Speaker 1: Now your host walking you up the first pitch. It's
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Speaker 2: And welcome in to Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck live
Speaker 2: from Dodgers Stadium as your world champion Los Angeles Dodgers
Speaker 2: locked and loaded and ready to defend their title. A
Speaker 2: lot of familiar faces back in twenty twenty five, some
Speaker 2: new additions to an already stacked roster, and after taking
Speaker 2: two against the Cubs in Tokyo, the Dodgers are back
Speaker 2: at it with their twenty twenty five home opener as
Speaker 2: they take on the Detroit Tigers. Blake Snell on the mount,
Speaker 2: making his Dodger debut. First pitch is coming up at
Speaker 2: four to ten. Between then and now, we got a
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Speaker 2: you are gonna hear from Blake Snell. We'll check in
Speaker 2: with the Dodger manager, Dave Robbers. We'll dive deeper into
Speaker 2: this fantastic opening day pitching matchup.
Speaker 3: David Vase will join us. We'll have your Dodgers Magical.
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Speaker 2: Kirsten Watson will check in and at just a couple
Speaker 2: of minute, we'll send it out to Steven Nelson and
Speaker 2: Rick Monday in the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth. Well, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers took over the baseball world, literally, going to Japan
Speaker 2: for a two game series to take on the Chicago
Speaker 2: Cubs in Tokyo last week. The Dodgers won the first
Speaker 2: game four to one, and then it was time for
Speaker 2: the Dodger debut of Japanese phenom rookie Sasaki. He started
Speaker 2: off the game really good the first sitting. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: offense game some early run support. Then in the second
Speaker 2: Will Smith scored on a pass ball Keiky Hernandez a
Speaker 2: sack fly and the Dodgers were up two to nothing.
Speaker 2: Then in the third, the Dodgers added to that lead
Speaker 2: thanks to Tommy.
Speaker 4: Edmund payoff pitch from Steel. This one has swung on well,
Speaker 4: hit to left toward the corner, it goes, hit.
Speaker 3: Is back, it has gone.
Speaker 4: It's a home run Tommy Edmund as he hits his
Speaker 4: first tank of the year.
Speaker 1: It's three nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 4: A solo shot for Edmund. It was a fastball left
Speaker 4: up in the zone, right down the middle, and Tommy
Speaker 4: Edmund cranked it out of here.
Speaker 2: Solo home run for Tommy edmund That is the first
Speaker 2: home run of the season in Major League Baseball, and
Speaker 2: he hits it out to give the Dodgers a three
Speaker 2: to nothing lead as the top tier play the game
Speaker 2: rights by Arco Quality top tier gas for less.
Speaker 3: In the bottom of the.
Speaker 2: Third, Rookie Sasaki got into some trouble, loaded the bases,
Speaker 2: then walked in and run. Sasaki, though would go three innings,
Speaker 2: he got out of that trouble with a couple of strikeouts.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers offense, meanwhile, kept on tacking on those runs.
Speaker 3: In the fourth, a runner on for Kik two two,
Speaker 3: swing on and hammer deep.
Speaker 4: Let field way backing gone Kik Hernandez with a two
Speaker 4: run home run five to one Dodgers. Oh, that was
Speaker 4: an absolute, no doubt or off the bat of Key
Speaker 4: k Hernandez as that was way up in the left
Speaker 4: field bleachers.
Speaker 2: Two run home run for Key k Dodgers up five
Speaker 2: to one. In the fifth, showy Otani with his first
Speaker 2: home run of the season, a solo home run to
Speaker 2: the right, the Dodgers were up six to one. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers bullpen would give up a pair of runs before
Speaker 2: landing nack two shutout innings, Kirby Yates put up a
Speaker 2: zero in the eighth that alex Vesti have closed it
Speaker 2: out in the ninth. Dodgers beat the Cubs in Tokyo
Speaker 2: last week six to three to take the two game
Speaker 2: series in Japan and off to a two and oh
Speaker 2: start here in twenty twenty five, after a few days
Speaker 2: of rest got their body clocks right, Dodgers had a
Speaker 2: three game exhibition series against the Anaheim Angels, and now
Speaker 2: here they are back at Dodgers Stadium ready for the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five home opener. Blake Snell on the mount
Speaker 2: and with more we head over to the Gallpin Motors
Speaker 2: broadcast booth.
Speaker 3: Steven Nelson and Rick Monday.
