Speaker 1: All right, we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on
Speaker 1: five seventy LA Sports. Dodgers win last night, Rodney says,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what they needed. Why cam't Minnesota be here
Speaker 1: every game? That would be great? And I'm thinking, why
Speaker 1: can't Minnesota be here every game? Unless it's the top
Speaker 1: of the ninth with two runners on and somebody drives
Speaker 1: the ball that would have been a three run over
Speaker 1: to tie the game if James Outman hadn't jumped up
Speaker 1: and grabbed it. But tonight, Yamamoto goes for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and joining us now from the La Times, our dear
Speaker 1: friend Dylan Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Dylan, good afternoon.
Speaker 3: To you, Good afternoon. How are you guys doing good?
Speaker 1: I want to start with Rodney, Hey, thank god Minnesota
Speaker 1: was here because that's just what the Dodgers needed.
Speaker 2: I think it was a little closer than that last night. Dylan.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and I think I mean, right when
Speaker 3: things are going back for a team like right now
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers, you do kind of tend to view
Speaker 3: things through a bit more of a negative prism, right,
Speaker 3: And I do think it's a little bit kind of
Speaker 3: concerning is that all their runs kind of came via
Speaker 3: the home run. You know, obviously their problems recently have
Speaker 3: mostly stemmed from their inability. They did and as a
Speaker 3: whole that didn't really change yesterday. Right, there were a
Speaker 3: lot of like quick outs, you know, right, they really
Speaker 3: did it outside of the you know, the home run
Speaker 3: by it was Hotti. They really didn't get to the
Speaker 3: starter much. But you know, it was kind of the
Speaker 3: big swings, you know, Will Smith the home run, the
Speaker 3: two home runs there, and then Pie has had one
Speaker 3: at the end. But that, you know, the way kind
Speaker 3: of like the team kind of performed as a whole offensively. Frankly,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't be surprised, you know if they went out
Speaker 3: today just kind of laid a goosegg out there.
Speaker 4: So what do you think, Dylan, Yes, they they you know,
Speaker 4: Minnesota is probably reeling more than the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 4: They just can't can't seem to get it going with
Speaker 4: the players that they have. But what do you think
Speaker 4: is the is there one issue with the Dodger is
Speaker 4: just a combination of everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just a combination of everything, right,
Speaker 3: lot of help stuff, you know, I think you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, let's start with Tiascar Hernandez, right, who I think,
Speaker 3: to me is kind of the most disconcerting of all
Speaker 3: the ball kind of the guys that aren't hitting or
Speaker 3: are injured in that. You know, I could see the
Speaker 3: other guys all kind of maybe turning their season around Kioskar,
Speaker 3: you know, and I'm not even talking about like the
Speaker 3: ball he felled off his foot or anything. Right, he
Speaker 3: had a growing injury in May. It really hasn't looked
Speaker 3: the same sense, right, he can really tell I think
Speaker 3: what he's been kind of I thought he looked a
Speaker 3: little better yesday running in the outfield, but you know,
Speaker 3: he's looked pretty limited out there and kind of having
Speaker 3: to hit without the lower body, I think is really difficult,
Speaker 3: and we've kind of seen the effects of that, right,
Speaker 3: And he hasn't really been able to kind of turn
Speaker 3: it on this year, And it could just be one
Speaker 3: of those years for him where he's just kind of
Speaker 3: dealing with this naggy injury and just kind of can't
Speaker 3: get over the hump, you know. Obviously, Freddie Freeman, you know,
Speaker 3: I know we've kind of gotten used to seeing maybe
Speaker 3: this version of you know, Freddy over the last right
Speaker 3: over the last like handful of months. But you know,
Speaker 3: this is a guy that could like really run when
Speaker 3: he first showed up, right, And I understand he's a
Speaker 3: couple of years older now, but you kind of don't
Speaker 3: lose that like athleticism overnight, which tells me, you know
Speaker 3: that again that ankle is still bothering him. I think
Speaker 3: we kind of saw that again. The lack of speed
Speaker 3: him going to the plane. You know, I think like
Speaker 3: a healthy Freddie Freeman gets there, you know, obviously months
Speaker 3: he being out hurts, right because it takes away from
Speaker 3: kind of the length of the lineup, you know. And
Speaker 3: then you kind of have the Mookie Bets situation, which
Speaker 3: I kind of don't know what to make of, you know,
Speaker 3: based on what he said. I'm not sure Bets himself
Speaker 3: knows what to make of it. Is this, you know,
Speaker 3: the effects of him playing shortstop and being tired. Is this,
Speaker 3: you know, just age kind of maybe starting to get
Speaker 3: to him, and maybe his bats flowing down a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, the the analytics show that the bat has
Speaker 3: slowed down a little bit. Now, that's right. Those times
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a little deceiving, though it could just
Speaker 3: be indecision. So you know, I mean, who knows what's
Speaker 3: going on there, And they just kind of have a
Speaker 3: lot going wrong right now. And you know, really it's
Speaker 3: been Otawi and Will Smith kind of keeping this team
Speaker 3: up float offensively. But you know, again, a lot of
Speaker 3: these these pieces that kind of we're supposed to all
Speaker 3: kind of work together, a lot of these pieces, something's
Speaker 3: kind of wrong and it's just kind of all coming
Speaker 3: at the same time. And that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Well, the only thing it needs to happen is all
Speaker 1: these pieces need to come together when they need to
Speaker 1: come together, because it's a long season. But my my concern,
Speaker 1: and I said it to Rodney the other day, and
Speaker 1: it's the wrong word to use, and I know when
Speaker 1: you're struggling it might appear this way.
