WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.640 And we continue on Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete on seventy 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:07.440 LA Sports. We're on today normally noon to three. We 3 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:09.560 got the afternoons today and we couldn't be any more 4 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:12.960 thrilled again, shout out Tim Kate, David Bassay, great work today. 5 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.400 Hope you got to hear the coverage here on the 6 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.800 radio station. Now let's bring on Rodney, our friend from 7 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:21.320 the La Times. I can't believe anybody's gonna get into 8 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.600 a fight today. Not today. You don't think me and 9 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:27.760 Dylan gonna get into it, Fred, as we always do, 10 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:31.960 I know, not today. Please, it's a day of celebration. 11 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:37.439 Let's bring on Dylan Hernandez. Dylan, Welcome to the Afternoon Show. 12 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:39.079 Hey, thanks for having me on. 13 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:41.679 Well, it's our pleasure all right. Now we know you're 14 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:43.840 out at the stadium. All right, you want to talk 15 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:45.719 about what happened at the stadium, we'll do that and 16 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.159 then work backwards. What do you think? 17 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:49.359 Yeah? It was fun. 18 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:49.920 You know. 19 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:53.200 I gotta say like for somebody that you know, coming 20 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:56.840 from somebody in me that you know usually fights with everything, 21 00:00:57.840 --> 00:00:58.880 this is pretty special. 22 00:00:59.000 --> 00:00:59.159 You know. 23 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.320 I think in a city like Hours that's so geographically vast, 24 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.480 and you know, fragmented in different ways. It's kind of 25 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:09.640 really cool, right to kind of see everybody come together 26 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:12.719 in one place, you know, kind of behind one thing, 27 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:15.680 you know, in this case the Dodgers, And uh yeah, 28 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:17.840 it was just kind of a really fun atmosphere. 29 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:18.000 You know. 30 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.560 I guess if I have I you know what, I 31 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:24.079 could find one complaint. The sound was a little too loud. 32 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:25.719 You know, they could they could have tuned it down 33 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.519 a little bit. But besides that, it was. 34 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.879 A really fun day. Tuned did you down a little 35 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:32.959 bit a little? 36 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.280 I mean it was like loud. It was like you know, 37 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:37.719 in the press box, you couldn't talk to your neighbor loud, right. 38 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.599 I mean there were some you know, some of the 39 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:41.760 funners brought there, like little kids there could not have 40 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:45.239 been this could not have been good for their developments. 41 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.040 Oh goodness, somebody suffered. 42 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:55.560 Somebody hearing loss today. Somebody suffered hearing I love. 43 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.840 You, man, This is the day. 44 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:00.519 Ain't the day, Dylan? I love you? But the day 45 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.439 ain't the day for all of that? Hey, jealous listen, man, 46 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.800 for a guy, for a guy that that that is 47 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.039 critical and and you you know, you do a lot 48 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.719 of critical thinking, Dylan, and and and you know you 49 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:16.960 do give I will say, you do get propped when 50 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:21.639 props are deserved. And but you're you're critical of of 51 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.039 of of our local teams and from time to time, 52 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:28.840 and especially the Dodgers. What did you make first off 53 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:33.639 them going all the way and winning it after they 54 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:34.120 looked like. 55 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.680 They were left for dead? And and I can't if 56 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:37.560 I go back, I'm. 57 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.240 Sure there was some some choice words you had there 58 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.960 in the Padre series, them going all the way to 59 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.719 win it, and then the job that Dave Roberts did. 60 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:50.919 Yeah, I mean, you know, and I guess you're gonna 61 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.360 kind of combine those two things right in that. I 62 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:56.120 really thought the turning point obviously was Game four that 63 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:58.960 Division series against the Padres. Right, they're down two to one, 64 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:02.719 you're thinking things over and they had to run a 65 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.840 bullpen game and Robins ran it perfectly right, he could 66 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:08.919 not right, And it was that was the beginning of 67 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.199 that thirty three inning scoreless streak. It really just kind 68 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:14.479 of turned everything for them, I think, And you know, 69 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.759 obviously Roberts deserves like a lot of credits for that. 70 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:19.639 And where were you, Dylan, real quick? Where were you? 71 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.000 Where were you on that bullpen game when before that happened? 