WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:04.320 The right quick. 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:10.359 Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:13.439 postseason tradition Scam is back. 4 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:13.960 Baby. 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.399 This is Sax and Cakes in. 6 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.839 The a app back forward Proway. 7 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.399 Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger 8 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.559 pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers, 9 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:29.960 get in on the show on eighty six six nine, 10 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 eighty seven two five seven now while the Dan Patrick 11 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.439 Show streams on the Ihearts radio app. We've been banished 12 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.039 to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes. Here 13 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:43.320 they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven e 14 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.280 LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks. 15 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:51.759 It's saxon Kates in the AM one final time here 16 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:55.759 in October, as the Dodgers are your World Series champions 17 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.039 and in just a few minutes, your Los Angeles Dodgers 18 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:03.200 are set to touch down at LAX and get a 19 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.239 police escort back to Dodger Stadium after a night of 20 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:14.239 celebration in New York and a long, exciting playing ride 21 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.359 back from the Bronx after a Game five win last 22 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:19.799 night over the Yankees. On Tim Kates joined by two 23 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.120 time World Series Champ, Rookie of the Year in our 24 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:27.640 favorite number three of all time, Steven Sachs. The parde 25 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:29.959 will be tomorrow saxone. We'll have all the coverage beginning 26 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.000 at nine to thirty right here on an FI seventy 27 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:34.560 LA Sports. It'll start at eleven o'clock in front of 28 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.280 City Hall on Spring Street. They'll then make its way 29 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.560 down First Street, March four blocks to Grand Avenue. From there, 30 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:43.560 the parade heads to Fifth Street, ending at Fifth and Flower. 31 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:46.519 The Dodgers parade will be about one mile long and 32 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:48.799 the event is supposed to take between forty five minutes 33 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.640 to an hour. After the parade, the Dodger players will 34 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:52.959 be taken to Dodger Stadium. 35 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:53.239 Well. 36 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:55.719 There'll be a ticket at celebration for fans beginning at 37 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.400 twelve to fifteen. Parking gates at Dodger State will open 38 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:00.760 at eight thirty in the morning into tendees. We be 39 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:03.239 allowed to enter the stadium at nine am. Food and 40 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:06.200 merchandise will be available for purchase, and the Dodger Vision 41 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.120 scoreboards will offer live coverage of the parade as it's happening. 42 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:12.639 Because you cannot be in two places at once, the 43 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.560 parade will be happen and then the celebration at Dodgers Stadium. 44 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:19.400 In our coverage of the parade is presented in part 45 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:25.479 by Budweiser. This Buds for you. Are you coming down tomorrow, Saxon? 46 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.560 Uh, Yeah, I'm gonna be there and you're gonna be there. 47 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:29.439 We're gonna see the parade. 48 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:30.960 We're gonna see you on TV tomorrow. 49 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:31.120 We know. 50 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:32.439 Yeah. 51 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:36.479 If you're watching, yeah, watching, You'll be busy though, you bow. 52 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:39.400 I'll be at Dodger Stadium. I'll be kicking off and 53 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:42.479 anchoring the coverage of the parade nice at nine to 54 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.719 thirty in the morning, live from Dodger Stadium watching the parade. 55 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:49.520 We'll have reporters on site. David Vasse will be on 56 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.080 a bus, Kirsten Watson will be on a bus. We'll 57 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:55.759 check in with them and the players and coaches along 58 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.400 the parade routes, and then once it gets to Dodger Stadium, 59 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:02.120 will have all the on stage ceremony that will be happening. 