Speaker 2: God, they just seem like no fun. You know, watching them.
Speaker 2: You just early in the.
Speaker 1: Year you thought, oh they're down, well they'll come back
Speaker 1: and win this one. There's not going to be a
Speaker 1: problem at all. And now they're ahead in the nineteen
Speaker 1: you like, please, dear God, hold on. And it's like
Speaker 1: they're just not exuding any kind of confidence at least
Speaker 1: outwardly as I watch does that make sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, right, and again this is
Speaker 3: I mean we're talking about kind of multiple pieces here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like the bullpen for sure, I think hasn't you know,
Speaker 3: inspired much confidence. I mean, there are two they've been
Speaker 3: kind of banged up, right, I mean, Kobe has been
Speaker 3: lost for the year. You know, there's been a you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of you know, they kind of missed the
Speaker 3: majority of the season, you know. And then on top
Speaker 3: of that, obviously tender Scott. I think that less Scott
Speaker 3: probably being frankly overused, you know, which kind of accelerated
Speaker 3: the problems, you know, and he right, and now he
Speaker 3: might be hurt. Uh, you know, Kirby Yate's not performing
Speaker 3: I think has also kind of affected Scott, and that
Speaker 3: it kind of pushed him into more of a defined,
Speaker 3: closer role rather than you know, okay, let's let him
Speaker 3: kind of fake the left. You can kind of do
Speaker 3: what he you know, what he does past. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: you've got like kind of a bullpen issue, you know.
Speaker 3: And then if you look at the rotation, it's just
Speaker 3: been you know, Yamamotos like the only constant there, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, behind him, it's kind of been a lot
Speaker 3: of guys kind of coming in and out, and you
Speaker 3: might see a bright spot from this here and there,
Speaker 3: you know. And in terms of kind of the energy,
Speaker 3: I do think a lot of it from the offense, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you don't have guys on base, it's
Speaker 3: hard to look like you have energy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Teams will stand when they don't get hit, you know,
Speaker 3: and and you know when teams score them when they
Speaker 3: hit home runs, you know, especially with the you know,
Speaker 3: with the Dodgers and kind of their right all their celebrations,
Speaker 3: and I think a lot of that has to do
Speaker 3: right there. Mean, I think one of the reasons we
Speaker 3: thought they had so much energy kind of coming out
Speaker 3: of the gates looks because they're scoring a kind of runs. Right,
Speaker 3: they do the little thing where they run their fingers
Speaker 3: across their eyes like Otani doesn't that commercial, you know,
Speaker 3: the Oscar with the sunflower seats, and right, they do
Speaker 3: that little hip lock thing that they do whenever they
Speaker 3: hit like a double. We're just not saying that because
Speaker 3: they're just not hitting right. And I do think it
Speaker 3: kind of but all these things kind of snowball, right,
Speaker 3: I Mean, I think, you know, there's the lack of
Speaker 3: celebrations kind of like least maybe see like a bit
Speaker 3: of a lack of energy, and that lack of energy
Speaker 3: kind of combined with the loss at least maybe to
Speaker 3: a bit of a lack of confidence, and the team's
Speaker 3: kind of been one of these spirals right now, you know.
Speaker 3: And I do think the one positive is though, is
Speaker 3: that again, this is a team with a lot of
Speaker 3: experience that you know, come back in series that they
Speaker 3: should have lost, and by we've seen them kind of
Speaker 3: do this time and time again. I do think by
Speaker 3: the end of the year they will have things kind
Speaker 3: of straightened out. And you know, like you said, you
Speaker 3: know what matters is that they kind of come together
Speaker 3: in October when the game is back.
Speaker 4: Okay, So that being said, Dylan, deadline coming up. Where
Speaker 4: do they go? They go hitting? They get a left
Speaker 4: handed bat obviously Conford has been struggling an outfielder with
Speaker 4: a bat. Or do they go pitching?
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 3: Both, Right, We've joked about this over the years, Right,
Speaker 3: it's not my money. You guys are make this, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you kind of almost have to
Speaker 3: address everything, you know, I think you do have to
Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, they do need another bet just because
Speaker 3: again you're not sure, you know, say again between you
Speaker 3: know in that group of Mookie bets, Eddie Freeman, the
Speaker 3: Oscar Hernett and is Max Muncy. Let's throw Tommy Edmond
Speaker 3: in there too, you know. Uh say, you know two
Speaker 3: of those guys bounce back to eight three, don't I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're going to need that extra bat in there, right,
Speaker 3: you can't just keep riding Otani and Will Smith forever?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know, I do think, yeah, the bad is a priority.
