Speaker 1: Then we continue on Fred Rogan and Jonas Knox and
Speaker 1: for Rodney at a five to seventy LA Sports later
Speaker 1: this hour. They will be along with some spirituality and
Speaker 1: he'll be able to explain what happened last night at
Speaker 1: the stadium. But a man who was there and explains
Speaker 1: it every single night joins us. Now, it is a
Speaker 1: pleasure to welcome on the great David Vasse Yave. Good
Speaker 1: afternoon to you.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's up guys? Forget about last night. Today is
Speaker 2: a very interesting day at Dodgers Stadium and the game
Speaker 2: seems to be secondary because coming into the stadium today
Speaker 2: about ten minutes ago, there is a line of cars
Speaker 2: that are trying to be the first ones to get
Speaker 2: their hands on an Otani bobblehead. Scott Rogue which comes
Speaker 2: onto Alesion Park Rove Stadium Way is completely backed up
Speaker 2: from the front gate all the way back. There are
Speaker 2: fans that are lined up on foot right outside of
Speaker 2: the main entrance on sunset. So there is Otani bobblehead
Speaker 2: mania outside of Dodger Stadium right now. So if you
Speaker 2: have a chance and you can get here early, I
Speaker 2: definitely would get here earlier than you normally would to
Speaker 2: try to number one see the game from the first
Speaker 2: inning on, and number two get your hands on being
Speaker 2: one of the first forty thousand fans for that Otani
Speaker 2: decoy bobblehead. But this is really incredible, how the lengths
Speaker 2: some fans will go to to get this babblehead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking last hour, Dave forty thousand, and
Speaker 1: some fans say, well, how come everybody doesn't get one?
Speaker 1: Why only forty thousand.
Speaker 2: I read Shakan's column. I read it too, said.
Speaker 1: All right, well you read it. What do you have
Speaker 1: to say about it?
Speaker 2: But it's been the standard forty thousand fans every giveaway.
Speaker 2: It's forty thousand fans. It's got to be special.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, show up early, like you know, hang out
Speaker 3: and enjoy the park, enjoy the nice view, like if
Speaker 3: you want to be I don't like.
Speaker 2: What I don't like, Jonas is when I see fans
Speaker 2: carrying out carrying around a gift bag and it has
Speaker 2: four or five babbleheads in it, meaning they bought four
Speaker 2: or five tickets and they're one person and they are
Speaker 2: getting four or five babbleheads to sell on eBay. That's
Speaker 2: not the spirit of the giveaway.
Speaker 3: So how do you regulate that you have somebody at
Speaker 3: the front, like making sure, Like do you limit the
Speaker 3: number of tickets you can purchase? Like it just feels
Speaker 3: like this is part of what comes with it, like
Speaker 3: they got for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I feel like you could limit you know,
Speaker 2: if you have one fan with four or five tickets,
Speaker 2: the argument is, well, he paid for four or five tickets,
Speaker 2: though he should get four or five bibbleheads. My thing
Speaker 2: would be limited to one person. You know, even if
Speaker 2: you have four or five tickets, if you don't have
Speaker 2: four or five people with you, you're only getting one bobblehead.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how you regulate that.
Speaker 4: I mean, it seems fair, Like I listen to all
Speaker 4: that you think people.
Speaker 2: Need to act a little better. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers. I think we should all worry about
Speaker 2: the next person, worry about the kid that's coming in later.
Speaker 2: Why are you trying to hog all these bobbleheads to
Speaker 2: sell on eBay? I'm fred, why are you doing that?
Speaker 3: And by the way, at two o'clock for a bobblehead,
Speaker 3: Like at that point you do just kind of admire
Speaker 3: the dedication to the bobblehead and just say all right,
Speaker 3: well look, I mean, if you're here and you're willing
Speaker 3: to just go through all this, then then I guess,
Speaker 3: you know, reward who's willing to put the work in.
Speaker 2: And it's not just two o'clock. My understanding is fans
Speaker 2: have been trying to get in line since five point
Speaker 2: thirty this morning. He had to kind of handle things
Speaker 2: around the days. Yeah, man have been here since five
Speaker 2: thirty this morning trying to get in Wow.
Speaker 3: Like Fred, Fred, don't you doesn't your onse copitar bobblehead
Speaker 3: feel that much more insignificant? Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess they're getting there at five thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning. What do they think they're gonna sell them
Speaker 1: for one thousand dollars a piece?
Speaker 2: I have no idea, Fred, but it seems like anything
Speaker 2: connected to Otani just creates a lot of hysteria and
Speaker 2: everybody wants to kind of have that show off feel
Speaker 2: that they were here for Otani. They've seen Otani, they
Speaker 2: bought Otani's jersey. I mean, this is this is really
Speaker 2: captured not only La but certainly the world, and a
Speaker 2: lot of tourists come here and they just go to
Speaker 2: the gift shop and buyotany jerseys and don't even come
Speaker 2: to the game.
