know much better than all of us because you're in
Speaker 2: the the thick and thin, as they say. But at
Speaker 2: some point, I think every Dodger fan, none of us
Speaker 2: have anything bad to say as far as Max Munsey personally,
Speaker 2: but at some point.
Speaker 6: He loves being a Dodger. He cares, He cares a lot.
Speaker 6: You could tell me he.
Speaker 12: Bleeds he bleeds blue, and that's the only reason that
Speaker 12: he's still with the team, I believe, because he bleeds
Speaker 12: blue and he would ticket back seat with someone coming
Speaker 12: in front of him and doing better, and he can't
Speaker 12: take it backseat and be not an everyday player.
Speaker 2: But I don't care if Max Munci or Otani. If
Speaker 2: you're hitting and playing every day and it's either a
Speaker 2: strikeout or nothing, you're doing harm. And I love you, brother, man.
Speaker 2: I love listening to you. Sometimes I'm listening to you
Speaker 2: more than the game because the game is three hours
Speaker 2: and I don't got that time pulling out sets, okay,
Speaker 2: and doing surgery. But I'm been a Dodger fan since
Speaker 2: I came to California in nineteen eighty eight, and I
Speaker 2: bleed blue and nothing else. And I just want the
Speaker 2: best for the team. And I think we're sitting at
Speaker 2: a pinnacle to be an empire, the evil empire that
Speaker 2: whatever I don't.
Speaker 7: We need to be a I hear you, I hear you, Ash,
Speaker 7: I hear you, and I appreciate the love and you
Speaker 7: you could podcast. Why don't you replay the show for
Speaker 7: your patients? They have nothing to say about it in
Speaker 7: your doctor's office?
Speaker 6: Moving forward?
Speaker 2: How about that, Sinatra? As I'm pulling out their teeth
Speaker 2: so they can't be.
Speaker 4: A little more probable.
Speaker 6: But I.
Speaker 2: Want to get off the phone sec and listen to
Speaker 2: everyone talking, and I appreciate everything that you do. And
Speaker 2: people don't realize, brother man, how much time you spend
Speaker 2: away from your family to be and report to us.
Speaker 2: You're like, you're like seventy eleven for Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 7: I appreciate that. And my wife is a saint. I
Speaker 7: wouldn't be able to do this without her support. So
Speaker 7: she's home with the kids while I'm in Miami and
Speaker 7: on this ten game, ten day road trip. But yeah,
Speaker 7: I appreciate that, and my wife is a I remember
Speaker 7: Vince Scully always praising his wife, Sandy, and I always
Speaker 7: thought it was just, you know, him giving his wife
Speaker 7: some shine, right, But doing this now for my fourteenth year,
Speaker 7: it wasn't just him saying it. You do need the
Speaker 7: support of your wife and your kids when you're doing
Speaker 7: something like this. But it's a great job. It's my passion,
Speaker 7: it's my dream job. Grew up born and raised in
Speaker 7: the San Fernando Valley. Loved the Dodgers, loved listening to
Speaker 7: Dodger talk when I was growing up.
Speaker 6: So every day I pinched myself that I'm doing this.
Speaker 7: And as far as Max months, he goes, look, I
Speaker 7: know It's frustrating at times to watch him, but this
Speaker 7: is who he was day one. He's a three true
Speaker 7: outcome player, slug, strikeout, or walk.
Speaker 6: That's who he is.
Speaker 7: And it's only thirty six games in. He did do
Speaker 7: something to try to see if it works. He went
Speaker 7: to go see doctor Alex lou Out in Rolling Heights.
Speaker 7: He's the same eye doctor that diagnosed keyk Hernandez with
Speaker 7: astigmatism and same thing with Munsey. So now you're seeing
Speaker 7: him wear some goggles. Those are prescription and it feels
Speaker 7: like he's having better at bats. And when I talked
Speaker 7: to him before he hit his first home run of
Speaker 7: the year, he told me he felt like May was
Speaker 7: going to be the month that things click.
Speaker 6: And I gotta be honest with you. The bats are better.
Speaker 7: He's hitting the ball harder, So I'm not ready to
Speaker 7: pull the plug on Max Munsey. Resume track record means
Speaker 7: a lot to me. We're thirty six games into the season,
Speaker 7: he's playing better defense. I'm just saying, if we're into
Speaker 7: game ninety and things are not clicking for him on
Speaker 7: all cylinders, then I believe the best option for the
Speaker 7: Dodgers is either more Key k Hernandez or to consider
Speaker 7: calling up Alex Freeland. And I know the Dodgers have
Speaker 7: discussed Freeland about being called up, but they want him
Speaker 7: to develop, They want him to get every day at bats.