60 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:04.840 I understand it. It's going to be a fantastic ceremony 61 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:06.479 on the field of Dodgers stand here. 62 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.080 I'm gonna be on co hosting with Jim Hill. 63 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:10.439 Yeah, Jim Hill. 64 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.000 Right, I've known Jim for since I was twenty one, 65 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:17.479 and so get a little TV time and uh yeah, 66 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.879 it'll be great looking forward to seeing all these happy 67 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:24.360 faces on that parade. What a great memory these guys 68 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:27.280 are forging into their lives right now. The whole family's 69 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:27.800 gonna love it. 70 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.520 You talked about the eighty eight parade. Do you remember 71 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.280 the people on the streets. It was just a blur 72 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:35.719 seeing people there lined up as you guys were on 73 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.120 floats that year. A lot of people don't remember. It 74 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:40.599 wasn't double deck or buses, which a lot of times 75 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:43.080 we see now we'll see tomorrow because it's elevated and 76 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.199 you can see the players from wherever you're sitting or 77 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:48.759 standing along the parade route. You guys were though you 78 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:50.360 were on floats that year. 79 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:54.360 We're exposed, I think, oh yeah, right, and yeah, we 80 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:55.800 were on floats and made you feel like you were 81 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.039 in you know, high school again, right, remember the floats or. 82 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:00.000 The Rose Parade or Rose parye. 83 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.080 Right, But it was cool, I mean, you got yeah, 84 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.879 the faces of the people were so nice. The outpouring 85 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:08.919 of love that you're gonna get. It's It's so amazing 86 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:11.560 that you get to, you know, kind of be close 87 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:14.759 to the source that they're you know, supporting you all 88 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.240 through the season. You're gonna get to see all those 89 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:19.879 faces and hear what they say, and you know, sometimes 90 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.199 there's a stoppage in the in the prey and people 91 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:23.959 come up and shake your hand and it's it's I 92 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:25.519 don't know if people are gonna get that close to 93 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.079 these guys because of security, but back then that's what 94 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:28.480 they did. 95 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.360 It was great. It was really a wonderful time. 96 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.160 I've seen the NFL celebrations, certainly the Kansas City Chiefs 97 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:36.920 the last couple of years, uh, the celebration in Tampa 98 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:39.639 with Tom Brady a few years ago, the Patriots celebrations, 99 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.000 and there seems to be sometimes some cocktails that are 100 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.240 thrown back and forth, especially from the fans along the 101 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.839 parade route, maybe towards their favorite player, that they may 102 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:53.600 indulge their while they're making their way on the double deckers. 103 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:54.560 Cocktail. 104 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.519 Yeah, hey, I'll take I'll take one of those. Budweiser's 105 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.399 right there. This Bud's for you, of course. Rout partner 106 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.240 and presenting sponsor of the parade coverage tomorrow. Let's go 107 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:06.000 back out to the phones. A lot of Dodger fans 108 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.319 went away in and again. The Dodgers are scheduled to 109 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.600 touch down at Lax here in just a couple of minutes, 110 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.199 where police escort ready to go. The buses are all 111 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.399 lined up. Live shots on the local TV stations waiting 112 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.000 for the planes to land down at Lax, and there 113 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.279 were multiple ones. There was a huge traveling party for 114 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.759 the Dodgers in the Dodgers front office and the Dodgers 115 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.560 entire employees. They got to go out to New York. 116 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.680 So a huge traveling party. 117 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.360 The families go with the players. I say, suspect back 118 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:36.560 they probably did, probably not going out. 119 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:38.879 I don't think they did. I know they didn't out, 120 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.079 but I'm not sure if they did come in. In fact, 121 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:45.199 they're showing it right now. The United airplane coming through 122 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.759 right now, and they got the Lax Fire department with 123 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:51.439 their water cannons beating back and forth, and the United 124 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:54.279 Airlines flight coming and landing at Lax right now with 125 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:57.360 the Dodgers on board. So welcome back, Dodgers. Wow, you 126 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.879 are World Series champions, and we got a parade with 127 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.199 waiting for you. Boys tomorrow in downtown La. Alex and 128 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:06.360 Los feelis welcome to Sax and Kate today. 129 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:07.240 And how you doing, Alex? 130 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:10.120 Oh this is Alex and Azusa. 131 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.879 Okay, go ahead and Alex all right. 