Speaker 1: All right, Dave, let's talk last night real quick. Jack
Speaker 1: Flaherty when he got hit on the wrist, I mean
Speaker 1: when it was a human target that inning, and you know,
Speaker 1: had to avoid the ball for his life, and he
Speaker 1: finally got hit, I thought he was done at that point.
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty impressive. We went back out there.
Speaker 1: What do you think.
Speaker 2: Well, when it happened, it just seemed like it stung him.
Speaker 2: I never thought that he was done, and especially where
Speaker 2: it hit him on the outside part of his hand,
Speaker 2: the meaty part of his hand. And he's a really
Speaker 2: tough guy. So it seemed just the way he reacted
Speaker 2: it wasn't that bad. So I wasn't surprised he stayed in,
Speaker 2: but obviously always concerning when you take a line drive
Speaker 2: off your pitching hand, and like you mentioned earlier in
Speaker 2: the inning, he was able to catch a line drive
Speaker 2: from Seid Mullins that went right into his gloves.
Speaker 3: Dave, the conversation that took off and even got Fred
Speaker 3: a little bit fired up was people had an issue,
Speaker 3: and by people I mean Dodgers fans online and also
Speaker 3: they called in with the fact that Chris Taylor was
Speaker 3: left in the game in that spot, with the way
Speaker 3: that he has struggled. There's even some people I didn't
Speaker 3: know if this if he was available, that threw out
Speaker 3: why not have Freddie Freeman in that spot if he
Speaker 3: was available in this big time moment for the Dodgers
Speaker 3: to try and get a big win against Baltimore. And
Speaker 3: I think I think fred and I were kind of
Speaker 3: in agreement, like you're trying to find out when, like
Speaker 3: which guys you're gonna go with when you get to
Speaker 3: the postseason. So, yeah, the numbers haven't been good and
Speaker 3: he has struggled, but you need to give him these
Speaker 3: opportunities in these at bats to find out whether or
Speaker 3: not he's ready to go for the play. And yet
Speaker 3: people want immediate results now. And Dave Roberts is again
Speaker 3: going to be exhibit a of all the frustration of
Speaker 3: Dodger fans every time a moment a player's putting a
Speaker 3: spot and he doesn't produce, it feels like Roberts is
Speaker 3: getting all the heat again.
Speaker 2: Well number one, Dave Roberts said after the game, Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman was not going to swing a bat last night,
Speaker 2: and the chances of him being in the lineup tonight
Speaker 2: are slim. So that's first and foremost the second guess
Speaker 2: he can go out the window with that because Freddy
Speaker 2: was not moving an inch off that bench and they're
Speaker 2: trying to get him ready for the four game series
Speaker 2: in Arizona. So that's number one. Number two. If you
Speaker 2: were watching the game last night, Chris Taylor had a
Speaker 2: really good at bet, a seven pitch at bat against
Speaker 2: the Anthony Deviinguez, and the final out of the game
Speaker 2: was a line drive to let left field. If he
Speaker 2: hits it anywhere else, it's falling in and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have tied the game and maybe win the game. So
Speaker 2: you know, I think that's ridiculous, honestly. And I know
Speaker 2: Chris taylor season hasn't been that good, but if you
Speaker 2: look at his last thirty games, it's a lot better
Speaker 2: than the previous three months.
Speaker 1: I made the point, Dave that they've got to see
Speaker 1: what he can do. He can't just sit there and
Speaker 1: do nothing.
Speaker 2: They've got about the point they had nobody else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that being said, don't they have to look
Speaker 1: at him and try to evaluate where he's at as
Speaker 1: they move closer to the postseason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why he got two starts in a row
Speaker 2: against Lefti's I think they're figuring that out. But if
Speaker 2: they had a better option off the bench as a
Speaker 2: left hander, they probably would have gone to it. If
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman was available, he probably would have taken that
Speaker 2: at that.
Speaker 3: Does he ever get back to the player that he
Speaker 3: was Chris Taylor or are we looking at you know,
Speaker 3: is this a Cody Bellinger situation where after injury, maybe
Speaker 3: not the same guy that you could depend on in
Speaker 3: clutch moments, big time moments in the postseason.
Speaker 2: I don't know, We're going to have to find out here.