Speaker 5: Guys, thank you Tim, Happy home opener to you and
Speaker 5: everybody listening. Rick Monday, Look, I know that the Dodgers
Speaker 5: have already opened the season. Technically they're two to zero
Speaker 5: entering this one. But the last time you and I
Speaker 5: were together was before Game five the World Series, and
Speaker 5: we talked about the butterflies.
Speaker 1: That evening their similar butterflies.
Speaker 5: Even though this is game one, game and one hundred
Speaker 5: and sixty two regular season, what is it about Opening
Speaker 5: Day that causes.
Speaker 6: That only happens once every year, and it's it's like
Speaker 6: the blossoming of a season, and there's so many I
Speaker 6: think aspects of the game. You have anticipations, There's no
Speaker 6: question about that. And if you look at the now
Speaker 6: the twenty six man roster, it took a village to
Speaker 6: win a World championship last year, and especially in postseason play,
Speaker 6: I mean, the starting rotation was kind of decimated. The
Speaker 6: bull bit stood up. Oh my goodness, did they ever
Speaker 6: stand up? And guys got very big hits and it
Speaker 6: was really kind of led by Freddy Freeman's grand slam
Speaker 6: of the walk off to begin with. That set the
Speaker 6: tone and I really got the feeling too. If you
Speaker 6: look at this ball club coming back into spring trending
Speaker 6: this year, they did not come in and said, well,
Speaker 6: look what we did. No, they came in and say,
Speaker 6: look what we have a chance to do again. And
Speaker 6: I think that's a big, big turnaround.
Speaker 5: And that is to become the first team since the
Speaker 5: Yankees at the turn of the century to go back
Speaker 5: to back as World Series champions. There's no question about it.
Speaker 7: Moll.
Speaker 5: There's a target on this team's back and you look
Speaker 5: at all the external noise, whether it's nationally or in
Speaker 5: opposing markets, who would have you. Everyone's labeling the Dodgers
Speaker 5: as these villains of baseball. But you look up and
Speaker 5: down this roster and on this coaching staff, there really
Speaker 5: aren't any hateable guys. All these guys have strong reputations
Speaker 5: are being likable and personable and so on and so forth.
Speaker 5: But that is a role that they're gonna have to
Speaker 5: carry throughout the year. But they're wearing Dodger blue. And
Speaker 5: if we look at Dodger blue, it's more than just
Speaker 5: the uniform, and it's more than just this ballpark. You
Speaker 5: look at the organization. The organization continues to make statements
Speaker 5: not only in baseball, but also from a cultural standpoint
Speaker 5: and also from a community standpoint, and they have continued
Speaker 5: to do that. They've shown it again this year, and
Speaker 5: that's the path that they choose. And if you put
Speaker 5: on that Dodger uniform, there are expectations to win, and
Speaker 5: there should be expected and that is something they never
Speaker 5: shy away from day one at Camelback Ranch.
Speaker 1: Each in every year, we.
Speaker 5: Saw the pageantry in Tokyo tim a different time. This
Speaker 5: weekend It's the Dodgers. Welcome everybody to Dodgers Stadium for
Speaker 5: the first time in this regular season. Have the banner
Speaker 5: unveiling me the ring ceremony on Friday in Game two
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Speaker 5: here at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers and the Tigers. And
Speaker 5: boy do we have a starting pitching matchup. Mona will
Speaker 5: dig into that when we talk to you again.
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Speaker 1: This is the rewind anytime Jack Dryer continues to warm up,
Speaker 1: he's getting ready for his major league debut. To two
Speaker 1: on Otani Hammers.
Speaker 4: One oh, this ball is well struck deep right center.
Speaker 1: Back to the wall.
Speaker 4: That's off the top of the wall. Otani around first,
Speaker 4: he's in the second and Kyle Tucker Well, they're saying
Speaker 4: home run looked like it came off the top of
Speaker 4: the wall initially, but O'tani comes around with his first
Speaker 4: home run of the season.
Speaker 2: Show Hey Otani goes deep in the second game in Tokyo,
Speaker 2: given the fans what they wanted in Japan, a home
Speaker 2: run from show Hey Otani. He goes three for eight,
Speaker 2: a double couple of ribbies, and that home run in
Speaker 2: the Dodgers two.
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Speaker 8: I feel like this is the day that all of
Speaker 8: baseball fans, they get so excited for this one. Obviously,
Speaker 8: the off season it can feel very long, and the
Speaker 8: Dodgers case, it might have felt pretty short just because
Speaker 8: with the World Series when opening up in Tokyo. But look,
Speaker 8: we got to experience opening Day in Tokyo. That was
Speaker 8: something special in itself. It was a Pokemon theme night.