132 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:15.839 Hey guys, thanks for taking the call. Man, I appreciate 133 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:19.680 you and Steve Sacks every morning. You guys kill it, dude. 134 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:22.600 I prefer this over Dan Patrick any day. I'll take 135 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:27.360 this over Dan Patrick any day. Hey, just want to say, man, 136 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:30.800 how does it feel? I we're all for three hours 137 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:32.560 of sleep, Me and my coworker right here. We went 138 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:33.920 to downtown LA last night. 139 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:34.920 We got a little rowdy. 140 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.199 We're in traffic right now, but we are pumped, dude, 141 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.439 we are pumped. I feel like I've been waiting for this. 142 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:47.560 Twenty seventeen was a heartbreak year. Twenty twenty nobody gives 143 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:51.319 us credit. Hey man, everybody played twenty twenty. Everybody had 144 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.800 the same chance and we took it. I think this 145 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:56.759 is the nail in the coffin, just to shut everybody up. 146 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.360 And oh, oh Tani this you guys are gonna win 147 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.560 because of that guy. It was Otani got us to 148 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:08.079 the postseason. But players stepped up like Tommy Edmund Maximunci 149 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:11.600 and the NLCS. It's crazy, dude, This this depth is 150 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.759 crazy and Dodgers aren't even at their best yet. Wait 151 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.759 till next year. It's gonna go down. And another thing too, 152 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:22.920 man Fernando Valenzuela, he was the Grand Marshal at a 153 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:24.600 Zuza Golden Days last year. 154 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:26.439 That dude was cool with everybody. 155 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:30.240 He said hi to everybody, signed pictures. So this one's 156 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:33.720 for him, and just go Dodgers, bro. I know everybody's 157 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.839 feeling great right now. I might be a little hungover 158 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.160 on the way to work, but hey, well worth the boys, 159 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.040 because you know what we are, twenty four champions. Let's 160 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:43.759 go Dodgers, baby. 161 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.720 Awesome Alex drinking coffee, get some food in you. 162 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.000 Probably would have had that coffee before you got in 163 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:50.319 the car. 164 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:51.120 Yeah. 165 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:53.560 Let's hope two hands on the wheel and somebody else 166 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:54.879 is driving for you right now. 167 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.199 Yeah, I hope he kept a classy last night too, right, 168 00:07:58.720 --> 00:07:59.439 you want to be good. 169 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.120 We did lose an MTA bus last night to a 170 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:05.279 fire that was set upon by Dodger fans celebrating in 171 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:08.480 Echo Park. So we lost one of the buses from 172 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:09.680 the MTA last night. 173 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.399 So no in this situation, we don't want to start fires. Actually, 174 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.279 we need mechanic groups to help build up the buses 175 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.600 that are not going well. Right, That's what we had 176 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:22.600 to do. Instead of starting a fire, Let's fix a bus. Absolutely, 177 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:23.920 that would be the better thing. We had a lot 178 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:26.560 of celebration in Echo Park in East LA last night. 179 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.040 A bus that went up in flames. 180 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.519 We saw fireworks going up in the in the streets 181 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:34.120 of East LA and Echo Park. We may have had 182 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:37.360 somebody to lose a hand with a firework as well, 183 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.000 according to the Fox eleven News. So yeah, it's been 184 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.639 a costly celebration for at least one Dodger fan. 185 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:45.759 Well, it's not going to be that way tomorrow. 186 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:48.440 No, absolutely, It's going to be a celebration on the lawn, 187 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.720 the parade route from City Hall all the way to 188 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.919 Fifth and Flower, and then the ticketed celebration inside Dodger 189 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.879 Stadium will have all the covers beginning at nine thirty 190 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:01.000 am tomorrow nine thirty am. Our covers begins here on 191 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.519 an FHI seventy LA Sports, presented in part by Bank 192 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.039 of America, the official bank of the LA Dodgers, Cheryl 193 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:12.559 and Hawthorne's been waiting patiently. Hi, Cheryl, go ahead, Cheryl, 194 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:17.759 I mean hold on. No no, no, no, no no 195 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:19.799 no no, I'm sorry, Cheryl. Don't tell me to hold on. 196 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:21.440 No no, no, no, no no no yeah. 197 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:21.679 No. 198 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:25.440 La is listening. Everybody wants to hear what Dodger fans 199 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.480 have to say. And you tell me to hold on. 200 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:30.559 Tim and Huntington Beach, you're holding on no longer. Welcome Tim, 201 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:31.240 How you doing. 