Speaker 3: I think they absolutely need another bullpen. He said that
Speaker 3: one kind of seems like no negotiable. That's why the
Speaker 3: first thing that they have to address, and even you know,
Speaker 3: with the number of starters that they do have, I
Speaker 3: do think that there is a difference between you know,
Speaker 3: guys that you're comfortable sending to the mount in the
Speaker 3: regular so you start a game, and guys that he
Speaker 3: said that you're comfortable sending to the mount of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I do know that, right obviously, like you know, Tyler
Speaker 3: Glass now has looked good, you know coming back, Snell
Speaker 3: is supposed to come back. Now, how confident are we
Speaker 3: that both of those guys will be in the rotation
Speaker 3: come October, you know, I mean they say that's the
Speaker 3: best way to predict future injuries is to look at
Speaker 3: a guy's track record. And these are guys that are
Speaker 3: the most gurble guys in the world, you know, And
Speaker 3: so I mean even if they could, you know, as
Speaker 3: a starter comes up that's available, like you might even
Speaker 3: look there, right because right now it does kind of
Speaker 3: look like Yamamoto Tani and then we'll kind of see
Speaker 3: what happens, you know, say even a class now there
Speaker 3: you're gonna you know, that fourth spot. I'm not sure again,
Speaker 3: given how much the bullpen has been used, is this
Speaker 3: the type of bullpen that you want to be running
Speaker 3: bullpen games with, you know, if you don't have to. So,
Speaker 3: you know, if I'm the Dodgers right now, I'm looking
Speaker 3: at absolutely everything.
Speaker 2: Dylan Hernandez is with us.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, Dylan oh Tani now on game when last
Speaker 1: night he battled his way out of trouble.
Speaker 4: So I think that was a good thing, not a
Speaker 4: bad thing. Let him get into some trouble, work his
Speaker 4: way out of it. It'll be important down the line.
Speaker 1: But and last night he also hit a home run,
Speaker 1: which is great, but you know it hasn't been consistent.
Speaker 1: You know, when he's pitched, he hadn't really hit. You're
Speaker 1: the opinion that it's critical that he does both, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think you know it looks.
Speaker 3: I mean, the days he's pitched are one thing. He's
Speaker 3: even worse the days after he pitches, right, I think
Speaker 3: he's the day directly after his starts, he's I think
Speaker 3: a combined one for sixteen right now, and the one
Speaker 3: hit was a single and I think like seven strikeouts,
Speaker 3: so it had a convenuit, right. You know that said,
Speaker 3: I do think you kind of have to bet on
Speaker 3: him to do what he's going to do. You know,
Speaker 3: I think I personally, just having watched him over the years,
Speaker 3: I do think he's one of these guys that has
Speaker 3: made you know, what it behind his career is him
Speaker 3: kind of going against conventional thinking, right, And I do
Speaker 3: think you know, when he was kind of first rehabbing. Look,
Speaker 3: I mean the doctors, you know, with all the differrals
Speaker 3: and everything right there, they're functionally paying him two million
Speaker 3: dollars a year right now, he's making a ton of
Speaker 3: money off him. They're not really in a position to
Speaker 3: tell him what to do to begin with. So you know,
Speaker 3: as long as he wanted to pitch, he was going.
Speaker 5: To pitch, you know.
Speaker 3: That said, I do think, right, if you had you know,
Speaker 3: injected probably you know, in the front office people it's
Speaker 3: like troops, serum, they would have wanted to minimize this
Speaker 3: pitching as much as possible, to retain as much as
Speaker 3: the offense as they could, you know. But now it's
Speaker 3: kind of gone to the point with all the uncertainty
Speaker 3: and stuff that, yeah, I do think, you know, him
Speaker 3: going both ways is important. I mean, he might be
Speaker 3: the fact hitch as they have right now. That's the
Speaker 3: other part, right, I mean, he's looked really, really good.
Speaker 3: I mean, he looks better now now, you know. Granted
Speaker 3: he's going to three innings at a time right now,
Speaker 3: so it's not it's not quite the same as going
Speaker 3: six of seven. But he looks next year now honestly
Speaker 3: that he did before he got hurted, right. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, kudos to doctor Electron who really seems to
Speaker 3: repair that elbow of his.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: And now you all of a sudden you have a
Speaker 3: potential force here, you know. And again I think I
Speaker 3: think those those questions are legitimate about the fatigue. You know,
Speaker 3: he's thirty one now, so he's not as young as
Speaker 3: he used to be what he did the both ways thing,
Speaker 3: But I would kind of bet on my kids, like competitiveness, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know what was interesting yesterday after the game,
Speaker 3: you know, he kind of got out about you know,
Speaker 3: you're right, it's part of switching places with mostly back
Speaker 3: in the lineup that he went for first a second
Speaker 3: and that you know, batting second in the lineup gave
Speaker 3: him a little bit more time, right to catch a
Speaker 3: breath after coming off the mountain in the first inning.