Speaker 8: You know, to see shoh and Yoshnobu as well as
Speaker 8: Roki Sasaki back in Japan, like that was really special
Speaker 8: in itself, and it's Opening Day, so you get the
Speaker 8: fields of butterflies, all of it. Opening Day in Los
Speaker 8: Angeles that is a totally different ball game. I mean,
Speaker 8: you are doing this in front of over fifty thousand
Speaker 8: fans at Dodger Stadium. You're celebrating the completion of last
Speaker 8: year winning the World Series. All of these moments just
Speaker 8: coming into one, and this year they've broken it up
Speaker 8: a little bit. So you've got Opening Day of course today,
Speaker 8: then tomorrow there's going to be the ring ceremony where
Speaker 8: the twenty twenty four World Series champions are finally going
Speaker 8: to lay their eyes on that piece of hardware that
Speaker 8: is to be so stunning. So I think you just have,
Speaker 8: like the Dodgers have made it so that it's a
Speaker 8: whole weekend affair. And so today you're gonna feel the emotions.
Speaker 8: You're gonna see the electric crowd, You're gonna see how
Speaker 8: these guys just taken being welcomed at home anything to
Speaker 8: do this to start the season in the States. So
Speaker 8: it's a special day. It's a fun one and it's
Speaker 8: it's just so amazing to be a part of. I
Speaker 8: gotta say no.
Speaker 3: Doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Key k Hernandez a big part of the Dodgers run
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 3: A little under the.
Speaker 8: Weather right now, yeah, a little under the weather. I mean,
Speaker 8: you guys know, when you're in a clubhouse around a
Speaker 8: bunch of people, some things do get passed on. Other
Speaker 8: things don't. But right now he's dealing with a little
Speaker 8: bit of a stomach bug. They don't think it's the
Speaker 8: same one night Mooie Bets dealt with, just because realistically
Speaker 8: that was now a few weeks ago. Yes, it was
Speaker 8: a little bit longer on his body and finally he's
Speaker 8: feeling better. But they're hoping for Kik this is just
Speaker 8: going to be a twenty four to forty eight hour
Speaker 8: type stomach bug, hopefully leaning towards the twenty four hour.
Speaker 8: Dave roberts today that he just couldn't really sleep through
Speaker 8: the night and have some vomiting stealing coming in a
Speaker 8: little bit later today, if he's available, we'll see. I'm
Speaker 8: sure Dave will try to stay away from him. But
Speaker 8: there is a little stomach something going around, it seems like,
Speaker 8: and so hopefully it won't be too bad for Kik though.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it. Careson happy opening Day. We'll check
Speaker 3: in with you tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Kershaw in this home opener.
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Speaker 7: Zella.
Speaker 9: I don't know, An, I could say one thing, but
Speaker 9: it's gonna be different when I walk out there, I
Speaker 9: don't I can tell you I won't be thinking about
Speaker 9: Scooba at all or going against him. My only goal
Speaker 9: be just dominate the zone, get us in the dugout
Speaker 9: so we could hit. That's my only goal. But I
Speaker 9: don't know. I would imagine I'll be excited a little nervous,
Speaker 9: and then once I get out there, it's just like, Yeah,
Speaker 9: I love Goost, I love pitching, and I can't wait
Speaker 9: to pitch and compete.
Speaker 10: After the first starting spring, you were happy with your
Speaker 10: fastball velocity, the command. Have you started to get the
Speaker 10: fuel for the secondary pitches in that sim game as well?
Speaker 9: Yeah, everything kind of came together in the sim game.
Speaker 9: I finally felt like the curve ball is looks like
Speaker 9: a fastball. I can locate it way better. The movement.
Speaker 9: I really like the change ups better than where it
Speaker 9: was in the start in Tokyo, which I'm very I
Speaker 9: knew it was going to be, but just to see it,
Speaker 9: I was really excited about. But everything's a lot sharper,
Speaker 9: coming out better which I expected, So I'm very excited
Speaker 9: about that.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Blake Snell talking with David Vassay as
Speaker 2: he is your opening day starter his tenth year in
Speaker 2: the big league, spinning Tampa San Diego, last year in
Speaker 2: San Francisco, often out of the second year of his
Speaker 2: deal with the Giants and signed a five year deal
Speaker 2: to be in Dodger Blue, and cannot wait to see
Speaker 2: the left hander two time Cy.
Speaker 3: Young Award winner take the mound for the Dodgers. As
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Speaker 2: It's the Dodgers and Tigers Opening Day twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Blake Snell tear Google the pitching matchup, first pitch coming
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Speaker 10: I accept everybody for who they are.