202 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:33.200 Really? 203 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:33.399 Good? 204 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:33.679 Boys? 205 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:34.679 How are we feeling this morning? 206 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:38.440 Doing fantastic? The Dodgers have landed at LA X. The 207 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.679 boys are home as world champs. 208 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.120 Man, it's such a sweet feeling. 209 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.039 You talk about a team that turned this in the 210 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.759 hardest ways, I mean a decimated pitching rotation, Dave Rogers 211 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.879 or just sorry Dave Roberts, dealing with all the naysayers, doubters, 212 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:57.519 all the people blaming him for our past failures. He 213 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:01.159 managed his butt off this this world series of whole postseason, really, 214 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:04.639 and then Freddie Freeman battling back from that injury ankles 215 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.840 to be the MVP. Walker Bueller coming in proving that 216 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.039 there is no moment too big for him after a 217 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:13.279 rough regular season, just a great great after it all, 218 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:14.320 around by these guys. 219 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:17.519 I cannot be happier, No doubt Tim appreciate it. Yeah, 220 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:20.039 it's been a collective group and to see the young 221 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:23.200 guys and the old guys come together and celebrate this 222 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:27.159 championship and everybody's part was different, everybody's role was different, 223 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:29.840 and collectively they all come together and get it done. 224 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.320 Chris and Wittier as next up here on Saxon, Kates 225 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:35.399 and the Am on this Halloween morning, as we wrap 226 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.519 up a great championship run. 227 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:38.320 Chris, how you doing? 228 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:42.480 Oh doing well, sir? Good morning, Steve and Tim. More 229 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:46.360 like to congratulate Dave Roberts and thank him for doing 230 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:49.840 a magnificent job of managing the playoffs. He received so 231 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:54.120 much undue criticism over the years, and he was a 232 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:57.679 he was a true leader out there of our team. 233 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:02.399 I'd like to recognize Daves ay for his great playoff 234 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:06.200 insight and hopefully he can have a little bit of 235 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:10.320 insight on what the conversation was when Dave walked out, 236 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.320 because I thought, uh, it might have been time to 237 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.720 pull them, but his uh, his as he walked out, 238 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.200 his body language was different than normal, and uh, when 239 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:23.840 he walked away, I had confidence like like he told 240 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.279 me that by believe in you, trusting you and let's 241 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:29.440 go get him and h that's what Uh, that's what happened. 242 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.440 And I'd also like to recognize the Panic Brothers who 243 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:38.080 stayed positive this playoff run and kept us going out there. 244 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.759 No doubt the Panic Brothers were in full effect here 245 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.360 on a FI seventy l A sports Chris appreciate it. 246 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:46.159 And they were subdued here the last couple of days. 247 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.360 So that's a good idea. Thank you, Chris. Yeah, thanks Chris. 248 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.320 Eight sixty six ninety seven seventy eight sixty six ninety 249 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:55.799 seven seventy. 250 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:56.240 Uh. 251 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.159 We continue. Davidves Age just texted me said landed. Give 252 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:02.360 him a few minutes. He can call once he gets 253 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:04.519 off the plane. So we'll check out with David Vassay 254 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.679 on how everything was last night since we last heard 255 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.559 from him in the Dodgers' clubhouse. And now the trip 256 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.960 home as the Dodgers have landed. 257 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:14.480 At l A X. 258 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.799 Eddie and Rancho Palace Vertus joins us here on this 259 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:21.200 Thursday morning as the Dodgers come home World Series champs. 