Speaker 1: All right, we continue on Fred Rogan, Rodney peat An
Speaker 1: Am seventy LA Sports. Okay, one hour down, one hour down. Whoa,
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted Tree, you know. I'm just sitting here, Rodney,
Speaker 1: And I was telling Adam in the booth over there
Speaker 1: during the break, I have no idea. But the more
Speaker 1: I think about this, the more upset I get. Does
Speaker 1: that make any sense to you? The more you think
Speaker 1: about what what makes you upset? What's making the upset
Speaker 1: is they're not hitting. It's not my business, but that's
Speaker 1: upsetting me. That to a point now it's like upsetting
Speaker 1: another thing that's upsetting me as we sit here right now.
Speaker 1: By the way, everything will be fine if they win tonight.
Speaker 1: But another thing upsetting me is you are in your
Speaker 1: most critical game of the entire season, and you have
Speaker 1: so many pitchers who have needed Tommy John surgery that
Speaker 1: you don't have one.
Speaker 2: Think about that for Game four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and if you look at
Speaker 1: the young pitchers they have, they're pretty good, but they've
Speaker 1: all needed Tommy John. So how can the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Dodgers in their most critical game of the season not
Speaker 1: have a starting pitcher and I don't know why. It's
Speaker 1: all right, let's just bring Dylan Hernandason.
Speaker 3: Hello, Dylan, Hey Fred, how are you good?
Speaker 1: Am I sitting here just losing my mind?
Speaker 3: No, I mean I kind of I get it, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the pitching has been a problem.
Speaker 3: I mean, frankly though, given the starting pitching that they've
Speaker 3: been getting so far, you know, if the bullpen game
Speaker 3: might actually be what they need. I mean, the bullpen
Speaker 3: is the strength of the team, and if you've looked
Speaker 3: at the first three games, you know, the portions pitched
Speaker 3: by the starters are basically a period that they've kind
Speaker 3: of had to endure, you know, before handing off the
Speaker 3: ball to the bullpen. So why not kind of cut
Speaker 3: out the bad part. It's not a sustainable thing, obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, the bullpend's gonna die if you just keep
Speaker 3: doing this game after game. But for today, actually, I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I'd rather I'd much rather have him out
Speaker 3: there than Gamamoto or Clarity or you know, or Walker Buehler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: I think the bullpen and the way they've been pitching
Speaker 4: lately is the strength of that staff, and if they can,
Speaker 4: if they can sustain We've been saying this all series long.
Speaker 4: All they got to do is keep it close. And
Speaker 4: we've been saying that about the starting pitching. Keep it close,
Speaker 4: keep it close, and and not get off to a
Speaker 4: bad start. I mean that is that is also key.
Speaker 2: Dylan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now last night Mookie hit the home run put
Speaker 4: them up one nothing, but right after that they go
Speaker 4: down six to one. I mean, I just feel in
Speaker 4: this game, in particular in the fourth game and in
Speaker 4: the elimination game, they cannot get behind early.
Speaker 2: Dylan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and again I think we've talked about
Speaker 3: striding out for a year is just you know what,
Speaker 3: but what's suitable, what's acceptable in the regular season, pitching wise,
Speaker 3: sometimes just doesn't cut it at all in the postseason.
Speaker 3: And that's what we're seeing here, right. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: Yamamoto clarity, these guys are perfectly fine. If you need
Speaker 3: to go beat the Rockies on a random Wednesday, you know,
Speaker 3: you play against a team like the Padres, it's a
Speaker 3: little bit different, you know, And and you know, I
Speaker 3: do think you know, to friend's point about you know,
Speaker 3: all the guys getting injured. You know, obviously there is
Speaker 3: right that the Dodgers do prioritize velocity. You know, higher
Speaker 3: velocity does lead to injuries, So there is something kind
Speaker 3: of going on player development wise there. You can say,
Speaker 3: you know, I guess that, like, let's just say, I
Speaker 3: mean to kind of take a very callous view of
Speaker 3: this whole thing, that if starting pitchers are kind of
Speaker 3: now what running backs are in the NFL, right, and
Speaker 3: that they're going to have short life spans and whatever,
Speaker 3: and that this is just kind of a way of life. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's fine. The thing is where this thing really went
Speaker 3: wrong though, was you know, when they went out and
Speaker 3: kind of made their big money acquisitions, and in the
Speaker 3: pitching it was Tyler Glass. Now they're expecting him to
Speaker 3: stay healthy for the whole year, even though he's never
Speaker 3: been helped be in his entire life. And then you know,
Speaker 3: the big money on Yamamoto where they kind of expected
Speaker 3: him to kind of make a seamless transition, you know,
Speaker 3: and and obviously, you know, I was very excited. You guys,
Speaker 3: remember I came out and said, hey, I think it
Speaker 3: might be able to win the World Series after watching
Speaker 3: Yamamoto pitch four innings in that comeback start. Of is
Speaker 3: because that was kind of the first time where you
Speaker 3: looked at somebody and we're like, oh, this guy looks
Speaker 3: like a like a real ace, right, who might be
Speaker 3: able to carry them in October. But he's kind of
Speaker 3: you know, regressed to the means, so to speak. It
Speaker 3: hasn't looked good. And yeah, you know, I just think
Speaker 3: that again, like those kind of those those big ticket
Speaker 3: acquisitions that they made on the pitching side. You know,
Speaker 3: to their credit, they did make the investment, right, it
Speaker 3: just it just didn't pan out the way they had hoped.