Speaker 1: This is Dodger inside. David Basse, all right.
Speaker 2: Davy Opening Day always special. Later start four ten, first pitch,
Speaker 2: Tigers in town. Great pitching matchup. But the owners, Magic Johnson,
Speaker 2: Walter mob Mark Walter out in center field taking pitchers
Speaker 2: pregame festiv He's about to start a special day.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And you could see all the gold trim on
Speaker 10: the field and on the uniforms. You're gonna see that
Speaker 10: today and tomorrow. When the Dodgers received their rings ceremony,
Speaker 10: they got the blue carpet out there. It's just it's
Speaker 10: reminiscent of the parade the Dodgers had out here. So
Speaker 10: it should be a grand home opener for the Dodgers
Speaker 10: to welcome back their world champions from Tokyo where they
Speaker 10: sweat the Tokyo Series. I talked to Jack Flaherty, as
Speaker 10: you know Tim, a little bit earlier today, and he
Speaker 10: just said, staring out at the field yesterday when the
Speaker 10: Tigers were working out, all the memories of that championship
Speaker 10: parade and what the Dodgers accomplished last year came flooding
Speaker 10: back to him. And you'll see Jack Flaherty pitch tomorrow
Speaker 10: against his former team. But certainly a great day out here,
Speaker 10: and from what I understand, there is a very special
Speaker 10: guest involved in throwing out today ceremonial first pitch.
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Speaker 2: fifty all right, dB. Mookie Betts played in that final
Speaker 2: game against the Angels on Tuesday night. What do you
Speaker 2: expect out of Mookie today?
Speaker 10: And this home opener Dave Roberts, who's going to join
Speaker 10: us a little bit later, indicated that there are no
Speaker 10: limitations on Mookie. Mookie played five innings in Anaheim and
Speaker 10: really tried to convince not only us but himself that
Speaker 10: he was feeling stronger, even though two days prior he
Speaker 10: felt frustrated and revealed to us that he had lost
Speaker 10: almost twenty pounds.
Speaker 11: I'm actually stronger than I was before. My body's been
Speaker 11: perfectly fine. It's only been my stomach, literally only my stomach.
Speaker 11: I've been working out, doing everything perfectly normal. It was
Speaker 11: just hard to hold down food. But I'm fine now.
Speaker 10: Mookie's fine, but Keith k Hernandez is not. He is
Speaker 10: not at the ballpark and is probably not available today
Speaker 10: with some of the same symptoms that MOOKI was dealing with.
Speaker 10: So hopefully Keith K feels better so he could be
Speaker 10: out here tomorrow to receive his championship ring.
Speaker 2: David blake snell long anticipated start tonight, his first in
Speaker 2: the regular season as a Dodger. As he's getting loose
Speaker 2: in the Dodger bulpin right now, I know he's ramped
Speaker 2: up and excited about this.
Speaker 10: Without a doubt, he's amped for it. I exchanged messages
Speaker 10: with him last night. He is locked in for this start,
Speaker 10: and he's gonna have to control his emotions. I know
Speaker 10: he was downplaying that a couple of days ago, but
Speaker 10: he's gonna have to try to block out the energy
Speaker 10: that he going to get from wearing that uniform, being
Speaker 10: on the mound on a day like today, and get
Speaker 10: some outs, get some quick outs. Don't go deep into counts,
Speaker 10: because the deeper he gets into counts and tries to
Speaker 10: make perfect pitches, it seems like he expends a lot
Speaker 10: of energy and throws too many pitches in a short
Speaker 10: amount of time. He's got to go at least five
Speaker 10: or six for the Dodgers today, David.
Speaker 2: You've seen a lot of opening days at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: What was the best opening day you've seen?
Speaker 10: You think it was twenty thirteen. Happened to be April first,
Speaker 10: Dodgers Giants Kershaw against Madison Bumgardner. That day, Tim Kershaw
Speaker 10: was at the height of his powers. Pitched a complete
Speaker 10: game shutout against the defending world champion San Francisco Giants,
Speaker 10: had seven strikeouts, no walks, and here's the kicker. It
Speaker 10: was a scoreless time the seventh inning and Kershaw was
Speaker 10: the one that hit a go ahead home run to
Speaker 10: help them win. And I asked Clayton today whether or
Speaker 10: not he remembers much about that day. I don't remember much.
Speaker 12: Honestly, it's a long time ago, but uh, I mean
Speaker 12: it just kind of just kind of look up and
Speaker 12: the game's over and you'd hit a homer and it
Speaker 12: just kind of feels like a little league game. So
Speaker 12: it just was was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: It's what I remember.
