Speaker 1: Right quiet, Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it
Speaker 1: an annual postseason.
Speaker 2: Tradition, Scam is back.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 1: This is Sax and Cakes in.
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Speaker 1: Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger
Speaker 1: pregame host Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers,
Speaker 1: get in on the show on eighty six six nine,
Speaker 1: eighty seven two five seven now. While the Dan Patrick
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Speaker 1: to the internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes. Here
Speaker 1: they are broadcasting live on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 2: It's Sax and Kate's and am Honty Glorious Monday morning,
Speaker 2: October twenty first, twenty twenty four, Live in Love Bonny
Speaker 2: and five seventy l Sports. Gats Who's going back to
Speaker 2: the World Series? Yeah, your Los Angeles Dodgers, Tim Kate,
Speaker 2: Steve Saxon, you on this Monday Morning Saxon. They did
Speaker 2: it for the fourth time in eight years. They're going
Speaker 2: back to the Fall Classic. Good morning, Good morning, Tim.
Speaker 3: This is it. You know you usually give me a
Speaker 3: different intro, but I'll take this one. All right. Well,
Speaker 3: well that's okay, don't worry about it. I know you're excited. Hey,
Speaker 3: this is unbelievable, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to get right to it. But he
Speaker 2: is a two time World Series champion, he is a
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year, and he is the best damn
Speaker 2: number three he ever seen put on a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 2: He is the one and only Steve Sacks Saxon good morning.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey buddy, I just don't want to upset our mojo.
Speaker 3: You know we got something going now. You got you
Speaker 3: got Behemoth against the Bohemoths. Right now, You've got to
Speaker 3: East versus West, MVP versus the MVP. This is this
Speaker 3: is classic. This is gonna be amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I keep reading. This is the matchup that everybody wanted.
Speaker 2: This is the matchup that baseball is built on. This
Speaker 2: is the match that we've been talking about for months.
Speaker 2: It's MVP versus MVP. It's New York versus LA. It's
Speaker 2: these two franchises that have met now are gonna meet
Speaker 2: for the twelfth time ever. This is a meeting of
Speaker 2: franchises that go back way back to their history in
Speaker 2: New York together forty one World Series appearances by the Yankees,
Speaker 2: now twenty two by the Dodgers. But what's crazy to
Speaker 2: me is everybody keeps hyping up the Dodgers and Yankees
Speaker 2: and oh, it's oh the Dodgers, What are you gonna
Speaker 2: have to do to beat the Yankees? What are you
Speaker 2: gonna have to do to beat the Yankees? It's like, wait,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have been here for the last eight years.
Speaker 2: This is a Yankees franchise that hasn't been in the
Speaker 2: World Series since two thousand and nine. What are we
Speaker 2: talking about? What do you feel like meeting up with
Speaker 2: the Yankees? It should be reversed. Hey, Yankees, what do
Speaker 2: you feel like meet up against the big bad Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what I'm hearing. That's you should see the
Speaker 3: text messages I get from my friends New York. It's
Speaker 3: like they think that it's gonna be an unbelievable matchup.
Speaker 3: They're a little bit timid when it when it comes
Speaker 3: to facing the Dodge and you know all the talk
Speaker 3: too about well the Dodgers don't have this starting pitching
Speaker 3: and they can't cobble together that bullpen enough. First of all,
Speaker 3: they haven't seen the bullpen the Dodgers have. I guess
Speaker 3: they don't know much about it. Uh, that's one of thing.
Speaker 3: Even even you got some guys in the bullpen that
Speaker 3: are down, I mean, you didn't have Vesia, which would
Speaker 3: have been a good weapon on the left side. He
Speaker 3: wasn't there. He might be ready for the World Series though,
Speaker 3: and you know you're gonna have arrested Freddy Freeman. Now,
Speaker 3: you know what I was just thinking about this. Maybe
Speaker 3: with all the technology of today, with AI and all
Speaker 3: the great things that they can do, the the myriad
Speaker 3: of businesses down in the Southland, why can't they put
Speaker 3: together like a like a Freddie Freeman, you know, body part,
Speaker 3: you know thing and put together. Put an ankle together
Speaker 3: in a Petri dish, you know, let that thing cook
Speaker 3: for a little bit. Get the get the ankle good,
Speaker 3: Get him into surgery, you know, at the best clinic
Speaker 3: they can find and reinstate a like a new ankle.
Speaker 3: And then by then, with with the sports technology and whatever,
Speaker 3: he should be all ready to go with the brand
Speaker 3: new ankle. I mean, they could almost do it with elbows. Now,
Speaker 3: why can't they do it with a simple ankle.
Speaker 2: I mean, Luke Skywalker got a brand new hand in
Speaker 2: Star Wars after it was cut off and the Empire
Speaker 2: strikes back. Can we get a new foot for Freddie Freeman?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, I mean, I wish they would publish
Speaker 3: a picture of Freddy's ankle, just to see what the
Speaker 3: hell is going on with this thing, so we could
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, see the thing in our own
Speaker 3: you know, with our own eyes. And I don't know
Speaker 3: how what's what's going on with that thing? But this
Speaker 3: is a like a mystery sprain I guess, right, isn't
Speaker 3: it crazy?
Speaker 2: By the time we get to Game one on Friday night,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a month since he sprained that ankle
Speaker 2: against the San Diego Padres on that final regular season
Speaker 2: home game that Thursday night, in which the Dodgers would
Speaker 2: clinch the nl West title that night, and he sprained
Speaker 2: the ankles. Yeah, didn't play in Colorado, gingerly played through
Speaker 2: the nl DS, finally got through the NLCS until the end,
Speaker 2: and didn't play last night. What's crazy is they've continued
Speaker 2: to produce offensively without Freddie Freeman the line, and they
Speaker 2: put a ten spot up on the board last night
Speaker 2: and Freddie spent the entire game looking out in the
Speaker 2: game on the railing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the great thing about it is you don't hear
Speaker 3: Freddy's not that you don't miss him, I know, not
Speaker 3: that you don't want him. The Dodgers are better with
Speaker 3: him in the lineup, but the fact that you can
Speaker 3: cover with the great depth that the team has. And
Speaker 3: that's saying something that's like an umpire when he's out
Speaker 3: there and you don't even know he's there, you don't
Speaker 3: even hear his name or anything. That's when a guy's
Speaker 3: doing a great job. Same thing here, when you don't
Speaker 3: have to bring up you know, all the maladies are
Speaker 3: on the team, which you know for most teams they
Speaker 3: would just be down and out. I mean, look at
Speaker 3: the pitching staff start there. You got a whole laundry
Speaker 3: list of guys are out, and then you got your
Speaker 3: superstar first baseman that's out, and they still cover. They're
Speaker 3: still up there and they're going to the World Series.
Speaker 3: It's amazing what they've done. And all the talk, please,
Speaker 3: I don't please, all the talk about Dave Robert. Can
Speaker 3: we not hear that anymore? I mean, has he finally
Speaker 3: silenced the groups. Now the talking heads about well it's
Speaker 3: got to be his fault. Well what about now?