Speaker 3: He got out you know, do you think that's help?
Speaker 3: And he was basically like, I don't think that made
Speaker 3: any difference, right, So he's kind of to him, I
Speaker 3: think it's a kind of a point of pride too,
Speaker 3: you know, and I think that he well, he doesn't
Speaker 3: really like react, you know, too much to anything that
Speaker 3: said to him. I kind of said a little bit
Speaker 3: of like a hey, I'm going to prove these guys wrong.
Speaker 3: And again, if you look at his track record, he's
Speaker 3: managed to do that over and over again, you know.
Speaker 3: And my guess is that this October it's going to
Speaker 3: be kind of this you know it's going to be
Speaker 3: a tani trying to carry the team. You know. Roberts
Speaker 3: talked about that recently, about how Tony just seems to
Speaker 3: be trying to wild the team to victory, you know,
Speaker 3: And obviously I'm not going to compare the Dodgers to
Speaker 3: the Angels, but you know, give him the stretch that
Speaker 3: the Dodger are going through right now. It is kind
Speaker 3: of similar to when he was with Anaheim, where you know,
Speaker 3: things around him weren't going well and he's like, you
Speaker 3: know what, I'm gonna kind of take the ball by
Speaker 3: the horns here and try to carry as big a
Speaker 3: load as possible. And you know, not a bad guy
Speaker 3: to bet on it if you're gonna if you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to bet on a player.
Speaker 2: To do no, not at all.
Speaker 4: So you think they keep ramping him up to four ay,
Speaker 4: five inning, six innings as they get closer to end
Speaker 4: of September October, and you believe that at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, he's your he's your starter in opening
Speaker 4: series of the playoffs or World Series.
Speaker 2: He's your eighth going forward.
Speaker 4: He's the horse you ride as opposed to Glass, now, Yamamoto,
Speaker 4: anybody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I do think the order could be
Speaker 3: a little bit of you know, there's gonna be off
Speaker 3: days in these playoffs series, and like I said, right,
Speaker 3: if he continues to sit on the days after he pitches,
Speaker 3: maybe he goes in game two, right, so you know
Speaker 3: that the next day you would have a day off
Speaker 3: between you know, games two and Game three. But I
Speaker 3: do see him kind of being that forced. You know,
Speaker 3: what I think is really special about Otani and what
Speaker 3: I really kind of like Marvel that over the years
Speaker 3: is you know, baseball is one of these sports I think, right,
Speaker 3: the harder you try, the worst it goes. You know,
Speaker 3: you hear about guys pressing all the time, right, they're
Speaker 3: trying to do too much. He's the type of guy
Speaker 3: that really, like you know, when he's like I gotta
Speaker 3: hit here, I have to do something here, he somehow
Speaker 3: does it. And I don't understand how he can kind
Speaker 3: of control his emotions and you know, kind of right,
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't at all like the big moments
Speaker 3: that he's had over the years. You know, there's just
Speaker 3: so many of them. He just seems to kind of
Speaker 3: deliver all the time. And again, I think that if
Speaker 3: his team needs him to needs him to carry them.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be up to the task.
Speaker 2: All right. Well, Dylan, thanks for coming on. Thanks for
Speaker 2: sharing is always really appreciated.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: All right, there goes our buddy, Dylan Hernandez.
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Speaker 4: Come on now, come on back, Rodney Pete Fred Rogan
Speaker 4: on a beautiful Tuesday, many thanks to Dylan Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Fred Do you always say you know it could be fireworks?
Speaker 2: That was kind of calm with Dylan and I. We
Speaker 2: didn't get you didn't fight with him. That's exactly why
Speaker 2: they're on fireworks. That's on you.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes these are just pure bloodbaths and you
Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But everybody was calm today.
Speaker 4: We were we were Dylan and I have some knockdown dragouts,
Speaker 4: haven't we we go at it?
Speaker 2: God, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: I just want to say this. In one segment we
Speaker 1: did with him, he had to be in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: You know, we do longer segments on our show. We
Speaker 1: think it's better that way and we can really do
Speaker 1: full interviews. And we were in about twenty minutes. I
Speaker 1: think I talked for twenty seconds and then you and
Speaker 1: Dylan started. Yeah, and I can even remember Kevin saying,
Speaker 1: do something, do something? What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: I can't stop it.
Speaker 2: It was very entertaining, I'll add that. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It got heated and it was yeah, Yeah, it was
Speaker 4: very very entertaining.
Speaker 2: Now, Dylan's good.