Speaker 10: Do you feel like that was mark this new era
Speaker 10: of Dodger baseball?
Speaker 12: I don't know, honestly. I mean I think you know,
Speaker 12: that was the first year of the new ownership, full year,
Speaker 12: and yeah, we made the playoffs that year, so yeah,
Speaker 12: I mean it probably started. It's its way for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 10: So you've been around baseball for a few generations and
Speaker 10: here for a few generations. You saw what the clubhouse
Speaker 10: originally look like, and now what you got. Now, what
Speaker 10: do you think about this new version of it?
Speaker 12: Yeah, this is amazing. I mean, I yeah, this is
Speaker 12: round three for me, So I thought Round two was amazing.
Speaker 12: So this is just incredible. They thought of everything and
Speaker 12: I'm lost in here. So it's it's just uh yeah,
Speaker 12: it's it's state of the art. It's amazing.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: In two thousand and eight, Clayton Kershaw's locker looked identical
Speaker 10: to the way it looked in nineteen sixty two when
Speaker 10: they opened this stadium. So he's seen a lot and
Speaker 10: certainly is looking forward to getting out there on the mound.
Speaker 10: I would say somewhere between May and June for Kershaw
Speaker 10: to be back pitching in games.
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Speaker 1: here's La Dodgers broadcasterre and World Series champion Dodger Rick Monday.
Speaker 10: Rick, I guess we can call this reopening day for
Speaker 10: the Dodgers as they start the season in North America.
Speaker 6: Now, yeah, and there's something special about the home openers.
Speaker 6: I said the other night in the broadcast, did I
Speaker 6: look forward to the home opener in particular Opening Day? Yes,
Speaker 6: I was in Tokyo. You were there and you saw it.
Speaker 6: You saw the excitement a little bit removed, no question
Speaker 6: about it. But what I was talking about the other night,
Speaker 6: and I've said this in other years, this is the
Speaker 6: time that we can all become again seven year olds,
Speaker 6: and nobody says we're weird because opening day at home
Speaker 6: is just something special.
Speaker 10: You wake up and even if you're in school on
Speaker 10: this day, with the game being at four to ten,
Speaker 10: at least you can get home and watch listen.
Speaker 6: To the ordinary. It's out of the ordinary. Also with
Speaker 6: a four to ten start. If you don't have the one,
Speaker 6: we don't have the seven. It's a four ten. Okay, fine.
Speaker 6: What that means is, first of all, there's gonna be
Speaker 6: a lot of traffic listening. On top of it. I
Speaker 6: noticed also that for those that are traveling that maybe
Speaker 6: on Sunset Boulevard. I noticed coming in at eleven forty
Speaker 6: five this morning that there's some surface streets being done
Speaker 6: right on Sunset. So stay calm, stay cool, stay collective,
Speaker 6: and yeah, you're going to be called traffic.
Speaker 10: As a baseball fan, it's exciting already with the home opener,
Speaker 10: but to have a pitching matchup like this in twenty
Speaker 10: twenty five, you don't get that too often, No.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 6: And I think we have got a couple other things
Speaker 6: that are going on. Is they're trying to manipulate the lineup,
Speaker 6: and the Dodgers have the luxury of looking and trying
Speaker 6: to figure out exactly what they're going to do. Although
Speaker 6: as you discovered in talking to Dave Roberts a little
Speaker 6: bit earlier, he's had to do some shuffling because, okay,
Speaker 6: Mookie Betts is at least healthy enough to start. I
Speaker 6: can't say unequivocally that he has quote unquote healthy one
Speaker 6: hundred percent. But now we've got another illness in that
Speaker 6: being Kick Hernandez, who got a hold of Dave Roberts
Speaker 6: very early this morning and said, hey, look he's under
Speaker 6: the weather. He can't keep food down, and we don't
Speaker 6: know if he's going to even be able to make
Speaker 6: it to the ballpark.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know how bad he's feeling if Key k
Speaker 10: Hernandez is not in the starting lineup on the day
Speaker 10: that the Dodgers are going to be celebrated and a
Speaker 10: lefty on the Yeah.
Speaker 6: And so that's why you look at this God your
Speaker 6: ball club. I said in Day one, I said it
Speaker 6: last year, and I said it this year too, game
Speaker 6: one of the broadcasts from Arizona Campbell Back Ranch, Glendale.