Speaker 2: Well it's funny you say that because they couldn't silence
Speaker 2: some last night postgame. Here he is in the clubhouse,
Speaker 2: celebrating with the toes for the team.
Speaker 3: Everybody steps up ready when called upon.
Speaker 6: Like I said before, I've never been.
Speaker 7: Around a group of guys who I love.
Speaker 3: Or care about more.
Speaker 7: Four more wins work to be done. Let's go for it.
Speaker 2: There's Dave Roberts popping the champagne saxy last night. He
Speaker 2: was like a kid on Christmas Day, running around on
Speaker 2: the field, hugging anybody and everybody. You heard him at
Speaker 2: the podium with Tom Verducci when they gave away the
Speaker 2: National League trophy to Mark Walter and the ownership. I
Speaker 2: mean you couldn't get the microphone away from him. He
Speaker 2: was so excited to talk to the fans, to talk
Speaker 2: about his team and to really just celebrate this, even
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse, at the podium, everywhere. He was win
Speaker 2: with our own David Vaz say, you couldn't stop him
Speaker 2: from gleaming about his team and how excited he was
Speaker 2: for that and everybody.
Speaker 3: Reads it as how genuine it is, and it is genuine,
Speaker 3: and that's what people like about Dave. He made all
Speaker 3: the right calls, brilliant as far as working the bullpen,
Speaker 3: and you know, he's just gonna silence the critics now,
Speaker 3: even though you know he has very little to do
Speaker 3: with the you know, the nuts and bolts of when
Speaker 3: that's what the players do. But he made all the
Speaker 3: right calls from the dugout and that's what he does.
Speaker 3: That's his job. And hey, the Dodgers are are well
Speaker 3: suited right now. They're gonna be rested and this is
Speaker 3: going to be a battle. Do you want to know
Speaker 3: what I think about where this is going? Do you
Speaker 3: want to wait?
Speaker 2: Let's wait. Let's wait, because we got a lot of
Speaker 2: time between now in Game one of this World Series
Speaker 2: when they starts on Friday night out of Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: But you said no, you know everybody he pushed the
Speaker 2: right buttons.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna go back to Friday night at City
Speaker 2: Field in New York and I did the postgame show
Speaker 2: and people were up set about the fact that Dodgers
Speaker 2: did not close it out in five games and really
Speaker 2: upset about the way the bullpen was not used early
Speaker 2: on when Jack Flaherty got into trouble and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were down three to one and then down five to one,
Speaker 2: and then it was an eight to one game, and
Speaker 2: they had this gigantic hole to get out, a lot
Speaker 2: of Dodger fans felt me, included like they gave you,
Speaker 2: gave up and threw the white flag up and said,
Speaker 2: all right, we're just gonna get ready for Game six
Speaker 2: on Sunday night. We're gonna save our high leverage relievers
Speaker 2: and we're not gonna try to squash us at three
Speaker 2: to one or five to one and make it a game.
Speaker 2: So I gotta confess I was somebody who was critical
Speaker 2: of Dave Roberts on Friday night. Dodger fans, don't hide,
Speaker 2: don't hide out there. And if you, if you're listening,
Speaker 2: I know because you called in. You sent me the
Speaker 2: angry tweets. I saw it. People were not happy with
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts after Game six. But it's funny how forty
Speaker 2: eight hours later he pushes all the right buttons in
Speaker 2: the bullpen game.
Speaker 3: Look here here's the thing, Dave, I mean, damn talking
Speaker 3: about David Vassa Timmy, here's the thing. You have to
Speaker 3: cover innings. There's no there's those aren't going away. You've
Speaker 3: got to find somebody to cover innings. Let's say, for example,
Speaker 3: they bring in land and back again and he gets
Speaker 3: you know, he gives it up. Then what are people
Speaker 3: gonna say? Wow, you know you had to cover it anyway.
Speaker 3: Why don't you just leave it in there? Let him
Speaker 3: wear it. You know you would have heard that. And
Speaker 3: they're always right at twenty twenty vision, right or back.
Speaker 3: You know, when you hindsight, that's the twenty twenty vision.
Speaker 3: Let's you know, it's not gonna be perfect, there's gonna
Speaker 3: be times worthy. You gotta give the other teams some
Speaker 3: credit sometime. I mean, these guys are there for a reason.
Speaker 3: And weren't the Mets tough? That was a tough ball club.
Speaker 3: They weren't as they were not as good as the
Speaker 3: Dodgers on paper. I mean, you look at the team,
Speaker 3: they're not nearly as good as the Dodgers. But they
Speaker 3: were tough, man. They had a lot of fight in them.
Speaker 3: And look how they ended the end of the thing.
Speaker 3: They got how many hits in a row. They weren't
Speaker 3: going away easy man. They're not that type of a team.
Speaker 3: Got to give them a lot of credit. You know,
Speaker 3: they should have been stomped down. The Dodgers did what
Speaker 3: they had to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a Mets team that wouldn't go away,
Speaker 2: even into the ninth inning last night. They led the
Speaker 2: major leagues during the regular season with forty five come
Speaker 2: from behind wins, and last night they had the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I felt on the ropes early. They had a lot
Speaker 2: of traffic on the baits pats. They left the bases loaded,
Speaker 2: They had runners on base in the first and second.
Speaker 2: Last night, the New York Mets was stranded thirteen base runners.
Speaker 2: They were two for nine with runners in scoring position,
Speaker 2: including Starly Marte, who was zero for two last night.
Speaker 2: He came up it seemed like a couple of times
Speaker 2: with runners on base and had a chance to give
Speaker 2: the Mets e to the lead or get back into
Speaker 2: the game, and he just couldn't do it. But the
Speaker 2: Dodgers pushing all the right buttons. Dave Roberts. Last night
Speaker 2: a bullpen game, Michael Kopek got to start, and I
Speaker 2: was really nervous. People are with last night watching the
Speaker 2: game were furious and the fact that Kopek was out
Speaker 2: there through twenty five pitches, gave up a run, walked
Speaker 2: to bought. Ben Casparius comes in, and then it was
Speaker 2: just arm after arm, bond of Brazier, Phillips, Hudson trying,
Speaker 2: and who pitched two winnings of relief, struck out four
Speaker 2: to get the win. But Dave Roberts was a man
Speaker 2: on cloud nine last night after the game. Here he
Speaker 2: is with our own David Vasse on the field.
Speaker 8: The winningest manager in modern baseball history. How does this
Speaker 8: one field?
Speaker 1: Dave?
Speaker 7: Oh my god, it feels so good.
Speaker 1: Dave.
Speaker 7: I'm just so happy that we finally did it at home. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and we can celebrate with our fans.
Speaker 8: How did you navigate this game tonight? It wasn't as
Speaker 8: much of a blowout as the others.
Speaker 7: Now, you know what, I gotta give Cretch all these guys,
Speaker 7: you know, all these pitchers were ready when called upon. Obviously,
Speaker 7: Tommy had a big hit, will Smith big hit. So
Speaker 7: the players showed out tonight. And again, David, I'm just
Speaker 7: so happy for our players and our fans.
Speaker 8: Dave, this feels like a one through thirty something type
Speaker 8: of win.