Speaker 1: Okay, so uh that's that. This is this Uh how
Speaker 1: do you see tonight going?
Speaker 3: I actually think they have a pretty decent chance of
Speaker 3: winning this thing. You know, I'm not crazy about the
Speaker 3: you know, from the PAJS vantage point of bringing back
Speaker 3: Dylan Cease on short rest, right. I mean unless maybe
Speaker 3: the idea there is to have him go through the
Speaker 3: you know, the Dodger line up once. I would not
Speaker 3: watch sees facing Goltani a second time for sure. You know,
Speaker 3: there's Steels slightly oddly kind of desperate almost on their part,
Speaker 3: right where it's like, hey, we got you know, we
Speaker 3: got them down. We need to finish this now. It
Speaker 3: has that type of feel to it. I don't think
Speaker 3: that's you know, that's great there from their side, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, they're gonna be probably regardless of you know,
Speaker 3: how CeCe does, is probably gonna be close to a
Speaker 3: bullpen game there for him. I do think what we've
Speaker 3: seen so far as that the Dodgers do have a
Speaker 3: better bullpen than the Padres. You know, when they're throwing
Speaker 3: out their top guys, you forget about the game too,
Speaker 3: thing because that thing was out of hand, and you know,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers just kind of started throwing in their white flag,
Speaker 3: so to speak. But yeah, and then you know the
Speaker 3: lineup I assume they're gonna I mean, the fact that
Speaker 3: they were even in like striking distance last night, I
Speaker 3: do think speaks to just how explosive is Dodgers' offense is.
Speaker 3: And I know, you know, the last few innings obviously
Speaker 3: didn't look great, but it's tough, you know, when when
Speaker 3: the other teams kind of bringing in relievers and they
Speaker 3: can kind of pick out their matchups. But I think
Speaker 3: that they actually have a pretty good chance of sending
Speaker 3: this back to light for Game five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you on the pitching side of
Speaker 4: it that I think it's good for the Dodgers with
Speaker 4: this game, with their their staff and he's still got
Speaker 4: you know, Evan Phillips and Blake trying and are fresh.
Speaker 4: Copec probably can go if he has to. I think, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, Bessie is is fresh again because he had
Speaker 4: the And then I am I'm with you on on
Speaker 4: why they would go with cease right now. It does
Speaker 4: feel like it's it's desperate, like they feel like they
Speaker 4: got to try to close it out tonight or they're
Speaker 4: in trouble game five.
Speaker 2: But I'm just I just it's head scratcher. I guess
Speaker 2: this is to me, Dylan, what do you see?
Speaker 4: And I know there are a lot of factors, there
Speaker 4: are a lot of you know, storylines with this game
Speaker 4: coming up tonight.
Speaker 2: But for you, what is the biggest thing that has
Speaker 2: to happen for the Dodgers to have success? Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, they got to hit, you know. I think, uh,
Speaker 3: I think it was a good sign yesterday that Mookie bets.
Speaker 3: You know, I think there was kind of this feeling
Speaker 3: right even though in game two and I'm not you know,
Speaker 3: and look I wrote about BOOKI not hitting.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: If I'm gonna be honest, now, like, looking back, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure it's entirely fair given that you know, he
Speaker 3: was dropped up a home runner at first at bat
Speaker 3: right in Game two. But you know, he hit one
Speaker 3: out yesterday, you know, got another hit later in the game.
Speaker 3: If he's going, you know, he and Otany are going
Speaker 3: to have to carry the team. I think I don't
Speaker 3: think it's just going to be you know, because yesterday,
Speaker 3: you know, we got one guy going in bets. You know,
Speaker 3: Otani obviously just hasn't hit it. I think he's like,
Speaker 3: what like one for his last ten or zero for
Speaker 3: his last ten or something ticks punch outs, I think
Speaker 3: in his last ten at bats, you know, So it
Speaker 3: hasn't been great for him, But he those two guys
Speaker 3: are gonna have to carry the team like they have
Speaker 3: for a lot of this season, because yeah, I do
Speaker 3: think that even though the bullpen might be able to
Speaker 3: keep it relatively low scoring, at some point they're gonna
Speaker 3: have to hit. And right now, what we've seen really
Speaker 3: in the last couple of games the bottom of the lineup,
Speaker 3: you know, which is such a big factor in Game
Speaker 3: one and probably led to a tony success in Game one,
Speaker 3: right because when Altani would come up the day he
Speaker 3: had guys on base, right, So that really pointed to
Speaker 3: the production of the bottom of the lineup that hasn't
Speaker 3: happened in the last couple of games. So well, you know,
Speaker 3: I think if somebody's going to jump start it, I
Speaker 3: think it comes down to the stars. I've always been,
Speaker 3: you know, very adamant that, right. You know, every winter,
Speaker 3: I've always said the Dodgers need to go out to
Speaker 3: get stars. And this is why, for this time of
Speaker 3: the year, those are the two best players on the team.