72 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:25.879 Where? Where did you? Where did you land on that game? 73 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.039 I thought they were dead. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. 74 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.039 I thought it was over, you know, And I just 75 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.360 thought again that the kind of like the lack of 76 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:35.560 starting pitching was going to kind of bite them, right, 77 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.400 and you know that even you know, I thought that 78 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.240 even if they got past that game. You know, Yamamoto, 79 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:43.560 keep in mind, got whacked in game two. You know, 80 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.000 he was going to write or game one sorry, you know, 81 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:47.919 and he was going to come back and pitch that 82 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:51.960 fifth game, you know, so you know, if they got there, 83 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:54.159 and I wasn't sure how that was going to go. 84 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.039 I thought that even if they got past it, because 85 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:59.560 of that over reliance from the bullpen, that at some 86 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:01.680 point that the wheels were going to kind of fall off, 87 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.199 right that how long? How many rounds can you do this? 88 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.319 You know, if you go into a seven game series 89 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:08.199 where they going to be able to last there and 90 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:10.919 then into the World series, right, and you know, they 91 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:12.759 they kind of did run out of gas almost there 92 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:14.599 at the end there. You know, Walker Bueler obviously came 93 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:16.800 in to save the day. And I really think, you know, 94 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.800 and you know, speaking of that Bueler thing, I really 95 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:22.160 think that the failures of the last couple of years 96 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.680 have kind of there's a different resolve now with this team, right, 97 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.959 you know, I think especially of a guy like Mookie Betts, 98 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.600 right who you know, again, after game two, I think 99 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:33.160 the first two games he did not have a hit, 100 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:36.240 you know, so you know, and right, he didn't hit 101 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.600 the two previous octobers. I was right there at his 102 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.160 locker asking him like, hey, like is this like is 103 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:42.360 this still a thing now? 104 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:42.720 Right? 105 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:44.560 And you know, Mookie, now you got to keep in 106 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.519 mind in that game, to be fair to him, he 107 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:48.759 got robbed of a home run by Profar in the corner, 108 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:51.240 if you remember, And you know what, he did not 109 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:54.839 make any excuses about it, right, He's like, look, it 110 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:57.000 wasn't a hit. It doesn't matter that it almost went out. 111 00:04:57.079 --> 00:04:59.360 It wasn't a hit. I'm not hitting. I have to 112 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:01.680 do something. And I really do kind of think that, 113 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:03.959 you know, after this team, after kind of hitting rock 114 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.439 bottom the last couple of years, in a way, you know, 115 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:08.279 they they kind of acknowledged. I think there was an 116 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.879 acknowledgement that, like, you know, you can't run from this, right, 117 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:13.839 and when these things happen, these situations come up, you 118 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.199 need to do something, you need to make it happen. 119 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.959 I think that's really kind of epitomize that. I think 120 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:20.920 you learned. You know a lot of these guys did, right, 121 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:22.600 Tommy Edmond. I mean you can kind of go down 122 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:24.879 the list. You know, the fact that Otani when he 123 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:27.000 came back in that first game after just looked, you know, 124 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.720 partially just getting his shoulder. You know, he contributed to 125 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:32.480 a couple of runs scoring right, he drew that four 126 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.240 pitch walk at the very beginning of that game in 127 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.759 Game three of the World Series, you know, and then 128 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:39.759 right and then there was a home run right after 129 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.079 by Freeman, so that was a run he helped move 130 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.040 a guy over that wound up scoring later on a 131 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:47.000 hit by Mets. You know. So those guys just kind 132 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:50.360 of making things happen when they had to. And you 133 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:53.920 know the way I think they won this, you know, 134 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:56.439 this World Series, right especially you look at the Mets series, 135 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.240 you look at