Speaker 7: It does, it does, and I'll tell you right now, Dave.
Speaker 7: It's an organization win from you know, we get young players,
Speaker 7: the scouted player development, by way of trade. You know,
Speaker 7: everyone is just a whole organization. I could couldn't be
Speaker 7: more excited for everyone.
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond kind of went under the radar.
Speaker 7: How big was he for you in this series? Oh
Speaker 7: my god, he's been so huge for us to be
Speaker 7: able to play shortstop, to be able to play center field.
Speaker 7: You know he does it only it gets huge. Hit Mamuka,
Speaker 7: I love you, baby, I love you baby.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you for eing.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm.
Speaker 7: Play.
Speaker 2: Four more to go, It's four more to go.
Speaker 8: There he is Mookie Betts with Dave Roberts. You got
Speaker 8: the love from your players, Dave. I'll let you enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Thank you next, Dave.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts nine straight postseason appearances as Dodger manager, eight
Speaker 2: divisional titles now count them, four National League pennags as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going back to the World Series and
Speaker 2: he's already got one World Series title as a manager
Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty. How I mean, he's the most
Speaker 2: winniest active manager in baseball. And yes, he has had
Speaker 2: a lot of talent on his teams. The way he
Speaker 2: has managed this talent. You hear the love from Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts right there, the players listen up to him. He
Speaker 2: hasn't lost the clubhouts in now nine seasons, which you
Speaker 2: know baseball, that's an eternity. Now we've seen the turnover
Speaker 2: managers and there's nobody that's got longevity anymore as far
Speaker 2: as managers are concerned, or head coaching, and in sports,
Speaker 2: it's churn and burn and get these guys out as
Speaker 2: fast as can as you can unless you don't win.
Speaker 2: And he's gone a nine straight postseason. Hard to argue
Speaker 2: with the success that Dave Robbers has and dare I
Speaker 2: say a future Hall of Fame manager winner losing this
Speaker 2: World series four World Series of appearances in nine years,
Speaker 2: that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, A couple things. First of all, you know, if
Speaker 3: you want to see what a good movie looks is
Speaker 3: like you hear everybody talk about this particular movie that's out.
Speaker 3: Just ask the first ten people to come out of
Speaker 3: the premiere and they can tell you we lead their
Speaker 3: faces and hear what they say. That's your best barometer
Speaker 3: about what that movie is going to be. Like, I
Speaker 3: feel you're gonna get an honest read. You know, ask
Speaker 3: the players what they think about Dave the same thing.
Speaker 3: They're going to give you an honest read. And you
Speaker 3: can hear it in their voice. You can hear it,
Speaker 3: you know, when they're having these side conversations right there
Speaker 3: with Mookie Betts. It's a real deal. They love and
Speaker 3: respect this guy, and that's why they get the most
Speaker 3: out of them. I think it's at times a lot
Speaker 3: harder to manage team with such great talent, with such
Speaker 3: great expectations, constantly raising the bar of expectancy for the team.
Speaker 3: And that's sometimes, in my estimation, much harder to get
Speaker 3: the most out of your club when you've got so
Speaker 3: much expected of you. And yet he does it. I mean,
Speaker 3: people say, man, I'd love to have that team. I
Speaker 3: could manage that team easy, Oh really could you? There's
Speaker 3: it goes a lot deeper that, especially when you're talking
Speaker 3: about the interpersonal skills of the manager siding up with
Speaker 3: the players, that drawing the line between being their manager
Speaker 3: and being their friend. There's a line there that you
Speaker 3: have to you know, kind of, you know, appreciate. But
Speaker 3: they get the most out of this this team through
Speaker 3: Dave robertson his coach and staff. They do a great
Speaker 3: job the.
Speaker 2: Way he's able to massage the egos, so to speak,
Speaker 2: and all these superstars have it to some extent, and
Speaker 2: he's able to always constantly have that clubhouse and they
Speaker 2: have his back because you know, you can go through
Speaker 2: a slump, maybe you drop six or seven or things
Speaker 2: aren't going right. All it takes is one guy in
Speaker 2: a clubhouse, yes, to start saying stump sax, and next
Speaker 2: thing you know, it just festers and gother guys start
Speaker 2: believing like, yeah, yeah, it's not our fault. Now, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts isn't putting this in the right situation. You're not
Speaker 2: using me right. You know, I'm not getting enough playing time.
Speaker 2: That's all it takes is one guy to start festering
Speaker 2: that right. And for the last nine years, I swear
Speaker 2: I can tell you I can't remember a time in
Speaker 2: which you heard one player before, during, or after a
Speaker 2: stint on a Dave Roberts matched team complain about him
Speaker 2: and say, you know what, my time in La stunk.
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts was a terrible man. You never you never
Speaker 3: hear that. You know why you won't hear it? Because
Speaker 3: the players won't allow it. It doesn't even get to
Speaker 3: the managerial level. The players won't allow that. It doesn't
Speaker 3: even get there. The players will take care of that.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's kind of like you know, being
Speaker 3: out in society. You know, the players will take care
Speaker 3: of it. Right. It doesn't even have to get to
Speaker 3: the top. And that's that's for sure. They will silence that.
Speaker 3: They will they will if that is the case. Well,
Speaker 3: first of all, those guys are vetted out before they
Speaker 3: get there, truey point, they don't even get to that point.
Speaker 3: But that won't even get to the top level. Because
Speaker 3: if it starts to get like that, that guy will
Speaker 3: be out. He'll be out quicker than you can imagine.
Speaker 3: And so that's the great thing about a clubhouse. That
Speaker 3: is a sanctuary in there, and those guys are not
Speaker 3: gonna let anybody spoil that.
Speaker 5: He is.
Speaker 2: Steve Saxon, Tim Kates in Saxon, Kates and The Am
Speaker 2: on this Monday and morning, a victory Monday here in
Speaker 2: Southern California, is celebrating yet another trip to the World
Speaker 2: Series for your Los Angeles Dodgers eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy We got a lot of
Speaker 2: time this week to get into this series. We got
Speaker 2: a lot of days to break down this matchup, look
Speaker 2: at rotations, bullpens, starting players, role players, how these two
Speaker 2: teams stack up. We're gonna get into it all week
Speaker 2: leading up to Game one on Monday night or Friday night.
Speaker 2: But today is a day to celebrate the Dodgers winning
Speaker 2: the National League Pennant a ten to five victory over
Speaker 2: the New York Mets last night in Game six of
Speaker 2: the NLCS. Coming up, you're gonna hear from Key k
Speaker 2: hern Nandez. You're gonna hear from one of the members
Speaker 2: of the Dogs, Blake trying. That's what they're calling themselves
Speaker 2: down the bullpen. Love it, David vass say, we'll check
Speaker 2: in with us coming up at eight o'clock. An absolutely
Speaker 2: unreal interview last night David Vasse, Brent Honeywell Junior, and
Speaker 2: Max Munsey. You're gonna want to hear it if you
Speaker 2: have it. Freddie Freeman will hear from next hour how
Speaker 2: his ankle's feeling coming up. Your phone calls, and Tommy Edmond,
Speaker 2: the MVP of the NLCS, comes out of nowhere to
Speaker 2: help out this Dodgers team that's all coming up. Join
Speaker 2: us at eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy,
Speaker 2: Steve Sacks, Tim Kats, and you as the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: going to the World Series yet again. Right here in
Speaker 2: anti seventy light sports.