Speaker 3: Right now, I think it's up to Twani and Bet
Speaker 3: to get the job done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jel, I've made the point, and I'm glad you
Speaker 1: agree with this. Look, guys that are stars or superstars
Speaker 1: are compensated in that manner. This is when they need
Speaker 1: to show up. This is when they earn their money.
Speaker 1: This is why they get paid, this is why they're superstars,
Speaker 1: because it's at this time where they've got to stand up. Great,
Speaker 1: you had a nice game against Pittsburgh in August. That's terrific,
Speaker 1: But now it counts now it matters. I think the
Speaker 1: problem is you can't just force somebody to do that.
Speaker 2: You know, Dylan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think baseball in that sense, it's a
Speaker 3: really difficult game, right. It's not you know, uh, in basketball,
Speaker 3: you can just say like, Okay, you know what, we're
Speaker 3: gonna give the guy, We're gonna give the Lebron the
Speaker 3: ball on everything. You know, you can't do that in baseball.
Speaker 3: You're limited by the number of that bats you have.
Speaker 3: It's also not the type of sport where you know
Speaker 3: just because you try harder, you're going to get results.
Speaker 3: I mean, if anything, a lot of times the opposite,
Speaker 3: opposite thing happens, right, And we did see it last night.
Speaker 3: I thought, you know, to me, the most telling at
Speaker 3: bat last night for Otani was the first one the
Speaker 3: Laevey struck out on five pitches or six pitches. None
Speaker 3: of those pitches were in the strike sholl right, so
Speaker 3: he actually he was chasing stuff out of the zone.
Speaker 3: That to me tells me that he's kind of getting jumpy,
Speaker 3: he's getting a little restless and kind of you know,
Speaker 3: staying right while being focused and having that intensity, kind
Speaker 3: of staying within yourself. That's a really tough.
Speaker 2: Balance, right.
Speaker 3: And now I do like these two guys in terms
Speaker 3: of like you know, from like a character standpoint. Obviously,
Speaker 3: we've seen Atani step up in big moments time after time,
Speaker 3: and I think we've seen you know, I do like
Speaker 3: where Mookie Betts is right now. You know, after Game two, Look,
Speaker 3: he didn't he didn't point to the the you know,
Speaker 3: the home run where he got robbed and said, hey,
Speaker 3: I actually did something. He just kind of took it like, look,
Speaker 3: I'm not getting the job done right. And even the
Speaker 3: one that Profar stole from him, you know, his thing was, hey,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter, it didn't count. As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 3: that's an out right. All my bats so far have
Speaker 3: been bad because they've been out and he responded.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So I do think that these guys are very cognizant
Speaker 3: of their responsibility. I don't think either guy is running
Speaker 3: from it. And uh, you know, I think I'm encouraged
Speaker 3: by what we saw from Beth yesterday, and I'm encouraged
Speaker 3: by Otani's history of big, big moments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and we'll see. Because I think you're right
Speaker 4: about baseball. You know, it's different than than basketball, even football.