the Yankees series. When those teams made mistakes, 136 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.879 the Dodgers really kind of like exploited it, right. They 137 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.480 smelled blood in the water and they went at it right, 138 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:07.439 and whereas kind of in the past, and I'm thinking, 139 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:09.279 you know, the one mistake that kind of pops into 140 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.560 my mind is right there was that Mets series again, 141 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.120 I think in twenty fifteen where Corey seeger forgot to 142 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:17.439 cover third base, you know, where they had shifted over 143 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:19.600 and stuff. And you know, it was usually the Dodgers 144 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:21.959 kind of making these mistakes that would lead to them 145 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:26.000 kind of underachieving, Whereas now I feel the Dodgers weren't 146 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.240 you know, again you look up and down, you look 147 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:30.879 around there. You know, outside of Mookie Bets, there really 148 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.720 isn't a gold Glove caliber defender. Now that said, they 149 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:37.800 all play, i think kind of up to their capabilities. 150 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.040 They're not going to beat themselves, and that to me 151 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.000 was kind of like a big difference here, especially against 152 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.360 the Mets and against the Yankees, where you know, you 153 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.040 saw the Yankees make it a couple of mistakes and 154 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:47.720 all of a sudden, the Dodgers are down their throats. 155 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.879 So there's there's definitely like a different steal here now. 156 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:53.199 And I do think that this is going to kind 157 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.759 of carry forward, right because I think, you know, oh, 158 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.319 Tommy helped bring that Tommy Edmund helped bring that, you know, 159 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:00.879 some of the new guys helped bring that. And I 160 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:03.519 really think that there's there's a there's definitely a different 161 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.040 feel around this team than than they had in the past. 162 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:11.399 All Right, Dylan, So going forward? Uh, Taylor Hernandez? Do 163 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.240 they sign him? 164 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:16.160 I think they're going to wind up signing him because 165 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.319 like he just kind of completely gave up his leverage, right, 166 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.519 I Mean he's he's very open, I want to come back, 167 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.800 you know, And so my guess is, oh, is that. 168 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:28.639 Giving up his leverage? Though? How is that giving up? 169 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:29.920 Is that because he says he wants to come back 170 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.079 to the Dodgers but you want him? 171 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:35.399 Oh they're going to right, But now I think the 172 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:37.360 Dodgers kind of know that, right And And look, I 173 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.680 don't mean this is like a like a bad way necessarily. 174 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:41.800 I think what what you're able where you're going to 175 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.600 have probably is he's I'm guessing someone somewhere out there, 176 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:46.240 there's going to be a bigger contract for sure. 177 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:46.639 Right. 178 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.879 The Dodgers have obviously a lot of other salary commitments. 179 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:52.480 But now that they know, you know, in a way, okay, 180 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.000 the other way to look at it is that you've 181 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:56.560 kind of opened up like the place to start a 182 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:59.480 dialogue right where, you know, Okay, I want to come back. 183 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.600 I know you probably campaign me as much as like, 184 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:04.040 you know, another team can. And my guess is that 185 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.240 they're going to probably find a middle ground there. You know, 186 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.040 probably when it's gets signed, it's probably gonna be viewed 187 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.920 around the industry as being pretty team friendly. But you know, uh, 188 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:14.399 you know, how many millions do you need? 189 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:14.600 Right? 190 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.519 I kind of think back to when Jared Weaver signed 191 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.000 his extension with the Angels, you know, And I don't 192 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.360 think Scott Boris's agent was necessarily happy that he kind 193 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.399 of you know, negotiated that on his own because he 194 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.399 really wanted to stay there, right, And there are things 195 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:27.399 that are kind of worth more than money, And my 196 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.120 guess is that that's that's where that's going to kind 197 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:30.639 of fall there. 