Speaker 6: I said the Doctors were perceived as the Goliath of
Speaker 6: baseball last year. David didn't show up to slay the goliath,
Speaker 6: and in my opinion, Goliath during the offseason got better, stronger,
Speaker 6: and maybe a lot more meaner. As far as the
Speaker 6: ability goes, now that's on paper. The games have to
Speaker 6: be played on the field. But I think this is
Speaker 6: just a marvelous blend of players, the ability, and I
Speaker 6: think to go with that, David, I just sensed that
Speaker 6: there is a hunger. There's no complacency here. And that's
Speaker 6: the greatest news of it all. You get a good
Speaker 6: ball club that had the taste, a big, big, taste
Speaker 6: of victory last year in winning a World championship, and
Speaker 6: they came into spring training hungry again because they wanted
Speaker 6: to be the first team since two thousand the New
Speaker 6: York Yankees still went back to back World championships.
Speaker 10: And Rick, how important is it for the Dodgers to
Speaker 10: add players like Blake Snell, Tanner Scott and Michael Conforto
Speaker 10: that were not part of the team last year and
Speaker 10: have never tasted the fruits of victoria.
Speaker 6: And they want to. They understand they've been on the
Speaker 6: outside looking in. Snell got to look at it against
Speaker 6: the Dodgers when he was with the Race, but that
Speaker 6: didn't quite work out. He was taken out of the
Speaker 6: game prematurely. It was a big boost for the Dodgers
Speaker 6: that he was removed from that game. That's my opinion
Speaker 6: and I stick by it. But this is a unique
Speaker 6: challenge and a credit to ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 6: They did not stand pat. They wanted to improve. They've
Speaker 6: not only improved the team, they've improved the stadium, they've
Speaker 6: improved the locker rooms. I mean, this is an organization
Speaker 6: that's made a huge commitment to the city of Los Angeles,
Speaker 6: including dedicating kids fields and promoting and really supporting everything
Speaker 6: that's happened, you know, the tragedies in southern California and
Speaker 6: around Los Angeles that's being reagnize from the pregame show
Speaker 6: again today, the Dodgers organization has made a big, big
Speaker 6: statement to this community.
Speaker 10: All right, Rick, before we back out of here, you've
Speaker 10: grown up in Los Angeles, you played Major League Baseball,
Speaker 10: you've broadcast Dodger games.
Speaker 1: Do you still have the.
Speaker 10: Same feeling for a home opener than little Ricky had
Speaker 10: in Santa Monica and the big leaguer in seventy seven?
Speaker 6: This way, I set the alarm earlier than I would
Speaker 6: normally have it. To begin with, I was awake well
Speaker 6: before the alarm went off today. There's something special about home.
Speaker 10: Openers, something special about Rick Monday being on the call
Speaker 10: as well. We'll check in later. Rick, thanks, and we'll
Speaker 10: send it back to you somewhere at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: Tim Kats, Yeah, I'm over here, DV.
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Speaker 2: with this pitching matchup. Rick will be back with Steven
Speaker 2: Nelson right before first pitch. But I've next we go
Speaker 2: high and tight with the manager himself, Dave Roberts. Leading
Speaker 2: up to Dodgers and Tigers Opening Day twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 10: We're getting set for the home opener here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 10: The player introductions are about to start as the Dodgers
Speaker 10: return to Dodger Stadium as world champions. And we're joining
Speaker 10: right now by the man that led these group of
Speaker 10: players in this organization last year and for the past
Speaker 10: nine seasons, as he is a two time, two time
Speaker 10: World Series winning manager, and that is the one and
Speaker 10: only Dave Roberts. Dave, thanks a lot for the time,
Speaker 10: and great to be back at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 7: Oh man, David, is you know we have the opener
Speaker 7: in Tokyo, But man, there's nothing like home opener at
Speaker 7: Dodger Stadium. The weather's beautiful, those Dodger whites are really
Speaker 7: shining and sparkling today. So really excited to get going here.
Speaker 10: As I look at your new office, man, you really
Speaker 10: did something, not only with the new clubhouse, but with
Speaker 10: the manager office as it should be.
Speaker 7: No, it's a great undertaking that from ownership. You know, Jane,
Speaker 7: Marie Stan and his staff and just the workers what
Speaker 7: they did to get a two year project essentially Dave
Speaker 7: done in about five months. And yeah, one of the
Speaker 7: benefits beneficiaries was myself with this new office, So I
Speaker 7: got some good digs here. I'm excited and yeah, it's
Speaker 7: just what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 10: I love seeing the World Championship trophy behind your desk
Speaker 10: and that team photo that you guys took after you
Speaker 10: wanted in Game five a Yankee Stadium. When you look
Speaker 10: behind you, what do those memories bring back and how
Speaker 10: do you use that for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think that was intentional. I think for
Speaker 7: me it's you know, every time I stepped foot in here,
Speaker 7: a player comes in here or front office, it's motivation.