Speaker 4: Baseball it becomes contagious, you know when you see that
Speaker 4: with the teams that are going right now. With the Mets,
Speaker 4: I mean, Lindor gets it going, and it's contagious, you know,
Speaker 4: the big polar Bear gets it going. It's contagious for
Speaker 4: the rest of the team. And and with the Padres,
Speaker 4: I mean you look up and down that lineup. You know,
Speaker 4: everybody's now scary. I mean, and not just Tatis, but
Speaker 4: it's you know, obviously Matado and it's a Rose who
Speaker 4: has not even really gotten really going yet, you know,
Speaker 4: Profar all those guys. You look up and and Fred
Speaker 4: and I talked about it. You look at but that
Speaker 4: line and we goes, oh no, this guy's up, he's
Speaker 4: gonna get it hit. Oh no, here, Oh, you got
Speaker 4: to get this guy out because Merrill's on deck. I mean,
Speaker 4: they're just it becomes contagious in baseball. And the Dodgers
Speaker 4: just need that catalyst, which should be Otani because he's
Speaker 4: leading off and it has been Otani for the better
Speaker 4: part of the season to light that fires. What is
Speaker 4: contagious for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, I think with Otani right, and again,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how much they talk to him at
Speaker 3: this point. Obviously he's one to right, he's the best
Speaker 3: player in the game. He's almost kind of beyond reproach
Speaker 3: in some ways. But if I'm the Dodgers, I would
Speaker 3: remind Otani, hey, look, you're you're batting leadoff, you know,
Speaker 3: And we have to remember, right when when his approach
Speaker 3: really kind of changed this season when he moved into
Speaker 3: that leadoff spot. You know, in Japan, you know, they
Speaker 3: still kind of think of baseball in a lot of
Speaker 3: like in very traditional terms, and you know, when he
Speaker 3: moved into that leadoff spot, I think he started thinking,
Speaker 3: you know what, my job is to just get on base, right,
Speaker 3: And it really did change the way he hit. And
Speaker 3: you know, because his power is so great, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: sometimes you can just half hit a ball. I mean
Speaker 3: we're seeing him like golf balls off the ground basically,
Speaker 3: you know, and hit him ten rows up into the pavilion.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think he needs to kind of get back to
Speaker 3: that point of like just thinking, Okay, you know what
Speaker 3: my job right now. It's a kind of set the
Speaker 3: table for the guys behind me, and I think good
Speaker 3: things are just going to happen, even from a power standpoint.
Speaker 3: And then on top of that too, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: he he did change the way this offense functioned and
Speaker 3: that in the past we've always talked about the whole
Speaker 3: feast or famine thing. Right, Either they hit home runs,
Speaker 3: so they don't score at all. Wol o' taani, you know,
Speaker 3: because of the he can the way he runs. He
Speaker 3: you know, he draws a walk all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: Now he's on second, you know, men in scoring position.
Speaker 3: Willkie bettep at the plate.
Speaker 2: I kind of like that, Dylan.
Speaker 1: Overall, and it's not over, and the Dodgers can win tonight,
Speaker 1: and I think they will. But just from your perspective
Speaker 1: of being in LA's many years as you have, h
Speaker 1: is this really frustrating?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's frustrating because it's the same thing over and
Speaker 3: over again, right, And I think, look, their backs are
Speaker 3: against the wall. Obviously, you know, the odds are that
Speaker 3: the Padres win this series, but I can also see
Speaker 3: the Dodgers winning it. But here's the problem to me
Speaker 3: is that even if they advanced from this series, I
Speaker 3: just don't think there's any chance that they're going to
Speaker 3: win a World Series because they don't have the starting
Speaker 3: pitching and it's been the kind of the same thing
Speaker 3: over and over and over, right, and you know, probably
Speaker 3: The last time they did have the starting pitching was
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one, and then they decided to get
Speaker 3: all cute and oh, let's use an opener in front
Speaker 3: of Julia Arius and have Max sus that close out
Speaker 3: this thing. And next thing, you know, right, Sureser's out
Speaker 3: for the NLCS. And to me, it always kind of
Speaker 3: comes down to this same problem that I feel the
Speaker 3: organization has, where kind of their desire to kind of
Speaker 3: be unconventional and wanting to look smart in the end,
Speaker 3: it leads them into a place where they just don't
Speaker 3: have the pitching to win, right, whatever the reason, you know.
Speaker 3: And and yeah, you know, especially the previous two years
Speaker 3: leading up to this one, this is gonna be three
Speaker 3: years where basically their starting pitching gave them no chance
Speaker 3: to win, you know. And again, they might win a series, right,
Speaker 3: it's a short series. Anything can happen. Shoot, I mean,
Speaker 3: they might even get to the World Series itself. I
Speaker 3: just don't think that they have the starting you know,
Speaker 3: it's tough when you're asking the bullfen to cover five
Speaker 3: innings like every single night, you know, and then right,
Speaker 3: and then what's even more frustrating after all this, I
Speaker 3: think is you know, just kind of looking at it
Speaker 3: from the outside, is everybody's gonna play Roberts right, because
Speaker 3: at some point he's gonna have to make my ten
Speaker 3: pitching changes. One of them goes wrong and then they're like,
Speaker 3: why did he bring in that guy? Well, it's because
Speaker 3: the starter wasn't there, right, the starter didn't take down
Speaker 3: the innings, and so you know, we already know how
Speaker 3: this is going to play.
Speaker 4: We've seen this before, yeah, and how but how do
Speaker 4: you put a finger on it when you start the
Speaker 4: season and you like, okay, we got the great staff.
Speaker 4: You know, you do everything right. You think you do
Speaker 4: everything right in the off season, and then and then
Speaker 4: and again. That's sports because injuries play a role and
Speaker 4: they're going to happen. But if they are going to
Speaker 4: play a role like that, there's no crystal ball that
Speaker 4: you can say, oh god, we're not gonna have this guy.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna have that guy. We're not gonna have
Speaker 4: the starting pitcher. You know, Bobby Miller is going to
Speaker 4: go into tank and Walker Bueler's not going to come
Speaker 4: back fresh and sharp like he was. I mean, all
Speaker 4: those things factor in that you can't predict along the way, Dylan,
Speaker 4: So how you know, what what do you do?