Speaker 4: He's very you know, he does what he does, and
Speaker 4: he's good at what he does because he's very opinionated, right,
Speaker 4: and he says what it's on his mind, and not
Speaker 4: all the time people agree with him.
Speaker 1: Well here's the thing. Yeah, well yeah, certainly not that.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing about Dylan. You know, he cut
Speaker 1: his chops here, he covered the Dodger beat. He knows,
Speaker 1: and he has turned into a terrific columnist.
Speaker 2: He's very good as a writer. Yeah, very good, don't
Speaker 2: get me wrong.
Speaker 1: And when he moved into being a columnist, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a learning curve associated with that, and I think
Speaker 1: he was concerned about how much he could push, you know,
Speaker 1: where he should go, where that line was.
Speaker 4: Drawn, right, And then he learned what all columnists no,
Speaker 4: there is no line, just go, just go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's when he says something seriously, and I mean
Speaker 1: he's a friend and we love him on the show.
Speaker 1: But quite frankly, he's very very good the times, very
Speaker 1: lucky to have him, and I think his observations are
Speaker 1: very perceptive and eye opening. And as a columnist or
Speaker 1: even in this job when we do the radio show,
Speaker 1: all we want you to do is think, right, That's
Speaker 1: how we learn. We don't agree with everything. We never
Speaker 1: agree with each other half the time or always, and
Speaker 1: I know nobody agrees with me. But if you think,
Speaker 1: then you've learned something every day. And I think Dylan
Speaker 1: does a great job of that. Okay, here it is
Speaker 1: the top ten list.
Speaker 2: You do not know.
Speaker 1: This top ten list, by the way, I found it
Speaker 1: late this morning, okay from LIDS and I love this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. The top ten best MLB hats, the
Speaker 1: best MLB hats. I desperately disagree with this list. I'm
Speaker 1: a logo and uniform guy too, so I love this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I'm just gonna tell you they think
Speaker 1: the best MLB hat and that would mean the logo on.
Speaker 2: The hat as well, right, I mean, because that's part
Speaker 2: of the hat.
Speaker 1: According to them lids and I've done some research on
Speaker 1: this as well. But according to lydds, the number one
Speaker 1: hat is the Colorado Rockies. Number one hat, the number
Speaker 1: one hat, the best MLB hat is the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 4: I vehemently disagree with the cr on it's they that's
Speaker 4: what they went with. Okay, all right, Number two on
Speaker 4: the links, I'm with you. I disagree with that. Okay,
Speaker 4: good number two on the but I will say when
Speaker 4: when they came into the league, Oh yeah, no, everybody
Speaker 4: was wearing no CR hats. Everybody had those hats. It
Speaker 4: was kind of nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, if they didn't suck, maybe more
Speaker 1: people would wear them. Now, true, true, Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: another thing. You know, when a team is really bad
Speaker 1: for a prolonged period of time, you just start hating
Speaker 1: their uniform. You do psychologically you hate them, you hate
Speaker 1: the way it looks. Okay, So number one on their
Speaker 1: list Colorado, Number two Tampa Bay Rays. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is the current TB or the old
Speaker 1: ray head that they used to have on there. Either way,
Speaker 1: I disagree. Well this is current, right, so it's got
Speaker 1: to be the TV. Okay, it's it's cool, But I
Speaker 1: don't think that's number two. So what number three are?
Speaker 1: And the TV is one?
Speaker 2: Two? Right? They got biased opinions right now? Ami Marlins
Speaker 2: with the with the M and the fish going through it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: what is Miami Marlins? It's the M with the marlin
Speaker 2: going through it? Right? Number three? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Wow, these are not best sellers. These are just the
Speaker 4: best MLB hats.
Speaker 1: They're saying, WID's top ten best MLB hats. Now know
Speaker 1: they can't be best sellers.
Speaker 2: No campy because Dodgers Yankees got to be always at
Speaker 2: the top. Uh.
Speaker 4: Number three Marlins, Wow, yeah, Marlins? Maybe the Colors maybe
Speaker 4: all right? Number four the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: The d with the snake winding through it, or maybe
Speaker 2: it's the one where it is the snake, just the snake. Okay.
Speaker 1: Number five, I don't care what you say. This cannot
Speaker 1: be true. The Milwaukee Brewers, I can't be I don't care.
Speaker 1: If it's the new logo, the old logo, no, the
Speaker 1: little glove, the glove, yeah, the glove logo.
Speaker 2: And no I do either. I hate it. I hate it.
Speaker 4: Put a beer bottle up there or something like that
Speaker 4: for the Brewers. Don't be Number six the Padres. Whether
Speaker 4: you hate the Padres or not, it's not a bad
Speaker 4: looking hat, No it's not. It's not number seven. Now,
Speaker 4: if we looked at their uniforms, this would be a
Speaker 4: really bad call.
Speaker 1: But if you just look at their hat and their logo,
Speaker 1: I think it's a smooth call. Should be moved up
Speaker 1: on the list. The Blue Jays, their uniforms are awful
Speaker 1: with that stenciling. But the log the blue Jay head
Speaker 1: is good. Yeah, I like it, Blue Jay right number eight.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you can argue this. The Mariners.