260 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.679 Eddie, how you doing, I'm doing good? 261 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:29.240 How about yourself? I'm good. I want to say hi 262 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:33.000 to you and Steve Sachs. You guys are doing a 263 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.320 good job. Great job Eddie, you know rather by the way. 264 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:39.879 But what I wanted to want to tell you this is, 265 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.639 you know, I was born in nineteen fifty five, so 266 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.159 I've got to see well I didn't see him then, 267 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:50.480 but because it's just a kid, baby, but I mean, 268 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:53.519 I've been around for it now, for all these eight 269 00:12:53.840 --> 00:13:00.559 World Series, and you know I was I was uh 270 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:04.720 able to seize Fernando in eighty one on opening day, 271 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.840 an opening day. After the game, I won bought tickets 272 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:15.759 for my birthday, which was May fifteenth, and and I 273 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:20.399 got uh loads tickets and I was sitting on the 274 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.480 on the front or uh what is that along the bar, 275 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.200 that front row. What what is that called? There's uh the. 276 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:33.720 Stadium club that club. 277 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.279 No, no, no, I was on the load that's like 278 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.080 that's family section. 279 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:42.879 Huh yeah, the bottom row. I got bottom row tickets 280 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:43.600 for that game. 281 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:44.240 Uh. 282 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:47.519 And then I ended up being Fernando Fernando when he 283 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.879 pitched his eighth game and again became eight and no, 284 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:56.840 so I went to that and uh and uh and 285 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:00.279 so you know I want to I want to give 286 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:05.759 us a lot of kudos to uh, to Steve to Roberts, Roberts, 287 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:07.679 because he did a really good job and he should 288 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.120 be coach of the Year. Not only that, but you know, 289 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.080 I don't think Mark Cryor has got enough credit for 290 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.039 what he's done with the bat, with the fidget staff. 291 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:23.080 And it's good to see that. It's great to see 292 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:25.600 that they you know, this is called all come under 293 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.840 to fruition and and and uh, you know, uh, and 294 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:34.240 I'm glad to see Roberts when he came out in 295 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:36.360 that inning. I don't know what it was, what inning 296 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:39.039 it was when he came out and told trying to 297 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:40.600 a couple of things and. 298 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:43.559 He kept what was that he kept him in the game. 299 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.679 Yeah, Yeah, he did that sort of thing where he 300 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:50.759 comes out there and talks to him and and and 301 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.519 and and then he ended up keeping him in and 302 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.559 and that's all it took for trying to just to 303 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:00.600 keep on going and to to finish the inding off. 304 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.080 And he was just a beast last night. 305 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:03.720 Yeah. 306 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:06.320 And not only that, but yeah, yeah, and then the 307 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:14.440 boot Bueller Buehler. Yeah, I remember, you know, during the 308 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.600 game they showed him in the I don't know if 309 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.039 it's a seventh inning or the eighth inning. They showed 310 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:22.600 him in the bullpen and he was showing somebody at pitches. 311 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:26.159 I don't know who it was, but they showed him 312 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:29.240 there and he'd like at that time, he was getting ready. 313 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.519 Yeah, yeah, Eddie, appreciate a great call. Thanks for checking in, 314 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.799 longtime Dodger fan, Eddie, We appreciate it. Yeah, it was 315 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.440 a great scene in the sixth inning when Walker Bueller 316 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:40.879 got to go down to the bullpen. David Vasse tweeted 317 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:44.120 it out as it happened. He got picked up, and yeah, 318 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:46.759 all eyes were on that bullpen, especially with not a 319 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.600 lot of relievers to go to, and Dave Roberts gave 320 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:51.480 him the trust to Blake trying to get him out 321 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:53.559 of the eighth inning and look at him in the 322 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.480 eyes and saying do you want it? Do you got it? 323 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:57.519 Blake trying and says give me the ball. I'm gonna 324 00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:59.559 stay out here, I'm going to finish the job. That's 325 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:02.240 exactly what he did. And then Walker Bueler comes in 326 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.519 in the ninth inning to get it as the Dodgers 327 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.919 get the win last night, their twenty twenty four World 328 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.200 Series champions let's take one more call before the break. Here, 329 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:13.639 let's go to Nick and Venturo, who's been waiting patiently. 330 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:14.799 Nick, how you doing? Good morning? 331 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:16.720 I'm doing well, guys. 332 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:17.320 Thank you much. 333 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:18.240 Go Dodgers. 