Speaker 2: What do you do for the for that situation?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, and again I think probably
Speaker 3: the Podjets are a good example of this, right They
Speaker 3: they took gambles, right, and granted this is probably like
Speaker 3: the third team that Preler has built, you know, the
Speaker 3: first couple here, they went all in. They went all in.
Speaker 3: It didn't work out. They had to kind of rebuild
Speaker 3: from scratch. Again, I just kind of feel that with
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, right, they try to spread out the risk,
Speaker 3: and the problem is that I think that like kind
Speaker 3: of coming into this season, like, look, I think Tyler
Speaker 3: Glastow was a question mark from the day that he signed.
Speaker 3: I mean, the guy had never pitched more than one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty innings in an entire season, right, Like
Speaker 3: this was probably gonna happen. It was just that their
Speaker 3: calculus was like, well, you know, well we also have
Speaker 3: Walker Buehler, we have Yamamoto, we have Kershaw.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Now, the problem is that each one of those things
Speaker 3: was also kind of like a long shot.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: They thought that if they bought you know, twenty lottery
Speaker 3: tickets that you know, three or four of them would
Speaker 3: kind of cash, you know, and in some ways they're
Speaker 3: likely like Bueler's even kind of standing at.
Speaker 2: This point, right.
Speaker 3: I Mean again, you look at the number of guys
Speaker 3: that have come back from a second Tommy John surgery,
Speaker 3: you know, to kind of regain their previous levels of effectiveness,
Speaker 3: you know, as a starting pitcher. It's a really short
Speaker 3: list of guys, right, I mean, I can think of
Speaker 3: like maybe like two right now. And so that was
Speaker 3: kind of like a long shot of pat happening, you know,
Speaker 3: And I just think at some point right now, what
Speaker 3: they're trying to do is spread the risk as much
Speaker 3: as possible, but at some point you kind of need
Speaker 3: to just kind of go all in on something, you know.
Speaker 3: And now, granted, you know, ol Tani did give them
Speaker 3: the license to do that this year basically by kind
Speaker 3: of deferring right most of the seven hundred million, and
Speaker 3: so they kind of did kind of go all in,
Speaker 3: like on Yamamoto. You know, it was just unfortunate that
Speaker 3: it happened this winter, right that they felt, okay, you
Speaker 3: know what, we you know, we can be a little
Speaker 3: looser with our money this year. But this is kind
Speaker 3: of something that's been going on for years right where
Speaker 3: you know, Garrett Cole was on the market. They didn't
Speaker 3: go right, they didn't. They only went up to like
Speaker 3: a certain point with him. I mean, you know, they
Speaker 3: could have had Blake Snell this past year, you know,
Speaker 3: and it was just well, we don't want to deal
Speaker 3: with Scott forres whatever. You know, there are a lot
Speaker 3: of things that they could have done probably that would
Speaker 3: have been like safer bets I think than the ones
Speaker 3: that they took care And that's the decision that they're
Speaker 3: gonna have to kind of make going forward, right because
Speaker 3: my guess is that next year they're going to look
Speaker 3: at Okay, well Tany's coming back again, but it's a
Speaker 3: second Tommy John, right, But they're they're gonna look at
Speaker 3: this in the best case scenario possible. And then they're
Speaker 3: looking probably at that kid in Japan, rookie Sasaki. But
Speaker 3: the problem with Sasaki, he's also like an injury risk.
Speaker 3: I mean, the guy missed like two months this year
Speaker 3: in Japan, you know, and has a history of kind
Speaker 3: of getting injured every year. So I'm not really sure
Speaker 3: if they can kind of pivot out of this right now,
Speaker 3: you know. And and also a lot of those big
Speaker 3: contracts that have signed over the years to guys, those
Speaker 3: are starting to kind of pile up, right. I mean,
Speaker 3: remember also, this this whole thing was based on their
Speaker 3: player development system in terms of we're going to you know,
Speaker 3: mostly have homegrown players and kind of like add here
Speaker 3: and there with free agency. But if you kind of
Speaker 3: look at like the last like twelve years, it's been
Speaker 3: Walker Dealer, it's Ben will Smith. Those are the two
Speaker 3: guys that they've drafted and developed on their own. And
Speaker 3: you know, because these holes are kind of opening up,
Speaker 3: they've had to spend a lot of money you go
Speaker 3: fill these other positions, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: they're going to find themselves. I think in a bit
Speaker 3: of a I don't know if it's budget crunch is
Speaker 3: the right word, because I'm guessing that they're making a
Speaker 3: ton of money, right, I mean, the state is filled
Speaker 3: up every year. You know, they're selling a ton of
Speaker 3: old Taani merchandise, so the money's kind of there, but
Speaker 3: you know, you started looking at the luxury tax and stuff,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how comfortable they're going to be to
Speaker 3: continue spending at this rate. So it is kind of
Speaker 3: an interesting thing. That I think that they're going to
Speaker 3: have to deal with, you know, going into this winter
Speaker 3: as a kind of plot their their their their path forward.