198 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:36.679 And and and so if there is a debate on 199 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:42.759 whether the Dodgers go after Juan Soto uh and signing 200 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:48.200 ta Oscar for considerably probably less, uh, you laying on 201 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:50.519 the side of signing ta Oscar as opposed to signing 202 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:50.960 a Jan. 203 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.919 Sodo, Yeah, because I think Sodo a is not a 204 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:59.120 good defender. You know, he also is better in right 205 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:02.639 field than he is in left, So I guess, I mean, theoretically, 206 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.720 I guess you could move Muki back into the infield. 207 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:07.279 I'm not really sure why you would do that, do 208 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.279 I think Mooki is really like again at an all 209 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.320 time great, like literally all time top five, if not 210 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.840 like maybe even the best defensive right field there, like 211 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:17.919 ever right he's he's tremendous out there, you know, and 212 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:21.120 then as Sodo ages, then you kind of have to 213 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:22.399 start looking, Okay, where does he go? 214 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:22.759 You know. 215 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:24.679 I've talked to some people around the game who don't 216 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:26.720 you know, who think that, like, because of his footwork, 217 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.919 he can't quite play first base, and then that leaves 218 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.320 you with two d h's between Soto and Otani. So 219 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:35.720 I'm not really sure there's like the fifth there really, right, 220 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:38.039 I do think that they'll be kind of around it, obviously, 221 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:40.919 you know, to see right if the guy's market creators 222 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:43.960 and Dodgers are always very opportunistic in those types of situations. 223 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:47.919 But I kind of think, you know, when you when 224 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:51.000 you consider kind of the cost of it, Ernandez I 225 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.840 actually think probably fits in better with with what they're doing. 226 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:55.399 All right, what do you do with Walker Buehler? 227 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:58.279 That is going to be that to me is like 228 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:00.679 kind of a million dollar question, right, because I think 229 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:04.120 they have a lot of guys coming back next year, right, 230 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.759 and now you could argue, Okay, this is going to 231 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.080 kind of leave them in the same place they were 232 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.679 at the beginning of these playoffs, where you know, at 233 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.080 very least like people were, you know, including myself obviously, 234 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:16.799 you know, very uncertain about like okay, how much started pitching? 235 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:17.759 Do you actually have left? 236 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:18.080 Right? 237 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:18.840 Otani? 238 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:19.039 Right? 239 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:21.759 Because Otani's coming back. You know, Glass now is going 240 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.559 to come back. You're going to have Yamamoto. You know, 241 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.919 you're going to have you know, Dustin May and Tony 242 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.080 Gonsolin and Clayton Kershaw is coming back. I'm sure there 243 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.559 are a couple of other guys I'm missing here, but 244 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.639 they're pretty you know, they're gonna have some numbers there, right, 245 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:37.759 and I think they're going to probably if if he's 246 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:40.720 made available, Roki Sasaki, the twenty two year old kid 247 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:44.159 from Japan who like throws out one hundred miles an hour. Right, 248 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.159 the Dodgers were obvious. I mean, everything's going to be 249 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:49.360 after him because he's going to be an amateur play. 250 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:51.200 He's going to be classified as an amateur because he's 251 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.039 under the age of twenty five, so he's basically going 252 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.759 to play for free. So say you get him, uh now, 253 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:58.320 it kind of puts you in a place where you 254 00:10:58.320 --> 00:10:59.960 start wondering, Okay, well, how much are we willing to 255 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.279 commit to Walker Buehler when we have all these other arms? 256 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:02.559 Right? 257 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:04.600 And I think you know what's interesting is before the 258 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:07.240 playoffs even started, I was talking to a scout from 259 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:10.559 another organization, and you know, I asked him like, well, 260 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:12.039 what do you think of Buehler? And the guy goes, well, 261 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:14.039 you know, take a shot at him, you know, you know, 262 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:16.440 and I was kind of was asking, well, like how 263 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:18.720 much And I'm kind of thinking, honestly, like one year 264 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:21.639 eight million or something like that, and he was telling 265 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.879 me one year fifteen to twenty million. And keep that's 266 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.720 before the playoffs started, right, so think about how much 267 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.039 Buehler has increased his value since