Speaker 9: Ao takes a small lead another one to two pitch.
Speaker 9: Edmond swings. It's a high fly.
Speaker 2: Ball left field and deep Mimo is back on the
Speaker 2: warning track.
Speaker 3: Bet the wall.
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund sends Dodgers Stadium into a frenzy hey two strike,
Speaker 2: two run home run. He has driven in all four
Speaker 2: runs so far. In Game six, the Dodgers lead for
Speaker 2: to one, Tommy Edmund two for five to run home
Speaker 2: run drives in four Your National League Championship Series MVP,
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers beat the New York Mets in six
Speaker 2: games with a ten to five win last night out
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, Tim Kates, Steve Sacks. It's Sax and
Speaker 2: Kate's in the am here on this Monday morning, after
Speaker 2: the Dodgers clinched their fourth World Series bid in the
Speaker 2: last eight years. They've got superstars up and down this lineup.
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman watching for the dugout last night. The seven
Speaker 2: hundred million dollar man in show Hey O Tani, Mookie Betts,
Speaker 2: who can do it all. And it's Tommy Edmund last
Speaker 2: night who delivers for the Dodgers early. And it's Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmond in this series Saxy who delivered for him with
Speaker 2: eleven RBI tying a franchise, Wreckerd with Corey Seeger unbelievable.
Speaker 2: The guys that rise to the occasion in October. You
Speaker 2: never know who it's gonna be. Will it be a superstar,
Speaker 2: will it be a role player or is it a
Speaker 2: guy like Tommy Edmond who they acquire at the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: He's hurt, He joins his Dodgers team. They bat him
Speaker 2: throughout the lineup, different spots. He plays three different positions
Speaker 2: and here he is the NLCS MVP. It's pretty cool story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And this this is the well roundedness of the team,
Speaker 3: you know, showing itself. We all know about the power,
Speaker 3: we know about the arms down in the bullpen, especially
Speaker 3: when the starters are healthy. And you got a laundry
Speaker 3: list of guys that can just throw the ball one
Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour, And then you got Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 3: You know, he can do everything. He's one of those
Speaker 3: guys at oh, launch angles. We don't talk about that
Speaker 3: with Tommy Edman.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 3: We don't talk about exit velocity with Tommy Edman.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 3: We don't talk about ground speed with Tommy Edmond.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 3: We don't talk about how hard he throws the ball
Speaker 3: across the diamond. We don't talk about any of those things.
Speaker 3: All we talk about is, you know, he's the MVP
Speaker 3: of the series. That's what because he's a baseball player.
Speaker 3: He's a really good player. He's fundamentally sound. He's a
Speaker 3: great athlete. Whether he hits the ball out of the
Speaker 3: park or not. Oh, by the way, he can do
Speaker 3: that too. As you saw that. He is a well
Speaker 3: rounded ball player. And you know what hitting from both
Speaker 3: sides of the plate to making the plays in the field,
Speaker 3: to taking the extra base, hitting the ball out of
Speaker 3: the park. You know, you don't talk about all these
Speaker 3: you know, saber metric numbers, but boy, he can play.
Speaker 3: And everybody in that locker room would tell you that too.
Speaker 3: He is a smart player too. And there's no coincidence
Speaker 3: that he's the son of a baseball coach and he's
Speaker 3: a guy who went to Stanford himself, played three seasons
Speaker 3: of college baseball at Stanford, six round pick of the
Speaker 3: Saint Louis Cardinals in twenty sixteen, makes his debut in
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty one, wins a Gold Glove
Speaker 3: with the Cardinals at second base. Yes, he plays multiple positions.
Speaker 3: He was the best defensive second baseman stat wise in
Speaker 3: the National League in twenty twenty one. In October a
Speaker 3: year ago, literally a year ago, he's having risk surgery
Speaker 3: that caused him to miss the first half of this season.
Speaker 3: Then he tweaks his ankle in a rehab game coming
Speaker 3: back from the wrist injury. He's hurt, and the Dodgers
Speaker 3: still acquire him in that three team deal with the
Speaker 3: Cardinals in the White Sox right before the trade deadline.
Speaker 3: They acquire when he's hurt and on the il doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: They wait for him to get healthy, and ever since
Speaker 3: then he's been fantastic playing shortstop, playing the center field spot,
Speaker 3: and last night he wins the NLCS MVP with a
Speaker 3: four to ZHO seven batting average, four extra base its,
Speaker 3: eleven RBIs in six games and saxy. Here he is
Speaker 3: after the game for a few minutes talking to the media.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tommy you tied Corey Seekers record for NLCS RBIs
Speaker 6: by a Dodger. Did did they tell you when they
Speaker 6: traded for you that this was your role on the team,
Speaker 6: being the MVP of the NLCS.
Speaker 9: No, they did.
Speaker 10: They did not inform me that, nor did they inform
Speaker 10: me I was gonna be hitting clean up. So but yeah, no,
Speaker 10: it's it's pretty crazy, especially with the history of the organization,
Speaker 10: to have tie that record. I had no idea about
Speaker 10: it until I guess after the game, But you know,
Speaker 10: it's a huge part of that was just you know,
Speaker 10: testament to the guys on the team. We had really
Speaker 10: good at bats throughout the series. Our whole lineup was
Speaker 10: really good. We had any number of guys who could
Speaker 10: have won MVP. But you know, I just kept getting
Speaker 10: up with guys on base and I had a lot
Speaker 10: of opportunities to drive runs.
Speaker 11: In Tommy, Like when the postseason started, there was you know,
Speaker 11: majority of the role was you know, moving you around
Speaker 11: in the field wherever you were needed. And you last
Speaker 11: forward to today and now you mentioned your batting fourth
Speaker 11: and clean up. Be able to stay on the course
Speaker 11: and make sure that you're able to deliver when those
Speaker 11: opportunities are arising for you and not just falter when
Speaker 11: you know, you get moved up to clean up and
Speaker 11: stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I didn't really think too much about the spot
Speaker 10: in the lineup. I was hitting just you know, more
Speaker 10: just situational. You know, if there's guys on base, just
Speaker 10: try to put something in play and have a chance
Speaker 10: to drive guys in. So I don't know if the
Speaker 10: spot in the lineup necessarily means that much to me,
Speaker 10: But yeah, I mean kind of like you're saying, I
Speaker 10: didn't really know what my role was when I got
Speaker 10: traded here, and then postseason moving around a little bit,
Speaker 10: and I feel like I've kind of just done a
Speaker 10: good job of adjusting to whatever is required to me
Speaker 10: at the an any given situation.
Speaker 12: So, Tommy, quick question for you. When you come over
Speaker 12: to a team like the Dodgers in the middle of
Speaker 12: the season, I mean, there's just so much upheaval for
Speaker 12: you personally. How how do you get comfortable with the
Speaker 12: team with the move the West coast? How did the
Speaker 12: team make you feel comfortable? How did that all work
Speaker 12: out to end up where you are tonight?