Speaker 1: All right, Dylan has always loved the inside. Thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on, No, thank you, all right, Dargo, Dylan Rnanders,
Speaker 1: our buddy from the La Times, and uh, well, a
Speaker 1: lot to think. Well, you know, if they win tonight, Rodney, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have nothing to think about five, right they went
Speaker 1: to night.
Speaker 2: You're feeling really good about Game five coming back to
Speaker 2: Blue Heaven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am. I mean the pitching will be a concern,
Speaker 1: I really think, and I could be and Dylan agreed,
Speaker 1: but I maybe he and I are in the minority.
Speaker 1: I think you agree, so maybe three of us will
Speaker 1: be in the minority. I think the pitching is going
Speaker 1: to be fine tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah I do too. I do too.
Speaker 4: But again, it's the key, is what you said, what
Speaker 4: I've said, what most people said. It is probably the
Speaker 4: obvious thing, but they gotta they can't let it get
Speaker 4: out of hand to start the game. I mean I
Speaker 4: think that once they get past the second inning, uh,
Speaker 4: then you can exhale a little bit. But it's getting
Speaker 4: past the second inning is going to be the key.
Speaker 4: I think starting tonight because in each one of these
Speaker 4: games they've gotten behind, and in an elimination game starts
Speaker 4: to play with you a little bit when you get behind,
Speaker 4: because you feel you always feel like you're playing catch up,
Speaker 4: catch up, catch up. So that has to change tonight.
Speaker 4: And if they do get out of the second inning
Speaker 4: where the game tied or even in lead, I think
Speaker 4: it votes really well for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: All right, we uh, we're gonna have to bring on
Speaker 1: the king of optimism, the King of optimism.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he will join us. Oh yeah, let's bring
Speaker 2: it down the home stretch.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: He beat Fred Rogan on a hot day, a game day,
Speaker 2: big game.
Speaker 4: Day, and we need, we indeed a positivity and spirituality.
Speaker 4: Come on, Freddy, let's go. Somebody wake Fred up. Let's go,
Speaker 4: fred what you're doing? Come on, Freddie? Does somebody wake
Speaker 4: him up?
Speaker 2: Wake up for it?
Speaker 1: That is looking stuff up about the game tonight, actually
Speaker 1: on my phone. All right, all right, let's bring on. Now,
Speaker 1: let's bring on our good friend vic now with the
Speaker 1: daily high coupe vicod afternoon.
Speaker 5: He's praying for Coofax to come out of the bullpen.
Speaker 5: He says, where's the pitching. It's Fred Rogan. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: don't think the pitching is going to be a key tonight.
Speaker 5: I think the pitching's going to be fine. Vic Sale
Speaker 5: in point Fred, he's got supreme confidence in the dodge
Speaker 5: of bullpen Rod.
Speaker 2: Repeat supreme Yes that dude, BTP, let's go.
Speaker 5: He's in for Kevin figures. He's just happy that his
Speaker 5: clippers will be bowling in ocean side tonight.
Speaker 1: Double a Adam Auslin be happier.
Speaker 5: Fred would wake the fa.
Speaker 1: I'm a are now just looking at stuff, seeing what
Speaker 1: people are saying at him. Just wanted to respond to
Speaker 1: the people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, man.
Speaker 5: His inspirational musica will take us into hardball paradise. Oh right,
Speaker 5: is always wide awake, y'all.
Speaker 2: It's King Flavor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, bang that gong and Fred's er wake about dodge
Speaker 5: are fans?
Speaker 2: God, I'm feeling you.
Speaker 5: Dodger's Padres Game three last night, emotional inferno at pet Go,
Speaker 5: But the Azul fought back. There was glaringly evident. They
Speaker 5: fell short, but there was fight, and I liked what
Speaker 5: I saw in the six five loss.
Speaker 1: Well, no, Vic, you couldn't. You couldn't like what you saw.
Speaker 1: They didn't came after, do you Ernanda's at.
Speaker 2: A home run?
Speaker 5: Well, at that point we're all going crazy, yes, because.
Speaker 2: That's the point.
Speaker 5: It was the shoddy defense, those two plays that created
Speaker 5: the sixth run inning. That's that got to me.
Speaker 1: Machato made a good play. Machato understood how to play baseball,
Speaker 1: so that that was just, you know, happenstance. And Rojas
Speaker 1: would never do that normally. He's great defensively. He just
Speaker 1: made a mistake.
Speaker 5: You toss it to LuxI. I don't know what Niggey
Speaker 5: Rowe was thinking. Again, those were two plays that ignited
Speaker 5: the sixth run second inning, and we're down six to one.