Speaker 2: I think the Mariners have a cool hat.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, it's got like it with a like
Speaker 4: a like a sea snake right with the S kind
Speaker 4: of like a seahorse sea snake or whatever with that S. Yeah,
Speaker 4: number nine, that hat number nine, Kevin, you'll weigh in
Speaker 4: on this. The Angels hmmm.
Speaker 8: Now, by the way, the list says of all time
Speaker 8: from what you sent me, and it says the California Angels.
Speaker 8: So now it doesn't designate with the list that you
Speaker 8: guys are just going over whether some of these because
Speaker 8: you mentioned there's been makeovers for a lot of these logos,
Speaker 8: So it doesn't designate from what period of time, But
Speaker 8: it does say the California Angel logo, which I will
Speaker 8: not necessarily disagree with. I did like that hat, and
Speaker 8: I wish they had never changed their name from California,
Speaker 8: to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: Is that the A with the halo around it?
Speaker 8: It's a C and a A with a halo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the halo and it was blue and red like
Speaker 4: the Bill was blue, right, yes, okay?
Speaker 1: And number ten on this list is the Boston Red
Speaker 1: Sox solid. This the Bee solid, but the little Red
Speaker 1: Sox or the b probably the b that would be
Speaker 1: the Bee. Yeah, all right, So that's lid's top all
Speaker 1: time top ten. So what I did is I then
Speaker 1: typed it into chat gpt mm hmm to find out
Speaker 1: what that had to say about the best hats of
Speaker 1: all time?
Speaker 2: You ready?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Number one is the Yankees navy blue, white and
Speaker 1: white logo. They've got that number one. Yeah, number two
Speaker 1: according to chat GBT.
Speaker 8: I will say, by the way, not to cut you
Speaker 8: off there, Fred, but it doesn't really give opinions, so
Speaker 8: it's probably pulling together data from a bunch of other
Speaker 8: lists that it found online for what either fans or
Speaker 8: media or whoever else voted on this stuff has has
Speaker 8: it listed. So jack GBT is not giving you its opinion,
Speaker 8: is telling you what other.
Speaker 2: People stuff from all over the price.
Speaker 8: I just wanted to sell that. Chatgybt says that this
Speaker 8: is number one in and of itself. It does not
Speaker 8: give opinions. This is pulling together data.
Speaker 1: Right that would indicate this, So they go all over
Speaker 1: the place. The AI checks everywhere for lists of logos
Speaker 1: and hats and how people rank them. So the Yankees
Speaker 1: would be number one, number two on that list. The Dodgers, okay,
Speaker 1: number three on that list. So we have our first crossover,
Speaker 1: the red Sox.
Speaker 2: Here's what's funny.
Speaker 1: I look at a number of lists during the break.
Speaker 1: Every single list had except the one I read, the
Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 2: Oh, the white Sox hat.
Speaker 4: That was a bolt following for a while. That white
Speaker 4: Sox hat was everybody was wearing it, even if you
Speaker 4: weren't even a White Sox fan. I couldn't even believe
Speaker 4: how many I used to see in La Kevin.
Speaker 2: You know this. Oh yeah, everybody was wearing the white
Speaker 2: Sox hat.
Speaker 4: That was actually popular with the gangs.
Speaker 8: Yeah we'll Sae Nwa started that. Then it kind of
Speaker 8: spun off in this some of the gangs picked up
Speaker 8: on there're still kids now in the old Neighborhood that
Speaker 8: I wrote, where the white Sox hat couldn't name you
Speaker 8: a single White Sox for Frank Thomas or anybody else,
Speaker 8: a sweethet.
Speaker 1: Number five on this list. And you know what, really,
Speaker 1: if it wasn't the color. I think it would pop
Speaker 1: more the Oakland Age.
Speaker 4: The Oakland A's I like that week I've always liked
Speaker 4: that hat. Wow, I'm surprised we have not even heard.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: You gotta finish, but I'm gonna say the Pirates. How
Speaker 4: did Pirates not get on any of these lists yet? Okay, well,
Speaker 4: let's keep going. Number six on this list is the
Speaker 4: Blue Jays. That's a crossover. Number seven the Giants.
Speaker 2: We hate the.
Speaker 4: Giants though, I like that. I like that hat. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not like their fellers too.
Speaker 1: Halloween k Number eight another crossover. What is what this
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers had? I don't get it. I hate that hat.
Speaker 4: I hate that I don't you love that little glove.
Speaker 4: It just isn't cheap work for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Number nine, you were right making an appearance to Pittsburgh Pirates.
Speaker 2: Yes, pirates hat that.
Speaker 4: Was popular, like almost not quite to the White Sox level,
Speaker 4: but a lot of people wearing that pirate hat.