Speaker 10: Well, the West, the move to the west, this is
Speaker 10: actually a move home cause I'm from San Diego, so
Speaker 10: that was definitely made things a little bit easier for
Speaker 10: my wife and wife and son to be closer to
Speaker 10: their family. And the other part too, is just organization
Speaker 10: did such a great job of welcoming me and making
Speaker 10: sure I kind of had everything I needed because I
Speaker 10: was injured when I got traded, so just making sure
Speaker 10: I was going through all the rehab stuff that I
Speaker 10: needed to and really just being really diligent about, you know,
Speaker 10: the work that I needed to put in order to
Speaker 10: get ready to play every day again. So yeah, huge
Speaker 10: credit goes to the staff and then my teammates as
Speaker 10: well for welcoming me and you know, making me feel
Speaker 10: like part of the team from day one.
Speaker 3: Tell me, when we were.
Speaker 13: In New York, especially after Game four, you kept saying,
Speaker 13: I've never been to the World Series where one win away,
Speaker 13: it would be really cool. Now that you are in
Speaker 13: the World Series and it's for any baseball fan against
Speaker 13: the Yankees a dream matchup. Just what are you feeling
Speaker 13: and your thoughts on the whole matchup going into the
Speaker 13: Yankee Series.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's what you always dream about as a as
Speaker 10: a little kid, you know, getting to play in the
Speaker 10: World series and playing for the Dodgers against the Yankees.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's pretty surreal, you know. And yeah, I'm
Speaker 10: just excited to, you know, get to play those big games.
Speaker 10: We're enjoying this series. Win tonight. Over this next week
Speaker 10: or so, we're gonna start repairing against the Yankees. But yeah,
Speaker 10: it's just dream come true for sure.
Speaker 2: I just keep hearing him talk about the organization welcoming
Speaker 2: him in Saxon, and again it's a testament to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers from the top to bottom. Then when a guy
Speaker 2: comes over mid season and hurt, they still wrap their
Speaker 2: arms around him. And when he's ready to go and
Speaker 2: inserted in the lineup like he was, It's not like
Speaker 2: he came in. It was on the bench and they
Speaker 2: kind of slowly moved him in and all he got
Speaker 2: hot and he replaced somebody who got hurt and caught fire.
Speaker 2: And here he is surprising everybody. No, when they acquired him,
Speaker 2: they knew as soon as he got healthy he was
Speaker 2: taking somebody's spot. I mean, he was gonna be out
Speaker 2: in center field, He's gonna be out in shorttop. He
Speaker 2: was gonna be in the lineup every day, and that
Speaker 2: can't sit well with some guys who are already there
Speaker 2: and maybe putting in the work and wondering he brought
Speaker 2: somebody in can take by spot. But to the credit
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers and again Dave Roberts as the leader,
Speaker 2: welcoming to Kopek and Flaherty and Tommy Edmond, who's taking
Speaker 2: somebody's spot. And there's not even a skip of the
Speaker 2: beat there.
Speaker 3: No, and that's expected and the team, the guys on
Speaker 3: the team know that when you bring somebody on, it's
Speaker 3: for the betterment of the team. And they know there's
Speaker 3: not going to be any of those personalities that get
Speaker 3: in get in the way. Just thirty seven games this
Speaker 3: year with the Dodgers, because of the injury and whatnot,
Speaker 3: but nonetheless impact was made. He expanded this team. He
Speaker 3: made this team better both defensively and offensively. He gave
Speaker 3: him another outlet. You know, you have a guy that
Speaker 3: goes down, Rojas goes down bang here. You got a
Speaker 3: guy that you can just plug and play and you
Speaker 3: don't lose a beat with him. The great thing is
Speaker 3: that that when you do this and put another guy
Speaker 3: in for a guy that's been there for a while,
Speaker 3: lots of times you'll suffer on the defensive side of it.
Speaker 3: You know, guys usually bring what they do with the bat,
Speaker 3: but sometimes you got to get in sync with everybody
Speaker 3: that's playing around to you. And that's why continuity as
Speaker 3: far as personnel is concerned, is extremely important. But you
Speaker 3: didn't lose a beat with this guy, and especially somebody
Speaker 3: that isn't just in tune to one position. Like you know,
Speaker 3: he wins the Gold Glove at second base, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: He can go to shortstop, as he put that on display.
Speaker 3: He can do it in the outfield as well, and
Speaker 3: you don't suffer anything defensively. And that communication between players
Speaker 3: on the defensive side is huge. It's paramount into having
Speaker 3: those wheels nice and greased when you go out there,
Speaker 3: and that's what he brings.
Speaker 2: Now, you left the Dodgers, you went to the Yankees
Speaker 2: as a free agent. It wasn't if via trade mid season,
Speaker 2: but I just kep thinking about a guy like Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmond and getting a fresh start, and for a player
Speaker 2: that's on a losing team, and that's where a lot
Speaker 2: of guys come from when they get traded from one
Speaker 2: team to a contender, is you're not going anywhere with
Speaker 2: the team you're at, and so they're sending you to
Speaker 2: a team that's got a shot to win, and they're
Speaker 2: acquiring you to help you win a championship in Copek.
Speaker 2: That's what they got from the White Sox helping the bullpen,
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty help as a starter. They get Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: to help as a guy in the lineup that can
Speaker 2: play multiple positions. And I just keep thinking about a
Speaker 2: guy like Tommy m and in the other two. It's
Speaker 2: the shot in the arm, isn't it to go from
Speaker 2: a team that's got no shot, right, You're halfway through
Speaker 2: a season to walk into a clubhouse and the Dodger
Speaker 2: clubhouse and instantly you have a shot to win a
Speaker 2: World Series.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And he was playing all the time with the
Speaker 3: team that wasn't going anywhere. He played in one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty seven games with Saint Louis the year before
Speaker 3: in twenty three, and then he gets injured and he's
Speaker 3: sitting around. But you know, this is a guy that's
Speaker 3: gonna play all the time, so that he eats at you.
Speaker 3: You come over to this team, You're welcome with open arms.
Speaker 3: They've got to get you through the rehab process. And
Speaker 3: then you just start lighting it on fire. And here
Speaker 3: you are, You're the you know, the the MVP of
Speaker 3: the LCS. So this is a this is an unbelievable
Speaker 3: thing for him and the Dodgers. How about how they
Speaker 3: have to feel. Yeah, we took a chance on this guy.