Speaker 2: I mean, he just hit a walk off home run
Speaker 2: against the Cardinals in twenty one, so it's it's not
Speaker 2: that far removed. And last year, I remember in Game
Speaker 2: three of the NLBS in Arizona, Chris Taylor hit a
Speaker 2: ball over four hundred feet. Unfortunately it was the deepest
Speaker 2: part of Chase Field, or he would have put the
Speaker 2: Dodgers ahead in that Game three and they don't get
Speaker 2: swept and maybe get the momentum back. So he's still
Speaker 2: capable of doing those type of things, and that's why
Speaker 2: the Dodgers haven't given up on him. And let's not
Speaker 2: ignore the fact that he's getting paid this year and
Speaker 2: next year a total of thirty million dollars. So he
Speaker 2: still has the rest of this year plus one more
Speaker 2: on that four year, sixty million dollar contract that Dodgers
Speaker 2: gave him before the lockout in twenty two.
Speaker 1: All Right, Dave walker Bueller tonight, every time he goes
Speaker 1: out there, you know, you hope that he gets better.
Speaker 1: At what point do they say, Okay, we think we've
Speaker 1: seen what we're gonna see from him.
Speaker 2: I think after tonight, I think we're gonna find out
Speaker 2: a lot tonight about what direction the Dodgers go with
Speaker 2: walker Bueller and whether or not they can afford to
Speaker 2: continue to give him opportunities to try to find himself.
Speaker 2: Because they are only three games ahead of both the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks and Padres, they cannot afford to have tryout season
Speaker 2: as we get into September. So I think tonight's a
Speaker 2: big crossroads type of start for walker Bueller. If he
Speaker 2: pitches well enough, he'll make another start. If he doesn't,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers will have to take serious pause about whether
Speaker 2: or not to continue this with Walker Buehler.
Speaker 3: What's the feeling there in and around the clubhouse. Are
Speaker 3: they confident that he's going to bounce back or is
Speaker 3: it just everything comes down to these final couple of
Speaker 3: weeks or final month of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, talking to some players that have been
Speaker 2: through Tommy John surgery, they just said, it's tough to
Speaker 2: come back, and when you do come back, you don't
Speaker 2: always have your command and you're trying to find yourself
Speaker 2: and your new version of yourself. Usually when you're doing that,
Speaker 2: you have the time to kind of the luxury to
Speaker 2: do that when you're on a bad team, but it's
Speaker 2: kind of a it's not a recipe for success. When
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are trying to win and they're in a
Speaker 2: close race. If they had a ten game lead, it
Speaker 2: would be a different story. But since they are inde
Speaker 2: pennant race, the patience is a lot dinner and maybe
Speaker 2: this isn't the right time and it's not coming together
Speaker 2: for Bueller to be able to find it. So that's
Speaker 2: the sentiment, and everybody in that clubhouse knows what the
Speaker 2: ceiling is, and that's why Buehler continues to get opportunities
Speaker 2: to try to look like his former self or as
Speaker 2: close as possible to his former self, because they know
Speaker 2: he could really help the team in the postseason if
Speaker 2: he gets back on track.
Speaker 1: All right, Dave, thanks for coming on. Good you're there
Speaker 1: early so you can get your bottle head.
Speaker 2: Every day at two o'clock, Fred, bobblehead or no, do
Speaker 2: you know?
Speaker 4: Are you gonna take one?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 4: Are you eligible to get a bobblehead.
Speaker 2: Or what they distribute in the press box.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, walk out of.
Speaker 2: There with a bobblehead, fingers away from it. I'm sure
Speaker 2: these are the type of nights Fred Rogan showed up
Speaker 2: to get that bobblehead, you know. Oh, oh, I just
Speaker 2: happened to be here in the press box tonight. Oh
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh free bobbleheads? Oh who know who knew?
Speaker 2: All right, Dave, you know Solice will be here, Fred.
Speaker 1: He was there last night. He texted me.
Speaker 2: He texted me too, I couldn't make a show.
Speaker 1: Oh well, lucky, you're lucky you didn't make it.
Speaker 2: But he texted my leather bomber jacket. I feel like
Speaker 2: that's the uniform. All right.
Speaker 1: He texted me, and he said, hey, I want you
Speaker 1: to meet somebody. I said, where He goes at the stadium.
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, I'm gonna be a little late. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. I'm gonna be a little late. Not
Speaker 1: gonna be there, Thanks Dave, goodbye.
Speaker 2: Bye guys.
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Speaker 1: today for Rodney on five seventy LA Sports. We need spirituality.
Speaker 1: We need to figure out what is going on, and really, Jonas,
Speaker 1: there's only one man to provide that. It is Vic
Speaker 1: the brick with plenty of time today for the daily
Speaker 1: Hikupa two. Vic, good afternoon. Oh by the way, Anthony
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Speaker 5: All right, Vic, go ahead, Well, don't Anthony enjoy Big Bear?
Speaker 5: Does he have the crystal ball for Chris Taylor?