Speaker 8: Before we move all off of the Brewers. So there
Speaker 8: is the one that they were most often today with
Speaker 8: the mitt with the ball in it. There's also the
Speaker 8: one with the cursive M with a barley leaf underneath.
Speaker 8: I don't know which one they're ranking, but it could
Speaker 8: be that one. I know people like that one too,
Speaker 8: And with the barley leaf underneath it. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 8: know they have that instead of the beer bottle, the
Speaker 8: beer bottom I hit you too much in the face
Speaker 8: with the alcohol.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but the beer bottle would have been good. Rodney, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: And last on this list the Atlanta Braves. I don't
Speaker 1: like the I don't.
Speaker 4: Like the on the Atlanta I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, huh.
Speaker 4: And the Cubbies just fell off of very list. They're
Speaker 4: not even on any list.
Speaker 1: No one knows anything from the Cubs, that's right. Honorable
Speaker 1: mentions in this list the Mets, the Rockies, and the Mariners.
Speaker 4: Mets, I think people look at the Mets. They tried
Speaker 4: to copy the Yankees. Yeah, but I like that. The
Speaker 4: reason I think, yeah, the creativeness of New York with
Speaker 4: the n Y on the hat and the and the
Speaker 4: way the LA Dodgers did the LA creative wise, Yeah,
Speaker 4: hard hard to beat those two. Yeah, I think. So,
Speaker 4: you know what we'll do. We don't have much time.
Speaker 4: We're gonna move on to something else in the next segment.
Speaker 4: If anyone wants to call him away in on best logo?
Speaker 2: Do it.
Speaker 1: If you do, we'll put John. If not, we're gonna
Speaker 1: move on. It's like six nine eighty seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 1: We gave you the lists. If you've got an idea
Speaker 1: of what's good, what's bad, let us know. If not,
Speaker 1: we're moving on. Top of the two o'clock hour, Adam
Speaker 1: Auslin joins the show The Salt Ta All right, you
Speaker 1: have an opinion on the best hat or best logo,
Speaker 1: let us know now.
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Speaker 4: Come on, let's keep this thing going, Freddy, Let's go
Speaker 4: Rodney p fred Rogan Beautiful Tuesday. Come on now, come on, Fredd.
Speaker 4: All right, so here's the question, pretty cut and dried.
Speaker 4: We went over Lyd's list of the top ten baseball
Speaker 4: hats and basically it's the logos, you know, what are
Speaker 4: the top Then we typed into the chat GPT and
Speaker 4: found out.
Speaker 2: What that was. So the question is what do you
Speaker 2: think best logos?
Speaker 1: And we said, up, we got some calls, we take
Speaker 1: them and if we didn't, we'd move on. And okay,
Speaker 1: we got a couple of calls, so we'll just take
Speaker 1: him to wrap up the hour. Oh all right, let's
Speaker 1: go to Riverside. Chris, appreciate your calling.
Speaker 2: In what do you think?
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, Freddy, hands down the Chief Walloo Indians had
Speaker 5: they won the ninety seven World Series in is the
Speaker 5: best logo. It will be history, you know.
Speaker 2: I like that. I like the old Chief authors.
Speaker 5: It's not just some stupid letters. It's it's got it's
Speaker 5: got an emblem of logo.
Speaker 2: Kind of like the Blue Jays, right, you like a logo,
Speaker 2: not just like I.
Speaker 5: Was gonna say, the Orioles. Also with that Oriole face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Oriole head's good too. I like that. That's solid.
Speaker 2: But to me, that would be better in all black,
Speaker 2: you know, not the orange and black.
Speaker 1: Nobody said the Cardinals either. No, nobody said the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Chris, appreciate it. Let's go to Norwalk. Oh,
Speaker 1: Justin's got a good one, justin. Appreciate your holding. Give
Speaker 1: it to us. What's the best logo.
Speaker 6: I'm a logo and a.
Speaker 3: Hand guy, and by far, for me, it's hands down,
Speaker 3: it has to be the Montreal.
Speaker 4: Expost that was at Yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that one. That was good. That's a
Speaker 2: good call. That's a good call.
Speaker 4: We forget about the Expos because now we're thinking Nationals.
Speaker 4: That's all we think about Washington and I had with
Speaker 4: a w but yeah, expos and they had cool unit too.
Speaker 2: They did, I'd like to It was sad when they
Speaker 2: when they folded.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's too bad they couldn't keep it going in
Speaker 4: Montreal like that. Yes, Frenchies, those French Canadian son of
Speaker 4: a bitches.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do one more real quick. Edgar in
Speaker 1: l A. Now, okay, he'll be able to give us
Speaker 1: some clarity on this. Edgar, appreciate you calling in. What
Speaker 1: is the best logo?
Speaker 9: I want to change Ronnie's opinion on the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 9: It took me a while to figure out that by
Speaker 9: him the logo Sen had an on this for Milwaukee Brewers, right,
Speaker 9: what I had what it's a yes.