Speaker 3: He wasn't even healthy. He comes over here and he's
Speaker 3: the MVP of the series. I mean, that's that is
Speaker 3: doing it the right way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, after the words last night, I heard Andrew Freeman
Speaker 2: kind of making the rounds in the clubouts talking to
Speaker 2: different media outlets, and when he talked to our own
Speaker 2: David Vassay, he made the comment that you don't His
Speaker 2: philosophy is, we don't like making trades at the deadline
Speaker 2: because usually you don't get what you want for what
Speaker 2: you're giving up because they know that you need what
Speaker 2: they have. And he likes to make the trades in
Speaker 2: the offseason. And I get that, but he even said
Speaker 2: we needed help and going into the season, they thought
Speaker 2: of all years twenty twenty four with the depth they
Speaker 2: saw on their roster and the guys they had in
Speaker 2: the minor leagues to can fill those voice if injuries
Speaker 2: happened to any spot on the roster. They felt like
Speaker 2: they didn't go even're gonna go out and they have
Speaker 2: to make a trade at the deadline. They were so deep,
Speaker 2: but because of injuries, they found themselves having to go
Speaker 2: out and acquire three different types of players, starter, reliever,
Speaker 2: and position player. And he even said, we hit on
Speaker 2: all three. And he had this huge, gigantic smile on
Speaker 2: his face because he knows, he knows it's not easy
Speaker 2: to go out acquire guys that come in and fit
Speaker 2: and help your team necessarily, but they found three of
Speaker 2: those dudes.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and a good A great part of that
Speaker 3: is coming into an organization that that gets it, you know,
Speaker 3: and an organization that knows it's got to be more
Speaker 3: than just what you're doing on the field. You got
Speaker 3: to have that clubhouse in tune. You got to have
Speaker 3: guys that are gonna welcome you on the team. And
Speaker 3: again it goes back to you know, what's the situation
Speaker 3: like when you walk in there. I mean it's open
Speaker 3: arms and it's you know, a common goal is already
Speaker 3: instilled in those guys that put that uniform on, and
Speaker 3: it's not you know, it's not phony stuff, it's not
Speaker 3: stupid talk. It's real. I mean you ask any any
Speaker 3: guy on the team, and I've been on teams where
Speaker 3: it hasn't been like that, and it is a real thing.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the number jump on board if you're getting up and
Speaker 2: you want to celebrate this. Dodgers and LCS, we want
Speaker 2: to hear from you, Dodger fans. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. Dodger fans were so excited
Speaker 2: on Friday going into Game five, talking about a World
Speaker 2: Series matchup, feeling good about the Mets series, and then
Speaker 2: the Dodgers dropped Game five and the Mets made it
Speaker 2: a series down three games to two. Forty eight hours later,
Speaker 2: a bullpenning game last night for the Dodgers didn't get
Speaker 2: off to a great start. The New York Mets jumped
Speaker 2: out to the early one nothing lead, getting to Michael
Speaker 2: Kopek and I'll admit I thought, oh no, here we
Speaker 2: go again. This is in Game four the NLDS where
Speaker 2: the bullpen game worked out inning by inning by inning.
Speaker 2: This was another NLCS bullpen game like Game two where
Speaker 2: things backfired early. Michael Kopek was brought in. Dave Roberts said, pregame, Saxy,
Speaker 2: we need to put up a zero in the first inning.
Speaker 2: We need to have a positive result. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with my former starter turned into a reliever now
Speaker 2: dominant reliever in Michael Kopek. And what does he do.
Speaker 2: He gives up a run. I mean, I wasn't at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium last night, but even I ten miles away
Speaker 2: can feel the air being sucked out of Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: really early last night. But it was Tommy Edmund delivering
Speaker 2: with that double to score two in the bottom of
Speaker 2: the first to bring life back to Dodger Stadium. But
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to admit that first inning a
Speaker 2: little nervous after the initial Mets score.
Speaker 3: You know what's funny is too is my Like I
Speaker 3: told you, my brother and I when we're watching football
Speaker 3: on Sundays, we lived like two houses away, and yet
Speaker 3: I'm in my house and he's in his house, and
Speaker 3: we're texting each other back and forth on every play
Speaker 3: about you know, did you see that? What an idiot?
Speaker 3: You know? I got to tell our listeners that Tim
Speaker 3: and I kind of do the same thing. From Burbank
Speaker 3: to Sacramento during the games is like, whoa what is
Speaker 3: going on here? Sometimes it's a short thirty second phone call,
Speaker 3: sometimes it's a text, but nonetheless, yeah, we kind of
Speaker 3: run the gamut as far as that goes. But you know,
Speaker 3: the thing is is we feel it. You know, we
Speaker 3: can tell, we can feel what's going on. Man, he's
Speaker 3: not coming here the strike zone, what is it? Make
Speaker 3: an adjustment? Come on, what's going on? Cobeck didn't look
Speaker 3: good at the first We microanalyze every damn bitch is
Speaker 3: going on, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: He didn't look good though. He was missing on every
Speaker 2: pitch he threw. He was walking guys left and right,
Speaker 2: and then he didn't get a help when the little
Speaker 2: you know, Chopper to Chris Taylor, he bare hands it
Speaker 2: and Max Munsey, who's not six ' five like Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: couldn't make the stretch and the ball goes off the
Speaker 2: first base railing.
Speaker 3: There play tough play on both sides.
Speaker 2: Tough play, but you're thinking, oh my gosh, no defense,
Speaker 2: and Kopek's throwing a lot of pitches.
Speaker 3: No, it's it. It's not that. It's not only that,
Speaker 3: but he's throwing pitches like I thought, we're gonna hit
Speaker 3: the kind of we're gonna go to the upper deck, right,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, A couple of those. I mean,
Speaker 3: I can only imagine what people said when I was
Speaker 3: throwing at first base.
Speaker 9: What an idiot?
Speaker 3: What's wrong with you?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 3: So I had a a little bit of a little
Speaker 3: bit of a you know, give him a break, a
Speaker 3: little bit attitude for my copeck I get it, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. He's not trying to do it,
Speaker 3: you know, but we're like going just hey, it seems
Speaker 3: like sometimes you want to tell uh, you know, washing
Speaker 3: it from this from this vantage point. You want to say, look,
Speaker 3: take get off the mound, take a deep breath, and
Speaker 3: just kind of recenter. Okay, you know you got to
Speaker 3: figure Okay, I've thrown four pitches that oh just went
Speaker 3: over the backstop. Okay, I gotta take a little bit
Speaker 3: of a you know, of a correction here. Maybe throw
Speaker 3: one at the knees this time or something. You know.
Speaker 3: So I get into that stuff too, But I've seen
Speaker 3: the other side of it, and it's like, fan, you
Speaker 3: don't know what the hell you're talking about. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, so I get it.
Speaker 2: I can only imagine the adrenaline and nerves that were
Speaker 2: going through Michael Kolpak last night. So that's why I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't fault him.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: You can see it. He sweats a lot, even when
Speaker 2: he's out there pitching in the eighth inning of a
Speaker 2: game in the middle of the season. He's just a sweater.
Speaker 2: But to see him out there, to see him sweating away,
Speaker 2: I can tell by his face. You know, they had
Speaker 2: to go out and talk to him, will.
Speaker 3: Say what I love about Kopek. You know what I
Speaker 3: love about him. I'll take that dude anytime. You know why,
Speaker 3: because I'll take a guy that you have to ratchet
Speaker 3: it back a little bit and say, Okay, I need
Speaker 3: to pull him back a little bit. Maybe, But man,
Speaker 3: his stuff is electric and when he's on, forget it,
Speaker 3: he can wipe anybody out. And you know what I
Speaker 3: like about him. He's ballsy. You know he'll get that
Speaker 3: hundred plus and say here it is, I'm gonna by
Speaker 3: the way, it's coming right now, and we'll see if
Speaker 3: you can hit it. I love that about this guy.