Speaker 5: But the Dodges did not capitulate, And that's.
Speaker 2: What I liked.
Speaker 1: What do you mean they didn't capitulate? They didn't get
Speaker 1: another hit after.
Speaker 5: Down six one for they did not, yes, capitulate, they
Speaker 5: did not give in.
Speaker 1: That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 5: They created, they created some offense, and of course ti
Speaker 5: Oscar the way of Taate crushes the Grand Slam at
Speaker 5: six ' five. Were feeling good. I mean, who knew
Speaker 5: the only other hit for the rest of the game
Speaker 5: it's gonna be a Freddie Freeman single in the eighth
Speaker 5: to Laurel.
Speaker 2: Creek There to Laurel.
Speaker 5: Toro, the ris no tomorrow, listen, I love I love
Speaker 5: Buellah's attitude again we all do you know, destroying the
Speaker 5: water cool or whatever he uh, you know whatever he
Speaker 5: was fierce with in the dug. I dig that about him.
Speaker 5: You know, Bulah is a competitor. He had a rough ending.
Speaker 5: It came through. But again, just that Padre bullpenal is
Speaker 5: also lights out. Let's face it. They pitch their torcuses off.
Speaker 5: The San Diego bullpen is tough. The dodge of bullpen
Speaker 5: is tough. This is a this is a very very
Speaker 5: crazy mirror image series.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 5: Obviously padays, you know, have the edge. Dodgers suffered an
Speaker 5: inning from hard ball hell.
Speaker 2: But now what.
Speaker 5: To Laurel exactly the brink of extinction, the brink can
Speaker 5: they win? Est no change to Laurel. See if they yes,
Speaker 5: they can.
Speaker 2: Play day.
Speaker 3: To law.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. There's no tomorrow. Come on now
Speaker 1: and Vic will give us the recipe for success for tonight.
Speaker 2: All right, now, come on now, we need it.
Speaker 4: Bring home back Rodney beat Fred Rogan, Bick, the brick
Speaker 4: Jacobs on this hup date, this hop date, this game date.
Speaker 5: Bick come on, come on, VIC donesus fans, How fair
Speaker 5: are you listen? It's pretty simple, fred I thought you
Speaker 5: nailed it. They got a hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Otani son only a single in his last two games.
Speaker 5: The MVP must step up tonight. The mount Fuji of
Speaker 5: mas Fete must erupt a positive a vibe as Otani
Speaker 5: owns Dylan cease starting.
Speaker 2: I don't think any stage is too big for Otani.
Speaker 5: Exactly Game one, it was magnificent. For the next two games,
Speaker 5: he's been pressing a little bit, chasing. He cannot chase.
Speaker 5: He's got to just understand, and he knows the strike
Speaker 5: zone better than anyone. San Diego seems to be pitching
Speaker 5: to a Tani little tiny rip. Cease early, get a
Speaker 5: nice bullpen lead and let our incredible bully do its thing.
Speaker 5: Great to see Muki snap out of the over twenty
Speaker 5: two punk. That felt great. His slice of serenity in
Speaker 5: San Diego will continue. Remember the solo shot last night
Speaker 5: plus a single, So Muki is clear. Muki is cleared
Speaker 5: the clutter. Mooki is ready the clutter, and here's the upshot.
Speaker 5: This team has overcome adversity all year, the brutal injuries
Speaker 5: to the pitching staff. We don't have to get into.
Speaker 5: We all know it's been freaky. You know how many
Speaker 5: Tommy John's have been sustained, saw arms, elbows, whatever, David
Speaker 5: says Andrew Friedman. A staff digging into in the offseason.
Speaker 5: But right now we're gonna stay in the moment. You
Speaker 5: have a shot, We're in it. We're in it. We
Speaker 5: have a great bullpen, we have incredibly accomplished hitters, We
Speaker 5: have MVPs in the lineup. Si Oscar Hernando's living in
Speaker 5: the the way of Tay loves these moments. But again,
Speaker 5: America's catcher must snap out of it. Max Munsey must
Speaker 5: snap out of it. Luxi's gotta hit everyone up and
Speaker 5: down the lineup tonight. The Collector has got to come together.
Speaker 5: But all season long, they've overcome adversity. Mookie's broken hand,
Speaker 5: Munsey's oblique, Freddie Freeman's beautiful, so Max fighting the rare
Speaker 5: nerve disease. Oh Tani, his best friend rips him off.
Speaker 5: Who knows how many millions of dollars They've overcome so
Speaker 5: much adversity this year that separates this Dodger team from
Speaker 5: years past where they've blown it in the playoffs. This
Speaker 5: team is hardened mentally. They're mentally tough. Man, the Dodgers are.
Speaker 4: They're underestimating that They're resilience is exactly Rodney.
Speaker 5: It's a resilient squad.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They are blue bamboo. They bend, they will not break.