then. And so to me, 268 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:35.879 this isn't even a you know, cause I think, you know, 269 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:37.559 in the press box today, some people are kind of 270 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:39.159 asking me like, well, do you think the Dodgers make 271 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:42.120 them the qualifying offer? They absolutely make them the qualifying offer. Right, 272 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.399 it's that's one year, twenty one million. It's just that 273 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:46.399 I think he's going to decline that. I think there's 274 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.720 going to be a bigger deal out there. And then 275 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.320 it kind of comes down to Buehler's priorities, right, I mean, 276 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:54.480 like Hernandez, he has said, you know, his preference is 277 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:55.279 to come back here. 278 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:56.600 You know. 279 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:58.600 It will be interesting though, right if one team is 280 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.919 you know, say the Dodgers offer maybe two years. You 281 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.519 know when say that, I mean, I really don't. I 282 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:07.480 really think it's entirely possible that there was like a 283 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:10.120 three four, maybe even a five year dealal out there 284 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:13.720 for Bueler, you know, because I think the as bad 285 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.080 as things were going through a lot of this year, 286 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.320 I don't think there was any question about his health. 287 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:18.559 Right. 288 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:20.879 Whenever you talk to scouts, they were all saying, right now, 289 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:23.679 it's all mental, it's all mental. And what we saw 290 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.039 in the playoffs was obviously this guy that kind of 291 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.320 figured out how to be the pitcher he has to 292 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:31.159 be with the stuff that he has right now, you know, 293 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.440 And I you know, and I go back to the 294 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:38.000 Lindor strikeout with the bases loaded, in the NLCS, you know, 295 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:40.759 full camp bas is loaded, he throws a guy a curveball, 296 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.559 strikes him out, and just go back even a few 297 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.559 months right when the Texas Rangers came here, there was 298 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.440 a situation again Gate news, you know, fish ending or something, 299 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.120 game on the line, two guys on base, Corey Seeger 300 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.080 at the plate, you know, and Bueler kind of did 301 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.399 the thing he did, you know, three four years ago, 302 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.879 which has kind of blow fastball by him. Cory Seger 303 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.320 sent that into the stand. And so to me, the 304 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.200 difference between those two pitches right those two at bat 305 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:07.879 says really a lot about where locker viewers right now, 306 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:10.600 right he you know, the strikeout of Dugal to end 307 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.120 the game, again, that's a curveball. So this is a 308 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.720 guy that's really kind of learned to pitch with the 309 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.679 arsenal that he has right now. You know, obviously you 310 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:21.720 don't you don't question the guy's heart. I never you know, 311 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.639 I never questioned that part of it, you know. So 312 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.600 I think there's going to be demand out there and 313 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:27.960 that the Dodgers are going to kind of have to 314 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:29.559 make that's going to be a tough caller it, right, 315 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.200 that's probably their toughest decision of this winter. 316 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:37.840 Yeah, I agree, And sometimes you can't measure a guy's 317 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:40.879 heart and where he's coming back from and what a 318 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.879 situation like closing out the World Series does for a 319 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:50.200 guy going forward. Okay, Dave Roberts, he is he put 320 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.399 the rest all the questions about, you know, whether he's 321 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:55.480 the guy or not? And does he get the long 322 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:57.960 term deal to be the manager of the Dodgers for 323 00:13:58.080 --> 00:13:59.039 the foreseeable feature. 324 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.720 Yeah, it's funny, right, I mean, he's been knocked out 325 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:05.480 of that Padres thing, now, I you you guys, we've 326 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.679 had many conversations about this. You know, I'm a Dave 327 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:10.320 Roberts guy. I wouldn't have fired him, but there was 328 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.279 talk right that if he had lost, right, theyve been 329 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.159 knocked out by the Padres, that that could have been it. Well, 330 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:18.200 now he's he's in line for the Hall of Fame now, right, 331 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.200 I mean he's got two World Series. He will get 332 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:20.919 that extension. 333 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:22.279 Uh right. 