Speaker 3: Here's why he can playing my team any day.
Speaker 2: Pedro Monrovia start things off on this Monday morning, as
Speaker 2: we celebrate another trip to the World Series for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Hi Pedro, well up, Kate Sexy. I love you guys.
Speaker 4: Your show is awesome. Thank you guys for doing Pedro.
Speaker 4: Four more wins, maybe four more wins against these Yankees,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna this is gonna be exciting. Last night,
Speaker 4: it was started up a little shaky, but they made it.
Speaker 4: They made it fun at the end, and we got
Speaker 4: to relax a little bit when they got those extra runs.
Speaker 4: But man, what a game.
Speaker 3: Yep, what a game it was.
Speaker 4: And wait till Friday. Man, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Friday is gonna be going off at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: As much as the Dodgers pulled away last night in
Speaker 2: the third after the will Smith home run, part of that,
Speaker 2: you know, Tommy Edmund will Smith home runs of the
Speaker 2: third inning, they go up six to one. I still
Speaker 2: didn't feel good. I still didn't feel like this one's over.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think you still think you need a little
Speaker 3: one more push. Yeah, you knew the Mets were going
Speaker 3: to go away. And as soon as they reminded us
Speaker 3: on TV that they led the Majors with forty five
Speaker 3: comfort behind the winds. Were you sweating like Copex? Yes,
Speaker 3: I was on that one.
Speaker 2: I was Kopeck dripping last night watching the you know,
Speaker 2: from the fourth inning on and the Vientels hits the
Speaker 2: home run and cuts it in half. That's a six
Speaker 2: to three game and it's only the fourth inning, and
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the Dodgers' bullpen and who they've used
Speaker 2: and who's down there. They had no more lefties to
Speaker 2: go to because only Bonda is the only left to
Speaker 2: they can go to. They're using Braziers giving up the
Speaker 2: home run Copex already in the in the dugout. There
Speaker 2: wasn't a lot of high leverage arms down there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that I was really feeling great about. I mean, they
Speaker 2: weren't going to go to land in nac They already
Speaker 2: went to Ben Casparrius. It's like, looking at the final
Speaker 2: four innings, it was going to be Phillips Hudson and
Speaker 2: trying him. Those three guys were gonna have to cover
Speaker 2: four innings somehow, some way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, first of all, they've got some filthy stuff
Speaker 3: down there, And that's a great compliment Blake trying and
Speaker 3: I still don't know how he makes that ball move
Speaker 3: like that. I mean, everything is sharp and nothing is
Speaker 3: ever repeated it. You know, it moves a little bit
Speaker 3: different on that pitch. I mean he throws a sinker
Speaker 3: into the right hander. That's like a bowling ball that's
Speaker 3: going ninety seven with hard tilt down and into the
Speaker 3: right hander. Good luck with anybody that's a right hand
Speaker 3: hitter that wants to hit that thing. Okay, that's what
Speaker 3: you got to throw Aaron Judge. That's the pitch that
Speaker 3: you got to throw Stanton and challenge him with that,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And that stuff is filthy. Now.
Speaker 3: My question to you, Tim was, when you're watching these
Speaker 3: games in the Burbank mansion that you live in, is
Speaker 3: is it you know, you're sitting, are you standing up?
Speaker 3: Are you kind of going from kitchen to you know,
Speaker 3: is it an open setting where you're going from kitchen
Speaker 3: to the TV and gobbling everything up that missus Kates
Speaker 3: can throw at you? Well, what's what's the kind of
Speaker 3: the layout?
Speaker 2: I stand? I cannot sit. I stand and I'm doing
Speaker 2: the same thing. I give running commentary to the to
Speaker 2: the point where some people, my family, you know, just
Speaker 2: get up and walk out because you know they're trying
Speaker 2: to watch the game, and I'm giving my own commentary
Speaker 2: on top of what's already being talked about on TV
Speaker 2: and radio. So we have the radio going, the TV going,
Speaker 2: me going, so it's like three different broadcasts of the
Speaker 2: kids be around.
Speaker 3: When you're watching her, you got to up the out
Speaker 3: of the room.
Speaker 2: The two of the girls are home from college this weekend,
Speaker 2: so they were all home and they were glad to
Speaker 2: be home, but like the fourth fifth inning last.
Speaker 3: Night, they don't want to go to their room.
Speaker 2: One of wholes on their phone went to the other
Speaker 2: room and it was just like, yeah, I don't want
Speaker 2: to be around this anymore.
Speaker 3: I get that. Yeah. So yeah, my daughter was with
Speaker 3: me and we we always do family dinner on Sunday
Speaker 3: night time every Sunday, and so, you know, her husband
Speaker 3: have the family over and they're watching the game and
Speaker 3: my grandson's right next to me and he's like, Poppy,
Speaker 3: you know what's going He said, Mom, what's wrong with Poppy?
Speaker 3: You know, he's kind of going nuts? And I said, Ethan,
Speaker 3: don't listen to that, you know, but but yeah, that's
Speaker 3: the way it is. So but you get into it, man,
Speaker 3: you know, it's part of what you're doing right.
Speaker 2: I get to it. I get too much into it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's my problem. And it's it's even worse during
Speaker 2: the that's not worst in the regular season, but it's
Speaker 2: just as bad during the regular season. Eight six six
Speaker 2: ninety seven two five seventy. It's Sax and Kate's in
Speaker 2: the am. They did it. The Dodgers are going back
Speaker 2: to another World Series, their fourth trip to the Fall
Speaker 2: Classic in the last eight years. We've got one line open,
Speaker 2: jump on it. Eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. We're here to react, celebrate, and get ready
Speaker 2: for a World Series matchup against the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2: Plenty of time to break down the matchup. We're celebrating
Speaker 2: the win last night with you. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. Coming up, we'll hear from
Speaker 2: Key k hern Nanz. We'll hear from Blake trinon the
Speaker 2: bullpen calling themselves to dogs. Freddy Freeman will hear from
Speaker 2: next hour, David vas Say will join us in the
Speaker 2: final hour, and at eight o'clock, Max Munsey, Brent Honeywell Junior,
Speaker 2: and one of the greatest interviews you're ever gonna hear
Speaker 2: that's all coming up. It's Sax and Kate to the
Speaker 2: am right here on your Home of the Dodgers A
Speaker 2: FI seventy ice Sports. The city is a buzzin' as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers aren't making yet another World Series run. Thanks
Speaker 2: for being with us here on your home of showy
Speaker 2: Otani and the Dodgers A five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 2: live in local Saxon Kates in the Am as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the New York Mets in six games of
Speaker 2: the NLCS last night out of Dodgers Stadium. Now they
Speaker 2: get ready for Game one of the Dodgers and Yankees
Speaker 2: World Series matchup. First pitch on Friday is at five o'clock,
Speaker 2: and we'll have all the action for you, pre posts
Speaker 2: and everything in between and everything leading up to it
Speaker 2: right here on scam is. We're with you six am
Speaker 2: to nine am all week long, so lots of time
Speaker 2: to preview this series. We'll go back to nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: one and the last time these two teams met up.