Speaker 4: The little glove with the ball, Yeah, still like a
Speaker 4: little glove and the ball looks like a little glove
Speaker 4: and the ball though I can't I got a strain
Speaker 4: to see if it's an M and B.
Speaker 2: I don't like it all right, Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 2: I don't get that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure they love it there. It's great,
Speaker 1: you know, and if you're from Milwaukee, god bless you.
Speaker 1: You've grown up with it and you can have a
Speaker 1: tattooed on your breast. But for me personally, I just
Speaker 1: don't like that look at all. I don't it doesn't
Speaker 1: look you know, it doesn't look strong. I like logos
Speaker 1: that looks strong, not weak, and that that your logo
Speaker 1: looks weak to me, Kevin, what do.
Speaker 2: You think it gets? Pretty clever?
Speaker 8: Honestly? Okay, well sorry, taking lowercase M and the lower
Speaker 8: kis being you make a glove out of it to
Speaker 8: signify a baseball glove. I don't thought it was pretty clever.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't say it's my favorite logo, but I don't
Speaker 8: hate it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you have to bring you on
Speaker 1: and you just, you know, completely disagree with what I said.
Speaker 8: I mean, Rodney, he asked me. I was over here
Speaker 8: in mind my own business, right, So Fred, Fred, like always,
Speaker 8: this is your fault.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you another logo. I don't like the Vancouver Canucks,
Speaker 1: the old one. I don't like their old logo, but
Speaker 1: the hockey stick in it, I don't like it.
Speaker 2: And I hate their.
Speaker 1: Colors, the old colors too brown. Who's got brown uniforms?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 4: I mean the padres are brown, but they're not like
Speaker 4: the Canuck brown was Cleveland browns are brown, yeah, but
Speaker 4: they're more orangish brown brown, But they're brown. They got
Speaker 4: brown jerseys red, I.
Speaker 1: Know, but they're Yeah, they're they're boring too. Brown is
Speaker 1: not a good color. It's just not a good color
Speaker 1: for a uniform.
Speaker 2: Who is a brown suit? Think of that? I do?
Speaker 2: Brown suits are great? You do like brown suits? Chocolate? Yeah,
Speaker 2: chocolate brown. That's a good soup. Maybe that looks good
Speaker 2: on you, Yes, it does. It doesn't look as good
Speaker 2: on me. I wonder I think it would if you,
Speaker 2: if you embraced it. I think it would.
Speaker 1: I I don't like brown, gray, blue, black. If you
Speaker 1: have to pick a suit color, what would you pick?
Speaker 1: You can pick one suit today, Rodney Picket.
Speaker 2: One suit. Yeah, be a black suit. Blacks exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, brown would be your last choice. Yeah, blue would
Speaker 4: be second, gray would be third, Yeah, brown would be fourth. Right, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: I get you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Although I like the Cleveland brown unis though, I do. Actually,
Speaker 2: so you like Penn State too? No?
Speaker 4: No, no blood all right, So they're bland.
Speaker 1: I mean the Cleveland brown uniforms are basically, honestly, with
Speaker 1: all due respect nothing.
Speaker 2: No, they mix it up.
Speaker 4: They have the orange pants and the brown jerseys, or
Speaker 4: they have the you know, the brown pants, or they
Speaker 4: go all brown.
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool. Yeah, brown and with the white pants.
Speaker 2: I like. I like the brown uniforms. Ronnie, when's the
Speaker 2: last time you wore a brown suit? Ronnie stepped out
Speaker 2: of the room. Oh he did? You got him there, Kevin,
Speaker 2: when's the last time you wore a brown suit? Never? Exactly? Never? Ever,
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Ronde.
Speaker 4: Mm what Okay, does tan fall into the brown California category?
Speaker 1: No? No, I'm talking about a rich brown tand chocolate
Speaker 1: brown suit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like it. I like a brown suit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet you. Most people will not wear a
Speaker 1: brown suit. They'd wear a tan suit over a brown suit,
Speaker 1: they would, And that has to do with the logos
Speaker 1: and things. I don't know about that, but go ahead, no,
Speaker 1: go ahead, it say something so we get thrown off
Speaker 1: the air for the second time.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, this is about what you so just do it.
Speaker 2: You're the logos. Fred.
Speaker 4: I just think you know some people, you know, some
Speaker 4: people look good in brown. I like a brown suit.
Speaker 4: I saw somebody the other day with a brown pinstripe.
Speaker 4: It was really nice looking, really nice looking suit. Yeah,
Speaker 4: brown is cool, that chocolate brown. You don't like the
Speaker 4: Padres uniforms their mixture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're not all brown. They got brown jerseys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't like those. You like the white pinstripes. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, all right, well we have to move on.
Speaker 1: Kevin Thin's you're gonna get in trouble.
Speaker 2: Leave with it. There, there's a new queue.
Speaker 1: Just so you know, Rodney, when Kevin starts chuckling in
Speaker 1: my ear and says let's move on, that's exactly why