334 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.799 Yeah, where were you last night? How excited are you now? 335 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:23.360 Last night I was at home. I just put the 336 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:25.240 little ones to bed and I got to watch it 337 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.759 and quick story, you'd be flashbacks nineteen eighty eight. I 338 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:32.120 was born in nineteen eighty seven years old, playing second base. 339 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.840 Steve Sacks was my idol. Thank you won the World Series. 340 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.799 Greatest thing ever birthdays. Three weeks later, on my way 341 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:42.679 to school, my dad gets out the cell phone, the 342 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.200 carphone at that time. He plays me a message and 343 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:49.600 it's a birthday message from Steve Sachs made my day 344 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:53.000 the greatest birthday gift I'd ever given. Come to find 345 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.399 out a few years later, Hey, it was just my 346 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:58.360 dad recording Steve sacks voice. But what I know, Hey, 347 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.919 the greatest thing I ever heard. 348 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:02.639 You'll remember it. 349 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.480 To this day, So Steve, in two weeks from now, 350 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:07.680 I expect a phone call on birthday. 351 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.400 Hey, you got you gotta give your number to Tim 352 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.359 Kats and I will call you on your birthday. 353 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:18.799 I promise that is the greatest thing I've ever heard. Nick. 354 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:20.440 We're gonna put you on a whole We'll get your 355 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:23.119 number and we'll get the real Steve Sacks. 356 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:27.640 So let me get so you guys A I my my, 357 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:28.440 my voice. 358 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.480 It sounds like his dad figured that Nick would never 359 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:36.200 know who it was if it was really you and 360 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:39.759 pretended to be you. So his dad pretended it was me. 361 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.599 His dad pretended it was you. Wishing little Nikki what 362 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.279 a happy birthday. Well, Nick, you're gonna get a real 363 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:47.960 one on your birth when's your birthda? When's his birthday? 364 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.359 We're talking around the fifteenth on November. Katy's talking to 365 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.000 him right now. Give his information. Yeah, him, you gotta 366 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:54.799 remind me. I'm gonna I'm gonna write it down. I'm 367 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.920 gonna put in my calendar right now, and I'm gonna 368 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.960 call him on his birthday. That is unbelievable. Yeah, that's 369 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.480 grace thing I've ever heard. I was so excited. He's like, 370 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.119 Steve got a voicemail from Steve Sack. I'm like, this 371 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:06.559 is great. I was gonna ask you, do you remember 372 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:08.599 that sexy? I get asked for a lot of things, 373 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:10.039 you know, and then he said. 374 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:11.759 People get me on cameo to do those things, but 375 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:13.319 I don't know about that one. 376 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:17.759 Oh my gosh, the grast thing I've ever heard. As 377 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.720 he is Steve Sacks, I'm Tim Kates. We will check 378 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:24.160 in with David Vassa, who is on the plane coming 379 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:28.400 back as the Dodgers make their way back from New York. 380 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:30.039 World Series champions. 381 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.039 He'll join us from the tarmac coming up in just 382 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:36.000 a couple of minutes. Your phone calls as well as 383 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:38.920 we wrap up scam here in twenty twenty four, Sax 384 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:40.920 and Kates and am here on an FI seventy l 385 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:52.279 a Sports Saxon Kates in the am for thirty more 386 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:56.480 minutes here in twenty twenty four, as the Dodgers postseason 387 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.839 runs been tremendous, from a five game series win over 388 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:02.839 the the San Diego Padres, to beating the New York 389 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:06.440 Mets and the NLCS to a game five World Series 390 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:08.640 win last night, coming back and beating the New York 391 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:13.119 Yankees in the Bronx seven to six, with Walker Bueller 392 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.160 closing it out, the Dodger's overcoming a five to nothing 393 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:19.640 deficit and now a parade awaits for the City of 394 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.720 Los Angeles Tomorrow. We'll if all the covers beginning at 395 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.039 nine to thirty am right here on am FI seventy 396 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:28.759 LA Sports. The parade starts at eleven o'clock, expected to 397 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:32.039 go between forty five minutes to an hour. Starting at 398 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.680 City Hall on Spring Street, it will then make its 399 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:38.200 way down First Street March four blocks to Grand Avenue. 400 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:41.160 From there, the parade heads to Fifth Street and ding 401 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.240