Speaker 1: Fred Rogan, Hello, Vic, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: And if you analyze the bat from CT three, I
Speaker 5: mean he slashed it, he got all of it, and
Speaker 5: that was the Bird's best relief pitcher. So for me,
Speaker 5: and I'll dig deeper into the whole, Dodger's Orioles gameless,
Speaker 5: not because it was a tight, taut playoff s game.
Speaker 5: But Dodger fans do not freak out over Chris Taylor's
Speaker 5: at bat because number one, it was a tough at bat,
Speaker 5: of quality at bat, and it just the ball didn't drop.
Speaker 5: And when he hit it, man, didn't you think it
Speaker 5: was Alfred?
Speaker 1: I thought he hit it well, I thought it would
Speaker 1: end up in the gap. That's what I thought.
Speaker 5: Yes, and we've all seen Chris Taylor produce, as David
Speaker 5: say So, definitely broke down over the years he has.
Speaker 5: He is clutch, but obviously, you know, coming back from injury,
Speaker 5: you're still still trying to find the flow.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: These these are tough, tough at bats. But I was
Speaker 5: glad to see that. You know, Dave, Dave Roberts put
Speaker 5: him in that situation, and you need those reps. Man reps,
Speaker 5: reps equals results. You heard her here first reps equal results.
Speaker 1: I got my pen reps equal results. But to be fair,
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor has had a number of reps vic now
Speaker 1: not since coming off the injured list, but he's had
Speaker 1: a number of reps.
Speaker 5: And again, if you're dependent on a Chris Taylor at
Speaker 5: bat in the ninth inning to win a game, uh,
Speaker 5: the rest of the lineup was obviously week with renaissance
Speaker 5: scoring position throughout the game. So again I am not
Speaker 5: going to rest the feet last night to the Birds,
Speaker 5: a very good team. You know this, This Baltimore Oriel
Speaker 5: team is an excellent, excellent crew. But to rely on
Speaker 5: one at bat, that's not how the game went down.
Speaker 5: You know, reunaisance scoring position. Once again, you got to produce.
Speaker 5: We've got to produce. That's a that statistic is Uh
Speaker 5: is relevant and glaring, and he's in for Rodney today
Speaker 5: and he's got pure passe for the pended race from
Speaker 5: two pros and a couple of Joe Jonas knocks. Hey Jonas,
Speaker 5: you're not responding to him?
Speaker 4: What do you mean I did?
Speaker 1: What'd you say?
Speaker 4: I said, bobblehead me, poppy?
Speaker 5: I did not hear that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, neither did I A technical issue? Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean I'm fired up. Well, I just saw the the line.
Speaker 3: Somebody posted a video of the line waiting for the Bobbleheads. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's unbelievable, like like they're really into this Bobblehead. I mean,
Speaker 3: people are really waiting and waiting and waiting to try
Speaker 3: and get in there.
Speaker 1: And get one. Well, listen, I'm glad you responded. I
Speaker 1: thought you were being kind of rude.
Speaker 4: No, of course, I think I think that was my fault.
Speaker 5: My bad.
Speaker 4: No, it's our fault.
Speaker 1: That's right. Will take me.
Speaker 5: We're a collective, that's what we do.
Speaker 4: Blame Chris Taylor, oh okay, or Dave.
Speaker 5: Roberts in for Kevin figures and still seeking the real
Speaker 5: CT three in double A Adam Austlin.
Speaker 4: Have you heard this one?
Speaker 1: They're terrible, and they're terrible because they've not had a direction.
Speaker 1: That's the problem.
Speaker 5: That's a classic drop in for Ronnie and she only
Speaker 5: has eyes for Justin Herberts. Oh, Katie Newton built up.
Speaker 4: Although I was bummed that Perez didn't make it, I'm
Speaker 4: with you on that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was unbelievable. Vic, well, not unbelievable.
Speaker 5: He could still go to the practice squad. No, and
Speaker 5: they could still have contractual ties to Louis Perez. I
Speaker 5: am not positive how that works.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you actually thought he was going to
Speaker 1: lead the NFL in passing this year.
Speaker 5: Well, I never went that far. I just said he'd
Speaker 5: be in a solid backup. You know, besides, Stick Stick
Speaker 5: had his time. Do you think Louis Perri's had his time?
Speaker 4: No, I think he should have more time. I think
Speaker 4: Stick had enough time last season.