Speaker 6: Same thing with Dalton Rushing. I think it's really.
Speaker 7: I believe it's really interesting that after saying they were
Speaker 7: not going to use Rushing in left field in the
Speaker 7: minor leagues, that all of a sudden, now in the
Speaker 7: last week he has started twice in left field, and
Speaker 7: by the way, tonight he started at first base. Obviously,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers have a pretty good first baseman in Freddie Freeman, who, oh,
Speaker 7: by the way, homeward again tonight he has eight home runs.
Speaker 7: Freddie Freeman is hitting three forty four with an ops
Speaker 7: of eleven hundred. Tell me who is the most underrated
Speaker 7: player in baseball, and I'll say it's Freddie Freeman because
Speaker 7: we take consistency for granted.
Speaker 6: He's not flashy.
Speaker 7: He's not trying to, you know, make it rain when
Speaker 7: he hits a home run or he does something spectacular
Speaker 7: on the field. He's just consistent. And the biggest thing
Speaker 7: that people fail to realize, the biggest part of being
Speaker 7: a part player on this level is being a guy
Speaker 7: that you can count on. And Freddie Freeman's not only
Speaker 7: great that he plays and he hits, but he's out
Speaker 7: there every day, even on a bad ankle. Still playing
Speaker 7: every day says a lot about him. He's a Hall
Speaker 7: of Famer. He's one of a kind, and I hope
Speaker 7: we all appreciate a guy like Freddie Freeman. Let's go
Speaker 7: out to Ensino. Colin, you're on Dodger Talk with David
Speaker 7: vasse Hi. Colin, close that door, Hey.
Speaker 1: David, sorry, door shut. Everything he just said is accurate.
Speaker 1: I love Freddy. I mean, he's a man's man. He
Speaker 1: does everything right, shows up every day. The main reason
Speaker 1: I was calling was the gentleman who called about buying
Speaker 1: a team, and he gets all the slacks from his buddies.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of Brewers. Yeah, I have a
Speaker 1: bunch of Brewers fans that are my friends. And they're
Speaker 1: always talking smack to me too. But I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: call the Braves, call the Red Sox, call whoever you want.
Speaker 1: They gave up Mookie, they gave up Freddy. You know
Speaker 1: we're talking about billionaires here. Every every owner of every
Speaker 1: team is a billionaire. If they want to spend, they'll spend,
Speaker 1: and Dodgers just go after what's the best. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not hating on it.
Speaker 6: Ask your Brewer fans. Ask your Brewer fans.
Speaker 7: What took place in twenty eighteen and what took place
Speaker 7: in bas around at twenty.
Speaker 6: Twenty Dodgers and Dodgers owned the Brewers. And I reminded
Speaker 6: Justin Turner when I saw him in Chicago he hit
Speaker 6: a home run in betting practice at Wrigley Field down
Speaker 6: the left field line. I said, oh, there it is.
Speaker 6: There's that Jeremy Jeffers home run.
Speaker 7: Remember Jeremy Jeffers was talking all that smack about the
Speaker 7: Dodgers during the NLCS, and Justin Turner shoved it right
Speaker 7: where you know it belongs.
Speaker 6: Colin.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And I was, Me and my son were
Speaker 1: in the stands in twenty eighteen when Monthy hit the
Speaker 1: walkoff homer first the Red Sox. So I mean, I
Speaker 1: can never say a bad word about that man. He'll
Speaker 1: turn it up, he'll turn it on. Monthy always comes alive.
Speaker 1: I love him, Lucky number thirteen.
Speaker 6: And all right, call him, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 6: No doubt.
Speaker 7: Look there's something to be said about a track record.
Speaker 7: I know, guys get older and maybe bat speed decline,
Speaker 7: skills decline. This is Max Munsey's last year on his contract.
Speaker 7: He's very well aware of it. Maybe put a little
Speaker 7: bit too much pressure on himself to start the year.
Speaker 7: I know everybody talks about his condition, his weight. Well,
Speaker 7: he lost a lot of weight during the off season,
Speaker 7: and a lot of times when a player loses a
Speaker 7: lot of weight, depending on how they did it, it's
Speaker 7: an adjustment period to play at that weight. And I
Speaker 7: feel like Munsey's doing the best he can and it's
Speaker 7: only thirty six games in The one thing you can't
Speaker 7: say about Max Munsey is that he doesn't care. He
Speaker 7: cares a lot. He shows that out there. Let's go
Speaker 7: out to Alpine A Joy. You're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 7: David vasse Hi A Joy.