Speaker 5: And I have a very long, extended high coup tonight
Speaker 5: because this is such a magnanimous game.
Speaker 1: You got nothing else before the high coup. Today this
Speaker 1: is it my high coup.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 5: Gets right to the essence.
Speaker 1: Fred, you don't want to set it up or anything,
Speaker 1: or I mean, you're just gonna go with it.
Speaker 5: It's written by the ancient ones.
Speaker 1: Oh god, okay, I've also here we go.
Speaker 5: Also imbued it with my own with my own stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you have, vic, but the ancient ones
Speaker 1: means you've just made it up yourself. Anyway.
Speaker 2: Why do you say that, FREDA?
Speaker 5: And why do you disrespect the ancient ones? Fred?
Speaker 1: Tell me, okay, good now, no, no, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: brought this up. Let's just take ancient ones. I'm not
Speaker 1: disrespecting them, but just do all of us a favor,
Speaker 1: because we're all curious. Who are the ancient ones? Who
Speaker 1: are they?
Speaker 5: The ancient samurai warriors?
Speaker 1: Fred Okay? But what are their names? Who authored this?
Speaker 1: Who wrote this?
Speaker 5: They're in the archives?
Speaker 1: Fred okay? So who uttered this from the archives? Who
Speaker 1: is the ancient samurai warrior that came up with this?
Speaker 2: Warriors? Fred? Plural?
Speaker 1: So what you're saying, Vic is they were sitting around
Speaker 1: a campfire talking about their samurai stuff and one of
Speaker 1: them said something, and the other added to it, and
Speaker 1: the third added to it. Then they got their swords out.
Speaker 2: And that was it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know if they cut somebody's head off.
Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to figure out who the ancient
Speaker 1: ones are because to me, it's like you make it
Speaker 1: up with the ancient ones. Feel like I'm looking at
Speaker 1: an ancient one. Well, then stop looking at yourself in
Speaker 1: the America.
Speaker 5: Fred, that's utter disrespect for the wisdom.
Speaker 1: I'm not disrespected.
Speaker 5: It's just every generational that has lasted thousands of years, right,
Speaker 5: thousands of years, Fred, These maxims, these words of wisdom,
Speaker 5: whole truth and are unwaverable. This hi kogo something like this,
Speaker 5: Oh the Dodgers the twenty sixth Summari. Tighten the cords
Speaker 5: of your helmet even tighter, because in that moment when
Speaker 5: you think you have found it, you have at that
Speaker 5: moment lost it. Immerse yourselves in the ways of the
Speaker 5: warrior bushidol, live through death, show no fear, ultimate self sacrifice.
Speaker 5: All swords are on deck tonight, the long swords, the
Speaker 5: short swords. Time has come tonight, see sick, Yes they can,
Speaker 5: Joe Netsuit pass the in five.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling you.
Speaker 5: There are no home tonight tomorrow shiny love light, tomorrow,
Speaker 5: shiny light.
Speaker 2: The ancient ones spoke different languages. They spoke a little.
Speaker 1: Spanish exactly, the ancient ones. And VIC nobody wants to
Speaker 1: be called short sword. I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 1: Everybody has their sword on deck, even the short ones.
Speaker 2: VIC.
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to gonna want to admit to that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: Sometimes in battlefread and battle, you need all swords depending
Speaker 5: on the situation. If there's a if there's a lot
Speaker 5: of guys ganging up on you, you need a short
Speaker 5: sword for in close fighting. If you're in a battle
Speaker 5: that's extended, you know, in a circle, you will need
Speaker 5: your long sword to swing the long sword to create space.
Speaker 5: So you need the long sword and short sword. I'm
Speaker 5: just giving you the sword, the sword, the inner workings
Speaker 5: of the sword. Yeah, Vic, the ancient ones did not
Speaker 5: come up with that. Let's just be honest. You made
Speaker 5: that up, not at all, fred I borrowed from the
Speaker 5: wisdom of the ancient ones.
Speaker 1: Ronnie, do you think VIC made that up?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding? Vic?
Speaker 5: And the ancient ones?
Speaker 1: And no, Adam, do you think VIC made that up?
Speaker 5: I think a haiku is supposed to be like five
Speaker 5: seven five and that was a damn scroll he just read.
Speaker 5: I'm pulling out all stops tonight.
Speaker 2: Do you think do you think you think VIC made
Speaker 2: that up? I think it was a hybrid.
Speaker 5: Friend, it was a hybrid, exactly, Rodney, it was a hybrid.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a sativa for being kind.
Speaker 5: Dodgers in five.
Speaker 1: All right, Ronnie, thank you, Adam, appreciate it. Uh Rodney.
Speaker 1: Hopefully tomorrow when we come on, we'll be talking about
Speaker 1: a Dodger Win.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, let's go believe it. Put it out
Speaker 2: there in the universe. Let's go Dodgers