Speaker 2: I feel old. I don't feel feel old saxy, but
Speaker 2: I feel old when I hear the last time the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Yankees met was nineteen eighty one, forty three
Speaker 2: years ago. I was alive.
Speaker 3: I was young then, but I was playing, but I
Speaker 3: was young. You know, it's crazy how long it's been
Speaker 3: since this. I mean, you're talking about half a century,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Wow, what's your initial memory, your initial thought that you
Speaker 2: go to when you hear Dodgers Yankees. This is the
Speaker 2: first time since nineteen eighty one and you're on that team.
Speaker 2: What's your first thought, what's your first memory when you
Speaker 2: hear this. That's the first time they're playing each other
Speaker 2: since then.
Speaker 3: Uh, it was really cold. I remember that in New York.
Speaker 3: I'm not playing. Davy Lopes had a thing go wrong
Speaker 3: with his glove or his eye or something when he
Speaker 3: had a ball that he booted, and I was almost
Speaker 3: in the game. They said, Sachs, are you ready? And
Speaker 3: I was like, hell yeah, And I go out there
Speaker 3: and Davy lips like, no, I'm okay. So I had
Speaker 3: to sit back down. But I did get in the
Speaker 3: first two games. I got to pinch hit against Gidrey
Speaker 3: Nice and I flew out to center field, and then
Speaker 3: I got to pinch run the next game and that
Speaker 3: was it. But I got to watch everything from really
Speaker 3: close to the field because I was on the bench
Speaker 3: and it was it was fantastic. I just got to
Speaker 3: be around it. We're down two games and then we
Speaker 3: went four to row to win it all. So that
Speaker 3: was amazing. Just to be on the team was great.
Speaker 2: Did you think at that point, your rookie year, here
Speaker 2: you are Dodgers Yankee.
Speaker 3: I wasn't even a rookie. Then I was rookie the
Speaker 3: next year.
Speaker 2: Yes, technically, Well did you think, and this is how
Speaker 2: it's going to be forever? Like I'm just I'm now
Speaker 2: thrown into the mix of the great rivalry Dodgers and Yankees,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be like this for the rest of
Speaker 2: my career.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it was almost an extension of those
Speaker 3: years way way back when it was always the Dodgers
Speaker 3: and Yankees, Right, This was kind of like a renewal
Speaker 3: of that. So, I mean it's something that the fans
Speaker 3: certainly would expect to see the Dodgers and Yankees, and
Speaker 3: I didn't know. I mean, I was coming on to
Speaker 3: a team that always, it seemed, won. It was really
Speaker 3: a veteran based club that could show you the way.
Speaker 3: And I was I was there to sponge up everything
Speaker 3: I could, shut up, don't say anything, work hard, and
Speaker 3: just be glad you're there. And that's exactly what I did.
Speaker 2: Who was who did you hang out with? There's a
Speaker 2: young pop in that locker room. Who were you hanging
Speaker 2: out with? You going up to the grizzled events? Were
Speaker 2: you going up to the guys who were the starters
Speaker 2: every day and hanging out with them? Hey, it's me
Speaker 2: Steve Sack.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no, I wasn't doing any of that.
Speaker 3: They were playing a lot of jokes on me. But
Speaker 3: the guys that really treated me great, They treated me
Speaker 3: like a like a grown up, a grown man. Where
Speaker 3: you know, it was Garvey and Baker and those guys though,
Speaker 3: those were amazing dudes. They took me out to dinner,
Speaker 3: they would show me where to go shopping, they would
Speaker 3: show me you know we're not to go and all
Speaker 3: the great things, and they set examples. You know, Garvey
Speaker 3: and Baker were the two guys that were really fantastic,
Speaker 3: always stood out for me.
Speaker 2: That is awesome. Eight six, six, ninety seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Were going to get into more nineteen eighty one flashbacks.
Speaker 2: We're going to catch up with members of the team
Speaker 2: from nineteen eighty one. We got a lot to get
Speaker 2: to this week leading up to Game one on Friday
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium, Oscar in Baldwin Park. Next up on
Speaker 2: Saxon Kates and am on this one day morning as
Speaker 2: we celebrate a chance to win another World Series for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers High Oscar.
Speaker 5: Ah Kay, good morning, gentlemen. It's a beautiful morning, beautiful
Speaker 5: Monday morning today. Real quick on the Ai'll see has
Speaker 5: wrapped it up? Those two games they last night. I
Speaker 5: had had a lot to do with them. I having
Speaker 5: those early starts. I think the Dodgers are early start team.
Speaker 5: That's why those are the only two games they lost.
Speaker 5: And we had an early start. And now for the
Speaker 5: Yankees Dodgers World Series.
Speaker 14: Never saw Mohammad a Leaf fight. I just the Lake
Speaker 14: and Suffist of the eighties, and I haven't seen a
Speaker 14: Dodge Yankee World Series till now. So I'm excited about it,
Speaker 14: and real quick, not to be too dramatic about it.
Speaker 14: I think this is a World Series that American needs
Speaker 14: right now. I need to bring people together with all
Speaker 14: the diversity that going on the election year and all
Speaker 14: this stuff, you know, I think American's pastimes is gonna
Speaker 14: shine at least for the next week or two. So
Speaker 14: let's open the good World Series and go Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Get the kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oscar appreciated. I don't know if it's gonna bring
Speaker 2: people together. I feel like it's gonna be now more
Speaker 2: separation West Coast, East Coast, Dodgers Yankees, old school rivalry,
Speaker 2: even if you're you're not from either city or you're
Speaker 2: in the cities in between. I think people are gonna
Speaker 2: be fired up about this World Series match. I know
Speaker 2: Baseball certainly is celebrating right now in New York on
Speaker 2: Madison Avenue, but you know, I think everybody is gonna
Speaker 2: be watching this series and certainly globally.
Speaker 3: My goodness, No, this is this is a This is
Speaker 3: a uniter, There's no question about that. You know what's
Speaker 3: great about it, too, is Isn't it wonderful at this
Speaker 3: time where everybody can come together forget let's forget about politics.
Speaker 3: That's what baseball's for. It's it's to get away and
Speaker 3: to have an escape. I mean, it's the best, and
Speaker 3: this is gonna bring everybody together. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't care if you're for the Yankees
Speaker 3: on the East Coast and Dodgers on the West coast.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's gonna still bring people together. It always does.
Speaker 3: And this this is a great thing. I mean, I
Speaker 3: love the purity of baseball and just brings out the
Speaker 3: best in everybody.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five seventy Dodgers
Speaker 2: going back to the Fall Classic and another meeting with
Speaker 2: the New York Yankees for the first time since nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one, two of the most historic franchises. We'll meet
Speaker 2: to see who will win a World Series title. Steve Sacks,
Speaker 2: Tim Kates and you on a morning in which we
Speaker 2: celebrated NLCS and look ahead to the World Series. Sax
Speaker 2: and Kates in the am right here, live in Local
Speaker 2: and your home of the Dodgers A and five seventy
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