Speaker 4: Hey, what's up, Dave Man. Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 4: First of all, I just wanted to kind of go
Speaker 4: on what Ash was saying to earlier. Man. Thanks for
Speaker 4: everything you do, like literally appreciate it. Like I have
Speaker 4: a long commute for San Diego purposes, but I listen
Speaker 4: to you guys all day and you always filled me
Speaker 4: in with some great information. So Number one, that number
Speaker 4: two just where we're at as far as our outfield,
Speaker 4: I know we have has a pretty good outfield defensively,
Speaker 4: even with you know, bringing Outman in obviously, I know,
Speaker 4: like you've said recently, he's gonna be great in the
Speaker 4: outfield and what we end up doing from the hitting perspective,
Speaker 4: But what do you see going forward from the outfield
Speaker 4: as far as who we're gonna put not just from
Speaker 4: a defensive perspective, but what we're gonna do going forward defensively,
Speaker 4: Like how we're gonna line that up while we're kind
Speaker 4: of waiting for Comfordo to hopefully at some point come
Speaker 4: out of this this sumth that he's in right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, number one or Joy, that's one thing you
Speaker 7: could put players out there. But for me, the biggest
Speaker 7: concern is not that the Dodgers can find somebody to
Speaker 7: play center and right. Pajez is going to play a
Speaker 7: lot of right. But for me, who's going to step
Speaker 7: up in the lineup five through nine? Missing Oskar Hernandez
Speaker 7: really shrinks that lineup with the way guys are swinging
Speaker 7: it five through nine, Taoskar Hernandez don't sleep on the
Speaker 7: fact he was great with runners in scoring position, great
Speaker 7: with two strikes, great with two outs, And that's the
Speaker 7: reason why he's right up there with Aaron Judge for
Speaker 7: the league lead, major league lead in RBIs. That's my
Speaker 7: biggest concern. They can find guys to play defense fine
Speaker 7: out there, the offense and the offensive production is what
Speaker 7: I'm most concerned about. I feel like we take for
Speaker 7: granted that without Taoscar Hernandez, the Dodgers don't tie the
Speaker 7: score in Game five of last year's World Series. I mean,
Speaker 7: he had the biggest hit of that inning, make no
Speaker 7: mistake about it. And he's been Him and Tommy Edmond
Speaker 7: have been, and Freddie Freeman been the two most three
Speaker 7: most consistent guys offensively all year. Huge drop off after
Speaker 7: Will Smith. Now all of a sudden, Uh, you don't
Speaker 7: have Tioscar Hernandez, and you don't have Tioscar Hernandez and
Speaker 7: Will Smith when.
Speaker 6: They have to give Will a day off. So that's
Speaker 6: my biggest concern.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I completely agree. I think defensively, especially with
Speaker 4: how Pa has has come along with his work with Evil,
Speaker 4: it's definitely not that. But it's like Will.
Speaker 6: Play right field. That's no problem. They could get Key
Speaker 6: g and center.
Speaker 7: They could When Edmund comes back, he'll play some center.
Speaker 7: Kim can play some center. But who's gonna hit five
Speaker 7: through nine? Who's gonna be who's gonna help move the
Speaker 7: line six through nine?
Speaker 4: Do you think it's time to give CT three and
Speaker 4: some of those extra that I'm all in.
Speaker 6: I'm all in with CT three. I think it's hard
Speaker 6: for him. You feel like what, I'm.
Speaker 4: Sorry to cut you off. Yeah, I feel like his
Speaker 4: approach has been better in the minimal you know that's
Speaker 4: that he has had and I don't know about it.
Speaker 7: Well, it's hard, it's hard only playing, it's hard only
Speaker 7: playing and starting once every two weeks. But that's where
Speaker 7: he's at right now. And I'm you know, he has
Speaker 7: a trek record too. Why not give him a few
Speaker 7: more opportunities? Thanks for the phone call, appreciated. Eight six
Speaker 7: six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Marlins
Speaker 7: beat the Dodgers tonight five to four and ten innings.
Speaker 7: That's why we're talking big picture. With the injury to
Speaker 7: ta Oscar Hernandez, the Dodger offense needs to find somebody
Speaker 7: that's going to help them. Move the line that is
Speaker 7: not named Otani Betts, Freeman or Will Smith had a
Speaker 7: chance to catch up with David Cohne, and I wanted
Speaker 7: to share this with you. David Khne, who is a
Speaker 7: five time World Series champion. That's right, five time World
Speaker 7: Series champion with the Yankees and Blue Jays.