Speaker 5: All Stick's had his reps. I know Stick has had
Speaker 5: his reps. But you know, it's what's weird. I know
Speaker 5: the rosters have been cut down to fifty three, but
Speaker 5: are you guys still flummoxed? I know I am. Look
Speaker 5: at me, I'm flummoxed that the Rams basically gave away
Speaker 5: their defensive heart and soul, Ernest Jones, to the Tennessee
Speaker 5: Titans for some flotsam and jets some draft picks. I mean,
Speaker 5: Ernest Jones the leading tackler last year. I think he
Speaker 5: had like one hundred and forty five tackles, which is
Speaker 5: a hell of a lot of tackles. Has been called
Speaker 5: the defensive soul of the team. He calls the signals
Speaker 5: for the defensive unit, and you just give him away.
Speaker 5: I mean, what's going on there? What happened with Ernest Jones?
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 3: Curious, But doesn't that make you think that there's more
Speaker 3: to the story, Like the fact that they were willing
Speaker 3: to move on from him, and especially this late in
Speaker 3: the game tells me whatever either their disagreements or if
Speaker 3: it was just a contract thing, or maybe they've got
Speaker 3: faith in somebody else on the roster being able to
Speaker 3: step up. But it does seem kind of late in
Speaker 3: the game to make a move like that without having
Speaker 3: a real effect on the team.
Speaker 5: Well, it's so bizarre because you've lost Aaron Donald, you know,
Speaker 5: the whole the Hall of Fame tackle. He he's he's retired,
Speaker 5: He's done so you're gonna You're gonna have like ten
Speaker 5: rookies on the defensive unit for the Rams.
Speaker 1: Vicky wanted out. They said, do you want to go?
Speaker 5: Go?
Speaker 1: He wanted out.
Speaker 5: I'm totally flustered and flummoxed by that move. And you know,
Speaker 5: I can hear the coach speak, you know, from Sean McVeigh,
Speaker 5: and he is he has sensational coach speak. You know,
Speaker 5: this is about the unit, and this is about the team,
Speaker 5: This is about the Francis. Ernest Jones is a stud.
Speaker 1: Vic, would you want to be would you want someone
Speaker 1: someone around that didn't want to be there?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: All right, there you go.
Speaker 5: But the vibe I was getting was Ernest Jones wanted
Speaker 5: to be a Ram?
Speaker 1: Well he asked to go?
Speaker 5: Well, something was, something was up.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you a question. If I gave
Speaker 1: you ten Otani bobbleheads, yeah, would you put them on
Speaker 1: a shelf in your house and treat it as a shrine.
Speaker 5: That's why Dodger fans are lining up at five point
Speaker 5: thirty in the morning today to get their hands on
Speaker 5: don't know, tiny bibblehead.
Speaker 1: No, but I'm saying would you do that? Vic? Absolutely yes,
Speaker 1: you would put ten on a shelf and just stare
Speaker 1: at them. I would stare at them, light some sage.
Speaker 5: Oh absolutely, as Phil Jackson used to like to sage
Speaker 5: in the lake of locker room.
Speaker 3: Yes absolutely, yeah, But to Katie's point, you gotta wait
Speaker 3: for an earthquake. Otherwise you're just sitting there.
Speaker 5: We're witnessing a phenomenon. You know. Now the chase is
Speaker 5: on for fifty to fifty the go Jew Go Jew
Speaker 5: in Japanese fifty Because the show's numbers are so staggering,
Speaker 5: and now it's the show and the season is so historical.
Speaker 5: What is that for?
Speaker 1: Now? You call him the show?
Speaker 5: Well, a lot of people call the show. In some
Speaker 5: short bursts, I'll call him the show. I call him
Speaker 5: the mount Fuji Masforte. Yes, otanis on, ITCHI bon number one.
Speaker 5: Forget Wringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey. The Greatest Show on
Speaker 5: Earth is number seventeen.
Speaker 3: Me like five thirty in the morning for a bobblehead, though,
Speaker 3: like that's that feels a bit much, you know, like
Speaker 3: come on.
Speaker 5: Well it's not just Otis on, it's his dog decoy
Speaker 5: as well. On the bobblehead.
Speaker 1: Remember we knew he had a dog before he had
Speaker 1: a wife.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Japanese has pronounced Decos.
Speaker 1: The name of the dog.
Speaker 5: Yes, but to make it easier, it's Decroy, but in
Speaker 5: Japanese will be deco.
Speaker 2: Sign.
Speaker 1: Vic, do you wish you could drive to Oltani's house
Speaker 1: and just sit outside and stare at it?
Speaker 5: No? No, he needs his privacy and Momico needs needs privacy,
Speaker 5: and that's I think that's very important for his life
Speaker 5: in Los Angeles. He needs tranquility. He needs to obviously,
Speaker 5: you know, he's to reset, clear the mind, clear the clutter.
Speaker 5: He's under a lot of pressure for it.
Speaker 1: What do you think he does when he goes home, Vic,
Speaker 1: what do you think? What do you think, because you
Speaker 1: know the mind of Otani, what do you think he does?