334 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:25.360 And by the time you know, you right, you know 335 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:27.440 you you're managing the Dodgers. You're gonna win nighty to 336 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:29.600 one hundred games a year. You do that for the 337 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:31.799 next five years, he's gonna have a nice win total. 338 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:34.639 I mean, he's not just you know, their guy now, 339 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.399 he's a Hall of Fame guy now. And so you know, 340 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.840 you talk about guys whose lives really kind of changed 341 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.600 in this thing. You know, obviously Walker dealers up there. 342 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:44.840 I would even say Freddie Freeman's life has changed in 343 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:47.799 a way that he probably doesn't realize yet. But Dave 344 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:50.480 Roberts' life has definitely changed. And and you know what, 345 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.200 you see it too when when he addresses the crowd now, right, 346 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:54.960 I mean I think like last year, remember he was 347 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.279 making pitching changes, the crowd of the home crowd was 348 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.240 booing him, you know, now right they close out the 349 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.159 end off CS. You know, he goes out there and 350 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:06.600 and you know they're all right, you know, everybody's cheering 351 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:08.519 him now, you know, the fans and the fact the 352 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:11.279 way the fans are reacting to him, reacted to him 353 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:14.080 has completely changed. Yeah, he's going to manage here now 354 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:15.960 as long as he wants. You know, I think he's 355 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.120 always kind of wanted to be you know, kind of 356 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.600 the dis Generation's Tomula Sorda, and he's definitely going to 357 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:23.120 have the opportunity to do that, all right. 358 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.600 Dylan as always we appreciate it. Thank you for the. 359 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:28.759 Time, No, thank you guys for me on. 360 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.440 All right, there goes our good friend, uh, Dylan Hernandez 361 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:34.759 at the times. And let's face it, you might say 362 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:39.200 he's critical. All this might suggest he's very fair. You know, 363 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.840 he's he's one way or the other. And he calls 364 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:42.919 him the way he sees him. 365 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.200 I think the walk he doesn't waiver, he's not going 366 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:47.799 to straddle defense. That's that's Dylan, and that's what we 367 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:48.440 love about him. 368 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:53.440 Yeah, and and look the two questions, all right, Hernandez 369 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:58.200 and Walker bueller, what do you do? Right? What do 370 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:00.440 you do? What do you do? I mean, what do 371 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:01.159 you do? Freddie? 372 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.480 What do you you got a first lesson? Let's take 373 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.279 ta Oscar. I mean, he's gonna probably he's gonna probably 374 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:10.399 warrant some some attractions from some other teams to go 375 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.679 sign him to a long term deal with some good 376 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:15.399 money behind it. All right, you know what, Rodney, he's 377 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.200 made a sense to wait, wait, wait, yeah, on the 378 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:18.559 other side. 379 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:20.240 Yeah, let's just do this on the other side, because 380 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:21.840 we've got to get into it. Yeah, let's do it. 381 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:25.879 Let's do it. Before Dylan spoke, I thought I'd do 382 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:30.720 one thing. Now after hearing Dylan, I might do another. Okay, right, 383 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:37.320 let's get to it. Oh yeah, oh yeah, what a 384 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:39.440 great day. What a great day. 385 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:41.360 Great a great day, spending it with you in the 386 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:45.600 afternoons as you drive home, as you drive from Dodger 387 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.720 Stadium to celebration, if you were there, if you have 388 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:52.360 taken off of work, taken off school because it was 389 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:53.919 a Dodger celebration day. 390 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:56.559 Good for you. We enjoy being here with you. 391 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:01.519 Rodney Peat, Fred Rogan on a beautiful Friday celebration Friday, Freddy, 392 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:02.720 All right, let's go, Rodney. 393 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:04.359 We're gonna get to your question because I don't want 394 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.960 to answer that. I kid you not remember last hour? Uh, 395 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.599 we played the clip with G Money to pop up? Man, 396 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.759 G Money had to pop up. Yeah, And we said, 397 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.279 if G Money's listening to us or anybody knows him, 398 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:23.279 to call in. Well the man himself, G Money apparently 399 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.599 is now on the line. Is this you G Money? 400 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:29.799 What's happening all right? 401 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:30.079