Speaker 6: He was part of the last.
Speaker 7: Team in baseball to repeat his champions that was the
Speaker 7: two thousand Yankees. And I wanted to tap into David
Speaker 7: Cone because he was such a fierce competitor about the
Speaker 7: mentality you have to have to try to do something
Speaker 7: that only the Yankees have done in the last twenty
Speaker 7: five years.
Speaker 13: How motivated are you to be great? How motivated are
Speaker 13: you to have a legacy? How motivated are you to
Speaker 13: sort of be remembered.
Speaker 6: As a dynasty? And that's what you got going on here.
Speaker 13: Historically speaking, you're going to have ten twenty years from now,
Speaker 13: you're going to look back on this air and said
Speaker 13: that was the dynasty And did we do all we
Speaker 13: could to make sure.
Speaker 4: That it happened?
Speaker 7: How did David Cone and the Yankees twenty five years
Speaker 7: ago stay motivated not when it got to October, but
Speaker 7: during the marathon.
Speaker 6: Of the season. It was the same thing.
Speaker 13: It was a relentless professionalism. It was just a never
Speaker 13: too high and never too low kind of a mentality
Speaker 13: of you know, you forget the losses, you forget the
Speaker 13: tough games. You're ready for today, You're ready for the
Speaker 13: next game, and you really do just stay in the present.
Speaker 13: That's where that mentality comes through, is when you just
Speaker 13: think about we play today, We win today today's game.
Speaker 13: That is all that matters. I'm not worried about tomorrow.
Speaker 13: I'm not worried about yesterday.
Speaker 6: That makes sense.
Speaker 7: David Khane is our guest before I let you go.
Speaker 7: Everybody from Barry Bonds to David Vase has shared their
Speaker 7: opinion on whether or not Shoheyo Tani should pitch again.
Speaker 6: Where do you fall on that. I let him do
Speaker 6: what he wants to do. He's earned it. Yes, he
Speaker 6: should pitch again.
Speaker 13: He absolutely should pitch again, especially when you think that
Speaker 13: the Dodgers and the type of games are going to
Speaker 13: play in September and down the stretch run and potential postseason.
Speaker 13: Absolutely he should pitch again. Everybody wants to see that
Speaker 13: is their risk involved. Of course, there's always risk involved,
Speaker 13: but you know that's what he wants, and that's why
Speaker 13: he signed here because he was guaranteed that he would
Speaker 13: be able to do both. So if he's game, I'm game.
Speaker 6: Let show hey do what he wants.
Speaker 7: All right, there's David Khane and to hear that full
Speaker 7: interview before Sunday Night Baseball, you can find it on
Speaker 7: the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6: I love tapping into him.
Speaker 7: I think he was one of the best pitchers from
Speaker 7: nineteen eighty eight until two thousand through a perfect game
Speaker 7: with the Yankees, a five time World Series champion. Think
Speaker 7: about that, he won five World Series championships. How many
Speaker 7: players pitchers can say that he was a winner. And
Speaker 7: for a period of time there he was being traded
Speaker 7: to teams to get them over the hump at the
Speaker 7: deadline to win a World Series, in particular the Blue Jays,
Speaker 7: and they did. They went back to back World Series
Speaker 7: as well. All right, that'll do it for us. Tonight
Speaker 7: on Dodger Talk, thanks to everybody that listened and called in.
Speaker 7: Loved hearing your thoughts on how the Dodgers improve a
Speaker 7: few different areas and how they're going to keep this
Speaker 7: going without ta Oscar Hernandez for the next couple of weeks. Tomorrow,
Speaker 7: landon Nack will be on the mound for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: It is the final game here in Miami as the
Speaker 7: Dodgers keep going on their longest road trip of the year.
Speaker 7: After Tomorrow's game, the Dodgers will fly overnight so Phoenix,
Speaker 7: Arizona for a four game series first look at the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 7: But first things first. Tomorrow, Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 7: begins at twelve thirty with Tim Kate's first pitch from
Speaker 7: Miami with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett at one. Thanks
Speaker 7: again to Colin Ye for all his help back at
Speaker 7: our Burbank studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Speaker 7: Lone Depot Park in Miami. And like I said, thanks
Speaker 7: to you for listening and thank you for all the
Speaker 7: kind words. I love you guys too, so thank you
Speaker 7: once again. The final score tonight five to four. Marlin's
Speaker 7: get a rare win, their fifth walk off win of
Speaker 7: the year in ten innings. Dodgers go down to the
Speaker 7: Fish five to four. Have a great rest of your night.
Speaker 7: We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 6: See just done.