Speaker 4: Jeez, Fred, you want to know if he's got a
Speaker 4: bidet too well?
Speaker 1: VIC would know jonas.
Speaker 5: Well. I would speculate he would sit down and have
Speaker 5: some some green tea, some itto n the way of Ocha.
Speaker 4: Great point, and just.
Speaker 5: Do some research on the next next game. You know,
Speaker 5: he's always working, always grinding, always educating himself, trying to
Speaker 5: make himself better. That's the way of Otani. Uh So,
Speaker 5: I believe you'd be drinking a lot of green tea
Speaker 5: at n and studying probably on his on his computer
Speaker 5: or whatever tablet he uses. Probably who's he gonna face.
Speaker 3: Probably changes, probably changes the passwords on his account now
Speaker 3: a lot too.
Speaker 5: It's not easy being Altani sign No, not easy. But
Speaker 5: he's he's fabulous and we are I know, I am
Speaker 5: honored and humbled. And he's in the Dodger uniform. And
Speaker 5: again the Dodgers had a great wisdom in acquiring him,
Speaker 5: and he has paid incredible dividends, you know, both on
Speaker 5: the field off the field. He is a global superstar.
Speaker 5: So it's a giant knight at Targa Stadium. And obviously
Speaker 5: we have put out the call to get there early,
Speaker 5: and the fans have responded. So I hope everyone gets
Speaker 5: that bibblehead tonight a call.
Speaker 1: Did you post it on your X account there early?
Speaker 5: I don't think it was necessary for it. I think
Speaker 5: the fans they know the drill for the ol tiny bibleheads.
Speaker 5: You've got to get there early, be one of the
Speaker 5: first forty thousand, and you have an incredible piece of memorabilia.
Speaker 5: But last night's game, I was I was glued in
Speaker 5: to a five seven. The l a sports every pitch
Speaker 5: and it was just a playoff s game. No, I
Speaker 5: mean just from the from the start, you know runs
Speaker 5: were going to beat at a premium last night, Tiascar
Speaker 5: Hernandez had a sensational game. You know, everything is getting
Speaker 5: lost and uh, Chris Taylor's last at bad but Ti
Speaker 5: Oscar had a sensational game. Rb I single made a
Speaker 5: fabulous play in left field to get to get Jack
Speaker 5: out of an inning or was it Vessi, I'm not sure,
Speaker 5: but he made a beautiful play at the wall round.
Speaker 1: What's the difference the way of.
Speaker 5: Tate Tascar Hernandez is playing when wonderfult ball l A
Speaker 5: sports got to give love to the bully as well,
Speaker 5: fred all A, right, all right, you can give your love.
Speaker 1: You can give your love when we come back. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Jonas is in today, Rodneyney Uh and now
Speaker 1: we continue on with Vic because he was saying something.
Speaker 1: I can't really remember what he was saying, Jonas, but
Speaker 1: he was saying something not very nice. Fred Well, I'd
Speaker 1: like him to repress our memory.
Speaker 5: Fredo is giving love to the Dodger bullpen. Last night,
Speaker 5: in a loss to the three to two defeat, the
Speaker 5: bullpen stepped up once again. Alex Vesia scoreless seventh inning.
Speaker 5: I mean two red bulls and Ito and o Chaser
Speaker 5: and Vessia is good to go loving his attitude this
Speaker 5: year is sensational numbers. Alex Vesia has been just a
Speaker 5: revelation out of the pen. How about Brazier scoreless eighth
Speaker 5: He has been sinceational, sensational, uh statistic since the Dodgers
Speaker 5: picked him up from the was it the Red Sox?
Speaker 5: I believe Ryan Brazier has the best era out of
Speaker 5: the pen in the major leagues. That's how effective? How
Speaker 5: lights out a Brazier has been. Kopeck scoreless ninth despite
Speaker 5: a strike zone from hell and Fred.
Speaker 4: I know you umpire.
Speaker 5: You have a lot of information on umpires. Why are
Speaker 5: these guys allowed to umpire crucial games? You know, put
Speaker 5: them put them in the you know, on the foul lines,
Speaker 5: put them at dirt, you know, don't put them behind
Speaker 5: the plane if you're a crappy out umpire as I'm
Speaker 5: not even sure who called balls and strikes last night,
Speaker 5: but his strike zone was insane. Why did they get
Speaker 5: the responsibility of such a big game when you can't
Speaker 5: even call balls and strikes?
Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying, Vic, but that's really not
Speaker 1: the way it works. They work in teams of four
Speaker 1: and they rotate, so you know, do rotate this. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know, we understand, Vic, But just because last night
Speaker 1: they happened to have the Dodgers and Orioles, they're not
Speaker 1: going to tell the guy who's supposed to work the plate.