Speaker 7: It's something that we accomplished a goal in twenty four
Speaker 7: and it's a fuel for twenty five. And I think
Speaker 7: that looking back at memories and how happy we were,
Speaker 7: just to appreciate all the hard work that goes into
Speaker 7: winning a championship and we're ready to start this journey
Speaker 7: again in twenty five.
Speaker 10: What was your message in spring training to this group
Speaker 10: of players that a lot of them were here last year?
Speaker 10: What is the motivation? How do you keep the edge
Speaker 10: after being the champs?
Speaker 7: You know what, I think there's individual goals, certainly. I
Speaker 7: think each person has their own motivations, which is rightful
Speaker 7: and should be, and there's also a team sense of it.
Speaker 7: And I think for me, the message was really about
Speaker 7: our character and trying to really build a legacy for
Speaker 7: the organization, for the fans. Do things the right way.
Speaker 7: And I think that our guys, as you see us
Speaker 7: play every day, we mind the little things. We play
Speaker 7: the right way. We played Dodger Baseball stick together. It's
Speaker 7: not linear a Major League baseball season. There's ups and downs,
Speaker 7: ebbs and flows, and just continue to make mind the
Speaker 7: little things for me and the noise will be muted
Speaker 7: and our expectation is again to hoist that trophy up.
Speaker 10: Dave Roberts, entering his tenth season as the Dodgers manager,
Speaker 10: You're a decade in now, Dave, and you got more
Speaker 10: ahead of you when you look at look back at
Speaker 10: the culture that you've established here. What are you the
Speaker 10: most proud of.
Speaker 7: I think the thing I'm most proud of is our
Speaker 7: guys respect their position as as major league players, respect
Speaker 7: the uniform, the franchise. The Dodgers are educated on the
Speaker 7: history of the game, our organization. It's a responsibility to
Speaker 7: be a major league player. They're accountable to one another,
Speaker 7: and we do things the right way. And I think
Speaker 7: for me, as you know, there's not the caddy egos
Speaker 7: strife in some other clubhouses or locker rooms. Baseball is
Speaker 7: the thing and winning is the thing, and that's all
Speaker 7: we care about it, I think for me, and the
Speaker 7: con insistency of that mindset is something I'm probably most
Speaker 7: proud of.
Speaker 10: Dave Roberts has got his lineup out there, a lot
Speaker 10: of right handed bats today against reigning American League Sy
Speaker 10: Young winner Trek Schoolball. You don't have Keyk Hernandez today.
Speaker 10: I guess he's got the mooki itis. What's going on
Speaker 10: with key K's stomach.
Speaker 7: I don't know, you know what he was. He had
Speaker 7: a tough night. He was throwing up a lot last night.
Speaker 7: And so we'll see if we can kind of keep
Speaker 7: him on ice and hopefully we can stay away from him.
Speaker 7: But yeah, so it's nice. We've still got Miggi ro
Speaker 7: in there. We had to move some pieces around and
Speaker 7: get piece in the left field, kick Tommy out to centerfield,
Speaker 7: Meggi ro at second base. But yeah, Schoolble's tough, man.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's going to be one hundred. He's amped up.
Speaker 7: I'm sure to be pitching opening day at Dodger Stadium. Man,
Speaker 7: we got to work cut out, but we got a
Speaker 7: good left hander as well in Blake Snow, so it's
Speaker 7: gonna be a good matchup.
Speaker 10: Nell said he's not thinking about school bawl. What do
Speaker 10: you think his motivation is today? Is it just facing
Speaker 10: that Tigers lineup? Or do you feel like he's going
Speaker 10: out there with a chip on his shoulder?
Speaker 7: You know what, I don't know, but I think that
Speaker 7: you know, he's really fired up about donning the Dodger
Speaker 7: uniform here at Dodger Stadium and pitching this home opener,
Speaker 7: And yeah, his focus should be on the Detroit Tigers offense.
Speaker 7: And I know he's going to be well prepared and
Speaker 7: it's up to us to scratch a few runs across
Speaker 7: and get a w all.
Speaker 10: Right, it's a beautiful day in Los Angeles at Dodgers
Speaker 10: Stadium Opening Day. Around Major League Baseball, the one thing
Speaker 10: Dave Roberts has taught myself and many others that have
Speaker 10: been around him the past nine years is to have
Speaker 10: gratitude and certainly grateful to have you as the Dodger manager, Dave.