Speaker 1: You're crappy. We don't even have a left field umpire
Speaker 1: during the regular season, but you'll be out there. We'll
Speaker 1: leave What are the bases open? You go up?
Speaker 4: Just rotate this, rotate this. Why is everybody so pissed
Speaker 4: off today?
Speaker 5: Damn that strike zone last night, I'm seeing Dodger hit
Speaker 5: his you know, walking away, you know, after you know,
Speaker 5: two or three balls, and that they're called strikes. That
Speaker 5: upsets me, you know, that's upsetting. You got to give
Speaker 5: the hitters. It's hard. It's hard enough to hit, you know,
Speaker 5: a ninety five mile an hour split finger, and yet
Speaker 5: when the bulls obviously outside, you don't get you don't
Speaker 5: get a ball hole. I'd like three. And you know,
Speaker 5: guys are walking back to the dugout, you know, you know,
Speaker 5: with their eyes towards the hardball. Heaven saying what the
Speaker 5: hell happened here?
Speaker 3: I do have further further information for you. Jansen Visconti
Speaker 3: was the homeplate umpire last night.
Speaker 5: Get him out of here, Get him out of here now.
Speaker 3: I do want to ask you, though, do you feel
Speaker 3: like that would be grounds for an ejection? Like if
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts went out to Jansen Wisconti and just said
Speaker 3: rotate this. And I don't know whether or not he
Speaker 3: would be grabbing at anything while saying that simultaneously, But
Speaker 3: if he said rotate this, would that be grounds for
Speaker 3: an injection?
Speaker 1: Do you think?
Speaker 3: I don't believe so, or in Fred's case, in erection.
Speaker 3: I mean again, we're just trying to figure out and
Speaker 3: get the answers here on the show.
Speaker 1: They're terrible, and they're terrible because they've not had a direction.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. Look, maybe it'll change things.
Speaker 5: Listen, I don't want to hear the phraseology. Well that's hardball. Uh,
Speaker 5: that's the naked eye, that's the the umpires way. No,
Speaker 5: these are big games, listen, these are not do or
Speaker 5: die games. But you know, do you have two teams
Speaker 5: Arizona San Diego? You know, three games back thirty games
Speaker 5: left in the regular season. Every game is is to
Speaker 5: me meaningful and profound. These are profound baseball games, and
Speaker 5: I like them. I enjoy watching them. But I just
Speaker 5: I just want a fair fight. I want a strike
Speaker 5: zone that's correct. Don't give me these, you know, these
Speaker 5: flipped out strike zones and umpires who really shouldn't behind
Speaker 5: the plate. Give me a quality umpires behind Is that
Speaker 5: too much to ask?
Speaker 3: No, I don't want to say. I mean the mood
Speaker 3: everybody's in today, I don't want to say anything wrong.
Speaker 5: I got good vibes for everybody. Okay, good Yoshi, Noble Yoshi,
Speaker 5: Noble Yamamoto is throwing for Oklahoma City tonight in Round Rock, Texas.
Speaker 1: Y'all hell yeah, right outside of Austin. Very nice Round Rock.
Speaker 5: Yamamoto last pitch in that game June fifteenth against Kansas City.
Speaker 5: He pitched two innings before the arm issue, the strained
Speaker 5: rotator cuff that has left him out his first ever
Speaker 5: outing in Oklahoma City for Yoshi. But remember Yamamoto man
Speaker 5: he was on when he was healthy six and two
Speaker 5: two point nine to two ERA for the Dodgers. So
Speaker 5: hopefully Yamamoto comes out of the Star healthy. And guess
Speaker 5: who's following Yamamoto for Oklahoma City on the Mountain tonight?
Speaker 5: Who's landon Knack? So it's Yamamoto Knack in Round Rock Tonight,
Speaker 5: Return of the Knack, Return of the knack Man.
Speaker 1: How long is Yamamoto gonna go vic.
Speaker 5: Maybe a couple innings, maybe fifty pitches. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: straight them tonight. I'd say fifty to sixty pitches.
Speaker 1: Well, you're making the decision. You don't want to straight them?
Speaker 5: No, I just want to see him out there healthy.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's he had a good bullpen session, He's
Speaker 5: had some nice simulated games. Now it's time for some
Speaker 5: live hittings. So I'm looking forward to that as well.
Speaker 5: And you know, there was a Tony gonsol in sighting
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium. I don't know what that means. David
Speaker 5: David Veasse had it on his Instagram, had a picture
Speaker 5: of Tony on the mount I don't know what that means.
Speaker 5: But there was a catman sighting, So that's good news
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 3: Players there just for the bobblehead now too, that would
Speaker 3: be great. Imagine if Jason Hayward showed up. I left
Speaker 3: something behind. He walks out with a double bag full
Speaker 3: of Otani bobbleheads.
Speaker 1: You know they get more than one bobblehead, the players,
Speaker 1: do they?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, this was a very especial bobblehead.
Speaker 1: Because it's Cat the Dog.
Speaker 5: Exactly, because decoy is being held by Altani.
Speaker 4: It's just it's I'm not trying to be disrespectful to
Speaker 4: these a beloved bobblehead.
Speaker 3: Look, I'm not trying to be disrespectful to the artist.
Speaker 3: But have you guys seen because I know Fred you
Speaker 3: mentioned it's on eBay, like they're not even available, but
Speaker 3: I'm assuming that this one for two and twenty nine
Speaker 3: ninety nine on eBay is the picture of the bobblehead.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really look like Otani. Like it actually looks
Speaker 3: more like Alex VESSI has shaved, like I swear to God,
Speaker 3: like call me crazy, but if you look it up,
Speaker 3: it does not look all that much like Otani. I'm hoping,
Speaker 3: you know what we get later on tonight that the
Speaker 3: people have been waiting out since five am four, Like,
Speaker 3: I hope it looks a little bit more like Otani,
Speaker 3: because it does not, you know, doesn't pass the test
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 5: I've seen the picture. It looks it looks like a
Speaker 5: severe collectible. People are severe collective tonight, because you know
Speaker 5: the addition of decoy, I think is a magnificent.
Speaker 1: That not a bad bottle of wine either, Decoy the same.
Speaker 4: Are you calling Otani a drunk?
Speaker 1: No, but I'm saying decoy is not a bad bottle
Speaker 1: of wine.
Speaker 4: You're saying he named his dog after a bottle of wine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you did.
Speaker 4: Master V. Shut up to the park. He had a
Speaker 4: pit bull named two buck Chuck. Wouldn't it be sweet?
Speaker 4: That'd be awesome.
Speaker 1: Wait on that lead just too bad.
Speaker 5: Well, before we get to the high coup, fred also.
Speaker 1: Before, how much more do you have?
Speaker 5: I have? I have endless content?
Speaker 4: Fred us open.
Speaker 5: No, let's not do that, Naomi Osaka, let's do it.
Speaker 5: Her first win over a top ten opponent in four years, unseated,
Speaker 5: she goes into the press room rocking a Kobe Bryant
Speaker 5: black jersey.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 5: I thought that was fantastic, you know, Kobe, that was it.
Speaker 5: Occa were very close. Kobe took took her under his wing,
Speaker 5: you know, years ago, and she wears his jerseys because
Speaker 5: she feels the spirit of the mom but within her.
Speaker 5: I thought that was a very very poignant moment.
Speaker 1: It was you know what that lead us too big?
Speaker 4: Fred, don't get your foot stuck in the doors. You
Speaker 4: got it halfway out right now.
Speaker 1: Hey, if we get off late, let me tell you
Speaker 1: something late. Yeah, we get off the same time every day.
Speaker 1: I am not taking any more crap from Petros and
Speaker 1: money about what time we get off. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: it anymore. We're off the exact same time. They used
Speaker 1: to complain. Sometimes are off early, sometimes are off late.
Speaker 1: I'm off the exact same time every day. I'm not
Speaker 1: taking it. Sorry, you listen to him complain.
Speaker 3: You know the part of the end of True Romance
Speaker 3: where Michael Rappaport's like just happens to be there when
Speaker 3: the shootout goes on, and he's just trying to get
Speaker 3: out alive. That's what I feel like right now, Like
Speaker 3: Fred and Petros are going to be firing at each
Speaker 3: other and I'm just trying to escape through the hotel lobby.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting up with it. I'm not taking it.
Speaker 5: This high coup for you on this Wednesday, August of
Speaker 5: twenty eighth. It's a anonymous Okay, see you made it up.
Speaker 1: Great, here we go.
Speaker 5: How dare you? Fred?
Speaker 1: How dare I? Dare you? We said here forty minutes
Speaker 1: and now you made up a high coup.
Speaker 5: Just because it's anonymous, it doesn't mean it was not written.
Speaker 1: All right, let's hear it. Well, what the full high
Speaker 1: coel writer? Fred? Alright, fine, we're gonna determine.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, go something like this, cool summer night, a
Speaker 5: full moon, frames the bird feeder, feeling you beat those
Speaker 5: birds tonight?
Speaker 1: Okay, and I don't think what do you mean frame
Speaker 1: the bird feed up? You made that up? You made
Speaker 1: that out of anonymous? Yeah, anonymous? You you're anonymous, Katie.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Adam, great job filling in for Kevin Jonas
Speaker 1: again tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Let's do it, hey, Fred, rotate this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you,