Speaker 7: So thank you, all right, Dave, thank you. Let's have
Speaker 7: a great day, man.
Speaker 10: No doubt a Dodger win, a good day to beat
Speaker 10: somebody across the diamond. We'll send it back to you
Speaker 10: in the studio, Tim, all.
Speaker 3: Right, thanks a lot.
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Speaker 2: He was an All Star last season and won the
Speaker 2: cy Young Award. Blake Snell on the mound for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: The thirty two year old left hander finally wearing a
Speaker 2: Dodger uniform his tenth season in the big leagues, his
Speaker 2: first with the Dodgers after signing that five year deal
Speaker 2: this past offseason. He's a two times cy Young Award
Speaker 2: winner with the Rays and the Popres. Last year twenty
Speaker 2: starts with the Giants, he started the season hurt. They
Speaker 2: slow played him five and three overall with a three
Speaker 2: twelve e RRA. Snell is just two years removed from
Speaker 2: his cy Young Awards season in San Diego, where he
Speaker 2: won fourteen games with a two to twenty five r
Speaker 2: RA with a thirty one percent strikeout rate. He made
Speaker 2: two Cactus League starts to this spring, also pitched one
Speaker 2: exhibition game over in Tokyo.
Speaker 3: He struck out seven of the eighteen batters he faced.
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Speaker 2: over to the booth Steven Nelson, Rick Monday, guys.
Speaker 5: All right, TC back here with Rick Monday and mo
Speaker 5: our last chat, we were discussing the emotions and the
Speaker 5: butterflies at everybody, whether you're in uniform in the ballpark
Speaker 5: or listening on the Dodgers Audio network, you're feeling it
Speaker 5: right now as the Dodgers get ready to kick off
Speaker 5: their home opener against the Detroit Tigers. Another thing that
Speaker 5: reminds you that it's opening day. This is a classic
Speaker 5: throwback starting pitching matchup. You have Blake Snell and his
Speaker 5: Dodger debut against Trek Schooble. They got three syns between them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you look at the pitching staff in the
Speaker 6: matchup itself. The two guys that he might well just
Speaker 6: throw raw meat out there and see what kind of happens,
Speaker 6: because that's the way that they approach the game. They
Speaker 6: both have good awe speed pitches. But if you're looking
Speaker 6: at Schooble, the Dodger saw him for six innings. Last year.
Speaker 6: He had a very good outing against him in Detroit.
Speaker 6: And he's a guy that that throws well. He was
Speaker 6: clocking it over one hundred miles an hour last year.
Speaker 6: He has high velocity. He has changed speeds, and we
Speaker 6: talk about changing speeds and that's one of the big
Speaker 6: big things that Blake Snell is able to do. In particular,
Speaker 6: I think with the curveball, and he threw it about
Speaker 6: one out of every four pitches if you look back
Speaker 6: to last year. But when he changes speeds, it improves
Speaker 6: the fast ball. When he throws the fast ball and
Speaker 6: improves the af speed pitch, and they go hand in hand.
Speaker 5: Would you like to step back in the batter's box
Speaker 5: today against either one of these guys.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you something is Kick Hernanez is under
Speaker 6: the weather today and had to give Dave Roberts a cult.
Speaker 6: It's not the twenty four hour or the eight hour
Speaker 6: flu that people used to have when Nolan Ryan was
Speaker 6: pitching heres and years ago. But if you're going to
Speaker 6: get sick, this might be the right time. So you
Speaker 6: have to face schooble. But I do know that kick
Speaker 6: a long with everybody else you don't want to get
Speaker 6: sick on the home opener. You want to be here,
Speaker 6: and he may be here in uniform. Don't know if
Speaker 6: he's able to keep food down. But this is a big,
Speaker 6: big day.
Speaker 5: I think we've had enough of Dodgers getting sick, given
Speaker 5: what Mookie Betts has had to endure over the last
Speaker 5: couple of weeks, and what the hitters will surely endure
Speaker 5: today against Snell and Schooble. Conventional wisdom, Tim says, get
Speaker 5: ready for a lot of punch outs and not a
Speaker 5: lot of hits. We'll see if that rings true, or
Speaker 5: if baseball happens, meaning the unpredictable happens. It's the Dodgers
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Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Nelly, thank you, Moe.
Speaker 2: First pitch coming up next, Blake Snell, Turks Gooble. It's
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and the Tigers, twenty twenty five home opener,
Speaker 2: enjoyed Dodger fans. I'm Tim kase Is, the world champion.
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